| 1 | [[quoteright:230:[[Webcomic/WildeLife https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rare_sentence.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:230:A twofer!]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''"Due to overwhelming reader response, I have added breasts to the space dinosaur cowboy. This was not a statement I was expecting to make today (or ever), but your logic is irrefutable and I am not above admitting my own mistakes."'' |
| 5 | -->-- Editorial comment on [[http://nonadventures.com/2011/09/02/das-reboot/ this strip]], ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | This is when [[ItMakesSenseInContext odd]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext conditions]] prompt someone to say something utterly crazy-sounding, and someone else (usually the local DeadpanSnarker) comments that "I doubt that's ever been said before" or "Now there's a sentence that doesn't get used much", or similar. Essentially a StockPhrase, but hard to name as such since it can be formulated in a ton of different ways. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Usually involves ItMakesSenseInContext or MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Compare WordSalad, CantBelieveISaidThat and ICantBelieveImSayingThis. Contrast IWouldSayIfICouldSay, when an ordinary expression is factually inapplicable; and INeedToGoIronMyDog, in which a flimsy, improvised excuse results in a bizarre sequence of words, but everyone just accepts it. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | See also MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels, in which mistranslation between languages can lead to this trope. |
| 14 | ---- |
| 15 | !!Example subpages: |
| 16 | [[index]] |
| 17 | * ''ARareSentence/ThisBites'' |
| 18 | * ARareSentence/WebOriginal |
| 19 | [[/index]] |
| 20 | !!Other examples: |
| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | [[folder:Audio Drama]] |
| 23 | * ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': |
| 24 | ** From the Fourth/Tenth crossover ''Out of Time'': |
| 25 | --->'''Dalek Supreme:''' THE TWO DOCTORS' BRAINS ARE REQUIRED TO STEER THE CATHEDERAL.\ |
| 26 | '''Tenth Doctor:''' ...is not a sentence I expected to hear today. |
| 27 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter Jenny]], in her follow-up stories, at one point says she wants to go and explore the nothing..."because honestly, how often do you get to say a sentence like that?" |
| 28 | [[/folder]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 31 | * One of Creator/JeffFoxworthy's "You might be a redneck" jokes involves the rare ''nonoffensive'' use of the words "nipple" and "beaver" in the same sentence. [[note]]The headline "Local man gets nipple bitten off by beaver"… we didn't say it wasn't ''disturbing''.[[/note]] |
| 32 | * Creator/GeorgeCarlin had a list of "things nobody would ever say." |
| 33 | ** They included "Hand me that piano," which actually was used in an episode of ''Radio/TheGoonShow''. One of his books features a paragraph-long sentence entitled, "No One Ever Wrote This Sentence Before." It starts off: "On the feast of St. Stephen, I was driving my hearse to the wholesale liverwurst outlet when suddenly a hermaphrodite in a piano truck backed out of a crackhouse driveway..." |
| 34 | ** He had another bit that utilized this. It started off talking about things you never see, then transitioned into things you never hear. At that point he declared that he would say a sentence that no one before him had ever said. Ever. The sentence? "As soon as I put this red hot poker in my ass, I'm going to go chop my dick off!" He then moved on to yet more rare sentences, like "Honey, let's sell the children, move to Zanzibar, and begin taking opium rectally," and "Honey, it's the police. They have a search warrant, and the 300 kilos of cocaine are still sitting out in the living room." |
| 35 | ** From Carlin's above-mentioned book: "THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.']]" |
| 36 | * From Creator/LewisBlack: "[[OrphanedPunchline If it weren't for my horse]], [[NoodleIncident I wouldn't have spent that year in college]]." The bit is about how crazy he went trying to figure out [[ItMakesSenseInContext what specific circumstances would make that sentence make sense]]. And then you realize that someone who went to an institution of higher learning apparently said something that nonsensical and your eyes close and they find you dead of an aneurysm in your bathroom. |
| 37 | * Ray Romano has a routine in which he mentions that when he is driving at night and needs to stay awake, he tries to think up sentences that no one has ever said (followed by a situation in which they ''would'' be). Examples include "Give me back my fudge suitcase" and "If hernias were rainbows, I'd be Raymond Burr". |
