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->''"What happened up there dumb-bots!? Why is my precious rocket ship drifting off into deep space!? Why am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station!? WHY!? WHY!? '''WHYYYYY!?'''"''

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->''"What happened up there there, dumb-bots!? Why is my precious rocket ship drifting off into deep space!? Why am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station!? WHY!? WHY!? '''WHYYYYY!?'''"''
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Ming says this when she arrives at Tyler's party and sees [[spoiler:Mei attacking Tyler]].
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->''"What happened up there dumb-bots!? Why is my precious rocket ship drifting off into deep space!? Why am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station!? [[BigWhy WHY!? WHY!?]] '''[[BigWhy WHYYYYY!?]]'''"''
-->-- '''[[EvilIsHammy Robotnik]]''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''

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->''"What happened up there dumb-bots!? Why is my precious rocket ship drifting off into deep space!? Why am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station!? [[BigWhy WHY!? WHY!?]] '''[[BigWhy WHYYYYY!?]]'''"''
WHY!? '''WHYYYYY!?'''"''
-->-- '''[[EvilIsHammy Robotnik]]''', '''Robotnik''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''



The polar opposite is LetMeGetThisStraight.

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The polar opposite is LetMeGetThisStraight.
LetMeGetThisStraight. Not to be confused with the album, ''Music/WhatsGoingOn'' by Music/MarvinGaye.
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* In the climax of ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a very spontaneous gunfight suddenly breaks out]] in the titular hotel, started by [[BigBad Dmitri]] noticing Gustave and Zero and opening fire on them, followed by other random patrons on different balconies and doors to open fire, up until [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Inspector Henckels]] and his entourage storm in and demand to know what the heck is happening:

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* In the climax of ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a very spontaneous gunfight suddenly breaks out]] in the titular hotel, started by [[BigBad Dmitri]] noticing Gustave and Zero and opening fire on them, followed by other random patrons on different balconies and doors to open fire, start shooting for no particular reason, up until [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Inspector Henckels]] and his entourage storm in and demand to know what the heck is happening:
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* In the climax of ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a very spontaneous gunfight suddenly breaks out]] in the titular hotel, started by [[BigBad Dmitri]] noticing Gustave and Zero and opening fire on them, followed by other random patrons on different balconies and doors to open fire, up until [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Inspector Henckels]] and his entourage storm in and demand to know what the heck is happening:
-->'''Henckels''': ''Cease fire! Stop it!'' Who's shooting who?!\\
'''Dmitri''': That's Gustave H., [[spoiler:the escaped murderer and art thief!]] I've got him cornered!\\
'''M. Gustave''': That's Dmitri Desgoffe und Taxis! He's responsible for [[spoiler:the killing of Deputy Kovacs, Serge X and his club-footed sister, plus his own mother!]]\\
''({{beat}})''\\
'''Henckels''': [[OnlySaneMan Nobody move, everybody's under arrest!]]
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* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'':
** Alan Jonah says as much when the Vivienne-San hybrid has a convulsive spurt mid-{{metamorphosis}} whilst its gestation is being monitored by his men, in the first chapter.
** Also in the first chapter, Vivienne's mind asks as much when she briefly stirs during her and San's first gestation, unaware of what's happening.
** In Chapter 6, Vivienne flashes back to a time when the effects of being around [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]] at Outpost 32 got so bad that she had to make a video call to [[ParentalSubstitute Serizawa]] out of the blue, and Serizawa pretty much started the call by asking after her in surprised concern.
** Also in Chapter 6, Tejada, once she catches on that there's something going on that she doesn't know about (and after having a handful of other ''big'' revelations dropped at hers and her peers' feet), demands that Mariko tell her what's going on.


