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Bait-and-Switch Comparison
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A Bait and Switch Comparison is often used to deliver a Take That! The basic setup of the joke is to make a comparison between two things and imply that certain properties are associated with one thing, then assign them to the other. It goes something like this: "What's the difference between X and Y? One's X-like... and the other's X." The insult can be aimed at either entity, depending on whether "X-like" is positive or negative with regards to Y. Often overlaps with Insult to Rocks. Related to My Friends... and Zoidberg, in terms of messing with the mental categorization of items based on their description. When there's no question of which entity is being insulted but the target assumes it's someone else, that's Insult Misfire. Compare Well, This Is Not That Trope. A subtrope of Bait-and-Switch, obviously. |
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Matilda: At the very beginning, the narrator speaks of proud parents who are convinced their offspring can do no wrong, even digressing into what he would say about them if he were a teacher. This is followed by "Occasionally, one comes across parents who take the opposite line, and show no interest in their children at all, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones", before describing how Mr and Mrs Wormwood view Matilda. | |
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In the first episode when Metallica goes to prison to perform a few songs for the prisoners: | |
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BoJack Horseman: When Todd gets angry with Mr. Peanutbutter and bans him from his knockoff Disneyland, he says that the only "goofy dog" allowed at his park is Pluto. | |
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In That '70s Show when Jackie's father tells her that if she doesn't break up with Kelso, he will cut her allowance: | |
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Wings: Helen, regarding Roy's Russian mail-order bride. In another episode, several of the group have tried out for a local play, and Antonio is telling the others what their roles will be. |
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The Simpsons: In "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)," when Homer questions whether Marge is truly his soulmate because of their personality differences: Also in "Natural Born Kissers," when Homer is dangling from a hot air balloon and holding on for dear life: Another example, when Ned Flanders and Edna Krabappel are dating and they knock on the Simpsons' door: When Homer and Marge are drinking in Wine country. Homer even manages to do a variation where he doubles the punchline. In "The Fool Monty", Kent Brockman appears to be eulogizing Mr. Burns while reporting on his funeral... at first. |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Fitz does this to Simmons in "The Team": Simmons pulls one a few episodes later in "Absolution", as she plans a vacation for her and Fitz: |
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Dominic Deegan: Donovan, who makes the joke, is himself a Callanian. He was trying to win over an extremely anti-Callanian Orc Chief holding him captive. It worked. | |
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During the goldfish-memory test on MythBusters: A Self-Deprecation variant in the "Ming Dynasty Astronaut" episode, after numerous failed attempts to build working black powder rockets: |
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In the Toxic Crusaders episode "Toxie Ties the Knot", Mayor Grody hears about Toxie being coerced into marrying the Smogulan princess Gerba to prevent the Smogulans from dumping trash all over Tromaville. He tells his secretary that Toxie's going to marry an overweight cockroach, causing her to reply that this occurrence is gross. Mayor Grody then remarks "Yeah, you'd think a cockroach would have better tastes". | |
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The American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? has a variation that's become a running gag. Example, taken from a "Weird Newscasters" game: Or another example: One more: |
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Back at the Barnyard: In "Dummy and Dummier", Otis makes a ventriloquist dummy named Mr. Jinks for Freddy to use at the barnyard talent show. He uses the wood from a tree that a colony of termites were living in to make Mr. Jinks, and as retribution, the termites control Mr. Jinks. They start by insulting Freddy's friends and framing Freddy. One of the insults they give is "Why did the tubby, disgusting loser cross the road? To get away from Pig!" | |
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In Jessie, Luke and Ravi wonder about either following Emma or Mr. Kibling to safety in "Cattle Calls & Scary Walls". | |
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He does it again in his Sex and the City 2 review, comparing Sex and the City and Will & Grace. | |
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During his review for The Cat in the Hat, the Critic described Dakota Fanning as being "best known for playing a strange-looking, lifeless puppet. Oh, and Coraline." | |
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Airplane II: The Sequel: | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police: The series uses this gag in the "On the Road" story arc. | |
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Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop used this in the episode "Orang-utans & Lemmings" when the Exorsisters talked about Dr. Sidney Zitbag and his undead rabbit companion Zombunny. They state that one of them is a moron who spends all his time in a zombified trance...and the other is Zombunny. | |
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Doctor Who Novelisations: In the adaptation of The Day of the Doctor, following the chapter about Tenth's relationship with Queen Elizabeth I, the Lemony Narrator says that some readers may be aghast at these claims concerning a figure who's a byword for chastity and purity, but then again, he did have a granddaughter. | |
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Also, about how The Last Guardian's relationship between the main character and his pet didn't feel compelling: "It'd be like getting invested in the relationship between the bloke from Shenmue and the bloke from Shenmue's forklift. Imagine that, the storybook romance between a cold piece of emotionless machinery, and a forklift." | |
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One from several years ago (although you could substitute your politician of choice and make it current): "What's the difference between Lord Voldemort and George Bush? One's an entitled tyrannical dictator bent on taking over the world — and the other's a fictional character." | |
