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"Could you describe Mathematician's Answer here?" Yes. "...Would you describe it here?" Yes. "..." Well, of course I'll describe it to you! First you asked me if I could describe it, then you asked if I would describe it, but you never actually asked me to describe the trope to you. "All right, then. Describe Mathematician's Answer here." If you ask someone a question, and they give you an entirely accurate answer that is of no practical use whatsoever, they have just given you a Mathematician's Answer. A common form of this trope is to fully evaluate the logic of the question and give a logically correct answer. Such a response may prove confusing for someone who interpreted what they said colloquially. Examples include requests for favors being superficially interpreted as requests for information ("Can you do me a favor?" being interpreted as "Are you capable of doing me a favor?"). Such examples are often used in linguistics and philosophy of language to illustrate how context and convention determine implicit meaning: "Do you have any spare pillows?" "Yes. Thank you for asking." People do not usually ask for trivial information or information they already possess, which is how competent speakers know not to provide the Mathematician's Answer. This is also a favorite of English teachers and Grammar Nazis, frequently going through something similar to "Can I come in?" "I don't know, can you?" "Uh, may I come in?". Another common form is when a character is asked "Is it A or B?" they will respond "Yes" as if it were a question of Boolean logic rather than clarifying which specific one is the case. This occurs because a question of the form "Is the capital of Australia Melbourne or Canberra?" is ambiguous between "The capital of Australia is either Melbourne or Canberra. Which one is it?" and "Is it the case that the capital of Australia is either Melbourne or Canberra?". A logician may mistake the former for the latter, to the questioner's frustration. Though, they may also answer affirmatively if they know that at least one of those answers is correct but don't know which, or consider all answers correct, or because the second answer is the correct one, and their lack of response to the first is self-explanatory. This crops up a lot in Real Life, especially in the world of computers. On the former interpretation it is also a loaded question, so the askee may legitimately answer "No" (meaning it's none of the stated options) even if the questioner didn't mean it to be a Yes-or-No question. A third variant is when a "How?" question (as in "By what method?") is answered with an adverb or adverbial phrase, as if the question had been "In what manner?". For example: "How did you get past the guards?" "With difficulty." Can be used by characters for reasons ranging from snarky humor to intentional obfuscation to being extremely Literal-Minded — AI and other Literal Genies by their nature are very likely to fall into the last category. Can overlap with Shaped Like Itself when the question is seeking a description, and with Captain Obvious, as these answers tend to be self-evident for anyone with a brain. Usually doubles as a Cryptically Unhelpful Answer, when the "mathematician" is deliberately trying to confound the questioner. Compare Non-Answer, which is a vague "answer" which does not answer the question at all. Mildly related to What's a Henway? and Not Actually the Ultimate Question. Can also overlap with Comically Missing the Point if the speaker genuinely thinks they are giving an answer. The trope name comes from a family of jokes about the supposed habit of mathematicians to make unhelpful answers. For example: a man in a hot-air balloon asked someone where he was. "You're in a balloon", he answered. The rider concluded that it was a mathematician that said that, because the answer was perfectly correct and completely useless. (The joke sometimes continues with the mathematician deducing that the man in the balloon is a manager, because he has risen to his position with a lot of hot air, has no idea where he is or where he is going, and yet claims this is the fault of the innocent person standing below him.) A final variation is also common — when given two seemingly contradictory possibilities and asked which is the case, to answer "yes". It is a somewhat snarky way to say that both are true, and that it is not in fact a contradiction. All of Them is a subtrope that's its own Stock Phrase, as an answer to a question of quantity. See also What's a Henway?. Contrast Implied Answer when the question isn't answered at all, and the meaning is quite clear. Often the answer is Trivially Obvious. Related to Rhetorical Question Blunder: the person who was asked gives a logical answer that ruins the spirit of the question. Compare and contrast No Wrong Answers Except That One. Compare to Lying by Omission, where the omission is more intentional and less a matter of a literal answer to a vague question. May be a feature of Anti-Humor when given as the punchline to a joke. Compare Ask a Stupid Question... and Literalist Snarking. A well-known example is the Chicken Joke: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "To get to the other side." |
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Irene Adler seeks refuge in Baker Street in Sherlock: | |
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Fred the squirrel from The Penguins of Madagascar, being Literal-Minded incarnate, has a bit of a problem with this. If he's asked if he can read something, he'll say "yes". If someone asks him to show them the town, he'll just point to the nearest buildings. | |
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Rincewind and Eric, from Eric! | |
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Children of Eldair: An exchange seen here. | |
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Rio Bravo: When Dude says Stumpy likes roses, Feathers asks Chance who Stumpy is. Chance wryly replies, "The fellow that likes roses," before giving a more accurate explanation. | |
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Early in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry asks Hagrid what the difference is between a stalactite and a stalagmite. Hagrid replies, "Stalagmite's got an 'M' in it". Admittedly, they were hurtling through the Gringotts minecart system at the time, and Hagrid was busy trying not to throw up. | |
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Under the Umbrella Tree devoted an episode to the characters telling jokes, including: | |
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After a particularly surreal portion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry asks if the previous discussion was real, or just in his head. His companion simply responds that being in his head wouldn't make their conversation any less real. | |
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Loaded Weapon 1 takes this trope up to eleven. Later in the film: |
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A Hard Day's Night: When The Beatles are being interviewed, many of their answers are like this: | |
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The Dragon Age series: Sten of Dragon Age: Origins loves to do this. In Dragon Age II, a sidequest has Hawke go fetch some pickaxes for a group of miners from a smith in town whose name they forgot. |
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In Charlie Shakes It Up, Deuce says he "has the situation under control", which prompts this: | |
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Sleepy Hollow (1999): | |
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Sluggy Freelance: Kusari answers with one here. | |
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Bleach: When a very young Uryuu asks his father why he hates being a Quincy, Ryuuken replies "because there's no money in it", leaving Uryuu so shocked and troubled that he runs to his grandfather in tears, asking if Ryuuken's answer is a truth or lie. Souken points out that, because Ryuuken has a family to raise, it can be viewed as truthful. In fact, Ryuuken is telling the truth from any angle - being Quincy never pays the bills regardless of whether or not there's a family to raise. However, Uryuu wants to know why Ryuuken hates being a Quincy, yet neither Ryuuken nor Souken actually answer that question. They both sidestep it completely. | |
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A typical line from Rotom Dex in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon does this whenever forced to choose between two or more equal probabilities. "I calculate a 50% chance that our friends went this way, and a 50% chance that they went this other way!" Other characters are quick to point out that he's not being very helpful, assuming they don't just ignore him entirely. | |
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The Empire Strikes Back: | |
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The Our Gang short "School's Out" features several test answers taken from H.M. Walker's Vaudeville routine, many of which take this form. "Donald Haines, where is Washington?" "First in war, first in peace, and third in the American League." "Douglas Greer, what was Abraham Lincoln's mother's name?" "Mrs. Lincoln." "Buddy O'Donald, on Paul Revere's night ride, what did he say as he stopped his horse in front of colonial homes?" "He said, 'Whoa!'" "Bobby Malon, what was Nero doing while Rome burned?" "I don't know, but I think he should've been hauling water to the fire." "Jackie Cooper, who was The Hunchback of Notre Dame?" "Lon Chaney." |
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It happens in The Silmarillion fanfic A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script when a Feanor's partisan starts asking questions without explaining what he's talking about. | |
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Kingdom Hearts Ψ: The Seeker of Darkness: In Land of Oblivion, when Kairi tells Aqua about how she, Sora and Riku started their relationship: The prequel story Equilateral reveals that she wasn't kidding. |
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In The Return of the Pink Panther, Clouseau visits a town where he encounters this trope, twice. First he enters a taxi and says to the driver "Follow that car!" The cabbie promptly starts chasing the car... on foot! A minute or two later, Clouseau asks a passer-by for directions. | |
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Nineteen-Ninety-Something: It was heavily implied that the Duquesnes moved from California to Eden Prairie to keep the police from looking too hard at Kevin for the rape and murder of one of his sister Lindsay's high school rivals. Lindsay (privately) cops to sending Kevin after said rival, but just to scare her, maybe to rough her up a bit. When Lindsay asks Kevin directly if he responsible for the rape/murder, Kevin would simply say "I did what you asked me to." | |
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JonTron He gives us this gem when he's watching VR Troopers and the main characters are lamenting the Big Bad tearing down a historical landmark to build a power plant: And during The Devil and Father Amorth we get this: |
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Better Off Ted: When the company gets sued for product negligence, Ted states that Veronica is an old pro at depositions by volunteering as little information as possible (Truth in Television, your lawyer always advises to give as little information as possible while answering questions): | |
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On Angel, after Angel gets in a fight with Buffy and tells her to get out of LA. | |
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In the Japanese Mother 2, someone asks you if you can name a cartoon, "Alps no Shoujo OOji." Answering "hai" is technically correct. If you reply "iie," they'll say that "Iieji" is just wrong. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: In "Fortunate Son", while the crew is helping to repair a cargo ship: | |
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In the second The Naked Gun film: | |
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In Shrek the Third, Pinocchio has a very confusing one in order to not lie to Prince Charming about where Shrek is. It involves Confusing Multiple Negatives. Unfortunately, it gets so aggravatingly confusing that his allies crack and tell the truth. | |
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From House: | |
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When That '70s Show was in pre-production, the casting directors were scouting 18-to-20-year-old actors to play the teenage protagonists, but Mila Kunis, who was 14 at the time, merely told them that she'd be 18 "on [her] birthday". By the time they learned the truth, they already liked her performance as Jackie, so she stayed with the show in its entire run. | |
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In Party Down: Roman is supposed to be DJ and is not at his post. |
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Cheers: In "What Is... Cliff Clavin?", Cliff attempted to use such an answer on Jeopardy! when asked to identify three actors by their original, non-stage names. His reply was "Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?" Correct, but ... One conversation: Another example had Cliff give a long and detailed explanation about why they drank ice cold beer in the middle of winter (which essentially centred around the need to equalise your internal and external temperatures). When he had finished, Carla then asked him why they also drank it summer. His response was "What else are we going to do with it?". |
