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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode "Profit and Loss", Julian jokingly says he doesn't know if Garak is an outcast or a spy, Garak [[SarcasticConfession sarcastically suggests]] "outcast spy". This is finally confirmed later in the episode.

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* ''Series/BigTimeRush'':
** Carlos in one episode:
---> '''Carlos''': It's like a vacation! With singing! It's a sing-cation!
** In a later episode, James tries to bribe Carlos...
--->'''James''': I'll get you a monkey!\\
'''Carlos''': No!\\
'''James''': A butler!\\
'''Carlos''': No!\\
'''James''': A ''monkey butler!''
** In "Big Time Mansion", when it's suggested that Gustavo let the boys housesit his mansion, he calls them monkeys. When Logan points out that Gustavo always refers to them as dogs, he calls them monkey-dogs.
* One episode of ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'' started with Bill, wearing a raincoat and galoshes, standing in a swamp in the rain.
-->'''Bill:''' ''(stomps his foot in a puddle of water)'' It's wet. ''(moves his foot over and stomps on a muddy bank)'' It's land. ''(continues with each repetition)'' Wet. Land. Wet. Land. ''(speaking faster and faster)'' Wet! Land! Wet! Land! It's a wetland!



* From ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' we have when they wanted to know Megan's next prank:
-->'''Josh:''' It could be explosives!\\
'''Drake:''' Or poison!\\
'''Josh:''' ''(gulps)'' ...explosive poison?
* Honorable Mention goes to ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' and [[Series/TheElectricCompany2009 its 2009 reboot]], whose iconic silhouetted-faces bit takes this trope to the phonetic level. "Th." "Ing." "Thing." "Br." "Ing." "Bring." And so on.



* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': Jenny contemplating what Harvey might be thinking about:
-->'''Jenny:''' Do you ever wonder what Harvey's thinking about when he's looking out the window?\\
'''Sabrina:''' Probably football?\\
'''Jenny:''' No, no, I bet he's thinking about nature. Or poetry. Or the poetry of nature.\\
'''Sabrina:''' I'm sticking with football.
* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Lisa's hobbies include "dating, guys, and dating guys!"
* Screech on a ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'' episode.
--> '''Screech:''' Come on down to Gadgets and Gimmicks! We're crazy! We're having a party! We're having a crazy party!
* On ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', this is how The Janitor comes up with the knife-wrench.
* In ''Series/ShakeItUp'''s third season premiere "Fire it Up", when [=CeCe=] is afraid that she's going to get arrested for accidentally burning down the studio, she states that she doesn't look good in orange, jumpsuits, or orange jumpsuits.



* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'':
** Zack and Cody enter high school and Cody notices the posters for clubs: chess club, robotics club, robots-who-play-chess club. "Checkmate," he says in [[MachineMonotone his impression of a robot]].
** When Zack points out that Cody's ex-girlfriend, Irma, has more hair on her upper lip than he does, Cody maintains that it was just an "unfortunate series of moles". Naturally, the argument goes: "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hairy moles!"
** Mr. Blanket, the school counselor, has treated many phobias including flying, spiders, flying spiders, clowns, the dark, soup, and ping pong balls.



* ''Series/BigTimeRush'':
** Carlos in one episode:
---> '''Carlos''': It's like a vacation! With singing! It's a sing-cation!
** In a later episode, James tries to bribe Carlos...
--->'''James''': I'll get you a monkey!\\
'''Carlos''': No!\\
'''James''': A butler!\\
'''Carlos''': No!\\
'''James''': A ''monkey butler!''
** In "Big Time Mansion", when it's suggested that Gustavo let the boys housesit his mansion, he calls them monkeys. When Logan points out that Gustavo always refers to them as dogs, he calls them monkey-dogs.
* One episode of ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'' started with Bill, wearing a raincoat and galoshes, standing in a swamp in the rain.
-->'''Bill:''' ''(stomps his foot in a puddle of water)'' It's wet. ''(moves his foot over and stomps on a muddy bank)'' It's land. ''(continues with each repetition)'' Wet. Land. Wet. Land. ''(speaking faster and faster)'' Wet! Land! Wet! Land! It's a wetland!
* From ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' we have when they wanted to know Megan's next prank:
-->'''Josh:''' It could be explosives!\\
'''Drake:''' Or poison!\\
'''Josh:''' ''(gulps)'' ...explosive poison?
* Honorable Mention goes to ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' and [[Series/TheElectricCompany2009 its 2009 reboot]], whose iconic silhouetted-faces bit takes this trope to the phonetic level. "Th." "Ing." "Thing." "Br." "Ing." "Bring." And so on.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': Jenny contemplating what Harvey might be thinking about:
-->'''Jenny:''' Do you ever wonder what Harvey's thinking about when he's looking out the window?\\
'''Sabrina:''' Probably football?\\
'''Jenny:''' No, no, I bet he's thinking about nature. Or poetry. Or the poetry of nature.\\
'''Sabrina:''' I'm sticking with football.
* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Lisa's hobbies include "dating, guys, and dating guys!"
* Screech on a ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'' episode.
--> '''Screech:''' Come on down to Gadgets and Gimmicks! We're crazy! We're having a party! We're having a crazy party!
* On ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', this is how The Janitor comes up with the knife-wrench.
* In ''Series/ShakeItUp'''s third season premiere "Fire it Up", when [=CeCe=] is afraid that she's going to get arrested for accidentally burning down the studio, she states that she doesn't look good in orange, jumpsuits, or orange jumpsuits.
* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'':
** Zack and Cody enter high school and Cody notices the posters for clubs: chess club, robotics club, robots-who-play-chess club. "Checkmate," he says in [[MachineMonotone his impression of a robot]].
** When Zack points out that Cody's ex-girlfriend, Irma, has more hair on her upper lip than he does, Cody maintains that it was just an "unfortunate series of moles". Naturally, the argument goes: "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hairy moles!"
** Mr. Blanket, the school counselor, has treated many phobias including flying, spiders, flying spiders, clowns, the dark, soup, and ping pong balls.
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** Andrew was captured by Willow in season 7 and starts acting like more like a guest. He prefers to be called a "guestage".

