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It's Been Done	comment	A lengthy joke in which a character describes some new idea, invention, story or script, only to be informed that somebody already got there before him and that all the tropes he thinks are new are in fact Older Than They Think. The punchline is usually a ridiculously mundane or roundabout name for the proposed "new" work, and for added humor value, the story that the character has unknowingly plagiarized is usually something mind-bogglingly well known. It's based on the well-known phenomenon that there are so many things out there it's incredibly hard to come up with something new, especially since "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny and oftentimes, people get the idea inspired by something. (Even the great J. R. R. Tolkien's stories were inspired by pulp fantasy writers in the 1930s and borrow heavily from Germanic myths about a ring that gives massive power to whoever wears it...sound familiar?) There are many other ways of phrasing this, including: From a 19th Century BCE Egyptian poem: "What has been said has been said." From The Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:9): "It has all been done before; there is nothing new under the sun." note In Germany usually attributed to Ben Akiba. From The Beatles "All You Need Is Love": "There's nothing you can do that can't be done." German version from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Alles Gescheidte ist schon gedacht worden, man muß nur versuchen es noch einmal zu denken." note "'All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again." The surest way to avert this trope is to put enough old things together that the ensuing Combinatorial Explosion results in something new or unexpected. Compare It Will Never Catch On, We Have Those, Too, Didn't We Use This Joke Already?. The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples explains how Shakespeare did it before. Yes, We DO Have This One is this happening for creating TLP. For how the hearts of budding artists may be quickly crushed, see TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life. For when this reaction occurs in-universe and/or entirely from the perspective of a single character, see Never Heard That One Before. Due to numerous copyright laws, there is a legal term called scènes à faire, which translates to "scenes that must be done." It's a possible grounds for dismissal if a copyright claim includes numerous events and ideas that are common within the medium or genre. A Police Procedural will have an interrogation scene. A Medical Drama will feature CPR. A Horror film will have a Cat Scare. Fittingly, this trope itself is Older Than Dirt.
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It's Been Done / int_10550610	comment	They also ripped off Family Guy with a joke where Homer tries to imitate the Fonz and ends up smashing his hand in the glass of a jukebox.
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It's Been Done / int_12440199	comment	The year the television shows The Singing Bee and Don't Forget the Lyrics came out, Rhett & Link did a sketch where they played two producers pitching the shows at the same time.
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It's Been Done / int_1409f1e9	comment	Real Life Comics: Mae Dean, the author, issued an apology after learning that her previous joke had already been done by Dilbert. Another strip has the lead ask her Mad Scientist friend to make her a web-shooter after seeing Spider-Man, only for said friend to demur because FoxTrot had already done it.
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It's Been Done / int_15c97dce	comment	The Petriculture Cycle: From its fifth story Pandelirium, to Discord's dismay, several "ingenious" jokes of his were already done by Trixie and Twilight in the previous story, "π".
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It's Been Done / int_19455c1c	comment	An episode of Blossom features the title character trying desperately to write a song, only to be repeatedly informed by other characters that she was unconsciously plagiarizing various existing songs.
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It's Been Done / int_1afaadc2	comment	In RENT, Roger's attempts at writing the perfect song all end up sounding like Puccini's "Musetta's Waltz" (which is to say, "Quando m'en vo" from La Bohème, on which Rent is based.)
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It's Been Done / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: There's a kind of example in "Torg Potter and the Chamberpot of Secretions" that relies on a rather humorous equivalency. Torg uses a magic shop containing every book ever written to find all the smut ever "written", but stops in the middle of it when he realises this is redundant next to having the Internet.
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It's Been Done / int_1c7b6907	comment	The author of The Dragon Doctors once explained that he originally had another comic in mind, but it turned out El Goonish Shive had done the whole concept first.
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It's Been Done / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach, Soifon reveals while fighting Yoruichi that she has been developing a new technique that combines kido with unarmed combat, saying that she hasn't even named it yet. When she demonstrates the attack against Yoruichi, Yoruichi reveals that it already has a name and counters with the completed version of the attack. Yoruichi then goes on to explain how the attack affected the uniform design for Soifon's position, which Yoruichi previously had. Because it destroys clothing over the back of the user, the uniform is backless and shoulderless.
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It's Been Done / int_1dd2fbcf	comment	Retarded Animal Babies has apparently been accused of ripping off Happy Tree Friends, simply because they both feature cute animals and sometimes gory violence. The creator responded to these claims with a Take That! in the second episode.
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It's Been Done / int_1f818da5	comment	Channel Awesome: Doug Walker said in commentary he was disappointed to find out that subverting the It's a Wonderful Plot trope had been done numerous times before (such as The Fairly OddParents! and Johnny Bravo). Though he also says that as far as he can tell, it's still the only take on It's a Wonderful Plot in which the guardian angel takes a look at what his own life would be like without the protagonist. Ask That Guy subverted this trope by suggesting an original movie: 2½ hours of exploding babies.
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It's Been Done / int_2118f380	comment	Like Real Life Comics, Awkward Zombie accidentally made a strip about Team Fortress 2 that was already done. Both the creator Katie and her boyfriend Norrin (who suggested the idea) apologized in the comment for it, and later seems to have gotten approval from the person who had the original idea.
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It's Been Done / int_2170b9bf	comment	In one episode of Becker, Jake and Bob (while drunk) come up with various inventions which, of course, have already been thought of, such as an iron and a VCR. Interestingly, all of their ideas involve getting "a flat piece of metal".
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It's Been Done / int_2212773a	comment	Done in one episode of Angel.
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It's Been Done / int_2337b3e2	comment	The novel Brian has been working on for several years turns out to be identical to the Iron Eagle movies, and carries the ridiculous title, "Faster Than the Speed of Love."
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It's Been Done / int_2407cefe	comment	A YouTube Poop video titled "The FCC Shuts Down Rock TV" contains a parody of the Super Mario World cartoon featuring an episode with a Flashback that cut to a flashback of another episode. The author then apologized, saying he realized another video called "Youtube Poop: the true power of Rock TV" used the exact same joke.
