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* On ''Series/That70sShow'', when Red recalls the moment he used "dumbass" for the first time.
--> '''Red:''' I mean, he's kind of... he's an ass. And he's dumb. He's a... ''(Angelic Chorus)'' ...dumbass!

* The diner is particularly crowded one day, so Lorelai and Rory consider spreading some nasty rumors about the place so they'll always have a table in the future. Rory suggests "vermin", Lorelai suggests "no potable water", then Rory suggests "no potable vermin."

* ''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/BetweenTheLions'' does this also.
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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.

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'''Frank ''': Why? It's cable. Macho characters die or experiment with their sexuality, or [[OutWithABang die experimenting with their sexuality]].

** The show's ParodicTableOfTheElements '' complements magnesium (Mg) and manganese (Mn) with the fictional element manganesium (Mngm).

* ''Series/Blackadder'': In the episode "Nob and Nobility" in ''Blackadder The Third'', today's hot choice at Mrs Miggins' shop is: chicken pimpernel in a scarlet sauce; scarlet chicken in a pimpernel sauce; or huge, suspicious-looking sausages, in a scarlet pimpernel sauce.

** "The Box": Detective Peralta lies during an interrogation that a witness has seen the suspect at his uncle's cabin. However, it backfires because the suspect knows that the owner of the only neighbouring house is dead... Peralta tries to save it by claiming that he never said the witness was supposed to be the neighbour. No, it could've been a squatter or a hunter or a squatting hunter, not all hunters have homes.

** Willow's good at these. Exhibit A, on Buffy's 18th.

** Exibit B, from "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E13TheZeppo}} The Zeppo]]:"

** The same episode has Xander advised to stay out when they're fighting monsters because he might get killed, or hurt, or both.
** Xander gets his fair share. From "[[MusicalEpisode Once More, With Feeling]]"

*** 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.

* On ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Brad asks his parents when they ever need to multiply compound fractions, which leads to this exchange:
-->'''Jill''': Like when I go to the grocery store and I buy a pound and a half of cheese.\\

** "The Night Shift": Rosa's night shift successes: drunk and disorderly, then drunk and disorderly, and cyber crime, which was a drunk guy humping a laptop.

** Tyrion's father Tywin Lannister tells him off for "bedding harlots and drinking with thieves". Tyrion replies that on occasion he also drank with the harlots.

--->'''Lily:''' Oh yeah. I know what he saw. Boobs.\\

** In "Big Time Mansion", when it's suggested that Gustavo let the boys house sit his mansion he calls them monkeys. When Logan points out that Gustavo always refers to them as dogs, he calls them monkey-dogs.

** When Tim and Al are building a bed on <i>Tool Time</i>, the headboard designs that Tim suggests are a moose, a beer mug, a jockstrap, and "a moose holding a beer mug, wearing a jockstrap."

* Creator/ConanOBrien referred to Website/YouTube channels as being "[[WebOriginal/LOLCats cats]]", "[[GroinAttack people getting hit in the nuts]]", and "cats getting hit in the nuts". Andy Richter quickly added "[[SerialEscalation people getting hit in the nuts with cats]]".

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* Inverted in 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.

* ''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?"

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]], while attempting to talk up Bella, Ryan can't decide whether to tell her he's a pilot or a surgeon, so he settles on a surgeon for pilots.

--> '''Dirk Gently''': Minor misconduct, misconduct, gross minor misconduct, minor but ''gross'' misconduct...

* ''Series/StarkRavingMad'' employs this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgD6i8c79VE the final,]] in which Cesare tells Audrey that he loves doing things with her like "Talking. Shopping. [[TransparentCloset Talking about shopping."]]
* ''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/HangTime'': Julie uses this excuse to have Jason Redman take her home, so Vince, Michael and Danny don't catch her with him on a date in "Julie's Guy":
-->'''Julie:''' Jason, we have to leave. I, uh, left something on.\\
'''Jason:''' Really? What?\\
'''Julie:''' My stereo. My iron. My iron's on my stereo.

--> ''"Pot! Gay Marriage! Gay-pot-marriage!"''