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** Andrew was captured taken hostage by Willow in season 7 and starts acting like more like a guest. He prefers to be called a "guestage".
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:: Oddly enough, none of those were lies. Buffy did have the flu, which caused her to faint and fall down. It just sounded like a lie.
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** Andrew was captured by Willow in season 7 and starts acting like more like a guest. He prefers to be called a "guestage".
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* From an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

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* From an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'':''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'':
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** At the end of the one episode, Kenan asks Kel to get "Some bread, some sticks, and some ''breadsticks''"
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* ''Series/MadTV'' had an ad for a fake product called the Wonder Rake 5000 which goes into a long and redundant list of things it can pick up. Some of the things mentioned are lilacs, berries, and lilac beery mix ans well a branches, leaves, and branches with leaves. It also creates a DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment with how some of the items are piled on and the repeated mention of pine cones.

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* ''Series/MadTV'' had an ad for a fake product called the Wonder Rake 5000 which goes into a long and redundant list of things it can pick up. Some of the things mentioned are lilacs, berries, and lilac beery berry mix ans as well a as branches, leaves, and branches with leaves. It also creates a DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment with how some of the items are piled on and the repeated mention of pine cones.
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* Charles from ''Series/OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding'' is rehearsing for one of Oliver's plays when he blacks out. He comes to in the middle of a scene of complete disarray and asks "Am I dead? Am I on drugs? Am I dead and on drugs?"
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* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' provides the page quote for TeenPregnancy with Jenna: "I can't believe it Alli, I'm pregnant...and I'm a teenager. I'm a...", and Alli's response: "...pregnant teenager?"

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* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' provides the page quote for TeenPregnancy with Jenna: "I can't believe it Alli, I'm pregnant...and I'm a teenager. I'm a...", and Alli's response: "...pregnant teenager?"
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--->'''Giles:''' Priests are on it, but my senses tells me it's more demonic than some murderous nutjob. \\

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--->'''Giles:''' --->'''Wesley:''' Priests are on it, but my senses tells me it's more demonic than some murderous nutjob. \\
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** Roz uses this trope to insult Frasier while discussing writing a children's book
-->Frasier: Good for you, Roz! You know, I dabbled in juvenile fiction myself. Yes, Niles and I, when we were boys, wrote a series of stories together in which we were the heroes. Along the lines of a Hardy Boys or a Nancy Drew.
-->Roz: The Nancy Boys?
-->Frasier: No.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The episode "Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling" has a rare dramatic example when the Earth space probe Nomad ends up in a FusionDance with the alien probe Tan-Ru. Nomad's orders were to seek out new life forms. Tan-Ru's orders were to collect and sterilize imperfections in soil samples. Mash the two together and you get "seek out and sterilize imperfect life forms". Which is ''[[OmnicidalManiac everyone]]''.

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The episode "Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling" "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling The Changeling]]" has a rare dramatic example when the Earth space probe Nomad ends up in a FusionDance with the alien probe Tan-Ru. Nomad's orders were to seek out new life forms. Tan-Ru's orders were to collect and sterilize imperfections in soil samples. Mash the two together and you get "seek out and sterilize imperfect life forms". Which is ''[[OmnicidalManiac everyone]]''.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The episode "Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling" has a rare dramatic example when the Earth space probe Nomad ends up in a FusionDance with the alien probe Tan-Ru. Nomad's orders were to seek out new life forms. Tan-Ru's orders were to collect and sterilize imperfections in soil samples. Mash the two together and you get "seek out and sterilize imperfect life forms". Which is ''[[OmnicidalManiac everyone]]''.
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-->It could be aliens, it could be balloons, it could be... [shows image of [[Series/TheMandalorian Grogu]]] ALIEN BALLOONS!