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It's Been Done / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The show itself did one of the most explicit, memorable versions of this joke in "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", having Principal Skinner come up with a story about an island theme park that clones dinosaurs back to life. His name for it? "Billy and the Cloneasaurus". He is then immediately lambasted by a furious Apu, who spends several minutes pointing out the ludicrousness of the principal not knowing about a billion-dollar franchise consisting of bestseller books, games, comic books, and "one of the most popular movies of all time" (and how awful his proposed title is)... finishing off with a "thank you, come again!" "Round Springfield" has Homer dismissing jazz as "Making stuff up as you go along" before trying it himself. He ends up singing "de"s to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb". When called on it, he tries again, only doing it again with "doo". Caught again, he shouts, "D'OH!" "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" involves Marge writing a romance novel. Her inspiration was the painting on the wall behind the couch, from which she proclaimed "A book about whaling! That's never been done before! Thank you..." She then looks at the painting's title... "Scene from Moby-Dick". Especially odd, considering a separate episode indicated that she was the one who painted the picture. "Beyond Blunderdome" has Homer pitching ideas to Mel Gibson for movies that are all this trope. The scene ends in a subversion when Homer asks if anyone owned the rights to Indiana Jones. In "Saddlesore Galactica", Homer saves a troubled horse, only for Comic Book Guy to tell them that the Simpsons already owned a horse once. Lampshaded again in the same episode, when Marge starts to develop a gambling problem. Similarly, in "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons, Bart would love to have an elephant. Until he's reminded he had one, Stampy in "Bart Gets An Elephant". In "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", Homer attempts to become an inventor after being inspired by Thomas Edison. After several disasters, the one invention that works turns out to have been invented by Edison himself but apparently unnoticed, prompting Homer and Bart to travel to Edison's workshop to destroy it. Homer decides not to once he sees that Edison himself also had a "rivalry" similar to his with Leonardo da Vinci. Homer decides to split the difference and take both his and Edison's frustrations out on the Eli Whitney museum. At the end of "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", the title band are recreating the famous moment when The Beatles played a spontaneous live concert on the rooftop of their offices, on the top of Moe's Tavern. George Harrison drives past for the sole purpose of pointing out that it's already been done. Of course, the entire episode is a riff on the career of the Beatles, so pretty much everything that the B'Sharps did had been done before. "Lemon of Troy": During a feud with kids from the town of Shelbyville, Milhouse insisted that kids from Springfield invented wearing your backpack over one shoulder, and the Shelbyvillians are copycats. A kid from Shelbyville insists the opposite. Ironically, both children then bond over the fact that they share the same first name. In "I Am Furious (Yellow)", Bart is brainstorming comic book ideas. He looks to his left, sees a conveniently placed bat, and says "Batman!" He then remembers that it's been done. So he looks to his right, where he sees a conveniently placed Green Lantern. On occasion, The Simpsons rips off Family Guy: One example is the dual parodying of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Family Guy: 2000; Simpsons: 2002) from My Fair Lady. Not only do they use the same song... they use it in the SAME CONTEXT: "I can't kill him/her, not now, despite my years of attempting it." They also ripped off Family Guy with a joke where Homer tries to imitate the Fonz and ends up smashing his hand in the glass of a jukebox. The "Reaper Madness" segment of "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (2003), which caused a brief backlash in Simpsons fandom over similarities to the Family Guy episode "Death is a Bitch" (2000). (Basically, Death is unable to do his duties due to injury/death, the series' bumbling dad has to take over). And then there's "G.I. (D'oh!)" and "Saving Private Brian", which aired within a week of each other in 2006, and had almost the exact same plot to the letter — school assembly convinces Bart/Chris to join the Army, Homer/Brian goes down to the recruiter's office to try to get the contract torn up, and ends up enlisting themselves, and immediately being deployed into a combat theater. A lot of these similar plots airing near to each other can be attributed to topicality and Strange Minds Think Alike, since the episodes of animated shows typically take months to do. "Krusty Gets Busted" parallels the plot of "Binky Goes Bad", from Garfield and Friends. Both involve the respective series' clown characters getting framed for robbery and having their name cleared by the main character (Bart/Garfield). The Simpsons episode is naturally more well-known (not least for its introduction of recurring antagonist Sideshow Bob), but the Garfield short came first (about a year earlier). The subplot of "Lisa Gets an "A"", where Homer buys a live lobster intending to eat it but ends up getting too attached to it to do so, was very similar to the Garfield and Friends short "Maine Course". Except for the gruesome ending of Homer accidentally boiling the lobster (as a "hot bath") and then eating it in remorse. The episode "The Fool Monty" is essentially "The Old Man and the Lisa" crossed with the Mr. Burns subplot of "The Mansion Family". It even includes a Take That! at themselves. At the end, Mr. Burns wants to punish the town by putting a giant dome on the city. Cue a scene from The Simpsons Movie and Lenny saying it's been done. It was also done in "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One", although that wasn't a full dome. "The Fool Monty" seems all about shoutouts to previous episodes. Burns in shock acts a lot like he did in the episode with Mulder and Scully, he's seen naked by Marge (and the rest of the family this time), Lisa's former ballet teacher makes his second appearance. In The Book Job, while trying to come up with an idea for a story, Lisa thinks of a mermaid falling in love with a human... then sees a The Little Mermaid poster on her wall. In-universe example: In "The Last Temptation of Krust", which revolves around Krusty attempting to modernize his stand-up act, he tests his first batch of new observational material on the family:
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It's Been Done / int_269883d	comment	Oh No! It's An Alien Invasion copied a joke from Clone High where a character makes a mud-slinging campaign ad and claims their opponent is lying about their age because they said they were one year younger a year ago.
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It's Been Done / int_278b4381	comment	In one episode of Clarissa Explains It All, Clarissa attempts to create a new musical composition only to be told each attempt that if she slowed/sped up the melody she'd have an already written song.
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It's Been Done / int_2858b08a	comment	Full House: In an episode, Jesse tries to write a song for his band, only to come up with such songs as "This Land is Your Land" and the theme to The Brady Bunch. In another episode, Jesse "invents" a face guard for spraying hairspray without getting it in your eyes. He then gets sued by the original creator.
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It's Been Done / int_289f3039	comment	In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, one of Pit's fourth-wall breaking conversations with Palutena and Viridi has him wondering if he could make his arrows more effective by strapping bombs to them. Viridi comments "Real original, Pit!" Though she doesn't say so explicitly, she's likely thinking of Link, who has been doing that for years.
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It's Been Done / int_2c082d05	comment	A columnist several years ago predicted that someone was going to make a film called Saturday the Fourteenth, ripping off the Friday the 13th series. That had already been done, in 1981, with the tagline, "Just when you thought it safe to get up in the morning."
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It's Been Done / int_2c0b2cfc	comment	In a Men in Hats strip, Aram decides to keep Beriah from talking to him by demanding he fill out an application first. Beriah says that he saw this done in a cartoon, which makes Aram reconsider — but he still won't let Beriah talk to him, just because.
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It's Been Done / int_2d944503	comment	Snapper Carr in Young Justice put it nicely.
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It's Been Done / int_3226de9f	comment	One Wondermark strip involves a man who claims to have invented "food inside of bread", and he's less than happy to be told that dumplings already exist. In the followup strip, he thinks he still deserves some recognition for inventing them independently — a claim which, even if true, his friend finds unimpressive.
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It's Been Done / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men: Pete Campbell proudly takes credit for having come up with direct marketing. He acknowledges that it already existed, but he still arrived at it independently.
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It's Been Done / int_35a1757e	comment	This is YourMovieSucks.org's thesis on most of the much-vaunted similarities between The Lion King (1994) and Kimba the White Lion. The latter is such a Long Runner with so many episodic plots over different media that it's simply impossible to tell a story of lion royalty in Africa (a concept that predates Kimba) without having some overlap with it. As an example, Scar dying after being thrown off a cliff is cited as an example of plagiarism, yet because different one-episode villains in Kimba died in a vast number of other ways, there's very few methods for the villain to be disposed of that wouldn't resemble at least one of them.
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It's Been Done / int_36912697	comment	Allegro non Troppo: This Italian film begins with the director explaining his concept to the audience: a collection of animated shorts set to pieces of classical music, "a Fantasia, if you will." Then he gets a call saying that it had already been done by someone named "Prizni". At the end of the film, he goes on explaining his idea for a new film, a romance of some sort between a beautiful woman and not one or two, but SEVEN little men.
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It's Been Done / int_381bb5a8	comment	A recurring segment on The Alvin Show was Bungling Inventor Clyde Crashcup who, along with his long-suffering and far more competent assistant Leonardo, tried to invent the chair, baseball, jokes, the bed and dozens of other things, and seldom got it right.
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It's Been Done / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal "Fixing Social Media": A couple of people discuss GIFT and how it's Inherent in the System because it's so easy to write all sorts of crap on the Internet. So they come up with the idea of creating a platform where people have to spend more effort on writing their messages and moderating the responses. "47 venture capital funding rounds later" they realise they've invented blogging. "Modern Art 2": The strip itself is about how modern art's being all True Art Is Incomprehensible is a marketing gimmick to make people enjoy complaining about how they don't get it. Author's commentary behind the red button says that he found after making the comic that real economists have been studying the same basic idea for decades.
