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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Thirty Days of Night|30 Days of Night]]''
{{quote| '''Denise:''' Neither of you are getting me alone. Neither!<br />
'''Aaron:''' Ah! We share, right? None of us have to be greedy.<br />
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'''Sean Armstrong:''' You could've asked me to clean it up.<br />
'''Corinne:''' Sure, but where's the fun in that? }}
* ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Film)|The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]''
{{quote| '''Baron Munchausen:''' What's this?<br />
'''Vulcan:''' Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.<br />
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{{quote| '''Chuck Bartowski:''' The review's about me? Shouldn't Shaw be asking me about me?<br />
'''John Casey:''' Where's the fun in that? }}
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "Flesh and Stone"
{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' Can I trust you, River Song?<br />
'''River Song:''' If you like. But where's the fun in that? }}
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{{quote| ''A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.''<br />
'''Third Doctor''', ''The Time Warrior'' }}
* ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' episode "The Unblinking Eye"
{{quote| '''Detective Alexandra Eames:''' [while observing a suspect in the interrogation room] She could confess, but where's the fun in that?}}
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' "Mosquito Hunters" sketch.
{{quote| '''Hank:''' Well, I follow the moth in the helicopter to lure it away from the flowers, and then Roy comes along in the Lockheed Starfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles.<br />
'''Roy:''' A lot of people have asked us why we don't use fly spray. Well, where's the sport in that? }}
* In the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' episode "The Squire of Gothos". Kirk asked his captor, "Where's the sport?" in simply hanging him, as he had planned. Instead, Kirk talked his captor into [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|staging a "royal hunt"]]. This bought Kirk enough time for a [[Deus Ex Machina]] rescue.
* A variant of this became a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' whenever Gordy does his [[Zany Scheme]] and someone (usually Ned) asked him the reason for it while [[Stating the Simple Solution]]:
{{quote| '''Gordy''': Because, this is more fun.}}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Ghostbusters the Video Game (Video Game)|Ghostbusters the Video Game]]'' (2009)
{{quote| '''Winston Zeddemore:''' Just once, I wouldn't mind running with these other fools ''away'' from the trouble.<br />
'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Where's the fun in that? }}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "Beast Wars: Part 1"
{{quote| '''Dinobot:''' Their defence shields are down! Destroy them!<br />
'''Megatron:''' Now where's the fun in that? }}
* ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman: The Brave andAnd The Bold]]'': The Joker has a song and dance number revolving around this phrase, after Harley asks him if he's going to unmask Batman.
** He also uses this phrase in the episode where {{spoiler|he teams up with Batman}} in reference to being a goodguy.
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'':
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{{quote| '''Shaggy''': Can you give us a straight answer?<br />
'''Mr. E''': Where's the fun in that? }}
* In the [[What If]] episode of ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'' where Gwen was the one the [[Clingy MacGuffin|Omnitrix]] attached itself to, [[Big Bad|Vilgax]] has her restrained and selects from a range of sharp-looking tools to forcibly remove it from her.
{{quote| '''Gwen ''[nervously]'':''' Couldn't you just slip the watch off?<br />
'''Vilgax:''' And what fun would ''that'' be? }}
* Discord of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has this to say about making sense:
{{quote| '''Discord''': '''Make sense'? Aww; what fun is there in making sense?''}}