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In her "Relative Dimensions" column in Doctor Who Magazine, shortly after the broadcast of "Mummy on the Orient Express" (which guest starred Foxes and Frank Skinner) Jacqueline Rayner wrote that her son was delighted to see one of his favourite pop stars on the show — he's a huge fan of "Three Lions". | |
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Cracked: This article, describing prison inmates working with endangered frogs includes the line "Slimy, unloved, forgotten and under-appreciated. But let's talk about the frogs." Another Cracked article features an image of Orphan and Despicable Me with the caption "One is a disturbingly violent and psychologically horrific film, the other is Orphan." And this one, about Twilight: "KRISTEN STEWART is an emotionless creature of the night, an undead soul wandering a world in which she doesn't belong, consciously forcing herself to mime even the motions of breathing to appear convincingly human-like. Also she's a VAMPIRE now." According to "5 Huge Movies That Stole Their Plot from Other Hit Films", I, Robot and Who Framed Roger Rabbit are the same film: "One stars a wisecracking street-smart detective who is caught up in a murder mystery that thrusts him unwillingly into a world of cartoon characters and contemporary brand recognition. The other is Who Framed Roger Rabbit." In "6 B.S. Stories That Fooled Everyone on Facebook (8/5/14)" talking about TMZ falsely reporting that Coolio was going to release his new album on PornHub: On spicy food: I've personally pooped a ghost pepper for two hours with a Dan Brown novel as my only entertainment, and I'll freely admit that I had tears in my eyes every last second of the ordeal (the pooping hurt pretty bad, too). From "6 Insane Meltdowns by Actors on Set of their Greatest Movies": Thisone contains this gem: |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin and Susie Derkins are cast in a school play in which the students play different foods and nutrients. Calvin asks Susie what she is, and she answers, "I'm ‘Fat.'" He replies, "No, I meant in the play." The next panel shows a thoroughly trounced Calvin while Susie asks if anyone else wants to try that one. In a later strip, Calvin as Spaceman Spiff imagines touching down on "Planet Bog — [where] pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases. ...But aside from that, it's not much like Earth." |
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Invoked and subverted at the end of one episode of Only Connect: | |
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The Critic begins his review of Barney's Great Adventure by saying that there are there are two kinds of Barneys in the world; one is an obnoxious dinosaur that nobody likes to listen to, and the other one is purple. Cue him going up to his father, who is also named Barney, and roasting him. He ends his review on a similar note by saying that Barney might be a better character if he had a good sense of humor, and that the dinosaur could use some help, too, but this time, Barney Walker delivers a Groin Attack to the Critic, causing him to fall on the ground. | |
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Fairly common in Would I Lie to You?, likely due to originally having the former host of Have I Got News For You, Angus Deayton. As with HIGNFY, they continued to use it after he was replaced, and often part of the joke is that the audience see it coming. A standout example is when Lee Mack fails to convince the panel he paid £200 to have his portrait painted by a monkey. When Jimmy Carr claims that Prince Philip called him a "funny-looking fellow" when he was a ball-boy at Wimbledon: |
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In Garfield we have this exchange. | |
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Married... with Children: In the end of two-part episode "Requiem for a Chevyweight," Al tells his Dodge he "never loved that flashy red hussy. Or the new car either." Also, Al and Peggy are at a couples retreat. Al says "I'm not talking to, or touching that bozo with the big red hair!". He then points to a guy dressed as a clown and says "Or that guy either". |
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Discworld: The Discworld Companion's entry on the Fools' Guild sets up a particularly long version where the Assassins' and Fools' guilds are described, with one being depicted as a dark, wretched place of misery and disrepute and the other as a well-respected institution attended by engaged students who are rather popular at parties, with the caveat that the Fools' Guild is the first and the Assassins' the second. In Unseen Academicals Glenda uses a variant, saying that football is "like war, but without the kindness and consideration!" In Men at Arms, there's a joke in Ankh-Morpork that goes "The trolls live next to the cattleyard? What about the stench? Oh, the cattle don't mind..." (The narrator points out that this joke doesn't actually make sense; trolls, being living rocks, have no real odor to mammals.) Guards! Guards! has a group hunters discussing the costs of their trade, and one brings up "wear and tear on virgins" as he mostly pursues unicorns. Another hunter remarks that he's heard they're quite rare these days, and the first agrees that he's right — and don't see many unicorns around, either. |
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Star Wars: Princess Leia: Leia says the following gem in issue #1: | |
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Elementary: After returning from a trip, Watson asks about Sherlock Holmes' pet tortoise, Clyde: | |
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| Elementary | hasFeature |