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In Legend of Mana, one specific sidequest involves you convincing dropout students to go back to school. One of them thinks that Adults Are Useless because they answer questions but never actually say anything useful. You have to convince him otherwise... except your character can only say yes or no. | |
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The Simpsons: A variation on the theme, but still very much holds the original idea: In "Homer's Enemy", when Bart and Milhouse get their own warehouse, Milhouse is left behind as a night watchman. Bart comes back the next day to find the place destroyed. Homer managed one of these accidentally in "Burns Verkaufen Der Kraftwerk": |
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This trope is sometimes featured in Dumb Lawyer Quotes IRL but in Ace Attorney. For example, one witness, when asked about the condition a body was in at the time of the autopsy, says, "He was dead." | |
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The French-Canadian sitcom Un gars, une fille (A Guy and a Girl), has the Guy in the title ask his girlfriend which of two wines she wants for supper. She answers "Yes." This prompts him to reply "When someone gives you a choice between two things, you can't answer with yes! If you're afraid of committing to a decision, do you want me to pick for you, or do you want me to leave choices up to you?" Her answer? "Yes! Yes Yes Yes!" | |
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MythBusters: When Adam is taken to Jamie's secret locationnote Right over the border to Nevada where most of Jamie's more interesting toys are legal., this exchange ensues: | |
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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: While driving through Mexico, Franklin is asked where they are. He replies "Directly above the centre of the earth." | |
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Undercover Blues, when Jeff Blue and his super-spy wife, Kathleen Turner, are deliberately being obfuscating to the local police: | |
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Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad: In one episode, the heroes were playing with a game that told people's luck with basis on their dates of birth. Mrs. Starkey decided to try and asked Amp when he was born. Despite knowing about the game, he told the hour. When she explained she wanted to know the day, he said he was born on Wednesday. | |
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In Asteroid in Love, Mai gives one when Mira noticed she is holding two maps when they visit the shrine at new year's: | |
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In Mumfie's Quest, when the Secretary of Night asks for Mumfie's name, his answer is "Yes!". The Secretary asks what he means, and he says that he has a name, and gives the correct response. | |
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In issue 3 of Loki: Agent of Asgard, when the title character appears at a speed-date dressed like their usual self, the woman sitting across from them asks if they're dressed for a con(vention). Their response? "There's always a con going on somewhere." Issue 5 has the Loki of a possible future answer this to a question regarding what happens to Midgard: "T'was governed most perfectly. By my reckoning." Later it turned out that they are ruling Earth in that timeline. They also happened to kill off every living being on the planet just to spite Thor. Well, no incarnation of Loki was ever humble. This trope is pretty much Loki's most benign setting; at least he isn't in a manipulating mood (yet). |
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Assassination Academia: After Izuku defends Irina/Bitch-sensei, Hitoshi remarks that Izuku is too kind for his own good. Izuku isn't sure how he means that, and Hitoshi refuses to clarify: | |
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During the scene in Meet the Robinsons where Bud and Lewis try to make their way back to the garage, they stumble upon a dog wearing spectacles. | |
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Adventures in Odyssey: In The Ties That Bind, Hadley gives these to all of the questions Detective Polehaus asks when he tries to get a description of the person who broke into Wooton's house. This is the first bit of foreshadowing that there was no break-in. | |
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The Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Customers Suck" has a customer in Burger World ask if the shakes are made from real milk and ice cream or shake mix. Beavis just says "Yeah." | |
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In Entrapment, some of the exchanges between Gin and Mac. | |
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Horse Feathers: | |
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Wolf Hall: Played for drama when Thomas Cromwell recalls serving Thomas More as a boy and asking him what he was reading. More only replied, "Words." More's casual dismissal of Cromwell was just one of many times More treated Cromwell as Beneath Notice, and Cromwell has never forgotten. | |
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This can come up in Monster of the Week. The rules for the investigate a mystery move specify that the GM has to answer honestly, within the limitations of the source the hunter is using to investigate. If the monster is something that doesn't appear in the chosen source - a technological abomination or alien being being looked up in a medieval grimoire, for example - the answers are likely to be deeply unhelpful but technically accurate. | |
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Done twice in a row in The Cat in the Hat. | |
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During Linkara's "That Guy With The Hat" sketch (parodying Ask That Guy with the Glasses (mentioned above), "Can you tell me how to get back onto the freeway?" is answered "NO." | |
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From Choosers of the Slain: | |
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In Borderlands 2: Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage: Mister Torgue explains that the reason he's always disorganized and was unable to find a sponsor for the Vault Hunter was because he was "busy suplexing a shark wearing a bolo tie". He then notices that "You may ask, who was wearing the bolo tie, you or the shark?". Answer: YES. Torgue poses something of a Mathematicians' Question in the introduction to this campaign. "I have one question, and one question only: EXPLOSIONS?!" Under the circumstances, one could be led to believe that the valid answer is "Yes". |
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In 8-Bit Theater, we have two examples: Having been jumped on multiple times by both Red Mage and Dragoon, Black Mage gives us this exchange: Then, we have Red Mage's character sheet. Religion: Okay. |
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In the Dragaera series, this is one of the things Hawklords are known for. It's also why Vlad would have killed Daymar out of sheer annoyance if it wasn't for his invaluable psychic skills. | |
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In The Night Unfurls, a brute is in shocked disbelief after Kyril lobs one of his arms off, saying that he wasn't supposed to do that. Kyril replies, "Aye"note which means "yes", before beheading him. | |
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Godmothered: When Mackenzie asks "Who eats that much seafood?" Eleanor says "Sharks!" (The question was rhetorical.) | |
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Community: "Basic Human Anatomy" | |
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Airplane! does this a lot, mostly with "what is it?" questions. "There's been a little problem in the cockpit." "The cockpit? What is it?" "It's a room at the front of the plane where the pilot sits. But that's not important right now." "This woman has to be gotten to a hospital." "The hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with patients. But that's not important right now." "You got a letter from headquarters this morning." "What is it?" "It's a big building where generals meet. But that's not important right now." Asked for his name and position, Ted answers, "Ted Stryker. I'm sitting down, facing forward, but that's not important right now." |
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In Hamlet: Polonius attempts to get some information on Hamlet to report back to the king, but not wanting to betray his regicidal scheme and not wasting an opportunity to bother his girlfriend's intrusive father, Hamlet gives the most obvious and unhelpful answers he can. | |
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The Hunger Games: | |
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In Discworld Noir, when Lewton asks the butler if he can see Count von Uberwald, the Servile Snarker responds that he is in no position to judge how good Lewton's eyesight is. | |
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: When Elliot and Michael are about take the car with E.T. in it. | |
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In Psy Changeling, being emotionless and thus ruled by logic, most Silent Psys tend to give those. | |
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In Doom Valley Prep School, Blood Wing asks her Succubus mother if she should stick close to the Petra or avoid her. Her mother, who has discovered that Petra is Fate's Chew Toy who will unintentionally alter luck in very strange and humorous ways, replies with, “Sweety, I'm going to answer you as best I can and with all sincerity. Yes.� | |
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In 1776, when John Hancock asks about the absent New Jersey delegates: | |
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Colosseum of the Heart: When Kairi asks her new Pokémon whether Ralts is her name or her species, she answers "Yes!", then translates that Riku's Larvitar says yes as well. This exchange, regarding Ash's Shadow Metang: |
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Harry Potter: Early in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry asks Hagrid what the difference is between a stalactite and a stalagmite. Hagrid replies, "Stalagmite's got an 'M' in it". Admittedly, they were hurtling through the Gringotts minecart system at the time, and Hagrid was busy trying not to throw up. Dumbledore gets in a straighter example later on in Philosopher's Stone: Harry has one in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when Snape asks him about his copy of Advanced Potion-Making. After a particularly surreal portion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry asks if the previous discussion was real, or just in his head. His companion simply responds that being in his head wouldn't make their conversation any less real. |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, client Ron DeLite didn't make your job any easier, as when he found the victim's body, his first reaction was to hide it in a safe whose code is only known to a few people, including him, making him look even more suspicious. When you ask him about it... | |
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The Pink Panther: In the 2006 movie starring Steve Martin, a reporter asks Inspector Clouseau if they (the police) know if the killer is a man or a woman. Clouseau's answer is: "Well, of course I know that! What else is there, a kitten?" Also, when he quotes someone about politics, Yvette asks him if he said it, meaning if he is the original author of the quote. Clouseau takes the question literally and, after bemusedly looking around for someone else, answers "Yes." In The Return of the Pink Panther, Clouseau visits a town where he encounters this trope, twice. First he enters a taxi and says to the driver "Follow that car!" The cabbie promptly starts chasing the car... on foot! A minute or two later, Clouseau asks a passer-by for directions. In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Clouseau enters an inn, sees a dog, and asks the innkeeper if his dog bites. The answer he gets is technically correct... |
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Scrubs: | |
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In the Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers episode Mario Has a BBQ But He's Not Invited, after having to replace the fruit at the BBQ with imitation fruit (due to the sentient watermelon Melony... taking issue), Bob poses the question: | |
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Full Frontal Nerdity has this exchange: | |
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, when Vanessa finds out just how Austin got plans from one of Dr. Evil's Femme Fatales. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes featured this exchange in a Sunday strip: And in a weekday strip: |
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In Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends’ episode Dinner Is Swerved, Mac and Bloo are lost in the Fosters mansion and bumps into resident Jerkass Duchess. They ask her if she could help them get downstairs, to which she answers “Yes�… and then proceeds to do nothing. When they call her out on it, she maliciously rubs the logic in. | |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: When Miles asks Webslinger why his horse needs a mask, Webslinger answers "To conceal his identity." This is true, but the question of why Webslinger's horse would need to conceal his identity is left unanswered. | |
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Forest Kingdom: In the Hawk & Fisher spinoff series' book 1, when Hawk and Fisher question suspects about the two murders under a truthspell, all the suspects can correctly answer "No" when asked if they murdered Victim #1 and Victim #2. They can honestly say this because the two deaths were the handiwork of different killers. | |
