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-->'''Phil:''' What were ''their'' names? names?
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* In a ''GrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
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* In a ''GrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
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* Played straight in ''FindingNemo'':''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'':
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* In ''MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', telling the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25):
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* In ''MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', telling the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25):
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** In the famous opening scene of ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', King Arthur's attempt to summon the Lord of the local castle derails into a discussion of how exactly King Arthur acquired a coconut shell in Medieval England, and ends with an argument over the migratory patterns of swallows.
** Also from the Pythons, or at least Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, comes How To Irritate People. In the show, which is a collection of sketches like MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, a man tries to tell his employer, who is visiting for tea, a joke he heard. Actually his wife wants him to tell it, and she keeps interrupting him to input unimportant details.
** Also from the Pythons, or at least Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, comes How To Irritate People. In the show, which is a collection of sketches like MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, a man tries to tell his employer, who is visiting for tea, a joke he heard. Actually his wife wants him to tell it, and she keeps interrupting him to input unimportant details.
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** In the famous opening scene of ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', King Arthur's attempt to summon the Lord of the local castle derails into a discussion of how exactly King Arthur acquired a coconut shell in Medieval England, and ends with an argument over the migratory patterns of swallows.
** Also from the Pythons, or at least Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, comes How To Irritate People. In the show, which is a collection of sketches likeMontyPythonsFlyingCircus, Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, a man tries to tell his employer, who is visiting for tea, a joke he heard. Actually his wife wants him to tell it, and she keeps interrupting him to input unimportant details.
** Also from the Pythons, or at least Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, comes How To Irritate People. In the show, which is a collection of sketches like
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* On [[Series/TheRickyGervaisShow Ricky Gervais's XFM show]], Karl Pilkington's stories were very prone to this. It was an especial problem when it came to his "Rockbusters" clues, which Ricky would often interrupt to warn listeners that whatever detail Karl was trying to settle to his own satisfaction might be completely irrelevant to the actual answer.
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* On [[Series/TheRickyGervaisShow [[Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow Ricky Gervais's XFM show]], Karl Pilkington's stories were very prone to this. It was an especial problem when it came to his "Rockbusters" clues, which Ricky would often interrupt to warn listeners that whatever detail Karl was trying to settle to his own satisfaction might be completely irrelevant to the actual answer.
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* ''TheMightyB'': The main character was trying to tell a joke:
-->"A leprechaun walks into a bar. Wait, you're not supposed to know it's a leprechaun yet..."
** The story gets progressively worse from there.
* In Saki's short story "The Story-Teller," the story-teller is so successful with the children because of his ability to readily answer their irrelevant questions and incorporate them into the story.
-->"A leprechaun walks into a bar. Wait, you're not supposed to know it's a leprechaun yet..."
** The story gets progressively worse from there.
* In Saki's short story "The Story-Teller," the story-teller is so successful with the children because of his ability to readily answer their irrelevant questions and incorporate them into the story.
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-->"A leprechaun walks into a bar. Wait, you're not supposed to know it's a leprechaun yet..."
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* In Saki's short story "The Story-Teller," the story-teller is so successful with the children because of his ability to readily answer their irrelevant questions and incorporate them into the story.
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* In his "Corfu Trilogy", Gerald Durrell relates that this was the only way he was able to learn history. His tutor told him all about Lord Nelson's butterfly collection and the names of Hannibal's elephants.
* The AbbottAndCostello sketch ''Jonah and the Whale'': Lou's trying to impress a pretty girl with a joke, but Bud keeps interrupting with demands for details.
* In a ''GrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
* On ''TheWire'', Prez tries to set his class a TrainProblem and they pester him for details that would be relevant to an actual journey (which station it's leaving from, what the purpose of this guy's trip is, etc.), but not to the basic maths problem he has in mind.
* On ''TheOffice'', when asked which five books he would want on a deserted island, Dwight is obviously thinking too hard about it and asks whether there is any firewood on the island or whether he lost his shoes before he got there.
** Dwight loves this trope - when asked whether it is just for a man to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, Dwight just adds his own details - the bread is poisoned, and the kids aren't even his.
* The AbbottAndCostello sketch ''Jonah and the Whale'': Lou's trying to impress a pretty girl with a joke, but Bud keeps interrupting with demands for details.