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Total Drama: Duncan is asked why he picks on Harold so badly in "3:10 to Crazytown" and gives his answer in the confessional. Rather than outright say it, he opens with the hint that "she's about ye tall, has beautiful brown hair, and could tear you limb from limb." A shot later, he specifies that he's not talking about a bear, but about his girlfriend Courtney, whom Harold got eliminated the previous season. In "2008: A Space Owen", Courtney asks Duncan for his pillow when she loses hers. He has to tell her no because he already has his pillow in use to keep his pet tarantula safe. Courtney airs her annoyance over Duncan picking Scruffy over her in the confessional, slyly noting that she hates that gross hairy creature and his pet spider too. For the animal buddy movie challenge in "Top Dog", the contestants have to select an animal to train to reflect their personality. Courtney immediately calls dibs on the shark. This prompts Beth to enter the confessional and acknowledge that the two are a good match, because the only difference is that one would eat you alive in a heartbeat and the other's a shark. Heather is one of the judges of the fashion show in "Can't Help Falling in Louvre". Her nemesis Gwen is one of the models and she happens to get dressed by DJ, who wants to lose. As such, he gives her his shirt and cap, which are ridiculously oversized for her, and shoves her on the catwalk. When it's time to judge, Heather seizes the opportunity to make a scathing verdict: "Dry, dull, uninspiring, not a hint of effort with the presentation. But enough about Gwen, the shirt was a 10!" In "Caved by the bell", Bowie, asks in the confessional what has eight legs and is the worst thing on the planet. The audience is led to expect Bowie's answer to be the giant spider that he's afraid of, but he answers "four Julias" (his Arch-Enemy) instead. |
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World of Warcraft: In the five-man dungeon Iron Docks, there is the following exchange between the two main NPCs, Captain Koromar and Lieutenant Zoggosh, as your party approaches the penultimate boss fight in the dungeon: | |
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In a 2011 episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Jack Dee mentioned that both The Goodies and Radio 4's consumer show You and Yours celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2010. "One bringing mirth and hilarity to the nation, the other being about three blokes on a bike." (Both Graeme and Tim from The Goodies are Clue regulars). And a few episodes later he introduced the letter-writing round with "David Cameron recently wrote a letter to the president of the Ivory Coast. He refuses to admit he didn't win the election, is clinging desperately to power, and is rapidly losing touch with reality. And now he's writing letters to African presidents." A popular gag on the show; a much earlier one that isn't really a Take That! at either entity, but is just amusingly surreal: Introducing Stephen Fry's first appearance, Humph said, "On this week's show we have a complete novice, who knows nothing about the games we play... Tim Brooke-Taylor." Jack Dee again, describing Nottingham: "Nottingham's twin towns include Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. During a goodwill visit in July 1991 the twinning panel became trapped in a small hotel, pinned down by small arms fire. The terrified Slovenians said they wished they'd never come here." And again in Cornwall: Introducing a round about television: |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: In The Old World Bestiary, a quote by a Bretonnian soldier describes an experience he had fighting goblins riding giant wolves. They came riding down on them, all teeth and fangs and halitosis, and the wolves were also pretty awful. | |
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Homestuck: John and Rose are looking at a statue of the Prospitian king and queen. The narration remarks: Dirk is talking about making an AI based on his personality. Jake's (GT's) response is |
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Irregular Webcomic! has the following exchange after Lambert describes his encounter with a Captain Ersatz of Gollum | |
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In Disney Magic Kingdoms, during the Turning Red Event, Priya talks about her efforts to find Mei who some people might not recognize in her giant red panda form. | |
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In DuckTales (2017) when Donald Duck left Huey Dewey and Louie with Scrooge he warned, "Remember, no tricks, no lies, no trouble." | |
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From The Unbelievable Truth: | |
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Two Best Friends Play: During the ClayFighter episode of Saturday Morning Scrublords, as they are playing the game, Pat comments that he (i.e. the character he's using) has a puke attack. Matt is quick to reply "and you also have one in the game!" | |
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: In a segment about Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Vatican's review of it, Colbert notes that he is both a lifelong Catholic and a huge Star Wars fan. Later in the segment, after discussing the Vatican's newspaper's review of The Force Awakens, he says he is "caught in a crisis of faith between deeply held beliefs embedded in me since childhood and the Catholic Church." | |
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Real Time with Bill Maher: Bill Maher is another who enjoys making use of this trope. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: The Short and Honest Version: | |
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In Casanova, Francesca Bruni sets a trap for Casanova by inserting a line in a Bernardo Guardi pamphlet about how a pig is the best pet for a man who actually respects women. When Casanova promptly shows up at Francesca's house with a pig, the maid meets him at the door, and says: "My mistress says the pig may not come in. The animal, however, she'll take." She takes the pig and slams the door. | |
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From the Scott The Woz episode "Launch Titles", regarding the Nintendo 64's Launch: | |
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In Fans!, Rikk Oberf once described the two women in his life, Ally and (world-class martial artist) Rumi, like this: "One of them is one of the most amazing fighters I've ever seen, and the other one is Rumiko Tanaka Oberf!" Note that he's not disparaging Rumy, but acknowledging the strength of Ally, a seasoned chain-fighter who succeeded in beating back a life-threatening disease and her own darker side. | |
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In MAD's Constantine (2005) parody, Constantine tells his love interest, a cop, that a romance between them would never work out. It goes something like: "We come from different worlds! One is full of sin and corruption, and in the other, I'm busy fighting Satan!" | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: During his review for The Cat in the Hat, the Critic described Dakota Fanning as being "best known for playing a strange-looking, lifeless puppet. Oh, and Coraline." In his review of The Boss Baby he lampshades it. The Critic begins his review of Barney's Great Adventure by saying that there are there are two kinds of Barneys in the world; one is an obnoxious dinosaur that nobody likes to listen to, and the other one is purple. Cue him going up to his father, who is also named Barney, and roasting him. He ends his review on a similar note by saying that Barney might be a better character if he had a good sense of humor, and that the dinosaur could use some help, too, but this time, Barney Walker delivers a Groin Attack to the Critic, causing him to fall on the ground. |