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In Scott Meyer's Master of Formalities, the entire palace of House Jakabitus is coated with a layer of nanites which perform various functions. If someone is injured, all he has to do is to put the wound against a wall or the floor, as the nanites are programmed to eliminate germs and seal wounds as a first-aid measure until the medical staff arrives, which usually happens within minutes. Everyone notes that the nanites work well with the medical staff, but any questions on how they do it is always met with the answer "Seamlessly." | |
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During an end-of-term quiz at Grange Hill: | |
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An example where this is not played for laughs occurs in The Dresden Files novel Small Favor, when Harry brings the injured Valkyrie Gard to Michael Carpenter's house for treatment. Michael's fellow Knight Sanya is there and is examining Gard, noting that she is more than human. He asks "The woman. What is she?" to which Harry responds "Injured." Sanya understands the implied rebuke immediately and apologizes. | |
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In an issue of the Animaniacs Comic-Book Adaptation, Yakko takes things in this direction when he and his sibs are being interviewed on a TV talk show. | |
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Supernatural: Castiel irritates Dean with a couple mathematician's answers when they first meet and Dean is trying to figure out who or what Castiel is. Played with somewhat in that Castiel might believe his answers to be legitimately helpful, while the audience is well aware that he's just telling Dean superficial things he already knows while avoiding the deeper explanation Dean wants. And from the episode "Hunteri Heroici": |
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This tactic is occasionally used by contestants on Would I Lie to You? when they're trying to stall for time. Lee Mack is notable for using this even when he's telling the truth: | |
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Exciting Opportunities: When asked whether she's from Ordos Xenos, Malleus, or Hereticus, Inquisitor Loghain simply replies "Yes." | |
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Garfield: The June 8, 2011 strip has this. The June 29, 2023 strip has this as well. |
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In Iolanthe, when Strephon is required to prove that the title character is really his mother, he points out she gave birth to him and raised him from childhood, and therefore she must be his mother. | |
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Discworld: From the novel Hogfather: Similarly, when the Senior Wrangler suggests that the mistletoe, while being genuinely symbolic, is only symbolic of mistletoe: And earlier in Hogfather: Susan again, in Thief of Time: Rincewind and Eric, from Eric! Yet another one, sort of, from Carpe Jugulum (paraphrased, without spoiling too much): Death is fond of this. When Granny was presented a choice between the light and the darkness (long story) she asked him if he had any advice. He replied: And another in Wyrd Sisters... As mentioned in Hogfather, when questioned about the origins of life, the philosopher Didactylos set forth this theory: Moist's wonderful use of this trope in a Bavarian Fire Drill during Making Money: In Feet of Clay Vimes becomes very angry and hits a table in the Rats Chamber with an axe. The next morning, when Vetinari asks him what it is, he says "It's an axe, sir." Of course, Vetinari then proceeds to snark about how quickly he figured that out and ask the real question, which is why it was stuck in the table. Earlier in the same book, Vetinari asks Vimes why he punched the leader of the Assassin's Guild in the face, to receive the reply: "Couldn't find a dagger, sir." In Carpe Jugulum, Shawn Ogg checks if General Tacticus's famous book of tactics has any advice on what to do when one army is based in a well-fortified structure on superior ground and the other isn't. Tacticus's advice is to be the one that is. Though later in the series he turns out to have genuine advice on what to do if you aren't: If the enemy's got the fortress, you make sure they stay in the fortress. |
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In Total Drama World Tour while lost in a desert in Egypt: | |
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Another example occurs at one point in the Secret Service Dentists sketch, where Arthur Lemming, a customer in a book store, is thrown in a Spy vs. Spy dental-related imbroglio, where he has no idea what's going on (or so we think...) except that it's something suspicious despite the repeated denials of the store owner, while the whole cast is repeatedly held at gunpoint by the next entering character: | |
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In I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus, when the Clem-clone asks "How are you, Doctor?" Dr. Memory replies in a flat monotone: "The Doctor is on." | |
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Guilded Age: | |
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The Many Quirks of Phantom Thievery: After Makoto reluctantly confides in Akira about Haru's Arranged Marriage, Akira tells her that if the other Thieves agree, they'll reveal their secret to Haru and go after her wicked fiancé: | |
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Hazbin Hotel has Angel Dust being chewed out by Vaggie for making a mockery of the message of Charlies' hotel when they were on live broadcast, leading to Angel Dust to tell Vaggie to calm down and promising to take the situation with the Happy Hotel seriously from that moment onwards. | |
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In Iron Man 2, when Tony tries to ask Natalie where she's from: | |
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The Muppet Show : Some dancing rats were in Christopher Reeve's dressing room. Kermit's contribution to a string of "fly in the soup" jokes. When Judy Prowse fades into nothing at the end of a sketch: |
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Hot Fuzz has an example of an underaged drinker being far too clever for his own good. | |
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Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. When the scammers ask a question such as "Are you using a desktop or a laptop?"," Kitboga likes to tick them off by replying with "yes." | |
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The Daily Show: In a parody of government officials avoiding giving direct answers, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell had this exchange: Another example: In 2003, when Prince Charles was alleged to have had a gay experience, Britain's strict libel and slander laws prevented anyone from commenting publicly on the charge. Colbert, doing a report on the scandal, was asked by Jon Stewart if he had learned any specifics. Colbert said, "Yes I have, Jon." |
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Return of the Jedi: "R2! What are you doing here?... Well, I can see you're serving drinks..." | |
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Lincoln's Memories: One of Luan Loud's jokes in "Lincoln's Seventh Birthday" is "What do you call a flamingo at the North Pole? Lost!". | |
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The Big Bang Theory had an instance when Raj (who usually has trouble talking to women) was getting a little too attached to Siri, to the point that his friends described it as "dating a phone". When Bernadette asked if it was cute or creepy, Howard simply said "uh-huh". In the episode "The Engagement Reaction" Also this exchange from "The Apology Insufficiency" after someone knocks on the door: |
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A Posse Ad Esse, after Secret Weapon Dub gets himself in the shit: | |
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On Just Shoot Me!, when Elliot asks Dennis if he's licking stamps, Dennis answers sarcastically "I was, now I'm answering obvious questions." When a pretty model asks the same question, Dennis cordially responds "Why, yes I am." | |
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: London Tipton gets bonus points for this gem: | |
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From X-Statix: "He's... "connecting" in some way to what he's lost." "Is that a good or bad thing?" "Yes." | |
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Used to answer an actual math question in an episode of Little Bear when Little Bear and Emily rope the 4 local Playful Otters into playing school with them. After trying to teach them how to count, Emily asks the otters how many of them there are. They each answer "1" — because "each of us is 1 otter!" There's a beat before Little Bear admits, "That's true..." | |
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Same deal in EarthBound (1994). In the Japanese Mother 2, someone asks you if you can name a cartoon, "Alps no Shoujo OOji." Answering "hai" is technically correct. If you reply "iie," they'll say that "Iieji" is just wrong. In the North American localization, this is translated into "a Beatles song - XXXterday. Can you fill in the blank?" Again, "yes" is correct, and you'll get scolded that "Noterday" is wrong if you answer "no." |
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Momo is a Heartwarming Orphan and doesn't really know how old she is. When asked: | |
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Homestuck: | |
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He brought up the debate of whether Mario Kart 64 had controls that stood the test of time or have aged poorly, then answered with a gavel hit and a "Yes". | |
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When Professor McGonagall finds out that Slender Man (disguised as a human) is Older Than He Looks in Harry By Proxy, she wonders just how old he is. | |
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Sometimes pops up on Family Feud questions, mainly ones that require numerical answers. On at least two instances, "Morning" was given for "Name a time that most people get up." On the first, the same contestant answered "Night" for "Name a time that most people go to bed." That got two points. When the question was, "Name something Russia is famous for", one contestant said, "Russians". On the Combs version, there was the question "What birthday do men dread the most?" Instead of giving a milestone such as fortieth or fiftieth, a contestant guessed "Their wife's" which got two points. A Harvey-era question asked "How old do you think Joan Rivers is?" with a contestant answering "Old." |
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In Go West (1940), when Joseph asks Quale where the train is, Quale tells him "the tracks." | |
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While having dinner at The Grand Budapest Hotel, Mr. Moustafa lists what the requirements were for being Monsieur Gustave's "personal guest." They had to be: rich, old, insecure, vain, superficial, blonde, needy. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, the Oracle's first answer to Roy's question "Where is Xykon?" was "In his throne room." Roy persuaded him to follow up with a more useful answer. When Belkar asked the oracle whether he would kill "Miko, Miko's stupid horse, Roy, Vaarsuvius, or you [the oracle]," the oracle replied "Yes." It ended up being the Oracle himself, despite his best attempts to invoke Prophecy Twist by way of Metaphorically True. Vaarsuvius does this to Haley in another strip. Oddly, it works as a Rhetorical Question Blunder, but still means "yes, I'll help you". This is generally the sort of answer given when a question is asked about V's gender. When asked where Girard's Gate (the Artifact sealing Girard's Rift) is, a deliberately unhelpful (but compelled to tell the truth) mummy does this. It first answers "in the Desert", then, when asked for ulterior clarification, it says "around Girard's Rift" (which the protagonists and readers know already, since it's sealing it), and finally, when asked where Girard's Rift is, it goes: "Between Girard's Buttcheeks." |
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Not Always Right: This exchange: This one too. What does your camera take? Pictures! |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017): In "The Penultimate Peril" the Baudelaires are working at a Hotel run by a pair of identical twin brothers, Frank and Ernest who are actually triplets -Frank, Ernest, and Dewey. Frank is good, and Ernest is evil. However, the two make no attempts at distinguishing themselves, which causes problems for the protagonists. | |
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In Persona 5, Futaba Sakura has a habit of this. When her father Sojiro is shocked to see her come into Leblanc and asks how she got there, Futaba says "I walked." Considering that the Sakura residence is in the same neighborhood as Leblanc and it would only take a few minutes to walk there, Futaba's answer isn't too misleading... until you consider that until recently, she was a shut-in who was largely unable to leave her room, let alone the housenote That said, she was able to walk over to Leblanc to hand-deliver the calling card to the mailbox, but Sojiro doesn't know that, which is why Sojiro is shocked to see her. In the official artbook, the female Phantom Thieves decline to mention how much they weigh. Futaba creatively sidesteps the question by saying that her weight is X, which is more than 0 kilograms and less than 1,000 kilograms (about 2,200 pounds). |
