Im Just Happy to See My Baby Sister Again

"Yep. That is a gun in my pants. Simply that doesn't mean I'thou not happy to see you..."

Bob is a private detective. He's sitting in his office and waiting to meet his customer, Alice. Bob has never met Alice in person before; he'south only spoken to her on the phone. He has seen a motion-picture show of her before and, well, he… likes what he sees. The door to his office opens and he stands up. In walks Alice. Alice is extremely beautiful in a Gaussian Girl or Head-Turning Beauty sort of way. Bob tries to keep his excitement down at coming together this gorgeous woman and tries to remain all business. Alice, however, is all too enlightened of the sort of effect she has on men. Noticing the wait on Bob's confront — and Bob's pants — she offers a sweet, sultry smile, and says, "Why, detective, is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to run across me?"

A clever Stock Phrase originating from early Hollywood sex activity symbol Mae West in which one character asks another if they accept an erection while suggesting a less risqué reason for the other character to have a bulge in their pants. It has now go a mutual innuendo commonly uttered past flirty women (or, occasionally, men). It's been said so much in media that subversions are more mutual; something as well an erection is in their pants.

While the specific line just happens to be from Mae Westward, this one is arguably Older Than Feudalism:

Herald: I am a herald, of grade, I swear I am, and I come from Sparta near making peace.
Magistrate: But look, you are hiding a lance under your wearing apparel, surely.

Meet also Something Else Also Rises, Double Entendre, That'due south What She Said. For when it really is a gun in their pocket, run across Trouser Space or Phallic Weapon.

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Examples

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    Anime & Manga

• Inverted in the 2nd volume of The Kindaichi Case Files: Miyuki, wearing a low-cut dress, crouches downwards in front of Kindaichi, giving him a practiced look at her cleavage. As she stands up, she notices his reaction and scolds him for keeping stuff in his suit pockets.
• Later Sechs gets a male trunk in Battle Angel Alita: Terminal Order, the team'south Deckman servant greets him with this line.
• Done in the infamous Lawmaking Geass swimsuit Picture Drama. Cornelia'due south bodyguards Guilford and Darlton are continuing spotter equally Cornelia and Euphemia try on swimsuits, with a lot of suggestive dialog. Immediately afterwards, we see Guilford looking downwards as he asks Darlton if that'south really the best place to store his handgun (we later run across that he's in a Speedo).
• In episode 8 of the Shakugan no Shana parody Shakugan no Shana-tan, Wilhelmina and Margery are recast as prostitutes in a brothel Sabrac visits. Margery gets excited at how "large" he is down there, but he says information technology is the .44 Magnum in his pants.

    Comics

• A variation from Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow??

  Hooker: I could interruption your heart for $50.
  Metallo: (Rips open shirt to reveal a grappling claw where his middle should exist) I incertitude information technology.

• Cable & Deadpool:
  • Lampshaded:

    Cablevision: Did you go to a bar with a grenade in your pocket?
    Deadpool: Or am I but happy to encounter you?

  • Played with again in an issue of a later book later taking a Groin Set on which hurt Blackness Widow (the blonde one, Yelena Belova, actually Natasha Romanoff working undercover in Norman Osborn'south Thunderbolts) as well. Run into the Folio Quote. Cue Black Widow trying to concord the laughter in.
• An issue of DC Comics' series Young Justice featured Superboy, Robin, and Impluse at a Halloween party. A cheerleader flirts with Robin request if he has a Batarang in his pocket, or if he's just happy to see her. He responses "Um, I'm happy to see everyone hither…"
• In Tiptop 10, after getting knocked into Dust Devil, Jackie Phantom says "That had amend be a derringer in your pocket," to which Dust Devil replies, looking insulted, "Derringer?"
• In Universe Ten, Venom (Mayday Parker) and dad Spidey are out of the fight with a gigantic Absorbing Man due to being hopelessly outclassed (he'southward taken on the attributes of Manhattan itself and is taller than the metropolis skyline), then Spidey coaches her on one-liners "to make anybody call up nosotros accept a plan". She finishes upward with "Is that the Chrysler Building in your pocket or are you just happy to run into me?" Anybody glares at them for making lite of the ending, and Peter responds with "Damn. We're in that much trouble?"
• Inverted variation in Soeur Marie-Therese:

  Camille: (Not wearing any pants) I'm so happy to see you!
  Marie-Therese: Yes, I've noticed.