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In Unseen Academicals Glenda uses a variant, saying that football is "like war, but without the kindness and consideration!" | |
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In Shortpacked!, when Malaya approaches Robin for advice with, as always, Fuckface the iguana on her head. | |
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The Cinema Snob has used this joke a few times. He used a variation in his review of Caddyshack II. He does it again in his Sex and the City 2 review, comparing Sex and the City and Will & Grace. |
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Top Gear: One early episode gives us this narration that quips, as always, on Hammond's height, during a challenge where they have to load large items into vans they have bought: A Series 18 episode has Clarkson talking about how his custom mobility scooter meets British regulations, mixing in some Self-Deprecation humour: |
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At Aubrey and Jason's wedding in Something*Positive, Aubrey's mother says, "With such a speedy wedding every mother plays two scenarios in her head. The first says the quickened marriage is due to an unforeseen but blessed development that will surely bring joy into all our lives. The other scenario says you were stupid and got knocked up." | |
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Cardassians vs. Kardashians. Some gags are simply too easy. (Scroll down a bit for the pic.) | |
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| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
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Animaniacs (2020): While stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, Brain notes that his siuation is like "that awful repititive Bill Murray film [...] with that surly protagonist who somehow learns to 'change and grow' as a character after an endless array of monotonous scenes." He then reveals he wasn't talking about Groundhog Day, but Garfield. | |
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In Banjo-Kazooie, upon completeing the Grunty's Furnace Fun mini-game, the duo are offered a choice of three prizes: Tooty, a washing machine cauldron, and an ugly Grunty doll. This exchange happens: | |
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In Mass Effect 2, after EDI takes over more functions in the Normandy after the Collector raid on the ship, Shepard can admonish Joker for slacking. | |
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In Mass Effect 3, Specialist Traynor comes up with a joke comparing Shepard to a Krogan. Shepard can finish the joke for her. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: The episode "Your Friend: Global Domination": "This is the earth. And this is Pinky. You can tell the difference quite easily. One is a lump of inert matter hurtling blindly through the void. The other... is the earth." And again when Brain creates a sentient carrot and tells him and Pinky, "You two are the perfect team: a vegetable and a carrot." Pinky gets a few in himself, this one particularly from the episode "Broadway Malady": |
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Ernest Goes to Jail: A rare self-deprecating example. After being threatened to remain quiet about the switch with his Evil Twin, Ernest replies: "Real men are not intimidated by physical threats against their personal selves, and, ironically, neither am I." | |
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In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, a Support conversation between Wallace and Vaida (who rides a grey wyvern) incites a rivalry between them, where they show off to each other, prompting a disdainful comment from Wallace: | |
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Mass Effect: In Mass Effect 2, after EDI takes over more functions in the Normandy after the Collector raid on the ship, Shepard can admonish Joker for slacking. In Mass Effect 3, Specialist Traynor comes up with a joke comparing Shepard to a Krogan. Shepard can finish the joke for her. |
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| Mass Effect (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_79ce18de | type |
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RPPR Actual Play: Thad, hamming it up while managing to make everything hilariously dirty in the Cthulhu Invictus episode, has this to say on the subject of a chariot team: | |
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| RPPR Actual Play (Podcast) | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_7aaf9e41 | type |
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Batman: In the Novelization of Batman: No Man's Land, Greg Rucka has one go through the Joker's head referring to Harvey Dent/Two-Face, describing how Harvey had been hit with acid that made one half of his face completely repulsive to look at. One half of his face has wispy white hair and is blistered and discolored in a permanent angry scowl, and the repulsive half is Harvey's untouched side. | |
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| Batman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_7ebf5032 | type |
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The Doubleclicks song "Will They or Won't They?" does this repeatedly, comparing the narrator and some guy to various fictional couples, all in ways that are both very insulting to the guy and surprisingly fitting to the source material: | |
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| The Doubleclicks (Music) | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_7fc78282 | type |
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In The Lord of the Rings fanfic Nine Men and a Little Lady, a Parody Sue has inserted herself into the Fellowship, and the journey is told entirely through journal entries by other characters remarking on her presence (and expressing considerable concern over things like her variable hair and eye color and constantly-changing backstory). Galadriel makes an entry when they leave Lothlórien: | |
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| The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_80942169 | type |
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The reaction of the bullies in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide to having to play dodgeball against Ned and Moze: "One of them's a girl!" "And one of them's Mosely!" | |
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| Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide | hasFeature |