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From The Young Ones: Also: Another: Mike walks in holding a fish. He asks "What is this!?" Everyone else replies, "A FISH!" He realizes they are right and leaves. Later in the episode he comes back with the fish, having figured out what he meant to ask. He asks, "What is this fish doing in my bed!?" Someone points out to him it is not in his bed, he is holding it in his hands. He realizes they are right and leaves. Still later, he comes back, sure he has figured it out for good, with NOTHING in his hands. He says, "What is this fish doing in my bed!?" Everyone says, "WHAT FISH?" Still another: |
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After an update, Undertale's Mad Dummy boss simply has its defense listed as "YES". | |
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The Americans: When Claudia identifies a woman in the US as a Nazi collaborator who killed Soviet POWs based on them being the same age and height, Philip asks whether this means they're really the same person, or just share the characteristics. Claudia says "Yes". | |
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During the trial arc of Schlock Mercenary, the company lawyer manages, through convoluted wordplay, to ask if he can ask a question without, in fact, asking a question. Petey, duly impressed with this feat, allows it: | |
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In Phoebe and Her Unicorn, this is Phoebe's response when Marigold tells her that although Dakota is a goblin princess, the position is purely ceremonial. | |
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Turnabout Storm: After a ridiculously laconic testimony by one of the witnesses, Phoenix struggles to get any useful information out of her. When he asks her about what she was doing near the crime scene in the first place, the prosecution interrupts: | |
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When Zaphod learns that Marvin is waiting for them in the car park at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (and has been for several trillion years), he asks what he's doing there. Marvin's answer? Parking cars. What else would he be doing there? | |
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In The Last Watch, when Edgar uses a truth spell on Rustam, this exchange takes place: Weirdly, this answer is wrong. |
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In the 2006 movie starring Steve Martin, a reporter asks Inspector Clouseau if they (the police) know if the killer is a man or a woman. Clouseau's answer is: "Well, of course I know that! What else is there, a kitten?" Also, when he quotes someone about politics, Yvette asks him if he said it, meaning if he is the original author of the quote. Clouseau takes the question literally and, after bemusedly looking around for someone else, answers "Yes." |
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Played straight in Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land with the concept of the Fair Witness. When a Fair Witness is asked what color a house is, she replies that "It's white on this side." A Fair Witness would not infer that the other side was white as well. | |
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From Scott The Woz: He brought up the debate of whether Mario Kart 64 had controls that stood the test of time or have aged poorly, then answered with a gavel hit and a "Yes". You're Not an RPG Guy has Jerry pulling out Scott's biodata written on a piece of paper. Said bio lists Scott's sex as "no." In Borderline Forever, he responds to someone greeting "Morning!" to him by checking his watch, and exclaiming, "Correct." |
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The Highwaymen: After Hamer buys more than half a dozen guns and ammunition to spare, the gun store owner asks him what he needs all the firepower he just purchased for, if he "don't mind him asking". Hamer just retorts "No, I don't mind you asking at all". | |
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From (x, why?), the math teachers employ a little Coffee Logic. | |
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xkcd gets one early on here: | |
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In one episode of The Saddle Club TV series, Stevie spills bright red soda on a shirt she "borrowed" from her brother without his permission, leading to this exchange: | |
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American Dad!: In "Lost in Space" Jeff gets abducted by aliens: | |
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Porridge: The new prison officer Beale receives some of these when he tries to act tough with experienced inmates. | |
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Sten of Dragon Age: Origins loves to do this. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: King Vegeta does it again in Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan Abridged when Paragus begs him to try to spare Broly's life and he falls into the same trap Butarega did. |
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In the Skyhold Academy Yearbook installment Love is a Mystery, before the gender of a pregnant staff member's baby is revealed, Hawke informs the expectant parents what each of their colleagues bet would be the result. Four of them bet it would be a girl; five said it would be a boy; and Bull decided to hedge his bets and say it would be twins. She then adds that she herself should win the bet because... | |
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Ultra Fast Pony. "Sister Angst" opens with Rarity's parents paying her house an unscheduled visit. At the episode's end, she finds they're still in her kitchen: | |
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The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nóg: In a Courtroom Episode, Angus was facing trial and, when it seemed he'd be convicted, the truth was revealed. In the end, Angus asked the judge if he'd be acquitted or convicted without the new evidence and the judge said he'd certainly be one of those. | |
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In the original Miracle on 34th Street, Doris Walker takes a look at the employee card Kris Kringle had filled out when he was hired as Macy's Santa Claus. In response to "Age", he wrote, "Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth". | |
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Chaos Theory Z: From Chapter 1: | |
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Kotaro of Zombie Land Saga uses these to handwave any big questions. How did he raise the seven girls from the dead? Well, just like in a zombie movie! Why are they alive after they died? Well they're zombies, duh! Does he know what the population of Saga is? Of course he does, it's small! Needless to say, the girls are very frustrated by this. | |
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Big Hero 6: The Series: In "Hardlight": | |
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The X-Files: In the episode "One Breath", Melissa Scully comes to visit Mulder at his apartment, where he is sitting in the dark hoping to surprise an intruder. | |
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Batman Beyond: In "Golem", Terry is battling the Golem when he sees it's being controlled by Willie Watt, who has developed technopathic abilities. | |
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In the chapter book Amelia Bedelia & Friends Mind Their Manners, Amelia Bedelia's teacher Mrs. Shauk asks "Amelia Bedelia, can you come to the front of the room, please?" "Yes, I can," replies Amelia Bedelia, thinking that even though her desk in the last row, her legs work just fine. She then sits up straight in her chair, smiling. Mrs. Shauk, used to the workings of Amelia Bedelia's mind, smiles, shakes her head and sighs, then directs her "Amelia Bedelia, would you walk to the front of the room, and stand next to me?" and Amelia Bedelia does. | |
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Tekken 7: In Eddie Gordo's story mode, he demands that Lucky Chloe tell him where Kazuya Mishima is. She hands him a piece of paper that has a drawing of the Earth on it and an arrow pointing at it that says "Here". Eddie isn't happy, even moreso when he sees Chloe running the hell away at top speed. | |
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NUMB3RS: Although there are a few mathematicians in the group, it's actually physicist Larry who is most prone to these. | |
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During Galaxy of Fear, the Arrandas and their uncle Hoole find a human where no humans should be. They ask him how he got there, he says "I walked." | |
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A Thing of Vikings: In Chapter 40, after Heather and Fishlegs have a long-overdue discussion about their relationship: | |
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Rambo III: | |
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From Phule's Paradise, Phule's butler pulls one of these on a hotel manager: | |
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Skulduggery Pleasant has this exchange: This seems to be Skulduggery's preferred form of answer. |
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In Farscape, Scorpius is being interrogated: | |
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In Smallville, when Clark wants to talk to Lois about their relationship: | |
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The Jolly Roger Telephone Company is an online company that offers bots which are designed to waste the time of telemarketers by using pre-written routines and otherwise responding with stuff like "Sure," "Mm-hmm," and "right." As such, any direct question, such as "Can you give me your credit card number?" (bank account number, etc.) will generally be answered in such a way, driving the telemarketers nuts, as the bots will say essentially that yes, they can give the number, but they never do. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In the Grand Finale, a conflicted Aang calls upon the spirits of his four most recent incarnation, Avatars Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk and Yangchen, to advise him on whether he should kill Ozai. All of the Avatar spirits gave a Mathematician's Answer of one sort or another; Roku's advice is to "be decisive", Kyoshi said "only justice will bring peace", Kuruk said to "actively shape the fate of the world", and Yangchen said "do whatever it takes to protect the world". All of these apply equally accurately to either killing Ozai or any number of other options that might have been attempted, though Aang regards them as being implicit endorsements of killing. In the end, a Lion Turtle taught him Energybending, which Aang used to strip Ozai of his Firebending and render him powerless, instead of killing him. | |
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In Broadway Melody of 1936, a theatrical producer, auditioning chorus girls, asks one how tall she is. She lifts a hand to the top of her head and says, "About up to here." | |
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Chicago Fire: | |
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Borderlands series: Mister Torgue: In Borderlands 2: Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage: Mister Torgue explains that the reason he's always disorganized and was unable to find a sponsor for the Vault Hunter was because he was "busy suplexing a shark wearing a bolo tie". He then notices that "You may ask, who was wearing the bolo tie, you or the shark?". Answer: YES. Torgue poses something of a Mathematicians' Question in the introduction to this campaign. "I have one question, and one question only: EXPLOSIONS?!" Under the circumstances, one could be led to believe that the valid answer is "Yes". A question asked on his Reddit: "WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE TYPE OF EXPLOSION?" Answer: YES. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "The Forsaken", Odo is asked by Lwaxana Troi if Odo is his first or last name. Yes, it is. In a later episode, "Heart of Stone", we get to know that Odo is his first name. His second is Ital. (The Cardassian word Odo'ital means "Unknown Sample", which is exactly what he was to the scientists who discovered him.) Well, he was named on Bajor, where the Eastern name order is accepted, so it's still Mathematician's. |
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The Flaky Pastry 100th strip spectacular showed Nitrine giving a slightly more helpful Mathematician's Answer. | |
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In The Pirates of Penzance, the Major-General wants to find out something about the men in piratical outfits who propose to marry his daughters: This is also an ironic inversion of the trope, as the answer uses the ambiguities of language to provide the information he wants (that the pirates are in fact all eligible bachelors in good standing, being actually English gentlemen) while appearing not to. |
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This exchange in Haruhi Suzumiya, when the group encounters a giant cricket in an alternate dimension: | |
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In The A-Team, an exchange between Hannibal and Murdock goes something like this: | |
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Mass Effect 2 has one character who gives these sort of answers almost by default: | |
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Susan again, in Thief of Time: | |
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On What's My Line?, since contestants were supposed to answer only "yes" or "no", the correct response to a question like "Are you involved in television or movies?" would be "yes". More than one contestant over the course of the run forgot this, and answered the question the usual way, to the panel's benefit. And more than once, one of the more comedic-minded panelists would ask something like "Well, which is it?" when the contestant did answer in the correct manner. | |
