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Confusing Multiple Negatives
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A character deliberately chooses not to avoid using 1 "to use" a convoluted series of negatives to trick a certain reaction out of another character. Usually done when the character has literally no reason not to just lie to them, 2 "might as well lie," unlike in the page quote where Pinocchio's nose won't not grow if he doesn't fail to evade the truth. 3 "His nose will grow if he lies. It won't if he doesn't." No matter how convoluted the question gets, the answer will always be treated as legally binding, despite any reasonable judge throwing half of these examples out. It's not impossible 4 "possible" to make a Stealth Insult with this type of dialogue, by failing to resist not avoiding insulting 5 "going ahead and insulting" someone in a way that they're incapable of being unoffended by. 6 you know will offend them Alternatively, as in a Sarcastic Confession, it's not impossible 7 "possible" to not promise you didn't do 8 "admit" something while not appearing to avoid denying 9 "admitting" it. This trope is not entirely unrelated to 10 "is related to" Suspiciously Specific Denial. Also not uncommon 11 "common" where Exact Words isn't known not to be 12 "is" in play. I Know You Know I Know conveys a similar degree of semantic confusion. This is also not dissimilar 13 "similar" to No Does Not Avoid Meaning Yes. 14 "No Means Yes" Finally, it is possible in English for double negatives to convey shades of meaning that positives cannot, as in "unable not to," as not equivalent to "able to." 15 the latter implies the ability to refrain from the action or behaviour in question; the former denies it |
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Hugh Abbot in The Thick of It: "I categorically did not knowingly not tell the truth, even though unknowingly I might not have done." | |
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In Night Watch a major seizes on a young Nobby Nobbs' declaration that he "don't know nothing" to declare that he does know something. His colleague points out that this is true by the rules of arithmetic, but the conventions of city speech indicate that he's just being emphatic. | |
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In Mirai of the Future, Kun Oota refuses to listen to his future self because of an argument where they keep tacking additional "not"s on. It basically boils down to "Don't say don't say don't say don't say don't say don't say you don't like it!" | |
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This trope was played with in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. | |
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In Suicide for Hire, Hunter's father makes a (very successful) attempt to ensure his son's future heterosexuality by giving him a porn magazine and telling him "By the way, I don't not want you not watching not Channel 169 after midnight when we're out of the house." | |
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Shrek the Third: Prince Charming interrogates Pinocchio about Shrek's location since Pinocchio, of course, can't lie without giving himself away. Pinocchio tries to twist the truth and worm his way out of the interrogation with convoluted, circular explanations without actually admitting any concrete information such as confirming whether or not he even knows where Shrek is. It seems to be working since Charming can't puzzle out the puppet's meaning, until eventually, Pinnochio's baffling multi-negatives frustrate the Three Little Pigs so much that one of them accidentally blurts it out. | |
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There was a Cheers where Sam tried to use several negatives in a question to get Diane to agree to sleep with him. | |
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The Vicar of Dibley: Alice memorably breaks into a long discussion about butter, which ends in this convoluted line. It's more subtle by the fact that Alice is The Ditz, yet her whole side of the exchange is perfectly consistent, and the smarter Vicar ends up baffled. In another episode, Jim's Verbal Tic leads him to announce over an intercom that "No no no no no parking is allowed in the upper field." Someone mistakes it for this trope, and asks him for some clarification as to whether or not he can actually park there or not. |
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The Simpsons: In "Boy-Scoutz 'N The Hood", Bart is reading a safety booklet on knife use. The first sentence reads "Don't do what Donny Don't does." Each page has Donny doing something ridiculous with a knife, each page captioned "Donny Don't!" Bart wonders why they made it so confusing. Homer attempts this in "Homer the Vigilante", when he tells Kent Brockman with regards to his newly-formed neighborhood watch that "I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes." Brockman merely stares at him, unimpressed, before muttering "Well, touche." Brother Faith from the episode "Faith Off": "Now correct me if I'm incorrect, but was I told it's untrue that people in Springfield have no faith? Was I not misinformed?" note Brother Faith: The answer I'm looking for is "yes." The chalkboard gag from "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder": "I won't not use no double negatives." |
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The SpongeBob Musical: Squidward gets briefly confused by his own use of multiple negatives in "I'm Not a Loser". | |
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A similar language issue occurs during the "Bug Bomb" myth tested by the MythBusters: | |
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Dana in the Echo Chamber episode Dumbass Has a Point initially calls the final intro "not unimpressive", but then corrects herself to "really good". | |