• When Black Canary and Zatanna see Justice League activeness figures in a toy store, Zatanna teases her friend past making the Black Canary and Dark-green Arrow action figures talk to each other in cheesy porn movie dialogue. In detail, "Black Canary" uses "Is that an arrow in your quiver or are you just happy to see me."
• Once, Robin (Dick Grayson) and Batgirl (Barbara Gordon), were trapped in a safe by Crazy Quilt. Due to how close they were together, and Dick's attraction to her, Barbara asks, or hopes, if it's his belt that'due south touching her leg. Him standing awkwardly as Batman saves them suggests it wasn't.
• In the Canardo story: The Girl who Dreamt of the Horizon, a seductive lady thinks Canardo is getting "excited", but he says he just has a revolver in his pocket. After they're interrupted by a motorcycle gang's attack, she is surprised to discover out he wasn't kidding.

    Fan Works

• No, information technology never does occur in Harry Potter. simply as Makani demonstrates, information technology should have.
• Mai said it concerning a Lightforce Sword in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Serial.
• Inverted and subverted in the same line in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: The Abridged Series.

  Alexis: Is that an erection in your pocket or are you only a tennis ball?

• This seems to be a theme in Md Who fanfiction; of class, the potential unconventional uses for sonic screwdrivers don't really assist.
• Subverted with this picture of The Joker.
• Parodied in Kyon: Big Damn Hero, after Kyon gets a new phone/PDA made from Ryouko's leftover information. Whilst the phone was still in his hand, this was said:

  Tsuruya: Is that the terminate of the earth in your manus or are you just happy to see usa?

• This ◊ Star Trek cartoon.
• In the Death Note fic Fever Dreams:

  Light: Y'all're hard.
  Fifty (thinking): No, I'm non. That'south just the gun in my pocket.

• In Nocturnal Dumbledore tells Ron a story of which this is the Orphaned Punchline.

  Dumbledore: …so then the Countess asked, "Is that your wand, Albus, or are you lot just happy to see me?"

• This Star Wars parody Attack of the Lightsabers goes way overboard on the "Is that a lightsaber in your pocket…" jokes.
• Mara Jade uses the line on Luke in FIreworks of The Soul Series vignette "Jedi Luke-Run into Dancer Arica".
• In a fanfiction of Star Trek: Enterprise entitled "Defoliation", Malcolm says to Hoshi, "Is that your universal translator or are y'all just glad to run into me?". The but trouble is, Hoshi's a woman, both in the fanfiction and in the series, then that joke doesn't really make much sense.
• Return of the King :

  Bellatrix: Your majesty, is that a snake in your pants? Or are you lot only excited to see me?

• A Possible Encounter for a Phantom: At dinner, Kim accidentally falls on Danny. She feels something poking her and Danny confirms it's his pen. Later, the ii are trapped in a box and, subsequently she moves a bit while pressing on Danny, Kim feels something poking in her thigh. She hopes it'south his pen again. It isn't.
• Sonic cosplaying equally Link finds Blaze cosplaying as Tyrus Flare: "Is that a hook shot in your tunic or are you lot just happy to see me?"
• This bit of fan art from Hero: The Guardian Smurf, in which the floppy part of Hero'southward hat stands upright when Smurfette is around him.
• Searching For The Power :

  Ginny: Is that your wand or are you just happy to see me?

    Films

• "Is that a pistol in your pocket or are yous just glad to meet me?", supposedly said by Mae Due west at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her abode in 1936. She delivered the line on motion picture to George Hamilton in her last movie, Sextette (1978).
• Information technology's Pat!: When asked if Pat has a assistant in a pocket, or are you just happy to run into me, Pat simply whips out a banana and says "I, uh, have a assistant in my pocket."
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: When Eddie is rather plain hiding Roger underneath his trenchcoat, Dolores sarcastically asks "Is that a rabbit in your pocket, or are you lot simply happy to run across me?" Eddie immediately asks her to "cutting the comedy".
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective uses a variation on this as a plot betoken. When Lois Einhorn pushes herself onto Ace to seduce him, he mutters "Your gun is digging into my hip." As he's afterwards heard crying in the shower, it wasn't a gun: Einhorn is really Ray Finkle, a psychotic (male) football player who had heaps of plastic surgery to disguise himself as part of an elaborate revenge scheme against Dan Morino. Ace is none too thrilled when he reaches this conclusion.
• From The Pirate Motion-picture show: "Is that a knife in your pocket or are you only glad to run into me?" It turned out to be a knife that the pirate threw into the wall earlier demonstrating that he was indeed glad to see her.
• Used in Blazing Saddles by Lily von Shtup, unsurprisingly. "Is that a ten-gallon hat, or are you simply enjoying the testify?" ^note One deleted gag (which Mel Brooks himself felt was too vulgar) would accept subverted the joke of Lily discovering the truth about Bart's people "being gifted" when he interrupts her moans of "Oh, it is twue!" with "I hate to disappoint you, ma'am, but you're sucking on my arm."
• America's Sweethearts: During a dream sequence, we go this conversation between the ex-sweethearts: "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are y'all just happy to see me?" "Really, information technology's a gun." *shoots her repeatedly*
• Washed in the Eddie Murphy remake of The Nutty Professor, by the main grapheme's Jerkass alter ego. *hugs older woman from behind* "Is that a examination tube in my pocket, or am I just happy to see you?"
• Used for Homoerotic Subtext in The Large Crimson I. 2 soldiers are sleeping close to each other.

