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'''Sabrina:''' As real as actual Christmas. I guess right now that's not such a good example.

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'''Sabrina:''' '''Salem:''' As real as actual Christmas. I guess right now that's not such a good example.
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* In one episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', Sabrina needs to find a way to [[SavingChristmas bring back Christmas]] after [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she accidentally erased it]];
-->'''Sabrina:''' I gotta find someone, anyone in this world that still remembers Christmas!\\
'''Salem:''' How about Father Christmas?\\
'''Sabrina:''' Is he real?\\
'''Sabrina:''' As real as actual Christmas. I guess right now that's not such a good example.
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* When Dana and her boyfriend run away together in the third season of ''Series/{{Homeland}}'', one of the characters thinks it's harmless and kind of romantic, comparing them to Romeo and Juliet. Carrie Mathison, played by Creator/ClaireDanes, points out the obvious fault in that analogy.

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* When Dana and her boyfriend run away together in the third season of ''Series/{{Homeland}}'', one of the characters thinks it's harmless and kind of romantic, comparing them to Romeo and Juliet. Carrie Mathison, [[ActorAllusion played by by]] Creator/ClaireDanes, points out the obvious fault in that analogy.
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* ''Series/FullHouse'': In "The Seven Month Itch, Part One", Stephanie becomes upset when the Tanner Family's vacation to Disneyland gets cancelled due to heavy fog. When D.J. tries to cheer her up, this exchange occurs:
-->'''D.J.''': I know what it's like not to get what you want. Remember when I was supposed to do that Oat Boats cereal commercial and you got it instead?\\
'''Stephanie:''' Uh-huh.\\
'''D.J.''' Well, what did I do? Did I mope?\\
'''Stephanie:''' No, you chased me around the kitchen and tried to kill me.\\
'''D.J.''': Okay, bad example.
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* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "Young Gods", the headmaster of an exclusive private school refers to a group of students as "golden lads and girls". Later Joe points out to Vera that the poem she was quoting was actually about death and is typically read at funerals:
-->''"Golden lads and girls must all as chimney sweepers come to dust."''
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-->'''Hochstetter:''' Oh? He must've had a nice nap at Waterloo.

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-->'''Hochstetter:''' Oh? He must've had a nice wonderful nap at Waterloo.
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* Doubling up with InsultBackfire, the eponymous protagonist of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' was once compared to Literature/NancyDrew, to which he replied:

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* Doubling up with InsultBackfire, the eponymous protagonist of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' was once compared to Literature/NancyDrew, to which he replied:
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* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'': In "[[Recap/DinosaursS03E07HungryForLove Hungry For Love]]", when Robbie considers breaking up with Wendy, the daughter of Mr. Richfield, over the rumors that she might eat him, Fran tells Robbie not to listen to those rumors. She tells Robbie that when she was dating Earl, her friends told her that Earl was lazy, had no ambition, and would remain a tree pusher all his life. She then asks Robbie if her friends were right, to which Robbie is reluctant to answer. Fran then realizes that it was a bad example and that she should have listened to her friends.
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** From ''[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS8E07GameOfBoyles Game of Boyles]]'':
--> '''Jake:''' Being a Boyle is about more than blood. It's what's in your heart!\\
'''Charles:''' Blood ''is'' what's in your heart.

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* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "A German Folk Song and an Actual Adult", after Missy is grounded, but wants to watch on her favorite TV show anyway:
-->'''Missy:''' Even prisoners get to go out to the yard for an hour a day.
-->'''George:''' Fair enough. There's the yard; knock yourself out.
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* In ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' episode "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS3E4MurderInTheCourthouse Murder in the Courthouse]]", Dr. Mark Sloan is on a jury. Mark tells the other jurors that there is doubt. One of them describes a patient with obvious seeming lung cancer, and asks Mark: "Don't you know it's cancer?" Mark replies that he ''suspects'' it's cancer, then he orders the right tests so he knows beyond reasonable doubt that it is cancer.
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* In the ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' episode "Hell Week", [=MacGyver=] chastises the professor of his Alma Mater for over-pressuring his own son into succeeding. The professor justifies it with the analogy "Pressure turns coal into diamond". When said son suffers an emotional breakdown for allegedly losing a contest (one of the other students cheated) and threatens the campus with a bomb, [=MacGyver=] points out a flaw in the professor's analogy:

