Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick

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Oh, that kind of business...

"My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead."

— We Have Always Lived in the Castle

When a mundane conversation goes bad. You're winding up a boring conversation, and throw in one last thing in there. And that one last thing was praise for the Ku Klux Klan, or a plan to kill the Mayor, or a swear word, when you had been talking about options for where to eat dinner or something.

"So yeah, we'll just run out for pizza, catch a movie, maybe go out for a couple drinks, and lynch that bastard. Sound good?"

Bonus points for the listener asking with a horrified tone "What was that last one again?" and the last harmless option before the horrifying one being repeated instead.

"What, go out for a couple drinks?"

A common variation has one additional, harmless (but often comically inappropriate) item tacked on to the end of the list. This allows other characters to react in horror — to the wrong thing:

"So yeah, we'll just run out for pizza, catch a movie, murder my next door neighbor, and, if we have time, go skydiving."
"Are you crazy? I'm terrified of airplanes."

This variation also implies that the speaking character knew that the "Squick" item is controversial, and so it is all the easier for the other characters to miss it if they added something else onto the list.

Another variation has a person finding a to-do-list and it will be something like:

1. Write out bills.
2. Return library books.
3. Finish and commence with assassination plot.

A more subtle trick is when the Squick is revealed by a change in the camera shot.

Compare Breathless Non Sequitur, Weird Aside. Sister Trope to Too Much Information and Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs (occasionally, this and Breaded Eggs overlap, to make a bad list even worse). Contrast Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking, which is in the opposite order and where the mood is lightened by including something silly. Frequently overlaps with Mood Whiplash.

When this trope name is taken literally, see: Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List.

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Advertising

Big Bill Hell's features a few examples, being a Parody Commercial that heavily leans into Abusive Advertising and copious amounts of profanity:
- "Bring your trade! Bring your title! Bring your wife! We'll fuck her!"
- "Don't wait! Don't delay! Don't fuck with us, or we'll rip your nuts off!"
The current trope picture is from Constance Bay, Ottawa. Apparently, the backstory behind the sign is that it had a blank space in a group of six boxes, and the sign makers having a good sense of humor, decided to fill it in.
A DirecTV ad has Bon Jovi extolling the virtues of being able to "go back in time" and watch past episodes of TV shows that a married couple have missed, then starts singing about other uses for the ability to go back in time and correct mistakes, starting with choosing a different kind of salsa and ending with deciding not to have a second child, whereupon the salsa changes and the couple's youngest son vanishes from existence, meaning the ad effectively ends with Bon Jovi killing a kid because his parents didn't want him.
The Claude the Cat PSA about loose connections has Claude talking about the signs a connection is loose. He starts out with simple things like a frayed cord or a loose plug, but then ends with "or if the bed suddenly catches fire".
There is a commercial for Pay As You Go phones, where a cell phone from the 1980s and a pink modern cell phone are the proud parents, extolling the benefits of their new baby cell phone and how it is going to help people save money on their monthly talk, text, and data plans. And then they walk off screen to go raise some bars, if you know what we mean.
This unknown anti-drug ad: "She's on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Heroin."
A series of PSAs by Children of the Street about child predators in online gaming has a cartoon character describe their superpowers, ending with "sending nude photos to your kids," "tricking your kids into sending me nude photos," and "luring your kids to meet in real life."

Alternate Reality Games

Omega Mart sells Shrubs Frozen Avacado Treats, Whale Song Antiperspirant and Antidepressant, Dark Matter Cleaning Spray, Omega Goatmeal, Omega Mart Lemons (not to be confused with lemons), Orange Drink, and Gestating Mammal Liquid, available in Millk, Toast Paint, with Added Bacteria, and Aged forms! Among other various products, of course.

Anime & Manga

Aggretsuko: In the season one finale of the Netflix series, Director Ton complains that three of their employees are out during an end-of-quarter crunch. Haida's out sick with pneumonia, Tsubone fractured her wrist trying to open her own Impossible Pickle Jar, and Kabae somehow got arrested on suspicion of espionage.
Assassination Classroom has Nagisa, who idly chats with a classmate and says that, in the coming school year, he'd like to get to know everyone in class 3-E, live his life without leaving things undone, and kill their teacher. Not as psychotic as it sounds, because the teacher in question is a high speed bipedal octopus smiley faced monster that is going to blow up the Earth if they don't kill him in a year's time. Also, the class 3-E was essentially conscripted by japanese government for that exact purpose, so from their point it's a perfectly normal thing to say. It Makes Sense in Context.
Brave10 contains a visual example. While Saizo is complaining about the other Braves goofing off, there are images of Sasuke hanging out with his animals, Anastasia sitting by a river and Kamanosuke threatening a villager.
In A Certain Scientific Railgun, two lab employees are discussing the health of the latest Misaka clone, before ordering her to clean up about a dozen identical-to-her corpses, just recently murdered.
Code Geass R2: When C.C. loses her memories, she starts counting her skills to her "new lord": preparing food, cleaning, fetching water, tending cows and sheeps, sewing, she can read a little bit and count up to twenty and cleaning corpses.
Crayon Shin-chan:
- The English Gag Dub has Shin's mother saying "You'll just waste your money on kiddie crap like trading cards, video games, and crystal meth".
- Another episode had Ai's bodyguard having a team search a lake for a kappa, but instead found "600 catfish, 1400 minnows, a Loch Ness Monster, Penny's sister Caitlin, and 500,000 copies of Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time".
- When Georgie and Shin are at a library, three shelves are labelled "fiction", "non-fiction", and "snuff".
In Death Note, L does this, all without so much as looking away from the evidence received from the tape sent by "Kira".
L: Hair, food crumbs... oh, and by the way, if I die in the next few days, your son is Kira.
Often happens literally in Delicious in Dungeon, where the entire point is cooking monsters into Food Porn. Senshi's lists of ingredients will usually start out ordinary (oil, salt, vegetables, etc.) only to throw in some monster parts (giant bat flesh, sliced kraken parasite, dryad fruits) as the main ingredient.
Occurs several times in Elfen Lied. The most notable example involves the employees of the secret lab thing making idle chit chat as their superior (who seems a genuinely likable, if eccentric, person with a love for candy sticks). The final panel reveals that whilst the coworkers are chit-chatting and eating candy, a seemingly endless train of completely uncensored dismembered diclonii torsos—complete with dangling entrails—is trundling past the window.
Fullmetal Alchemist gives us this... magnificent example. For bonus points, they're all true.
Raven: Have you heard any interesting rumors lately, Mustang?
Mustang: Only the ones too absurd to be worth mentioning. Scar being sighted feeding a stray cat. A man who can't be killed no matter how hard you try. King Bradley is a homunculus...
Future Diary: At chapter 56, Yuno's feelings for the 2nd world Yukki are very confusing, so she plays a Tsundere with her unique style:
Yuno: No, no no no! I've already abandoned this Yukki! I don't like him or anything. Not only that, I'm the one trying to kill him right now!
In the Yuri Genre manga Hanjuku Joshi, Chitose is out jogging when she bumps into her teacher Ran doing the same. She asks Ran a bunch of innocent jogging-related questions, and then concludes with "Does Sensei insert her finger when doing lecherous acts with girls?" Ran carelessly answers "Yes!" before she can process what the question is.
In the dub of Hetalia: Axis Powers, baseball is described as "some kind of game. You need a stick, a ball, and steroids."
Horimiya: When Iura asks Ishikawa why Miyamura and Sengoku are excusing themselves from taking a mandatory swimming class in the pool, Ishikawa responds that Sengoku's arm blew up and that Miyamura is on his period.
Iura: Ah.
[Beat]
Iura: ...Huh?
Ishikawa: Well, it's summer. A lot of things blow up this time of year.
In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, when Mikoshiba is shanghaied into being a model for Sakura's art club, most of the girls let him do poses appealing to them. Sakura has him imitate Nozaki at work, other girls have him do stock sexy poses... and one girl has him pose as a guy crawling pathetically after an angry girlfriend after breaking up due to his infidelity. Said girl looks upon the scene with a very pleased smile, weirding out the rest of the club.
A visual version of this happens in One Piece when all the Straw Hats are shown separately finding a secret message Luffy sent them. It's simply each crew member individually saying "I get it!", until it ends with a view of Franky, who was last seen in the middle of an explosion, and now has most of his face burned clean off.
Oni Ai: When Akito falls ill, Arisa brings in a massive selection of foods as well as a few non-food items to help him get well. She lists out the non-food items: "... pickled plum to crush on your forehead, a sake-soaked hot cloth, a fried leek to insert rectally, some garlic..."
Revolutionary Girl Utena uses the camera shot version of this. A character (Our protagonist, Utena) lying in bed has what seems like a meaningless monologue about lunch until the audience realizes the scene is establishing that the character is having (or just had) sex. Then it shows with whom they had the sex, Akio, who's more or less her principal... and the villain of the series... and she's fourteen years old, which is where the squick really comes in.
Samurai Champloo: In "Elegy of Entrapment, Verse 2", when Fuu and Jin sense that Sara is being manipulated, Mugen responds with "Take your pick. We've dined and dashed, snuck through a checkpoint, and, oh yeah, killed people."
Parodied in one episode of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei when discussing how people mention very important (and urgent) things in a casual tone. Examples included: "You're all held back for another year, see you tomorrow"; your parents explaining to your neighbor that you were an accidental child; finding out that your parents divorced last week, not bothering telling you and act like it's no big deal. The entire class decides to shout out meaningless trivialities in overly dramatic manners. Chiri decides it looks fun and joins in...By revealing she's been doping her sister with illegal injections in an overly dramatic manner, not only subverting the intent of the exercise but also revealing that doing so is apparently is a meaningless triviality to her.
- Garlic injections are good. They just happen to be illegal.
Okabe of Steins;Gate uses this to describe Ruka:
Okabe: Ruka Urushibara. Delicate as an orchid. Fair as a cherry blossom. The personification of feminine grace... and a dude. Tall as a willow, slender as a reed...a dude. Radiant in shrine vestments...dude. The sun dips low in the rosy sky. Cicadas buzz. Ruka...is a dude.
The Summer You Were There has a dramatic and shocking example at the end of the penultimate chapter.
Shizuku narrating: The next morning, I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock, and the news of Kaori's passing.
In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira is thoroughly refreshed by the fact that he never has to go back to work thanks to the Zombie Apocalypse. He stops to take in all of the colors and sights he'd long forgotten after years of staring at a computer monitor. Blue skies, green trees, and bright red blood.

