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Strictly speaking this is supposed to be dramatic, only you know...

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Monkey: Once more?

A simple comedy dialogue trick is to have something bizarre happen, and so have someone say "not again", implying information technology's happened before. The actual phrasing can vary. A slightly less funny version (unless washed just right) is where it actually has happened before, on-screen, and the graphic symbol is just pointing that out.

A variation is to have the grapheme say something along the lines of "This is just like X all once again," where X is something typically ordinary, such as prom, or graduation.

See also Here We Go Again, and This Is Gonna Suck, which can be combined with it. Is frequently used in conjunction with the Noodle Incident (especially if what happened the final time hasn't been mentioned or seen before, especially if the "This is only like Ten all over once more" variation is used).

Related to Didn't We Use This Joke Already?

Examples of Oh, No, Not Once more include:

Advertizement

Not long agone, Jared's came out with another Dave/GPS commercial; naturally, Dave invokes this trope equally he remembers what happened last fourth dimension.

Anime & Manga

In the outset of Chrono Crusade, Rosette wails, "Why does this sort of thing ever happen to me?!" after her mission to exorcise a demon ends in her crashing a ship into the Statue of Liberty. The very adjacent affiliate confirms that this sort of disaster happens because of her all the fourth dimension.
Early in Cyborg 009 when the cyborgs were painting their ship, 007 accidentally knocks down a bucket of pigment on 008's head while arguing with 006. A noisy hunt ensues, which 004 comments laconically:

004: Non over again.

During the Buu Saga, after Piccolo and Gotenks detect the ruins of the Scout, Piccolo states "the Scout is destroyed... again." Those who've watched the Anime volition most likely think dorsum to the Garlic Jr. Saga, which is the only other fourth dimension that the Picket was destroyed (onscreen, anyhow). Similarly, when Krillin, when trying to come up up with an excuse for Gohan's whereabouts to Chi-Chi, considered saying "Gohan's been kidnapped once again!" With the only other onscreen time he was kidnapped was during the events of the film Dead Zone.

Comic Books

Silver Age Superman one time flew through Hell, causing Hitler to look up and shout "Oh no, not once again!" Gilt Historic period Superman had defeated Hitler in one of Activeness Comics'due south first bug.
Negation had the Catch Phrase BOHICA (Curve Over — Here It Comes Over again).
The image at Joker Amnesty it's from The Batman Adventures comic Mad Beloved. Information technology has the terminal ii words of this trope. (The panel earlier showed Batman hitting the Joker out of a train and him saying: "Oh, no...")
The Trope Image comes from Batman event 246 where he discovers Robin dead in a clock tower.

Comic Strips

In an early FoxTrot arc, Andy becomes quite paranoid that her husband Roger is having an thing, when he calls to tell her he'll exist home late again. Every bit Andy continues to retrieve of ways he could exist lying to her nigh what he'south really doing, Roger counters her questions with substantive answers. He even puts the phone up to his desk chair and says "Listen — you lot know how my chair squeaks?" "Sounds like bedsprings", Andy replies, and Roger yells for a coworker named Fred to "go over here and talk to [his] wife", to which the coworker groans "Not once more..."
The Far Side. A hippie stops at a house to ask for directions; upon noticing that the person he's speaking with is an elephant-bird-giraffe-man, the human being says, "Oh, wow, déjà vu."
In a Garfield strip, Garfield is complaining well-nigh how there's only reruns on Idiot box, and leftovers in the fridge. Then Jon runs by, screaming about how the plumbing has backed up, and pirahnas are spawning in the toilet. Garfield's reaction? "Once again?!"

Fan Works

In A Very Potter Musical, when Voldemort and Malfoy are making an Unbreakable Vow (i.eastward. a spit-milkshake):

Malfoy: (earlier Voldemort can become out of the milkshake) And you have to be my slave for a whole day starting now!

Voldemort: You lot little shit! You got me, oh this is then embarassing! That'southward the second time that's happened!

In the Potter Boob Pals episode "The Vortex", nosotros accept this substitution:

Hermione: Professor Dumbledore! Ron'southward trapped in an alternate dimension!

Dumbledore: Oh no, not again!

