Bread Eggs Breaded Eggs / Live-Action TV

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• 3rd Rock from the Sun: When Sally is concerned that they have grown too comfortable being human.
  Sally: You used to call me lieutenant.
  Dick: We've adapted. We're emulating an Earth family. Earth families don't address each other by rank. They use more familiar terms like "You" and "Bastard" and "You bastard".
• From Angel:
  • A discussion between Eve and Spike:
    Eve: What can you possibly do to me? I've been trapped in this house for weeks like a-
    Spike: Rat? Snake? Beady little rat snake?
  • One by Spike in regards of people being found with their hearts cut out.
    Wesley: Priests are on it, but my senses tells me it's more demonic than some murderous nutjob.
    Spike: So we're ruling out demonic nutjobs then, are we?
• A.N.T. Farm: When Chyna is trying to decide what dance to do, she asks Cameron whether to do the dougie, the robot, or dougie the robot.
• The Aquabats! Super Show!:
  • "Überchaun!":
    Eaglebones Falconhawk: You're really a leprechaun? Aren't you supposed to give gold, or wishes, or golden wishes?
  • "Floating Eye of Death!":
    Crash McLarson: I wanna hear a story about bears...and licorice...and bears with licorice arms!
• Arrested Development:
  • The are three generations of Bluths: George, Michael, and George Michael.
  • George has a twin brother Oscar, and GOB's full name is George Oscar Bluth.
• Big Time Rush:
  • Carlos in one episode:
    Carlos: It's like a vacation! With singing! It's a sing-cation!
  • In a later episode, James tries to bribe Carlos...
    James: I'll get you a monkey!
    Carlos: No!
    James: A butler!
    Carlos: No!
    James: A monkey butler!
  • In "Big Time Mansion", when it's suggested that Gustavo let the boys housesit his mansion, he calls them monkeys. When Logan points out that Gustavo always refers to them as dogs, he calls them monkey-dogs.
• One episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy started with Bill, wearing a raincoat and galoshes, standing in a swamp in the rain.
  Bill: (stomps his foot in a puddle of water) It's wet. (moves his foot over and stomps on a muddy bank) It's land. (continues with each repetition) Wet. Land. Wet. Land. (speaking faster and faster) Wet! Land! Wet! Land! It's a wetland!
• Blackadder: In the episode "Nob and Nobility" in Blackadder The Third, today's hot choice at Mrs Miggins' shop is: chicken pimpernel in a scarlet sauce; scarlet chicken in a pimpernel sauce; or huge, suspicious-looking sausages, in a scarlet pimpernel sauce.
• Black Books has Bernard sending "chocolates and flowers, chocolate flowers and florets of chocolates" as his courtship ritual.
• The Bob Newhart Show:
  Jerry: Why, I could be a duke. Or an earl!
  Bob: You could be the Duke of Earl.
• In the Broad City episode "Citizen Ship," the protagonists are locked in a store room. Ilana yells "Rape!" because she's heard that's what you should yell in an emergency, then "Fire!" after Abbi corrects her. When no help arrives, she tries "Fire and rape! Rape and fire! Fire rape!"
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine:
  • "The Night Shift": Rosa's night shift successes: drunk and disorderly, then drunk and disorderly and cyber crime, which was a drunk guy humping a laptop.
  • "The Fugitive": A witness suffering from an extreme case of Language Barrier tries to communicate by drawing. She draws a big circle with smaller circles inside it. Two detectives guess that it's a cookie, or a pizza, or a cookie pizza. (Actually a manhole cover.)
    Scully: I think it's a cookie.
    Hitchcock: No. It's a pizza.
    Both: [gasp! and in unison] It's a cookie pizza!
  • "The Box": Detective Peralta lies during an interrogation that a witness has seen the suspect at his uncle's cabin. However, it backfires because the suspect knows that the owner of the only neighbouring house is dead... Peralta tries to save it by claiming that he never said the witness was supposed to be the neighbour. No, it could've been a squatter or a hunter or a squatting hunter as not all hunters have homes.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Buffy and Willow are debating whether or not to celebrate Thanksgiving:
    Buffy: It is a sham. But it's a—sham with yams. It's a yam sham!
    Willow: You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.
  • Willow on Buffy's 18th:
    "You can vote. You can be drafted. You can vote to not be drafted."