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It's Been Done / int_38edabf0	comment	Office Space: After Michael Bolton (not that one) describes his scheme to Peter wherein he would deduct remaining fractions of cents from Initech's business account and put them into a separate personal bank account:
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It's Been Done / int_3adfb1ba	comment	An episode of House of Mouse has a cartoon called Ludwig Von Drake's House of Genius, where Von Drake presents "new inventions" that were already done (e.g., presenting a telephone as the "Tele-finger").
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It's Been Done / int_3d0b1fce	comment	The rights to King Kong are rather open, as movie studios discovered when they tried to sue Donkey Kong. This is actually a case of Hoist by His Own Petard. After Nintendo released the Donkey Kong arcade game, Universal sued on the grounds that the gorilla was too similar to King Kong, and pressured the small Japanese company for a settlement. Unfortunately for Universal, Nintendo's lawyer looked into things, and found out that Universal themselves had previously won a lawsuit declaring King Kong was in the public domain. To add insult to injury, Nintendo went on to (successfully) sue Universal for making a King Kong video game that was a thinly-veiled remake of Donkey Kong.
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It's Been Done / int_3d5c05c9	comment	Bob the Angry Flower: Bob's inventions are usually fear-inspiring and ages ahead of regular technology. This one... isn't.
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It's Been Done / int_3f3abe9	comment	In an episode of Rick and Morty, Rick decides to stop playing Minecraft on VR for another adventure, noting that South Park already did episodes about Minecraft and VR years ago.
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It's Been Done / int_3f4a104b	comment	Mae Dean, the author, issued an apology after learning that her previous joke had already been done by Dilbert.
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It's Been Done / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	Austin Powers: Dr. Evil is suggesting schemes that include events that happened while he was in a Human Popsicle, such as creating a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica and blackmailing the British Royal Family with false evidence that the Prince of Wales had had an affair. Luckily, he has a backup plan: Done again in the second film, where Dr. Evil travels back in time, formulating plans based on the same media he was ignorant of while still frozen. These include ideas like his "Death Star" laser on the moon, and even using footage from Independence Day to threaten the President. Essentially, after being told It's Been Done, he decided to go back in time and do it first.
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It's Been Done / int_3fbd173e	comment	Although the example isn't "lengthy", Freefall ran afoul of this, inadvertently repeating a joke from another webcomic.
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It's Been Done / int_400469e	comment	Done implicitly in a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin proclaims he's going to change the meanings of words so that his parents won't be able to understand him. His father responds with slang terms that were presumably used by his own generation, showing those did the same thing.
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It's Been Done / int_41c079f8	comment	On GLOW (2017) director Sam is only doing this 1985 wrestling show so he can earn the money to make the movie he's been working on for over a decade. Talking to guys at a party, Sam is excited as he talks about his genius plot of a teenager accidentally going back in time and meeting his mother when she was a hot teen herself and having to avoid her advances. Poor Sam is crushed when the guests inform him that they all just saw a brand new movie using that exact plot: Back to the Future.
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It's Been Done / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: The skits in which Don Music slowly and painstakingly tries to compose songs that already exist. He usually gets one word wrong, and then has to change the rest to fit, as in: Sesame Street has a scientist character named Dr. Nobel Price, who keeps inventing things that had already been invented. Some of his most notable creations include foot-snuggies (socks) and the speaking stick (a microphone), and he discovers an animal that he calls the Great Poonga-Poonga (which turns out to be a rabbit).
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It's Been Done / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In the novel Wyrd Sisters, there is a dwarf playwright who swears his ideas come from literal bolts of inspiration from other universes, resulting in his plays showing influences from The Importance of Being Earnest, Duck Soup, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, and Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp" character. They frustrate him because he knows they should be funny, but can't understand why or how to make the audience get it. Pratchett reused the joke with movies in Moving Pictures and with Opera and musical theater in Maskerade. And then there is the in-universe version in Monstrous Regiment, with Lt. Blouse devising a vast number of foodstuffs in the hope of getting one named after himself... only to learn that each and every one of them already existed. And in Men at Arms there is a thief who attempts to steal the secret of fire from the Gods, only to be informed by everyone that they've already got it. He suggests it might have antique value. "Fingers" Mazda stole fire from the Gods, but it was too hot to fence. He really got burned on that deal. A riff on the same idea in Hogfather, when Teatime says that if he were a thief (but, as mentioned in the above novel, no Assassin would be a thief), he'd be the sort to steal fire from the Gods, and dismisses the obvious point with "There must be an upgrade by now."
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It's Been Done / int_49ad83ee	comment	One of the human male/silly options in World of Warcraft is one of these for The Lord of the Rings:
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It's Been Done / int_4ab60cf9	comment	At the end of the film, he goes on explaining his idea for a new film, a romance of some sort between a beautiful woman and not one or two, but SEVEN little men.
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It's Been Done / int_4b9f33f5	comment	UK newspaper strip The Perishers had Marlon, the keen but not-very-bright kid, who on one occasion took up inventing for a hobby. When his friends pointed out that his inventions (fire, the wheel and the horse and cart) had all been invented by other people, he wasn't worried because he invented them quicker and was therefore catching up.
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It's Been Done / int_4ce56986	comment	Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. One of his regular scammer time-wasters is to describe in detail an idea for a business he thinks is a brilliant new concept, except that it's something that already exists, like an ambulance. Subverted in that the scammers rarely point this out, because they don't care and simply want him to stop talking.
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It's Been Done / int_4d8e5ec	comment	Jon Stewart decided he was going to sign off The Daily Show with his own brand new catch phrase "Keep f*cking [sic] that chicken" before revealing It's Been Done... live... on the news... unironically.
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It's Been Done / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Meta-example with a theory of physics. In one chapter (which you might remember for the "bazinga" scene at the ball pool), Sheldon's been trying to figure out why the electrons in a carbon atom act that way, to no avail, until he comes to realize that the electrons are behaving like waves. Which was something first proposed in 1924. Of course, due to the practical impossibility of developing a brand new physics theory by the writers of a series that tries to stay close to science, you could say it's meta-justified. Played for Drama in the twelfth-season episode "The Citation Negation". The concept of "Super Asymmetry", which Sheldon and Amy came up with on their wedding day and spent months working on, turned out to have been not only brought up already in the past but disproved as well, which the group discovers only after Leonard and Raj find in the library a Russian book that Howard translates for them. Sheldon and Amy are both understandably devastated when Leonard informs them of such a discovery.
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It's Been Done / int_52eb7183	comment	Irregular Webcomic!. Ishmael considers using time travel to kill Hitler and prevent WWII. Loren replies, "Do you realise that question or variants thereof has been asked so many times that there are no original or funny answers left?"
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It's Been Done / int_534f0200	comment	Kamen Rider Saber invokes this as the logical consequence of a book containing all the knowledge in the world: every story that will ever be written was written in it first. The Big Bad is a poet who fell into a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum upon discovering the book and learning this, especially since that's exactly what the book said he would do.
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It's Been Done / int_53a0bd32	comment	Even more interesting. The actual episode of Twilight Zone that The Simpsons was referencing itself directly referenced Gulliver's Travels.
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It's Been Done / int_5562da6a	comment	3rd Rock from the Sun: A professor being forced into retirement takes solace in the fact that he'll have time to finish his screenplay. "It's like Die Hard, only set in an office building." Played with in another episode, when Tommy needs to write a paper on his family history. He has forgotten to create this little detail, and his on-the-spot attempt is taken directly from The Sound of Music. When his girlfriend points this out, he responds, "Yeah, and don't think we're not suing!"
