Literature
"She doesn't like music? What else doesn't she like- sunshine?"
— Qibli, Wings of Fire
Live-Action TV
Guest: I'd like to make a complaint.
Colin: Well, we'd all like to make complaints, wouldn't we? I personally would - I've had a whoor of a life - but where do we get with moaning? Nowhere!
— Happy Hollidays
Radio
Jack Dee: Your turn, Graeme. I'd like you to sing the words of Frankie Howerd's "Three Little Fishes" to the tune of the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.
[Audience laughter]
Graeme Garden: ...I thought I was doing something else.
Jack: Doing something else?
Barry Cryer: You are now watching a family at war!
Graeme: Well, here I've got the words for "Grandma, We Love You".
Jack: No, I've said I'd like you to sing the words of... [cut off by huge audience laughter] What is this position, if I'm not in charge?
—A round of "One Song to the Tune of Another" gets off-track on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Web Comics
"Uncle? I ask you a question echoing my son's. You once said you believed me to be here for a reason. Surely that hypothetical reason is not to always be wrong?... A perpetual object lesson for smug, closed-minded prigs to point out to their children, 'Be good, or you'll wind up like her?' I don't think I'm always wrong! I know you care, and sympathy is well and good, but can I expect understanding from a man who lives his life as a veritable anthem in praise of conventionality? Let alone from an alien whose society reveres mediocrity itself as an ideal? Why am I here, Uncle? Now, when it's come to this, why am I here?"
— Galatea Martin, The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, April 25, 2017.
(Her sister Molly then offers a compassionate answer.)
(Her sister Molly then offers a compassionate answer.)Web Video
"We're gonna be taking a look at a kids' show designed to be as inoffensive as possible. Back in an era where shows like The Get-Along Gang ran wild, because parents were so afraid that their kids might have picked up bad messages like, 'Maybe someone who has a different opinion from the group just might be right'."
—The Mysterious Mr. Enter in his Animated Atrocities review for Little Clowns of Happytown.
Western Animation
Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along
Each day, we do a little dance and sing a little song
If you ever disagree, it means that you are wrong
Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along!
Each day, we do a little dance and sing a little song
If you ever disagree, it means that you are wrong
Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along!
— Buddy Bears theme song, Garfield and Friends
Real Life
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
"This was the message of way too many eighties' cartoon shows. If all your friends want to go get pizza and you want a burger, you should bow to the will of the majority and go get pizza with them. There was even a show for one season on CBS called The Get Along Gang, which was dedicated unabashedly to this principle."
—Mark Evanier on Garfield and Friends
