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** And then double subverted when he eventually does say, "You're welcome".

Compare MathematiciansAnswer, NotActuallyTheUltimateQuestion, RhetoricalQuestionBlunder, WhosOnFirst. If you do this all by yourself, it's a {{Feghoot}}. A RealJokeName can be an inversion if the person's name sounds like it's a setup for this trope.

* WebAnimation/{{hololive}} Advent's resident memelord Koseki Bijou quickly developed a reputation as a master of spotting Henways in chat; it took the Pebbles ''five months'' of potential "Gottem!" moments before she finally fell for one (it was "butfore").

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* ''Series/CrimeStory'' - at a block party cookout, Polish cop Krychek is quizzing black cop Clemmons on Polish food. When he gets to ''garachki'' Clemmons is stumped - turns out it's what you use to open a garage door.

* In the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "Where There's a Will, There's a War", Hawkeye fondly recalls (via flashback) a time when the usually-humorless Margaret Houlihan started rattling off a whole bunch of these with him while taking inventory in the supply hut:
-->'''Hawkeye:''' Sulfa...where's the sulfa?\\

** Music/WeirdAlYankovic used a variant of this as the repeated "fade out" line at the end of "Wanna B Ur Lovr":
---> Girl, you must be Jamaican, because ja makin' me crazy...

* WebVideo/DougDoug routinely has these pulled on him by sponsors, to the point of getting bored of them. In one stream, to spice things up, he put up a system where anybody who sent one would be banned for two weeks, forcing them to really make theirs count.
-->'''Twitch Chat:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} GOTTEM]]

* In Houston Texas, there is a Restaurant called Kenny and Ziggy's, on their menu in the à la carte side order section is the item Duckway, and for its price it says Ask Your Server! [[http://kennyandziggys.com/menus/K&Zmenu_16.pdfHere is a PDF Copy of the Menu, see Page 4.]]

-> '''Daffy''': Nut Season? What's that supposed to be?
-> '''Bugs''': Unfortunately, it's that time of year where I finally get ligma.
-> '''Daffy''': What the hell is ligma?
-> '''Bugs''': ''Ligma'' nuts!

* In ''WebVideo/TheKeyOfAwesome'''s Dark Horse parody, [=JuicyJ=] tries to teach Katy Perry how metaphors work but he fails and she gets angry and zaps and tells the others "The rest of you can get the F out, I don't care what a Meta is for"[[note]]The F here being a letter F they were holding because she flunked at metaphors.[[/note]].
* ''WebVideo/EnglishBySteavin'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQN2I5kEiM How to Pronounce Maths]], Stéaviñ tricks his neighbor Jimmy into saying "I won a maths debate."[[note]]"I wanna masturbate."[[/note]]
* WebVideo/GameGrumps:
** One episode has Arin asking Danny about updog. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3eaGx5Z3Q4 result]] is ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments priceless]]''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pcGzxdIzfg&feature=youtu.be&t=7m Another episode]] has Arin trying the {{Trope Namer|s}}. Danny's smarter this time.
** ''Years'' later, when Arin and Danny reminisce about the "updog" incident, Arin manages to create a ''hilarious'' successor for it by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FfIJcElNCo&t=693s&ab_channel=GameGrumps getting Danny to fall for "grabon"]].
** And two months after ''that'', Danny finally gets his revenge in spectacular fashion. He waits until Arin is having yet another meltdown over ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' to ask if Arin has tried [[https://youtu.be/SAMtWIYuBWs?t=783 "feel dee"]].
%%* [[https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/553937374867382272 This]] Website/{{tw|itter}}eet to UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins.

-->'''Jack''': Ryan, do you have a buttfor?
-->'''Ryan''': ...Wh-what?
-->'''Jack''': A buttfor.
-->'''Ryan''': Butt for what?
-->'''Jack''': No, do you have a buttfor?
-->'''Ryan''': I don't know! Do I?

* Referenced in Music/SiIvaGunner's King for Another Day Tournament, where newcomer [[Franchise/DragonBall Piccolo]] became a doctor to research a cure for Goku's contraction of Ligma. [[spoiler:It turns out Goku was actually setting up this joke in-universe, and [[TheComicallySerious Piccolo took it way too literally.]]]]
* The Podcast/{{RiffTrax}} take on Film/TheMatrix had a subtle one.
--> '''Morpheus''': Tank.
--> '''Mike ''': You’re welcome.

'''Officer #3:''' Oh, about three pounds.

** "Ligma." "What's ligma?" "''Ligma balls!''" This one became famous when an online hoax was started claiming that the streamer Ninja (still very much alive as of July 2022) had died from the fictitious disease. During the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic, as more and more variants came to be identified and named, hoaxsters also spread word about the existence of a "ligma variant" with predictable results.