* In a ''GrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
* On ''TheWire'', Prez tries to set his class a TrainProblem and they pester him for details that would be relevant to an actual journey (which station it's leaving from, what the purpose of this guy's trip is, etc.), but not to the basic maths problem he has in mind.
* On ''TheOffice'', when asked which five books he would want on a deserted island, Dwight is obviously thinking too hard about it and asks whether there is any firewood on the island or whether he lost his shoes before he got there.
** Dwight loves this trope - when asked whether it is just for a man to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, Dwight just adds his own details - the bread is poisoned, and the kids aren't even his.
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* TruthInTelevision: This is a [[ConstantlyCurious favourite tactic of small children]] for irritating their parents, of course.
** Any university class ''will'' have this happen.
* ''{{QI}}'': (not word for word, for obvious reasons...)
-->'''Stephen Fry:''' Tell me about the 12 Frenchmen and the 12 mosquitoes...
-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' Once upon a time, there were 12 Frenchmen, and they were called 'Appy, Sleepy... er, Silly, Billy... Fatty and... Furieux. They went-
-->'''Phil Jupitus:''' [[OverlyLongGag That's six!]]
-->'''Dara:''' [[LongList Oh, all right]]... Philippe, Michel, Aujourd-hui, Flambé, Bof and Zut-Alors. And they used to go around with these [[TemptingFate 12 mosquitoes]], [[TheyFightCrime solving crimes]]-
-->'''Phil:''' What were ''their'' names?
* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' that takes place before Lisa was born, Marge is telling Bart a typical prince-and-princess story before he goes to bed.
-->'''Bart:''' And then what happened?
-->'''Marge:''' They had 30 sons and 30 daughters.
-->'''Bart:''' What were their names?
* In ''HowIMetYourMother'', when Ted [[WhatDidIDoLastNight wakes up with a strange girl in his bed and a pineapple on his nightstand]] everyone tries to figure out who the girl is and how Ted hooked up with her ... except for Marshall, who's fixated on getting details about the pineapple.
** Any university class ''will'' have this happen.
* ''{{QI}}'': (not word for word, for obvious reasons...)
-->'''Stephen Fry:''' Tell me about the 12 Frenchmen and the 12 mosquitoes...
-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' Once upon a time, there were 12 Frenchmen, and they were called 'Appy, Sleepy... er, Silly, Billy... Fatty and... Furieux. They went-
-->'''Phil Jupitus:''' [[OverlyLongGag That's six!]]
-->'''Dara:''' [[LongList Oh, all right]]... Philippe, Michel, Aujourd-hui, Flambé, Bof and Zut-Alors. And they used to go around with these [[TemptingFate 12 mosquitoes]], [[TheyFightCrime solving crimes]]-
-->'''Phil:''' What were ''their'' names?
* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' that takes place before Lisa was born, Marge is telling Bart a typical prince-and-princess story before he goes to bed.
-->'''Bart:''' And then what happened?
-->'''Marge:''' They had 30 sons and 30 daughters.
-->'''Bart:''' What were their names?
* In ''HowIMetYourMother'', when Ted [[WhatDidIDoLastNight wakes up with a strange girl in his bed and a pineapple on his nightstand]] everyone tries to figure out who the girl is and how Ted hooked up with her ... except for Marshall, who's fixated on getting details about the pineapple.
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** [[EpilepticTrees Women live, on average, longer than men. If it were a guy, depending on the date, the subject could be dead.]]
* Played straight in ''FindingNemo'':
-->'''Marlin:''' All right, I know one joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they--I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I--
-->'''Bob:''' Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
* In ''SeitokaiNoIchizon'', a rather basic math problem gets derailed in this way.
* In one of his stories, EphraimKishon tries to tell a joke to a Swiss gentleman, who then uses this trope. The dialogue ends like this:
--> Kishon: "It doesn't matter which tunnel! For all I care, it could be the Schlesinger tunnel!
--> Swiss: "The Schlesinger tunnel? Now that's funny! Ha-ha-ha..."
** At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
* Played straight in ''FindingNemo'':
-->'''Marlin:''' All right, I know one joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they--I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I--
-->'''Bob:''' Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
* In ''SeitokaiNoIchizon'', a rather basic math problem gets derailed in this way.