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An episode of Full House features this back-and-forth leading up to this trope: | |
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One episode of Horrible Histories had a Roman telling an early Christian she'd be hurled trough the air by a trebuchet by saying that the next person to be tortured was "Not not not not you, so it is you!" | |
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From The Secret of Monkey Island: "I won't not promise to avoid refraining from harming you." | |
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The Wonderful World of Disney: Mentioned by Professor Ludwig Von Drake in "Nature's Strangest Oddballs", when he's about to present footage of strange animals. | |
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Total Drama Comeback Series: During Chapter 29, the contestants have to blend ingredients and serve them to each other during a gross food eating challenge. | |
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Parodied in 8-Bit Theater, when Fighter and Cleric claim that "You can't help people who aren't on your team" is a double negative, and therefore Cleric should heal Ranger. | |
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: When you try to use the lighter on a person, Strong Bad says "I'd love to see him not not on fire, but not not not now." | |
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On the Dream SMP, Quackity attempts to invoke this in "The Official Manburg Hotel Building Permit", trying to trick Schlatt into paying child support on top of scamming him out of his presidency. Schlatt, being a savvy businessman, notices this and calls him out on it, claiming that it was a predatory way of writing a contract. | |
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From Harry Potter: Peeves: "Shan't say nothing if you don't say please." When Filch does say please... Peeves: "Nothing!" | |
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A Dilbert strip features the PHB giving Dilbert a document to fill out that features close to a dozen negatives regarding the state of his employment. | |
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A weird variation occurs in Freefall: A robot is programmed to not obey non-human orders. Florence orders it not to tell her what she wants to know, and as it's programmed to disobey, it does not not answernote it answers her question. Then Sam gets in on the act. | |
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The Hives' "The Bomb" does this to gradually escalating degrees during the verses. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-61231's anomalous effects make his database entry full of these. |
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The Daily Show parodied Barack Obama's use of convoluted speech thusly: "But let me be clear: There's no way I would not unsupport the kind of project that this isn't." | |
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Sheldon of The Big Bang Theory when he finally asks Amy to be his girlfriend: | |
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One Clue tie-in book had Mr. Boddy, having suffered a blow to the head, speak in increasing amounts of negatives. Professor Plum decides that an even number of "No"s meant "yes" and an odd number meant "no", when it was clear from context that he just simply meant "no" every time. | |
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Penny Arcade, as part of an attempt to wring some money out of Tycho: "Do you really want to burden them with not that?" | |
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A massively confusing instance of this in The Order of the Stick, wherein Thog explains (honestly and correctly) to the guard of the city jail everything that went down between Elan and Nale. Unfortunately, he refers to Elan as "not-nale" and throws in enough homophones to thoroughly convolute the explanation. | |
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Used in The Unbelievable Truth, where the object is to smuggle truths past unnoticed amid a lecture that is mostly lies: | |
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Scenes from a Multiverse: The punchline of this comic. | |
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From Scott The Woz's review of Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash. | |
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In The Last Days of Foxhound, Mantis uses a magnificent one to highlight Ocelot's Double Reverse Quadruple Agent status: | |
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In one of Woody Woodpecker's 50's shorts, which features Knothead and Splinter, the two of them appear in a scene carrying a long dynamite stick with the message "You can't hardly get them this size no more!" written along. | |
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On the "Farthingale" episode of Life, Crews and fDani find out that the victim of the week was searching "not for the man not breaking the law, but for the man not not breaking the law." They eventually work it out. | |
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The 250th strip of 2/0 is full of them. Here's just a portion of it. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look has a scene with a creepy director discussing a nude scene with an actor that gets around to this: | |
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In the Cave Cricket episode of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon does this and lampshades it, asking himself how many negatives he just strung together (we counted 6). | |
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Becomes a major plot point in The Lost Skeleton Returns Again after Chinfa, Queen of the Cantaloupe People, is introduced to the concept of the double negative. | |