| 38 | * Creator/BrianRegan has a bit about how parents get to say things that people without kids would never get to say. "Buddy, don't try and balance your fruit juice between your chest and the table". Cue hypothetical exchange between two grown adults with the same sentence. "You know, it does seem rather precarious. You know, when I set that on the table, that ''does'' seem more solid underneath. Thanks for your help." "You're welcome. Continue with your proposal." |
| 39 | * Creator/JeffDunham admits that it's weird to introduce Achmed as "the world's most beloved terrorist". |
| 40 | * Due to the {{Improv}}/stream-of-consciousness nature of his comedy, Creator/RossNoble often finds himself musing of the downright strangeness of what he has just said. During one of his recorded stand-up show, in which his opening spiel has gone even further off the rails than he normal, he comments: |
| 41 | -->''What I love about my job is that it is so unpredictable. At breakfast this morning, when I was wondering where tonight's show might go, I never imagined that within the first ten minutes I'd be yelling the words "HORNY SHIRE HORSE WARNING!"'' |
| 42 | * Creator/BoBurnham has a bit about this in his act ''what.'' where he talks about wanting to participate in a "new moment" in time in order to feel some level of importance. Some of his examples include: |
| 43 | ** "At first I was uncomfortable leaving him alone with my child, but then I saw his moustache. Phew!" |
| 44 | ** "Did you see this Amish website?" |
| 45 | ** "Yo baby, my life's about three things baby, three simple things; gettin' money, gettin' pussy, and the Dewey Decimal System!" |
| 46 | ** "I'm your father and I loved your comedy show." |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': One issue has a superhero team up against ComicBook/DoctorOctopus that includes this line: |
| 51 | -->'''ComicBook/SpiderMan:''' ComicBook/WhiteTiger, Daredevil. Daredevil, White Tiger. And I ''have'' to be the first person on the ''planet'' who has ever said that out loud. |
| 52 | * Another issue has ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} fighting [[ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013 Doctor Octopus]] as ComicBook/SpiderMan and wishing he'd get a break. |
| 53 | -->'''Daredevil:''' It's at this point, I say five words I am certain have never been said together in history. Thank God for Stilt-Man. |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/DemonKnights'' #10: |
| 55 | -->'''ComicBook/VandalSavage:''' Look! It's a ''pirate'' sea serpent! That is something I have ''never'' shouted before! |
| 56 | ** Particularly noticeable as it's Vandal Savage, [[HistoricalRapSheet an immortal man alive since the cavemen walked on earth]], saying that. |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo: The Ghost of Station X'': |
| 58 | -->'''Tucker:''' This is such an honor. I wanted to be a robot when I grew up! You were my hero! Hell, you're the reason why I'm a trucker.\ |
| 59 | '''Robo:''' That's a sentence I've never heard before. |
| 60 | ** Jack Tarot, while writing a letter to Atomic Robo, stops to comment about how ridiculous the preceding sentence was. Twice. |
| 61 | --->I had no idea I would spend the better part of a year living with and training a very obnoxious robot. What a ridiculous sentence.\ |
| 62 | P.S. Enclosed is the bill for the hat Edison's robot destroyed. What a ridiculous sentence. |
| 63 | * In ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009 #14'', Kara Zor-El — alias ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} — and Stephanie Brown — alias ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} — are about to fight a sobbing {{Dracula}} (long story). |
| 64 | -->'''Batgirl:''' Nothing sadder than a crying Dracula.\ |
| 65 | '''Supergirl:''' [[IfIHadANickel If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that...]]\ |
| 66 | '''Batgirl:''' You'd have a nickel?\ |
| 67 | '''Supergirl:''' I'd have a nickel. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanEternal'' #29: |
| 69 | -->'''Batwing:''' What hit me? Did we... Did we stop Blackfire from resurrecting himself outta hell? Cripes. ''That's'' a sentence I never thought I'd say out loud. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs Year Three'' #5: |
| 71 | -->'''[[ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy Klarion]]:''' You want me and my cat to go in there and help [[ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} the magician]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the butler]], and [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn the psychopathic clown]] to save the talking detective monkey?\ |
| 72 | '''ComicBook/JohnConstantine:''' Yes. Do you have a problem with that?\ |
| 73 | '''Klarion:''' No. I just wanted to say that sentence out loud. Come on, Teekl. |
| 74 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': |
| 75 | ** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron'' has a conversation between two members of the very quirky [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Lost Light crew]] and one understandably confused [[CoolOldGuy Kup]]. |
| 76 | --->'''Brainstorm:''' How'd you guys manage to open a portal in my chest? Did you harness the power of bickering?\ |
