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This [[Stock Phrase]] commonly leads to the stock response "[[You Didn't Ask|You never asked]]."
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* In ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'', 99 tells a man her name, inciting her ignorant partner Max's jealousy. She matter-of-factly replies, [[You Didn't Ask|"You never asked me."]] {{spoiler|It's actually a [[Code Name]]. Viewers never learn her real name, and we doubt Max did either.}}
* In an episode of [[Two and A Half Men]], Charlie spends most of the episode teaching Jake how to behave at his first "boy-girl party". Eventually, Alan complains about how Charlie never taught him anything, and basically left him on his own, and suffered socially for it. Charlie does seem remorseful for this, but mentions how he was just a stupid teenager at the time, and didn't want to hang out with his little brother.
* The first season of ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' has an example. Jimmy is [[LikeaLike a Son to Me|like a son]] to [[Villain Protagonist]] and [[Corrupt Politician]] Nucky Thompson. When Jimmy gets in trouble with the law in a way that could potentially blow [[The Roaring Twenties|Nucky's interest in the illegal alcohol trade]], Nucky doesn't directly help Jimmy but he doesn't cut him loose either, instead offering Jimmy a little cash and a chance to jump town. After Jimmy leaves, Nucky's brother/[[The Dragon|Dragon]] Eli rhetorically wonders if he would get the same slack. {{spoiler|Later in the season Eli is seriously wounded and publicly exposed as a [[Dirty Cop]]. Nucky fires Eli from his position as Sheriff... at least until after the election is over, when he immediately hires Eli back. Too bad Eli has already become [[The Starscream]] and joined a conspiracy against Nucky by then.}}
* [[Played With]] on ''[[Roseanne]]:'' Jackie divorces Fred for never wanting to try new things or do anything exciting, and afterward he starts taking up hobbies like skydiving. There's no other woman involved (that this viewer recalls, anyway), but it still irks her.
 
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