  • Willow from "The Zeppo:"
    Buffy: Do you remember the demon that almost got out the night I died?
    Willow: Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
  • Xander advised to stay out when they're fighting monsters because he might get killed, or hurt, or both.
  • Xander from "Once More, With Feeling"
    "It's a nightmare! It's a plague! It's like a nightmare about a plague!"
  • A collaborative example in "Killed by Death": Xander, Willow, and Cordy take an unconscious Buffy into the Hospital Emergency room:
    Intern: What happened?
    Willow: The flu.
    Xander: She fell.
    Cordy: She fainted.
    Xander: The flu, fainted and fell. She's sick, make it better!
  • Andrew was taken hostage by Willow in season 7 and starts acting like more like a guest. He prefers to be called a "guestage".
• A season 3 episode of Burn Notice had Michael meeting Connor, the "big bad boss" of a scam ring. Connor insists he's just a businessman. A caption on him calls him a "BIG BAD BUSINESSMAN".
• From an episode of Castle:
  Beckett: What was so special about our victim that our killer wanted to erase his identity... ? Don't say spy. beat Or mob hit.
  Castle: Mob hit of a spy?
• According to Chappelle's Show, "HBO, the greatest network of our time, has brought you compelling documentaries about pimps, ho's, players, johns, tricks, marks, mark-ass tricks, trick-ass marks, skeezers, skanks, skig-skags, and scallywhops..."
• In the Chicago Fire episode "The Right Thing", a homophobic customer makes a derogatory remark towards Ritter in Molly's. As the virtually the entire firehouse gets ready to attack him for it, Hermann orders him out "before you get your ass kicked by gays, firefighters, and gay firefighters".
• Le cœur a ses raisons:
  Ridge: I only fear fat Manitobaines. And intimity. But mostly the fat Manitobaines. And perhaps the intimity with the fat Manitobaines.
• From The Colbert Report:
  • The Kennedy assassination, Bigfoot, why Bigfoot assassinated Kennedy...
  • With Jimmy Fallon: "Remember that time we rode that bicycle built for two? Remember that time we rode that ferris wheel? Remember that time we rode that bicycle built for two on that ferris wheel?"
  • During one segment of Threatdown, Stephen listed the top five threats as robots, bears, robots, bears, and robot bears.
  • Leading up to his interview with Maurice Sendak: "Anybody who knows me knows that I don't like children, or books, or children's books."
  • "The elderly, the insane, and the insanely elderly."
  • The theme song of Tek Jansen Alpha Squad 7 describes its protagonist as doing the following:
    Killing the aliens
    Loving the aliens
    Sometimes loving then killing the aliens
• In the Community season 4 episode when Jeff finds out the students have lockers, he finds his is filled with fliers for Greendale events like dances, contests, dance contests and even a contest dance.
• Conan O'Brien referred to YouTube channels as being "cats", "people getting hit in the nuts", and "cats getting hit in the nuts". Andy Richter quickly added "people getting hit in the nuts with cats".
• The Daily Show
  "Pot! Gay Marriage! Gay-pot-marriage!"
• Daredevil (2015): In "World On Fire", Foggy and Karen go to Landman & Zack to get information for their client, a friend of Brett Mahoney's mother involved in a tenancy dispute. Karen's first remark on entering the lobby:
  Karen Page: Feels like a place in a movie where you'd buy a clone. Maybe a robot baby. Or the clone of a robot baby.
• On Dead Like Me, Daisy describing George to George's (Millie's) co-workers:
  Daisy: I'm looking for a girl. She's about yay big, brown eyes, pretty... angry... pretty angry, actual—Oh! That's her.
• Degrassi provides the page quote for Teen Pregnancy with Jenna: "I can't believe it Alli, I'm pregnant...and I'm a teenager. I'm a...", and Alli's response: "...pregnant teenager?"
• Derry Girls: episode 2.06:
  Erin: Help! This woman is trying to abduct us!
  Clare: Help! Fire! There's a fire!
  Michelle: Fire? What the fuck are you on about?
  Clare: It gets more attention. I read it somewhere.
  Erin: Kidnapper!
  Clare: Help! Fire!
  Orla: Help! There's a kidnapper on fire!
• On Dirk Gently, Dirk breaks into his former college records to discover the true reason for his expulsion.
  Dirk Gently: Minor misconduct, misconduct, gross minor misconduct, minor but gross misconduct...
