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* ''{{Manga/Parasyte}}'': Kana [[FalseSoulmate believes she's Shinichi's soulmate]], due to having a psychic connection to people like him, and her being the first/only person he opened up about TheMasquerade to. But she also sees him grow affectionate to his actual girlfriend in a way he never did to her and internally pleads for him to notice her romantically.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fan comic, ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'', Mai makes a remark like this while intruding in Katara's room after Zuko leaves to meet with the Fire Nation Senate.

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--> '''Lucy''': You never picked up ''my'' brother from the airport!
--> '''Logan''': But, you never asked me to!
--> '''Lucy''': ... that's because I knew you'd say '''no'''.

* Played with early in ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', before Garion gets his big reveal. Garion and Ce'Nedra are talking about the girl Garion probably would have married had things gone another way, and Garion says it's for the best because she's not someone you can ask to sleep on the ground. Ce'Nedra points out that the group never hesitated to ask ''her'' to sleep on the ground, to which he replies, "I guess you're stronger."

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--> '''Cordelia''': "You were too busy rushing off to die for your beloved Buffy. You'd never die for me."

--> '''Dwayne''': "You never wanted to go to a game with ''me''"
--> '''Whitley''': "''He'' takes the time to explain the game to me. He takes his time in other ways too."

-->'''Thomas''': You’re taking a lot of trouble with Alfred. I feel quite jealous.
-->'''Carson''': I don’t know why. He asked for help. ''[[YouDidntAsk You]]'' [[YouDidntAsk never did]].
* Inverted in {{Series/Frasier}}, Daphne becomes worried about her impending marriage after her parents break up. Her father points out that Niles flew to England and dragged him all the way to Seattle just to comfort her, and admits "I never did anything like that for your mother."

--> '''Barney:''' "If you were going to be some [[spoiler: lame suburban dad]], ''why couldn't you have been that for me?!''"

--> '''Janeway''': *mock indignant* You never brought ME tea!

-->'''Q''': "You hit me! ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]'' never hit me!"

* Music/TracyLawrence: "I See It Now"
-->Oh, I never saw that look in your eyes
-->And I never had you hold me that tight
-->And I never saw you dance with your feet off the ground
-->Oh, but I see it now

-->'''Beatrice:''' Please stop fighting. All this shouting is bad for the baby.
-->'''[=BoJack=]:''' Where was that keen parenting insight ''50 years ago?!''

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*** "If you were going to be some [[spoiler: lame suburban dad]], '''why couldn't you have been that for me?!'''"

Compare WhatsHeGotThatIAintGot.

* In the WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender fan comic, ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'', Mai makes a remark like this while intruding in Katara's room after Zuko leaves to meet with the Fire Nation Senate.

Note that while this is often shown in a dramatic sense, it's also commonly PlayedForLaughs as one friend uses this phrase on another in a joking way (usually with an "I'm joking" added in.)

* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': Radchaai spaceship {{AI}}s aren't considered "people" and are under built-in {{Restraining Bolt}}s, but have a thousand small ways to make life more or less pleasant for captains they like or dislike. When Breq, the last surviving WetwareBody of one such AI, is reminiscing with her old captain Seivarden about the little favours she'd do for her favourite Lieutenant Awn, Seivarden struggles with the growing realization that Breq didn't like her at ''all''.

* ''Literature/TheBible'': At the end of the parable of the Prodigal Son, the loyal son who ''didn't'' leave home and waste all his money asks why his irresponsible brother is welcomed back into the family with a huge feast when their father never did the same for him. The father replies that he ''would'' have done the same for him at any time [[YouDidntAsk if he'd just asked]].
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* ''{{Manga/Parasyte}}'': Kana [[FalseSoulmate believes she's Shinichi's soulmate]], due to having a psychic connection to people like him, and her being the first/only person he opened up about TheMasquerade to. But she also sees him grow affectionate to his actual girlfriend in a way he never did to her and internally pleads for him to notice her romantically.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': When her husband has a second cup of coffee, the wife (listed in the credits as "Mrs. Hammen") says, "That's funny, Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home." (Later, when he's sick and hurling into the barf bag, she says, "Jim never vomits at home...")
** This was a parody of a Yuban Coffee commercial from the late 1970s that played this trope straight (see "Advertising", above).
* ''Film/MadeaGoesToJail'': This feeling between a couple drives the primary (or secondary, [[JustHereForGodzilla depending on how you view it]]) plot.

* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': Radchaai spaceship {{AI}}s aren't considered "people" and are under built-in {{Restraining Bolt}}s, but have a thousand small ways to make life more or less pleasant for captains they like or dislike. When Breq, the last surviving WetwareBody of one such AI, is reminiscing with her old captain Seivarden about the little favours she'd do for her favourite Lieutenant Awn, Seivarden struggles with the growing realization that Breq didn't like her at ''all''.

* Parodied in ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'', Teddy goes to Ivy's house to study for a really important test and Ivy's mother offers to give her a relaxing spot and a cup of tea. Ivy asks why she never does that for her. Her mom counters that she would if she studied. Ivy decides it's still not worth it.
* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Jimmy has this attitude towards Chloe, who has done more for Clark than he would ever know.

* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' where Janeway, upon learning that her best friend Tuvok used to make tea for [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry then-Captain Sulu]], jokingly complains that he never made ''her'' any tea.
--> '''Janeway''': *mock indignant* You never brought ME tea!
** One of Janeway's defining traits is that she a big coffee-drinker, and in the episode's novelization, Tuvok points out that she prefers coffee, and that Vulcan coffee, unlike Vulcan tea, isn't fit for human consumption.
* Done for comical effect when Q's surprise at Sisko's behavior, in comparison to Captain Picard's, gets PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
-->'''Q''': "You hit me! ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]'' never hit me!"
** Which leads to Sisko's blunt, but awesome rebuttal. "I'm '''not''' Picard." Though Q laughs it off and is amused by how much easier to provoke Sisko is compared to the more stoic Picard.
* In the episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' where Sharona and Natalie meet, Sharona finds out that Monk pays Natalie a lot more than he paid her. Thus she complains that Monk never paid her that much.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', in the episode where Barney puts together the super-date in order to bang J-Lo, Robin laments that he never went to similar lengths for her, even though they had been in a relationship together.
** When Barney meets his [[spoiler: DisappearedDad, and sees that he has another son for whom he acts as a typical boring, suburban dad, Barney [[TearJerker is extremely hurt]] because, if he was just going to be normal and regular, why couldn't he have been normal ''with Barney?'']]
** HIMYM likes this one. This is played for drama with Ted and Stella, where she refused to even consider moving into NYC with Ted, but did so almost immediately with her ex after [[RunawayBride leaving Ted at the altar]]. It's what prompts his attempt at an angry confrontation with her.

* In an episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Charlie spends most of the episode teaching Jake how to behave at his first "boy-girl party". Eventually, Alan complains about how Charlie never taught him anything, and basically left him on his own, and suffered socially for it. Charlie does seem remorseful for this but mentions how he was just a stupid teenager at the time and didn't want to hang out with his little brother.
* The first season of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' has an example. Jimmy is [[LikeASonToMe like a son]] to VillainProtagonist and CorruptPolitician Nucky Thompson. When Jimmy gets in trouble with the law in a way that could potentially blow [[TheRoaringTwenties Nucky's interest in the illegal alcohol trade]], Nucky doesn't directly help Jimmy but he doesn't cut him loose either, instead offering Jimmy a little cash and a chance to jump town. After Jimmy leaves, Nucky's brother/[[TheDragon Dragon]] Eli rhetorically wonders if he would get the same slack. [[spoiler:Later in the season Eli is seriously wounded and publicly exposed as a DirtyCop. Nucky fires Eli from his position as Sheriff... at least until after the election is over when he immediately hires Eli back. Too bad Eli has already become TheStarscream and joined a conspiracy against Nucky by then.]]
* PlayedWith on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}:'' Jackie divorces Fred for never wanting to try new things or do anything exciting, and afterward he starts taking up hobbies like skydiving. There's no other woman involved, but it still irks her.
* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' this is the reason why Danni breaks up with JD, realizing he still has feelings for Elliot. He goes out of his way to make Elliot feel better when she's having a crappy day after he [[IsThisThingStillOn (thinks he)]] has just hung on Dani, saying he was too busy with work to speak to her.
* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', when Kermit informed Miss Piggy that Christopher Reeve was the guest star for the week, she exclaimed "Christopher 'Perfect Body' Reeve?!", and immediately ran off to freshen up. Then, a surprisingly jealous Kermit laments, "She never called ''me'' 'Perfect body'."
** In the special ''The Muppets Go to the Movies'', Kermit figures that the best way to stay Piggy's jealousy is to ask Lily Tomlin to introduce the {{horror}} segment. He figures wrong: "Well! You never asked ''me'' to introduce the horror movie."

* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': Thomas notices [[RenownedSelectiveMentor Carson]] helping new footman Alfred in learning the ropes of serving at Downton. Thomas confronts the boss:
-->'''Thomas''': You’re taking a lot of trouble with Alfred. I feel quite jealous.
-->'''Carson''': I don’t know why. He asked for help. ''[[YouDidntAsk You]]'' [[YouDidntAsk never did]].
* Inverted in {{Series/Frasier}}, Daphne becomes worried about her impending marriage after her parents break up. Her father points out that Niles flew to England and dragged him all the way to Seattle just to comfort her, and admits "I never did anything like that for your mother."
* ''Series/ADifferentWorld'': As the campus prepares for a big football game, RichBitch Whitley is seen buying lunches for herself and her date, revealing that she's going to attend. Ex-fiance Dwayne is shocked at this:
--> '''Dwayne''': "You never wanted to go to a game with ''me''"
--> '''Whitley''': "''He'' takes the time to explain the game to me. He takes his time in other ways too."
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Sam and Dean's reaction when they meet their [[LongLostRelative half-brother, Adam,]] who recalls going to baseball games with their father. This is the same father who would leave Sam and Dean holed up in sleazy road-side motels for weeks with limited food and money and no adult supervision or outside contact. But [[spoiler: it turns out the story was fake. While Adam '''is''' their brother, he'd already been killed and a ghoul had assumed his form. The ghoul, who wanted revenge on their deceased father, John, instead took it out on the brothers, using what he'd learned about their lonely childhood to psychologically torture them. When they finally [[ItsALongStory meet the real Adam later in the season]], they find out he had even less contact with John than they did.]]
* One episode of ''Series/ModernFamily'' opens with the aftermath of a massive fight Claire and Phil had. Phil spends some time with Gloria going over the previous day to figure out what he did to upset Claire (Gloria pins it on everything he did, forgetting to give her a message, getting broccoli instead of cauliflower, etc.), while Claire tells her dad it's this trope. It's not even in the form of a potential lover or one specific person, but whenever she gives him a suggestion- in this case, trying wedge salad- he ignores her or blows it off, but whenever someone ''else'' gives that same suggestion, he thinks it's the greatest idea in the world. Since he still doesn't know what he did wrong, he winds up suggesting she try a wedge salad, courtesy of his genius friend, which of course sets her off all over again.

* In ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', Eleanor discovers that her mother she thought was dead is actually alive and now has a new family and another daughter. Though she's there to help make sure her mother is reformed and wants to be happy that she is so much kinder than Eleanor remembered, she can't help but feel resentful that her mother never treated her the way she treated her new child.

* ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'': When the ghost of Richard P. Fungus' grandfather showed up to finish his last movie, the two of them argued a lot. One of Fungus' complaints was that his grandfather never sent him Christmas cards.

-->Oh, I never saw that look in your eyes//
And I never had you hold me that tight//
And I never saw you dance with your feet off the ground//
Oh, but I see it now//

-->'''Cypher''': "I don't remember you ever bringing me dinner."

* ''Literature/TheBible'': At the end of the parable of the Prodigal Son, the loyal son who ''didn't'' leave home and wasted all his money asks why his irresponsible brother is welcomed back into the family with a huge feast when their father never did the same for him. The father replies that he ''would'' have done the same for him at any time [[YouDidntAsk if he'd just asked]].

* ''Literature/TheBible'': At the end of the parable of the Prodigal Son, the loyal son who ''didn't'' leave home and wasted all his money asks why his irresponsible brother is welcomed back into the family with a huge feast when his father never did the same for him. The father replies that he ''would'' have done the same for him [[YouDidntAsk if he'd just asked]].

* ''Literature/TheBible'': Happens at the end of the parable of The Prodigal Son, where the brother who ''didn't'' leave home and waste all his money wonders why he doesn't get a fatted calf, etc., etc.
** The actual end of the parable is the father answering with the next stock phrase, "[[YouDidntAsk You never asked]]".