| 77 | '''Rodimus:''' We heard a drinking song coming from Nova Prime's corpse.\ |
| 78 | '''Kup:''' Just when ya think there are no new sentences... |
| 79 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': |
| 80 | ** When Chromedome goes to visit Brainstorm: |
| 81 | --->'''Chromedome:''' Hey, Brainstorm, it's-- Why is there a giant, naked human in your workshop? And who'd have thought I'd have to ask you that [[NoodleIncident question twice]] [[OhNoNotAgain in one lifetime]]? |
| 82 | ** There's a variation later when Swerve tries to coin a new adage. |
| 83 | --->'''Swerve:''' I guess it's rue what they say, Ratchet: "Nothing stops a standoff like a stowaway."\ |
| 84 | '''Ratchet:''' Who says that? Who has ''ever'' said that? |
| 85 | ** After a remarkably casual conversation with a [[spoiler: recently-returned-from-theFunctionist-universe Megatron]], Rodimus has this to say to a surprised Grimlock. |
| 86 | --->'''Rodimus:''' I never thought I'd say this, but...[[PetTheDog he's not that bad once you get to know him]]. |
| 87 | * Lampshaded by ComicBook/CaptainBritain in a classic Alan Moore/Alan Davis sequence. "What do you take me for? Of course I know what I'm getting into. I'm in a parallel universe fighting an alternate version of myself alongside a group of parahuman mercenaries who want me to help the wrongly accused Majestrix of... [{{Beat}}] Do you ever get halfway through a sentence and find yourself unable to believe that you're actually saying it?" |
| 88 | * ''ComicBook/BillyBatsonAndTheMagicOfShazam'': |
| 89 | -->'''Mary Marvel:''' Hey! They're not attacking! They're not the ''only'' ones that think you're a cow!\ |
| 90 | '''Captain Marvel:''' Didn't think I'd hear that ''twice'' in one day. |
| 91 | * ''ComicBook/SuperSons'': |
| 92 | --> '''Alfred:''' ''(to Superboy)'' I cannot believe my life has come to a place where I have to say this... Please step out of the dinosaur's buttocks. |
| 93 | * ''ComicBook/VoteLoki'': |
| 94 | -->'''News Reader:''' I never thought I'd say this, but thank god ''ComicBook/{{Loki}}'' was there to stop them! |
| 95 | * ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and her Gang of Harleys'' #6: |
| 96 | -->'''Harvey Quinn:''' One of ComicBook/PowerGirl's robot boobs saved your life. Well, that's a sentence I never thought I was gonna to say. |
| 97 | * In a more depressing example, any time Batman outright admits he either [[NeverMyFault made a mistake or is at fault for something]]. ComicBook/AmandaWaller is so surprised at witnessing this at the end of ''Justice League vs. Suicide Squad'', that she allows the League to leave unmolested with Killer Frost. |
| 98 | * Issue 8 of the ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'' comics has this from Dib, after being attacked by the [[PuppeteerParasite Space Pants]]: |
| 99 | -->'''Dib:''' The last thing I remember, I was attacked by pants. I can't believe I'd ever say those words. But here I am saying them. |
| 100 | * In an issue of ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan2018'', [[TrueCompanions Ganke Lee]] questions his friend's choice of words when Miles swings off saying, "I've got a date with a rhino."[[labelnote:Context]]A new villain has been abducting young kids, including the niece of Aleksei Sytsevich, a.k.a. the Rhino. Spider-Man and the Rhino are teaming up to try and rescue Tanya and the other children.[[/labelnote]] |
| 101 | * The ''ComicBook/DCeased'' side story ''A Good Day to Die'' has this exchange as Mister Miracle and Big Barda are holding off a horde of undead so that Booster Gold can get to his time machine and try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: |
| 102 | -->'''Mister Miracle:''' We have to buy time for Booster Gold to save the world!\ |
| 103 | '''Barda:''' What a ridiculous sentence. |
| 104 | * ''ComicBook/TheBlackRing'' has one that's strange mostly in context, since it's Larfleeze, the next best thing to an AnthropomorphicPersonification of greed, saying he ''doesn't want'' to have something. He's as surprised as everyone else to hear himself say it. |
| 105 | -->'''Larfleeze:''' ''That'' is what Lex Luthor wants?! No. He must be ''mistaken''. ''Nobody'' would want that! I don't want that! |
| 106 | * ''ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl'' #48: |
| 107 | -->'''Squirrel Girl:''' I'm glad I didn't have to destroy a whole lab's worth of university computer equipment to stop a bunch of bees possessed by a mad scientist.\ |
| 108 | '''Mary:''' I'm certain that sentence has never been said before in history until now, and I'm glad I was here to witness it. |
| 109 | * From ''Comicbook/Titans2023'' #6 (a tie in to ''Comicbook/TitansBeastWorld''): |
| 110 | -->'''Nightwing''': Detective Chimp and Dr Clancy are examining ''Wolf-Batman'' now.\ |
| 111 | '''Oracle''': That is a truly absurd sentence.\ |
| 112 | '''Nightwing''': Remember a time when we never said sentences like that?\ |
| 113 | '''Oracle''': Not really.\ |
| 114 | '''Nightwing''': No, I guess this is just our life. |
| 115 | [[/folder]] |