  "Zeff, quit pockin' me with your rifle."
  "That'south not my rifle, Johnson."

• In The Chaperone, Triple H's graphic symbol hugs a man, and so says in disgust, "That had better be your fanny pack."
• In Machete, the naked adult female in the opening feels Machete'due south pants and asks, "What is this long, hard matter?" He answers, "My machete." It is.
• Ruby 2. A Korean hitman is shooting at Frank Moss and Marvin Boggs with a mini-gatling. Frank hugs the pavement as vehicles are chewed to pieces effectually him, just to find Marvin clutching him tightly for equally ineffectual cover.

  Frank: Marvin, is that a stick of dynamite in your pocket?
  Marvin: Yep, but I'k saving it for an emergency.
  Frank: Well, this is kinda an emergency, isn't information technology?

• Washed without the line in Hotel! Paul McGann'due south character is seen with a gigantic bulge in his itty bitty bicycle shorts; information technology turns out to be a chain lock for his bicycle.
• An awkward moment for Nick in Youth in Revolt. He sits on Sheeni while rubbing some suncream on her dorsum.

  Sheeni: Hm, you get turned on easily. [Nick freezes] Don't finish, Nick. It'south just natural. Girls are fortunate in that it doesn't bear witness. [Every bit he continues] For all the world knows, my vagina could be moist with want equally nosotros speak.

• In Ted, when John and Lori are getting intimate at one point, she coyly asks if he has a Flash Gordon laser gun in his pocket. Turns out he does. She laughs and they continue.
• Get Smart: In an alternate take of the rooftop fight with Dalip, there's a bit more dialogue when Max lands facedown on Agent 99:

  Agent 99: Max, I thought you lost your gun.

  Max: ...I accept to become.

  • Later, when Max lands on top of Agent 23:

  23: Is that your gun, Max?

  Max: No, it'southward my penis!

• In the 1998 scifi B-Movie Legion, the protagonist overpowers his guards and bursts into a darkened room waving a pistol. The room is empty as we hear a adult female sniggering, "Is that a gun or is he only happy to meet me?" The lights then come on to reveal a row of male person and female prisoners lined up waiting for him to join their ranks for The Dirty Dozen IN Infinite!

    Literature

• Discworld has the former Troll pickup line, mentioned in Moving Pictures, "Is that the legendary Sceptre of Magma who was King of the Mountain, Smiter of Thousands, Yea, Fifty-fifty Tens of Thousands, Ruler of the Gilt River, Master of the Bridges, Delver in Dark Places, Crusher of Many Enemies *takes a breath* in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" The line is thankfully a lot more snappy in the original trollish.
• Dragaera: Cawti, visiting Vlad Taltos in his sleeping accommodation, noticed a burl in the blanket and asked, "Is that a knife in your hand, or are you happy to meet me?" Vlad answered truthfully, "Both."
• In a moment that'south a beautiful microcosm of the Dresden Files series of as a whole, Elaine, Harry'due south erstwhile girlfriend that he spent nearly of his life thinking he'd killed, returns suddenly with a "Hello Harry, is that a wand in your pocket, or are yous just happy to see me?" Magic, noir mystery, Harry being a nerd, and Jim Butcher'due south fantastic sense of humour, all in 1 line.
• An innocent variation in Animorphs: Morphing is a painless process, and so Rachel is surprised when she starts feeling pain during the process of going from seagull to human.

  There was a pain in my dorsum and I had this jolt of fear. Was I feeling the morphing itself? The Andalite morphing technology keeps that from happening, only was information technology failing somehow? The hurting was pretty severe, like the pressure level of a… well, of a knee joint being driven into my back.
  "Jake, do you accept your knee in—"

• The Bronze Horsemen past Paullina Simons. When Captain Belov decides to consummate his marriage to Tatiana, the post-obit dialogue occurs.

