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Unnecessary Time Precision
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Alice asks Bob how long something has been going on. Bob asks Alice what time/day it is, and Alice tells him. Bob's response then reveals that whatever information Alice gave him is irrelevant. Either he requested information implying a very long time, and returned with a very short one, or vice versa. Not to be confused with Ludicrous Precision, which are ridiculously precise counting or estimates. |
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Night Watch: Vimes asks when Dibbler Enterprises, Est. was established. What year is it? Tuesday. | |
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The Little Rascals: Resident bullies Butch and Woim chase Alfalfa until they corner him. To stall for time, Alfalfa answers their rhetorical question —of how long has it been since they beat him up— with a ramble in which he calculates whether it's a leap year and how many days certain months have, only to say that it was yesterday. | |
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Red vs. Blue: The Recollection: In "Reconstruction", Church has been left alone at a base for a while until Washington passes by during a mission. Church first asks if it's Tuesday before saying how long it's been. Since it's fourteen months, mere days hardly matter. | |
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Love and Death: Boris owes his Sex God abilities to constant masturbation. Flabbergasted, the Countess asks him about the last time he was intimate with a woman. He starts counting days of the week, giving the impression that his last sexy encounter was very recent. As it turns out, it's been two years. | |
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Adventures in Odyssey: In "Aloha Oy!", Donna interviews Don Iowa, with one of the questions being the number of years the latter has resided in Hawaii. Iowa first says Hawaiians measure time in full moons rather than years. When Donna then modifies her question to fit this time scale, he answers he's lived there three years worth of full moons. | |
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Scrooged: Spooked by the Christmas ghosts, Frank reaches out to his ex-wife to make amends with her over how much of a selfish, insensitive prick he was. Of course, the film has to sprinkle some comedy even in the most emotional moments, so we have him checking his watch to seemingly determine exactly how long has it been since he and Claire met. He ends up saying it was maybe a decade or maybe fifteen years. | |
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Frisky Dingo: Parodied in the second season. Xander, the resident Batman Corrupted Character Copy, is being interviewed about his homelessness —he used to be a millionaire. When the interviewer informs him it's been a year, he asks what day is. Apparently, he became homeless on a Thursday one year ago. Or not and he's just trolling people. | |
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Llamas with Hats: While not technically time-based, Paul's conversation with Carl rings of this trope. The former asks the latter for the rest of the lifeboats. Carl seems to be calculating trajectories as if the boats just got lost adrift. Instead, they sunk because he bit holes in them. | |
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Orange Is the New Black: Alex does this when Nicky asks her how much time she has left. | |
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Power Rangers (2017): There's a spaceship that's been buried for a long time. When Robot Buddy Alpha 5 is asked how long, he first requests what day is today. It's a subversion of Lucidrous Precision because it gives the impression of needing that information to give a ridiculously precise answer. As it turs out, it's been 65 million years. At such a scale, even a one-year error margin is trivial, never mind a day. | |
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Studio C: In "They’re All Dead!?", Matt asks how long the con has been going on. Mallory asks if it is Tuesday before stating that it has been five years. | |
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Zookeeper: In a bid to prevent their beloved caregiver from leaving, the zoo animals talk to him. Griffin, very out of his deep, asks them when they gained the ability to understand and communicate with humans. The monkey, a little bit of a trickster, adopts a pensive pose as if calculating, which is not necessary since they've always been able to do it. | |
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Two and a Half Men: Charlie is a jerkass womanizer who has serious commitment issues and treats his flings badly. He still displays this nasty behavior in the very rare instance where he is indeed interested in a woman. His (usually) nicer brother Alan advises him to check on her. Charlie first asks whether it's Sunday before admitting he's never called her for anything other than sex. | |
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Sourcery: While Rincewind is an Inept Mage, he's had his fair share of adventures. When he meets Nijel, a rather unimpressive Barbarian Hero, he thinks he's found kinship with him. Spending too long away from civilization is bad for one's notion of time, after all. Nijel has only been three days on the road, making his earlier question of what year it is unneeded. | |
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Family Guy: During the cutaway gag of Peter’s rat farm in "Peterotica", Peter looks at his pocket watch before telling Armando that he is two months behind on paying rent. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: When Ted and Victoria first reconnect, Victoria reveals that she started dating a close friend after breaking up with Ted. When he asks how long it took for her to start seeing this new guy, she starts by noting the month they broke up before stating it was less than two days. | |
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Friends: In "The One with the Thumb", Joey asks Monica when the gang get to meet her new boyfriend. She toys with him about potentially planning a date only to tell him a flat never. | |
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