| 116 | |
| 117 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 118 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': |
| 119 | -->'''Jon:''' ''[munching on a salad]'' [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1995/ga950429.gif Hmm, interesting lettuce.]]\ |
| 120 | ''[{{beat}}]''\ |
| 121 | '''Garfield:''' There's a phrase you don't hear every day. |
| 122 | * In his commentary on a ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip where Calvin bluntly asks "Don't you hate when your boogers freeze?", Watterson expressed his hope that he was the first person to use "booger" in a comic strip. |
| 123 | * In a [[http://www.gocomics.com/bignate/1993/10/28 Halloween arc]] in ''ComicStrip/BigNate'': |
| 124 | -->'''Nate:''' Well, she may have arrived with Frankenstein, but she's leaving with Quasimodo!\ |
| 125 | '''Francis:''' ''(thinking)'' There's a line you don't hear every day... |
| 126 | * ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'': The 10/12/17 strip has this: |
| 127 | -->'''Wanda:''' We're saved! Her kazoo is drowning out her dancing!\ |
| 128 | '''Darryl:''' There's a sentence you rarely hear. |
| 129 | * In ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'', during Marigold's family reunion: |
| 130 | -->'''Phoebe:''' I can play ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'' with a unicorn any old time I...\ |
| 131 | '''Infernus:''' Any old time you want?\ |
| 132 | '''Phoebe:''' Sorry, that's just one of those sentences that makes me wonder if I'm dreaming my entire life. |
| 133 | [[/folder]] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 136 | * ''Fanfic/AbsoluteTrust'': From Chapter 36: |
| 137 | -->'''[[SelfInsertFic Alec]]''': Thanks, Azula. ''({{Beat}})'' Huh, that's a sentence I never thought I'd say out loud.\ |
| 138 | '''Azula''': ''(smirking)'' I can imagine. |
| 139 | * From ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'': |
| 140 | ** Chapter 82, Johto 24, when Misty decides to catch a Chinchou, she lists off her Pokémon to a curious school. One of them inquires what a [[spoiler:Kabutops]] is, and she sends him out. |
| 141 | --->'''[[spoiler:Kabutops]]:''' Hello. I am a [[spoiler:reanimated fossil.]]\ |
| 142 | '''One of the Chinchou:''' That's something you don't hear every day... |
| 143 | ** Chapter 119, Hoenn 3, when Lucario subdues the Rockets' Seviper: |
| 144 | --->'''Brock:''' I've never seen someone do an overhand knot with a snake before... And that really shouldn't ever ''need'' to be said. |
| 145 | ** Chapter 216, Battle Frontier 8, when Team Rocket's [[spoiler:Moltres]] mentions having to convince someone that she wasn't being mind-controlled or held against her will: |
| 146 | --->'''[[spoiler:Moltres]]:''' Besides, what self-respecting mind control artist would implant a memory of himself in a Moltres wingsuit?\ |
| 147 | '''Dustox:''' ...that is a sentence I did not realize I was going to hear. |
| 148 | ** After another example in Chapter 221, May says that they should make an "Ash Sayings Book" of all the silliest ones. Pikachu says that he could contribute a few, but Lucario says "hundred" before his {{Beat}} is over. |
| 149 | ** Lampshaded when Squirtle has to be warned off of triggering a ColonyDrop. |
| 150 | ** Chapter 242 has Ash and Co. face down ''another'' reanimated Fossil rampage. |
| 151 | --->'''Dexter:''' It appears that several Fossil Pokémon have been revived in the museum and have escaped. ({{Beat}}) It says a lot about us that [[OhNoNotAgain the word 'again' goes on the end of that sentence.]]\ |
| 152 | '''Brock:''' No kidding. |
| 153 | ** Chapter 258, Dawn's first order in a Team Galactic battle: |
| 154 | --->'''Dawn:''' Quilava, handle that Leafeon robot! ''({{Beat}})'' [[LampshadeHanging Sometimes I can't believe the things I say...]] |
| 155 | * ''Fanfic/AsylumOfDoom'': When Gaz actually apologizes to Dib for insulting him earlier in the story, he's so stunned by the unprecedented nature of it that he assumes she has a concussion. |
| 156 | * Izuku in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12918526/1/A-Belly-Full-Of-Fire A Belly Full of Fire]]'', jots down questions for his father including "Can full blooded dragons have quirks?" and "If yes, are dragons with quirks bigger/enhanced/different?" then wondered when questions like that became relevant in his life. |
| 157 | * In ''Fanfic/BeyondHeroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium'', Bethany notes that "[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Grand Enchanter Fiona actually indentured the rebel mages to Tevinter]]" is not something she ever expected to say. |
| 158 | * ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': Weiss struggles to adjust soon after landing in the ''Videogame/{{Pokemon}}'' world. |
| 159 | -->'''Weiss:''' Ruby, what are you doing? You aren't going to just luck into directions to a city from asking a giant bat… and what has my life become that I can say that and mean it? |