  "Do you feel me, pressing against your hip?"
  "Mmmm; I idea that was your rifle."
  "Any yous desire to call it is fine by me."

• The Detachment. Dox releases a teenaged girl they're holding hostage and is uncomfortable with how much he enjoys being hugged by her in gratitude. There'south a gun tucked into his front waistband, then he thinks that it volition do every bit an appropriate metaphor.

    Live-Action Idiot box

• 'Allo 'Allo!. Rene gets alarmed while smooching an Action Girl from the Communist resistance grouping.

  Rene: What is that I feel between us?

  Louise: (removes a Luger from her trousers) Oh, it'southward just my pistol and a couple of hand grenades.

• A subversion from Scrubs

  Gift Shop Daughter: Is that a roll of quarters in your pocket, or are yous just having a actually good time?
  J.D.: Actually it is a curl of quarters. (takes it out and shrugs awkwardly) Laundry day…

• The X-Files:
  • The episode "Hollywood A.D.", the on-screen adaptations of Mulder and Scully have a moment. They roll into a coffin together, and Scully asks whether information technology'southward his flashlight or if he's just happy with their position. The joke is further extended when the movie Scully tells Mulder she'due south in love with A.D. Skinner. When asked by Mulder what Skinner has that he doesn't, Scully answers "bigger flashlight".

    Movie Scully: Is that your flashlight, Mulder, or are y'all simply happy to exist laying on elevation of me?
    Movie Mulder: My flashlight.

  • A deleted scene from the episode "Home" has the subversion when it's really an object in his pocket. Taken from the scene where the duo is doing an autopsy on a dead baby in an impossibly tiny bath (the "dead infant" part probably explains why the exchange was cut), Scully stops of a sudden and looks at Mulder incredulously, who is behind her.

    Mulder: That'south my penlight.
    Scully: Actually? I thought a longstanding marvel had just been satisfied.

  • In the Flavor 8 episode "Roadrunners", Agent Doggett phones in a lead on the local cult that kidnapped Scully, explaining "I but talked to a guy with a gun in his pocket—and I don't mean he was happy to see me!"
• Pee-wee's Playhouse substituted "wrench", and had Miss Yvonne say it to Carlos. He had a wrench, obviously.
• Lord Flasheart does this to himself in series two of Blackadder. "Nursie! I like it house and fruity. Am I pleased to meet you, or did I just put a CANOE in my pocket?!".
• Used in Pushing Daisies, though without the exact line. Subsequently Olive kissed Ned in a previous episode, Olive tries to brand lite of the clumsiness betwixt them. When they crash-land against each other, she says "This is...what it is, isn't it? Unless that's not a rolling pivot under your apron." Ned, of course, reaches under his frock and produces a rolling pin. Olive is quite the optimist, it seems.
• There is an episode of Stargate SG-1 where Carter and O'Neill are laying together for warmth. It's purely a joke on O'Neill's part since he's one-half-dead at this bespeak and Carter wasn't feeling anything but drawing his attention to something else she'd noticed.

  Carter: Uh, sir?
  O'Neill: It'southward my sidearm, I swear.

• Spin City:

  Caitlin: You're enjoying this, aren't you?
  Mike: What? No.
  Caitlin: Then what's that pressing confronting me?
  Mike: It's a cross wrench.
  Caitlin: I don't intendance what you lot call it, just pull it back.
  Mike: (produces cross wrench) It's a cross wrench.
  Caitlin: Well, what's that?
  Mike: OK, maybe I'm enjoying this a piffling.

• Happens beautifully in the The Office (US), when Pam hugs Michael later he stands up for her.

  Pam:' Practice you take something in your pocket?
  (long, awkward intermission)
  Michael: A Mesomorphic. (takes Chunky candy bar out of his pocket)

• The Thin Blue Line: PC Maggie Habib is getting into character for an entrapment operation, and uses the line on PC Kevin Goody—a naive manchild-type character with a crush on her. Afterward collapsing in embarrassment, he replies that "Actually, information technology's a Curly-Wurly" (chocolate bar)
• In the 3rd Rock from the Sun episode "Why Dickie Can't Teach", Harry enters an executive meeting with a salami in one of his pockets (long story) and someone asks him if that's a salami in his pocket. He, of course, replies, "Nah, I'grand just happy to run across ya."
• In Robin Hood Idiot box series:

  Marion: Why Robin, is that Sir Guy's sword in your scabbard?
  Robin: No, I'm only happy to see y'all!