Comedy

Deadcoders Reviews: "We had some good Sissi moments, a decent fight scene, drama without the midair-halting laser beam, and two people murdering what was effectively their child"
The Pete and Brian sketch "Knock Knock" takes the classic "priest, rabbi and shaman walk into a bar" joke and somehow turns it into being about how someone's dad molested them within the space of a few sentences.
A priest, a rabbi, and a shaman walk into a bar!
But there's no rabbi and no shaman [laughs] and it's actually my eighth birthday and the priest is molesting me.
And the priest is my dad and he's not a priest.
...
My dad molested me... a lot.

: You might know this sketch from AMV Hell 4.

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey did this quite often.
Some people think clowns are funny, but I think they're scary. I think it goes back to the time when I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.
One of the observations of Yakov Smirnoff about the things you can buy at an American grocery store, a bit more literally following the trope than usual:
"Powdered milk, powdered eggs, baby powder... what a country!"
Robin Williams once made a joke about Prince Albert.
"Victoria, I'm dying. I want you to name a museum, a performance hall, and a bolt through the cock after me."

Comic Books

From the 6th issue of the comic adaptation of Kingdom of Loathing, quoth a demon kid's mom: "Your ten minutes of unstructured playtime are up! Time for ballet, then swimming, then disembowelment of the damned, then piano lessons!"
The cover for the issue where Lois Lane married Superman (original here):
She weds him in his Clark Kent identity! She adopts a secret identity of her own! She even makes a deal with the DEVIL!
The things Richard Dragon associates with rejoining civilization are presented in this manner:
I'm so glad I rejoined civilization. Drive-trough windows, cell phones, false arrests.
The Sandman (1989): The narration when the chairman of the "Cereal" Convention is psyching himself up for a speech. "You're the chairman of the convention committee. You're a successful orthodontist. You have a shack out in Vermont that no one knows about, with four full chest freezers..."
Scott Pilgrim: Ramona listing off all the teas in her pantry in the first book. ^*
...Green Tea, Green Tea with lemon, Green Tea with Honey and Lemon, Liver Disaster, Ginger with honey...
Inverted in the first issue of Squee. Pepito (the Antichrist) goes into a long speech about evil and damnation when asked to introduce himself to Squee's class and abruptly drops, "My dog's name is Woofles" before continuing with his monologue.
Ads for the DC Rebirth run of Supergirl state "The girl of steel takes on high school, driver's ed and her evil cyborg zombie dad bent on world conquest!"
Tarn of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, head of the Decepticon Justice Division (a pack of Decepticon enforcers that other Decepticons are terrified of), is described as a music lover, classical scholar, and mass murderer.
Transmetropolitan: It says something about the future setting when one can go into a fancy restaurant and not immediately get kicked out or worse for ordering the following:
I'll have another bottle of Chilean merlot, the raspberry pavlova, ten minutes of oral sex and an ambulance, please.
Young Avengers: Before running off to Latveria alone in the middle of the night, Billy Kaplan made sure to leave Teddy Altman a note:
You are without a doubt the best boyfriend in the entire world. You're kind. You're generous. You threaten to maim people for me.

Comic Strips

From the original Charles Addams The Addams Family comics, was a wardrobe filled with suit bags, each labeled as being another portion of Uncle Nick Nack's wardrobe. The last one (which bulged suggestively)? "Uncle Nick Nack". This joke was used in the film.
One Baby Blues strip has a babysitter hired by Daryl and Wanda who packed her babysitting gear: games, cards, snacks, art supplies, and a taser.
In Candorville, Lemont is trying to sue for custody of his son from his evil ex-girlfriend, who has the advantages of being the kid's mother, white, and very wealthy (and possibly a vampire who wants to be a daywalker). When Lemont asks why she hasn't been served yet, he gets this in response.
- It seems to be a Running Gag.
In Garfield: The April 10, 2022 strip has Garfield and Odie enjoy the sights that emerge for the first time in springtime: green grass, flowers, a robin... before they jump in fright to seeing Jon wearing shorts.
Garfield: And the first snow-white legs of spring.
In a Meaning of Lila strip Drew lost her baby in a car accident a few days earlier, which was apparently caused by her texting to Lila while driving.
From Real Life Adventures, two guys meet up in a snowfall. One brings up The Fifth Horseperson of the Apocalypse: "Yeah, there's pestilence, famine, war, death, and your ex-wife."
In the March 17, 1986 strip of U.S. Acres, Orson is told that he can't stay at the farm he's growing up at due to his status as a runt.
Orson: That's okay. I could use a change of scenery anyway. I'll be able to go to bed when I want to and get up when I want to... and starve to death when I want to!

Film — Animation

At the end of Antz, Zee describes the events of the movie as an average "boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy changes underlying social order story."
In Beauty and the Beast, The Beast asks Cogsworth for advice on what to give Belle. Cogsworth replies "Flowers, chocolates... promises you don't intend to keep..." Doubly awesome considering that David Ogden Stiers, Cogsworth's voice actor, adlibbed this end to the line just to be funny. Expecting to get a laugh and then re-record it, the director loved it and kept it in.
Coco: The things Héctor borrowed from Chicharrón include his van, lasso, good napkins, mini-fridge, and femur.
The Great Mouse Detective shows Fidget's list of things to get for the plan: "Tools. Gears. Girl. Uniforms."
Ice Age: "Isn't there someone else you can annoy? Friends? Family? Poisonous reptiles?"
In Kung Fu Panda 2, after Po's father reveals that he found him in a basket outside his shop one day, Po needs to know a few things:
"I just have so many questions. Like how did I ever fit in this tiny basket? Why didn't I like pants? And who am I?"
From The LEGO Movie, when Emmet is incredulous to find out that President Business is actually an Evil Overlord plotting to bring about The End of the World as We Know It.
Emmett: But he's such a good guy! And Octan... they make good stuff: music, dairy products, coffee, TV shows, surveillance systems, all history books, voting machines... wait a minute.
In Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Lilo describes the story of the Hawaiian goddess Hi'iaka as a story about friendship, jealousy, and death by molten lava.
Madagascar: King Julien complains about the fossa.
King Julien: The fossa. They're always annoying us by trespassing, interrupting our parties, and ripping our limbs off.
- There’s also the beginning of the movie when you see photos taken by visitors of the zoo. They consist of Alex posing, Marty running, Gloria swimming, and Melman receiving medical attention.
Done by Max in Mary and Max.
Max: Do you have a pet kangaroo? When I was born, my father left my mother and me on a kibbutz. She shot herself with my uncle's gun when I was 6. Do you like chocolate hot dogs?
Ralph from Wreck-It Ralph, while searching for a medal in a lost-and-found box, instead finds a Super mushroom, a ! from Metal Gear, and Zangief's wrestling trunks.