• Doctor Who:
  • "Orphan 55": While attempting to talk up Bella, Ryan can't decide whether to tell her he's a pilot or a surgeon, so he settles on a surgeon for pilots.
  • "Can You Hear Me?": While her companions spend some time dealing with things at home, the Doctor suggests that she'll be occupying her time with "Maintenance... Correspondence? Correspondence about maintenance."
  • In "Spyfall", the Doctor tells her companions that the first rule of espionage is "Trust no-one." Later...
    Yaz: Ryan, you're panicking. Rule 1—no panicking.
    Ryan: I thought Rule 1 was don't trust anybody?
    Yaz: Rule 1a, then. No panicking while you're not trusting anyone.
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: In the episode "Death," after Duck's funeral, the Tissue Box offers a sandwich to try and help Red and Yellow Guy feel better. They refuse, so she offers a tissue. They refuse again, so she offers a sandwich wrapped in tissue.
• From Drake & Josh we have when they wanted to know Megan's next prank:
  Josh: It could be explosives!
  Drake: Or poison!
  Josh: (gulps) ...explosive poison?
• Honorable Mention goes to The Electric Company (1971) and its 2009 reboot, whose iconic silhouetted-faces bit takes this trope to the phonetic level. "Th." "Ing." "Thing." "Br." "Ing." "Bring." And so on.
• In Elementary's series 2 premiere, Sherlock asks Joan to accompany him to London because "without you, the airline might seat me next to a morbidly obese person. Or a child. Or a morbidly obese child."
• Family Ties: When Elyse tells Steven that she's pregnant:
  Steven: I'm happy. Don't I look happy?
  Elyse: You look shocked.
  Steven: I'm shocked, and I'm happy. I'm shappy!
  Elyse: Steven, you're babbling.
  Steven: I'm babbling...and shocked...and happy. I'm bashappy!
• The Fast Show:
  "Do you like cheese? Do you like peas? Then you'll love these! The brand new cheesy-peas!"
  "They're good for your teas!"
• Fawlty Towers:
  • "Duck with orange, duck with cherries, duck with orange and cherries, duck without orange..."
  • From the episode "The Germans":
    Major: Hate Germans! Love women.
    Polly: What about German women?
    Major: Good card players! But I wouldn't give them the time of day.
• Frasier:
  Frasier: Sometimes I am forceful with my opinions but that is only because I am passionate and right. And passionate about being right.
  • Roz uses this trope to insult Frasier while discussing writing a children's book
  Frasier: Good for you, Roz! You know, I dabbled in juvenile fiction myself. Yes, Niles and I, when we were boys, wrote a series of stories together in which we were the heroes. Along the lines of a Hardy Boys or a Nancy Drew.
  Roz: The Nancy Boys?
  Frasier: No.
• Friends:
  • Joey was asked what he prefers: girls or sandwiches. He talks about how he wants girls, but he also wants sandwiches. He decides he wants girls on bread.
  • When listing off the number of categories of towels Monica has during the Joey/Chandler-Monica/Rachel trivia contest on "The One with the Embryos", Joey and Chandler note that she has "fancy", "guest", and "fancy guest".
  • Ross refers to how his mother paid for his dance lessons... tries to replace it with karate lessons... and when Phoebe asks incredulously, "Dance Karate lessons?" he commits to it, claims it's a "beautiful but deadly sport" and does his best impression of one then the other.
• On Game of Thrones:
  • A Character Tic of Tyrion Lannister, known for his witty snarks.
    • He asks his sellsword Bronn what he wants. "Gold? Women? Golden women?"
    • Tyrion says the following to his nephew Joffrey during a riot of King's Landing: "We've had vicious kings, and we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!"
    • Tyrion describes his lover Shae's accusations as "Cruel. And unfair. Cruelly unfair."
    • When Varys tells Tyrion that he has a choice between drinking himself to death or accompanying him to Meereen, Tyrion asks if he can drink himself to death on the way to Meereen.
    • Tyrion's father Tywin Lannister tells him off for "bedding harlots and drinking with thieves". Tyrion replies that on occasion he also drank with the harlots.
  • Oberyn Martell says that the Lannisters are overly fond of their gold, their lions, and their golden lions. Lion is their sigil and they are famous for their gold mines and extreme wealth.