* In one of his stories, EphraimKishon tries to tell a joke to a Swiss gentleman, who then uses this trope. The dialogue ends like this:
--> Kishon: "It doesn't matter which tunnel! For all I care, it could be the Schlesinger tunnel!
--> Swiss: "The Schlesinger tunnel? Now that's funny! Ha-ha-ha..."
** At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
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* In ''StandByMe'', Vern likes Gordy's story about Lard-Ass but isn't quite happy until he knows whether there was an entry fee for the pie-eating contest.
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* In Saki's short story "The Story-Teller," the story-teller is so successful with the children because of his ability to readily answer their irrelevant questions and incorporate them into the story.
* In his "Corfu Trilogy", Gerald Durrell relates that this was the only way he was able to learn history. His tutor told him all about Lord Nelson's butterfly collection and the names of Hannibal's elephants.
* In one of his stories, EphraimKishon tries to tell a joke to a Swiss gentleman, who then uses this trope. The dialogue ends like this:
--> Kishon: "It doesn't matter which tunnel! For all I care, it could be the Schlesinger tunnel!
--> Swiss: "The Schlesinger tunnel? Now that's funny! Ha-ha-ha..."
** At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
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* ''TheMightyB'': The main character was trying to tell a joke:
-->"A leprechaun walks into a bar. Wait, you're not supposed to know it's a leprechaun yet..."
** The story gets progressively worse from there.
* The AbbottAndCostello sketch ''Jonah and the Whale'': Lou's trying to impress a pretty girl with a joke, but Bud keeps interrupting with demands for details.
* On ''TheWire'', Prez tries to set his class a TrainProblem and they pester him for details that would be relevant to an actual journey (which station it's leaving from, what the purpose of this guy's trip is, etc.), but not to the basic maths problem he has in mind.
* On ''TheOffice'', when asked which five books he would want on a deserted island, Dwight is obviously thinking too hard about it and asks whether there is any firewood on the island or whether he lost his shoes before he got there.
** Dwight loves this trope - when asked whether it is just for a man to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, Dwight just adds his own details - the bread is poisoned, and the kids aren't even his.
* ''{{QI}}'': (not word for word, for obvious reasons...)
-->'''Stephen Fry:''' Tell me about the 12 Frenchmen and the 12 mosquitoes...
-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' Once upon a time, there were 12 Frenchmen, and they were called 'Appy, Sleepy... er, Silly, Billy... Fatty and... Furieux. They went-
-->'''Phil Jupitus:''' [[OverlyLongGag That's six!]]
-->'''Dara:''' [[LongList Oh, all right]]... Philippe, Michel, Aujourd-hui, Flambé, Bof and Zut-Alors. And they used to go around with these [[TemptingFate 12 mosquitoes]], [[TheyFightCrime solving crimes]]-
-->'''Phil:''' What were ''their'' names?
* In ''HowIMetYourMother'', when Ted [[WhatDidIDoLastNight wakes up with a strange girl in his bed and a pineapple on his nightstand]] everyone tries to figure out who the girl is and how Ted hooked up with her ... except for Marshall, who's fixated on getting details about the pineapple.
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* On [[Series/TheRickyGervaisShow Ricky Gervais's XFM show]], Karl Pilkington's stories were very prone to this. It was an especial problem when it came to his "Rockbusters" clues, which Ricky would often interrupt to warn listeners that whatever detail Karl was trying to settle to his own satisfaction might be completely irrelevant to the actual answer.
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* In a ''GrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' that takes place before Lisa was born, Marge is telling Bart a typical prince-and-princess story before he goes to bed.
-->'''Bart:''' And then what happened?
-->'''Marge:''' They had 30 sons and 30 daughters.
-->'''Bart:''' What were their names?
* Played straight in ''FindingNemo'':
-->'''Marlin:''' All right, I know one joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they--I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I--
-->'''Bob:''' Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
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* TruthInTelevision: This is a [[ConstantlyCurious favourite tactic of small children]] for irritating their parents, of course.
** Any university class ''will'' have this happen.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In Saki's short story "The Story-Teller," the story-teller is so successful with the children because of his ability to readily answer their irrelevant questions and incorporate them into the story.