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* ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'':
** Emma Russell says this thrice. The very first line of Mothra's birthing scene coming from Emma is, "What the hell happened?" Prompting Dr. Mancini to fill Emma and the audience in on the Mothra egg's looming birth. Emma shortly after asks what's happening when the {{containment field}} unexpectedly fails and the outpost's security begins shutting down [[spoiler:due to Jonah and his paramilitary's actions]]. Much later in the film, Emma quotes the trope name ''ad verbatim'' when alarms in the eco-terrorists' base begin blaring, at which point Jonah succinctly and sarcastically makes her aware [[spoiler:of the [=ORCA's=] disappearance]].
** In the novelization's side-story following Master Sergeant Nez and MokeleMbembe at Outpost 75, a couple of Nez's men ask what's happening. One of them asks Nez herself after the latter has doubled security at the outpost since receiving news of Jonah's assault on Outpost 61. Later, Dr. Kearns cries out "What the hell is going on?" when the facility shakes, prompting another operative to confirm that Mokele-Mbembe is awakening.
** During the intimidation display scene, Mark approaches Ilene to ask her what's happening after the base has begun trembling and alarms have started blaring, and Ilene tells him in quick and clear terms what the situation looks like so far.
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* In ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', Rory Breaker and his crew tool up and go to the main characters' flat to get revenge on them for stealing their weed and trying to sell it back to them. Unbeknownst to them, Dog and his crew, also tooled up, have laid an ambush for the main characters in said flat. As the penny drops when the two gangs come into contact with each other, the question "what ''the fuck'' is going on?" is asked before the shooting starts.
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Then the other characters typically give a quick summary of the story so far, or there is a quick cut away to another scene for a bit or simply quick FadeIn/FadeOut back to the characters that implies they had just finished giving a detailed briefing of the situation. If it's the audience who is also wondering what's going on, be prepared for an InfoDump.


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Then the other characters typically give a quick summary of the story so far, or there is a quick cut away to another scene for a bit or simply quick FadeIn/FadeOut FadeIn[=/=]FadeOut back to the characters that implies they had just finished giving a detailed briefing of the situation. If it's the audience who is also wondering what's going on, be prepared for an InfoDump.

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Then the other characters typically give a quick summary of the story so far, or there is a quick cut away to another scene for a bit or simply quick fade in/fade out back to the characters that implies they had just finished giving a detailed briefing of the situation. If it's the audience who is also wondering what's going on, be prepared for an InfoDump.


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Then the other characters typically give a quick summary of the story so far, or there is a quick cut away to another scene for a bit or simply quick fade in/fade out FadeIn/FadeOut back to the characters that implies they had just finished giving a detailed briefing of the situation. If it's the audience who is also wondering what's going on, be prepared for an InfoDump.

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** In "[[Recap/LegionS3E7Chapter26 Chapter 26]]", because Charles Xavier isn't aware that teleportation is a mutant ability that David Haller possesses, he doesn't understand how he, David and Switch were instantaneously transported from the dining room to the guest bedroom.

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** In "[[Recap/LegionS3E7Chapter26 Chapter 26]]", because Charles Xavier isn't aware that teleportation is a mutant ability that David Haller possesses, Time Eaters are gradually consuming history (which creates pockets of lost time), he doesn't understand how he, David and Switch were instantaneously transported from end up in the guest bedroom when he has no memory of them leaving the dining room to the guest bedroom.room.

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* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', after Westley is revived from being OnlyMostlyDead:
--> '''Westley:''' Who are you? Are we enemies? Why am I on this wall? Where is Buttercup?
--> '''Inigo:''' Let me 'splain. ''({{beat}})'' [[NoTimeToExplain No, there is too much. Let me sum up.]]



--> '''Taggert''': What in [[AnachronismStew the wide, wide world o' sports]] is a-goin' on here?!

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--> '''Taggert''': -->'''Taggert''': What in [[AnachronismStew the wide, wide world o' sports]] is a-goin' on here?!



--> '''Tanner:''' What the bloody Hell was that?

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--> '''Tanner:''' -->'''Tanner:''' What the bloody Hell hell was that?