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In Swinging Pendulum: | |
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| Swinging Pendulum / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
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Will & Grace, concerning Karen and Jack dog-sitting: | |
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| Will & Grace | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_87ded408 | type |
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In his review of The Boss Baby he lampshades it. | |
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| The Boss Baby | hasFeature |
Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_87ded408 | |
| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_88e57879 | type |
Bait-and-Switch Comparison | |
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Highway Blossoms: "One of them needs someone to look out for her, and the other's ten." | |
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| Highway Blossoms (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_8cf9e301 | type |
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On The King of Queens, the trope is lampshaded often in the episode "Awed Couple": And in a deleted scene: |
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| The King of Queens | hasFeature |
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A M*A*S*H episode opens with Hawkeye narrating a letter to his dad: | |
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| M*A*S*H | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_8d84ebc5 | type |
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In Taxi when Jim rescued a horse and brought him into the garage, Louie came up and growled, "Get that ugly, flea-ridden, stinking animal out of my garage, and tell him to take his horse with him!" | |
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| Taxi | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_9108833b | type |
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In Knightmare, Cedric, a monk, is trading insults with Folly, a jester, and his final one is: | |
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| Knightmare | hasFeature |
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On the poster of Clifford: | |
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| Clifford | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_9787cced | type |
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Powers of Invisibility has this gem from Master Fu, after Juleka agrees to wield the Turtle Miraculous to save her friends from an Akuma attack in progress at the Louvre: "Now that that's out of the way, let's get started. We have a damsel to save. And Marinette and Rose." (By process of elimination, "Damsel" is referring to Adrien.) | |
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| Powers of Invisibility (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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For Gladiator: | |
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| Gladiator | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_9888e7c2 | type |
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From the Dan Vs. episode "The Wolf-Man": | |
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| Dan Vs. | hasFeature |
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Dennis the Menace (UK): In one Go, Granny, Go strip, Granny takes her car out while a pair of elderly gentlemen pass approving comments. | |
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| Dennis the Menace (UK) (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_99f8c7fb | type |
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Incredibly common on Have I Got News for You, though how funny it is can vary with how well the guest presenter actually reads it. It's such a mainstay that the audience will often see it coming before the presenter gets to the punchline. The original host Angus Deayton in particular was good at these: |
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| Have I Got News for You | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_9a29f3a4 | type |
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Top 10: Used as a comeback by Alex "Spaceman" Glushko (a telepathic cop) against Larry "Frenzy" Fischmann (a Shark Man and lawyer): | |
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| Top 10 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_9aac0273 | type |
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In Men at Arms, there's a joke in Ankh-Morpork that goes "The trolls live next to the cattleyard? What about the stench? Oh, the cattle don't mind..." (The narrator points out that this joke doesn't actually make sense; trolls, being living rocks, have no real odor to mammals.) | |
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| Men at Arms | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_9bb76467 | type |
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The Now Show on Scotland's options if it gets independence and doesn't have a currency union with the rest of the UK: | |
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| The Now Show (Radio) | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_9d189394 | type |
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During a "Things a Rugby Commentator Would Never Say" round of Mock the Week: | |
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| Mock the Week | hasFeature |
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Irredeemable: Modeus has managed to obtain the comatose Scylla. While thinking about Charybdis (now called Survivor) and Scylla, he notes, "[O]ne is a brain-dead moron. The other stands before me." | |
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| Irredeemable (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Futurama: Inverted in the episode "The Lesser of Two Evils," which introduced Bender's Identical Stranger Flexo: Also happened when Bender finds his girlfriend Angleyne having dinner with Flexo. Also used in "A Head in the Polls" when it's revealed that Richard Nixon bought Bender's body which he pawned. |
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| Futurama | hasFeature |
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Bait-and-Switch Comparison | |
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During his review of the Hannah Montana movie, he comments on a scuffle in a shoestore between Hannah and Tyra Banks: | |
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| Hannah Montana | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_a45348 | type |
Bait-and-Switch Comparison | |
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In Dog with a Blog the family is discussing what to do about Ellen's new pet parrot: | |
