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A usually comedic dialogue trope to subvert audience expectations. A character will be in a sticky situation, and begin to describe how difficult things are, seemingly leading to a hopeful message... but they stop in the first half of the sentence because they genuinely can't find the good side of this situation. For example, if a character says, "I know things look really bad right now..." you'd expect something like, "But things are going to get better!" to follow. Instead, it's just a Beat, possibly emphasized with the character saying, "That's it." Despite the title, this trope can still apply if they say "but" — they just can't follow it up with an actual clause that contradicts their original point. Alternatively, somebody may stick up for an unlikable person by summing up their bad traits, but doesn't ever get around to listing the good traits. This is a common way to subvert Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving or I Have Just One Thing to Say: pointing out all the terrible things somebody has done, seemingly setting up a compliment at the end... only to end with just the bad things, either because they don't have anything to say or because they genuinely forgot their original point after such a Long List. Inversions are rare, but possible: someone will list all the benefits of a situation or person but can't come up with any flaws. Subtrope of Bait-and-Switch Comment. Compare Bait-and-Switch Sentiment and Cue Card Pause. Contrast The One Thing I Don't Hate About You. May sometimes be combined with Could Say It, But.... Also compare Damned by Faint Praise, when the character can come up with some good things, but they're barely good at all; that can occasionally overlap with this trope. |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Will and Carlton compete for a new job position and the employer asks them for their qualifications. Carlton gives out his work experience and education while Will answers: | |
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The Weekly Planet: The Caravan of Garbage episode on Transformers: The Last Knight ends on this: | |
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Inside Job (2021): In "Ghost Protocol", Reagan fakes her own death and gives Glenn a eulogy to read, which ends on a "but" with no follow-up. | |
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Monsters University: After Mike and Sulley find themselves in a boring scream canister class. | |
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In Drew Gooden's "What is Rick Lax doing?" video, he remarks how gross it is to hold an egg yolk, and it seems like he's going to add some sort of silver lining, but he just ends his sentence there. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer the Vigilante", Homer appears on TV to talk about his newly-formed mob, but their complete lack of positive attributes makes his defense less than convincing: In "My Fair Laddy", the first version of Willie's "I Want" Song starts off with him singing "All I want is a place somewhere"... and that's the whole song. Bart nudges him to aim a little higher, and it leads to a longer song, "Wouldn't It Be Adequate?", parodying "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" from My Fair Lady. |
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Oversimplified has this as the main gag of a scene in their video of the First Punic War, after the Romans turn their efforts towards Carthage, with a Carthaginian general seemingly setting up a Rousing Speech, only to end on the threat of a grisly mass death. | |
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Now You See Me: As the Horsemen are preparing for their final act, Merritt seems to be about to start an It Has Been an Honor conversation, only to indulge in some more Snark-to-Snark Combat instead. | |
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Human Resources (2022): After saving Maury from a flooded bathroom, Connie discusses her feelings on Maury having her baby. As in, she's still against it. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: In "Baby Hands", Raven and Cyborg tell Robin that they like to tease him and don't respect him as inspiring music starts to play. Robin thinks they're about to say something good about him and asks, "But?" Starfire then admits that's all they had to say. | |
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In Welcome to... YouTube!, when the narrator brings up the topic of paid subscriptions, he says, "Now I know what you're thinking: 'People have to pay to subscribe to me? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!'". The narrator doesn't follow that up with any potential benefits and moves on to the next topic. | |
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Scott's review of the New Super Mario Bros. franchise ends with Scott saying, "All in all, the New Super Mario Brothers series aren't bad games..." then pausing until the end screen comes on. | |
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Community: The show's very first scene opens like this, with Dean Pelton sharing a few thoughts of wisdom and inspirations. Justified in this case, since he was missing a cue card. Season 3's "The First Chang Dynasty" has no such justification. |
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In the Scrubs episode "My Two Dads", after Elliot, believing her breasts have magic healing powers, flashes a patient, J.D. tries and fails to put a good spin on it: | |
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In Rick and Morty episode "The Old Man and the Seat", Morty delivers a speech to his father that sounds like a pep talk but it doesn't go beyond listing bad things about Jerry. | |
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Garfield: Played with in one strip when Garfield and Jon are discussing each other's flaws: | |