Magazines

In one of the Doctor Who Magazine "Space-Time Telegraph" spoof news columns, it was reported that World Distributors would be releasing a Torchwood Annual (a parody of World's Doctor Who annuals of the seventies; aimed at very young kids, and apparently written by people who'd once had the series described to them). Amongst the features listed were "Where's Owen?"; "Gwen's Spacey Space Quiz"; and "Jack and Ianto's Stopwatch Game".
In the March 2001 issue of Game Informer (#95), Andrew Reiner wrote in the Second Opinion review of the Dreamcast version of ECW Anarchy Rulz: "Note to Self: Eat dinner, call my parents, then assassinate the development team responsible for this wrestling disaster."

Myths & Religion

The 11 rules of the Earth in the Church of LaVey:
1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
3. When in another's lair, show him respect or else do not go in there.
4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic if you have called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
9. Do not harm little children.
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Newspapers

In the Daily Mirror's November 13, 2018 article entitled "Red Dead Redemption 2 players are frantically searching for a tuberculosis cure", it is stated that, "despite the game enabling you to hunt bison, fish for trout or throw hogtied members of the Ku Klux Klan into an alligator-infested swamp, there is no cure for Arthur."

Podcasts

Behind the Bastards: Robert describes the ice fortress constructed during the 2013 protests in Kyiv's Independence Square.
Robert: This fortress had the resources of a small city, including communal kitchens, restrooms, media areas, a library, medical tents, and catapults.
The Rooster Teeth Drunk Tank Podcast has an episode with this trope almost exactly: "It's like: bread, milk, beer, diseases."
Welcome to Night Vale in general uses this trope a lot. In the live episode "The Debate", the Faceless Old Woman has this to say about selling off unused items from homes to raise money for community schools:
Faceless Old Woman: Cecil! You have a set of collectible jadeite bowls you never use. I would be happy to sell them on eBay for you. Hiram, you live in a cave that I do not like, but you have a collection of rare jewels and coins and a mahogany chest that you keep locked and buried. Let's put those up for sale! Marcus, you have a coffee table made of human bones.

Pro Wrestling

From Kurt Angle's promo on Kevin Nash on the October 18, 2007 TNA Impact:
"Yeah, Dr. Nash^note Your advice sucks. Your jokes aren't even funny. And you're a disgrace to the business."
WOW Women of Wrestling: The Temptress (Katarina Waters)' profile lists her "Likes" as "A nice, hot cup of tea", Revenge."

Radio

Lo Zoo Di 105: Often used among the jokes, but one instance stands out - namely, when cast member Herbert Ballerina came back from a trip to Thailand, another cast member, Petosauro, made a brief speech about Thailand only to be promptly interrupted by Gibba.
Peto: Ah, Thailand. Glorious nation, home to sun, shores and...
[cue Letting the Air out of the Band]
Gibba: AND WHORES!
Andy Hamilton presented an extract from the minutes of a parish council meeting on the 7th November 2008 edition of The News Quiz, which can be seen in full here. The section as quoted on the show is as follows:
1. Another parishioner wished to know if the problems with the telephone directories have been solved yet. 2. Mr Neale said a parishioner had drawn his attention to overhanging foliage on the pavement on Main Street between Wellow Road junction and the Old School. Clerk to contact Highways Dept. 3. The missile launcher parked on Kirklington Road has caused comments from a number of parishioners. Clerk to contact Highways Dept.

Roleplay

You Have Become Your Avatar: When looking through the Lotus Casino's table to find the teleport-spamming Brahian, Paul initially lists off "Roulette, Blackjack, Cockfighting..."

Tabletop Games

In Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, the Ogre Sensei is passionate about literature, poetry, maths, and the right of her tribe to continue eating people.
The "Lords of Madness" sourcebook for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 has a list of a beholder's favourite foods, including small mammals, interesting fungi, birds, and gnomes. They are monsters, after all!
Magic: The Gathering: The flavor text of Enormous Baloth; with the squick outnumbering the bread, eggs and milk.
Its diet consists of fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities.
- Also in the flavor of Boros Cluestone:
In case of fire, treachery, citywide riot, political upheaval, or worldwide societal collapse, break glass.
- As well in the flavor text of Treasured Find:
Gorgons crave beautiful things: gems, exquisite amulets, the alabaster corpses of the petrified dead...

Theatre

Creation Theatre's production of Aladdin included the Sorceror listing off the thousands of topics books he read had covered. These included theology, astrology, geology, herbology, archeology, misogyny^note, paleontology, wait what was that?
This exchange from Anne of Green Gables: The Musical:
Tillie, Tommy and Gertie: We found a gorgeous seashell.
Ruby and Moody: We found some lic'rice root.
Charlie: I found the hired girl swimming in her birthday suit.
Frequently found in Cabaret. For example "If You Could See Her", what starts out as a novelty act about a man dating an ape, and defending his sweetheart. And it ends, "If you could see her through my eyes... / She wouldn't look Jewish at all!"
From Hair: "Sodomy... fellatio... cunnilingus... pederasty..." The song is intended to be more "squick, squick, squick and squick"; the next line ends "why do these words sound so nasty".
Jesus Christ Superstar has one in "The Arrest":
Crowds: Come with us to see Caiaphas!
You'll just love the high priest's house!
You'll just love seeing Caiaphas!
You'll just die in the high priest's house!
- Also, arguably, the way the last line of the chorus changes during Hosanna:
Hey JC, JC, won't you smile at me?
...
Hey JC, JC, you're all right by me.
...
Hey JC, JC, won't you fight for me?
...
Hey JC, JC, won't you die for me?
In Oliver! the song "I'd Do Anything" starts out with cute lines about the things the boys would do, like "Would you climb a hill? (Anything!)/ Wear a daffodil? (Anything!)" etc. Then in the third verse:
"Would you rob a shop?"
"Would you risk the drop?"
"Though your eyes go pop"
"When you come down, plop!"
"By the Sea" from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a cheerful song where Mrs. Lovett describes, well, living by the sea to a rather uninterested Sweeney. Even if you manage to forget that she intends to finance all of this by baking people into pies, the Squick is invited right back to the party near the end when she says "And every now and then, you can do the guest in."
Not as squicky to the original audience, but in Twelfth Night Sir Andrew says: "I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but followed the arts!", making this Older Than Steam.
In Young Frankenstein, Frederick is going through the library and is surprised to find his grandfather doesn't have his medical books there, but instead things like "Black Beauty, Heidi, and the Kama Sutra."

Toys

From one of the BIONICLE serials:
Vezon: Quite a collection. I prefer sea-shells, myself. Sometimes leaves. Oh, and the heads of my enemies, though those take up so much space.
A receipt from Toys R Us.
Save all receipts. Staten Island, NY. Watch out for pedofiles (sic). A dated receipt is required for all returns and exchanges.