• Referenced in the finale of The Detectives:

  "Um, no, really, information technology's my inhaler."

• NCIS. Ziva accidentally falls on acme of McGee while inspecting a robot auto.

  Ziva: That had improve exist your handcuffs.

  • Abby enthusiastically hugs Gibbs subsequently a long absence, then asks if that's his badge she's feeling. Gibbs naturally produces his badge.
  • Tony also preemptively denied it whilst rolling naked in a bed with Ziva. "For your information, that's my genu!"
  • And and then once again with Tony and Ziva, when she jumps on top of him to protect him from an explosion, and knocks him to the ground, staying on height of him.

    Tony: This is nice. I miss the old Ziva.
    Ziva: I can tell.
    Tony: Don't flatter yourself. That's but my knee. (both smiling at each other.)

• White Collar, after a female person suspect searches Neal very thoroughly for bugs:

  Agent Lauren Cruz: What is that? She making sure that's non a gun in his pocket?

• Subversion in Comedy Inc.

  Woman: Is that a gun in your pocket or are you happy to meet me?
  Man: Both. *Shoots her*

• Lampshaded slightly in the series Alien Nation; a neighbor of Detective Matt Sikes gives him a plate of poached trout for dinner, in gratitude for an act of kindness that Matt didn't call back performing. He then visits Newcomer neighbor (and inevitable romantic interest) Cathy, who greets him teasingly at the door; "Well, Matt, is that a fish in your hand or am I happy to see y'all...no, that didn't come out right."
• Subverted in an episode of the curt-lived series The Commish. In a dream episode set in an old crime-noir setting, the main character pulls a gun out of his pocket to which, the Femme Fatale responds, "That was a gun? I idea you were just happy to see me!".
• Happens in Bones when Booth and the title grapheme go to a strip club, and the adult female that they're questioning gives Booth a lap trip the light fantastic. He insists, "That's my gun." He does, however, transport Bones away at the end of the scene.
• Played with in Supernatural.

  Dean: Oh God, please let that exist a rifle.
  Jo: (holding a gun to his back) No, I'm just really happy to meet yous.

• Sherlock:
  • In the climactic scene of the first flavour finale:

    Moriarty: Is that a British Ground forces Browning L9A1 in your pocket, or are you but pleased to see me?
    Sherlock: [Aims the gun at him] Both.

  • In the serial three finale, Charles Magnussen'southward men frisk both Sherlock and John before their first meeting. Sherlock assumes they needn't bother with John, only to see he'due south carrying both a switchblade and a tire fe (having visited a drug den on a case earlier — he took the knife off someone who threatened him).

    John: (to the guard) Doesn't mean I'thousand not pleased to see you.

  • Used one time again in the 2015/2016 New year's Special, with two different euphemisms.
• On one episode of the mock talk evidence Night Stand With Dick Dietrich, two guests were competing for a free plastic surgery; a adult female with a huge nose and a homo with a tiny penis. Over the course of the evidence, they fell in beloved and decided they didn't need the surgery. Every bit they embraced for the first time...

  Adult female: Hey, is that a ringlet of pennies in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
  Man: Well, I am happy to come across y'all, but… (takes coins out of his pocket) yeah, it's just a whorl of pennies.

• Married... with Children played with this trope at least twice.
  • Peg in one case asked Al if that was money in your pocket or if he was happy to see her. She and so realized it had to be money.
  • Kelly once had to play the role of Madame Curie and causeless she was some hooker but Bud quickly explained who Madame Curie was. The mistake wasn't mentioned during the rest of the episode but was referenced to when Kelly'south version of Madame Curie asked somebody if that was radium in his pocket or if he was happy to see her.
• Lois & Clark: At the two-part finale of Flavor 1, Lex Luthor bought Kryptonite from a dealer who tried to impale him to become the coin and go on the Kryptonite. Subsequently the dealer and Lex's hired double killed each other, Luthor reclaimed the Kryptonite and searched the dealer's pockets for the Kryptonite, asking if there was Kryptonite inside them or if he was happy to run across Luthor.
• Subverted in The Golden Girls: Blanche Devereaux asks one of the men at the local bar this. Turns out he really is carrying a gun in his pocket.
• Parodied in Time Gentlemen Please:

  Janet: Is that a spanner in your pocket, or do you lot just take a six-inch metallic penis?

• On Game of Thrones, Jon and Ygritte accept to snuggle for warmth when they slumber. The next morning they are both surprised past Jon's reaction.

  Ygritte: Did you pull a knife on me during the dark?