* In his "Corfu Trilogy", Gerald Durrell relates that this was the only way he was able to learn history. His tutor told him all about Lord Nelson's butterfly collection and the names of Hannibal's elephants.
* In one of his stories, EphraimKishon tries to tell a joke to a Swiss gentleman, who then uses this trope. The dialogue ends like this:
--> Kishon: "It doesn't matter which tunnel! For all I care, it could be the Schlesinger tunnel!
--> Swiss: "The Schlesinger tunnel? Now that's funny! Ha-ha-ha..."
** At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''TheMightyB'': The main character was trying to tell a joke:
-->"A leprechaun walks into a bar. Wait, you're not supposed to know it's a leprechaun yet..."
** The story gets progressively worse from there.
* The AbbottAndCostello sketch ''Jonah and the Whale'': Lou's trying to impress a pretty girl with a joke, but Bud keeps interrupting with demands for details.
* On ''TheWire'', Prez tries to set his class a TrainProblem and they pester him for details that would be relevant to an actual journey (which station it's leaving from, what the purpose of this guy's trip is, etc.), but not to the basic maths problem he has in mind.
* On ''TheOffice'', when asked which five books he would want on a deserted island, Dwight is obviously thinking too hard about it and asks whether there is any firewood on the island or whether he lost his shoes before he got there.
** Dwight loves this trope - when asked whether it is just for a man to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, Dwight just adds his own details - the bread is poisoned, and the kids aren't even his.
* ''{{QI}}'': (not word for word, for obvious reasons...)
-->'''Stephen Fry:''' Tell me about the 12 Frenchmen and the 12 mosquitoes...
-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' Once upon a time, there were 12 Frenchmen, and they were called 'Appy, Sleepy... er, Silly, Billy... Fatty and... Furieux. They went-
-->'''Phil Jupitus:''' [[OverlyLongGag That's six!]]
-->'''Dara:''' [[LongList Oh, all right]]... Philippe, Michel, Aujourd-hui, Flambé, Bof and Zut-Alors. And they used to go around with these [[TemptingFate 12 mosquitoes]], [[TheyFightCrime solving crimes]]-
-->'''Phil:''' What were ''their'' names?
* In ''HowIMetYourMother'', when Ted [[WhatDidIDoLastNight wakes up with a strange girl in his bed and a pineapple on his nightstand]] everyone tries to figure out who the girl is and how Ted hooked up with her ... except for Marshall, who's fixated on getting details about the pineapple.
[[AC:{{Radio}}]]
* On [[Series/TheRickyGervaisShow Ricky Gervais's XFM show]], Karl Pilkington's stories were very prone to this. It was an especial problem when it came to his "Rockbusters" clues, which Ricky would often interrupt to warn listeners that whatever detail Karl was trying to settle to his own satisfaction might be completely irrelevant to the actual answer.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In a ''GrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' that takes place before Lisa was born, Marge is telling Bart a typical prince-and-princess story before he goes to bed.
-->'''Bart:''' And then what happened?
-->'''Marge:''' They had 30 sons and 30 daughters.
-->'''Bart:''' What were their names?
* Played straight in ''FindingNemo'':
-->'''Marlin:''' All right, I know one joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they--I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I--
-->'''Bob:''' Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
[[AC:RealLife]]
* TruthInTelevision: This is a [[ConstantlyCurious favourite tactic of small children]] for irritating their parents, of course.
** Any university class ''will'' have this happen.
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* TruthInTelevision: This is a favourite tactic of small children for irritating their parents, of course.
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* TruthInTelevision: This is a [[ConstantlyCurious favourite tactic of small children children]] for irritating their parents, of course.
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* At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
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--> Swiss: "The Schlesinger tunnel? Now that's funny! Ha-ha-ha..."\\
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** At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
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** At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
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* In a ''Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
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* In a ''Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'' ''GrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
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* In ''[=~Monty Python's Life of Brian~=]'', telling the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25):
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* In ''[=~Monty Python's Life of Brian~=]'', ''MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', telling the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25):
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* Subverted in ''Phenomenon''. Somebody asks JohnTravolta's character how old a person would be now if they were born on the 5th of March 1987 (or was it the 7th of July 1976? No, it was the 28th of October 1928...) Anyway, he asks a bunch of questions, the last one being "Where was he born?" The exasperated questioner asks what that has to do with it. "Well, if he were born in New York City he'd be..." and gives the age right down to the minute. He never does explain, though, how a person's gender affects their age.