Visual Novels

During the second case of Ace Attorney Investigations while examining some crates in the plane's cargo hold:
Gumshoe: This one says "FLAMMABLE", and this one... it says "PHARMACEUTICALS"...
Edgeworth: ...This one says "FOR EXORCISM USE ONLY"...
Edgeworth: (Just what kind of operation is this airline running!?)
In the later chapters of Daughter for Dessert, Mortelli is having a conversation with the protagonist when he suddenly says something along the lines of, “I’m gonna miss this place.”
Fate/stay night:
- "Blah blah Command Seal Blah blah Caster blah blah magic blah blah and then I took all his clothes off." Thanks Shirou for your lovely demonstration of how to subtly check for Command Seals without raising suspicions. Tohsaka just stops and stares at him.
- A bit of a meta example, but go to the Visual Novel Database and read the character entry for Fate/stay night with spoilers off.
Sakura Matou: Engages in: Cleaning, Cooking, Fighting, Manslaughter.
Shirou Emiya: Engages in: Archery, Cleaning, Cooking, Fighting, Planning, Sexual Fantasy, Swordsmanship
Played for laughs at one point in The Shell. The notebook used for the game is an actual notebook kept by Reiji with a fairly professional attitude and style to it. However, under Yaginuma's character info there's a quiet little 'Still an asshole' there.
As part of Riko's introduction in A Profile, we see a conversation between her and her stepson devolve from a bit of straightforward relationship advice regarding him and his stepsister to her suggestion that he be careful not to get her pregnant. Do note that there's nothing like that between them. Well, yet.

Web Animation

In Dingo Doodles after Sips recovers from his near-death trance, he retreats to a nearby room. The DM proceeds to describe in detail what each of his senses them him as he stands there: How beautiful everything is, the wonderful sound of birds in the distance, the smell of exquisite perfume, the wonderful carpet beneath his feet... and the taste of blood from having eaten Bouclaire's heart while in his trance.
The last lines of the theme song to Father Tucker follow this pattern.
A faith in God
A friendly smile
He'll warm your heart
And rape your child!
In the FilmCow short Ferrets, to cheer up his friend, a ferret sings a happy List Song about all the things that make him happy. It includes apple pie, breezy meadows, the sound of rain, guitars, Holocaust denial, eugenics, sexual molestation, and murder.
In The Gentleman Pirate the inexperienced Stede Bonnet asks the quartermaster what the pirates do in their spare time when told the voyage would take weeks.
Quartermaster: Oh, there's plenty to do. Sing shanties, tie knots, get scurvy...
Homestar Runner:
- In the Strong Bad Email "for kids", after demonstrating how being a kids' show host would lead to him breaking down and flipping out, Strong Bad says "So, you can see how that might be less than pleasant. What with all the letter writing and the angry mothers and the subsequent stringing me up in town square for all to see."
- In "candy product", the ingredients of SBLOUNSKCHED! include marshmallow, licorice, nougat, and "rich, creamy... pepperoni".
- Homestar, back during an "early" hremail, remarked that Melonade was not only his favorite drink, but he was contractually unable to drink, talk about, or bathe in any other liquid.
- In "yes, wrestling", Strong Bad claims that professional wrestling is less about awesome moves and more about "awesome costumes, gimmicks, and dinosaur-tranquilizer-fueled ranting and raving!"
- In "specially marked", Strong Bad says that the best cereal box prizes are found in cereals named after sound effects, like "Smacks, pops, puffs, blasts, and... um, gunshots in a crowded mall."
- In "imaginary", Strong Bad remarks that kids with imaginary friends have a tendency to give them weird, vaguely-unsettling names like "Rubby Plop-Plop, Sir Zabblepants, Dingy Donger, [and] Real Live Actual Mr. Blangcaster Next Door."
- "I Killed Pom Pom" opens with Homestar musing to Pom Pom all the things he loves about Halloween: "Hot tricks, cool treats, good friends, and MURDER!"
- In "The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods", The Homestar Runner's three biggest fears are apparently an illustration of the Golgi apparatus from his school life science textbook, "frilly toothpicks", and... a flock of "wet pigeons" entangled in a dead raccoon's rotting carcass.
If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device the first time the Emperor rants about religion in the series:
This is why I specifically said when designing the Imperial truth that equality, science, and galaxy conquest is the way to go and religion needs to go out the window.
Episode 1 of Llamas with Hats has Paul discovering a dead body in his house:
Paul: Tell me, Carl, exactly what you were doing before I got home!
Carl: Alright, well...I—I was upstairs...
Paul: Okay.
Carl: I was, uh, I was sitting in my room...
Paul: Yes?
Carl: Reading a book...
Paul: Go on.
Carl: And, uh, well, this guy walked in...
Paul: Okay...
Carl: So I went up to him...
Paul: Yes?
Carl: And I, uh, I stabbed him 37 times in the chest.
Red vs. Blue:
- Pick anything Sister says. Anything at all. It's not her catchphrase, but incidence of "Yeah... wait, what?" in the show is 99% her fault.
- Donut makes a damn profession out of doing this with gay euphemisms, to various degrees of not being subtle at all.
- When speculating on what the contents of the ship that brought Sister, Church assumes its a weapon and then runs through a list of potential effects ... ending in turning blue soldiers sterile. Given that the ship dropped off Sister, that last one is the most likely. When the ship turned out to have brought a person, Church runs through a list of special agent specialties ... ending with "ball kicking". Which may or may not be one of Tex's.
  - Considering what she did to Grif, multiple times, during her "fight" with the Reds and Tucker, that's probably not too far off.
Spriggs: a Halo 3 Machinima had this gem in episode 2:
Willy: Oh, thank you, my dear Spriggs. Thank you for your simple focus in the age of the spectacular. Thank you for keeping it real with your witty insights and comical insults, and thank you for not asking me to take your pants off in front of your former girlfriend.
The YouTube Poop fad "I am now going to assault your mind with subliminal messages" is built from this trope. Here's an example. (MILDLY NSFW)
Zero Punctuation:
Yahtzee: All games are about realizing a fantasy, whether it be the fantasy of being a courageous war hero, or the fantasy of being a future space adventurer, or, in the case of some Japanese games, the fantasy of possessing eight prehensile dicks.
- He also describes Catherine as "a Japanese game centrally about the difficulties of relationships, such as unexpected pregnancy, the impetus of commitment, and being chased up a infinite staircase by a giant, monstrous girlfriend trying to eat you with her butt. Did I mention it's Japanese?"
- Again in the "Remastered Editions" episode:
  Yahtzee: Ah, spring is in the air; the daisies are in bloom; the mild April breeze is bringing the sweet smell of rotting flesh that emanates from the vacant lot full of disinterred corpses that the winter snows once mercifully preserved, which is as good an explanation as any for why so many fucking remasters have come out this month.
- An entirely visual one that's easy to overlook if you're not paying attention: during his review of Ocarina of Time 3D he describes how the original is supposedly one of the best games ever, with the game standing proudly on a winners podium. The #2 podium is occupied by Fantasy World Dizzy^note which is harmless enough, but the #3 podium is occupied by RapeLay, an infamous Japanese Eroge that is exactly as horrible as its name implies.
- In his review of House Flipper and Far: Lone Sails, he describes the synopsis of the former:
  Yahtzee: So you play a sort of mercenary handyman and at first, to get to grips, you're given some contract jobs where someone just wants you to come into their house and clean, repaint, buy specific furniture, and/or shank the missus. [cue the Yahtzee avatar banging the female imp]
  - And in the case of the latter, "...maybe the attempt at a thoughtful, understated tone doesn't match the inherent concept of piloting a fuck-off giant roadster that wouldn't have looked too out of place with Mad Max hanging off the front, looking like he's undergoing a wasteland teeth-whitening procedure, the sort of thing I'd want to have push up to top speed and then ride on top of, going,
    Clang, clang, clang goes the trolleeeeeeey!
    Ring, ring, ring goes the beeeeeell!
    Crunch, crunch, crunch go the bones of the old people not getting out of the waaaaaaaay!"
- From the Persona 5 review:
Yahtzee: Still, at least Japanese high schools always seem to have an impressive range of extracurricular activities available; there's the track team, the newspaper club, the guys who travel to a magic netherworld after school to battle symbolic demons born from the dark desires of humanity, and— ooh, volleyball sounds fun. ^note
- Similarly, on Persona 4:
  Yahtzee: The P 4 G intro is breezy and colourful and kicks things off with just the right setting of tone. Here's some happy music, some dancing anime kids, several corpses strung up from telegraph poles, and oh look! Now everyone's riding scooters! WHAT FUN!