* ''Series/{{House}}'':
** In "Role Model", House thinks that a black senator lies about being straight. "Some day there will be a black president. Some day there will be a gay president. Maybe there will even be a gay, black president. But one combination I do not see happening is gay, black, and dead."
** Episode "Deception": Dr. House to a hot female patient: "Yeah? What else turns you on? Drugs? Casual sex? Rough sex? Casual rough sex? I’m a doctor, I need to know." (He forgot to ask about casual rough sex on drugs.)
** Season 6, episode 19: House comments on a married couple who boast they have an open marriage, but House correctly assumes the husband is hiding something and that they have other marital problems.
--->'''House:''' Of course the husband's secret was money. If it's not sex, it's always money. Unless it's sex for money. How did he lose it anyway?
** Season 7, episode 8: "You don't want to propose at a wedding; emotions running high, people on edge. You want to try somewhere like a Buddhist temple. Or an aquarium. Or a Buddhist aquarium."
** Season 8, episode 7 "Dead & Buried": Foreman uses this pattern when he discusses House's obsession with medical puzzles.
---> '''Wilson:''' Why do you care if he works on two cases?
---> '''Foreman:''' 'Cause next, it'll be three cases, then four. Then animal cases and ghost cases. Then animal ghost cases.
* On ''Series/MockTheWeek'':
--> '''Frankie Boyle:''' I get you a boy, Brown, I get you a girl, I get you a boy/girl! Four arms, four legs, it's like making love to a man spider!
* 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?
* When Lewbert resumes his position as the doorman in ''[[Series/{{ICarly}} iCarly]]'', Spencer shows him what he missed.
-->'''Spencer:''' Okay, I've separated your phone calls into three categories. Death threats, from your mother... and death threats from your mother.
* When ''Series/KenanAndKel'' found the map for a treasure.
-->'''Kenan:''' Think about it Kel, it can have gold, or coins, OR GOLD COINS!
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
** "Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam..."
** Upon discovering a dead bishop on the landing, a family considers calling the church or the police before calling the Church Police.
* From ''Series/TheColbertReport'':
** [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/166955/april-23-2008/the-lost-o-reilly-tapes-pt--1 The Kennedy assassination, Bigfoot, why Bigfoot assassinated Kennedy]]...
** With Creator/JimmyFallon: "Remember that time we rode that bicycle built for two? Remember that time we rode that ferris wheel? Remember that time we rode that bicycle built for two ''on'' that ferris wheel?"
** During one segment of Threatdown, Stephen listed the top five threats as robots, bears, robots, bears, and robot bears.
** Leading up to his interview with Creator/MauriceSendak: "Anybody who knows me knows that I don't like children, or books, or children's books."
** "The elderly, the insane, and the insanely elderly."
** The theme song of ''Tek Jansen Alpha Squad 7'' describes its protagonist as doing the following:
--> Killing the aliens \\
Loving the aliens \\
Sometimes loving then killing the aliens

* On ''Series/That70sShow'', when Red recalls the moment he used "dumbass" for the first time.
--> '''Red:''' I mean, he's kind of... he's an ass. And he's dumb. He's a... ''(Angelic Chorus)'' ...dumbass!
* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'':
** On one episode, there was a contestant who could imitate Film/ForrestGump, and another who could imitate [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner The Road Runner]]. Host Pat Sajak then asked the former to imitate Forrest Gump as the Road Runner. He did.
** The categories used on the show used to include Fictional Character, Family, and Fictional Family.
* ''Series/LookAroundYou'':
** Takes the trope as far as possible with the Anti-Cobbles cream, which contains cream, potassium, nitrates, potassium nitrates, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment nitrate of potassium nitrate]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2p2Ptv48zg "Thanks, ants. Thants."]]
** The show's ParodicTableOfTheElements '' complements magnesium (Mg) and manganese (Mn) with the fictional element manganesium (Mngm).
* ''Series/TheNineLivesOfChloeKing'' has Alek talking about the effects of the Mai's poison:
-->"Paralysis, death, paralysis ''and'' death."

* ''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 house sit his mansion he calls them monkeys. When Logan points out that Gustavo always refers to them as dogs, he calls them monkey-dogs.
* Series/LittleMosqueOnThePrairie: When Layla started wearing a hijab, Baber worries she's covering something up--like a hickey. Or a piercing. Or a hickey piercing!
* One of the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XTwTtOPeAU promo videos]] for season 2 features the writers' room JumpingTheShark in the most ridiculous way possible. One of the writers lists all the important points they want to hit: "Zombies, aliens, babies, and zombie alien babies."
** InUniverse, when the team sets out to steal a country, Hardison bemoans their potential political opponents for the corrupt Presidente;
-->'''Hardison''': Well, look, Ribera arrested anybody else who stood a chance of taking him down. Seriously. Look, these are the other candidates, right here -- drug dealer; drug dealer; drug ''addict''; embezzler; embezzler; drug dealer '''and''' drug addict; and my personal favorite...\\
'''Sophie''': Ew! Ew... [[DiscretionShot What is that]]?\\
'''Hardison''': There’s no secrets on the internet. When will people learn this?
* On ''Series/{{MASH}}'', after Klinger shows Col. Blake a letter he claimed to receive announcing that his father was dying, Blake produces a stack of (equally fake) letters that Klinger had produced in the past:
-->''"Father dying, last year. Mother dying, last year. Mother and father dying. Mother, father and older sister dying. Mother dying and older sister pregnant. Older sister dying and mother pregnant. Younger sister pregnant and older sister dying. Here's an oldie but a goodie: half of the family dying, other half pregnant."''