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It's Been Done / int_63230cb	comment	In Dragon Ball Z Abridged Return of Cooler, after Cooler shows that he's become a robot;
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It's Been Done / int_64e03e4b	comment	Every once in a while, someone decides to develop a free-as-in-freedom, non-commercial, open-source, decentralized social network as an alternative to e.g. Facebook, believing that if they haven't heard of anything like this, there isn't anything like this. More recently, they should at least have heard of Diaspora* thanks to the huge media hype around its creation, but that hype was too long ago. And even the Diaspora* makers didn't know that what they wanted to create was already available with a point release, known as Mistpark back then, later renamed Friendika, now known as Friendica.
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It's Been Done / int_678f32e0	comment	Big Hero 6: The Series: "Failure Mode": Hiro has to design a building capable of resisting a 8.5 earthquake for a school project. As he shows his ideas to his friends, they reveal these are all ideas they presented for the same school project before. Just as it seems Hiro has finally managed to come up with a concept no one else had used, Baymax notes that that had been Tadashi's idea. "Big Problem": Hiro again, attempting to sway Liv Amara's attention away from Karmi... by inventing a thermometer.
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It's Been Done / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe Gyro Gearloose from the Donald Duck comics has a tendency to invent things which already exist. In one comic he is asked to repair a suitcase with 4 wheels, of which one is broken. He keeps adding improvements, such as a seat, a steering wheel, bigger wheels and so on, and proudly delivers it back to the owner, only to be told "We already own a trailer!" In another comic, he goes picnicking, but is bothered by various elements like ants, the wind and rain, causing him to create a floor, walls and a roof. In the end, he's re-invented the house, and wonders why he didn't just stay home. In another comic, Gyro is found in the woods studying woodpeckers so he can make a "machine that can make holes like them." In other words, a drill. And in yet another comic, he is annoyed that he can't hear the music on his vinyl discs out of his laboratory, so he builds a backpack-like portable record player. While trying out his invention outdoors, he meets Huey, Dewey, and Louie, who inform him of the existence of music CDs and portable CD players. In Don Rosa's story "Mythical Menagerie", Donald Duck tries to pull a prank on Huey, Dewey, and Louie, who are going animal-spotting for a Junior Woodchucks merit badge, by gluing props onto farm animals to make made-up creatures... unfortunately, all the creatures Donald makes up are unwittingly based on creatures from mythology: A yellow rabbit with a horn? A mi'raj from India. A polka-dot cat? A gulon from Scandinavia, and so on. One story had Donald trying to gain publicity for Scrooge's new car model by doing all kinds of stunts with it, only to be told by bored reporters that someone had already done the same thing but more so. The absurd conclusion was that he arranged to drive it around the Moon, only to be told afterwards that the Apollo crew had already done something like that ages ago.
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It's Been Done / int_6abf16c2	comment	During one Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama, The Wormery, the Sixth Doctor (post "Trial of a Time Lord"), runs into Time Lady Iris Wildthyme. The plot culminates with the revelation that the villain is basically her version of the Valeyard, and throughout the entire ending the Doctor complains to both of them just how amazingly unoriginal they're both being, outraged by the plagiarized dialogue and recycled scenario. This is something of a habit for Iris, as many of her adventures bear a striking resemblance to the Doctor's (or possibly vice versa).
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It's Been Done / int_6b3cfe38	comment	One Bob and George strip is, in the words of the author, "a joke about reusing jokes about reusing jokes. Very postmodern."
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It's Been Done / int_6cb2d709	comment	As he states in the first book, the reason Ron Weasley is so unmotivated outside of his interests in Wizarding Chess and Quidditch is that as the second youngest child and last male one, nearly every accolade the school has has already been obtained by his older brothers. Even Fred and George who aren't as academic as the first three are still very sociable and well liked. Even his younger sister, Ginny, has the status of being the first female Weasley to be born in several generations.
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It's Been Done / int_6e17a0d1	comment	A professor being forced into retirement takes solace in the fact that he'll have time to finish his screenplay. "It's like Die Hard, only set in an office building."
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It's Been Done / int_6eed44ab	comment	Dead Ringers: After Kanye West announced his intention to enter the 2020 presidential race and run America "like Wakanda", Trump holds a press conference mainly to tell everyone he's already basing his style of government on a film. And that film is Airplane!
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It's Been Done / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1. Played with in the episode "200": Vala tries to pitch her "adventures" to a visiting Martin Lloyd, except she's deliberately ripping off well-known plots like The Wizard of Oz or Gilligan's Island. This culminates in a ripoff of Farscape, Claudia Black and Ben Browder's previous show, which Martin admits he doesn't recognize.
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It's Been Done / int_71777d5d	comment	White Rabbit Project has the episode "Invented Before Its Time?", which basically covers this trope, covering technology that many people think is new but in fact decades old.
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It's Been Done / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Look: Played with as a Running Gag on The Mitchell and Webb Situation, in which a pair of contemporary writers would swap ideas about a project which would be obviously recognizable as an already existent product, from Fairy Tales, to The Bible, and even the Great Wonders of the World. Once the recognizable element appeared ("the story's not about the wolf — it's about the pigs..."), they wouldn't be corrected as to the nature of their idea but would eagerly start typing, implying that they were actually the originators of the idea in the first place. Played straight in the final episode, however, in which each writer's idea would be dismissed by the other on grounds that it had already been done. Also done during an episode of That Mitchell And Webb Look, where two lazy writers try to make a heartwarming British underdog in sports film, and find that Microsoft Word comes with a special program for anyone wishing to do so. It tells them their first idea, about tennis, has already been done using the very name they wanted to use. So they just make up some crap about cricket instead.I
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It's Been Done / int_75149ccd	comment	In Mercy Kill some of the newly assigned Wraith Squadron members come up with what they think are all-new stratagems. Founding Wraith member Voort "Piggy" saBinring points out that some of the tricks are older than they are. But, the only way he could know about the King of the Droids ploy is if he knew Lara Notsil was still alive. Turns out, he does.
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It's Been Done / int_753491f7	comment	This Italian film begins with the director explaining his concept to the audience: a collection of animated shorts set to pieces of classical music, "a Fantasia, if you will." Then he gets a call saying that it had already been done by someone named "Prizni".
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It's Been Done / int_76515a04	comment	Amir of Jake and Amir is constantly proposing inventions at his job, most of which have already been made. At one point he proposes an idea for a novelty poster that he knows already exists in order to prove a point to Jake when he compliments it. What that point is isn't exactly clear to either of them.
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It's Been Done / int_769da46e	comment	And then there is the in-universe version in Monstrous Regiment, with Lt. Blouse devising a vast number of foodstuffs in the hope of getting one named after himself... only to learn that each and every one of them already existed.
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It's Been Done / int_77e22425	comment	Pinky and the Brain: The episode "Brain Drained" begins with the Brain preparing a plan eerily similar to the one in the episode "Das Mouse", when he realizes the similarity of these two plans. Then he brings up a backup plan that's similar to the intended plan from the episode "Snowball", which he also realizes. He proceeds to file through his previous plans, every second one being a subliminal message. While the Brain is dejected about his lack of original plans, Pinky compares his situation to Tony Danza, who is noted to have talented writers. This inspires the Brain to hire would-be screenwriters to write original plans for them, then claim the plans as their own and use them as they see fit. Cue Terrible Interviewees Montage. A variation of this was done one night when Brain decided to put Pinky in charge and Pinky suddenly came close to taking over the world. Near the end, Pinky admits all of his plan were bits and pieces of Brain's old plans; Brain ends up taking the reins from Pinky, losing control and failing to take over the world.