Webcomics

8-Bit Theater: Ranger in this strip, while checking on the contents of his fridge after being unexpectedly teleported home:
Ranger: OJ, purple stuff, my brutally murdered wife...
The Awakened gives us this exchange. Chase, the Butt-Monkey protagonist, starts off talking to his therapist about how his various issues may have started in kindergarten when a classmate refused to let him play with a toy dinosaur.
Therapist: That doesn't sound very traumatic, Chase.
Chase: Well, when I asked to play with it, he said no in a really mean voice. Then he stabbed me in the face with a concealed switchblade, and after that repeatedly pummelled me with the dinosaur until I finally passed out from blood loss, at which point I think he might have raped me in the ass with its tail.
Therapist: Oh.
Ballerina Mafia has one strip where roommates Immy and Shugwar are complaining about each other's annoying habits, like leaving out dirty dishes, or not cleaning up the Shub-Niggurath sacrificial site.
In Blip, K follows up a long, meandering description of her best friends and her dog with a question to see if Bishop is really paying attention.
Bug Martini: The bug's bucket list: use a pun while beating up a bad guy, be a contestant on Jeopardy and give immature answers, and visit/attack France.
In The Dragon Doctors, Goro lists some advantages of being female. ^note
In El Goonish Shive, Ellen gives Tedd some advice to avoid burnout:
Ellen: You just need to broaden your areas of study to include other things and spending time with your friends. "Does that new movie suck? Will my friends like it? What have they been up to? How are they feeling? How quickly can I undo my girlfriend's bra?"
Tedd: I do own a stopwatch...
In the Flying Man and Friends strip, "Burgertime Sunday," Flying Man attempts to make hamburgers, only to run out of meat. Mr. Stinky returns, using his own body as the meat, with a bun and condiments laid atop it.
Forest Hill: "Oh, Daddy! I had such a great day! We learned about volcanoes, and we had pizza for lunch, and Kaleb had a seizure..."
In Girl Genius the animatic puppet orientation to Paris was "Created with a generous grant from the Paris Art, Safety and Prisons Councils"
In Gunnerkrigg Court one of the end of chapter bonus pages shows Bobby the robot sharing some fun facts about pigeons. The last of them is:
Bobby: One day I saw a pigeon fall from a tree, its body twisted and broken after an attack from somewhere above. It writhed on the floor in silence and eventually died. It had no expression, just as I have no expression. I have never relayed this story to anyone.
The Rant: They asked Bobby to put together a fact sheet for the kids. They didn't ask him again after.
Homestuck:
- The album coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B features The Squiddle Song: "Wake up in the morning, there's a brand new day ahead/ The sun is bright and the clouds smile down and all your friends are dead ..."
- The spinoff webcomic Paradox Space uses this on page 5 of "Quality Time".
  John: what do they sell at the braj shop? like... bro stuff?
  Dave: yeah, pretty much the basics. snacks, hats, soft drinks, hand to hand combat weapons.
- Caliborn demands Dirk draw pictures of himself and his friends kissing, holding hands, singing, giving each other flowers, getting married, and eating babies.
Laura Drake lists the hurdles she faced on the way to building the Triangular Bisector in Jenny and the Multiverse:
"It hasn't been easy for this humble physics graduate. Delays… setbacks… psychiatric evaluations…"
A Loonatic's Tale: When Laguna feeds some tissue samples into a machine for analysis, the results come out in the middle of a grocery list.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: Jared's Long List of things Mr. Fish eats seems to mostly be leftovers of whatever Jared was eating, but also includes stray cats, seagulls, and vagrants.
In Minion Comics, Wendell tends to exhibit this trope:
Dingus: We're going to wear these gay hats. We're going to go through Spencer's boring agenda point by point. Then we're going to go find those pictures of that totally hot chick.
Wendell: Then we're all going to masturbate.
In A Miracle of Science, while Caprice and Benjamin are rising into orbit on a gigantic air fountain, Caprice begins explaining the reasoning behind the air-fountain/space-elevator, notices that Benjamin isn't listening, and segues into something else...
Caprice: Mars has such low gravity that gas is lost to space more quickly than it is on larger planets like Earth and Venus.
Ben: Uh-huh.
Caprice: Flying up an air-fountain like this into orbit is very energy-efficient.
Ben: Sure.
Caprice: ...Burmese tiger-traps are fun, and recommended for ages six and up.
Ben: Uh-huh.
Modern MoGal: Nui, the oni girl, presents her Teacher with hand-made sweets that include dried fruit, milk... and her blood.
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Wonderita, doped on Truth Serum, babbles about video games, movies, Hitlerella's moustache, Furry Confusion, cartoon economics, and her internalized self-loathing and paranoia. Hitlerella doesn't even notice the squick part, as she's distracted by the comment about her mustache.
The Order of the Stick:
- In "No Scry Zone", Tsukiko complains about paladins.
  Tsukiko: All they do is boss you around and tell you what you can't do. "Don't walk on the grass, don't litter, don't rape the cycle of life with your unclean power." Blah blah blah.
- In "Looking for Regroup", General Tarquin uses a healing ointment that lists its active ingredient as "magic" and the inactive ingredients as: "petroleum jelly, glycerin, heart of a virgin collected on her wedding night, and fragrance."
Paranatural:Throughout Chapter 4, Johnny and his friends have been venturing through the woods in order to get their revenge on Max. When we catch up to them again, we get this little conversation.
Ollie: We're lost bro. We're tired, my tiny feet hurt, I don't think we're even in Mayview anymore, Stephen's been dissolving social constructs for the last two hours...
Stephen: [wearing a shoe on his nose, his pants wrapped around his head, and a sock on his hand] Why do you cling so desperately to your symbols, brother?
Questionable Content:
- Marten and Faye are moving into their new apartment.
  Marten: Whew! Okay, the couch is officially moved in. What's left to bring over?
  Faye: According to my list, just your dresser, a couple lamps, and my collection of exotic Japanese sex toys.
  Marten: Right on, gimme a couple minutes to catch my breath and we can go wait what was that last thing you said?
- Momo's list of functions.
  Momo: My functions include media projection, both immersive-holographic and standard projection, heuristic internet trawling and storage of media based on my owner's expressed interests, and light housework.
  Momo: [lifting bathrobe] Also, I can shoot live eels out of my—
  Marten: [frantically covering Hannelore's ears] OKAY OKAY THAT'S VERY IMPRESSIVE
In Rhapsodies when a demoness starts to get cold feet before her wedding.
Ms. Intimidating Cow Monster: I keep thinking of all the things that could go wrong. What if it rains? What if our families fight? What if the buffet escapes?
Scandinavia and the World, Sister Denmark sings a nice, idyllic song about her wedding ceremony which ends with the line which "I will honestly answer/I have slept with everyone." The real song by Huldrelokkk also doubles as Lyrical Dissonance for a non-Norse speaker at how catchy it is.
OZBASIC flavour of mnemonics in Sequential Art.
Shen Comix has a strip with the Superfriends, a Super Sentai-esque team with members each extolling the virtue they'll fight a villain with, but one of them makes the villain MUCH more nervous than the rest...
Yellow Superfriend: "We will stop you with the powers of:"
Blue Superfriend: "Friendship!"
Green Superfriend: "Harmony!"
Red Superfriend: "Incredible violence."
Yellow Superfriend: "And love!"
A few of Mad Scientist L.D.G. of ''Skull Boy's many complaints while experimenting on her brother, Psycho Kid: "To top it off, he's not even a decent test subject! No mutations NO superpowers NO TUMORS!"
Something*Positive: Ollie is saying goodbye to his deceased uncle at the funeral: "I never thanked you enough for all you taught me. You showed me the joys of theatre, art, and how not to gag on anything up to seven inches."
Inverted in S.S.D.D. with Norman's to-do list: Murder the cast of Dawson's Creek, plan an amusing death for Kingston, steal all the condom machines... and buy teabags.
- Also, an early version of the Oracle's job queue: Likelihood of overthrowing seven different governments, and the likelihood of Elvis being alive.
This Subnormality strip, in which the receptionist at a health spa casually mentions ritual human sacrifice among the list of spa amenities.
Supermegatopia has this comic◊: "Red Warrior needs food!" "Blue Wizard needs food!" "Green Ranger needs a hard cock! Seriously, how long has it been, can you even remember...?"
xkcd:
- One comic has a stick-figure go on about his (its?) dreams about his ex...and then explains he's now dating his ex's mother.
- "Penny Arcade Parody" somehow takes a left turn into Slash Fic.
- One strip comparing Grammar Police to Fashion Police, most of the traits described are rather unflattering, but the second-to-last is "vindictive about things that are often uncomfortably transparent proxies for race or social class".