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| Dog with a Blog | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_a4a50a1b | type |
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In Hijinks Ensue, Eli replaces his Tres Feo with spoiled hollandaise sauce and antifreeze to find out who was stealing it. "That tingling sensation you feel is the corrosive chemicals liquefying your organs! Also there's antifreeze which will probably be bad too!" | |
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| Hijinks Ensue (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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In the Darths & Droids side-story based on Solo, Jim's narration describes the-street-kid-subsequently-known-as-Han making through the streets of Corellia: | |
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| Darths & Droids (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Sleuth 101, two characters talk about a user-created character from an MMORPG making a magazine's "Top 10 Sexiest Women in the World" list, between Megan Fox and Paris Hilton. | |
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| Sleuth 101 | hasFeature |
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Used in The Fairly OddParents! episode with Sparky's introduction, Jorgen, who works at the Fairyworld Pet Store where they find Sparky says "You don't want that one. He's not too bright". Timmy says that's not a nice thing to say about Sparky, but Jorgen says he was warning Sparky about Timmy. Then when they're leaving, Jorgen calls out "Good luck with the moron!" to which Timmy says "Thanks!". After they poof away, Jorgen comments "Once again, talking to the dog". | |
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| The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
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| Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_aab02655 | type |
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A picture going around, around the time of Civil War (2006), featuring a fight between Iron Man and Doctor Doom, summed it thus: "One is a fascist with a twisted code of honor in a suit of armor. The other is Doctor Doom." | |
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| Civil War (2006) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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SuperMarioLogan: From "Bowser Junior's Summer School 3", when Black Yoshi is called on for Show and Tell: From "Jeffy Has Kids!", after Jeffy Jr. dirties his diaper: |
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| SuperMarioLogan (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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In Lucahjin's playthrough of Shadow of the Colossus, during a part where she continuously fails, she utters this gem: | |
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In the episode for Batman & Robin: | |
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| Batman & Robin | hasFeature |
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Freshy Kanal: After finding out that he has to battle Boris Johnson, The Penguin remarks "Is this matchup supposed to offend me? You put this criminal menace, mad, cynical mayor, the villain they credit with millions of deaths and pending AGAINST THE PENGUIN?!" | |
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| Freshy Kanal (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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From Saturday Night Live: Also: |
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| Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
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In his review of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, he used the acronym "CODAW"note Pronounced with a British accent, so it sounds like "Kodor." "I'm sure there's a joke in there, relating to that one character from Game of Thrones, but naw. How could a huge retrograde lumbering idiot capable only of spouting the same phrase possibly relate to Game of Thrones?" | |
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| Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
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"Greg! The Stop Sign!" by TISM contains the lines: | |
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| TISM (Music) | hasFeature |
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In PHD, Tajel heads off to join the Occupy protests. | |
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| PHD (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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A variant from Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell: Shaun brings up a report stating that Tony Abbott has been speaking 100 words a minute slower than before the last election, and comparing his speech to that of a puppet. | |
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| Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell | hasFeature |
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has an exchange where Derek asks John why the two women (Cameron and Sarah) were sent into a dangerous situation instead of the men. John responds, "...and one of the girls is harder than nuclear nails." Derek adds, "...and the other is a cyborg." | |
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| Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | hasFeature |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Chatterbox Gary", SpongeBob gets Gary a collar that allows him to talk to people. When he shows it to Squidward: | |
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In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, when Pit does his special taunt against Kirby on Palutena's Temple: | |
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In the WWE, during a feud with Stephanie McMahon, Chris Jericho said to her and Rhyno that he was going take care of that "smelly, greasy, nasty animal," then adding "And I'm gonna get you too, Rhyno!" | |
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Batman (1989): The Joker, after kidnapping Vicki Vale: "As though we were made for each other... Beauty and the Beast. Of course, if anyone else calls you beast, I'll rip their lungs out." | |
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| Batman (1989) | hasFeature |
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The Rock would do this again in the lead up to his rematch with Hulk Hogan at No Way Out 2003. | |
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| Hulk Hogan (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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This Bites!, a One Piece fic, as they row away from Laboon: | |
