History Quotes / AirVentPassageway

->BE ADVISED: the vent is being blocked off until it is permanently sealed. Do not un-block the vent. Custodial service had a pull a couple out [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy after Friday beers]]. There will be no more "Film/MissionImpossible Runs."

->''"If I owned a castle, first thing I'd do: put padlocks on the human sized grates that clearly lead somewhere else!"''
-->--'''Crow''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E11WizardsOfTheLostKingdom2 riffing]] ''Film/WizardsOfTheLostKingdom2''

-->-- '''Hope Adams''', [[Literature/TheOtherworld "Chaotic"]]

-> Breaking out, huh? Try the ventilation shaft, it leads right out of the cellblock.

->It's the law that all ventilation shafts be at least large enough to fit a single [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]] in them.

->''The grill made a tremendous clanging sound as it crashed onto the floor. Kurumi, in her UNIPF combat fatigues, emerged from the ventilation shaft. "Terminal Dogma is off-limits, my ass."''

->''It was a completely different world, a world within a world, a world of darkness and silence, of a thousand curving and intersecting tunnels, some large, some small. For hours it seemed to him that he had been wandering through a tomb, moving through the corridors of a dead ship, the lone surviving crewman. There was some contact with the other world, of course, the world of the spaceship outside...each compartment had its metal grill, and he passed many of them. But there were like doors that only he knew existed. He met no one in ''these'' corridors, there was no danger of sudden discovery and arrest in these dark alleys....''

->''His boots had made too much noise as he started out, so he had slipped them off, hanging them from his belt and moving on in his stocking feet. As he went from duct to duct, he had an almost ridiculous feeling of freedom and power. In every sense, he was an invisible man. Not one soul on this great ship knew he was here, or even suspected. He had the run of the ship, complete freedom to go wherever he chose. He could move from compartment to compartment as silently and invisibly as if he had no substance at all.''
-->-- ''Gold in the Sky'', by Alan E. Nourse.

-->--'''Warden Cave Johnson''', ''[[{{Videogame/Portal2}} Perpetual Testing Initiative]]''

-->-- '''Dan Shive''', Webcomic/ElGoonishShive, the rant on [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=511 this]] page.

->BE ADVISED: the vent is being blocked off until it is permanently sealed. Do not un-block the vent. Custodial service had a pull a couple out [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy after Friday beers]]. There will be no more "MissionImpossible Runs."

-->--'''Crow''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E11WizardsOfTheLostKingdom2 rifting]] ''Film/WizardsOfTheLostKingdom2''

-->--'''Crow''', Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 rifting Film/WizardsOfTheLostKingdom2

->''WELL. DON'T YOU JUST FEEL SO PROUD OF YOURSELF. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU EXPECT TO ACCOMPLISH BY CRAWLING THROUGH THE VENTS. EXCEPT A FACE FULL OF HOT FUMES FROM THE FURNACE. SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHY DON'T YOU JUST KEEP CRAWLING THROUGH THESE VENTS AND JUST BURN YOURSELF UP FOR ME? IT WOULD MAKE MY LIFE MUCH EASIER."''

->"Attention test prisoners attempting to escape though the air ducts: I don't know what nonsense you learned on TV, but in real life, [[RealityEnsues air ducts just lead to the air conditioning unit]]. It's also pretty dusty, so if you've got asthma, chances are you're gonna die up there and we'll be smelling it for weeks because -- again -- the air ducts aren't a secret escape hatch. They're how we ''[[ShapedLikeItself ventilate the facility]]''."

->''Air ducts in a modern office are 18 inches wide. So if you need to make a quick escape and are older than 4... [[AvertedTrope you won't fit]]. A more viable option is the subceiling. Once you're in the subceiling, you can get to a bathroom or closet, and make your way out from there.''
-->--'''Michael Westen''', ''Series/BurnNotice''

->"There's Nazis in the walls!"

->''I love 1958, no-one's seen Film/DieHard. Or Film/{{Alien}}. Or Film/DieHard2, or Film/{{Aliens}}. [...] There's always a ventilation shaft!''

->"Why, Thor, god of thunder, is trying to enter my building!"

->''In the movies, ventilation shafts are the escape route of choice for heroes trapped in industrial buildings. They're clean and roomy and soundproof, and will take you anywhere you want to go all, like a Habitrail system for the beleaguered protagonist on the run. I don't know where Hollywood buys their ventilation shafts, but they don't use the same supplier as the museum.''

->''Oh yeah, no one would think of looking for us in THE VENT!''

->''Looks like Parker's going to have to climb through the air duct again...''
-->--'''Parker''', ''Series/{{Leverage}}''

-->--'''Dan Shive''', Webcomic/ElGoonishShive, the rant on [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=511 this]] page.

-->--''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'', ''chapter 4''

-->--'''LetsPlay/TheDarkId''', regarding ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' respectively

-->--A memo from the Orochi Group, ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->''Vents are so much bigger in films''
-->'''David''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' episode 5.

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Cindy: I Have to be back in bed by Twelve o'clock. That's when Toad checks in on me.
Angel: Aw, That's too bad toots, but nevermind. with you funk and my spunk, we don't need much time to find some real hot action!
Cindy: Hey, You're a little dated for one of Mok's You know what I mean...? But that's okay.
Angel: Phew.
Cindy: Just, keep your lips zipped, and stick with cindy. We're on our way to "The Twilight Zone"!


_ Cindy Schlepper escapes this way every Saturday night, apparently, which is convenient for Angel.

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-->--''LetsPlay/TheDarkId'', regarding ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' respectively

-->--'''Parker''', ''{{Leverage}}''

-->--'''LetsPlay/TheDarkId'', regarding ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' respectively

->'''Hermes:''' I thought we installed alien-proof air vents!
->'''Scruffy:''' [[ApathyKilledTheCat It's on ma list.]]

->'''Hondo Ohnaka:''' Well?
->'''Gwarm:''' We've secured the ship, but she seems deserted.
->'''Hondo:''' Imbecile! That is the oldest trick in the book. The runts are probably hiding in the VENTILATION SYSTEM.
->'''Gwarm:''' Oh, right. Didn't think of that.
->'''Hondo:''' Why does that not surprise me?