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Props up a few times in the Mass Effect trilogy You have Alestia Iallis in the first game. Mass Effect 2 has one character who gives these sort of answers almost by default: Said character also has a nasty habit of providing massively important information under the verbal heading of "Addendum:", which is kind of a mathematician's answer in its own right; yes, it is indeed an additional piece of information that you did not have a moment ago. It's also frequently something you would, ideally, have liked to have known before you did what you just did... |
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The Following has this exchange in "Whips and Regrets": | |
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Ilia probe does a bit of this when it first appears. It serves V'Ger. Who is V'Ger? V'Ger is that which seeks "the creator". And who's the creator? Why, the one who created V'Ger. It eventually turns out V'Ger's not giving them the run-around, it just legitimately doesn't know who (or what) its creator is. | |
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El Arca goes with the Airplane!-style gag. | |
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In Bayonetta, Bayonetta meets a little girl called Cereza. Bayonetta asks where she is from. She responds "I... I'm from my house". | |
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Dumb and Dumber has Lloyd ask the waitress "What is the 'Soup Du jour'?" And she answers "The soup of the day." | |
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The Newlywed Game: Bob Eubanks asked "If you don't win the game today, what would be the reason?" The husband answered "Because we didn't answer the questions right." (The answer on his wife's card read "(Because she) Laughs too much") | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Co-creator Dan Povenmire was asked by a fan on Twitter "What is Ferb short for?" He responded, "Brevity's sake." Another episode has Candace giving this kind of answer when Irving stops by: "Crack That Whip": |
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In the book The Westing Game, Jake Wexler lists his position as "standing or sitting when not lying down." | |
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On the Gunnerkrigg Court forum, Tom Siddell gives this type of answer to the few questions he doesn't want to answer. | |
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Used multiple times in Twelfth Night. When Malvolio tells Olivia that a man wants to see her and will not be turned away: Also, when Viola meets Feste: |
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In The Marvelous Land of Oz, Mombi tries this in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid Glinda's questions. | |
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In The Flash (2014), after the disastrous encounter with the Reverse-Flash, Joe explained to the stunned Eddie about the existence of meta-humans. He appears to convince Eddie that the Flash is one of the good ones, despite Eddie having been attacked by the whammied Flash in an earlier episode. We then get this exchange: For reference, Joe really does know that Barry is the Flash, but it's not his secret to reveal. |
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Bloom County has one in its first series about the Presidential election. Trying to find a local candidate, Milo asks the bum Limekiller "How do you stand on nuclear waste?" Limekiller immediately begins balancing awkwardly on one foot, earning Milo's approval. | |
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Subverted in one of the extra strips of Paranatural. | |
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Lucky Luke's horse, Jolly Jumper, can speak but, seeing as he is still a horse, even Luke is baffled when he sees Jolly on the riverbank, fishing. | |
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And another in Wyrd Sisters... | |
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From Clonus: Justified in that George is genetically conditioned to be not too bright. |
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In Halo: The Fall of Reach, Master Chief is testing the MJOLNIR armor with shields. His superior instructs him to count to ten after he leaves the room before leaving himself. During that time, Chief's AI partner Cortana senses the presence of a squad of ODST Marines, and asks the Master Chief what his plan is for dealing with them. He responds, "I'm going to finish counting to ten". | |
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On an episode of Garfield and Friends in a U.S. Acres segment, Wade is being his usual cowardly self, this time about seeing a doctor. Orson tries to reassure him, but Roy can't miss an opportunity to have a laugh at his expense. | |
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If I Only Had A Heart: After spending several days building several worker robots, Izuku responds to Mashi asking him when the last time he slept was by saying "I've slept... recently..." | |
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In issue #1 of Rick and Morty, Rick invents a device that guarantees them infinite amounts of money in the stock market. Morty is unsure of whether or not it's legal, to which Rick responds with: "I'm completely aware of how legal it is, Morty!" | |
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Star Trek: The Heisenberg compensator allows the transporter to get around the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. When asked how it works, Mike Okuda's response is '[It] works just fine, thank you.' Star Trek: The Original Series: In "Space Seed", a recently awakened Khan has Doctor McCoy by the throat: Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "When the Bough Breaks", Wesley talks to the Custodian (a computer), after having been told he's allowed to ask of it any question: In "Parallels", the Enterprise crew throws Worf a surprise party for his birthday. Picard asks Worf how old he is, to which Worf simply says "Old enough." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "The Forsaken", Odo is asked by Lwaxana Troi if Odo is his first or last name. Yes, it is. In a later episode, "Heart of Stone", we get to know that Odo is his first name. His second is Ital. (The Cardassian word Odo'ital means "Unknown Sample", which is exactly what he was to the scientists who discovered him.) Well, he was named on Bajor, where the Eastern name order is accepted, so it's still Mathematician's. Star Trek: Enterprise: In "Fortunate Son", while the crew is helping to repair a cargo ship: |
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In Eraser, after John Kruger falls out of a plane and lands in a junkyard, a kid who watched him fall comes up to him. | |
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The Vazula Chronicles: Dragons are very literal-minded and often give these. In A Kingdom Threatened, Heath jokes that the dragon Rekavidur sounds like he's planning to murder him, and Reka replies, "Impossible. Even if I were to kill you, it would not be a murder. There is no consequence among my kind for dragons killing humans. Only for showing aggression toward one another." | |
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In Caddyshack, Ty Webb gives a good one to Judge Smails after explaining that he doesn't play golf competitively: | |
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Spider-Man: Spider-Verse: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: In The Stinger, Spider-Man 2099 and 60's Spider-Man get into a heated argument about who pointed at the other first. J. Jonah Jameson and a cop witness this, and the cop also wonders who pointed first. Jameson helpfully says "Spider-Man pointed first, obviously!"note Though there's no reason for Jameson or the cop to believe 2099 Spider-Man is actually Spider-Man.. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: When Miles asks Webslinger why his horse needs a mask, Webslinger answers "To conceal his identity." This is true, but the question of why Webslinger's horse would need to conceal his identity is left unanswered. |
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In Chicago: | |
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El Chavo del ocho: In one episode, El Chavo is selling refreshments and agrees to reveal Don Ramon's location to Mr. Barriga if the landlord buys one. El Chavo then reveals that Don Ramon is still in the country. Also, whenever Don Ramón tries to threaten La Chilindrina with his belt: |
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To Be or Not to Be: When a suspicious Erhardt asks how long it has been since Siletski (really a disguised Bronski) saw his friend Hitler, Bronski evasively replies, "much too long." | |
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In Warlocks of the Sigil, Kole writes "yes" for age and gender in her extremely lack-luster information packet. | |
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During a war crime scene in Full Metal Jacket: | |
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Dost Thou Even Steal Hearts?: From Chapter 81, when some of Joker's allies are cowed at seeing Margaret summon the Persona Satan: | |
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A Night at the Opera: | |
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Boyet does this to mess with the lovestruck Longaville in Love's Labour's Lost. When Longaville asks for the name of the lady he's infatuated with, Boyet says that he can't have it because she's still using it. Longaville then asks whose daughter she is. | |
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In Carpe Jugulum, Shawn Ogg checks if General Tacticus's famous book of tactics has any advice on what to do when one army is based in a well-fortified structure on superior ground and the other isn't. Tacticus's advice is to be the one that is. Though later in the series he turns out to have genuine advice on what to do if you aren't: If the enemy's got the fortress, you make sure they stay in the fortress. | |
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The Trenches: | |
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In Life, the Universe and Everything, there is the character Prak. In a court case, he was injected with too much truth serum, and then he was instructed to tell "the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth." He responds by telling them everything that is true about, well, Life, the Universe, and Everything. Everyone present had to flee, leaving him alone telling the Truth, however by the time the protagonists arrive he has finished, telling them that there's not as much to it as one might expect, that he has forgotten it all now, but some of the best bits involved frogs and Arthur Dent. | |
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Bert and I...: A common element of the humor. "You're in a balloon, you damned fool" is the punchline to "The Lighter Than Air Balloon". From "Arthur Bunker Testifies": "You live there all your life?" "Not yet." From "Not Just Yet": "Where is your wife?" "She's out t'the graveyard." (She died eight years ago.) Pretty much all of "Directions". "Where does this road go?" "Don't go nowhere, Mister. Stays right here." |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: In The Stinger, Spider-Man 2099 and 60's Spider-Man get into a heated argument about who pointed at the other first. J. Jonah Jameson and a cop witness this, and the cop also wonders who pointed first. Jameson helpfully says "Spider-Man pointed first, obviously!"note Though there's no reason for Jameson or the cop to believe 2099 Spider-Man is actually Spider-Man.. | |
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M*A*S*H: In one episode, as Hawkeye is forced to treat several Koreans who each successively give him the same ID card that says Kim Luck, this exchange happens. | |
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Lost provided a perfect example during the flight to return to the island: He's lying as usual. His mother died shortly after giving birth to him. Another one from when Richard Alpert gives the Time Jumping Locke a compass. |
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Game Grumps: While playing Kirby's Epic Yarn, Dan claims his dad is the king of these. | |
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In Square One TV segment Mathnet, a musician plays Air Guitar complete with sound effects. This prompts the following exchange with George Frankly: | |
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Absolute Trust: In Chapter 21, after Avatar Kyoshi buries three of the Rough Rhinos beneath a boulder: | |
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Ask That Guy with the Glasses sometimes gives these answers. | |
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From The Real Ghostbusters, the episode No One Comes To Lupusville: | |
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Doing It Right This Time: After Shinji, Asuka and Rei travel back in time, they gradually let others in on what's going on. | |
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Skippy's List offers the following. | |
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As mentioned in Hogfather, when questioned about the origins of life, the philosopher Didactylos set forth this theory: | |
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In one episode of Recess, there is the following exchange: | |
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Animorphs: After being told by the resident friendly alien member of the team that they have all been dragged through a fracture in space-time continuum | |