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Eclipse Phase: In the "X-Risks" supplement, a Firewall Sentinel discusses humanity's relations with the ambush-predator-descended alien slime moulds, the Factors, by saying that they're dealing with a race of slimy, deceptive, thieving predators, and also with the Factors, who have shown surprising restraint. | |
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And again in the Superman IV: The Quest for Peace recap: | |
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| Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | hasFeature |
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In Toby Hadoke's show Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf, he compares Girls Aloud to the Autons, saying one is a group of manufactured plastic people, and the other... The Tardis Eruditorum guest post "Moths Ate My Girls Aloud CD," about both Hadoke's show and the more Girls Aloud-friendly comic book Phonogram, riffs on this, saying "one is a comic taking an adult perspective on the someone from the middle of nowhere in the West Midlands' teenage obsession, whereas the other..." | |
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Todd in the Shadows does this joke a lot. During his review of the Hannah Montana movie, he comments on a scuffle in a shoestore between Hannah and Tyra Banks: He's also prone to opening things in his Top Tens with a clip from some artist other than his preferred: When reviewing "#selfie" by the Chainsmokers, which consists of ditzy club-girl cliches set to EDM, he builds up a metaphor for a trip to the club being ruined by the vapidest, most obnoxious sound in the universe: club music! He also does this in his review of "Anaconda" by going on and on about how this is a trite, annoying song that only serves to make it's singer look look a complete idiot. The song in question is, of course... "Starships," which at that point was already two years old. In the "Pillowtalk" review, he describes a Britishman's decision to leave a multinational European group with a powerful global influence; the review was uploaded in July 2016 shortly after the UK voted to leave the European Union, an event predicted to have an effect on the global economy. Instead, Todd was talking about Britishman Zayn Malik splitting ways One Direction (who are considered a "European" group as one of their members was Irish). |
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Seen on YouTube: | |
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| YouTube (Website) | hasFeature |
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IGN made a video comparing Duke Nukem and Donald Trump. The description blurb said that one loves beautiful women and wants to get rid of aliens, and the other is a video game character. | |
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From, The Bill, courtesy of Dion Barrie, a boxer participating in a charity lock-up in the Sun Hill cells. | |
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When then President-elect Barack Obama visited the White House in January 2009, Peter Sagal opened that week's broadcast of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me by saying something like: "Right now, in the White House, there is a man who some people think is still not ready for the responsibilities of his position. [Beat] But he's leaving office in a couple days, so we're not worried." | |
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From Twitter: | |
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A 1980s episode of The News Quiz describing Margaret Thatcher bringing democracy to Czechoslovakia: "She told the Czech president that all that was required was to dismantle the old, lumbering bureaucracy. He agreed that Czechoslovakia had the same problem." More recently on The News Quiz: "Those who abuse others on social networking sites are called trolls, not to be confused with the mythical creature. One is short-tempered, idiotic, and ugly, and the other is fictional." And Jeremy Hardy in a 2017 episode, asked a question about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un: Another example: |
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In his review of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, when talking about it releasing on the same day as Doom Eternal: "But the two are a weirdly good pairing. What better way to unwind from a high tension gameplay experience than with something cheerful, relaxing and colourful like Doom Eternal yeah you figured out where this joke was going half a sentence ago I’m sure." | |
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The Agony Booth: The recap of Battlefield Earth begins with a cast review, including: And again in the Superman IV: The Quest for Peace recap: |
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"What's the difference between IBM and Jurassic Park? One of them is filled with massive, lumbering behemoths irrelevant to the modern age, and the other one is a movie."note Or a novel, though the movie based on it has supplanted the book in public imagination. That particular joke lost a lot of its sting after their machine Watson rather soundly crushed the two all-time biggest Jeopardy! winners in the show's history. | |
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Monster Hunter International: In Monster Hunter Vendetta'', after the hero is rescued from a vampire attack on a Mexican prison by the U.S. Monster Control Bureau, he considers that he's not certain if a vampire or the government is scarier, as one is a soulless entity that can suck the very blood from the innocent, and the other is undead. | |
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The Comics Curmudgeon, on a The Family Circus strip where Billy throws a stick for Barfy, and Barfy returns it to a snowman: | |
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Steve Bell's If does this a lot. In the early 1980s, a father is explaining to his son about why Reagan and Thatcher are right about the Evil Empire. He explains that in Poland, the police are used to hammer down dissidents and suppress free criticism of the regime. Workers cannot go on strike without the forces of the State being used to oppress them. Freedom of travel within your own country is taken away. The Great Leader must be revered as being a living God whose word must be obeyed, and the Press becomes the Leader's Propaganda Machine. Meanwhile, the son is looking around him, at the Miners' Strike (the backdrop for these events), notices an adoring Daily Mail headline showing Margaret Thatcher, and asks "So we live in Poland, then?" | |
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In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, Queen Chrysalis makes one in order to rile up Twilight Sparkle, | |
