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There are three things you should know about this page: This is a Stock Phrase often used in comedy. It is used for when there are three things that a character wanted and one or two of them didn't turn out the way they expected. This is TV Tropes Millionth Trope! Congratulations! You've won one gazillion dollars! ... Okay, well, two out of three ain't bad. Also, usually the one that went wrong was the most important one, e.g. "Well, he's got Super-Toughness all right, and he doesn't give up, but the controllable part... well, Two Out Of Three Aint Bad." |
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Dennis the Menace: In "Ruff's Hat Trick", Dennis and Ruff are being chased by a police officer. Two workers are seen carrying a Sheet of Glass when Ruff and Dennis approach them. Though the workers manage to avoid having having the sheet of glass shattered by both Ruff and Dennis, they're not so lucky when the police officer comes across them. | |
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In one Magnum, P.I. Christmas episode T.C. refers to Magnum and his companions as freeloaders. Higgins replies that Robin Masters is perfectly willing to remunerate. | |
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House of Mouse: In "Pete's One-Man Show", Mickey and the gang create a fake audience to humor Pete when nobody shows up to see him perform, which ends up backfiring when Pete announces that he's starting his own club and invites his non-existent audience to go there. | |
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Freefall has Helix thinking that he's excited to be back home where he has his room, his stuff, and he doesn't have to worry about Sam crashing into a mountain and killing him. However, when Sam expresses his excitement that he'll be able to fly the spaceship that they call home once Florence fixes it, Helix decides that two out of three isn't bad. | |
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Mars Attacks!: Shortly after Congress is blown up, the President (played by Jack Nicholson) reminds the American people that "we still got two outta three branches of the government workin' for us, and that ain't bad." | |
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Cro: During "Here's Looking at You, Cro!", at one point Cro and Pacca spy on Ogg using a periscope while he's roasting some mung over a fire: | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: "Rocks, Clocks, and Two Stupid Ponies": | |
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Played for drama in Thousand Shinji. When Asuka fights the nine MP-Evas she kills eight. While she dies at the hands of the ninth, she thinks that "eight out of nine isn't so bad." | |
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Subverted in Queer as Folk (US), when Lindsay tells the others that her childhood dream was to fall in love, get married and have a baby. When Michael says that two out of three isn't bad, Lindsay says that three out of three is even better, since she and Melanie have decided to get married. | |
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In the Gilligan's Island episode "The Hunter", the Castaways are trying to reassure themselves that Gilligan will escape from the eponymous character. | |
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In Spock's World, a Vulcan asks if Kirk is ready for the referendum about secession. Kirk responds, "Ready, willing and able." McCoy comments, "At least two out of three ain't bad." | |
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Gumby: One short had Prickle and Goo getting the names of the presidents on Mt. Rushmore. | |
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Darren Stevens from Bewitched once said this after noting that while his mother-in-law hates him, his wife and daughter love him very much. | |
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Good Omens: the main female character finds out that the man she was fated to fall in love with, whom she hoped would be the proverbial "tall, dark and handsome" guy, is in fact only tall and dark. She tells herself, "Two out of three isn't bad." | |
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A skit on Saturday Night Live concluded with two representatives of the Gay Communist Gun Club endorsing George H. W. Bush for president because, while he did not support all of their positions, two out of three wasn't bad. | |
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Scooby-Doo: A witch tried to turn Scooby Doo, Scrappy and Shaggy into frogs. Shaggy was the only one she hit and the witch invoked the trope to show how satisfied she was for having at least one frog. | |
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Son of the Sannin: During the Fourth Ninja War, Edo Tensei!Kakuzu launches a fiery blast at Shino, Kiba and Tamaki. Shino manages to evade it, but the others seemingly don't, prompting Kakuzu to quote the trope (at least until it turns out the others slipped underground to save themselves.) | |
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Judge Dredd: In "America", the rebellious America Jara points out during a college lecture she's attending that the Judges of Mega-City One have taken away almost all the principles that the old America was founded on: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" has become a dark joke. The teacher sheepishly says that at least they're still alive, and 1 out of 3 isn't bad. And after the "Day of Chaos" arc, even that concession has become a bit questionable... | |
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The Wire: When Carcetti becomes mayor, he's told that if he wants to run for governor in a few years, his administration's policy goals should be to 1) authorize a major construction project he can put his name on; 2) lower Baltimore's crime rate; 3) not interfere in the city's schools, and for bonus points, 4) keep his "boyish good looks". When Carcetti recalls this exchange in a later season and mentions it to his aide Norman, Norman snarks that one out of four isn't bad. | |
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Australian novelty band The Beards promote the idea of growing a beard thusly in their song "Beard Revolution": | |
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Laff-A-Lympics: The cover for the first comic describes the teams as "two teams of funtastic heroes and one team of these guys! (well, two out of three isn't bad)" | |
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NPR's This American Life once followed a Jewish advertiser who was working with a Muslim client. The client, in idle political conversation with the ad-man, quoted a prophecy that said "there will never be peace within Islam until Islam rules over the three holy cities of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem". The advertiser responded "Two out of three ain't bad". | |
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In The George Lopez Show, this is used when George finds out that Benny lied to him, and his dad is actually alive. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Bolin guesses that his captor, Ghazan, was raised by an older sister, started growing his mustache at ten, and has an unspoken attraction to his partner-in-crime Ming-Hua. Ghazan replies with this trope, and though he doesn't state which two are correct, given their glances, it would seem the first two are correct. | |
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In the Voyagers! episode "An Arrow Pointing East", when Bogg leaves to get the gasoline so Lindbergh can fly the Atlantic, he's warned there's a guard dog on the premises. When Jeff tries to tell him to be careful, Bogg declares that he has a way with women, children, and animals. Jeff concedes to two out of the three. | |
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Soul Music had the gag about Sex, Drugs and Music with Rocks In. "I haven't had sex." "My dad would kill me if I did drugs." "Well, one out of three ain't bad." | |
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Played with in the English dub of Martian Successor Nadesico, when Ryoko reports that two members of her three-woman squad are accounted for, and even says the line. She is immediately countered by the missing Izumi (who ended up in the giant toolbox Ryoko was towing), who chimes in: "It is if you're the third!" | |
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