• On Glee Sam and Blaine hug information technology out later Sam tells Blaine that he'due south fine with his crush on him. And so Sam asks if what he'due south feeling is a curlicue of breath mints in Blaine'southward pants. Information technology was.
• On the British sketch show Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, there was a skit involving gay Nazi Ueberbombfuehrur Horst Schwul arresting an American soldier (played by John Barrowman) who had just parachuted into the German'south army camp. They quickly take a liking to each other, which leads to this exchange:

  American Soldier: Is that a Luger in your pocket, or are you just pleased to run across me?
  Horst Schwul: …both!

• Referenced on Arrow. Because he's obsessed with tracking down the Arrow, Roy Harper steals a radio from the police station, which starts squawking in the middle of his date with Thea Queen.

  Thea: (alarmed) Do you accept a police radio in your pocket?
  Roy: No, I'grand just happy to run across you.

• In The New Statesman Alan poses as a terrorist hijacking a plane subsequently one of his schemes backfires, and takes the Sexy Stewardess earnest. As he gives orders she says "exercise what he says, he'due south got a gun pressing into my back!" 1 of his easily is around her neck, the other is property a grenade.
• In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca tries to have a one-nighttime stand and sings "Sex with a Stranger," which includes the line, "Is that a gun?! Oh thank God, it's simply your penis."
• Upstart Crow: In "If You Prick Me, Practice I Non Bleed?", Kit says that a woman accused him of hiding a baguette in his tights, only it was a misunderstanding and he was just glad to see her.
• In Living Color!: During one of The Caput Detective skits when Head was Disguised in Drag, he asks the mobster he'southward trying to seduce "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you Pee-Wee Herman?"

    Magazines

• In a Game Informer review of the PlayStation Portable version of Madden NFL 06 (November 2005, Issue #151), the subtitle under the review header says, "Is that a football in your pocket, or are yous just happy to come across me?"
• GamePro'south review of the Sega Dreamcast version of Nightmare Creatures II says, "Is that a bloody axe in your hand or are you just happy to see me?"
• Playboy: A variation in a one-folio cartoon in a Wild West setting: the naughty granny is spooning with an old-timer in a sleeping bag.

  One-time-timer: It'south long and hard, y'say? Gal, you got your paw on my six-gun!

    Music

• Pet Store Boys employ a variant of this in "Pandemonium" to imply the subject… err… likes wild parties:

  Is this a riot, or are you just pleased to encounter me?
  Why aren't nosotros property hands and talking sweet?

• This line appears in a Britney Spears vocal called "Kill The Lights": "Is that money in your pocket or are y'all happy to see me?"
• "Bullet" by Jessie James.

  Be careful what you lot wish for, you go what you see
  Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to run across me?

• A well-loved 1970s Swedish revue number, "Vad har du i fickan, Jan?" ^note What'due south that in your pocket, Jan [male name in Swedish]? has the performers dancing the tango. The male sings the verses about how he loves to dance close cover style tango, but ever gets this strange question—then the female takes over the refrain, which is her speculating well-nigh what he might have in his pocket, namely a behemothic banana, a rolled-up poster, a baguette, 1 of Tarzan'due south liana vines, a hefty tulip, or maybe a alive swan?

    Radio

• Parodied in the I'g Sorry I Haven't a Inkling accept-off of Alice in Wonderland, Humph in Wonderland: "Is that a piano, or are y'all just unbelievably pleased to come across me?"
• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: In 2006 Adam Felber's knack for guessing the setups in the panel questions he got was a running gag (collected in a Clip Testify segment under "Is Adam Felber Psychic?"), in this case leading inevitably to the trope punchline.

  Peter Sagal: Adam, a Florida man was arrested for shoplifting later on he tried unsuccessfully to hide what in his shorts?
  Adam Felber: This is one of those questions where you want me to embarrass myself by saying something like "sausage", and the answer is in fact "sausage."
  Peter: Aye, information technology was a 12-inch-long pepperoni.
  Adam: Yeah. (laughter)
  Peter: Rodney A. Covington'due south partially curtained sausage attracted the attention (Adam laughs loudly) of the managing director of the Cash and Carry Convenience Store. Covington explained that he had put the meat into his shorts because he had hurt his hand, you come across, and couldn't carry a shopping handbasket. The managing director and so noticed the pound of pepper-jack cheese in Covington'south hip pocket and called the cops.
  Adam: You know, if yous're a criminal out there, merely imagine the headline before you commit the criminal offence. If you can't exercise the headline, don't commit the criminal offence.
  Peter: What the did the manager say? "Are you lot going to pay for that, or are yous just happy to see me?"