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It's Been Done / int_7884ec15	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_7884ec15	comment	In an episode of Seinfeld, Elaine despises a cartoon in The New Yorker so much that she submits her own idea. When her boss sees her published cartoon, he soon identifies the punchline as "a Ziggy", stolen from the newspaper comic of the same name.
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Seinfeld	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_7884ec15
It's Been Done / int_7c038c18	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_7c038c18	comment	In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Interview with a Platypus", Dr. Doofenshmirtz's evil plan is to flood the town of Danville and sell his new invention to the citizens: the Buoyancy Operated Aquatic Transport, or "BO-AT".
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Phineas and Ferb	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_7c038c18
It's Been Done / int_7c1e7982	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_7c1e7982	comment	A heartbreaking version on the series finale of Halt and Catch Fire. Joe and Cameron, after years of hard work, are about to put up the search engine they believe will revolutionize the then-growing Internet. Just as they're about to, they see another engine up called Yahoo. Cameron mocks the design but Joe points out it's already on the toolbar. Thus, any other search engine will be ignored as all their hard work is for nothing.
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It's Been Done / int_7c60fb0f	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_7c60fb0f	comment	The Simpsons: As in the show proper, it's not above pointing out when they've recycled their own plots (Marge mentioning all the countries they've been to, or all the jobs Homer's taken over the years, which takes her several hours).
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It's Been Done / int_7d20ef2c	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_7d20ef2c	comment	A Bloom County strip parodied this in which a teacher claims there no new ideas in the universe. A student argues the point, but is told that "Failure is hardly original."
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Bloom County (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_7d20ef2c
It's Been Done / int_7de1376e	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_7de1376e	comment	In the novel Wyrd Sisters, there is a dwarf playwright who swears his ideas come from literal bolts of inspiration from other universes, resulting in his plays showing influences from The Importance of Being Earnest, Duck Soup, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, and Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp" character. They frustrate him because he knows they should be funny, but can't understand why or how to make the audience get it.
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Wyrd Sisters	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_7de1376e
It's Been Done / int_829b2f67	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_829b2f67	comment	Played with in another episode, when Tommy needs to write a paper on his family history. He has forgotten to create this little detail, and his on-the-spot attempt is taken directly from The Sound of Music. When his girlfriend points this out, he responds, "Yeah, and don't think we're not suing!"
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It's Been Done / int_853937a3	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_853937a3	comment	One example is the dual parodying of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Family Guy: 2000; Simpsons: 2002) from My Fair Lady. Not only do they use the same song... they use it in the SAME CONTEXT: "I can't kill him/her, not now, despite my years of attempting it."
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It's Been Done / int_858624ba	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_858624ba	comment	An interesting example occurred in Will & Grace. Karen would go into a story about her life, which would be a famous story (some that she mentioned were Norma Rae, Heidi and Speed). Although, Karen was always heavily medicated, so she might have actually thought they were her life stories.
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Will & Grace	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_858624ba
It's Been Done / int_89726260	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_89726260	comment	One Gaston Lagaffe strip has Gaston invent a better alarm clock by building an elaborate contraption involving a clock and a radio. Prunelle bets him a proper clock radio that it won't wake him up, and loses — while the thing doesn't actually work, it shorts out and sets fire to the building, and the fire department wakes Gaston up.
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It's Been Done / int_89bf8ce	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_89bf8ce	comment	In the 30 Rock episode "Into the Crevasse", Jack and a bunch of the TGS writers attempt to create a revolutionary design for a microwave, but end up re-inventing the Pontiac Aztek.
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30 Rock	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_89bf8ce
It's Been Done / int_8e7eb681	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_8e7eb681	comment	Ask That Guy subverted this trope by suggesting an original movie: 2½ hours of exploding babies.
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It's Been Done / int_9004922f	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9004922f	comment	A riff on the same idea in Hogfather, when Teatime says that if he were a thief (but, as mentioned in the above novel, no Assassin would be a thief), he'd be the sort to steal fire from the Gods, and dismisses the obvious point with "There must be an upgrade by now."
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Hogfather	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9004922f
It's Been Done / int_9068877a	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9068877a	comment	One Red vs. Blue PSA has Washington saying that Sarge gave a list of ideas to use in future episodes... all of whom were Fonzie scenes on Happy Days, only with himself ("Sarge ski jumps over a shark...").
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It's Been Done / int_90b916ba	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_90b916ba	comment	Played with in The New Batman Adventures episode "Beware The Creeper", when the Creeper rummages through a thrift shop looking for a new outfit. He holds a Halloween-type Batman mask up to his face for a moment, then dismisses it because "It's been done."
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Batman: The Animated Series	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_90b916ba
It's Been Done / int_95e4bed	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_95e4bed	comment	Sequential Art: Scarlet's latest invention (which, for once, doesn't explode) is a piece of garment keeping your arms free while being warmer than a T-shirt. She calls it "The Mono-Portal Torso Warmer".
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It's Been Done / int_95f381c9	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_95f381c9	comment	In Leftover Soup, Jamie shows Wallace a card game he invented called Pina Colada Panic. 10 comics, Simon coming home, and a discussion about gay marriage later, Simon says Wallace can't market the game because it's a reinvention of Gin Rummy.
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It's Been Done / int_96f39607	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_96f39607	comment	Between the Lions has a scientist character named Dr. Nitwhit (pronounced "Nit-white") who announces that he's discovered "the only word in the English Language that X" (has the same consonant at the beginning and the end, is spelled with a given sound). When his assistant responds, it's always with words that just happen to prove that the rule is more general than poor Nitwhit thought.
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Between the Lions	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_96f39607
It's Been Done / int_976efc02	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: Lampshaded during an invention exchange, in which Joel presents the Steve-O-Meter, a device which detects whether a given idea or object has already been thought up by Steve Allen. It turns out that everything Joel and the 'Bots present has been already imagined by Steve, including the Steve-O-Meter itself. In another one, Frank invents the staircase and the rowboat as exercise devices.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_976efc02
It's Been Done / int_9992c8b0	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9992c8b0	comment	In March 1951, an American and a British cartoonist both came up with the idea of a comic strip called Dennis the Menace. In some newspapers, they even debuted on the exact same day!
It's Been Done / int_9992c8b0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dennis the Menace (US) (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9992c8b0
It's Been Done / int_99c003af	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_99c003af	comment	Several times in The Boondocks, Granddad claims to have longtime experience in something that's clearly just whatever he saw on TV that week, such as setting up Sunday dinners because he saw it in Soul Food. Usually, he vehemently denies this, and then claims that they got the idea from him.
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The Boondocks	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_99c003af
It's Been Done / int_9a0cb5f4	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: In "The Hormone-iums", Linda tries to market wine holders made from old women's footwear. Not only does she fail to convince the Fischoeder brothers to invest in her "Wine Shoes", she discovers that a company that makes novelty wine holders beat her to the punch with their "Booze Shoes". In "Yes Without My Zeke", Randy seems to think that having The Grim Reaper as a character in the indie movie he's shooting at Bob's restaurant is a wholly original idea. Bob and Linda then bring up the examples of The Seventh Seal and Meet Joe Black (which Linda misremembers as "Meet Jack Black").
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Bob's Burgers	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9a0cb5f4
It's Been Done / int_9a9b24fa	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9a9b24fa	comment	During development of Jurassic Park (1993), writer David Koepp kept the opening scene faithful to the book. And then Steven Spielberg reminded him that he couldn't use a doctor seeing a grievously harmed body and commenting "This is not a construction accident" because he already featured such a scene in Jaws (the movie eventually showed the dinosaur attack that led to the body instead).