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In The Sack, the titular character is big on these when not asked specific questions: | |
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In Dollhouse, the newly composited Echo gives one to Alpha, after turning on him: | |
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In Strong Female Protagonist, Alison, having just entered Patrick's mind, encounters and rescues an aspect of his personality, and demands further information from it as to where exactly they are: | |
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From Wapsi Square, Shelly gives one when asked where she got her tattoo. | |
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Grosse Pointe Blank: "I'm doin' a double shift, what's it look like?" | |
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In My Hero Academia, Todoroki somehow manages to completely refurbish his dorm room, making it look like it was taken wholesale out of a traditional Japanese house, complete with tatami mat flooring and a shoji door replacing the sliding glass door out to the veranda. His classmates ask how he was able to do it all in under a day entirely by himself. Todoroki's response? "I worked really hard." | |
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In Sexy Beast, the powerful gayngster Teddy Bass attends an orgy and notices another man, Harry, giving him a certain look. | |
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In Episode 9 of RedLetterMedia's Best of the Worst, the group's initial enjoyment of The Amazing Bulk, as Mike explains, is quickly extinguished by the question of whether the movie is a sincere attempt to make a visually stylized film in the vein of Sin City, an intentionally So Bad, It's Good movie in an effort to rival the popularity of Birdemic or The Room (2003), or the straight mockbuster it appears to be. | |
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The Professionals. In "Rogue", Doyle does this to troll Cowley when Da Chief calls them on the car radio. | |
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The CGI film Bee Movie has a scene between a human woman and a talking bee: | |
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Although in this case Kirk quickly makes it obvious that he's just joking around. | |
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura: When you try to get the location of the Hidden Elf Village Quintarra from Myrth the Elf. He repeatedly answers "In the Glimmering Forest" (said forest covers a third of Arcanum) and "In the trees" while being delighted at your frustration. When you give up, you turn it back on him: | |
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Snatch. had this memorable exchange: | |
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Tealove's Steamy Adventure uses this twice. As Tealove wonders what her new traveling companion, Minty, is: In the cave troll's lair: |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In "Space Seed", a recently awakened Khan has Doctor McCoy by the throat: | |
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From the English dub of Lupin III: | |
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One Archie gag page had Archie meeting a man carving a piece of wood, with the sculptor blocking all of Archie's attempts to determine what the finished sculpture will depict: | |
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"Jackie Cooper, who was The Hunchback of Notre Dame?" "Lon Chaney." | |
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Elvis Costello, Brutal Youth, "My Science Fiction Twin": | |
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Malcolm in the Middle has grizzled old coot Pete scrub up for a date, looking at himself in a mirror. When Francis walks in on him, we have the following gem: | |
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Mock the Week has a Jeopardy! parody called If This is the Answer, What is the Question?, which naturally wound up like the Jeopardy example above on occasion. | |
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From the opening scene of the later Mayall/Edmondson/Planer/Elton series, Filthy Rich & Catflap: | |
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Invoked in The Front. Howard Prince is eventually brought before HUAC. Not wanting to name names, he instead gives responses that allow him to appear cooperative without actually answering. Unfortunately, they threaten to indict him on his history as a bookie, forcing him into making his brave stand at the climax. | |
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple example! | |
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Gaunt's Ghosts: Ghostmaker has a close variant when Colonel Corbec calls in an Orbital Bombardment against a daemon disrupting operations with a psychic storm. The captain of the frigate Navarre complains that this is against normal tacticsnote Orbital Bombardment is normally used only before landing troops; close air-support fighters are usually used afterwards and asks his XO for advice. | |
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In the Futurama episode "The Lesser of Two Evils", Leela finds herself in a Spot the Imposter situation with Bender and his Evil Twin, Flexo: | |
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Given a serious purpose in an episode of The West Wing, when White House counsel Oliver Babish is preparing C.J. to testify before Congress: Though also played for laughs when Will is attempting to obfuscate an angry Assistant Secretary of State: Done twice in the pilot, both times played for laughs. First, when Leo is looking for Josh and goes to Donna, who's sitting at her desk: And then a bit later, between Leo and Mrs. Landingham, when they're talking about the President's bike accident: |
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Jaws: The Revenge invokes this trope as a Hand Wave: | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd: In the episode on games based on Steven Spielberg movies, James says "You know what kind of games I like? Good ones." | |
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He gives us this gem when he's watching VR Troopers and the main characters are lamenting the Big Bad tearing down a historical landmark to build a power plant: | |
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In Return of the Obra Dinn, the boat puller asks the Inspector (the player) how he's supposed to hoist up a heavy box onto the ship. The Inspector's response? "Carefully." | |
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In The Search for Delicious, Gaylen asks a shepherd boy for information, but thanks to Hemlock's lies he thinks Gaylen is up to no good, so he gives answers that are as literal and unhelpful as possible. Gaylen asks him what weekday it is, if he saw a man riding a large gray horse wearing a cape, and how long it would take Gaylen to ride to the next town. The boy answers that it's a strong day, not a weak day, that he would remember seeing a horse wearing a cape, and that it will take Gaylen a very long time to get to the next town, since his horse is standing still. | |
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From Annie (2014): | |
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One of God's conditions in Bruce Almighty is "You can't mess with free will." | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: In episode 8, Prima sees Bambang menacingly sharpening a sickle. Bambang is too angry to give a straight explanation. | |
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The titular Dilbert gives us this when he, Alice, and Wally are crawling through the air ducts and inexplicably find a dry-erase marker in the shaft: | |
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The Most Popular Girls in School: In Episode 3: | |
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In Chobits, Hideki and Chi receive a mysterious file with a map attached. Hideki wonders out loud what it is, and Sumomo declares that she knows, announcing that it's a file attachment. Hideki gets annoyed but Shinbo explains that Sumomo is a less advanced persocom who has trouble grasping abstract concepts like that. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness loves these: and a variation and another one |
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In Get Smart, one of Maxwell Smart's many catchphrases is a mathematician's answer. When asked how he did something, or how he planned to do something, he would respond: "With great difficulty." ...and, loving it. |
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Superhero RPF has several, courtesy of Sassgardian aka Loki: Or in an anonymous forum where Anon 1 is also presumably him when talking about Asgardia: |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle provides us with another example. Boris, in one of his Paper Thin Disguises, needs Bullwinkle to go to a particular location. His scheme is to have Bullwinkle win a trip in a contest. The trick, then, is to get the exceedingly dense Bullwinkle to actually give the correct answer to a question, which he finally accomplishes with this exchange. | |
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In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Clouseau enters an inn, sees a dog, and asks the innkeeper if his dog bites. The answer he gets is technically correct... | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball gives a subjective mathematician's answer. | |
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On one episode of Dragons' Den, the investors tried to get more specifics from a Cloud Cuckoolander inventor: | |
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This exchange from A Storm of Swords: Another example from the same book. Jamie Lannister, being interrogated by Catelyn Stark about the circumstances of an attempt made on Brann Stark's life after he witnessed something incriminating, uses this to avoid giving away any of his true reasons. |
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Danger Mouse gives us: | |
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On Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay usually starts evaluating the restaurant by asking the owner what he or she thinks is the main problem. One owner responded to this question by saying, "We don't have enough customers." | |
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Connecting the Dots: After being accidentally transported to another dimension, Kiba is unfortunate enough to encounter the Question first. When Huntress discovers them, well... | |
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The Taming of the Shrew gives us this exchange concerning Petruchio: | |
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Rogal Dorn from If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device runs on this trope. | |
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Catch-22 has Yossarian being interrogated in hospital. He is slightly delirious at the time, though. | |
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In Feet of Clay Vimes becomes very angry and hits a table in the Rats Chamber with an axe. The next morning, when Vetinari asks him what it is, he says "It's an axe, sir." Of course, Vetinari then proceeds to snark about how quickly he figured that out and ask the real question, which is why it was stuck in the table. | |
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In one episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, Charlie Brown regains consciousness on a sidewalk as two little kids watch. Charlie gets up and asks one of the kids, "Where am I?" One of the kids points to him and says, "Right there!" | |
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Game of Thrones: And again: |
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In one Big Bang Comics story, the Quizmaster is trying to get the Knight Watchman to reveal his secret identity — by having him play 20 questions while hooked up to a lie detector, and killing his sidekick Kid Galahad if he lies! For his first question, he asks the Watchman whom he would be if he weren't wearing his costume. The Watchman replies "I can truthfully say that I would still be myself!" The Watchman tries to give a similar answer to the question "Who is Kid Galahad, in reality?"; he manages to avoid the answer the Quizmaster wanted, but is forced to give away some information: "In all earnestness I'll have to tell you that he's really my nephew!" He had a similar smartass answer for the question "What are your secret identities?", but Kid Galahad escaped and took the Quizmaster out of commission before he could give it. |
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"Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow", a music hall number by Joseph Tabrar. The title is the singer's answer when her teacher asks her why she brings her cat to school. | |
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Sisu: | |
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Wild: Given by a smart-ass snowboarder when hiker Cheryl Strayed, who is struggling through the snow-covered Sierras, is trying to figure out if she is still on the Pacific Coast Trail. | |
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X-Men: The Animated Series makes its very first exposure to Gambit, right after he throws one of his exploding cards: | |
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Spider-Man: In the Civil War issues of The Amazing Spider-Man (J. Michael Straczynski), Iron Man gives Spider-Man a lecture about using this kind of answer when dealing with lawyers, government entities, and other officials. Also invoked when Peter is presented with a scenario where his powers are the result of him being chosen by a mystical spider-totem rather than a spider that was mutated by radiation; a shaman who was helping Peter deal with the aftermath of his latest crisis offered one of these, comparing the situation to the idea that the sun will rise because of gravity and mathematics to the idea that it will come up because it's meant to come up, neither of which have to exclude the other. |