  • The Night's Watch is going over their latest batch of 'recruits'. "Raper, raper, thief, thief, thief and raper..."
  • Lady Crane, a leading actress in Izembaro's Braavosi group, is complimented that the audience loved her. She laughs and says, "They were sweet. Or drunk. Drunkenly sweet."
• Gilmore Girls:
  • One town meeting features a discussion about "Cart, Kiosk, Cart/Kiosk" permits - which sounds like a redundant title when spoken aloud (as Lorelai and Rory don't hesitate to point out), but is actually a permit the town requires for businesses run out of carts, kiosks, or... cart/kiosks, which is apparently some combination of the two.
  • In one episode, Lorelei sits on Luke's lap and says "I want roller skates and a pony and a Barbie, and roller skates for the pony and the Barbie...."
  • The diner is particularly crowded one day, so Lorelai and Rory consider spreading some nasty rumors about the place to make sure they'll always have a table in the future. Rory suggests "vermin", Lorelai suggests "no potable water", then Rory suggests "no potable vermin."
• On The Golden Girls, before trying out for Jeopardy! Dorothy has a dream in which she competes on the show against dumb farm-girl Rose and womanizer Charlie. The categories include 'Chickens', 'Babes', 'Chicken Babes' and 'Baby Chickens'.
• The Good Place:
  • There's a conversations between two demons, Michael and Shawn, in episode "Chidi Sees the Time-Knife". Michael (who actually starts rooting for humans) tells Shawn that rather than torturing humans with penis-flatteners and bees with teeth, he should try teeth-flatteners and bees with penises. Shawn mocks him and says it's stupid... but writes those ideas down.
  • One episode involving a party held by demons shows the song list for Hell: "She Hates Me" by Puddle of Mud, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" by Randy Brooks, and "She Hates Me" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" being played at the same time.
• In one episode of Gotham ("Unleashed"), Selina Kyle and Edward Nygma run into each other in the vents of Arkham Asylum (the former on her search for Bridget Pike, the latter while trying to escape). He tells her that Bridget can be found in Hugo Strange's secret basement, and then describes its horrors: "Alive people. Dead people. Alive-dead people. It's horrible."
• A Hale and Pace sketch: "Today I bought a present for Billy's birthday. It's called... a birthday present!"
• Hang Time: Julie uses this excuse to have Jason Redman take her home, so Vince, Michael and Danny don't catch her with him on a date in "Julie's Guy":
  Julie: Jason, we have to leave. I, uh, left something on.
  Jason: Really? What?
  Julie: My stereo. My iron. My iron's on my stereo.
• Happy Endings: Brad reluctantly discusses his deepest fears with Jane.
  Brad: Uh, all right, um... sharks.
  Jane: What? No, come on. Seriously.
  Brad: Okay, fine. Ghosts... (off Jane's look) of sharks. (another look) Ghost sharks?
  Jane: Ghost sharks? Really?
  Brad: It could happen. Uh...
• In Hi Honey, I'm Home!, Honey hands out condoms to some boys, thinking them to be something else. When one of the mothers talks to her about it:
  Mother: They are condoms!
  Honey: They're mints.
  Lloyd: They're condiments.
• In Hiragana Oshi, Mirei Sasaki is teaching about bread history when Kasuga informs the class that bread was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese, along with guns, which leads Mirei to imagine that the Portuguese distributed the bread to the Japanese people using bread guns.
• Home Improvement:
  • Brad asks his parents when they ever need to multiply compound fractions, which leads to this exchange:
    Jill: Like when I go to the grocery store and I buy a pound and a half of cheese.
    Brad: Yeah, but you're not multiplying anything.
    Jill: Well, you didn't let me finish!
    Tim (putting her on the spot): Why don't you finish it, then?
    Jill: Well, I buy a pound and a half of cheese and then I multiply it by... a gallon and a half of milk.
    Brad (utterly confused): But why would you do that?
    Jill: Because, because, I'm... making cheese milk.
  • When Tim and Al are building a bed on Tool Time, the headboard designs that Tim suggests are a moose, a beer mug, a jockstrap, and "a moose holding a beer mug, wearing a jockstrap."
  • When Randy volunteers at the hospice and meets Elaine, she says that she chose not to live with her children in Florida or California because she hates surfing and old people. Randy replies that the worst is old people who surf, then exclaims, "Hey, get out of my pipeline, I'm surfing here!" in a crotchety old voice.