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Jurassic Park (1993)	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9a9b24fa
It's Been Done / int_9aac0273	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9aac0273	comment	And in Men at Arms there is a thief who attempts to steal the secret of fire from the Gods, only to be informed by everyone that they've already got it. He suggests it might have antique value. "Fingers" Mazda stole fire from the Gods, but it was too hot to fence. He really got burned on that deal.
It's Been Done / int_9aac0273	featureApplicability	1.0
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Men at Arms	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9aac0273
It's Been Done / int_9b8fd034	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9b8fd034	comment	In Knocked Up, the protagonists work for months on a website where one could check on celebs to look up movies/shows where they go nude, including the relevant time marks. Then somebody comes a long to tell them that there is already such a website.
It's Been Done / int_9b8fd034	featureApplicability	1.0
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Knocked Up	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9b8fd034
It's Been Done / int_9ce851a3	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9ce851a3	comment	Malcolm in the Middle: Malcolm tries to prove his hand at music by writing a song. Dewey points out that he just added emo words to the "Meow Mix" jingle. Reese once proudly announced, "Guys, I've made a discovery! I mixed blue and yellow, and got a whole new color! I'm going to call it... 'Blellow'!" Reese also goes through the basics of Descartes' philosophy. He ends with "I think, therefore," then pauses, unsure how to finish.
It's Been Done / int_9ce851a3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Malcolm in the Middle	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9ce851a3
It's Been Done / int_9f1766e4	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9f1766e4	comment	In an episode, Jesse tries to write a song for his band, only to come up with such songs as "This Land is Your Land" and the theme to The Brady Bunch.
It's Been Done / int_9f1766e4	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Brady Bunch	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9f1766e4
It's Been Done / int_9fdc37a5	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_9fdc37a5	comment	In Norm Foster's play Office Hours, one character unintentionally pitches an idea identical to Tarzan.
It's Been Done / int_9fdc37a5	featureApplicability	1.0
It's Been Done / int_9fdc37a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Tarzan (Franchise)	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_9fdc37a5
It's Been Done / int_a183d57f	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_a183d57f	comment	Played somewhat realistically in Futurama, which takes place in the 31st Century. The group attempts to introduce Fry to the concept of video games. None of them seem to be aware that video games were around back in Fry's time (the 20th century), and he's actually significantly more skilled than them.
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Futurama	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_a183d57f
It's Been Done / int_a5549ed0	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_a5549ed0	comment	In the Book of Ecclesiastes (1:9), its heavily cynical author complains: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
It's Been Done / int_a5549ed0	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Bible	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_a5549ed0
It's Been Done / int_a81325d3	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_a81325d3	comment	The second page of How to Make a Sprite Comic in 8 Easy Bits has its protagonist think up a few different ideas for his magnum opus — first a Final Fantasy parody, then a Mega Man comic...
It's Been Done / int_a81325d3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Final Fantasy (Franchise)	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_a81325d3
It's Been Done / int_b0fc9724	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: Inverted in a recurring sketch, where a film studio executive would berate his grandson for wanting to buy scripts that had obviously "been done before". The catch was that the scripts he ended up passing on were, in fact, highly original future blockbusters. One example: And another: Also played straight in a sketch where Satan tries to convince a young musician to sell his soul for a tune... but can't, because he can't think of anything good or original to trade for it. He even forgets, for a moment, that Smash Mouth has already done one of the tunes he tries to fob off on the guy.
It's Been Done / int_b0fc9724	featureApplicability	1.0
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Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_b0fc9724
It's Been Done / int_b4963c9f	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_b4963c9f	comment	One episode of Good Eats had Alton Brown announcing he'd be testing food urban legends, and he was going to call the episodes "Culinary Myth Bus—"... whereupon his lawyers interrupt via the phone and inform him that it's taken. He amends it to "Culinary Myth Smashers".
It's Been Done / int_b4963c9f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Good Eats	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_b4963c9f
It's Been Done / int_b61bbe0a	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_b61bbe0a	comment	On Modern Family, Cam and Mitchell write a book for their daughter explaining her adoption, then realize that there's a huge untapped market of children's books for gay parents. A quick trip to the bookstore informs them that that market is actually quite saturated.
It's Been Done / int_b61bbe0a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Modern Family	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_b61bbe0a
It's Been Done / int_b7ebc73a	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_b7ebc73a	comment	The plot of Secret Window revolves around a man threatening Mort for stealing his story, only to find out that Mort published his story a full two years before he claimed to have written it. Of course, it all ends up being a moot point when it's revealed the whole thing is Mort arguing with himself.
It's Been Done / int_b7ebc73a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Secret Window	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_b7ebc73a
It's Been Done / int_b9d947a4	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_b9d947a4	comment	In a Kappa Mikey episode, the gang tries to come up with ideas to boost LilyMu's ratings with one being to utilize a beauty-powered submarine only to be told another show had already used that format.
It's Been Done / int_b9d947a4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Kappa Mikey	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_b9d947a4
It's Been Done / int_bbe33e8a	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_bbe33e8a	comment	In an episode of Northern Exposure, Chris intends to catapult a cow as some sort of performance art until Ed tells him that it was already done in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Northern Exposure	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_bbe33e8a
It's Been Done / int_bc848d30	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_bc848d30	comment	Done on SpongeBob SquarePants when SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to come up with inventions to help Sandy. Patrick comes up with a pencil, a lightbulb, and a parallel universe. The last one is a subversion when SpongeBob claims it's a mirror (It looks just like one and he sees his reflection in it). Then Patrick storms away from SpongeBob and pulls it out again despairing that he had beaten to the punch when SpongeBob's reflection comes back and, in a different accent, tells Patrick that he "thought it was a pretty good idea."
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SpongeBob SquarePants	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_bc848d30
It's Been Done / int_bd54ba07	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_bd54ba07	comment	Blazing Saddles: Hedley Lamarr is trying to plot how to drive the people of Rock Ridge out of town as part of his evil plan, with Taggart proposing "We'll kill the first born male child in every household.", to which Hedley replies "Too Jewish.".
It's Been Done / int_bd54ba07	featureApplicability	1.0
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Blazing Saddles	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_bd54ba07
It's Been Done / int_bdf04207	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_bdf04207	comment	Early in The Great Race, Leslie proposes proving the superiority of American automobiles with a race. The people he's talking to are entirely unimpressed, as car races have been done before, until Leslie tells them that they'll be racing from New York...to Paris.
It's Been Done / int_bdf04207	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Great Race	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_bdf04207
It's Been Done / int_c22905b5	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_c22905b5	comment	The fact that Red Robin's costume looks very similar to that of the older hero Dr. Midnight became a running gag prior to the costume going through some odd retooling.
It's Been Done / int_c22905b5	featureApplicability	1.0
It's Been Done / int_c22905b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Robin (Comic Book)	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_c22905b5
It's Been Done / int_c3ec8bd7	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_c3ec8bd7	comment	One spinoff short story to You Got HaruhiRolled! has Kyouko telling Fujiwara about the plot of a fanfic she is writing, about a Living Toy who learns, to his horror, that he is just a CHILD'S PLAYTHING! Fujiwara then says that this is the exact plot of Toy Story.