    Theatre

• The stage play Lost in Yonkers reveals that Uncle Louie does keep a gun in his pocket. He says that the ladies think it's something else when they dance existent close.
• From the 2d Bottom Live stage show, as Richie and Eddie, in prison, rehearse for Richie's forthcoming meet with the jail's Mister Big:

  Richie: Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you pleased to meet me?
  Eddie: Why, information technology's... [pulls out gun] A gun!
  Richie: My, it is a whopper, isn't i—FUCKING HELL EDDIE THAT'S A GUN!

• The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway: When all the lights become out, Pee-Wee begins searching for his flashlight with his friends, and nosotros can simply the characters Past the Lights of Their Eyes. The flashlight in question is unquestionably Conkey's... thing.

  Pee-Wee: Oh, here's my flashlight! Ha-ha! Hm, I tin't find the button.
  Conkey: That'due south not a fl-fl-fl-fl-flashlight, Pee-Wee!
  Pee-Wee: Oh! Deplorable, Conkey.

  Magic Screen: Ooh… wow… here'due south the flashlight.
  Conkey: M-chiliad-magic Screen, th-thats not the flashlight! Th-th-that'south non the flashlight!
  Magic Screen:' Well, that'due south not my navel either.

• Older Than Feudalism: In Lysistrata, the magistrate has the following line:

  But look, you are hiding a lance under your clothes, surely.

    Video Games

• Used in Monkey Island: "Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see us?" The hero had just stolen a banana from these guys. They weren't pleased.
  • Also in the PS3 version of Tales of Monkey Island, one of the bronze trophies obtained in Chapter one (when Guybrush sees the effects of the Pox of LeChuck on the inhabitants) is labeled, "Is That a Pox on Your Face, or Are Yous Only Angry to See Me?"
• In Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis when a completely dark room is entered, the "Look" control is replaced with "Touch". Indy tin "bear on" Sophia to which she'll answer with "Is that a transport rib in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?". (Indiana does accept a ship rib in his inventory)
• Both Civilisation three and 4 give usa this line from Catherine the Smashing, parodying the usual depictions of her as a sex-hungry slut:

  "Is that a treaty in your pocket, or are yous only happy to meet me?"

• Walking up to female villagers you saved in Overlord may cause them to say: "Is that a pumpkin in your pocket, or are you simply happy to see me?"
• Used in one of the Gex games: "Is that a lightsaber, or are you but happy to see me?"
• Last Fantasy XII has a sidequest NPC use this line:

  "Pardon me, Bhadra. Is that a bottle of Bhujerban Madhu in your pocket, or are you lot… it is?"

• Played with in Uncharted ii: Among Thieves with the following exchange, said while he'southward carrying her with her legs wrapped around him:

  Chloe: Is that an aboriginal Tibetan ritual dagger in your pocket?
  Drake: Maybe I'chiliad simply happy to run into y'all.

• In the Ultimate Spider-Man video game, upon seeing R.H.I.N.O., Spidey will attempt this.

  Spider-Homo: Hey, is that a horn on your head or are you just… happy… to see… I'k and then scared I can't even finish my lame joke.

• Used in the 2009 game Bionic Commando along with some other trope at the commencement of a dominate fight.

  Spencer: Whoa, is that a long wellness bar, or are y'all just happy to see me?

• Reading a shirt in NetHack may yield the following message:

  "Is that Mjollnir in your pocket or are you only happy to run into me?"

• I of the female person Claret Elf /flirt emotes from Worldof Warcraft

  "Is that a mana wyrm in your pocket, or are you only happy to see me?"

• Used in Team Fortress 2, in the description for the "Itsy Bitsy Spyer".

  "Is that a miniature Spy in your pocket, or are you just happy to OH GOD Finish HITTING ME!"

• A variant of this appears in Blade Runner, courtesy of Bullet Bob:

  Bullet Bob: Is that a .45 blaster under your coat, or are you just happy to exist here?

• Styx: Shards of Darkness: 1 of the analytical lines that Styx uses when you die goes like this:

"Dead over again? Is that your controller in your pocket, or are you lot just pleased to come across me?"

• In True Offense: Streets of LA during a scene at a strip order:

  Stripper: Is that a gun in your pants?
  '''Nick: No, I'chiliad merely happy to come across yous!"

• In Baldur's Gate, one of the lines that can come up when speaking with a courtesan:

  Courtesan: I don't much care if you're happy to meet me, equally long as that's a pouch of coins.

