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Working Title: No I\'m Doing That But Worded Differently: From YKTTW

Rissa: Are the 'This is not just food, this is M&S food' ads this trope, or does the 'just' disqualify it?

Man Without A Body: Removed all of the following, because the original wasn't an example. Maybe Thats A Knife should be a trope. Stock Parodies, maybe?

• Crocodile Dundee:
  Mick: [with amusement, to mugger threatening him with switchblade] That's not a knife. [He produces his own significantly larger bushman's Bowie knife] Now that. That's a knife.
  • Parodied in what else?
    Australian: That's not a knife, this is a knife!
    Bart: That's not a knife, that's a spoon.
    Australian: Ah, I see you've played knifey-spoony before.
  • Also parodied in Flight Of The Conchords:
    Jemaine: That's not a knife.
    Bret: No, it's a knife.
    Jemaine: Oh, no, sorry. It is a knife.
  • And of course in The Last Continent:
    Giant Angry Wombat: You call that a knife? [draws sword] This is what I call a knife!
    Mad the Dwarf: Really? No worries. This is what I call a crossbow.
  • Played straight and given a horrific twist in the film Wolf Creek.
  • And on The Colbert Report, after reports that people were referring to the new iPhone as "the God Machine":
    Stephen: Sorry, Mr Jobs! That's not a God machine. [summoning the God Machine] This is a God Machine!