* From ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'':
-->"We know what the people want: They want SEX! They want VIOLENCE! They want [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence VIOLENT SEX!]] They want SEXY VIOLENCE! They want [[RuleOfThree VIOLENCY SEX]]! ...I'm getting hot."
* From an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'':
--> '''Beckett:''' What was so ''special'' about our victim that our killer wanted to erase his identity... ? Don't say spy. ''beat'' Or mob hit.
--> '''Castle:''' Mob hit of a spy?
* Creator/ConanOBrien referred to Website/YouTube channels as being "[[WebOriginal/LOLCats cats]]", "[[GroinAttack people getting hit in the nuts]]", and "cats getting hit in the nuts". Andy Richter quickly added "[[SerialEscalation people getting hit in the nuts with cats]]".

* ''Series/ANTFarm'': When Chyna is trying to decide what dance to do, she asks Cameron whether to do the dougie, the robot, or dougie the robot.
* ''Series/TheFastShow'':
-->"Do you like cheese? Do you like peas? Then you'll love these! The brand new cheesy-peas!"
-->"They're good for your teas!"

-->"My house? My boat? My houseboat?""
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' when Reese tampered with Malcolm's chemistry experiment and created a new color by combining blue with yellow and decided to call it "blellow" (green).
* 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/BetweenTheLions'' does this also.
%% Zero context examples are not allowed.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Buffy and [[SoapboxSadie Willow]] are debating whether or not to celebrate Thanksgiving:
--->'''Buffy:''' It ''is'' a sham. But it's a--sham with yams. It's a yam sham!
--->'''Willow:''' [[LampshadeHanging You're not gonna]] [[BuffySpeak jokey-rhyme]] [[LampshadeHanging your way out of this one]].
** Willow's good at these. Exhibit A, on Buffy's 18th.
--->"You can vote. You can be drafted. You can vote to not be drafted."
** Exibit B, from "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E13TheZeppo}} The Zeppo]]:"
--->'''Buffy:''' Do you remember [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl the demon that almost got out the night I died]]?
--->'''Willow:''' Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around [[AnxietyDreams academic failure]] or [[NotWearingPantsDream public nudity]] is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
** The same episode has Xander advised to stay out when they're fighting monsters because he might get killed, or hurt, or both.
** Xander gets his fair share. From "[[MusicalEpisode Once More, With Feeling]]"
--->"It's a nightmare! It's a plague! It's like a nightmare about a plague!"
** A collaborative example in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E18KilledByDeath}} Killed By Death]]": Xander, Willow, and Cordy take an unconscious Buffy into the Hospital Emergency room:
--->'''Intern''': What happened?
--->'''Willow''': The flu.
--->'''Xander''': She fell.
--->'''Cordy''': She fainted.
--->'''Xander''': The flu, fainted and fell. She's sick, make it better!
*** 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.
* On ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', Daisy describing George to George's (Millie's) co-workers:
-->'''Daisy:''' I'm looking for a girl. She's about yay big, brown eyes, pretty... angry... pretty angry, actual—Oh! That's her.
* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Lisa's hobbies include "dating, guys, and dating guys!"
* In ''Series/TheMiddleman'', Wendy's previous painting phase before she started working for the Middleman involved "airplanes, Asian guys, and Asian guys in airplanes."
* ''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?"
* ''Series/FawltyTowers'':
** "Duck with orange, duck with cherries, duck with orange and cherries, duck without orange..."
** From the episode "The Germans":
--->'''Major:''' Hate Germans! Love women.
--->'''Polly:''' What about German women?
--->'''Major:''' Good card players! But I wouldn't give them the time of day.
* ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'':
** "Überchaun!":
-->'''Eaglebones Falconhawk:''' You're really a leprechaun? Aren't you supposed to give gold, or wishes, or golden wishes?
** "Floating Eye of Death!":
-->'''Crash [=McLarson=]:''' I wanna hear a story about bears...and licorice...and bears with licorice arms!
* In an episode of ''Series/PushingDaisies'', Olive claims to Ned that her [[HopelessSuitor imagining the two of them together]] was as crazy as imagining them "as hobbits. Or on jet packs. Or hobbits on jet packs."