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* In the ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' episode "Hell Week", [=MacGyver=] chastises the professor of his Alma Mater for [[ToughLove over-pressuring his own son into succeeding.succeeding]]. The professor justifies it with the analogy "Pressure turns coal into diamond". When said son suffers an emotional breakdown for allegedly losing a contest (one of the other students cheated) and threatens the campus with a bomb, [=MacGyver=] points out a flaw in the professor's analogy:
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* ''[[Series/TheCrown2016 The Crown]]'': In "Gunpowder", Diana expresses second thoughts about doing a BBC interview. The reporter, Martin Bashir, notes that she chose November 5th as the interview date (because everyone else would be out celebrating Guy Fawkes Night) and tries to use that as leverage to persuade her:
-->'''Bashir:''' The thirteen members of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 also almost pulled out at the last minute and it took the ringleader to encourage them to stick with it.
-->'''Diana:''' Maybe he shouldn’t have! Not only were they unsuccessful, they were hung, drawn and quartered!
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* In ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Andy, being TooDumbToLive, tries to compliment April with one of these. April, [[DeadpanSnarker being April]], doesn't skip a beat:

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* In ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Andy, being TooDumbToLive, a [[TheDitz ditz]], tries to compliment April with one of these. April, [[DeadpanSnarker being April]], doesn't skip a beat:
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* In the British ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' about the homosexual PlatonicLifePartners Vince and Stuart:

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* In the British ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' ''[[Series/QueerAsFolkUK Queer As Folk]]'' about the homosexual PlatonicLifePartners Vince and Stuart:
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* In one episode of ''Series/HogansHeroes'', when Major Hochstetter derides Colonel Klink [[SleptThroughTheAppocalypse for being asleep while a bridge was being blown up]], Klink retorts that some of the greatest military minds were sound sleepers, such as Napoleon.

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* In one episode of ''Series/HogansHeroes'', when Major Hochstetter derides Colonel Klink [[SleptThroughTheAppocalypse [[SleptThroughTheApocalypse for being asleep while a bridge was being blown up]], Klink retorts that some of the greatest military minds were sound sleepers, such as Napoleon.
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* In one episode of ''Series/HogansHeroes'', when Major Hochstetter derides Colonel Klink [[SleptDuringTheAppocalypse for being asleep while a bridge was being blown up]], Klink retorts that some of the greatest military minds were sound sleepers, such as Napoleon.

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* In one episode of ''Series/HogansHeroes'', when Major Hochstetter derides Colonel Klink [[SleptDuringTheAppocalypse [[SleptThroughTheAppocalypse for being asleep while a bridge was being blown up]], Klink retorts that some of the greatest military minds were sound sleepers, such as Napoleon.
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* In one episode of ''Series/HogansHeroes'', when Major Hochstetter derides Colonel Klink [[SleptDuringTheAppocalypse for being asleep while a bridge was being blown up]], Klink retorts that some of the greatest military minds were sound sleepers, such as Napoleon.
-->'''Hochstetter:''' Oh? He must've had a nice nap at Waterloo.
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* In ''Series/TheLastOfUs'', Bill refuses to give Frank some of his food because then he'll tell every bum he meets about it and "This is not an Arby's." Frank replies that Arby's is a restaurant that didn't give out free food either.
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** In ''Blackadder Goes Forth'', on Creator/CharlieChaplin:
---> '''Baldrick:''' He's as funny as a vegetable which has grown into a rude and amusing shape, sir.
---> '''Blackadder:''' So you agree with me: not at all funny.
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--->'''[=TJ=]:''' Why?

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--->'''[=TJ=]:''' Why?Why?\\
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-->'''[=TJ=]:''' Why?

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-->'''[=TJ=]:''' --->'''[=TJ=]:''' Why?
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-->'''Mo:''' Cause you have the wide-eyed innocence of a child. Kids can always see the truth.
-->'''[=TJ=]:''' Since when?
-->'''Mo:''' Since always! Like in that [[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} Frankenstein]] movie. That little girl in the woods? She was the only one who knew that Frankenstein was sweet and innocent. She gave him a flower.
-->'''[=TJ=]:''' Then he killed her and threw her in the lake.
-->'''Mo:''' Okay. But what about that baseball guy, Shoeless Joe? They accused him of throwing the World Series but that little kid believed in him. He looked up and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe."
-->'''[=TJ=]:''' But it was so, and they banned him from baseball.

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-->'''Mo:''' '''Mo:''' Cause you have the wide-eyed innocence of a child. Kids can always see the truth.
-->'''[=TJ=]:'''
truth.\\
'''[=TJ=]:'''
Since when?
-->'''Mo:'''
when?\\
'''Mo:'''
Since always! Like in that [[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} Frankenstein]] movie. That little girl in the woods? She was the only one who knew that Frankenstein was sweet and innocent. She gave him a flower.
-->'''[=TJ=]:'''
flower.\\
'''[=TJ=]:'''
Then he killed her and threw her in the lake.
-->'''Mo:'''
lake.\\
'''Mo:'''
Okay. But what about that baseball guy, Shoeless Joe? They accused him of throwing the World Series but that little kid believed in him. He looked up and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe."
-->'''[=TJ=]:'''
"\\
'''[=TJ=]:'''
But it was so, and they banned him from baseball.



-->'''Floyd:''' Don't push yourself so hard.

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-->'''Floyd:''' --->'''Floyd:''' Don't push yourself so hard.

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