Web Original

The Annotated Pratchett File's demonstration of a Tom Swiftie:
"Pass me the shellfish," said Tom crabbily.
"Let's look for another Grail!" Tom requested.
"I used to be a pilot," Tom explained.
"I'm into homosexual necrophilia," said Tom in dead earnest.
The Archdruid Report: In The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem, John Michael Greer lists off the different functions the internet primarily serves, and how they're not all that unique or novel:
It’s a source of wry amusement to me that so many people seem to have forgotten that the internet doesn’t actually do very much that’s new. Long before the internet, people were reading the news, publishing essays and stories, navigating through unfamiliar neighborhoods, sharing photos of kittens with their friends, ordering products from faraway stores for home delivery, looking at pictures of people with their clothes off, sending anonymous hate-filled messages to unsuspecting recipients, and doing pretty much everything else that they do on the internet today.
Binder of Shame's Cheating Bastard once referred to the theft of milk crates as "a victimless crime, like tearing tags off mattresses, trading bootleg videotapes, and bestiality".
Borderland Beat, a news blog about the Mexican Drug War describes the Valencia family as thus:
It built churches, gave money to the sick and averted violence by paying local authorities to ensure easy shipment of marijuana, heroin, and cocaine to the United States.
Cracked's 8 Mind-Blowing Realities of Our Future Full of Old People" compares making a home safe for senior citizens to childproofing. "Plugs have to be covered, gates erected, breakables moved, cabinets locked, knives dulled, bullets replaced with blanks, etc."
"Damn You Autocorrect":
- One submission shows when autocorrect turned someone's list of chores into this, turning "crate" into "cremate".
  Just gimme a minute. I gotta do the dishes, balance my checkbook, cremate my rabbit...
- "Trash bags milk laundry detergent cat food chips soda death laser dish soap".
- "It's just dredged with flour, and cooked in butter, oil, and wine, and sprinkled with salt and freshly ground black people."
- Similarly, this post about good food such as "pumpkin, spinach, walnut, and brown wife!"
In Crossing Kevin's Crossing, on their way to the antique store Vic and the narrator discuss the ending of Lost, the best grilled cheese sandwiches, and the strangest things Vic's seen working at urgent care.
The Day the Music Died: Donny Benson is noted to have eventually been caught in a hotel room "with a ball gag, a blindfold, an electrical-stimulation kit, and a teenage boy."
From The Doctors of the Cat Family:
''In the market place Lewis met Kit Marican
She was short, but she could jump high
Her eyes were the color of newly sprouted leaves
And he could see she could run fast, for she was being chased by mafia goons
Dream: When the hunters start singing in the Grand Finale.
George: We're a happy family~
Bad: Yes! Very good, George!
SapNap: And Bad is thicc~!
George: What?
According to Mark Brown of Game Maker's Toolkit, Shigeru Miyamoto made games out of real-life hobbies, like music (Wii Music), pets (Nintendogs), gardening (Pikmin), and beating up gorillas (Donkey Kong).
This entry from Not Always Right, had a student ask for some help and then compliment the librarian with this rather disturbing remark.
"Thanks! You're so sweet! If I cut you, you'd bleed syrup."
A Stalker with a Crush fangirl in an Official Fanfiction University, during a near-death experience, uttered the line "I don't wanna be dead! I'm only sixteen! I never got into college! I never took my driving test! Daniel Radcliffe never replied to the email proposal I sent him!"
Bear in Person of Interest had a twitter account, where he once listed what each human team member smelled like: "Lady Talking to Herself" (Root), nail polish and apples; "Bespectacled Man" (Finch), green tea and wool; "Hammer Lady" (Shaw), tequila and steak; "Tall Man" (Reese), gunpowder and regret.
Protectors of the Plot Continuum:
- invoked Charge lists tend to start with minor charges like "having bad spelling", go on to charging for horrific Squick or disrupting the entire fabric of the multiverse, then finish on the unofficial charges like "confusing PPC agents".
- The Department of Angst deals with overly melodramatic fanfics. Their methods of cheering up canon characters include balloon animals, sock puppets, sun lamps, chocolate, and hard drugs... though its operatives are encouraged to avoid medicating people if possible.
"The Harm of Gaming: We Present the Facts" on Rock Paper Shotgun delivered a beautiful line — "turning instead toward shopping, DVDs and knife crime".
This tweet by A Small Fiction lists some examples of "little, gradual problems" that people don't notice, starting with two mundane things and ending with an ominous one.
People often don't notice the little, gradual problems.
Cluttered desks. Dishes in the sink.
The thing that stands in the corner at night.
The P-P-P-Powerbook!, a prank mockup of an Apple laptop sent by Something Awful member Jeff Harris to an Ebay scammer, had a drawn-on menu bar reading "File, Edit, Kiddie Porn, Yams, Close."
The disclaimer at the bottom of stan-wars.com: "This site is purely satirical. This site is not meant to be cited as a credible source of information. This site is not based on fact, logic, common sense or common decency, (but neither are most legitimate news sites). This site is a work of convoluted logic, contradictory opinions and satirical fiction. This site is not affiliated with any of the artists mentioned. The author of this site is currently under a psychiatrist's care for several mental disorders."
TV Tropes:
- This Very Wiki's page on Sylvester Stallone describes him as "an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter and former porn star."
- Similarly, the image on Yukio Mishima's page is captioned "Author, actor, stud, samurai worshiper, failed coup leader."
- Phil Spector is described as "an American Record Producer, songwriter and convicted murderer."
- R. Kelly was formerly described as "an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and convicted sex offender." His Wikipedia page displays it in that order too.
derrickcomedy.com's "Bro Rape" includes a moment like this, when the Newsline reporter is going through the bag of a would-be bro rapist: "Six-pack Natty Ice. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Big black dildo."
Buzzfeed has "The Friendliest People You'll Meet on the FBI's Most Wanted List
"Eva's the whole package. She's pretty, she's smart, she's funny as heck. She'll win over your parents with her charm and stories about bank embezzlement!"
A guide for parents considering whether to let their kids see The Wicker Man (1973) (hint: no). It quite dispassionately details the variously suggestive and overt sexual scenes, scenes featuring alcohol and swearing, and right at the very bottom is a tiny spoiler box labelled "Frightening/Intense Scenes"...
Wikipedia:
- The article on African currency has this line to start off the second paragraph: "In pre-colonial times African currency included shells, ingots, arrowheads, iron, human beings, salt, cattle, goats, blankets, axes, beads, and many others." What doesn't belong?
- Their article on Kim Kardashian once read: "She is widely known for her appearances in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Dancing with the Stars, and a sex tape with former boyfriend Ray J." (Though that may be more like Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking.)
- An example on the page about Strathclyde Park in Motherwell: "Strathclyde Park contains many sports and leisure facilities and also has sites for bird-watchers, doggers and anglers." (For those who aren't aware, "dogging" is British slang for 'having sex in public' or 'observing people having sex in public'.)
- From the article on Patty Hearst:
  Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, and bank robber.
- About Calamity Jane:
  A woman who exhibited kindness and compassion towards others, especially the sick and needy, who also was an alcoholic and traded sexual favors for money.
- The page for the Unabomber used to describe him as "an American mathematician, social critic, and murderer who carried out a campaign of mail bombings."
- The lead section for the page on Frank Zappa bassist Roy Estrada starts off talking about his music career, then finishes with "He is also a convicted child molester, serving a twenty-five year sentence as from January 2012."
- The page on Roman Polański describes him as "a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, actor, and convicted statutory rapist."
- When O. J. Simpson was in jail for robbery, his page described him as "a former American football player, broadcaster, actor, and a convicted felon".
- From the page on Chris Brown:
  Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, actor, and convicted felon.
- Bill Cosby's page formerly^note started by saying he is "an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender."
- Similarly, the article on the surname Epstein lists "Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019), American financier, philanthropist, and sex offender".
- The page on Icelandic magical staves starts off with a rune to attract a girl, then suddenly: "Necropants, a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead man that are capable of producing endless gold", squeezed between the rune for "To Win in Court" and "To Induce Fear". It links to sites with more about Icelandic Magical Staves, which are not much better. For the curious: you get a man (has to be a man) to agree to let you dig him up and skin him from the waist down after he dies. Should you manage to outlive him, you do that, draw the rune on a gold piece, and put it in the purse. And yes, you must wear them.
- From the "Signs and symptoms" section of Torsades de pointes:^noteA type of cardiac arrhythmia
  Symptoms and consequences include palpitations, dizziness, lightheadedness (during shorter episodes), fainting (during longer episodes), and sudden cardiac death.
- The page on Austin Powers actor Joe Son. "A mixed martial arts fighter and manager, actor, and convicted felon.". Becomes especially unnerving when you consider what he was convicted of.
- From the infobox at the top of Al-Bayan (radio station):
  Format Religious, talk, news, terrorist propaganda^note
- Roman emperor Caracalla:
  Domestically, Caracalla became known for the construction of the Baths of Caracalla, which became the second-largest baths in Rome; for the introduction of a new Roman currency named the antoninianus, a sort of double denarius; and for the massacres he ordered, both in Rome and elsewhere in the empire.
- This gem from the article on "mummy brown," a favorite paint pigment of the Pre-Raphaelite artists:
  Mummy brown was originally made in the 16th and 17th centuries from white pitch, myrrh, and the ground-up remains of Egyptian mummies...
- The Polish Wikipedia article on the parody metal band Impaled Northern Moonforest, specifically the section on the "acoustic black metal" genre that sprung around the group.
  The creators of acoustic black metal ... base their lyrics around themes such as Norway, snow, frost, Satan, Adolf Hitler etc.
- The article on the Young Turks says
  These "Three Pashas", as they came to be known, exercised absolute control over the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918, bringing the country closer to Germany, signing the Ottoman–German Alliance to enter the Empire into World War I on the side of the Central Powers, and carrying out the Armenian Genocide.
- The introductory description of William Seabrook reads:
  William Buehler Seabrook (February 22, 1884 – September 20, 1945) was an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist, born in Westminster, Maryland.
- The first sentence of Hans Reiser's article:
  Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer.
- From the lead of John N. Mitchell:
  John Newton Mitchell (September 5, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was an American lawyer, the 67th Attorney General of the United States under President Richard Nixon, chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns, and a convicted criminal.
- After Burger King put out an ad intended to get Google Home to list the ingredients to the Whopper, many Wiki Vandals edited the Wikipedia article's list of ingredients to change what Google Home said. At one point, the article said the Whopper consisted of "a flame-grilled patty made with 100% medium-sized child with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, cyanide, pickles, ketchup and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun."
- A rather unexpected one from the Wikipedia page for the autoimmune disease Reactive Arthritis, formerly known as Reiter's disease:
  The term "reactive arthritis" is strongly preferred and increasingly used as a substitute for this designation because Hans Conrad Julius Reiter was not the first to describe the syndrome, his conclusions regarding its pathogenesis were incorrect, and because he committed war crimes as a Nazi at Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II.
- The article on Kenneth Halliwell opens with the following:
  Kenneth Leith Halliwell (23 June 1926 – 9 August 1967) was a British actor, writer and collagist. He was the mentor, boyfriend, and murderer of playwright Joe Orton.
Wikitravel's summary of Dagestan on the North Caucasus page. "Dagestan: An environment utterly exotic and alien to Russians of the steppe and woodlands, Dagestan boasts astounding cultural diversity, breathtaking and austere mountaintop villages, an ancient history, and a distinct possibility of being kidnapped, and as well as a target for terrorism from Chechen rebels."
A blog by an industrial gas supplier lists fifteen uses for helium:
The internet
Your iPhone
Apollo 13
The Large Hadron Collider
Nuclear reactors
SCUBA
Emphysema
MRIs
Computer hard drives
Lasers
Ship inspection
Arc welding
Microscopes
Your steering wheel
Suicide