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Steven Universe: In the episode "Message Received", Steven compliments Peridot by saying his initial assessment was right. In "The Question", Ruby goes off by herself after an argument with Sapphire and tries living as a lonesome cowboy. She finds she still misses Sapphire, however, and grouses "Turns out I'm no good at not needin' nobody." |
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Jon Stewart's song about Hanukkah in A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All contains one that doesn't seem to work as intended. "I wouldn't know from jolly / But it's not my least unfavourite time of year" doesn't work out positive. Then again, this may be a deliberate subversion. It's more like it doesn't work out either positive or negative, since "not my least unfavorite" doesn't really mean anything. Presumably an "unfavorite" would be anything other than a favorite, so how something can be the least unfavorite is dubious... and then it's not that. |
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Early Cuyler from Squidbillies is fond of these. | |
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Musashi Samurai Legend has a death variation, as Riesling's Pre-Asskicking One-Liner before he and Glogg face Musashi. | |
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In Bloom County, Milo uses this on occasion. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins offers a classic example during his birthday-party speech: "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!" This intentionally confusing phrasing leaves some of the guests trying to work out whether it amounts to a compliment. He is saying that he doesn't know some of the guests even half as well as (he thinks) he should. And he also likes some of them less than (he thinks) they deserve. So on the whole it is a compliment, though the exact phrasing allows it to be a Stealth Insult against the Sackville-Bagginses, who are present. | |
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One of the tasks in Taskmaster involves these: | |
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A botched translation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring had Saruman claim "He can't not yet take physical form" when referring to Sauron. The creator of the website showing the botched translation baffled over what the double negative meant before promptly giving up. | |
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In Life, the Universe and Everything, Marvin uses it to compliment Trillian because he's so maniacally depressed that he can't be direct in praise. "That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting." | |
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On the Election Night Special episode of SCTV, the bottle bill is worded in an extremely confusing way, so that it's hard to tell whether or not a "yes" vote is for disposable bottles, or a "no" vote is against returnable bottles, or a "no" vote is against the banning of disposable bottles, or a "yes" vote is against the making of returnable bottles, or, or, or.... | |
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In one episode of Soap, Benson reacts to Chester managing to convince Jessica that he is not having an affair (which he very definitely is) with "I have seen dumb luck in my time [...] but I have never, at no time, seen nothing like this!" | |
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The Unfantastic Adventures of Bizarro No. 1 is set in Htrae and the action is narrated by Bizarro, so double negatives pop up every so often. | |
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Weathering With You: After Hina clears the sky at Roppongi Hills, she tells Hodaka that she might not not not a few times have found what she wants in life, causing Hodaka to be confused as to whether she has or has not. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Sarge utilizes one of these, though more likely because he really thinks that way and is trying to emphasize his point and not because he's trying to confuse anyone. | |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl had an interesting one on the Smash Bros. Dojo, when discussing the Poke Ball Pokemon "Bonsly." In the original Japanese text, it was averted. But upon translation, a sentence said, "It's not like it can't be reflected." This left many readers confused as to whether or not Bonsly could be reflected, until a fan who could read Japanese told everyone what the original text said. note It can be reflected. "It's not like (you have to do something/you can't do something/etc.)" is a common "it could be worse" type phrase, pointing out that whatever comes after the phrase ISN'T true (in this case, the idea that it's unreflectable is what's being pointed out as NOT the case.) Another way to say the same thing would be "At least it can be reflected." It is, however, a strange context to use such a phrase, leading to the confusion/assumption that there had been a translation error. | |
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The Duchess in Alice in Wonderland: "Be what you would seem to be — or, if you'd like it put more simply — Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." note (The second version of the moral actually reduces to "Never imagine yourself to be what you are not", which does not quite mean the same as the first version.) | |
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A horror-themed special episode of All Grown Up! uses this as a Running Gag after Tommy lampshades it: Somebody tells the gang a ghost story which ends with a few kids wandering out of the forest like they "don't never got no brain or nuthin'." | |