• When talking to Willy in the streets of Thimbleweed Park, either of the FBI agents will enquire him what that thing is in his pocket (wallet) upon which Willy replies that he may simply be happy to see them.
• In the manual for Whacked!, Ms. Fanservice Lucy is introduced with "Is that a controller in your pocket, or are yous only happy to run into me?"

    Webcomics

• Referenced in Girl Genius, when a still-rather-innocent Agatha portrays her mother in a play, having practiced her lines out of context: "—and when I asked him if that was a wrench in his pocket—"
  • The play in question being "The Socket Wench of Prague " and is well-known for existence risqué—the circus wanted to leave town quickly, and suggested using it to become thrown out, until they found that the prince wanted to see that specific play. "PS: Tart information technology upwardly."
• Fine art and Kat are trapped in a closet in Sequential Art; Kat is about to say this line when Art yells "Broom Handle!" Later, Kat checks the grill in the door to encounter if anyone is outside, which puts her rear in proximity to his groin. She shoots him a muddy look and he defends "Well: stop rubbing your arse against me!!"
• The Exterminatus At present strip where Jamilla kisses Eastwood features something similar:

  Jamilla: What'south that poking me in the thigh under your glaze?
  Eastwood: Uhm... it's... a... PACKET OF MINTS!
  Jamilla: Well, you must like 'em, feels like it's half empty.

  • Behind them, his..."friends" are covering their mouths to barely cease them from being in throes of laughter.
• In Questionable Content, during the early days of Will They or Won't They? betwixt Marten and Faye, she gives him a purely platonic hug, and so comments "I'm just going to pretend that a roll of quarters in your pocket is what I feel poking into my hip."
• In this strip of Emergency Exit, Saya asks Eddie while drunk, "Is that a banana in your pocket or are you only happy to see me?" Eddie then pulls out a banana.
  • And then Saya… you ate Eddie's banana?
• And Shine Heaven Now has the Spirit of the Crimson asking Pip if that's a gun in his pocket or if he's happy to see her. Subsequently producing the gun in question Carmine and then has to ask if he has two in there.
• Played with in this Cyanide & Happiness comic.
  • Some other has "It's a gun. And I hate seeing y'all." Followed by the human making a thrusting move, and the gun shooting the questioner.
• Sinfest did it with Blue vs. Criminy (it plain is a telescope and the line backfired) and Monique vs. Slick.
• Luke Surl had a WACOM stylus in the pocket. Or not.
• What's New? with Phil and Dixie, when they finally got their "Sex and D&D" themed issue. This specific gag was about orcs…
• Comic Who does this with Jack and the Doctor. They hug, and Jack asks if the Doctor had a banana in his pocket, or was merely happy to run into him. Jack's disappointed.
• Butch of Chopping Block has alleged information technology to be both.

     Spider web Original

• In the third episode of The Brian & Jill Show, Brian uses the trope discussion-for-word in a game of "No Apparent Reason" every bit a clue to attempt and get the players to guess 'Assistant.' Answers given included "whale sperm", "a pickle", "a roll of quarters", and "mucilage" earlier someone finally guessed it.
• In an IGN review of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 for PlayStation Portable, the subtitle under the review header says, "Is that John Cena in your pocket or are you just happy to run into usa?"
• In the Game Revolution review of Armored Cadre 2: Another Age, the subtitle nether the review header says, "Is that an EWM-NAP-02 Napalm Missile in your pocket or are you only happy to see me?"
• One of The Nostalgia Critic's "Top 15 David Bowie Dick Jokes" in his review of Labyrinth:

  Is that Gonzo's nose in your pants, or are you but happy to see me?

• The Desperation Booth: Hilariously inverted in their review of Mitchell, there's a scene at one point where he'south going to come across a daughter and his hiding a gun, which falls out of his pants and onto the ground. The caption for the screencap says "Okay, then I guess you're not happy to meet me."

    Western Animation

• Futurama: Amy to Kif: "Is that your camouflage reflex or are you simply happy to see me?"
• Played with (and and so immediately lampshaded) in Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil (while Lucy is stealing supplies from a dildo mill).
• Played with in one case in Family Guy: Cleveland once begins with "Is that a banana in your pocket," only ends it with "or an erection in your pocket?", essentially explaining the joke earlier it's finished.
• In The Simpsons, Lovejoy's wife hugs her husband and asks "Is that a train in your pocket or are y'all happy to see me?" He replies, "Both".
• Comes upwards occasionally in Archer.
• From The Venture Bros.:

  Shore Leave: This isn't my gun; it'southward an indication of how excited I am to be doing this. This is my gun.

    Existent Life

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