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[[caption-width-right:349ːEverything's funnier with {{Franchise/Batman}}.]]

[[caption-width-right:349ː[[GarnishingTheStory Everything's funnier with]] {{Franchise/Batman}}.]]

[[caption-width-right:349:Everything's funnier with {{Franchise/Batman}}.]]

* Fredrik Knudsen's ''WebVideo/DownTheRabbitHole'' series combines utterly serious, deadpan narration with some of the most absurd topics imaginable. A fequent occurrence is Fredrik reading some kind of text out loud ''exactly'' as it is written, including spelling mistakes, while still remaining as deadpan as ever.

* TheComicallySerious/WebComics

* Many {{Non Player Character}}s in ''Machinima/CouriersMindRiseOfNewVegas'' come across as this when dealing with [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas The Courier]], who has [[AxCrazy many]] [[AwesomeEgo quirks]] [[DeadpanSnarker typical]] of "Mind" type protagonists.

* Benrey from ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'' reacts to everything with apathetic boredom and never shows any kind of emotion, even when he's harassing people about their passports, behaving like a bratty toddler, or seeing any of the truly ridiculous antics the rest of the cast get up to.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* Thanks to a combination of attempted clinical tone and strange or even downright silly subjects, Wiki/TheOtherWiki occasionally dabbles in this trope.

** Part of the reason why animals like [[CluckingFunny chickens]] are so funny. They lack facial expressions, which make them look serious all the time. The illusion is heightened by their prim and proper stance and mannerisms, and thus they look silly when they freak out about something.

* Felix in ''Fanfic/{{Spellbound}}'' comes with a generous helping of OnlySaneMan toward the entire (non-magical) world, but especially his much more excitable brother.

* BritishRoyalGuards are often seen as this, especially by foreigners. This results in the occasional ignorant traveler believing said guards absolutely have to stand still no matter what you do to them and instead end up crapping their pants when the guard shoves the barrel of his rifle in their face and hollers "[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness BACK AWAY FROM THE GUARD!!!]]"

* In response to a glaring mistake on [[Franchise/StarWars StarWars.com's]] Encylopedia, [[TheWikiRule Wookieepedia,]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer priding itself on being a source for anything and everything in Star Wars canon]], created [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kamino_(unit) this deleted article.]] Before the Expanded Universe relaunch, "Kamino" being a unit describing the constant height of clone troopers was technically canonical. An administrator archived this and altered the template for denoting that something was mentioned in the Encyclopedia (allowing the archival link) to facilitate the article. Brief, jocular consideration was given to creating an article on 1.87 meters ''the planet'', but it was decided that that would have been ridiculous. Even after this was rectified, a snippet on the error appeared in the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jesse/Legends legacy continuity version of the clone trooper's article.]]

This article is about a sandwich Elvis enjoyed. For the actual Elvis Sandwich, see

** For that matter, their article on WebAnimation/YouTubePoop is... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Poop interesting.]]

** Also the description of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics#Marathon the equally outrageous 1904 Olympic marathon.]]

** As well as the article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film) The Room]].
** And their article on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_Gold_Loaf Fool's Gold Loaf]], which ''starts'' with this:
--->This article is about a sandwich Elvis enjoyed. For the actual Elvis Sandwich, see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter,_banana_and_bacon_sandwich Peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse: [[Characters/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse Spider-Man Noir]]. His HardBoiledDetective characterization matched against the humor and silliness of the other Spiders and the universe the movie's mainly set in does a lot to make him very humorous.

** Their article about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease) kuru]] to people to "Avoid practices of cannibalism".

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* ''Animation/InvestigationHeldByKolobki'' features Chief, who keeps his cool even as an orangutan attempts to use him as a basketball or he reads a case file of a rare striped elephant that loves fish oil.
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* Parodied to heck and back in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', especially when Batman ends up in CloudCuckooLand:

[[WordOfGod Terry Pratchett:]] Granny Weatherwax has absolutely no sense of humour but she has, as it were, heard about it. She has no grasp of how or why jokes work -- she's one of those people who say "And then what happened?" after you've told them the punchline. She can vaguely remember the one-liner "Give me an alligator sandwich -- and make it snappy!" but since she's got no idea of why it's even mildly amusing she gets confused... all that she can remember is that apparently the man wants it quickly.

--> '''Bertie:''' I suppose it bowled the poor blighter over absolutely?\\

* Thanks to a combination of attempted clinical tone and strange or even downright silly subjects, Wiki/TheOtherWiki occasionally dabbles in this trope. For example, their page for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte_County_High_School Butte County High School,]] home of the Butte Pirates. Similarly, their 'plot' section for The Lonely Island song [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_In_My_Pants#Plot "Jizz in My Pants"]]. Or their entry on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_%28aesthetic%29 "cool."]]

-->-- Creator/CharlieChaplin, ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', "Murdoch and the Tramp"