| 160 | * ''Fanfic/ABoyAGirlAndADogTheLeithianScript'': As Luthien is telling how she sneaked into Angband, Fingolfin becomes marveled -and troubled- at the thought of her facing several Balrogs, the demons of fire and shadow which serve Morgoth and are feared by all Humans and Elves. Luthien casually answers the Balrogs weren't the problem, and Finrod's captain amusingly remarks that is something seldom said. |
| 161 | -->'''Fingolfin:''' [shaking his head] ''"For my part, I don't dare say which is more impressive, the subduing of a multitude of foes -- or of a handful of Balrogs."''\ |
| 162 | '''Luthien:''' ''"Oh, the Balrogs weren't the problem. The diffi--"''\ |
| 163 | '''Captain:''' [to Fingolfin] ''"How often are you going to hear that, now, Sire?"'' |
| 164 | * In the third book of the ''Fanfic/BrokenBow'' series: |
| 165 | -->'''Armani:''' What is Creator/ChristopherWalken [[ItMakesSenseInContext doing in my bed?]] |
| 166 | * From ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': |
| 167 | -->'''Earl:''' Thanks, Earth Potentate! ''[{{beat}}]'' Boy, there's three words I never [[RougeAnglesOfSatin though]] I'd say in a row. |
| 168 | %%Doesn’t include someone commenting on how these are weird. * ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm'' gives us a few of these gems, including, "I need to speak to your fellow student and his talking ravens," "Congratulations, Thor. I think you just threw a garden gnome [[NotHyperbole into space,]]" and "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner HULK SMASH PUNY VAMPIRE!]]" |
| 169 | * ''Fanfic/DarthVaderHeroOfNaboo'': |
| 170 | ** When Sod Gert greets Vader by saying it's nice to meet him, Vader internally notes that that's probably the first time anyone's said that to him and meant it. |
| 171 | ** Yoda finds himself saying the usual Jedi farewell to Vader, noting how strange it is for a Jedi Master to earnestly mean a proper farewell to a Sith Lord. |
| 172 | ** Vader finds himself saying "I am sorry" for the first time since becoming a Sith Lord when he [[spoiler: finds Padme's sister Sola standing guard over their seriously wounded parents and acknowledges that he can't help them.]] |
| 173 | * In the ''Film/PacificRim'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{Domovoi}}'', Hermann gets one soon after it's found Cherno Alpha is coming to life: |
| 174 | -->'''Hermann:''' No, none of us like the thought of putting a Jaeger down -- a phrase I never thought I would have to say… |
| 175 | * An invoked example in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': EvilOverlord Freeza has made a hobby of [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore keeping a running tally of all the stock quotes]] in his enemies' dramatic speeches [[note]]Namely, he's heard "We're here to stop this senseless slaughter of our people" 92 times, "This has gone on for too long and now you're going to pay" 355 times, "We are the ones who will stop you" 419 times, and "We're going to f*** your face" twelve times.[[/note]] Then IdiotHero Goku shows up and enthusiastically belts out the bizarre threat to "deck [Freeza] in the schnoz," prompting the villain to pause dumbfounded before admitting that's a new one for him. |
| 176 | * ''Fanfic/EarthsAlienHistory'' has this bit from the spinoff ''Andromeda Dreams'', as the Romulans and Klingons are investigating some Krell ruins. |
| 177 | -->'''Drax:''' These walkways over huge chasms filled with lightning seem to go on forever.\ |
| 178 | '''Takara:''' That…is not a sentence I thought I’d ever heard said. |
| 179 | * From ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/316498/equestria-girls-the-empowered-world Equestria Girls the Empowered World]]'', courtesy of Pinkie Pie: |
| 180 | -->She, and an alternate universe version of Sunset Shimmer who looked like Principal Celestia, were surrounded by armed Sasquatch. ''({{Beat}})'' That was an odd sentence. |
| 181 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11863743/chapters/27265062#workskin Fishing Isn't Fair to the Fish]]'' has the Defenders trying to find a way to clean Matt from demonic taint without killing him, but Danny can only propose very horrific exorcisms. |
| 182 | -->"Okay, we're not torturing the blind guy" interrupted Jessica, "is a sentence I never thought I would have to say." |
| 183 | * In ''Fanfic/FiveScoreDividedByFour'', a farmer panics violently when it's pointed out that [[GenderBender "he's" having transformation issues...]] |
| 184 | -->''"Jack, it's not a spider, it's a vagina!"'' My brain confirming that yes, yes that was the strangest sentence I had ever said. |
| 185 | * From ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'' we got Taiga trying to make sense of everything as she's being told about the Holy Grail War as well as Shirou and Sakura's involvement in it. |
| 186 | -->'''Taiga:''' And I'm supposed to be responsible for you. How am I supposed to be a responsible adult if you're running off to do dangerous magic stuff without telling me? [...] I can't believe that I just said that sentence and it makes complete sense. |