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-->It could be aliens, it could be balloons, it could be... [shows image of [[Series/TheMandalorian Grogu]]] Grogu]] parade balloon] ALIEN BALLOONS!
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* ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'': From the February 13, 2023 episode:
-->It could be aliens, it could be balloons, it could be... [shows image of [[Series/TheMandalorian Grogu]]] ALIEN BALLOONS!
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* ''Series/DerryGirls'': [[Recap/DerryGirlsS2E6 episode 2.06]]:
-->'''Erin:''' Help! This woman is trying to abduct us!\\
'''Clare:''' Help! Fire! There's a fire!\\
'''Michelle:''' Fire? What the fuck are you on about?\\
'''Clare:''' It gets more attention. I read it somewhere.\\
'''Erin:''' Kidnapper!\\
'''Clare:''' Help! Fire!\\
'''Orla:''' Help! There's a kidnapper on fire!
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* ''Series/RadioEnfer'':
** When Carl complains about the possibility of giving two more hours of airtime to Maria, who would spend that time talking about lipsticks and Creator/MelGibson, Jean-David then states he had no idea that Mel Gibson wore lipsticks.
** While filling out the form for her honeymoon, Jocelyne laughs at how funny it is to write Rodolphe Giroux's name as the spouse, only to find it weird as well. She then thinks about writing Creator/BradPitt's name on it, only to find it weird too and think about writing "Brad Giroux" instead.
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'''Jessica Hamby:''' Oh, I feel like I wanna have sex or die or... or [[DeathBySex die while having sex]]…\\

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'''Jessica Hamby:''' Oh, I feel like I wanna have sex or die or... or [[DeathBySex [[OutWithABang die while having sex]]…\\
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* One ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' sketch centers a man at an airport waiting for his turn to board his plane. The people called to get on ahead of him include those with small children and babies, seniors, military veterans, those in religious positions, and "old religious folk with military babies". The man is understandably flummoxed by the last of these until a Tibetan lama carries a baby in a naval outfit past him.

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* One ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' sketch centers a man at an airport waiting for his turn to board his plane. The people called to get on ahead of him include those with small children and babies, seniors, military veterans, wheelchair users, those in religious positions, old people in wheelchairs with babies, and "old religious folk people with military babies". The man is understandably especially flummoxed by the last of these until a Tibetan lama carries a baby in a naval outfit past him.
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* ''Series/DontHugMeImScared'': In the episode "Death," after Duck's funeral, the Tissue Box offers a sandwich to try and help Red and Yellow Guy feel better. They refuse, so she offers a tissue. They refuse again, so she offers a sandwich ''wrapped in tissue''.
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* One ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' sketch centers a man at an airport waiting for his turn to board his plane. The people called to get on ahead of him include those with small children and babies, seniors, military veterans, those in religious positions, and "old religious folk with military babies". The man is understandably flummoxed by the last of these until a Tibetan lama carries a baby in a naval outfit past him.

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* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': When Sally is concerned that they have grown too comfortable being human.
--> '''Sally''': You used to call me lieutenant.
--> '''Dick''': We've adapted. We're emulating an Earth family. Earth families don't address each other by rank. They use more familiar terms like "You" and "Bastard" and "You bastard".



* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Valentina pitches a club night by telling Sophie they have a "topless room, a tapas room, and a topless tapas room."

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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': ''Series/HowIMetYourFather'': Valentina pitches a club night by telling Sophie they have a "topless room, a tapas room, and a topless tapas room."
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** A collaborative example in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E18KilledByDeath Killed By Death]]": Xander, Willow, and Cordy take an unconscious Buffy into the Hospital Emergency room:

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** A collaborative example in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E18KilledByDeath Killed By by Death]]": Xander, Willow, and Cordy take an unconscious Buffy into the Hospital Emergency room:

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For children's shows, see BreadEggsBreadedEggs/ChildrensShow.

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* Inverted in an episode of Series/YoungSheldon. Sheldon's father George explains to the school librarian and. Hutchins that Sheldon doesn't really like outdoor sports. Or sports. Or the outdoors.

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* Inverted in an episode of Series/YoungSheldon.''Series/YoungSheldon''. Sheldon's father George explains to the school librarian and. Hutchins that Sheldon doesn't really like outdoor sports. Or sports. Or the outdoors.

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