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Total Drama: Zee's intro in the 2023 season ends with him saying "I might not be the strongest or the fastest or, like, try super hard... or remember what I'm talking about..." | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: When Jake arrested a suspect without any real evidence just for mouthing off, the entire squad had 48 hours to get the necessary proof in order to avoid a lawsuit. | |
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Scott The Woz: Scott's review of the New Super Mario Bros. franchise ends with Scott saying, "All in all, the New Super Mario Brothers series aren't bad games..." then pausing until the end screen comes on. In "E3 2021," after the Square Enix presentation concludes, Scott remarks, "I didn't like it..." and holds his finger out as if he's going to continue the sentence. He just stands there with his finger out for a few seconds before moving on to complain about the presentation. While wrapping up "Plug and Play Games," Scott seems like he's about to compliment the Plug and Play games but doesn't get very far. |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In "Commercial Resurrection," Critic caps off his review of the creepy stretchable toys by remarking, "It's pretty sick and demented, but... Nope, that's all I've got." | |
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Cinema Wins: In "Everything GREAT About Gremlins 2: The New Batch!", Lee has this to say after a scene where an announcement for a job opportunity in the Clamp Building is made after the previous employee is fired: | |
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In Pataclaun, Machin is having an existential crisis and asks his wife and friends to tell him what good qualities he has. After some thinking, they start listing all his defects in quick succession until he gets tired and asks if they are trying to bring him down further, and they rail on him how difficult it is to think of good qualities about someone like him, so they are listing all the bad ones to see if they maybe find some good on what's left. | |
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In Big Hero 6, after Aunt Cass bails her nephews out of jail, she rants, "For ten years, I have done my best to raise you. Have I been perfect? No! Do I know anything about children? No! Should I have picked up a book on parenting? Probably! ...Where was I going with this? I had a point..." | |
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In the Season 47 Billie Eilish episode, a commercial for a Hell Hotel ends with the spokeswomen reciting the slogan, "We may not be the Ritz-Carlton..." and then just waving. | |
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MasterChef Australia Season 12: At the end of the immunity challenge in episode 14, guest judge Curtis Stone picks Jess and Laura's dishes as the clear stand-outs of the day. After giving his assessment of Laura's dish, he starts listing the things he liked about Jess's dish and ending his compliments with a "but..." After a brief pause, he then says that there is actually no "buts", and announces Jess as the winner of that particular challenge. | |
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M*A*S*H: After a young visiting surgeon proves himself superior to the 4077th doctors, Hawkeye finds BJ sheepishly reading a medical journal out of fear they're losing touch, and tries reassuring him: | |
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Red vs. Blue: In season 13's "Test Your Might", Washington tries to reassure the Reds after learning that they're going to be on the front lines, but can't think of anything to say. | |
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Mean Girls: In "Meet the Plastics," Dumb Blonde Karen ends her verse by singing "My name is Karen, I may not be smart... [beat] that's it." | |
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Futurama: In "The Silence of the Clamps," Bender bids a tearful farewell to Planet Express to go into witness protection. He says to Zoidberg, "I know it seems like I can't stand you..." but never actually counters that before moving on to say goodbye to Leela. | |
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Game Theory: In a Film Theory video on The Lorax (2012), when talking about how Illumination Entertainment handled the movie: | |
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Played with in the Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness episode "Sight For Sore Eyes", Mr. Ping insists the others go help Po from Junjie. The Furious Five, having already suffered from Po's misbehavior earlier, are skeptical it's a lie, to which Mr. Ping angrily rebuffs, though needs them to finish the "but" for him when loses train of thought: | |
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At the end of The Stand, Frannie asks Stu what they'll do now. Stu's response is "I don't know." Stephen King originally intended there to be a "But", and spent literal months trying to figure it out... only to realize there really wasn't an answer. Stu thus simply repeats "I don't know". | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In "Old Man and the C-", Timmy begins a sentence by saying that he "may hate school..." | |
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In the review of The Last of Us Part II, Yahtzee starts out by saying how miserable he felt playing the game, pauses for a second, and then spends the rest of the review outlining his numerous issues with it: | |
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The LEGO Movie: When the council of Master Builders is dismayed that the alleged chosen one appears to be some random guy with no extraordinary skills, Emmet acknowledges his faults, but takes so long on listing them that none of the Master Builders care to hear the next part trying to be positive. | |