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League of Legends: Before the rework that buffed Sejuani◊, any thread lamenting her uselessness inevitably contained the suggestion that she was a pig... on a boar. | |
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In one Captain SNES: The Game Masta comic: | |
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Dzwiedz 24's review of The Ascent ends with this zinger: | |
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The Wotch: "I get to look forward to two fantastic monthly events now. One of which turns me into a vicious monster, and the other into a were-cat." | |
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Fallen London has a pretty subtle one with the Anarchists, the joke being that a "dynamite faction" was a term for an energized, politically active, powerful political group used in the late 1800s (when the game takes place). The switch is that they aren't united enough to be a genuine dynamite faction and are called that because they use a lot of dynamite: | |
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Red Dead Redemption 2. Arthur Morgan can interact with the many folks he comes across in towns in this manner, especially if he chooses to "greet" someone first and then "antagonize" afterwards at the right moment, which makes for some hilarious, switch-and-bait dialogue. There's one in particular of a man and his horse that Arthur can "compliment." | |
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In Dragons: Race to the Edge, there's an example of a double bait-and-switch in a comparison: Snotlout looks toward Stoick (riding his dragon, Skullcrusher) and the aggressive Singetail behind him and remarks that he doesn't know which is worse: "that fire-breathing maniac or his dragon!" | |
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Honest Trailers: In the episode for Batman & Robin: For Gladiator: |
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From The Mary Tyler Moore Show, when Lou forbids Ted from being the Grand Marshall of a parade. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV, during a cutscene where Packie McReary's sister is talking to Niko Bellic and Packie wards her off. She says he surely knows the difference between talking and casual sex. | |
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In Homestar Runner, Strong Bad refers to Homestar and Pom Pom as "the big, fat, yellow blob and Pom Pom." Homestar has to think that one over several times to decide if he should be offended (or offended on Pom Pom's behalf). | |
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Firefly had Simon and Kaylee in a room observing an "alien" (actually a mutated cow fetus) in a jar as part of a sideshow. When Kaylee storms off, Wash enters and says, "Oh my God, it's grotesque! Oh, and there's something in a jar." | |
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The Rock did this when it was announced that he would face "Stone Cold" Steve Austin at WrestleMania 15. The Rock would do this again in the lead up to his rematch with Hulk Hogan at No Way Out 2003. |
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Family Guy: From "The King is Dead", when Peter talks about finding a replacement actor to play Anna in The King and I:note This was before Peter knew he had a black ancestor. In "The Juice is Loose", O. J. Simpson comes to Quahog to visit the Griffin family, which attracts an angry mob led by Mayor Adam West. This exchange occurs: |
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In the first episode of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, the narrator comments that "Max can teleport himself and his longtime companion... and also Sam." Possibly done as a Mythology Gag to the comics, as mentioned above. | |
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Zero Punctuation: In his review of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, he used the acronym "CODAW"note Pronounced with a British accent, so it sounds like "Kodor." "I'm sure there's a joke in there, relating to that one character from Game of Thrones, but naw. How could a huge retrograde lumbering idiot capable only of spouting the same phrase possibly relate to Game of Thrones?" Also, about how The Last Guardian's relationship between the main character and his pet didn't feel compelling: "It'd be like getting invested in the relationship between the bloke from Shenmue and the bloke from Shenmue's forklift. Imagine that, the storybook romance between a cold piece of emotionless machinery, and a forklift." Someone took a shot of their own in the YouTube comments section of his review of Vampyr (a game about British vampires): "A blood sucking, pasty, stiff Englishman reviews a video game". In his review of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, when talking about it releasing on the same day as Doom Eternal: "But the two are a weirdly good pairing. What better way to unwind from a high tension gameplay experience than with something cheerful, relaxing and colourful like Doom Eternal yeah you figured out where this joke was going half a sentence ago I’m sure." |
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Also used in his review of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Counterpoint," which has an alien inspector from a race of ruthless xenophobes boarding Voyager and coming up against the deranged supervillain known as Parody Janeway. | |
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Fantastic Four: Human Torch, Invisible Woman, and The Thing are fighting a horrifying monster. The following exchange occurs: | |
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The Music Video Show: In the first episode when Metallica goes to prison to perform a few songs for the prisoners: In episode five: In Episode six: Subverted in episode seven: Again in Episode 100: |
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From Friends, Chandler is afraid he will end up like his parents: | |
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When CR of Familiar Faces compares Lady Gaga with her Moshi Monsters counterpart, Lady Goo Goo. | |
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From "The King is Dead", when Peter talks about finding a replacement actor to play Anna in The King and I:note This was before Peter knew he had a black ancestor. | |
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Guards! Guards! has a group hunters discussing the costs of their trade, and one brings up "wear and tear on virgins" as he mostly pursues unicorns. Another hunter remarks that he's heard they're quite rare these days, and the first agrees that he's right — and don't see many unicorns around, either. | |
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