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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Ghost in the Machines", Bender has died, and in a meeting Hermes shows a graph indicating how requests to [[CatchPhrase "bite my shiny metal ass"]] have gone down 98%. When Scruffy interrupts the meeting using a vacuum made from Bender's body, Hermes asks him to do it later. Scruffy responds with "bite my shiny metal ass", and the chart adjusts automatically.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Ghost in the Machines", Bender has died, and in a meeting Hermes shows a graph indicating how requests to [[CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase "bite my shiny metal ass"]] have gone down 98%. When Scruffy interrupts the meeting using a vacuum made from Bender's body, Hermes asks him to do it later. Scruffy responds with "bite my shiny metal ass", and the chart adjusts automatically.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "HOMR", when Homer complains that being smarter hasn't made him happier, Lisa explains that actually happiness is ''inversely'' related to intelligence. "I made a graph. I make a lot of graphs."
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Mr Verres, being a "[[MrExposition never-ending barrel of exposition]]" often produces graphs that it doesn't entirely make sense for him to have in advance. The most random is when he [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2004-11-17 produces a graph]] that clearly shows Elliot is more of a stick-in-the-mud than Ellen, to explain why Elliot has to attend Grace's party. Elliot [[https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-11-09 lampshades it later]]:

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Mr Verres, being a "[[MrExposition never-ending barrel of exposition]]" often produces graphs that it doesn't entirely make sense for him to have in advance. (It's [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/layers-062 eventually revealed]] he literally has a "summon chart" spell.) The most random is when he [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2004-11-17 produces a graph]] that clearly shows Elliot is more of a stick-in-the-mud than Ellen, to explain why Elliot has to attend Grace's party. Elliot [[https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-11-09 lampshades it later]]:
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* The Belgian comic ''ComicBook/LeChat'' has this illustrated gag: "A businessman with small-paned windows would rather see a plane take off than lightning crashing down".
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