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In Infinity Train, after Tulip sees she's on the inside of a lengthy train filled with numerous rooms containing fascinating features along with One-One. | |
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Arthur has one in the first book as well: | |
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In The IT Crowd, Roy runs into this trying to run tech support. From the same episode: |
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The American President: President Shepherd, concerned his daughter Lucy isn't doing as well in social studies as she should, gives her an old textbook of his: A variation later in the movie, when Shepherd meets lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade for the first time, and they're in his office: |
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JL8: | |
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From Dusk Till Dawn: | |
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Fairy Tail: During Lucy's fight with Byro, her opponent uses a concoction that causes him to transform into a giant octopus. | |
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In The Thundermans episode "Change of Art", Nora is trying to keep her mother from knowing where her siblings are: | |
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In Eragon (first book in the Inheritance Cycle), Brom and Eragon's first meeting with the witch Angela involves Mathematician answers as Brom successively asks her if she knows where the house of the person he is looking for is, and then would she tell him where it is, both her answers being in the affirmative. Brom and Eragon then stand there waiting until she looks up and tells them that, yes, she knows where the house is, and yes, she will tell them where it is, but they never directly asked her which house was the one they were looking for. | |
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In Families, most of the answers the Keeper gives to Twilight are this. This is partially because she's not allowed to give straightforward answers, and partially because it's fun. | |
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In The Babe, a biopic about Babe Ruth, the title ballplayer arranges for an adoption because he and his first wife, Helen, have had no luck conceiving a child. He arrives at their home with a nanny holding an infant, and a dazed Helen inquires, "What is it?" She means to ask whether the child is a boy or a girl, but Babe replies incredulously, "A baby." | |
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Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell: Leo Hatred is a master at this, particularly in this discussion of a feasibility study into the Collinsville coal-fired power plant. | |
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In Tales of the Questor Quentyn stumbles into his parent's kitchen to find Squidge, the bogey, sitting in the middle of a pie, snarfing it down doublehanded. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: When Zaphod learns that Marvin is waiting for them in the car park at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (and has been for several trillion years), he asks what he's doing there. Marvin's answer? Parking cars. What else would he be doing there? "42". For those that don't know about this, an alien race constructs a massive supercomputer in order to learn "The answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything". The computer, after seven and a half million years of computation, comes back with "42". When asked about this, the computer responds that it is able to figure out the answer, but they need another computer to calculate what the question is. When this second computer is destroyed 15 minutes before its four-and-a-half-billion-year run to find the question completes, the programmers, afraid of the mob's reaction to this nonsense, just make up the question: "How many roads must a man walk down?" Arthur has one in the first book as well: In Life, the Universe and Everything, there is the character Prak. In a court case, he was injected with too much truth serum, and then he was instructed to tell "the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth." He responds by telling them everything that is true about, well, Life, the Universe, and Everything. Everyone present had to flee, leaving him alone telling the Truth, however by the time the protagonists arrive he has finished, telling them that there's not as much to it as one might expect, that he has forgotten it all now, but some of the best bits involved frogs and Arthur Dent. |
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In the 3-2-1 Penguins! episode "Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn", when Jason asks where they're going, Kevin ponders briefly before answering "Up." | |
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In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, this is sometimes how Cameron responds to questions. | |
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Suicide Squad #16 | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Culture Shock", SpongeBob asks Squidward which brand of soap he should use: Mr. Cleanser or Dr. Clean? Squidward's response: "Yes." | |
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The Neverending Story: Referred to as dream words for the Childlike Empress' response: | |
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Russian variation of the balloon joke: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, being drifted away in a hot air balloon, finally spot a cowherd below and ask him where they are. | |
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Boldores And Boomsticks: Employed by Casey when she attempts to explain that Team Rocket's behavior isn't all that unusual for them: | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Postman gives such responses to Anju when delivering a letter from her missing fiance Kafei (likely because the Postman is acting as a Secret-Keeper for Kafei, who wants to lay low for the time being): | |
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This exchange in Death Proof when Pam finds out Stuntman Mike's name: Another example later on in the movie: |
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Isabelle Ruins Everything: During the protest, the Mayor asks, "Now, do you wanna tell me why everyone's acting like a bunch of animals?" Isabelle's answer is, "They are animals, sir." | |
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On an episode of Two and a Half Men Jake had a test where he wrote that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in... pen. | |
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Ripping Yarns: | |
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This Bites!: Abundant in the story, and perhaps even more abundant out of it; the three authors, Trolling Creators that they are, have a tendency to use this to answer fans' questions about what's going to happen. | |
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When Blackadder tries to teach Baldrick addition, this becomes an Overly Long Gag when Baldrick gives pretty much every possible correct answer except the most obvious one: When Prince Edmund asks how the Archbishop of Canterbury died, he is told "Horribly." |
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In Q&A With Matt #3 by Matt Santoro, Matt is asked by a fan where he gets his fancy shirts from, and he says the store. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Maud Pie", after Maud throws a rock miles away with enough force to make a tidal wave. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Wheel in Space": "The Two Doctors": "The Eleventh Hour": "Flesh and Stone": River is working with a bunch of people who know nothing about the Doctor: "The Big Bang": An exchange between the Doctor and Rory: Between the Doctor and River: "A Christmas Carol": "The Doctor's Wife": In "A Good Man Goes to War", we meet Madame Vastra, a female Silurian in the late 1800s: During the events of "The Name of the Doctor": Played with in "The Day of the Doctor". The Doctor interprets Osgood's non-answer literally: |
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The King Nobody Wanted: Garth Tyrell tells a visitor to the royal court that he knows her backstory is a lie, and asks who her mother really is. | |
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In episode six of the first season of Boardwalk Empire, Margaret tells a friend in the Temperance League that a man has made her an offer. The friend asks, "Financial? Domestic? Sexual?", and Margaret replies, "Yes." | |
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Person of Interest has this rather hilarious example after Root crashes a car to keep the Victim of the Week safe: | |
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In the Horatio Hornblower Courtroom Episode "Retribution", Dr. Clive is asked if Captain Sawyer "was or was not fit for duty" when the lieutenants removed him from command. Clive replies "yes." The court, naturally, demands that he elaborate, and it turns out this was a prelude for Clive to accuse the lieutenants of coercing him. | |
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In Smith and Jones: Head to Head, a script book of the sketches from Alas Smith and Jones, the introduction answers some common questions about the routine. These include: | |
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The Angel, a character in Mike Resnick's Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future does it several times: | |
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Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future | hasFeature |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus had several. One such example with a mathematician's riposte thrown in: Another example occurs at one point in the Secret Service Dentists sketch, where Arthur Lemming, a customer in a book store, is thrown in a Spy vs. Spy dental-related imbroglio, where he has no idea what's going on (or so we think...) except that it's something suspicious despite the repeated denials of the store owner, while the whole cast is repeatedly held at gunpoint by the next entering character: The sketch "How to Do It" features instructions for how to play the flute: "You blow there and you move your fingers up and down here." |
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The Avengers gives us this gem: Tony forgets to factor in Steve's Fish out of Temporal Water issues while trying to fix the Helicarrier's busted engine, resulting in some sarcasm from Cap: | |
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I Shot Andy Warhol: Creator/Warhol does this repeatedly to a journalist asking why he stopped painting and started making films. Every answer is yes/no even though the questions implicitly aren't. | |
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White Eyes: When Team Seven encounters Orochimaru and his giant snake summon inside the Forest of Death: | |
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Spoony's take on the changes to Yuna between Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. | |
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From The Catcher in the Rye: | |
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Duck Soup: | |
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La Strada: | |
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In The Avengers and The Infinity Gauntlet, after The Mighty Thor points out how Hawkeye's arrows would be nothing more than an annoying trifle to the android that copied his Asgardian strength, Hawkeye tells Scarlet Witch to prepare a hex attack. When Wanda asks if he wanted her to attack the android or Thor, Hawkeye simply says "Yes." | |
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Jurassic Park: | |
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Andromeda: Given that Trance is the avatar of a star, this makes some sense. Another Trance Gemini moment (with a touch of Deadpan Snarker), when she locates an imprisoned Dylan Hunt and offers him water; |
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In Sons of the Desert, Stan and Ollie wouldn't get back home until they came up with a cover story for an escapade. When interrogated by cops about their places of residence, Ollie claimed to live at home and Stan said he was Ollie's next door neighbor. Stan, being Stan, told a really useful answer later. | |
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Ghostbusters (1984): "Where do these stairs go?"... "They go up." | |
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The gender of Mangle from Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is one hotly debated by the fandom for well over a year. Scott Cawthon's answer on if Mangle is male or female? Yes. | |
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In Nomine: The Seraphim are masters of this, since they are angels of truth who are forbidden to lie. Technically true answers keep them from the edge — if sometimes just barely. | |
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At the beginning of Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean is at his hearing to determine if he is fit to be released from prison. | |
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In Dumbing of Age, when Walky gives Dorothy flowers: | |
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How the Light Gets In: After Oliver learns that Edie arranged Laurel's murder, we get this exchange | |
