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This is what happens when someone takes a well known phrase or saying, and then decides that it doesn't convey quite as much information as it needs to. So the speaker adds a little bit on the end, usually with the modifier "But", usually either missing the point or totally reversing the original meaning of the phrase. Related to the Ice-Cream Koan, but differs in that while the first part of the phrase is valid, the second part is clearly tacked on by the speaker. Often said by a Seemingly Profound Fool in some of his more fauxlisophical moments. You Can't Make an Omelette... and When Life Gives You Lemons... are common victims of this trope. Not to be confused with attempts to separate the face-value meanings of Loaded Words and slogans from the connotations with which they are loaded. Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them is a common magnet for such jokes, such as changing the message to "Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em" or leaving it at just "Can't live with 'em", since depending on who the subject is about it's perfectly possible to live without 'em. |
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Tracy Lawrence also had a song called "Sticks and Stones," with the operative line being, "These sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two." | |
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Karal uses this trope to get out of what could have been a very uncomfortable conversation in Storm Breaking. After Altra tells him about Firesong's near-fall into insanity (specifically, that Firesong was close to injuring/killing Karal), Karal deflects any questions from Firesong about what made him look odd with the line: | |
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Bojack Horseman: In the Show Within a Show Horsin' Around, the Horse's catchphrase is, "I've heard of [popular phrase], but this is ridiculous!" Due to Stylistic Suck, the "popular phrase" is sometimes just gibberish that no one has ever said before, like, "Lookie, lookie, who's got the cookie?" Even Bojack, who revers the show, will get confused when he revisits an episode. | |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but a fifty foot fall will kill y'all! | |
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Animal Crossing: Wild World: Crazy Redd the fox runs a black market tent that requires a call-and-response password to get in (which he posts to you in advance). Some of them take this kind of form. | |
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Cheers: As Carla puts it. "When in doubt... kill Diane." From Norm, there's "Women. Can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts." |
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Achewood: Eating an apple a day keeps the doctor away... but throwing it at him works better! | |
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The Miss Congeniality sequel plays with this trope in the following exchange: | |
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In one episode of Samurai Pizza Cats, Francine comments, "Tomcats! You can't live with them, and you can't throw them down a well and drown them!" | |
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The Mummy (1999): Rick is fighting off Imhotep while Evy searches the Book of the Dead for the spell that will send him back to the underworld. Rick tries to get her to move a little faster. | |
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Ozy and Millie has this take: | |
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Toward the end of Happy Gilmore, Happy's former boss is wearing a shirt which reads "Guns don't kill people, I kill people!" | |
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Joe Jitsu from The Dick Tracy Show episode "The Casbah Express": | |
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Animaniacs: The lessons in the "Wheel of Morality" segment often take this form. For example: | |
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Pretty much the reason why Al in Married... with Children hasn't just up and left his ungrateful life parasite of a wife and kids. Among Al's immortal quotes: | |
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Discworld: “Set a thief to catch a thief� is actually the version updated by the Thieves’ Guild of an older proverb that actually advocated a long and complicated trap to catch a thief. Jingo brings us “Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.� In The Truth, William De Worde expands greatly on the “glass half full/half empty� dichotomy, noting that there are also people whose glasses have been knocked over, or people who can’t get the bartender’s attention, or how the people who run things tend to look at a half-empty glass and say “This isn’t my glass! My glass was full! Who’s been pinching my beer?� In Going Postal, Ankh-Morpork's pin-collecting fraternity have the saying "See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll have a pin". |
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This is how the Complete Proverbs round on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (a variant on Quote, Misquote) works. The teams are given the first half of a well-known saying and have to complete it. Points are deducted for a correct answer. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, when Sheldon and Amy end their friendship over an argument as to whether Neurobiology or Theoretical Physics is the more important science, Howard offers the opinion: "Women, can't live with 'em, can't successfully refute their hypotheses". | |
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Used in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: | |
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Paul in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World: “With great power comes a lot of people pestering you to use it on their behalf.� | |
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The actual line was parodied twice on 3rd Rock from the Sun. In the pilot, Harry declares "Women, you can't live with 'em... and yet they're everywhere." In a later episode, Dick declares "Women, you can't live with 'em and you can't have heterosexual sex without 'em." To which Harry responds, "That's probably true." Also in one episode Judith says to Mary, "Men, can't live with 'em" [beat while Mary waits for the rest] "Goodbye, Mary." |
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The Order of the Stick: Here: "You can't make an omelet without permanently deafening someone." And later on: "You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disembowling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." |
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Jingo brings us “Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.� | |
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Hobo With a Shotgun: When life gives you razor blades, you make a baseball bat. Covered in razor-blades. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: A few of the Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries are phrased that way. To name a few examples: | |
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The Red Dwarf episode "Stasis Leak" has: | |
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Joker in the The Dark Knight gives us this one-letter change from Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger: | |
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xkcd offers two takes on a classic, one in this comic and one in its Alt Text. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law: Milo does this fairly frequently, though frequently blames it on his dad | |