| 187 | * ''Fanfic/ForewarnedIsForearmed'': From Akira to an amnesiac Haru at the beginning of Chapter 89 of ''Forearmed,'' over text: |
| 188 | -->'''Akira:''' Hey this might sound like a weird question, but can I come up to your apartment and see if the TV there is still connected to another dimension\ |
| 189 | '''Haru:''' From anyone else I would say that's a strange question, but from you I'm actually not surprised |
| 190 | * ''Fanfic/GensokyosHeart'' has [[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil Remilia]] point out the strange thing she just said to [[VideoGame/StarCraft Abathur]]. |
| 191 | -->'''Remilia:''' I'm not accusing you of anything. You just ate her hair and used it to turn that strange monster of yours into a girl.\ |
| 192 | '''Remilia:''' ...That sounds strange when you explain it aloud. |
| 193 | * ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3266327 The Great Shrimp Hunt]]'' offers this gem: |
| 194 | -->'''Barry:''' We weren't expecting to have to do anything to the landscape, although we might have if we'd gone alone because we underestimated the spear-wielding rainbow shrimp... I cannot believe I just said that. |
| 195 | * ''Fanfic/TheGreatToadSageOfBrocktonBay'' take a moment to remind us how marvelous the Internet truly is: |
| 196 | -->'''[[Literature/{{Worm}} Tin-Mother]]:''' Drop Bear please keep all further speculations on bear capes and bear armies and their theoretical superiority to toads to the Power Fantasy thread. You're verging on derail. Let's keep on topic people, the focus for this thread is about the Hero cape Jiraiya.\ |
| 197 | ...I can't believe I just had to write that. |
| 198 | * From ''Halloween Aftermath'', a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' story: |
| 199 | -->'''Xander:''' I never thought I'd be saying this, but Buffy...\ |
| 200 | '''Buffy:''' Yeah?\ |
| 201 | '''Xander:''' You have to sit with your legs further apart or you'll crush your balls. |
| 202 | * ''Fanfic/HellsBoilingPoint'': When Camila asks Luz and friends to control Hooty from inside, she takes a minute to wonder at what point in her life did it get to where she could say that like it wasn't weird. |
| 203 | * ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocus'': Chloe wants to use her cloak to see into Asher's memories (namely he recalls he was raised by two ''Goetia'' and Chloe is a ''huge'' fan of theirs). Asher, knowing what she's planning, refuses under the grounds that she wants to use a powerful demon/god artifact to look at his "embarrassing baby photos" to which Yuri lampshades the craziness of the sentence. |
| 204 | * ''Fanfic/IWokeUpAsADungeonNowWhat'': "If they were going to use my magical fertilizer powers, then I was at least allowed to steal a few chickens." |
| 205 | -->And that line went straight into the list of "things I'd never expected to say, ever". |
| 206 | * ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'': In chapter 94, Castor Searle and family have just arrived in Equestria and have been assigned a pegasus to assist them. |
| 207 | --> Lightning Streak stepped closer. “Before we do anything else, seeing as you are new to having wings . . . .” He stopped and shook his head frowning, “Never thought I’d ever say that,” he said as an aside. |
| 208 | * A few are cited in ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'', but this example is specifically noted in ''Powers and Marvels'': |
| 209 | -->'''She-Hulk:''' And this week's entry in 'sentences I never thought I'd hear myself say'... please step out of the giant robot frog with your hands up. |
| 210 | ** Another explicit one is invoked in ''Tomorrow's Guardians''; when [[spoiler: Snart]] says "The tree agrees with me!" (referring to Groot), Charlie comments that the sentence is weird even for [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow this ship]]. |
| 211 | ** In ''In Hand and Foot'', April lampshades how strange her life is that asking if [[spoiler: the WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} becoming stone during the day is biological or magical in nature]] is a reasonable question. |
| 212 | * In ''Fanfic/TheInstituteSaga'', Franchise/{{Superman}} delivers this gem after bumping into ComicBook/SquirrelGirl: |
| 213 | -->I've decided. I was unsure whether to wait until I could revive all of them or just do them on an as and when basis, but with beings like ''her'' around, I'm going to need some Kryptonian backup. When we get back, I'm reviving Kara. ''After'' I re-design my outfit and everyone else's to make them squirrel-proof.\ |
| 214 | There was a long silence.\ |
| 215 | I can't believe I just said that. |
| 216 | * ''Fanfic/{{Interventions}}'' sees Faith utter what, from her perspective, is an impossible sentence while she's being tortured by a demon: |
| 217 | -->"Just realised I'm gonna say somethin' I would've sworn blind would never pass my lips… My boyfriend is so gonna kick your ass." |
| 218 | * In ''Fanfic/ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime'', everyone pauses when Natasha asks why there is a turkey in the elevator. |