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It's Been Done / int_c3ec8bd7	featureConfidence	1.0
You Got HaruhiRolled! / Fan Fic	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_c3ec8bd7
It's Been Done / int_c43df4d8	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Particularly during the Tom Baker era, the Doctor often seems unimpressed by predictable attempts to rule the Earth and/or the universe. A parody by Mark Gatiss and David Walliams involves the villains wanting to be thwarted by the Doctor, but having the bemused Doctor inform him that his plans had been done already. Aliens really did try to steal Earth that way, in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". The Doctor briefly mentions this in "The Stolen Earth" when he says that, "Someone tried to move the Earth once before." The Daleks tried to do it both times.
It's Been Done / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Doctor Who	hasFeature	It's Been Done / int_c43df4d8
It's Been Done / int_c5591ec9	type	It's Been Done
It's Been Done / int_c5591ec9	comment	In the Western animation of Darkstalkers, Lord Raptor gets told this word by word when he tries to get into the music industry. "I'm a Zombie who rocks!"
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It's Been Done / int_c7359b63	comment	Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show: Zabuza tries to come up with a new plan, but discovers his plans are all plots to Disney movies.
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It's Been Done / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus featured Mr L F Dibley who moaned about the critics who said his films (including If, Midnight Cowboy, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rear Window) were just cheap rip offs of better directors' films. He insisted that he came up with the ideas first, but the more high-profile and high-budget versions were "rushed out" whilst he was at the chemist getting his developed.
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It's Been Done / int_cb6abea3	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Siegfried hated Seto Kaiba because every time he came up with a business idea, Seto did it first. Siegfried decided to change his company from a weapons manufacturer to a game manufacturer, but Seto did it first and cornered the market. Siegfried then worked on a way to turn Duel Monsters cards into holograms, but when he tried to show Maximillion Pegasus his device, he arrived only to find Seto had just shown Pegasus his own, superior device and cut a deal with him. In the English dub, Siegfried goes as far as accusing Seto of stealing his ideas (which Seto denies since they hadn't seen each other since they were children), while in the Japanese version, Siegfried simply wants revenge on Seto for having the money and fame he thinks he deserves.
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It's Been Done / int_cb840c8f	comment	Aside from this being the movie that put M. Night Shyamalan on the map, The Sixth Sense - as this article points out, it plays out in an eerily similar fashion to the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the Dream Girl".
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It's Been Done / int_cc2a7289	comment	Particularly during the Tom Baker era, the Doctor often seems unimpressed by predictable attempts to rule the Earth and/or the universe. A parody by Mark Gatiss and David Walliams involves the villains wanting to be thwarted by the Doctor, but having the bemused Doctor inform him that his plans had been done already.
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It's Been Done / int_ccf875f7	comment	In Criminal Minds, Reid asserts that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is a ripoff of Doctor Who.
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It's Been Done / int_ce009416	comment	In Yakitate!! Japan, several types of "Ja-pan" that Kazuma developed on his own turn out to be just variants on well-known types of bread. For example, Ja-pan Number 34 is basically a croissant, and Ja-pan Number 16 is a naan (an unleavened Indian bread often served with curry) bread bowl in the shape of Mount Fuji.
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It's Been Done / int_ce50887e	comment	In Dragon Ball, Goku befriends the folks at a dojo. The master shows his Phantom Star technique, which he invented on his own. He's shocked when Goku recognizes it, since he learned it from Master Roshi as the Afterimage technique.
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It's Been Done / int_cf848c2b	comment	Titan Legends, a fanfic that is a universe unto itself, actually uses the line "The Simpsons did it" in the following exchange where Gauntlet tries to find something to do:
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It's Been Done / int_d148f51d	comment	The Looney Tunes Show: In "Peel of Fortune", Daffy tries to come up with an invention that will make him rich. His first three inventions are sliced bread, toilet paper and the suitcase.
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It's Been Done / int_d14c8c60	comment	Ghostbusters (2016). In the extended cut, an unamused Ozzy Osbourne comments on the capture of Mayhem with "Wankers! Black Sabbath did that shit in '74."
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It's Been Done / int_d2d6de50	comment	A variant in Ocean's Eleven, as Danny and Rusty pitch the central heist: "It's never been tried." Reuben gets a wonderful recap of the top three attempts, each illustrated with a period-piece flashback and his own sarcastic commentary.
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It's Been Done / int_d5fcae4e	comment	Ted Lasso: While watching a basketball game, Ted comes up with the idea of adapting basketball's triangle offensive to football, and writes down the idea. He's later informed that the tactic he came up already exists as Total Football.
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It's Been Done / int_d8cf2d0b	comment	Operation Ouch!: While explaining the structure of the human ribcage, Doctors Chris and Xand demonstrate a couple of alternate designs and point out the flaws. Then Xand announces his third design 'Ribcage 3.0' and demonstrates how perfect it is, only for Chhris to point out that his 'new' design is identical to the existing human ribcage.
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It's Been Done / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: "Simpsons Already Did It", in which Butters — or, rather, Professor Chaos — attempts to come up with an idea to get revenge on the citizens of the town. However, he's informed that The Simpsons had already used every one of his ideas in an episode, and his desperation to come up with an original scheme briefly drives him over the edge. When he finally does come up with an original idea that The Simpsons haven't done before, a conveniently-placed TV immediately starts playing a commercial for a new episode of The Simpsons where Butters' idea is used. According to the DVD commentary, this is pretty much how creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone (themselves fans of The Simpsons, despite having only ever seen a few episodes due to their busy schedules) feel on coming up with a great idea or joke only to find out that it was done by The Simpsons. ("There are days when I curse The Simpsons out the door.") The DVD commentary for that episode also revealed that Parker and Stone realized too late that the episode's other plot, involving a microscopic society of sea monkeys, had also already been done by The Simpsons. They went on to have Butters Lampshade the fact (since he beforehand had seen all one hundred and thirty-two episodes of the show. Twice). Everybody's reaction (after a long Beat)? An interesting note that The Simpsons stablemate Futurama already did it in an episode "Godfellas" aired just months prior to South Park. note Bender is drifting in outer space which microscopic space aliens settled on him and becomes God (Bender's back side being ignored). Both sides end up nuking each other. Even more interesting. The actual episode of Twilight Zone that The Simpsons was referencing itself directly referenced Gulliver's Travels. Done again in the Halloween episode "Hell on Earth 2006" where Satan's attempts at a shocking 16th birthday party entrance are rejected when his minions repeatedly tell him "Diddy did it." According to DVD commentary on "Pinewood Derby", the episode was originally about Randy convincing everyone in the world to get rid of their weapons. This, however, leaves them completely unarmed against an alien who takes over the world with a revolver. However, Trey and Matt eventually learned that not only have the Simpson already did it, they did it twice. This leads to them scrapping the initial idea and reworking the episode.
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It's Been Done / int_df9b9014	comment	In UQ Holder!, a moment after Touta Konoe decides to create an organization of immortals, he learns that his grandfather Negi Springfield already made one.
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It's Been Done / int_e179ec3a	comment	When the heroes of Calvin & Hobbes: The Series are stuck in a death trap, they try to come up with their famous last words, Andy tries "Either these curtains go, or I do." Sherman tells him, "I think someone already said that."note Oscar Wilde said something similar, which is what Sherman is referring to, but contrary to urban legend they weren't his last words.
