History Main / NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat

* One of the short stories in ''AoiHana'' revolves around two girls named Maeda and Nakajima. At the start of the tale, Maeda receives homophobic letters from several of her classmates, which causes Nakajima to get offended on her behalf and claim that she shouldn't put up with such "slander". After Maeda reveals that she is in fact gay, she asks Nakajima why she thinks that being called gay would be such an insult. Nakajima becomes flustered and tries to clarify that she didn't mean there's anything wrong with liking other girls, at which point the FirstPersonNarration reveals that Maeda [[LovingBully only put her on the spot because she loves her]].

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* Providing the "almost" exception above: Mai says these exact words to Natsuki in ''{{Mai-HiME}}'''s BeachEpisode after Natsuki denies that [[ThatDidntHappen anything happened]] between her and the KendoTeamCaptain when they were caught in a [[AccidentalPervert compromising position]]. Natsuki groans and tells Mai that she "[[CelibateHero doesn't have time for romance]]".
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* JeffNimoy and Creator/QuintonFlynn were MistakenForGay due to walking into a yaoi film, not knowing that it was one at the time, so they decided to set the record straight. ''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlCIe_A5dd4 No we're not saying there's anything wrong with that; just for this other team, we simply do not bat...]]"''

* TheFallAndRiseOfReginaldPerrin: Reggie's boss [[LicensedSexist CJ]] drags an employee into his office to ask whether he's gay due to having [[ItMakesSenseInContext the face of Beethoven embroidered on his underwear]]. The employee panics and insists that he's not, then backtracks and says there's nothing wrong and he has many gay friends, then realises [[DiggingYourselfDeeper what this implies]] and stutters to a stop. CJ insists that this is absolutely fine, but [[BaitAndSwitch then suggests that maybe he'd be happier in a more appropriate career,]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice like hairdressing or interior design]]. After the colleague's continued protests, CJ finally believes that he's straight but points out that his underwear isn't really appropriate for one of his employees. [[HoYay To demonstrate, he asks the resident]] FlamboyantGay to remove his trousers and prove what kind of underwear a [[ComicallyMissingThePoint 'staight man']] actually wears. [[spoiler:Answer: plain blue]].

* The persian emissary in ''Meet the Spartans''.

* [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline465.GIF This]] ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'' strip.

* On ''Series/AllMyChildren'', a frustrated Erica Kane declares that she's done with men. The reporter interviewing her assumes that Erica is coming out of the closet. Erica laughingly dismisses this possibility, while being quick to quote this trope word for word, clarifying that she's just taking time off from relationships in order to get her life together. (The FunnyAnuerysmMoment is that a few years later, Erica's daughter Bianca revealed herself to be a lesbian. Erica's reaction, while not homophobic, was most certainly NOT to quote this trope)

* On AllMyChildren, a frustrated Erica Kane declares that she's done with men. The reporter interviewing her assumes that Erica is coming out of the closet. Erica laughingly dismisses this possibility, while being quick to quote this trope word for word, clarifying that she's just taking time off from relationships in order to get her life together. (The FunnyAnuerysmMoment is that a few years later, Erica's daughter Bianca revealed herself to be a lesbian. Erica's reaction, while not homophobic, was most certainly NOT to quote this trope)

* When [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Will's]] aunt comes to visit and brings her unexpectedly white fiancee, the adults in the family seize on the fact that he is "tall" to avoid sounding prejudiced in front of the children. They are quick to point out that they have no problem with tall people, though.

* The third ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' game has a rather sneaky variant.

* In ''{{Spore}}'''s Galactic Age, there's a greeting from another empire that goes something along the lines of "We were wondering where that handsome galactic explorer had gone to! Wait, I didn't mean it like that. Not that there's anything wrong with that."

* In "VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty", if you send Otacon pictures of the Marine Commandant, he'll say this almost word-for-word occasionally when the pictures of the Commandant come up during image review.

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* [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline465.GIF This]] ''WebComic/SabrinaOnline'' strip.
* {{hiimdaisy}}'s [[http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/26484.html#cutid1 2nd Big Long]] ''{{Persona 4}}'' comic:

* ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive''

* ''WebComic/GunnerkriggCourt'': It was pretty much inevitable after [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=925 Kat called Paz pretty]], and we were [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=926 not disapointed]].

* The online game ''{{Forumwarz}}'' has a random E-Peen™ (a type of achievement) called "I'm Gay!" The description: [[InvertedTrope Not That There's Anything Right With That!]]

* WordOfGod is that Benimaru from ''TheKingOfFighters'' is CampStraight. Instead of a direct translation, the English version dances around the subject and adds in this statement just in case you didn't get it.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did it in her ''SheRa'' review, where she's trying ''so'' hard to be accepting and not act like the Critic did in his version.

