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[[caption-width-right:350:Nobody tell Film/{{Forrest|Gump}}.]]

* Several characters in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' quote their Aunt Marian from time to time.

* ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' has a RunningGag where Trusty will go, "As my grandpappy Ol' Reliable used to say . . . Don't recollect if I ever mentioned Ol' Reliable before ... " The answer is always yes, and Trusty drops the subject. By the end he finally gets a chance to say what Ol' Reliable used to say, [[spoiler:only to forget what exactly he used to say.]]

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': In issue #5, Cassie Cage is locked in a deathmatch against Frost, who dominates her. After Frost's EvilGloating, Cassie begins her HeroicSecondWind saying, ''"Hate to disappoint you, [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Elsa]], but like my 'rich daddy' says, 'You can't fake a comeback'!"''.

* Parodied in ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm''. In one potential scene in multiplayer mode, Damien, the AxCrazy prince of Hell, can come to a player for romantic advice during one of their rounds if he’s started crushing on another, that his parents have always told him that “when you love someone... shoot them and see what happens”.

'''Darius:''' Who the hell told you that?\\

'''Dariush:''' Who the hell told you that?\\

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Jaune spouts a few of these from both parents, as part of his "lovable idiot" persona.
-->'''Jaune:''' My mom always says, "strangers are just friends you haven't met yet."

-->'''Sturges:'''My old man told me taught duct tape could fix anything. Don't think he was talking about bullet holes.

Often the advice is a piece of ProverbialWisdom. May devolve into HurricaneOfAphorisms or QuoteToQuoteCombat.

This is quite common as a lyric trope, especially in {{pop}} and {{blues}}.

* Played with in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'':

* Music/TomWaits's "Bottom of the World" begins with some of the singer's father's advice and his response to it:

Listen to me when I say" ...\\

[[caption-width-right:350:Nobody tell Forrest.]]

** After Sultan, with a little help from his phalanx of armed bodyguards with laser sights on their guns, defuses a hostile situation.

-->It's like my momma always said, "You can put yer boots in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits."

** Mitchell Kane interviews Marvin Shaabazz and Hassan El Ruk'n and this confused exchange of parental advice emerges:

* ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' has a Main/RunningGag where Trusty goes "As my grandpappy Ol' Reliable used to say . . . Don't recollect if I ever mentioned Ol' Reliable before." The answer is always yes, and Trusty drops the subject. By the end he finally gets a chance to say what Ol' Reliable used to say, [[spoiler:only to forget what exactly he used to say.]]

--->'''Shaabazz:''' Like my Daddy say, you out there, James, the poodle, pussy whatever your name is, Roper, if you a man be a man! Step up. Fight me. You ain't fought nobody.
--->'''Mitchell:''' Your Daddy said . . . what?
--->'''Hassan:''' Just like my father have told me, when the green grass starts growing, you know, on the other side, somebody gotta cut the lawn.
--->'''Mitchell:''' You know, my father said once that when you laugh the whole world laughs with you, cry and I'll give you something to cry about, you little bastard! That's what he said.

--->'''Bambi:''' My Daddy always says don't whip your shit out if you ain't ready to use it.
--->'''Sol:''' Shut up!
--->'''Julio:''' Bitch!

-->'''Church:''' My daddy always said, "When you want to insert a nail into a piece of wood, don't do anything fancy or glamorous. Just take the damn hammer and hit the son of a bitch until it's in."
-->'''Colonel Mekum:''' And what the hell does that crap mean in English, Captain?

-->'''Buddy:''' Your aunt said that?
-->'''Sally:''' Yeah . . . and every time I think of it, I want to cry.
-->'''Buddy:''' Why?
-->'''Sally:''' Because I think my Aunt Agnes is a nut.

-->"There's nothing wrong with loving who you are,"
-->She said, "'Cause [[NotChristianRock He]] made you perfect, babe
-->So hold your head up girl and you'll go far,
-->Listen to me when I say" ...

-->Yeah, my mama she told me, "Don't worry about your size"
-->She said, "Boys like a little more booty to hold at night"

-->Mama said there'll be days like this
-->There'll be days like this, mama said

-->My daddy told me, lookin' back
-->The best friend you'll have is a railroad track
-->So when I was 13 I said, I'm rollin' my own
-->And I'm leavin' Missouri and I'm never comin' home

Indices: AppealToAuthority, {{Dialogue}}, FamilyTropes, MusicTropes, TheParentTrope, ImageSource.{{Webcomics}}, QuoteSource.LiveActionFilms

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': In issue #5, Cassie Cage is locked in a deathmatch against Frost, who dominates her. After Frost's EvilGloating, Cassie begins her HeroicSecondWind saying ''"Hate to disappoint you, [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Elsa]], but like my 'rich daddy' says, 'you can't fake a comeback'!"''.

* ''Film/PitchPerfect'': Aubry quotes her father a few times, implying he's a strict taskmaster. "Like my dad says, 'if you're not here to win, get the hell out of Kuwait.'"

* In ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', Artagnan tell an inn-keeper about a family balm healing any wound in 24 hours.
* In ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'', the group of heroes is questioning old sailors on what lies beyond the edges of their maps. One, [[spoiler:who turns out to have been correct]], insists that one must only sail far enough to reach [[{{Heaven}} Aslan's country]], "but when questioned ... could only say that he had heard it from his father."

* ''Series/BarneyMiller'': Yemana will often quote his father, who gave a great philosophical quote. Unfortunately they tend to get mangled in the translation form the original Japanese.
* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'': Sally will come up with old sayings "like my Aunt Gladys always says..." which are almost never helpful. Usually Lampshaded.

* ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid:'' At one point during the Korhal missions, [[PlayerCharacter Hierarch Artanis]] and Commander Raynor are discussing the invasion of Amon's forces to Dominion territories. At one point, Raynor says ''"my mother used to say 'when it rains, it floods'"''.