Even so more than Harry Potter silliness: Oh God Not Again is a breezy Peggy Sue-parody fic in which 23-year-former Harry gets to relive his unabridged childhood fortuitously having done information technology all before.
Used to lampshade the increasingly frequent instances of "darkness enfolding him" in ToyHammer.

"Darkness enfolded me. Again."

Said by Fakir in Princess Tutu Abridged: "Did I just get taken out past a ninety pound ballerina? Damn, not again."
Takamachi Nanoha of 2814 has a spectacular example that is entirely in line with catechism.

"I am going to die a virgin," Tuxedo Kamen said, then added conscientiously, "Again."

Negi Springfield in Equal and Reverse Allure quotes this verbatim before passing out when he discovers that, yet again, he is instruction mages in his class.

Films — Live-Action

Used twice in Mousehunt. First, when the Mayor faints subsequently swallowing half a cockroach, his wife yelps, "Oh, no! Non again!" Later, when Lars and Ernie get to the beast shelter and ask for a brutal true cat, Mory tells them he has the perfect one: "I had all but given up hope of anyone wanting him. Nosotros were near to gas him again."
John Hurt'southward character gets out this line during his cameo in Spaceballs when a miniature Alien bursts out of his breast — which is, of course, a Shout-Out to his role in Alien.
This is Mark Hamill's response to his manus getting chopped off in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. It's besides a Shout-Out to the last time Mark Hamill lost a hand.
Along similar lines, in Attack of the Clones when Anakin dives off the side of a speeder in the middle of loftier-speed, flying traffic, all Obi-Wan can come up upwardly with is, "I hate information technology when he does that."
In Mary Poppins, virtually l chimney sweepers roll out of the Banks family unit's fireplace and start dancing effectually singing. And the first affair the melt says when she sees them is, "They're at it once more!"
Subsequently a hotel-roof shootout in Last Activity Hero, culminating in a crane causing a helicopter to crash, Jack Slater (portrayed by Ah-nold), asks his kid sidekick to bring the auto around. Upon being informed that the helicopter landed on it, he replies, "I hate information technology when that happens."
Die Hard 2: "How can the aforementioned shit happen to the same guy twice?"
In Beerfest, Jay Chandrasekhar's grapheme wakes up naked in the middle of a field after a night of heavy drinking. Lying next to him is a dead deer with claret around its neck, Jay'southward graphic symbol with blood all over his mouth. "Ohhh, not once again!"
Rick O'Connell in The Mummy Returns upon seeing the Soldier Mummies back in activeness. "Oh no, non these guys once again!"
In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Scott's sister Stacey finds out Wallace has seduced her new boyfriend behind her back. Her response? "Wallace? AGAIN?!"
In Aeroplane! Two: "Ted, I have the strangest feeling we've been through this exact same thing before."
At the very end of the Doctor Who goggle box movie the Doctor is just settling down to relax in his TARDIS when his gramophone starts to skip, causing it to echo the word "time" over and again, just like it did at the first of the movie. The last line is the Doctor's despairing "Oh no... non again!"
In The Bang-up Muppet Caper when Beauregard drives his cab into the Happiness Hotel and then into the kitchen:

Pops: Well, it looks like steering bicycle soufflé for dinner.

Janice: Over again?

Literature

The Hitchhikers Guide to The Milky way, where two missiles in flight are turned into a whale and a bowl of petunias. The whale has an entire internal monologue, but the bowl of petunias but thinks "Oh no, not again." One of the sequels actually explains why it thinks this, turning it into a Brick Joke.
A subtle example from Discworld: In the kingdom of Lancre, a child's legal name is whatever the priest calls them at christening. One of the characters subsequently mentions a former male monarch named "My God He'south Heavy the First".

Live-Action TV

The Office: "He's put my stapler in the jelly again!"
Stargate Atlantis: When Dr. Weir'southward heed is taken over past an conflicting, anybody reacts with shock. Except McKay, who just whines, "not again". We'd seen another character taken over by aliens a few episodes before. Earlier that, McKay himself had had a woman'south listen inhabit his brain and take over his torso. McKay also says this when he's trapped in a sinking send for the second time.
Similarly, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a warning of the impending apocalypse is met with "again?" We've seen several near-apocalypses before.
Thirty Rock
- In an episode, Liz, trying to figure out why a hot human being wants to date her, tells him at 1 point that "If you're a gay guy looking for a beard, I don't do that anymore!"
- In another episode, she asks Jenna, "What's going on? Why are being then happy and overnice? Are yous soaking your tampons in vodka again?"
Get Smart
- A more than specific version is one of the best-known running gags from Maxwell Smart.