| 219 | * ''Fanfic/JackieChanAdventuresOlympianJourney'' has this in Chapter 18, as the heroes split up to carry out simultaneous missions to both visit the Ben Shui monastery in order to contact the Eight Immortals and head to England to retrieve Poseidon's essence: |
| 220 | -->'''Uncle:''' One team will go and attempt to contact Eight Immortals, and other will stop [[BigBad magic burping lady]] from stealing sea god's carriage from Queen of England!\ |
| 221 | '''Chow:''' There's a sentence you don't hear often. |
| 222 | * From ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', even if the comment on the sentence's strangeness isn't voiced: |
| 223 | --> Ichiro raised a hand to his face and sighed. ''"My apologies for their behavior"'', he said, bowing his head. ''"Good help is hard to keep from being thrown away in a pointless attack on your ... fiance."'' What a strange thing to say! |
| 224 | * The ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen'' features this line in Chapter 52; |
| 225 | -->'''Elphaba:''' [Dorothy] ended up having to save me from [[spoiler:the personification of my father's rampaging anger issues]]!\ |
| 226 | '''Mentor:''' And here I was, thinking I'd already found the weirdest sentence ever spoken in recent memory. |
| 227 | * In ''[[Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook Life is a Roller Coaster]]'', the staff at [[Franchise/DragonAge Skyhold Academy]] decide on a somewhat unorthodox way to celebrate the fact that one of their colleagues is going to become a parent. |
| 228 | -->"It's a premiere night to celebrate the announcement of [[spoiler:Baby Tethras]]." Blackwall shook his head. "On the list of 'sentences I never thought would come out of my mouth,' that ranks pretty high." |
| 229 | * In ''Fanfic/LightingCandles'', a crossover between ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' and ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Tadashi comes back as a fire spirit and meets some of the Guardians, hoping to get answers as to his condition, and the following exchange occurs: |
| 230 | -->'''Tadashi:''' Look, I'm a ghost and I'm talking to the Tooth Fairy. None of my prior knowledge applies, so all I can do at this point is just sort of... go with it.\ |
| 231 | '''Toothiana:''' Oh, I think you'll do just fine with that attitude.\ |
| 232 | '''Tadashi:''' Really? That's not what the Easter Bunny said... God, I can't believe I just said that. |
| 233 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12380854/87/Magical-Girl-Escalation-Taylor Magical Girl Escalation Taylor]]'': |
| 234 | -->'''Alexandria:''' For all my fame and power, I am still just the head of the L.A. branch. Legend and Costa-Brown lead the Protectorate and PRT. They would be the better people to initiate diplomatic relations with an alien parahuman navy. ''(Beat)'' And those are words I never thought I'd string together. |
| 235 | * Leviathan in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'' keeps uttering these or hearing others say them. At one point, Drama Heart states that she considers lobotomies to be too lowbrow and contemplates using her tail trimmer for nose hair removal, which sparks a protest from Buried Lede. Levi's response follows: |
| 236 | -->"Good to know that controversial brain operations are on the same level as improper use of nasal scissors. And if someone told me a year ago that I would be saying that sentence, I would've had them committed." |
| 237 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11544606/1/Mind-Reader Mind Reader]]'', Yasahiro Hagakure is able to figure out that Sayaka Maizono is an actual psychic by thinking the phrase "bigfoot being chased by a sky fish", which she inevitably blurts out because of how baffling it is. |
| 238 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12986165/11/A-Monster-s-Marriage A Monster's Marriage]]'', Glynda wants to be godmother of Jaune's children but he unfortunately can't promise that. |
| 239 | -->'''Jaune:''' I'm sorry! I traded that away for a favor to an assassin! Wow, that sounds awkward when I say it out loud. |
| 240 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17930069 Movie Night: The Batlash]]'' has this: |
| 241 | -->'''Bruce Wayne:''' Jason. Don't encourage your brother to get kidnapped. Damian, don't encourage your brother to steal. I can't believe I just had to say that.\ |
| 242 | '''[[ServileSnarker Alfred Pennyworth]]:''' I'd imagine it's the same kind of incredulity as when your charge decides to dress up as a giant bat, sir. |
| 243 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5646950/31/Muggle-Fairy-Tales-Are-Mad Muggle Fairy Tales Are Mad]]'' has Hermione trying to reassure Ron about hearing ''The Ugly Little Duckling''. |
| 244 | -->'''Hermione:''' Without any form of mental reservation, I can promise you this story does not involve waterfowl hallucinating a reanimated Christmas dinner composed of avian Inferi. ''({{Beat}})'' That may be the oddest sentence I have ever uttered. |