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Three weeks later he reviewed Deadly Premonition 2 and gave a bit of background about the franchise and its creator. | |
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Saturday Night Live: During a Weekend Update bit, Michael Che seemingly begins to defend Vin Diesel's poorly-received music career: "And look, I know a lot of people are making fun of him, and saying it's terrible, and he should stick to acting..." He stops there and goes on to the next joke. In the Season 47 Billie Eilish episode, a commercial for a Hell Hotel ends with the spokeswomen reciting the slogan, "We may not be the Ritz-Carlton..." and then just waving. |
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Superstore: In "Health Fund," Amy tries and fails to make Jonah's health fund idea sound plausible, despite everybody's doubts (including her own). In "Conspiracy," Dina tries to positively compare Glenn to paper coupons before giving up and getting distracted. |
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Two and a Half Men: Berta's toast to Alan on his birthday goes as follows: | |
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Men in Black 3: When Kay delivers a eulogy for Zed during his funeral, he lists all the things Zed never did with him before making a pause, making it look like he's about to say something positive in the end... But no, he only says "Thank you" and leaves, much to Jay's dismay. | |
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In the episode of Try Hards where Tomska and pals make fighting robots, Tom has this to say about his attempt to make armor out of a colander. | |
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Honest Trailers: Happens in the Honest Trailer of Justice League (2017) when the narrator describes the heroes of the film. | |
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The Homestar Runner Decemberween toon A Death Defying Decemberween has Homestar Runner make a short speech before he does the titular death defying stunt. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Where the Wild Things Are," Spike volunteers to help Xander rescue Buffy from the haunted house. He lists the various reasons one would expect he wouldn't, and in the process convinces himself to walk away instead. | |
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NIMONA (2023): Before Ballister's knighting ceremony in the beginning of the film, Todd talks to him, appearing like he's going to give him a heartful apology for the horrible way he's treated him over the years, but he's not, and just continues to insult him. | |
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A vine by Thomas Sanders parodied the tendency of Heroic Self-Deprecation in romance movies by having the male lead not even explain why he's good for the girl. | |
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In the Hey Arnold! episode "Dino Checks Out", the funeral of the (seemingly) late Dino Spumoni has a "eulogy" from one of his music partners: | |
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Family Guy: In "Call Girl", when Peter is saying bye to his family as he's about to leave and have an affair, he says to Chris, "Chris, people are gonna tell you that you're stupid and that you're no good.", seemingly about to follow it up with something to make Chris feel better, but he ends it there and walks away. In the "Super Griffins" segment of "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1", the Griffins get superpowers from nuclear waste and start terrorizing the city, so to combat them Mayor West tries to give himself superpowers in the same way. Instead he just gets lymphoma, leading to this exchange with Dr. Hartman: |
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Zero Punctuation: In the review of The Last of Us Part II, Yahtzee starts out by saying how miserable he felt playing the game, pauses for a second, and then spends the rest of the review outlining his numerous issues with it: Three weeks later he reviewed Deadly Premonition 2 and gave a bit of background about the franchise and its creator. |
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Friday Night Funkin' D-Sides: The Couch Gags are set to have one sentence appear and then have another sentence show up underneath it. One of the gags is "may not be the best mod but", which has no second part. | |
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Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans: At the end of the movie when the two Robins go their separate ways, 2003 Robin seems like he changed his opinions on 2013 Robin, but just confirms his initial suspicions. | |
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Izzzyzzz: In the video about the Soulja Boy game console failure, Izzy states Soulja Boy's claim that both Google and Nintendo had expressed interest in buying his game console company, which up to this point had been selling cheap dropshipped consoles that ran illegally emulated software. This was in spite of the fact that Nintendo had even threatened legal action against him for it. Izzy then responds by saying: | |
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Frasier: Following a heart attack, Niles receives a get well card from his mother-in-law that reads "Dear Niles, I know we never quite get along..." He checks for the rest of the message, but there is none. | |
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Familiar Faces: In the review of TRUMP The Board Game, Chad Rocco notices that the "outside investor" cards serve as additional money without any cost, even though they should logically be paid back at some point... which gets him thinking about the many times the man himself cheated investors large and small out of their investments: | |
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