Max: The old Professor-Peter-Peckinpah-all-purpose-anti-personnel-Peckinpah-pocket-pistol-under-the-toupee fox. That's the 2nd time I've fallen for it this month.

- He besides notes that some absurdly large items are "the second biggest __ I've always seen."
Smallville:

Chloe: Clark has amnesia.

Lois: Again?

Queen Machina in Ability Rangers Zeo when Mondo is struck down by the Super Zeo Megazord.
Tenaya on Power Rangers RPM, the 2nd fourth dimension Dr. K grabs her violin.
The MADtv sketch "Gump Fiction" had Phil LaMarr reprise his role from Pulp Fiction. Equally a nod to the meta, he shouted out, "Not once again!".
On Press Your Luck, one of the Whammy animations featured i attempting to accident upwardly the contestant's winnings with a Plunger Detonator, just to have information technology blow upwards in his confront instead; this is followed by "Non over again..."
On The Big Blindside Theory, when Sheldon sees Leonard and Penny kissing later on they've broken up, he sighs "Oh, friggity-frack, non this again."
Played with on Parks and Recreation:

Leslie: Some guy handcuffed himself to a piping in my role because nosotros wouldn't put a copy of Twilight in the time capsule.

Ben: (sarcastic) Dammit, once more?

A Sabrina the Teenage Witch episode had her aunts alert Sabrina about wish magic in which if a witch desires something or someone enough that their magic can make them spontaneously appear. The aunts demonstrate this by saying the name of singer Randy Travis three times and he promptly appears in their kitchen. Travis looks around and instead of freaking out he sighs and says "Hello Hilda, howdy Zelda and yous must be Sabrina. I've heard a lot about you."
In a tardily season half dozen episode, How I Met Your Mother went meta when Ted responded to something Barney said with him having the feeling that in fact, they collectively acquire the contrary lesson at least one time every year for a while now.
Ned'due south Declassified School Survival Guide: in the Guide to Coin, i of Cookie's several failed attempts involves a failed ventriloquism act. Moze sees the poster, and she invokes this trope:

Moze: Oh, no. Not Baxter Comport!

- And since no farther description is given in the serial, it can be causeless that she is referring to a Noodle Incident of some sort.
Doctor Who
- The trope appears in the episode "The Insubordinate Flesh":

- And this gem, from "Night Terrors":

- Past this indicate, Rory had already supposedly died seven times, and only twice off-screen. It's something of a subversion though, since he'due south non actually expressionless this time.
When Leverage's Eliot uncharacteristically starts making Sophie tea, Parker asks her if she'due south hypnotized Eliot "again".
From Dinosaurs when Robby is sent domicile with a alphabetic character from his teacher.

Fran: "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair, your son Robert was expelled from school today for rejecting all known belief and threatening to obliterate the foundations of social order!"

Earl: Once more!? What is it with you?

Music

From David Lang's "Are You Experienced? I. On Being Hit On the Caput": "What happened? That felt like... a blow to my head! That's twice this calendar week!"

Radio

In the Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four, Holmes has been forgoing sleep out of frustration with the case, and Mrs. Hudson remarks to Watson, "I hope he's not going to be ill, sir." The radio adaptation with Clive Merrison inverse this line to "I hope he's non going to be ill again," highlighting Holmes's habitual self-neglect.