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In Powers of Invisibility, Juleka concludes the "You have it worse than I do."/"No, no, your parents are crappier than mine" back and forth between Adrien and herself by telling this: | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: One episode has a now-genius-level Sheen do the "Not Not Not" variant to the teacher in hopes of getting out of class (he does), as does Jimmy to follow him. Later subverted when Carl tries this tactic (involving the word "disexcused"), but the teach simply replies with "PLANT IT!" | |
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In Aikatsu!, would-be vampire Yurika Todo "wouldn't not admit to not" doing this. | |
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London Mayor Boris Johnson won the 2004 Foot in Mouth award with this gem on Have I Got News for You: "I could not fail to disagree with you less." | |
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Minutemen's "Maybe Partying Will Help" has the line "What about the people who don't have what I ain't got?". | |
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The robot TARS in Interstellar jokes early on in the movie that he could flash a little cue light on his display any time he makes a joke to Cooper. This is mentioned again later on. | |
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Total Drama Returns: | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl has this exchange: | |
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OverSimplified: When Hitler discusses invading Poland with the Stalin: | |
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Baba is You There is a level where you are given nine "Not" keywords. The point is to use them to make a sentence across an impassable obstacle. The New Adventures! level pack adds a level called "Exactly As It Says" which has the rule "not baba without not hedge is win". |
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Futurama: In "Roswell that Ends Well", Professor Farnsworth tries to warn his staff about the twin dangers of temporal paradoxes and stable time loops: "Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to do it, in which case, for the love of God, don't not do it!" | |
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That Cajun ferryman from the first Scooby-Doo movie, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. | |
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Chuck Noblet in Strangers with Candy, screwing with his students: "All right, anyone who doesn't not want to avoid passing the midterm exam, raise your hand now. ...Okay. Those of you who raised your hands will fail, as you requested." SWC likes this one; there's also Jerri's plaintive "Isn't that not what you don't want me not to do?" to her dead father, and the "moral" of the illiteracy episode: "Maybe it's time to stop not doing what you pretended you can do and can't, and start doing the thing that you can't do, but can no longer pretend that you can." |
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In the July 16, 1990 edition of Peanuts, Peppermint Patty and Marcie have the following phone conversation: | |
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The Clue movie has 3 instances- First, while discussing Col. Mustards "midnight rendezvous"... And then later when the Colonel asks Wadsworth if anyone else is in the house. And the later continuation of the above exchange. |
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There's a FoxTrot strip where Paige tricks Peter into driving her to the mall by adding several "not"s to her statement ("Do you not want to take me to the mall?" "Yes." "Do you not not want to take me to the mall?" "No.") She outsmarts him by skipping from four to six "not"s. | |
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TV Tropes: The Anti Anti Christ trope to The Antichrist. | |
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Bizarro and Bizarrogirl from the Superman comics are easy to understand, in theory: Bizarros say the opposite of what's true. Some writers don't seem to understand this absurdly simple concept, and have them speak in absurd chains of multiple-negatives, making it impossible to understand what Bizarros are trying to say. On top of that, Bizarro also varies from just backwards to stupid to actually evil, meaning that even if you figure out what he's supposed to be saying, it still might be the opposite of what's actually true. | |
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In the 2015-01-01 strip of Zits, Jeremy uses this to trick his mom into letting him go out. | |
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The Thin Blue Line: In "Night Shift" in the first series, a young man Darren uses double negatives when speaking to Raymond. The second time he does this, Raymond ignores the double negative. | |
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In "Opposite Day" from SpongeBob SquarePants, when Squidward cleans up SpongeBob's house after SpongeBob and Patrick have turned the pineapple into an eyesore: | |
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In one episode of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, the show is introduced thus: | |
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In the LoadingReadyRun sketch "Canadaman", the evil Jacques François passes out a petition regarding Quebec sovereignty. Everyone who tries to read it gives up and exclaims, "This petition uses ambiguous phraseology!" | |
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The anti-anti-antidote from the Kingdom of Loathing. | |
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In the Pushing Daisies episode "Window Dressed to Kill", Olive tries to mess with Ned's head by using complex sentences after being on the receiving end of this trope. First, however, she consults a book titled "The Double Negative: What You Shouldn't Not Know". | |