* In the fourth series finale of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', Rudy explains to Nadine why she is far too good for him. He confesses to having anal sex, living almost exclusively off candy and [[AssShove having anal sex with candy]].
* On ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', this is how The Janitor comes up with the knife-wrench.
* According to ''Series/ChappellesShow'', "HBO, the greatest network of our time, has brought you compelling documentaries about pimps, ho's, players, johns, tricks, marks, mark-ass tricks, trick-ass marks, skeezers, skanks, skig-skags, and scallywhops..."
* On ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Brad asks his parents when they ever need to multiply compound fractions, which leads to this exchange:
-->'''Jill''': Like when I go to the grocery store and I buy a pound and a half of cheese.
-->'''Brad''': Yeah, but you're not multiplying anything.
-->'''Jill''': Well, you didn't let me finish!
-->'''Tim''' (putting her on the spot): Why don't you finish it, then?
-->'''Jill''': Well, I buy a pound and a half of cheese and then I multiply it by... a gallon and a half of milk.
-->'''Brad''' (utterly confused): But why would you do that?
-->'''Jill''': Because, because, I'm... making cheese milk.
* 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.
* In ''Series/HiHoneyImHome'', Honey hands out condoms to some boys, thinking them to be something else. When one of the mothers talks to her about it:
-->'''Mother:''' They are ''condoms!''
-->'''Honey:''' They're mints.
-->'''Lloyd:''' They're condiments.
* In ''Series/{{Elementary}}'''s series 2 premiere, Sherlock asks Joan to accompany him to London because "without you, the airline might seat me next to a morbidly obese person. Or a child. Or a morbidly obese child."
* ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'':
-->'''Jerry''': Why, I could be a duke. Or an earl!
-->'''Bob''': You could be the Duke of Earl.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'':
-->'''Frasier''': Sometimes I am forceful with my opinions but that is only because I am passionate and right. And passionate about being right.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'':
** One town meeting features a discussion about "Cart, Kiosk, Cart/Kiosk" permits - which sounds like a redundant title when spoken aloud (as Lorelai and Rory don't hesitate to point out), but is actually a permit the town requires for businesses run out of carts, kiosks, or... cart/kiosks, which is apparently some combination of the two.
** In one episode, Lorelei sits on Luke's lap and says "I want roller skates and a pony and a Barbie, and roller skates ''for'' the pony and the Barbie...."
* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'':
** The are three generations of Bluths: George, Michael, and George Michael.
** George has a twin brother Oscar, and GOB's full name is George Oscar Bluth.
* 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!
* ''Series/{{QI}}'':
** The Season 10 episode "Jingle Bells", Creator/StephenFry comments when Alan answered "Dave" yet again:
-->"One day the answer might be "Dave", one day the answer might be "blue whale"... What I'm looking forward to is when we have a blue whale named Dave and you don't get it."
** Rob Brydon speculates on what makes snails fly.
---> ''"A bat. Or a bird. Or some strange hybrid of bird-bat."''
** Alan Davies and John Sessions when asked "What's the good thing about a British accent in Hollywood?"
---> '''Alan''': You're always [[EvilBrit the villain]].\\
'''John''': Or gay. Or a gay villain.
* Larry and Balki on ''Series/PerfectStrangers'' were once invited to an art show. While they were preparing for it...
-->'''Larry:''' What do you think of this picture?
-->'''Balki:''' I think it's pretty.
-->'''Larry:''' No.
-->'''Balki:''' I think it's ugly.
-->'''Larry:''' No.
-->'''Balki:''' I think it's...pretty ugly.
* On ''Series/DirkGently'', Dirk breaks into his former college records to discover the true reason for his expulsion.
--> '''Dirk Gently''': Minor misconduct, misconduct, gross minor misconduct, minor but ''gross'' misconduct...
* In ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'', before Geoffrey lets Darren direct ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', he makes him promise that it will be a reasonable production, meaning "no flames, no horses, and no flinging flaming horses at the audience."
* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', before trying out for ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' Dorothy has a dream in which she competes on the show against dumb farm-girl Rose and womanizer Charlie. The categories include 'Chickens', 'Babes', 'Chicken Babes' and 'Baby Chickens'.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': As the "Reasonable Doubt" episode starts, a television producer threatens to kill off the character of an actor who starts bothering him with questions about his motivation.