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* Subverted in ''Phenomenon''.''{{Phenomenon}}''. Somebody asks JohnTravolta's character how old a person would be now if they were born on the 5th of March 1987 (or was it the 7th of July 1976? No, it was the 28th of October 1928...) Anyway, he asks a bunch of questions, the last one being "Where was he born?" The exasperated questioner asks what that has to do with it. "Well, if he were born in New York City he'd be..." and gives the age right down to the minute. He never does explain, though, how a person's gender affects their age.
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** At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
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* In the DCOM ''Pixel Perfect'', the computerized character interrupts her creator's description of what falling in love feels like with questions like this.
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* In the DCOM ''Pixel Perfect'', Disney Channel Original Movie ''PixelPerfect'', the computerized character interrupts her creator's description of what falling in love feels like with questions like this.
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--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a ShaggyDogStory or a {{Metaphorgotten}}. Common culprits are the ConstantlyCurious, missing-the-point {{Cloudcuckoolander}} or the MouthyKid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller [[CannotTellAJoke might do this to himself]], adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things.
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--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a ShaggyDogStory or a {{Metaphorgotten}}. Common culprits are the ConstantlyCurious, the missing-the-point {{Cloudcuckoolander}} or the MouthyKid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller [[CannotTellAJoke might do this to himself]], adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things.
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--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a ShaggyDogStory or a {{Metaphorgotten}}. Common culprits are the overcurious ElephantsChild, missing-the-point {{Cloudcuckoolander}} or the MouthyKid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller [[CannotTellAJoke might do this to himself]], adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things.
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--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a ShaggyDogStory or a {{Metaphorgotten}}. Common culprits are the overcurious ElephantsChild, ConstantlyCurious, missing-the-point {{Cloudcuckoolander}} or the MouthyKid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller [[CannotTellAJoke might do this to himself]], adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things.
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Changing Chuck to Carl (The correct one unless there was something that I missed
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* In a ''Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Chuck and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
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* In a ''Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'' episode, a bookworm asks Billy a classic two-trains question. Billy... makes one of the trains blue, full of clowns named Chuck Carl and Larry, with a conductor named Tim who is a vegetarian but secretly sneaks bacon when no one is looking.
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But what about...\\
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* In ''BladeRunner'', Holden asks Leon to imagine a hypothetical situation where he's walking in the desert and finds a tortoise on its back. Leon wants to know which desert and why he's there.
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* In ''BladeRunner'', Holden asks Leon to imagine a hypothetical situation where he's walking in the desert and finds a tortoise on its back. back, the idea being to evoke an emotional response in order to determine if Leon is really human. Leon misses the point entirely and wants to know which desert and desert, why he's there.there, etc.
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* In ''BladeRunner'', Holden asks Leon to imagine a hypothetical situation where he's walking in the desert and finds a tortoise on its back. Leon wants to know which desert and why he's there.
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-->'''Dara:''' Oh, all right... Philippe, Michel, Aujourd-hui, Flambé, Bof and Zut-Alors. And they used to go around with these [[TemptingFate 12 mosquitoes]], [[TheyFightCrime solving crimes]]-
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-->'''Dara:''' [[LongList Oh, all right...right]]... Philippe, Michel, Aujourd-hui, Flambé, Bof and Zut-Alors. And they used to go around with these [[TemptingFate 12 mosquitoes]], [[TheyFightCrime solving crimes]]-
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** Any university class ''will'' have this happen.
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-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' Once upon a time, there were 12 Frenchmen, and they were called 'Appy, Sleepy... er, Silly, Billy... Fatty and... Furieux. They went?
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-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' Once upon a time, there were 12 Frenchmen, and they were called 'Appy, Sleepy... er, Silly, Billy... Fatty and... Furieux. They went?went-
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-->'''Dara:''' Oh, all right... Philippe, Michel, Aujourd-hui, Flambé, Bof and Zut-Alors. And they used to go around with these [[TemptingFate 12 mosquitoes]], [[TheyFightCrime solving crimes]]?crimes]]-
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--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a ShaggyDogStory or a {{Metaphorgotten}}. Common culprits are the overcurious ElephantsChild, missing-the-point {{Cloudcuckoolander}} or the MouthyKid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller might do this to himself, adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things.