A StockPhrase used to compare the difference between the way the speaker and a third character are treated. This is often used to imply that the speaker is not valued as much by the subject in question, and can become a source of {{angst}} in the relationship.

* ''{{Manga/Parasyte}}'': Kana [[FalseSoulmate believes she's Shinichi's soulmate]], due to having a psychic connection to people like him, and her being the first/only person he opened up about TheMasquerade to. But she also sees him grow affectionate to his actual girlfriend in a way he never did to her, and internally pleads for him to notice her romantically.

* ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'': Odin's quiet admission that, yes, he does actually love Thor and Loki, gets [[spoiler:Old!Loki screaming as they watch, since apparently Odin never said that to them.]]

* Parodied in ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'', Teddy goes to Ivy's house to study for a really important test and Ivy's mother offers to give her a relaxing spot and a cup of tea. Ivy asks why she never does that for her. Her mom counters with that she would if she studied. Ivy decides it's still not worth it.

* In an episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Charlie spends most of the episode teaching Jake how to behave at his first "boy-girl party". Eventually, Alan complains about how Charlie never taught him anything, and basically left him on his own, and suffered socially for it. Charlie does seem remorseful for this, but mentions how he was just a stupid teenager at the time, and didn't want to hang out with his little brother.
* The first season of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' has an example. Jimmy is [[LikeASonToMe like a son]] to VillainProtagonist and CorruptPolitician Nucky Thompson. When Jimmy gets in trouble with the law in a way that could potentially blow [[TheRoaringTwenties Nucky's interest in the illegal alcohol trade]], Nucky doesn't directly help Jimmy but he doesn't cut him loose either, instead offering Jimmy a little cash and a chance to jump town. After Jimmy leaves, Nucky's brother/[[TheDragon Dragon]] Eli rhetorically wonders if he would get the same slack. [[spoiler:Later in the season Eli is seriously wounded and publicly exposed as a DirtyCop. Nucky fires Eli from his position as Sheriff... at least until after the election is over, when he immediately hires Eli back. Too bad Eli has already become TheStarscream and joined a conspiracy against Nucky by then.]]

* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' this is the reason why Danni breaks up with JD, realizing he still has feelings for Elliot. He goes out of way to make Elliot feel better when she's having a crappy day after he [[IsThisThingStillOn (thinks he)]] has just hung on Dani, saying he was too busy with work to speak to her.
* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', when Kermit informed Miss Piggy that Christopher Reeve was the guess star for the week, she exclaimed "Christopher 'Perfect Body' Reeve?!", and immediately ran off to freshen up. Then, a surprisingly jealous Kermit laments, "She never called ''me'' 'Perfect body'."

* ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'': Soon after Paige and Mark get back together, she finds out that he chose to put his job as a police offcer at risk by covering up evidence that Sonya was involved in a hit-and-run (at the time he believed she was innocent, but Sonya remembered it soon afterward and turned herself in), she gets furious that he'd do that for a platonic friend, yet a year earlier he had arrested her after she was framed for receiving stolen goods, on their wedding day.

** The brother doesn't exactly get hosed, though; the father will still bequeath everything he owns to the loyal son, but for now he's just rejoicing that the prodigal son came home.

* [[https://dilbert.com/strip/1992-04-13 This]] ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} strip. Doubles as a RhetoricalQuestionBlunder.

* PlayedWith on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}:'' Jackie divorces Fred for never wanting to try new things or do anything exciting, and afterward he starts taking up hobbies like skydiving. There's no other woman involved (that this viewer recalls, anyway), but it still irks her.

** One of Janeway's defining traits is that she a big coffee-drinker, and in the episode's novelization, Tuvok points out that she prefers coffee.

--> '''Cordelia''': "You were too busy rushing off to die for your beloved Buffy. You'd never die for me"

** Done for comical effect when Q's surprise at Sisko's behavior, in comparison to Captain Picard's, gets PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
--->'''Q''': "You hit me! ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]'' never hit me!"

** HIMYM likes this one, this is played for drama with Ted and Stella, where she refused to even consider moving into NYC with Ted, but did so almost immediately with her ex after [[RunawayBride leaving Ted at the altar]]. It's what prompts his attempt at an angry confrontation with her.

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* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': When Ranma offers to give [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Ukyo]] a piggyback ride, [[LoveInterest Akane]] becomes jealous and irritable.
--> '''Akane:''' He never does anything that nice for me!
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