--> '''PA''': I'm not sure we can kill him, Frank. \\
'''Frank ''': Why? It's cable. Macho characters die or experiment with their sexuality, or [[OutWithABang die experimenting with their sexuality]].
* In the ''Series/{{Community}}'' season 4 episode when Jeff finds out the students have lockers, he finds his is filled with fliers for Greendale events like dances, contests, dance contests and even a contest dance.
* A season 3 episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'' had Michael meeting Connor, the "big bad boss" of a scam ring. Connor insists he's just a businessman. A caption on him calls him a "BIG BAD BUSINESSMAN".
* From Series/{{Angel}}:
** A discussion between Eve and Spike:
--->'''Eve:''' What can you possibly do to me? I've been trapped in this house for weeks like a-
--->'''Spike:''' Rat? Snake? Beady little rat snake?
** One by Spike in regards of people being found with their hearts cut out.
--->'''Giles:''' Priests are on it, but my senses tells me it's more demonic than some murderous nutjob.
--->'''Spike:''' So we're ruling out demonic nutjobs then, are we?
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Porridge}}'', when a bottle of pills is found in Fletcher and Godber's cell, they engage in a brief round of StereoFibbing around "indigestion" and "nerves" before finally settling on the pills being for Fletch's "nervous indigestion. And sometimes vice versa."
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' ("Unleashed"), [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] and Edward Nygma run into each other in the vents of Arkham Asylum (the former on her search for Bridget Pike, the latter while trying to escape). He tells her that Bridget can be found in Hugo Strange's secret basement, and then describes its horrors: "Alive people. Dead people. [[CameBackWrong Alive-dead people.]] It's horrible."
* ''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.
* ''Series/HappyEndings'': Brad reluctantly discusses his deepest fears with Jane.
-->'''Brad:''' Uh, all right, um... sharks.
-->'''Jane:''' What? No, come on. Seriously.
-->'''Brad:''' Okay, fine. Ghosts... ''(off Jane's look)'' of sharks. ''(another look)'' Ghost sharks?
-->'''Jane:''' Ghost sharks? Really?
-->'''Brad:''' It could happen. Uh...
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** In episode "The Matchmaker", Ted is told by Ellen the matchmaker that there are no women for him, and he replies with the following, hinting at their previous conversation: "But I'm an architect. And you said I'm cute. I'm a cute architect."
** In episode "Miracles", Barney has a serious accident. His friends jokingly ask him what he saw.
--->'''Marshall:''' Hey, Ted said that right before the accident, his life flashed before his eyes. You know, all the stuff he loves. Did that happen to you?
--->'''Lily:''' Oh yeah. I know what he saw. Boobs.
--->'''Marshall:''' Scotch.
--->'''Lily:''' Money.
--->'''Marshall:''' Suits.
--->'''Lily:''' A suit of money.
--->'''Marshall:''' A suit of boobs. A giant boob wearing a suit of money.
--->'''Lily:''' And the boob is lactating scotch.
--->'''Marshall:''' I guess that's pretty much everything you love, right?
** In episode "The Mermaid Theory", future Ted tells his kids that Robin and Marshall, historically, had three solid conversation topics: cold weather, sports, and cold-weather sports.
** In "Knight Vision", Barney and Robin lie to the Reverend about Lily having bad habits.
--->'''Reverend:''' Does Lily have any... problems that you're aware of?
--->'''Barney:''' Drinking.
--->'''Robin:''' Drugs.
--->'''Barney and Robin:''' ...she's been drinking drugs.
* In ''Series/{{Homeland}}'', Carrie says that the Taliban would've said that a drone strike hit a mosque, an orphanage, or a mosque for orphans.
* ''Series/TheTorkelsons'': When Molly is freaking out over what her father's reaction will be over a wrong she did:
-->'''Molly:''' He's going to send me to military school. No it's worse, he's going to put me in a convent.
-->'''Dorothy Jane:''' No he won't...
-->'''Molly:''' But what can be worse than a convent? O my God! A ''military'' convent! ''Nuns with guns''.
* Screech on a ''Saved by the Bell: The New Class'' episode.
--> '''Screech:''' Come on down to Gadgets and Gimmicks! We're crazy! We're having a party! We're having a crazy party!
* ''Series/TheLoneGunmen'' One particularly paranoid reader had the Gunmen investigating for him and asked "Is it Aliens or the Government? Or Aliens working for the Government?"