• In Homeland, Carrie says that the Taliban would've said that a drone strike hit a mosque, an orphanage, or a mosque for orphans.
• House:
  • In "Role Model", House thinks that a black senator lies about being straight. "Some day there will be a black president. Some day there will be a gay president. Maybe there will even be a gay, black president. But one combination I do not see happening is gay, black, and dead."
  • Episode "Deception": Dr. House to a hot female patient: "Yeah? What else turns you on? Drugs? Casual sex? Rough sex? Casual rough sex? I’m a doctor, I need to know." (He forgot to ask about casual rough sex on drugs.)
  • In season 5 episode "Let them Eat Cake", House calls his subordinates 'not only frauds, but also idiots. Idiotic frauds. Fraudulent idiotic killers.'
  • Season 6, episode 19: House comments on a married couple who boast they have an open marriage, but House correctly assumes the husband is hiding something and that they have other marital problems.
    House: Of course the husband's secret was money. If it's not sex, it's always money. Unless it's sex for money. How did he lose it anyway?
  • Season 7, episode 8: "You don't want to propose at a wedding; emotions running high, people on edge. You want to try somewhere like a Buddhist temple. Or an aquarium. Or a Buddhist aquarium."
  • Season 8, episode 7 "Dead & Buried": Foreman uses this pattern when he discusses House's obsession with medical puzzles.
    Wilson: Why do you care if he works on two cases?
    Foreman: 'Cause next, it'll be three cases, then four. Then animal cases and ghost cases. Then animal ghost cases.
• How I Met Your Mother:
  • In "The Matchmaker", Ted is told by Ellen the matchmaker that there are no women for him, and he replies with the following, hinting at their previous conversation: "But I'm an architect. And you said I'm cute. I'm a cute architect."
  • In "Miracles", Barney has a serious accident. His friends jokingly ask him what he saw.
    Marshall: Hey, Ted said that right before the accident, his life flashed before his eyes. You know, all the stuff he loves. Did that happen to you?
    Lily: Oh yeah. I know what he saw. Boobs.
    Marshall: Scotch.
    Lily: Money.
    Marshall: Suits.
    Lily: A suit of money.
    Marshall: A suit of boobs. A giant boob wearing a suit of money.
    Lily: And the boob is lactating scotch.
    Marshall: I guess that's pretty much everything you love, right?
  • In "The Mermaid Theory", future Ted tells his kids that Robin and Marshall, historically, had three solid conversation topics: cold weather, sports, and cold-weather sports.
  • In "Knight Vision", Barney and Robin lie to the Reverend about Lily having bad habits.
    Reverend: Does Lily have any... problems that you're aware of?
    Barney: Drinking.
    Robin: Drugs.
    Barney and Robin: ...she's been drinking drugs.
• How I Met Your Father: Valentina pitches a club night by telling Sophie they have a "topless room, a tapas room, and a topless tapas room."
• When Lewbert resumes his position as the doorman in iCarly, Spencer shows him what he missed.
  Spencer: Okay, I've separated your phone calls into three categories. Death threats, from your mother... and death threats from your mother.
• One Key & Peele sketch centers a man at an airport waiting for his turn to board his plane. The people called to get on ahead of him include those with small children and babies, seniors, military veterans, wheelchair users, those in religious positions, old people in wheelchairs with babies, and "old religious people with military babies". The man is understandably especially flummoxed by the last of these until a Tibetan lama carries a baby in a naval outfit past him.
• On Judge Judy, Judge Judy will sometimes ask litigants who neglected to bring certain important papers or documentation with them if they thought they were going to a tea party. Or a dance. Or, on occasion, a "tea dance".
• When Kenan & Kel found the map for a treasure.
  Kenan: Think about it Kel, it can have gold, or coins, OR GOLD COINS!
  • At the end of the one episode, Kenan asks Kel to get "Some bread, some sticks, and some breadsticks"
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: From the February 13, 2023 episode:
  It could be aliens, it could be balloons, it could be... [shows image of Grogu parade balloon] ALIEN BALLOONS!
• From Laverne & Shirley:
  "We know what the people want: They want SEX! They want VIOLENCE! They want VIOLENT SEX! They want SEXY VIOLENCE! They want VIOLENCY SEX! ...I'm getting hot."