Video Games

Baldur's Gate two has a moment like this has a moment that is somewhere between Heartwarming Moment and Narm, if you lot pursue a romance with (widowed) Jaheira you will at i signal be ambushed by bandits, and you have the option of taking an pointer for her... Which causes the somewhat narmy reaction of "Blast you lot filthy bogslimes! Non Once more!"
In the Wario Ware series, Ashley'south theme song includes the lyrics "Pantalones giganticus! / Oh no, not again!" to conclude a presumed spellcasting attempt by the young witch. What actually happened is left every bit an exercise to the audition.
At the beginning of the Team Fortress 2 video "Meet the Spy", the huge wall-o'-signs that light upwards in combinations to class messages like "ALERT" — "RED SPY" — "IN THE BASE" has ane that just says "AGAIN", meant to be used at the end of any message. (This lath was later turned into an actual in-game prop in the map Double Cross.)
The gunkhole helm from God of War, every time Kratos pwns him.
In Paper Mario the M Year Door, Peach is being held captive by the 10-Nauts and laments "I can't believe I've been kidnapped! Again!"
Said by Grunts/Unggoy in Halo: Combat Evolved when struck by a plasma grenade or chased by needles from a needler.
In the Monkey Isle series, Guybrush Threepwood has a tendency to say "that'southward the second-[pinnacle] [substantive] I've ever seen!"
One of the quotes that a Gruntz may say when it dies.
In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom iii, if Frank West wins a friction match, zombies will show up and hunt him downwardly. Sometimes, he'll angrily complain, "Once again? Why exercise you guys always become for me?"
In King's Quest Half-dozen: Heir Today Gone Tomorrow, Alexander says "Non again!" when he gets defenseless by the druids on his 2nd trip to the Isle of the Mists. This "Not again!" quote marks the second time that he's been captured (the get-go fourth dimension was by the Winged Ones).

Web Animation

In Sitcom #391 by ryoshenron:

Bobby: I only stole the neighbor lady's laundry off of her apparel line, so we can frolick around in my house in her panties... again.

Tommy: That sounds like a smashing thought, Bobby.

In i Homestar Runner short, Potent Bad'southward office figurer explodes, reducing it to ashes. Strong Bad declares information technology the worst computer explosion he's always seen. I of his computers had, in fact, exploded before then. Twice.

Web Comics

In a Middle of It All comic, a spinoff of Concession, the Writer Avatar exclaims "Not again!" upon being bodily carried away by an FBI amanuensis as he'south slowly turning into a Martian.
Girl Genius: "A saucepan? Again?"
Xkcd: The Alt Text for this comic is "Why exercise all my attempts at science end with me being punched past Batman?"
The Order of the Stick
- Roy: "Damnit! Not again!" Yeah, it's the 2d fourth dimension this day they've misplaced a party fellow member.
- Celia joins in this strip.
- And Durkon in this i.
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, strip #200.

Nike: It's your goblin friend, Gren! She's been captured by pirates!

Bob: Oh no... not once again!

Not in these verbal words, only the implication is there here in Questionable Content.
Drowtales: Even though the line isn't spoke aloud, fans hold that this is what was going through Quain'tana's caput when Syphile jumped out to shout a challenge. It'south all in the expression.
Bobwhite: Ivy leaves some fish in the care of her roommate Marlene. Seconds later, several of the fish are dead. Marlene says, "I wish I could say this is the fastest a friend's pet has died in my care. I really exercise."
Slick in Sinfest, upon... falling into Burn and Brimstone Hell.

Western Animation

The Simpsons
- Barney Gumble often says this. In one case after mistaking a life-sized, adult female-shaped bottle of ~~cranberry juice~~ maple syrup for a woman, knocking "her" over and flooding the shop.
- Another time, after drinking an "all-syrup Squishee" and waking upwards in a Greek cargo ship wearing a crewman's outfit.
- In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer organizes half the population of Springfield into forming the world's largest man pyramid. Yet, thanks to human stupidity, the pyramid collapses and instead turns into a behemothic ball of people that rolls downwardly the streets of Springfield. As he runs for his life from the ball, Hans Moleman cries out, "Not over again!"
- In another episode, when virtually all of Springfield has joined the Movementarians Rev. Lovejoy is seen spreading gasoline on the church floor.

"I never thought I'd accept to do this once more."

- "Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with u.s.a. digging up a corpse?"
- "Tin't we just call in David Bowie?" — He's already done so much for this church.
- "Now, now dear. It's just until Daddy pays for the destruction of a priceless American artifact. (despondant sigh) I never thought I'd accept to say that once more."
In The Venture Brothers beginning episode "Dia Los Dangerous", Physician Venture wakes upwards in a bathtub total of ice, with a missing kidney, and says, "Not again," then realizes this means he's missing both kidneys, causing him to calmly say, "This is serious."
In a reference to one of the original shorts that inspired South Park:

Stan: Put the lid on the snowman, Tweek.

Tweek: But what if it comes to life and tries to kill united states?!

Stan: C'mon, when has that Ever happened, except for that once?