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--It doesn't matter! Shut up and let me finish! Ahem. Bob is trying to tell a story or joke, or ask a hypothetical or rhetorical question. He's interrupted constantly by requests for unnecessary extraneous details, quickly derailing the story into a ShaggyDogStory or a {{Metaphorgotten}}. Common culprits are the overcurious ElephantsChild, missing-the-point {{Cloudcuckoolander}} or the MouthyKid who's just trying to get on his nerves. Alternatively a self-conscious joke teller [[CannotTellAJoke might do this to himself, himself]], adding unnecessary detail or going back and changing things.
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** Also from the Pythons, or at least Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Grahm Chapman, comes How To Irritate People. In the show, which is a collection of sketches like MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, a man tries to tell his employer, who is visiting for tea, a joke he heard. Actually his wife wants him to tell it, and she keeps interrupting him to input unimportant details.
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** Also from the Pythons, or at least Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Grahm Graham Chapman, comes How To Irritate People. In the show, which is a collection of sketches like MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, a man tries to tell his employer, who is visiting for tea, a joke he heard. Actually his wife wants him to tell it, and she keeps interrupting him to input unimportant details.
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* Subverted in Phenomenon. Somebody asks John Travolta's character how old a person would be now if they were born on the 5th of March 1987 (or was it the 7th of July 1976? No, it was the 28th of October 1928...) Anyway, he asks a bunch of questions, the last one being "Where was he born?" The exasperated questioner asks what that has to do with it. "Well, if he were born in New York City he'd be..." and gives the age right down to the minute. He never does explain, though, how a person's gender affects their age.
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* Subverted in Phenomenon. ''Phenomenon''. Somebody asks John Travolta's JohnTravolta's character how old a person would be now if they were born on the 5th of March 1987 (or was it the 7th of July 1976? No, it was the 28th of October 1928...) Anyway, he asks a bunch of questions, the last one being "Where was he born?" The exasperated questioner asks what that has to do with it. "Well, if he were born in New York City he'd be..." and gives the age right down to the minute. He never does explain, though, how a person's gender affects their age.
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* In {{Seitokai No Ichizon}}, a rather basic math problem gets derailed in this way.
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* In {{Seitokai No Ichizon}}, ''SeitokaiNoIchizon'', a rather basic math problem gets derailed in this way.
* In one of his stories, EphraimKishon tries to tell a joke to a Swiss gentleman, who then uses this trope. The dialogue ends like this:
--> Kishon: "It doesn't matter which tunnel! For all I care, it could be the Schlesinger tunnel!
--> Swiss: "The Schlesinger tunnel? Now that's funny! Ha-ha-ha..."\\
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* In one of his stories, EphraimKishon tries to tell a joke to a Swiss gentleman, who then uses this trope. The dialogue ends like this:
--> Kishon: "It doesn't matter which tunnel! For all I care, it could be the Schlesinger tunnel!
--> Swiss: "The Schlesinger tunnel? Now that's funny! Ha-ha-ha..."\\
At the end, Kishon is so frustrated and ashamed, he hangs himself with an indestructible Swiss tie.
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* Truth In Television: This is a favourite tactic of small children for irritating their parents, of course.
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* Truth In Television: TruthInTelevision: This is a favourite tactic of small children for irritating their parents, of course.
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-->'''Marlin:'''All right, I know one joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they--I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I--
-->'''Bob:'''Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
-->'''Bob:'''Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
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* In {{Seitokai No Ichizon}}, a rather basic math problem gets derailed in this way.
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** [[EpilepticTrees Women live, on average, longer than men. If it were a guy, depending on the date, the subject could be dead.]]
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**Dwight loves this trope - when asked whether it is just for a man to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, Dwight just adds his own details - the bread is poisoned, and the kids aren't even his.
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* Played straight in ''FindingNemo'':
-->'''Marlin:'''All right, I know one joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they--I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I--
-->'''Bob:'''Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
-->'''Marlin:'''All right, I know one joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn't walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they--I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I--
-->'''Bob:'''Sheldon! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