Not That There's Anything Wrong With That is what happens when homosexuality is painted in a negative light by words or actions from characters just to be portrayed as completely normal. Usually invoked as a weak saving throw and an attempt to prevent losing fans and coming across as a bigot. The subtext tends to be [[TroubledSympatheticBigot "I'm a homophobe, but I don't want to be one."]]

This can be played [[AccidentalPun straight]] as in: "Dude, I always thought you were gay... Not that there's anything wrong with that." or played for laughs when a rather [[CampGay effeminate]] character proclaims to an obviously straight character "That's kind of gay...Not that there's anything wrong with that."

-->'''Krillin:''' These aliens are scary. Especially that one in the front. Looks like a total fag.\\

'''Krillin:''' What? A Freaky Alien Genotype. What did you think I meant?\\

->''"All right, Vegeta. I'm going to be totally honest with you. This is sounding really gay... Not that there's anything wrong with that."''

** The first time a politician at state or national level came out as homosexual in Germany was when there were rumors that a newspaper would report that one of the contestants for the office of Governor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, was gay. Instead he called a press conference and made the announcement himself, famously saying "I am gay, and that's perfectly fine". Nobody really cared and he ended up winning the election and was reelected for a second term. Since then, many public figures outside of the show business have come out with rarely causing any controvery.

* According to Producer Garry Marshall, ''TheOddCouple'''s opening sequence was written and produced that way to make sure everyone knew the roommates were not gay (per a request by the network). Jack Klugman once referred to it as "that cockamamie [silly, ridiculous] opening".

* JeffNimoy and QuintonFlynn were MistakenForGay due to walking into a yaoi film, not knowing that it was one at the time, so they decided to set the record [[IncrediblyLamePun straight]]. ''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlCIe_A5dd4 No we're not saying there's anything wrong with that; just for this other team, we simply do not bat...]]"''

Not That There's Anything Wrong With That is what happens when homosexuality is painted in a negative light by words or actions from characters just to be portrayed as completely normal. Usually invoked as a weak saving throw and an attempt to prevent losing fans and coming across as a bigot.

-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZBY6fR6-Y The Yaoi Song]]

* It was pretty much inevitable after [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=925 this]] ''WebComic/GunnerkriggCourt'' comic, and we were [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=926 not disapointed]]. Actually, we don't get confirmation that Kat didn't think there's anything wrong with that, but that might be the author [[ShipSinking bringing in the heavy torpedos]] against the LesYay pairing of the two protagonists.

* ''Superdickery'' had [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=32&Itemid=50&limitstart=38 this]] as part of their ''Seduction of the Innocent'' gallery.

* The chorus of the [[Creator/Nigahiga]] song Bromance

* {{Inverted}} in an episode of ''GantzAbridged'' which involves a gay bully planning to rape a main character, leading to this exchange:

* In the commentary for ''[[ValLewton The Seventh Victim]]'', film historian Steve Haberman discusses the [[LesYay lesbian undertones]] present in much of the movie, and ends with this trope.

* [[TropeNamer The quote in question]] comes from the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Outing", where Jerry and George are mistaken for gay lovers. The origin of the quote came about because during the writing of the episode, the writers were afraid the script was coming across as homophobic, which was entirely the wrong impression that they wanted to give. Then somebody suddenly said, "well, it's not like there's anything wrong with that," and they realized that was it.
* In ''{{Smallville}}'', [[PlatonicLifePartners Chloe]] sometimes backtrack like this regarding [[{{Superman}} Clark]]'s [[HumanAlien alien heritage]].

* ''FlightOfTheConchords''

* A ''SexAndTheCity'' episode also involved Miranda getting set up on a blind date with an actual lesbian woman named Sydney. Although she naturally had to turn her down and explain the situation, they ended up friends. Later in the episode Miranda pretended they were together to get her boss's notice. And ends up kissing the blind date in the elevator to check if she herself might be gay without knowing. Interestingly enough, the actress who plays Miranda is now, after being with men all her life and having two children, engaged to a woman.

** Given that just about every lesbian alive has had a massive crush on Stephanie March, who played Thomas, since she swaggered onto the ''Law & Order SVU'' set, it was the greatest moment in American television history. For lesbians.

* When [[TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Will's]] aunt comes to visit and brings her unexpectedly white fiancee, the adults in the family seize on the fact that he is "tall" to avoid sounding prejudiced in front of the children. They are quick to point out that they have no problem with tall people, though.

* HHH was doing a lot of this while calling Kurt Angle gay for [[RealMenDontCry crying on the podium]] at TheOlympics in 1996.