SpongeBob SquarePants
- In an early on episode, Mr. Krabs' arms pop off while attempting to pull a dime out from a drain. Spongebob says the stock phrase exactly, implying that Mr. Krabs loses his artillery on a regular basis. Even within the same episode Mr. Krabs lost his arms again, and it became a running gag that in a land of shock, disapproval or other emotional duress, he sometimes literally falls autonomously. There's also the repeated occurrence of Squidward accidentally swallowing his clarinet, only Spongebob merely references it in a afterward episode when information technology grows from a simple gag to a plot-guiding calamity- he pulls the clarinet out of Squidward'south throat, but its reed breaks off and remains stuck, requiring medical attention from Sandy to remove it.
- Mrs. Puff says this after briefly considering irresolute her name and moving to another town subsequently giving Spongebob a boating license before he'south qualified to drive.
- When he and Squidward think SpongeBob ate a flop bearded as a pie, Mr. Krabs said he'southward seen this earlier. When questioned on information technology, he simply replies he'd seen it 11 times. So Squidward, in guilt, calls the dr. for help, the doc apparently tells him the exact same thing as Mr. Krabs.
Lawmaking Monkeys: "Goddamn it, that's the 2d time I've eaten shit this calendar week!"
In The Grim Adventures of Baton and Mandy Christmas Special, the mall they visit for Christmas is ultimately burned to the ground (Billy'south fault), causing Grim to wonder why every time he takes them to the mall information technology burns to the footing. Billy blames the economy.
From The Critic: "Oh practiced heavens!! Tin can't one unmarried dinner get past without our having to discuss your rotting corpse?!"
The classic bumpers from Rocky and Bullwinkle:

Rocky: And now...

Bullwinkle: Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my lid!

Rocky: Again?!

Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Beyond the 2nd Dimension:

Rugrats: When Charlotte arrives at the office belatedly, her relieved assistant Jonathan says, "I thought yous'd been abducted by eco-terrorists again."
In the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic episode "The Cutie Marking Chronicles", the Cutie Mark Crusaders' attempt to earn their Cutie Marks via zipline fails and ends with them covered in tree sap and pine needles. Frustrated, Scootaloo gives the following statement:

Scootaloo: Information technology's no use. No matter what nosotros endeavor, we always end upward without our Cutie Marks... and suprisingly oftentimes, covered in tree sap.

- In the episode "A Friend in Act", Little finger says she accidentally put the confetti in the oven and the block in the confetti cannon... again!.
In an episode of Wildfire, the championship horse agrees to exist a wage in an try to rescue a friend of his. To win, the heroes have to find out where a certain troll lives and what his name is. Afterwards they finds the troll, he says they'd need six clues. Based on their feel trying to find the troll, Sara deduces his proper name and won. She then returns to the mortal realm, where her Native-American friend, Helen, learns her dream proper noun simply isn't immune to tell anyone. Sara so asks for a clue and Helen says she'd need six. Sara so invokes the trope.
Wakfu, season two episode iv:

Evangelyne: Amalia and Ruel have gotten themselves turned into ghouls!

Sadlygrove: Again? Ruel will cease up getting a taste for information technology...

Sam and Max Freelance Police

Max: Curses. Foiled by a clip on tie. It's Prom Night all once more.

From The Adventures of Tintin:

Tintin: Mrs. Finch! A man'southward been shot on our doorstep!

Mrs. Finch: Non over again.

From Animaniacs when the Warners meet Sherlock Holmes:

Yakko: This always happens. Every time we become our easily on a fat chubby sidekick, whammo, he's kidnapped by a Scottish guy, with a huge sombrero, in a flying contraption.

Real Life

Texts From Final Nighttime has this every bit its second most mutual trope (I'one thousand certain you can approximate the first.) This 1 is particularly nice:

#ane: Banned from zoo.

#two: Again?

One from QDB. Comes with a side dish of Squick.
- There's another one with less Squick and more Too Dumb to Live.
In i edition of Countdown, Keith Olbermann called out the TSA for detaining a high-ranking member of the British government who was working with the Department of Homeland Security because his name was the same equally i on their watch list - and it wasn't the kickoff time it had happened to him.

"He'south in the Chiffonier! And we patted him downward for weapons at Dulles Airport! Again!!"

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