History Main / QuipToBLack

* Parodied in ''{{American Dad}}'' when someone from animal control attempts this in complete with him putting on shades, jumping up and yelling "Yeeeeeeeeagh!". but it falls flat when his friend doesn't get the reference.

* Abby is in Autopsy to collect a tissue sample from the cadaver du jour.

*** Also, the opening cutscene of Left 4 Dead 2.
--->Coach: Wait for official instructions...*Laughs* Wait, my ass.

* In the third WorldOfWarcraft expansion, Stormwind's town guard is investigating the murder of a beloved horse ([[ValuesDissonance and his two owners]]):

---> '''Hawke''': It looks like the Duke...has fallen from grace.

Commonly found on detective / mystery series; a frequent (but ''not'' exclusive) use of this is when the detectives make a pithy 'gallows humour' comment about the [[MysteryOfTheWeek crime of the week]] in the ColdOpen, followed by a cut to the credits. The usual purpose is to convey a sense that the detective has [[SeenItAll seen this level of horror before]], and that he's so used to it he can make a joke about it. Often will include a GlassesPull for emphasis.

-->(''After the titular duo parody StarskyAndHutch and MiamiVice'')

* ''''WoodyAllen'''s Melinda and Melinda''. The FramingDevice ends the film justly:

--->'''Dancer''' Are we done now? I have to pick my kid up from school.
--->'''Doofenshmirtz''' Just wait till it fades to black.

--->'''Doofenshmirtz''' There.
*** Though why she needed to pick her kid up is unknown, the whole series takes pace in the summer.

-->'''''[[AC:[[CSIMiami YYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!]]]]'''''

Commonly found on detective / mystery series; a frequent (but ''not'' exclusive) use of this is when the detectives make a pithy 'gallows humour' comment about the [[MysteryOfTheWeek crime of the week]] in the ColdOpen, followed by a cut to the credits. The usual purpose is to convey a sense that the detective has [[SeenItAll seen this level of horror before]], and that he's so used to it he can make a joke about it. Often will include a GlassesPull.

Commonly found on detective / mystery series; a frequent (but ''not'' exclusive) use of this is when the detectives make a pithy 'gallows humour' comment about the [[MysteryOfTheWeek crime of the week]] in the ColdOpen, followed by a cut to the credits. The usual purpose is to convey a sense that the detective has [[SeenItAll seen this level of horror before]], and that he's so used to it he can make a joke about it.

-->...but we do not cut at this point. Instead we move to the autopsy where Hodges and Keppler discover that there are several foreign objects inserted into the body. After removing and opening an umbrella which covers Hodges in blood...

* ''CSIMiami'' [[{{Understatement}} regularly]] uses [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 Quip To Black.]] Caruso's delivery and his frequent GlassesPull tends to make this moment hilariously {{Narm}}y. The device is used less frequently of late. The GlassesPull followed by a sample from TheWho ("''[[MemeticMutation YEEEEE]][[MetalScream AAAAA]][[BigYes HHHHH!!!]]''") is [[MemeticMutation imitated]] [[{{Understatement}} frequently]]. Especially [[OverusedRunningGag on this very page.]]

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* Billy Baldwin gets some memorable ones in his part on the ShowWithinAShow ''[[ShapedLikeItself Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime]]'' in the movie ''ForgettingSarahMarshall''. One example: "She's going to have a hard time reentering the pageant...without a face."
* ''BackToTheFuture'': "Roads? ''where we're going we don't need *glasses flip* roads!''" YYYEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* ''''WoodyAllen'''s Melinda and Melinda''. The FramingDevice ends the film justly:
-->'''Sy:''' We just got to accept it and enjoy it, because it can end... like ''that''. ''(Snaps Fingers. QuipToBlack. CreditsRoll.)''
* Most theatrical films are broken up into eleven - minute chunks for television airing, and are deliberately set up for these.

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* The fourth ''CodexAlera'' book has one at the end of a chapter that's just ''begging'' for an anachronistic GlassesPull:
-->"It would seem," Ehren said, "that someone doesn't want you making this trip."\\
"Then someone," Tavi replied, "is going to be very disappointed."
* In Gregory [=McDonald's=] novel, Flynn, Inspector Flynn finds a severed hand on his front porch the morning after a plane exploded over Boston Harbor. He says "Pull yourself together, Charlie," and muses about the dark humour professionals use to deal with such sights.


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* ''The Men's Room, a radio show based out of 99.9 KISW in Seattle, features a daily "Shot of the Day", where the hosts will tell a brief story about some notable person with an interesting story that's funny in some way. Typical sources include minor news stories, Cracked, etc. After reading through the story, each of the hosts will usually try to come up with an IncrediblyLamePun to describe the situation, each capped off with the "Yeeeeeeeeagh!" stinger. Especially lame or just plain unfunny puns will receive a long vocal stinger from Journey.

* Roads? ''[[BackToTheFuture where we're going we don't need * glasses flip* roads!]]'' YYYEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* ''[[WoodyAllen Melinda and Melinda]]''. The FramingDevice ends the film justly:

-->[[CSIMiami Yeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!]]

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* A [[MemeticMutation meme]] on the general-interest TabletopGames website [=RPGnet=] has forum posters doing this when somebody gets banned.
** It's been nipped in the bud. Or if you prefer... ''[puts on sunglasses]'' ... it [[CriticalFailure critically failed.]] ''Yeeeeaaaaaahhh!!''
** The meme has since been unofficially retired since one of the veteran posters pulled it off ''{{Hamlet}} style''. ''VEEEEEERRRRRILYYYYYYYYYY!!''
* A similar tradition on gray hat hacker boards is to mock permabanned with the circumstances of their banning, generally through a quip or IncrediblyLamePun.
* ''TheOnion'''s AV Club forums have a commenter who calls him-/herself David Caruso and posts nothing but one-lines, with the GlassesPull and ''YYYYYEEEAAAAHHHH'' copied from {{CSI}}.
* On the Cheezburger Network site [[http:http://comixed.com Comixed]], this is a popular trend. However, one recent comic [[http://comixed.com/2010/07/05/4-koma-comic-strip-dude/ averts this.]]

** A self-parody appears in the episode "Fight Night": Grissom delivered the usual quip and the credit music started... then his cell phone rang, the credit music reversed, and the teaser went on for five more minutes before the real credits started.

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshade Hung]] and subverted in "Two and a Half Dead". After finding a dead comedy actress with a [[NobodyHereButUsChickens rubber chicken]] stuffed in her mouth (it's a long, complex and hilarious story), the lab techs ask Grissom why he hasn't done a OneLiner, suggesting "I suspect ''fowl'' play" and "This is ''poultry'' evidence". Grissom goes for neither, instead going for "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard".

* Parodied in {{Supernatural}}, where the boys were [[TrappedInTVLand Trapped In TV Land]].

** Lampshaded in Rollercoaster: The Musical

*** Though why she needed to pick her kid up is unknown, the whole serieas takes pace in the summer.