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Big Hero 6: The Series: Wasabi grimly states upon concluding that a bear is about to attack from a nearby bush in Muirahara Woods that this is how the team is going to die... "Not with a bang but with a Bear". | |
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Subverted in one episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey. Principal Pixiefrog starts saying "Women! You can't live with 'em..." He pauses, and we expect him to say "You can't live without 'em," but then he says "That's all. You can't live with 'em." | |
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Batman: Assault on Arkham: When Harley Quinn spots the Joker's cell and tries to shoot him: | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition contain an interesting subversion in rule 75: Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum." In that case, the subversion of the original popular saying has itself become a popular saying. Later played straight with rule 229: |
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In Going Postal, Ankh-Morpork's pin-collecting fraternity have the saying "See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll have a pin". | |
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Rocket Power: Blood is thicker than water... But not nearly as refreshing. | |
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Destroy All Humans!: When Crypto is about to fatally probe a government agent, he says "don't get mad... get sadistic." | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Blood is thicker than water. But mango chutney is thicker than blood. | |
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An animated trailer for The Adventure Zone: Balance contains the tagline "When the going gets tough, it's their own damn fault." | |
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Ghost Trick: Trying to get to safety in a submarine rapidly filling with water, Sissel comments at one point that they're "out of the water". Fridge Brilliance kicks in when one realizes that it's no wonder that Sissel, a cat, would consider water more dangerous than fire. | |
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Reba: Van, trying to give some relationship advice. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Mariner likes to operate by the credo of "keep your friends close and your enemies way the hell away from you." | |
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Recess: Spinelli says this about boys in one episode: | |
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Bewitched: It's like Aunt Hagatha always used to say, if at first you don't succeed, quit. (beat). I never did like Aunt Hagatha. | |
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From Starship: | |
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In The Truth, William De Worde expands greatly on the “glass half full/half empty� dichotomy, noting that there are also people whose glasses have been knocked over, or people who can’t get the bartender’s attention, or how the people who run things tend to look at a half-empty glass and say “This isn’t my glass! My glass was full! Who’s been pinching my beer?� | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: In episode 22, Bambang tries to calm Mami Bibir's rant down by reminding her of Indonesian proverb "your mouth is your tiger", but subverts it mid-sentence into "your mouth... is your mouth". In episode 47, Alexi quotes how "humans are made out of tanah (earth/land)", but Juna is "made of disputed land", referring to how frustrating Juna is to Alexi. |
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The Guild gives us this gem: | |
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From Magic: The Gathering Arena, Vraska gives us an insight into Golgari politics: | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In "Old Man and the C-", Timmy's dad finishes an assignment with "...sticks and stones may break your bones, but words leave psychological wounds that never heal!" | |
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In Portal 2, when Cave Johnson discovered that he was dying from moon dust poisoning, he started out with an optimistic attitude, actually saying "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade". However, he wasn't that mentally stable to begin with, and the news of his impending death drove him even further over the edge. This culminated in a dramatic lemon-flavored Rage Against the Heavens speech. | |
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In Caméra Café, Paolo always repeats twice the first part of the proverb he's about to say. For example: "An apple a day... an apple a day". | |
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: In 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which constitutionally-protected abortion rights, John criticized Democratic Party leaders for their tepid responses, noting how so many Democratic politicians and party organizations immediately sent texts requesting $15 donations, quipping "When they go low, we ask you for $15.", subverting the saying "When they go low, we go high.", which was popularized by then-First Lady Michelle Obama at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. | |
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Transformers: Animated: | |
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In Alarm Clock, after Rainbow Dash breaks a cart by speeding, she says, “Ehhhhh, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few ... uh, carts.� A few chapters later, Ditzy Doo adapts the saying again: “It’s like they say: you can’t make an omelet without destroying Ponyville Town Hall once or twice.� | |
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Final Fantasy X: One of Tidus' famous Narmy lines is "I was out of the frying pan and into the freezer". This is because he was locked in a freezing-cold chamber of Baaj Temple with no fire to keep himself warm. | |
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From Blackadder the Third, Episode 4: "When the going gets tough, the tough hide under the table." | |
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Tom Arnold's Gib in True Lies: "Women. Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em." | |
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Katamari Damacy: Love makes the world go round... But Manners keep you from getting motion sickness. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: | |
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Barney Miller manages to do this with the actual saying, because the second part is usually left unsaid and so comes across as a Non Sequitur: | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990): Wise man say: Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza. | |
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AJR: From "Break My Face": "What doesn't kill you, makes you ugly, life gives you lemons, at least it gave you something." | |
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In Shoot 'Em Up, Hertz comments that "Guns don't kill people... But they sure help!" | |
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In the very first issue of Paperinik New Adventures, when the titular hero is having a hard time defending a woman from the coolflames: "Don't worry! When the going gets tough... I wish I was somewhere else." | |
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Transmetropolitan: Spider Jerusalem. "Editors. Can't live with 'em, and the mass grave by my compound is getting full." | |
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From the intro to Hong Kong Phooey: | |
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