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It's Been Done / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The novel Brian has been working on for several years turns out to be identical to the Iron Eagle movies, and carries the ridiculous title, "Faster Than the Speed of Love." At the end of the Star Wars episode, Chris points out that Robot Chicken did a Star Wars episode months ago. Peter argues that this doesn't count, because nobody watches Robot Chicken. It's also worth noting that Chris Griffin is voiced by Seth Green, who also created that show. In addition, Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and voice actor for Peter, contributed voices to the Robot Chicken Star Wars episode. MacFarlane also got "It's been done" jokes during the David Hasselhoff roast, a common accusation made against the man because of so many similar scenarios inside Family Guy that seem lifted from South Park and The Simpsons. MacFarlane does not seem to mind too much and is a good sport about it. The series seems to have taken to lampshading this recently; with "Cool Hand Peter" and "Viewer Mail No. 2" being standouts. In the episode "Ratings Guy" where Peter gets outsize influence on television programming though the use of 100 Nielsen boxes and subsequently ruins the medium for everybody, Homer Simpsons makes an appearance bursting into a meeting to exclaim that he has "ruined television", but Peter is already there to inform him that It's Been Done.
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It's Been Done / int_ec2531c4	comment	Coco: Héctor convinces Miguel not to sing "Remember Me" at the talent show, since there are already a dozen other acts performing the same song.
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It's Been Done / int_ec28245c	comment	In Dragon Ball Z, Future Trunks thinks he's achieved a new skill by increasing his muscle mass (the Ultra Super Saiyan form), and hides the form from Vegeta because he didn't want to hurt his pride. Cell informs him that anybody can increase their muscle mass, even Vegeta, but nobody does because while it makes you stronger, it drains speed and stamina, and Trunks was a fool for not noticing this flaw. Ironically, during the Cell Games, a desperate Cell tries to beef up his muscles in hope to counteract Super Saiyan 2 Gohan's overwhelming power. Of course, his speed is drastically reduced, with Trunks commenting that Cell made the exact same mistake he did.
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It's Been Done / int_ec80dae4	comment	One Zero Punctuation review of a Zelda game has Yahtzee suggesting, "for variety", an adventure game where you play as a dog in feudal Japan.
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It's Been Done / int_ee5e6821	comment	John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: In Series 6, Episode 2: John talks about how he exchanged his foreign currency on return from holiday, got more than he expected because the rate had changed, and started thinking that maybe he could watch the exchange rate the next time, or even change his currency without going on holiday, and this was an entirely new way to make money that he'd just invented. He follows this up by describing how he tried to write a sketch about this, but realised it didn't work because it was mostly about what he was thinking, and it was only really funny if he explained it was true. So he came up with the idea of a "not-sketch", where he just stood in front of the audience and talked about what happened. Series 8, Episode 4 has a series of sketches featuring a Driver of a Black Cab, who asks his passengers what their job is and then makes obvious suggestions for something that profession could do. When they say it's been done, he aggressively insists that no, it hasn't, because he just thought of it.
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It's Been Done / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes, in his early novels, claimed that part of his investigative talent lies in his comprehensive study of the records of earlier crimes. He even quotes the Ecclesiastes verse mentioned above at one point, when he is becoming particularly despondent about the failure of London's criminal classes to supply him with anything interesting to do.
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It's Been Done / int_ef076a36	comment	A first season episode of Star Trek: Voyager had Chakotay order Voyager to vent drive plasma to trick a couple enemy ships into thinking she was damaged and close in for the kill, at which point the more powerful Federation ship was able to score direct hits and disable them. Chakotay remarks that it worked on a pair of Federation runabouts he tangled with in his Maquis days, but Janeway points out that the trick is very old and that if she'd been commanding the runabouts it wouldn't have worked.
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It's Been Done / int_ef177c11	comment	Monkey Dust featured a character called Clive Pringle, whose entire schtick was basically this. In every sketch he would come home late to be greeted by his wife, who would ask him where he had been. The excuses he gave were always lifted wholesale from fictional works of varying levels of obscurity, with the references lampshaded by his increasingly impatient wife. When asked for the real explanation, it would generally be a sexually degrading act instead ("I've been spit-roasting a hooker with your Dad.")
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It's Been Done / int_f0a6e5cf	comment	Lady in the Water has a movie critic character who says:
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It's Been Done / int_f1938c51	comment	In John Hodgman's More Information Than You Require, J.D. Salinger comes out of retirement with a new manuscript for a Catcher in the Rye sequel, in which Holden Caulfield "discovers he has magical powers. He goes to a special school for magicians, which he finds (predictably) unbearable. Ditching school once again, he finally discovers his true destiny: to do battle with an ancient evil wizard named 'Phony'." Salinger is then sent a copy of the first Harry Potter book in the mail, and burns his manuscript.
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It's Been Done / int_f5892ae	comment	In the Gamecube release of Custom Robo, you at one point overhear a conversation between several enemy mooks in which one of them tells the others about a robo fighting technique that he invented called "Short Jump Shooting". Since robo guns have different effects depending on whether the robo is on the ground or airborne, the technique involves making a very small jump to get the robo into the air just long enough to fire the gun's airborne mode. The other mooks burst his bubble by telling him that short jump shooting is actually a staple technique of just about everyone who uses robos.
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It's Been Done / int_f655ed11	comment	In Frasier, Roz sells an idea for a children's book based on a bedstory that her mother used to tell her — which turns out to be Heidi. Furthermore, not only had she not heard of it, but the publisher to whom she sold the idea hadn't heard of it either.
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It's Been Done / int_f87c42c	comment	There was an episode of Saved by the Bell: The New Class where a character describes his new invention in detail only to be told he's just invented the pencil.
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It's Been Done / int_f8ab1ef8	comment	The Cannonball Run plays this briefly as a joke (and Actor Allusion to Burt Reynolds) when J.J. and Victor are trying to come up with a vehicle for the race.
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It's Been Done / int_faea2e0	comment	Tomorrow Never Dies: Elliot Carver tries writing a headline for the potential British/Chinese armed conflict, at one point writing "The Empire WILL Strike Back", a nod to the April 1982 Newsweek headline about The Falklands War, saying "I rather like the last one. It isn't even mine.".
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It's Been Done / int_febb8460	comment	In his Month of Miyazaki review of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, JesuOtaku wishes that Miyazaki would take the movie and redo it really well, "give the heroes more human traits and motives, give the villains more human traits and motives, portray nature — even a fantasy vision of nature — in a more honest light, and then wrap it all up in more conversational dialogue." While thinking of how awesome this hypothetical movie would be, he remembers Princess Mononoke exists.
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News at 11 (Music) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
The 77s (Music) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (Radio) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
This American Life (Radio) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Abbott Elementary / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Between the Lions / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Blossom / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Cheers / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Dead Ringers / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Full House / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
GLOW (2017) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Ghosts (UK) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Good Eats / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Great News / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Halt and Catch Fire / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Jeeves and Wooster / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
MADtv (1995) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
My Hero (2000) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Mythic Quest / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Saved by the Bell: The New Class / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Silicon Valley / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Still Standing / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
White Rabbit Project / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Richman (Video Game) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Bonus Stage (Web Animation) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Bad Movie Beatdown (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Dartigan (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Decker Shado (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Drew Gooden (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Fanscription (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Jake and Amir (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Kitboga (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Movie Rehab (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Night Mind (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Reviewing a Reviewer (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
The Mysterious Mr. Enter (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
The Pop Arena (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Unraveled (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
YourMovieSucks.org (Web Video) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Bob the Angry Flower (Webcomic) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Buttersafe (Webcomic) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Leftover Soup (Webcomic) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Mulberry (Webcomic) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Nedroid (Webcomic) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Sequential Art (Webcomic) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Wondermark (Webcomic) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Ben 10: Omniverse / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Coco / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Monkey Dust / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Ninjago / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Pinky and the Brain / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Ruby Gloom / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Stripperella / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Teen Titans Go! / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
The Alvin Show / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
The Critic / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
The Looney Tunes Show / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
WordGirl / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Lady in the Water / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done

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