Web Videos

The Angry Video Game Nerd:
- In his review of Pong consoles, he talks about the difficulty of having to plug them into RF switches on old television sets:
  AVGN: This might be a good time to bring up that most of these old consoles have a connector that looks like this. You have to plug them into a box, and then screw the box into your TV. But I say, get yourself one of these, plug them into the coaxial input on your TV, plug the game in, and tell that box to go fuck itself! [flips the bird at the connector while he says this]
- Later, while playing Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), he goes through a list of things found in that game that he never expected to find in any Sonic game:
  AVGN: Telekinesis, time travel, treasure hunting, bat tits [quick cut to a close-up of Rouge's cleavage], human princess and hedgehog romance...
Alex from The Awkward Compilation while filming his housemate/crush Lester under the pretext of a student film: "Teacher said, uh, make variety with camera angles. Like I wanna make a high shot, y'know, low shot... cumshot..."
A number of songs from Bad Lip Reading feature this in places.
- From "(Rockin') All Nite Long":
  Wiz Khalifa: Bring me potatoes. And meat. And greens. And weed.
- In "Herman Cain":
  Herman Cain: All you can do is give that woodchuck a tuna melt, or romantic shoes, or a metal skull crusher.
Mocked by Chris Ray Gun:
You know what's a really good idea? Putting "crass jokes" and "innuendos" next to "rape" and "murder" on a list of similar things. That's just...oh, makes you sound brilliant. You know, my to-do-list for tomorrow actually follows a very similar structure. You know, I gotta get some milk and eggs, gotta call my internet provider, gotta pay my phone bill, I gotta break into a nursery and set all the minority newborns ablaze, and to top it all off, I got to fill up my car! All equally mundane things to do.
Climate Town: A photo of a mushroom cloud with the words The Nuclear Arms Race on it falls out of a collage of '80s things like rubix cubes and walkmans while Rollie says the 1980s were the decade we did everything right in "Fast Fashion Is Hot Garbage".
In a non-vulgar example of this trope, CombuskenIsAwesome's "244- DETECTlVE PlKACHU SPOlLERS" is a YouTube Poop synopsis of the spoilers in Pokémon Detective Pikachu (from the perspective of someone that hasn't actually seen the film). While the first few "spoilers" are Captain Obvious statements like "It's Pikachu!", the video then lists actual spoilers, particularly Pikachu being Tim's father, and Mewtwo's ability to fuse humans with Pokemon.
Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) has "Bed Bath and Beyond Birthday!"
Done quite literally in Team Four Star's Dragonball Z Abridged, when he finds out Gohan and Krillin are from the planet Earth.
Frieza: Oh good. I'll stop by there on the way home. Pick up some space eggs, some space milk, and BLOW IT THE F**K UP!
The song Brand New Day from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. "It's a brand new day, yeah the sun is high, all the birds are singing that you're gonna die."
In this Epic Meal Time video.
"SUSHI! FAST FOOD! SEX!"
Filthy Frank: Frank thinks he's most like a cat due to reasons like hating water...and being neutered at a young age.
Friendship is Witchcraft:
- The song "Pinkie's Brew" is probably one of the more literal examples, as it's about baking a time spell. It features such ingredients as figs, butter, cinnamon, Eye of Newt and seapony tears.
  Bread and butter, chant and mutter,
  Marination, incantation,
  Chocolate icing, time-line splicing,
  Yeast is rising, rectifying...
- Applejack gives Princess Molestia the following advise on how to increase her sex appeal:
  Applejack: Take a shower! Wear deodorant. Breathe through your nose. Throw some spiders!
  Molestia: I feel like that stopped making sense...
- Pretty much every verse of Episode 8's "It'll Be Okay", a song that establishes Twilight's Moral Event Horizon.
  ''Soon we did everything together
  He taught me how to fly a kite
  I watched him grow into a stallion
  I watched him sleep in bed at night
  It's not creepy.
Many Gemini Home Entertainment videos begin with a number of more mundane topics before introducing the twist, accompanied by a sudden stop in the music.
- In "World's Weirdest Animals", rural Minnesota is home to the Greater Prairie Chicken (found in Wilkin County), the Burrowing Owl (in Clay County) and Woodcrawlers (found everywhere).
- "Wilderness Survival Guide" does it twice, the more striking of which is "Sounds to Avoid": Coyote howls, Cougar screams and auditory hallucination (a man screaming desperately for help, later revealed to be a "fake human").
- "Games for Kids" gives the rules for games that can be played by groups of kids. Examples shown include Hide and Go Seek, Freeze Tag, Sardines and FEED THE WOODS.
The Green Team[1] sketch with from Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and John C Reilly has a few, e.g. "Biodegradable napkins, batteries, and glass dildos."
The narration by Andy George of the youtube channel How to make everything can occasionally dip into creepy territory, as apparent from his laconic description of a newly made iron viking axe.
Andy: We can use this pretty much for anything. Chop our food, chop our firewood, chop our enemies... basically all of it.
Internet Historian:
"Promoting desserts, are we? Brad's wife used to love desserts! New item on the menu? Brad's wife would've made it twice as good! Today we remember 9/11? Brad's wife used to love 9-"
A Killer Song!
Let's see now. If I throw in a little bit of sugar, some flour, two eggs... that should do it. Oh my goodness! I almost forgot my secret ingredient: Cyanide!
This Let's Play of Baldur's Gate II describes the source of the protagonist's name with "If you really want to understand the joke in his name, have 2 and a half hours to kill, and don't mind developing cancer..."
Madamluna incorporated one of these into her gag story of how she and DeceasedCrab met.
"But soon, with a song and a dance and a demonstration of technology that could vaporize a bear at three hundred yards, he scuttled his way into my heart."
Mahou Profile: A History of Magical Girls: In the Himitsu no Akko-chan episode, ErynCerise lists the things that come to mind when someone says "mMagicalGirl":
— Wands, frilly outfits, lockets, ribbons, animal sidekicks, rainbow laser beams, creepy sexual undertones...
Matthew Santoro:
- Zig-zagged in Yo Mama. Matt talks about what childhood was like for most people, saying "Some kid would make fun of your mom, and then you'd cry, and then you'd end up punching said kid in the face, and then you grew up with violent tendencies which caused you to lose every job you've ever had because you keep punching your bosses in the face, and then you'd use all your newly-found free time to make videos on the internet!"