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* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', after Westley is revived from being OnlyMostlyDead:
-->'''Westley:''' Who are you? Are we enemies? Why am I on this wall? Where is Buttercup?\\
'''Inigo:''' Let me 'splain. ''({{beat}})'' [[NoTimeToExplain No, there is too much. Let me sum up.]]



* Done so often by Mr. Belding on ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' that "Hey hey hey, what is going on here?" became his CatchPhrase (and is worth two sips in the DrinkingGame).



* Parodied in the first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', where Xandir would shout this catch-phrase out whenever the narrator introduced an AssPull to the contest, [[RunningGag which seemed to happen once every five minutes]].
** Because said bit is viewed from outside the house to hide the exact emotion of the one yelling the phrase, it might have been a spoof of promos (which were, at the time, being played on the network constantly) for Spike TV's ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'', a fake reality show that one contestant is led to believe is real. The show is also alluded to later in the same episode. The phrase itself was, in fact, something of a {{Catchphrase}} for ''The Joe Schmo Show'', as a shocked Matt Kennedy Gould (the "Joe Schmo" of the show) used it in the finale episode upon learning that the entire show was scripted and the people around him were actors.
* General Hammond from ''Series/StargateSG1'' often will enter a strange scene with "What is going on here?!" (sometimes with "the hell" thrown in), or occasionally "What the hell are you/do you think you're doing?!"
-->'''Jack O'Neill''': ''[whilst hitting golf balls through the Stargate]'' ...In the middle of my backswing?!
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E22AllHellBreaksLoosePartTwo "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep22)]] after Sam is resurrected, Sam asks, "Dean... what happened to me?" This leads Dean and Sam to exchange information about what happened in the previous episode, although Dean let's Sam believe he was merely badly wounded and Bobby patched him up.




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* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'':
** In "[[Recap/LegionS3E7Chapter26 Chapter 26]]", because Charles Xavier isn't aware that teleportation is a mutant ability that David Haller possesses, he doesn't understand how he, David and Switch were instantaneously transported from the dining room to the guest bedroom.
--->'''Charles''': How did we get here? But we were just in the dining room.
** Soon after, Charles is inside David's mind, and he hears pounding from behind the various closed doors. He has no idea that his son suffers from dissociative identity disorder, so Charles is naturally confused by the noise.
--->'''Charles''': What, what is happening? What are you not telling me?
* Done so often by Mr. Belding on ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' that "Hey hey hey, what is going on here?" became his CatchPhrase (and is worth two sips in the DrinkingGame).
* General Hammond from ''Series/StargateSG1'' often will enter a strange scene with "What is going on here?!" (sometimes with "the hell" thrown in), or occasionally "What the hell are you/do you think you're doing?!"
-->'''Jack O'Neill''': ''[whilst hitting golf balls through the Stargate]'' ...In the middle of my backswing?!
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E22AllHellBreaksLoosePartTwo "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep22)]] after Sam is resurrected, Sam asks, "Dean... what happened to me?" This leads Dean and Sam to exchange information about what happened in the previous episode, although Dean let's Sam believe he was merely badly wounded and Bobby patched him up.




* Parodied in the first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', where Xandir would shout this catch-phrase out whenever the narrator introduced an AssPull to the contest, [[RunningGag which seemed to happen once every five minutes]].
** Because said bit is viewed from outside the house to hide the exact emotion of the one yelling the phrase, it might have been a spoof of promos (which were, at the time, being played on the network constantly) for Spike TV's ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'', a fake reality show that one contestant is led to believe is real. The show is also alluded to later in the same episode. The phrase itself was, in fact, something of a {{Catchphrase}} for ''The Joe Schmo Show'', as a shocked Matt Kennedy Gould (the "Joe Schmo" of the show) used it in the finale episode upon learning that the entire show was scripted and the people around him were actors.



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* ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}'': After the KillSat attacks on Severnaya, Tanner has this exchange:
--> '''Tanner:''' What the bloody Hell was that?

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