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At a Battlestar Galactica (2003) conference, someone asked star Jamie Bamber, "How many people would you kill so that you could be on Doctor Who?" | |
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A guest of The Golden Girls tells the girls his wife has just had triplets. "What are they?" asks Dorothy. Rose answers, "That's when three babies are born at the same time." | |
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QI: Given the show's habit of penalising obvious or boring answers to questions, it's often safer (and funnier) for contestants to give answers like this: "Atoms": "Fingers and Fumbs": "International", when talking about pilots being brought their food: "Invertebrates": |
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In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, the defense attorney Estermann proposes the idea that the prosecutor is bluffing. His secretary Garibaldi asks if it means she's got an ace up her sleeve or if she's actually running on empty. | |
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One Big Nate strip has Nate asking his science teacher, Mr. Galvin, how old he is. Mr. Galvin responds that he was born during the Holocene Epoch (basically the human era). | |
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Police Squad!: A Running Gag where Frank holds a cigarette out to a witness or suspect and asks "cigarette?" The implication is that he's asking if they want one, but they always answer "Yes, I know," or "Yes, it is." Another example, which appeared both on the show and in one of the movies. When the squad raids a criminal hideout, a pretty gun moll asks "Is this some kind of bust?". While looking at her chest, Drebin replies "Yes, it is very impressive". |
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The Count of Monte Cristo: A rather dark variation. | |
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Mafalda has Libertad unknowingly doing this to Susanita. | |
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The main character of Ask a Ninja loves to do this, especially during the "Omnibus" episodes. | |
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In The Sandman (1989), when Gilbert is asked whether that is his first or last name, he replies "Indubitably. I could not have put it better myself." His full name is eventually revealed to be Fiddler's Green. | |
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This is used to fight mind control in the Magic Kingdom of Landover, when someone is forced to answer questions. | |
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Barney Miller: Wojo is questioning a prostitute he has just arrested: In an episode centered around the 1976 Presidential election, Wojo is inordinately interested in whom Barney's going to vote for. When he asks, Barney replies with "All of them, but of course only one for each office." When Wojo asks "well, what about for President", Barney snarks "Yes, I'll be voting for one of those also." |
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In The Legend of Korra, Korra's cousin Eska has this exchange with Bolin shortly after they meet. | |
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While fictional Jeopardy! examples are based on the contestant's responses, the clues themselves can seem like this if you go along with the concept that they're the answers to the questions that the correct responses ask. Who, when asked "what are chairs?" would answer "George Hepplewhite was known for designing the backs of these in such shapes as hearts & shields"?! | |
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In American Gods, Shadow gets one from Whiskey Jack, and then promptly calls him on it. Shadow gets one from Sweeney as well |
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In Part 7 of Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide, Orbot informs Drs. Eggman and Wily that they've lost Shadow Man: | |
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In Happy Endings Penny fakes being engaged in front of her safety Shershow, who's about to get married to a beautiful woman. | |
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In Dragon Age II, a sidequest has Hawke go fetch some pickaxes for a group of miners from a smith in town whose name they forgot. | |
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Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!: When Larry asks Rose what brought her to America, she responds with "Airplane". | |
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From the Even Stevens episode "Raiders of the Lost Sausage": | |
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The Three Stooges were quite fond of this: From "Shivering Sherlocks": From "Don't Throw That Knife", practicing taking census: From "Hold That Lion", when Shemp gets his head stuck in a fishbowl: |
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The game Star Control 2 has a race with a game called Frungy. One of the creators was asked how Frungy is played. "With gusto!" | |
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Deadly Class: Petra gives one after calling off her threesome with Lex and Billy because all the feelings are discomforting her, the former asks if it's theirs or feelings generally. She says "Yes". | |
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Edmund Finneys Quest To Find The Meaning Of Life has this comic. | |
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Quantico: Simon notices that Nimah pins her hijab on the left sometimes, other times the right, and wonders whether this is because of her ambidexterity, or it has some cultural significance. Nimah answers "yes". This turns out to be because Simon actually saw her twin sister Raina, who'd pinned it on the left side, and Nimah tells her to always pin it on the right so no one notices this again. They're also opposite-handed. | |
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Family Guy: An example by the mayor of Quahog, Adam West: West himself loves doing this: He has it done to him in "E Peterbus Unum'': In one episode, when filling out a hospital form, upon reaching "Sex", Peter wrote "No, thank you, I'm dead". |
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Twice Upon a Time: Ralph asks the Garbagerie computer how far to take the garbage. It replies, "Far away", then "Far, far away" then "You'll know when you get there." | |
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The Left Hand of Darkness: A lord once asked the Foretellers, "On what day shall I die?"; they answered "on the nineteenth day", not specifying the month or year. The lord's lover Herbor then asked how long the lord would live and was told "Longer than Herbor". The lord snapped, killed Herbor, and soon committed suicide — on the nineteenth day of the month. Having heard such stories, a very skeptical Genly asks the Foretellers whether the planet Gethen will join the Ekumene within the next five years, expecting some coy wordplay. Subverted when they answer "Yes" — and they're proven right. |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: When McCoy is on the witness stand during the trial, General Chang asked about his current medical status. McCoy answers, "Aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good." A single Klingon laughs his ass off while the rest of the courtroom is dead silent. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin has one of these during the Jinchu Arc: | |
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During the Q&A episode of Villainous, Flug gets the question of how did he and Demencia arrive at the Black Hat Organization. | |
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From Terra Nova: | |
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The third generation Pokémon games will let you answer yes or no... to the question of where your character came from. If you answer "yes," he'll reply that he's never heard of Yes Town. If you say no, he'll say that you have to have come from somewhere. | |
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How I Met Your Mother dipped into this when Barney tells Ted about a special type of bingo he invented, and Ted tries to figure out the endgame, and Barney answers with an intonation like Ted's the strange one. Barney gets it done to him when he tries to surprise the group with tickets to "Robots versus Wrestlers". |
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In Breaking Bad, Walt calls up Mike to find out where Jesse is. | |
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In Rik Mayall's Believe Nothing (made when David Blunkett was Britain's Home Secretary): | |
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CSI: Death by Chocolate: A bouncer warns Greg that if he turns out to be a "just another one of those perverts" out to harass Violet Beauregard over her condition, he won't even have to worry about the bouncer turning him out, as she'll break his neck himself. | |
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BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm: At the beginning of the game it asks "Are you a boy or a girl?" ' Yes/No'' | |
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In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Billy asks Splinter whether he's a rat who became a person or a person who became a rat. Splinter answers "Exactly". | |
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In It's a Wonderful Life, George asks the pregnant Mary, "Is it a boy or a girl?" Mary just nods enthusiastically. | |
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Becomes the cause of an attack that causes the death of four people in a Stand Still, Stay Silent flashback. | |
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Friends: | |
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Babylon 5: The Vorlons love this trope. Everything that Kosh says is not exactly helpful: In one case, Sheridan had asked what was in the random access hatch Kosh had led him to. Kosh's answer was "One moment of perfect beauty." Sheridan lampshades this: "Well, as answers go, short, to the point, utterly useless and totally consistent with what I've come to expect from a Vorlon." It turns out, this is a completely factual statement, though it makes no sense until you can see the context. This gets lampshaded again in the same episode when Ivanova asks Sheridan what Kosh showed him. Sheridan responds "Beauty... in the dark." Ivanova remarks that Kosh's lessons must be working, because Sheridan is starting to talk like a Vorlon. According to the RPG, the Vorlon don't usually do it on purpose: their language is fully telepathic, and most of the usually deep meaning is lost in translation due them not being used at voicing it. Then again, sometimes we get Vorlon like Kosh, who is capable of expressing himself (relatively) well with a voice but still leaves out details, either to have people think and realize what he mean by themselves, because what he was asked is meant to stay secret, or just for the hell of it. The Drakh do the same in season 4: "Drakh? Is that your name or your species?" "Yes." J. Michael Straczynski himself has used it on occasion. (warning: link contains spoilers) "Was Kosh's line about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum a warning or a threat?" "Yes." At the Year-End feast in "The Parliament of Dreams", Londo asks "Do you know what the last Xon said before he died? AAAAHHHHH!" When G'Kar gets let out of jail for his Mind Rape of Londo in "Point of No Return", he tells Ta'Lon of a revelation he had. Ta'Lon asks what kind of revelation. G'Kar tries this trope on Ta'Lon, who is having none of it. |
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Famously in the Only Fools and Horses episode "If They Could See Us Now", in which Del Boy is on a quiz show hosted by Jonathan Ross: | |
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In The Goon Show episode, "The Lost Emperor", young Neddie Seagoon is working in the Victoria and Albert Museum late at night when Moriarty and Grytpype come in and pull a gun on him. | |
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A version of this joke involving cows instead of sheep appears in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. | |
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Jonah in Jormungand is awful at math, so when he's basically asked 22 times 3 while the Logistics crew are at an airport, he answers "A bunch." | |
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Citizen Kane: | |
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Harry has one in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when Snape asks him about his copy of Advanced Potion-Making. | |
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared has one of these in the fourth episode. When Collin asks the puppets where they live, Duck Guy answers "My house". | |
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From Deadpool Vol. 2 #34: | |
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Carry On: | |
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The Champions: In the 2021 knockout stage draw short, Erling Haaland is asked about said knockout stage: | |
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Red Rock West: When Lyle asks how Wayne, a wanted fugitive, got elected sheriff, Wayne replies "I was elected." | |
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Night Court: Bull helps deliver a baby. Asks the exhausted mother, "What is it?", wanting to know the gender. Bull: "It's a baby!" | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "When the Bough Breaks", Wesley talks to the Custodian (a computer), after having been told he's allowed to ask of it any question: In "Parallels", the Enterprise crew throws Worf a surprise party for his birthday. Picard asks Worf how old he is, to which Worf simply says "Old enough." |
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