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: As the "Reasonable Doubt" episode starts, a television producer threatens to kill off the character of an actor who starts bothering him with questions about his motivation.
  PA: I'm not sure we can kill him, Frank.
  Frank: Why? It's cable. Macho characters die or experiment with their sexuality, or die experimenting with their sexuality.
• One of the Leverage promo videos for season 2 features the writers' room Jumping the Shark in the most ridiculous way possible. One of the writers lists all the important points they want to hit: "Zombies, aliens, babies, and zombie alien babies."
  • In-Universe, when the team sets out to steal a country, Hardison bemoans their potential political opponents for the corrupt Presidente;
    Hardison: Well, look, Ribera arrested anybody else who stood a chance of taking him down. Seriously. Look, these are the other candidates, right here — drug dealer; drug dealer; drug addict; embezzler; embezzler; drug dealer and drug addict; and my personal favorite...
    Sophie: Ew! Ew... What is that?
    Hardison: There’s no secrets on the internet. When will people learn this?
• Little Mosque on the Prairie: When Layla started wearing a hijab, Baber worries she's covering something up—like a hickey. Or a piercing. Or a hickey piercing!
• The Lone Gunmen One particularly paranoid reader had the Gunmen investigating for him and asked "Is it Aliens or the Government? Or Aliens working for the Government?"
• Look Around You:
  • Takes the trope as far as possible with the Anti-Cobbles cream, which contains cream, potassium, nitrates, potassium nitrates, and nitrate of potassium nitrate.
  • "Thanks, ants. Thants."
  • The show's Parodic Table of the Elements complements magnesium (Mg) and manganese (Mn) with the fictional element manganesium (Mngm).
• Mad TV had an ad for a fake product called the Wonder Rake 5000 which goes into a long and redundant list of things it can pick up. Some of the things mentioned are lilacs, berries, and lilac berry mix as well as branches, leaves, and branches with leaves. It also creates a Department of Redundancy Department with how some of the items are piled on and the repeated mention of pine cones.
• Malcolm in the Middle when Reese tampered with Malcolm's chemistry experiment and created a new color by combining blue with yellow and decided to call it "blellow" (green).
• On Married... with Children, when Al mistakes a random scientific concoction of Kelly's for shampoo, it gives him a full head of hair. Upon seeing himself in the mirror, he proclaims "I'm a hunk! I'm a dude! I'm a hunky dude!"
• On M*A*S*H, after Klinger shows Col. Blake a letter he claimed to receive announcing that his father was dying, Blake produces a stack of (equally fake) letters that Klinger had produced in the past:
  "Father dying, last year. Mother dying, last year. Mother and father dying. Mother, father and older sister dying. Mother dying and older sister pregnant. Older sister dying and mother pregnant. Younger sister pregnant and older sister dying. Here's an oldie but a goodie: half of the family dying, other half pregnant."
• In The Middleman, Wendy's previous painting phase before she started working for the Middleman involved "airplanes, Asian guys, and Asian guys in airplanes."
• In the fourth series finale of Misfits, Rudy explains to Nadine why she is far too good for him. He confesses to having anal sex, living almost exclusively off candy and having anal sex with candy.
• On Mock the Week:
  Frankie Boyle: I get you a boy, Brown, I get you a girl, I get you a boy/girl! Four arms, four legs, it's like making love to a man spider!
• One Monk episode has Monk in a panic to get rid of his multiple phobias upon finding out his insurance company won't cover individual therapy sessions anymore. The first three phobias he lists are "Bees", "Blenders" and "Bees in Blenders".
• Monty Python's Flying Circus:
  • "Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam..."
  • Upon discovering a dead bishop on the landing, a family considers calling the church or the police before calling the Church Police.
• The Nine Lives of Chloe King has Alek talking about the effects of the Mai's poison:
  "Paralysis, death, paralysis and death."
• Odd Squad:
  • In "Hold the Door", when Oprah comes across Olive, Otto and Oscar without Ori, she asks them where he is. Olive says "Bathroom" and Otto says "Lunchroom", but seeing the suspicious look on Oprah's face, Oscar combines the two excuses into one and tells her that Ori is eating lunch in the bathroom. She buys it and leaves with her own agents-in-training.
  • In "No Ifs, Ands, or Robots", Otto's reasoning to Olive as to how his badge got broken was that he dropped it, tried to fix it, and then dropped it while he was trying to fix it.