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In a rare example of the confusion helping someone, in Calvin's chapter of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, he is given a note to give to Miss Zarves, who teaches on the nineteenth story. Except there is no Miss Zarves, and with that, no nineteenth story, so he obviously does not even have a note to give anyone in the first place. While he frets over how to accomplish his task, the yard teacher asks him what is wrong, which Calvin attempts to explain. Louis replies back, "You're not supposed to give no notes to no teachers. You already haven't done it." Calvin, thrilled to hear this, goes right back to class, only to learn that the note asked Miss Zarves not to meet his teacher for lunch. | |
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A great example in Workaholics caused more by Adam's lack of intelligence than an attempt to be confusing. | |
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In Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Thing confuses himself. What he says and what he means are complete opposites.: | |
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In Little Big Man, Jack Crabb tries to warn Custer about the Indians waiting to ambush him urging him to go down if he's brave enough: | |
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In "1921" from Tommy: "You didn't hear it, you didn't see it, you won't say nothing to no one ever in your life." | |
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QI features a loaded question for Alan. | |
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On Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy tries this on the Reverend. It doesn't work: | |
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Once Upon a Time in Saengchori: After the Almost Kiss between Min-sung and Eun-joo when he mistook her for Bok-soon, he ends the encounter by saying "It's not like that I can't say that I'm not sorry for what happened." Eun-joo is left utterly befuddled. | |
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Appeared once in Casey and Andy. Casey tries to trick the King of Sweden into leaving their couch by posing him a question with a ridiculous number of varied negatives. The king provides the correct answer without delay, once again proving that you should never underestimate a king. Especially funny considering that the king of Sweden is not known to be the brightest bulb in the Christmas tree. | |
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The ending theme of the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun anime has several examples. Since the song was sung in Sakura's voice, this may imply her frustration over Nozaki's obliviousness to love. Many Chinese fansubs just use powers of -1 to simplify these lines. | |
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In the Honest Trailers episode for The Rise of Skywalker says that the director has "never seen a landing he couldn't not stick." | |
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Sliding Doors: James, trying to explain that he wanted to call Helen, but didn't: At the end of the same conversation: |
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On Family Guy, the man with alternating names who's always cheating Peter tells him "if you'll just sign this contract without reading it, I'll take your blank check and you won't not be not loving your new timeshare in no time." | |
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In New Game!, the main character, Aoba, sits with three other employees- Yun, Hifumi and Hajime- in the same cubicle. When Momiji, a new hire to the character team, needs a desk, Hajime worries that she, the only one of the four who isn't part of the character team, will have to move. Yun then remarks that she "wouldn't not be unbothered by" the prospect of Hajime moving, prompting Hajime to ask what Yun is trying to say. | |
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Strong Bad Email: Strong Bad sometimes says one of these: marzipan: "Do you don't not dislike not Strong Bad?" english paper: "Can't nobody say Strong Bad never did nothing for the peoples." |
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In Fallen London this is how people speak of the Discordance, partly out of a way to try and limit its negative effects (by saying what it can't do, because if it could do so it would cease to be Discordance) partly because it's the language of a being that was erased from reality so thoroughly that it's the only way one can actually speak about it. | |
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I Am an Insane Rogue A.I. does this in a very sneaky way; in one of the level-beginning speeches, the AI says "Your computer has not not yet been compromised. I promise!" The double-not is just a computing hiccup... right? | |
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In the Frasier episode "The Wizard of Roz", Daphne has a premonition of danger and asks Niles not to go to Cafe Nervosa. He agrees but goes anyway. When she catches him, he hurts his knee by standing up quickly and hitting it against the table. The following conversation ensues: | |
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Friends: In "The One With Ross's Grant", Joey gets upset when he finds out that Chandler didn't actually share his audition tape with the advertising company he works for like he said he did. | |
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One episode of Gravity Falls features the song "Don't Start Unbelieving", the lyrics of which include the line: "Never don't not feel your feelings!" | |
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About Last Night (My Little Pony): One way Twilight corrects Applejack's grammar. | |
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