- In Star Wars in 3-D!!!, Matt mentions 4 movie-viewing options: Blockbuster, Netflix, iTunes, and pirating movies for free.
- In Friday the 13th ft. Eugene, Eugene says that he has a My Little Pony collection, his mother is his favorite person in the world, and he has irregular bowel movements.
- In Winter is WICKED!, Matt mentions the good things about being near a warm fire: watching the flames flicker, hearing the wood crackling, and smelling the smoke. He then smells smoke, and discovers that Hugo just made a fire.
- In 40 Fascinating Facts about Money!, Matt says that, according to studies, if you offer someone 10 million dollars (specifically that number), they will do almost anything: abandon their friends and family, change their sex, and even commit murder!
- In 28 Things I've Learned In 28 Years!, Matt makes an announcement to the friends, subscribers, and trolls in his audience that it's his birthday.
The various gag dubs churned out by My Way Entertainment use this trope a lot.
When Frankomatic of Obscure Game Theatre tries hard not to lose in the final confrontation that involves dancing in Brain Dead 13:
Frankomatic: Y! M! C! A! Splits... mooning... [Lance gets shot full of holes and reduced to his eyeballs] ...failure!
Outside Xbox pulls this regularly in their Hitman (2016) playthroughs, since their versions of 47 do not have the priorities of a normal man.
Andy: (on a hotel) Five stars for cleanliness, five stars for location, five stars for people isolating themselves when I needed to murder them. That was particularly appreciated.
- During one of their Oxventure Blades in the Dark campaigns, Ellen's character is revealed to have snakes for hair
Andy: I can see now why you didn't want to offer any hair for my wonderful mechanical man. Well, it's no big deal, everyone's got their different styles. Side-part, buzzcut, hair full of snakes.
In one of Picnic Face's videos, entitled "Near Death Experiences", the people being interviewed are describing how their mind flashed to field of flowers with a white horse that wanted them to ride it, etc., etc., until..."The horse raped me."
Done in The Quest For Geekdom. The Eric Rosethorn Academy of Eloquent Supervillainy teaches class, ambition, and unbridled malice.
In this Retsupurae of this video.
Chip Cheezum: "Name: Christopher. What can I say about myself? Um, dot dot dot. I like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon...and vore. My dream *Ironicus' laughter* is that I'm in the next Sonic the Hedgehog game."
Saberspark does this when describing the struggles Sharon Spitz from Braceface goes through as a teen, in his review of the episode "Busted".
Saber: Bullies, boyfriends, explosive titties. You know, the usual.
Several instances in Scott The Woz:
- From the episode "Get Rich Quick!":
  Scott: Woah, "two truths and a lie"? Uhh, I'm white, I'm near sighted and I eat f**king dogs.
- From the episode "Super Smash Bros. Melee | The Best One, Apparently":
  Scott: Man, look at all the features this thing touts on the back [of the box]! The characters, stages, secrets, trophies, epilepsy^note; this game has it all!
- In the episode "Old Series, New Developer", Scott explains that he never got into the original Sly Cooper trilogy when it first came out because he was too invested in stupid Nintendo games, kindergarten, and "totally not alcoholism."
Sursum Ursa from Stuff You Like uses this in her short review of Roman Holiday:
Sursum Ursa: [Anne indulges in] comfy shoes, gelato, dancing with boys, a mischievous pixie haircut, and casual violence!
Target Women:
"The next time words fail you in trying to describe your genitalia, just turn to the world of nature: my chia pet, my fern, my gentle alpaca, my sarlacc pit from Return of the Jedi."
That Guy With the Glasses:
- Chester A. Bum of Bum Reviews does this quite a bit. A perfect example can be found with this line, from a Nostalgia Critic video where the eponymous critic paid Chester to finish his review of Follow That Bird:
  Chester: ...and Cookie Monster ate his car because he thought it was a cookie! I once thought my car was a cookie! Only it wasn't a cookie. Or a car. It was MAN.
- Humour of this type is also the bread and butter of Ask That Guy, where he frequently reveals disturbing facts about his personal life.
- Less often, but The Nostalgia Chick does this too. At one point, she was talking about bad Disney sequels and then ended up revealing that her uncle molested her.
- Dominic of Video Game Confessions, when interviewing Fox McButt, stopped him after hearing him casually state that "humanies" (the reverse of "furries") like him "like to get together and play games, and talk to one another, make jokes, sodomize one another, and then usually go out and have a bit of dinner."
- MikeJ also does this from time to time.
  I think you all know what's coming next... A fried kitten. Aww.
- The Nostalgia Critic did this when he was begging Tom and Jerry: The Movie not to subject him to another song. Taxes and shaving someone's back are boring and icky, respectively, but whoring himself out has got to be overkill.
- From the crossover review of Child's Play, Phelous justifies the film as being a Christmas movie because "It's got snow, presents, decorations, murder, plenty Christmas-y!"
The video "mom ordered ants for my birthday" by Treatsforbeasts, the mother says this to her son about the ants.
“Eat them, keep them, please them, tease them, freeze them, adhere them to my husband's prostate".
The French web video series Unknown Movies, which mixes movie reviews with a webseries-like storyline, has, in each episode, the host of the show analyzing a fairly obscure movie, often packed with unpleasant imagery and subject matters, then giving a bit of insight about its production history, some background on the people involved in it, then discussing the general themes and ideas behind it and giving his opinion on it... and then brutally murdering someone during the review. Apparently as means to crusade against the masses' awful taste.
You Know Whats Bullshit: In the iTunes episode, the Bullshit Man enumerates the following things iTunes does at start-up.
BS Man: Now, it bounces a few times, shows me a beach ball, and when it finally starts, it tells it's searching for Genius results, accessing the iTunes Store, updating playlist information, contacting Mars, raising shields, activating atomic soundwave booster, scanning for nuclear barracudas.
A YouTube video titled "Top Ten N Words". You click on it expecting a certain infamous racial slur only to get different words starting with N and arrives at number 1 with "nice". That is until...
"Honorable mention: NIG-"

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