  • The three eggs in "There Might Be Dragons" each contain a fire dragon, an ice dragon, and an invisible dragon that has the ability to use both fire and ice as Breath Weapons.
  • In "Drop Gadget Repeat", Olympia and Otis offer Orchid a pie, a cake, and then a pie inside of a cake in order to get her to give the gadget in her possession to them. She rejects all three offers.
  • Subverted in "The Ninja Situation", where Oona tells Otis that she doesn't have a straight Macaroni-and-Cheese-inator, but she does have a Macaroni-inator, a Cheese-inator, and a Butter-Substitute-inator.
  • One of the prerequisites that Orpita sets up for the potential Big O successors in "Odd Off The Press" is for them to chop a wooden board, a cinder block, and then a wooden board and a cinder block at the same time.
  • The Grizzlegorp, Wriggler and Wrigglegorp creatures in "Can You Wrangle It?" are themselves examples of the trope, but their respective diets (triangles, squares, and both triangles and squares) also fit.
  • In "Welcome to Odd Squad", Orpita encourages kids to join Odd Squad who are serious (like Olive and Otis), silly (like Otto and Olympia), or "seri-silly-ous".
• Charles from Only Murders in the Building is rehearsing for one of Oliver's plays when he blacks out. He comes to in the middle of a scene of complete disarray and asks "Am I dead? Am I on drugs? Am I dead and on drugs?"
• Larry and Balki on Perfect Strangers were once invited to an art show. While they were preparing for it...
  Larry: What do you think of this picture?
  Balki: I think it's pretty.
  Larry: No.
  Balki: I think it's ugly.
  Larry: No.
  Balki: I think it's...pretty ugly.
• In one episode of Porridge, when a bottle of pills is found in Fletcher and Godber's cell, they engage in a brief round of Stereo Fibbing around "indigestion" and "nerves" before finally settling on the pills being for Fletch's "nervous indigestion. And sometimes vice versa."
• The pricing game "Flip Flop" on The Price Is Right invokes this. The contestant is presented with a four-digit number, and must rearrange them in one of three ways to reveal the correct price of a prize. Those three methods are referred to as "flip" (reverse the first two numbers; i.e., 5418 to 4518), "flop" (reverse the second two; i.e., 5481), or "flip flop" (reverse both the first two and the second two; i.e., 4581).
• In an episode of Pushing Daisies, Olive claims to Ned that her imagining the two of them together was as crazy as imagining them "as hobbits. Or on jet packs. Or hobbits on jet packs."
• QI:
  • The Season 10 episode "Jingle Bells", Stephen Fry comments when Alan answered "Dave" yet again:
  "One day the answer might be "Dave", one day the answer might be "blue whale"... What I'm looking forward to is when we have a blue whale named Dave and you don't get it."
  • Rob Brydon speculates on what makes snails fly.
    "A bat. Or a bird. Or some strange hybrid of bird-bat."
  • Alan Davies and John Sessions when asked "What's the good thing about a British accent in Hollywood?"
    Alan: You're always the villain.
    John: Or gay. Or a gay villain.
• Radio Enfer:
  • When Carl complains about the possibility of giving two more hours of airtime to Maria, who would spend that time talking about lipsticks and Mel Gibson, Jean-David then states he had no idea that Mel Gibson wore lipsticks.
  • While filling out the form for her honeymoon, Jocelyne laughs at how funny it is to write Rodolphe Giroux's name as the spouse, only to find it weird as well. She then thinks about writing Brad Pitt's name on it, only to find it weird too and think about writing "Brad Giroux" instead.
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Jenny contemplating what Harvey might be thinking about:
  Jenny: Do you ever wonder what Harvey's thinking about when he's looking out the window?
  Sabrina: Probably football?
  Jenny: No, no, I bet he's thinking about nature. Or poetry. Or the poetry of nature.
  Sabrina: I'm sticking with football.
• Saved by the Bell: Lisa's hobbies include "dating, guys, and dating guys!"
• Screech on a Saved by the Bell: The New Class episode.
  Screech: Come on down to Gadgets and Gimmicks! We're crazy! We're having a party! We're having a crazy party!
• On Scrubs, this is how The Janitor comes up with the knife-wrench.
• In Shake it Up's third season premiere "Fire it Up", when CeCe is afraid that she's going to get arrested for accidentally burning down the studio, she states that she doesn't look good in orange, jumpsuits, or orange jumpsuits.