* ''Series/StudioC'': In the sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6C0ARG9pFc "Most Realistic Video Game of All Time"]], Matt, determined to show Jason how a VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto clone game ought to be played, pulls out a bazooka and looks for someone to shoot:
-->'''Matt:''' That is a baby. And that is a retired navy SEAL. And that's a baby seal. That is adorable. Take this.
-->''Matt tosses the controller aside, accidentally firing the bazooka.''
-->'''Game:''' Achievement unlocked: baby seal terminated.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E5WorldOnFire World On Fire]]", Foggy and Karen go to Landman & Zack to get information for their client, a friend of Brett Mahoney's mother involved in a tenancy dispute. Karen's first remark on entering the lobby:
-->'''Karen Page:''' Feels like a place in a movie where you'd buy a clone. Maybe a robot baby. Or the clone of a robot baby.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Jessica accidentally drains three of Andy's four faerie daughters and while tearfully apologizing to Bill, she [[ParentalIncest she tries to force herself onto Bill]], who quickly shoves her off of him.
-->'''Bill Compton:''' You're high!
-->'''Jessica Hamby:''' Oh, I feel like I wanna have sex or die or...or [[DeathBySex die while having sex]]...
-->'''Bill Compton:''' You drank four faeries! Faerie blood makes vampires high!
* ''Series/LeCoeurASesRaisons'':
-->'''Ridge:''' I only fear fat Manitobaines. And intimity. But mostly the fat Manitobaines. And perhaps the intimity with the fat Manitobaines.
* ''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.
* On ''Series/JudgeJudy'', Judge Judy will sometimes ask litigants who neglected to bring certain important papers or documentation with them if they thought they were going to a tea party. Or a dance. Or, on occasion, a "tea dance".
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'':
** "The Night Shift": Rosa's night shift successes: drunk and disorderly, then drunk and disorderly, and cyber crime, which was a drunk guy humping a laptop.
** "The Fugitive": A witness suffering from an extreme case of LanguageBarrier tries to communicate by drawing. She draws a big circle with smaller circles inside it. Two detectives guess that it's a cookie, or a pizza, or a cookie pizza. (Actually a manhole cover.)
--->'''Scully:''' I think it's a cookie.\\
'''Hitchcock:''' No. It's a pizza.\\
'''Both:''' [gasp! and in unison] It's a cookie pizza!
** "The Box": Detective Peralta lies during an interrogation that a witness has seen the suspect at his uncle's cabin. However, it backfires because the suspect knows that the owner of the only neighbouring house is dead... Peralta tries to save it by claiming that he never said the witness was supposed to be the neighbour. No, it could've been a squatter or a hunter or a squatting hunter, not all hunters have homes.
* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'':
** There's a conversations between two demons, Michael and Shawn, in episode "Chidi Sees the Time-Knife". Michael (who actually starts rooting for humans) tells Shawn that rather than torturing humans with penis-flatteners and bees with teeth, he should try teeth-flatteners and bees with penises. Shawn mocks him and says it's stupid... but writes those ideas down.
** One episode involving a party held by demons shows the songlist for Hell: "She Hates Me" by Puddle of Mud, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" by Randy Brooks, and "She Hates Me" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" being played at the same time.

* The pricing game "Flip Flop" on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' invokes this. The contestant is presented with a four-digit number, and must rearrange them in one of three ways to reveal the correct price of a prize. Those three methods are referred to as "flip" (reverse the first two numbers; i.e., 5418 to 4518), "flop" (reverse the second two; i.e., 5481), or "flip flop" (reverse both the first two ''and'' the second two; i.e., 4581).
* A Hale and Pace sketch: "Today I bought a present for Billy's birthday. It's called...a birthday present!"
* ''Series/FamilyTies'': When Elyse tells Steven that she's pregnant:
-->'''Steven''': I'm happy. Don't I look happy?\\
'''Elyse''': You look shocked.\\
'''Steven''': I'm shocked, and I'm happy. I'm shappy!\\
'''Elyse''': Steven, you're babbling.\\
'''Steven''': I'm babbling...and shocked...and happy. I'm bashappy!

** One episode involving a party held by demons shows the songlist for a demon party: "She Hates Me" by Puddle of Mud, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" by Randy Brooks, and "She Hates Me" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" being played at the same time.