• In Slings & Arrows, before Geoffrey lets Darren direct Romeo and Juliet, he makes him promise that it will be a reasonable production, meaning "no flames, no horses, and no flinging flaming horses at the audience."
• Star Trek: The Original Series: The episode "The Changeling" has a rare dramatic example when the Earth space probe Nomad ends up in a Fusion Dance with the alien probe Tan-Ru. Nomad's orders were to seek out new life forms. Tan-Ru's orders were to collect and sterilize imperfections in soil samples. Mash the two together and you get "seek out and sterilize imperfect life forms". Which is everyone.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the episode "Profit and Loss", Julian jokingly says he doesn't know if Garak is an outcast or a spy, Garak sarcastically suggests "outcast spy". This is finally confirmed later in the episode.
• Stark Raving Mad employs this in the finale, in which Cesare tells Audrey that he loves doing things with her like "Talking. Shopping. Talking about shopping."
• Studio C: In the sketch "Most Realistic Video Game of All Time", Matt, determined to show Jason how a Grand Theft Auto clone game ought to be played, pulls out a bazooka and looks for someone to shoot:
  Matt: That is a baby. And that is a retired navy SEAL. And that's a baby seal. That is adorable. Take this.
  Matt tosses the controller aside, accidentally firing the bazooka.
  Game: Achievement unlocked: baby seal terminated.
• The Suite Life of Zack & Cody:
  • Zack and Cody enter high school and Cody notices the posters for clubs: chess club, robotics club, robots-who-play-chess club. "Checkmate," he says in his impression of a robot.
  • When Zack points out that Cody's ex-girlfriend, Irma, has more hair on her upper lip than he does, Cody maintains that it was just an "unfortunate series of moles". Naturally, the argument goes: "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hair!" "Moles!" "Hairy moles!"
  • Mr. Blanket, the school counselor, has treated many phobias including flying, spiders, flying spiders, clowns, the dark, soup, and ping pong balls.
• On That '70s Show, when Red recalls the moment he used the term "dumbass" for the first time.
  Red: I mean, he's kind of... he's an ass. And he's dumb. He's a... (Angelic Chorus) ...dumbass!
  • Late in the series, when Red is asked if he wishes to recall any of Kelso's antics to his girlfriend, he gives us this gem:
    Red: What do you want? I got one with water, one with fire, one where he burned himself underwater.
• Todd and the Book of Pure Evil:
  So what are you guys fighting today? Vampires? Zombies? Zompires?
• The DVD blurb for Top Gear at the Movies begins with "Cars! Film! Cars on film! Film involving cars! You get the idea."
• The Torkelsons: When Molly is freaking out over what her father's reaction will be over a wrong she did:
  Molly: He's going to send me to military school. No it's worse, he's going to put me in a convent.
  Dorothy Jane: No he won't...
  Molly: But what can be worse than a convent? O my God! A military convent! Nuns with guns.
• True Blood: Jessica accidentally drains three of Andy's four faerie daughters and while tearfully apologizing to Bill, she tries to force herself onto Bill, who quickly shoves her off of him.
  Bill Compton: You're high!
  Jessica Hamby: Oh, I feel like I wanna have sex or die or... or die while having sex…
  Bill Compton: You drank four faeries! Faerie blood makes vampires high!
• Truth Seekers: While staying with Richard, Helen first wants to order Italian, then changes her mind to Chinese. They order from a restaurant called Signorina Wong's.
• Wheel of Fortune:
  • On one episode, there was a contestant who could imitate Forrest Gump, and another who could imitate The Road Runner. Host Pat Sajak then asked the former to imitate Forrest Gump as the Road Runner. He did.
  • The categories used on the show used to include Fictional Character, Family, and Fictional Family.
• In an episode of Wings, when Lowell is informed his boat was sunk:
  "My house? My boat? My houseboat?"
• Inverted in an episode of Young Sheldon. Sheldon's father George explains to the school librarian and. Hutchins that Sheldon doesn't really like outdoor sports. Or sports. Or the outdoors.
• The X-Files, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose": Yappi the Psychic offers his insight about the culprit: "He looks like... A white man with facial hair. Or not. But he has... yes! A tattoo! Somewhere on his body. Maybe the tattoo has the facial hair. I think."

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