| 245 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14344743/chapters/39020945#workskin Multiversal Constant]]'' forces ComicBook/LoisLane to witness just how ''weird'' familial situations can get when superheroes are involved: |
| 246 | -->'''Lois:''' Seriously? You're Superman and you left a superpowered teenager to fend for himself.\ |
| 247 | '''Superman:''' Batman -\ |
| 248 | '''Lois:''' Does not have superpowers! Not to mention he shouldn't have to take care of your kid... your clone... who is a kid. And the fact that I'm saying that sentence with a straight face shows just how weird my life has gotten in the last twenty-four hours! |
| 249 | * ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'' has this from Norlock in Episode 13, after he accidentally [[spoiler:shatters the [[MacGuffin Meekrob crystal]]]]: |
| 250 | -->'''Norlock:''' Don't blame me! This wouldn't have happened if your moose hadn't electrocuted me! ''[beat]'' Wow, that's a sentence even ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld I've]]'' never had a reason to say before. |
| 251 | %%No Link* From the ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' fanfic ''A New Dawn''. |
| 252 | %%-->'''Dawn:''' So unless you happen to have a cartful of blueberries on you, I'd say we're totally screwed.\ |
| 253 | %%'''Nick:''' No. And also, that is a really weird thing to say out of context. |
| 254 | * ''Fanfic/NoPlumbersAllowed'': Danny catches himself after saying "Yes, Taylor. Listen to the bomb." |
| 255 | * ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'': As said in [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/323071/198/group-precipitation/two-pink-girls-yelling-at-each-other-by-masterweaver Two Pink Girls Yelling at Each Other, by Masterweaver - Group Precipitation]]: |
| 256 | -->"OH YEAH, [[spoiler:[LYRA]'S THE GIRL THAT'S SECRETLY A UNICORN RIGHT]]?!"\ |
| 257 | "ABSOLUTELY! AND THAT IS A RARE SENTENCE!" |
| 258 | * ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': [[spoiler: After turning into a human, Vix-Lei thinks to herself at one point that she's not supposed to be able to see her kneecaps, then adds that she never would have imagined anytaur ever thinking that before.]] |
| 259 | * In the final book of the ''Fanfic/PrincessOfTheBlacks'' series, Jen ponders her murder of Professor Binn years prior. |
| 260 | -->Did killing someone who was already dead count as murder? And where did she go wrong in life that that question actually made sense? |
| 261 | * In ''Fanfic/RapunzelGoesHome'', Hook-hand stands accused of helping the thief Flynn Rider to escape hanging. His defense: a horse wanted him to do so. Even he realizes how completely insane it sounds right after saying the words. |
| 262 | * In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Rebuilt}}'', we get two rare sentences for the price of one. |
| 263 | -->'''Harry:''' We shall obliterate you with our newfound knowledge of spoons!\ |
| 264 | '''Rosier:''' Aye, fear the spoons! |
| 265 | * ''Fanfic/RigTheGameRoyal'': From Chapter 20: |
| 266 | -->Cybele giggled in his mind, floating languidly in the air as Akira grumbled to himself because he couldn't even control himself.\ |
| 267 | \ |
| 268 | Wow, that's a weird sentence to think of. |
| 269 | * ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': |
| 270 | ** During a meeting, Leader lampshades that she did not expect to have discuss their victory upon the Armenian Mafia. |
| 271 | --->'''Leader:''' ''"Alright, so now that we dealt with the mafia, not a sentence I'd thought I would say, how are our other plans going?"'' |
| 272 | ** As Keel is trying to calm the rest of Seele down after the news about the likeness of the Fifth Angel being purchased and used as a virtual pop idol break out: |
| 273 | --->"Enough!" Keel had enough, this bickering only served to waste his time. "We can deal with the issue regarding the equipment and the fifth's idolification-" Keel couldn't believe that was something he had to seriously say. |
| 274 | ** As the Children are fighting the Sixth: |
| 275 | --->"Uh, Captain?"\ |
| 276 | ""What?!"" Misato and the Captain shouted in unison at the first mate, who looked nervously between the two, not sure who had command.\ |
| 277 | "Uh, the fleet is ready to fire at the….. giant alien clockwork whale? Not a sentence I'd thought I'd say today….." |
| 278 | * ''Fanfic/RubyPair'': |
| 279 | ** Twice, regarding the very idea of the pirate-styled meat-obsessed bees in "Beefus Megabombus". |
| 280 | -->'''Tenn''' (''to Dib''): That's right, we're being chased by pirate-themed space bees that want to steal all your planet's meat. And I cannot ''believe'' my life has reached a point where I can say something that bizarre with a straight face.\ |
| 281 | '''Dib''' (''to Tak's Ship''): Look, I don't like it either, but right now we're temporarily teamed up to fight some meat-obsessed pirate space bees. (''to Tenn'') Wow, you're right. That ''does'' feel weird to actually say. |
| 282 | ** In "Frosting the 13th", after Minimoose learns about the [[Recap/InvaderZimS1E16ARoomWithAMoose Room With a Moose]] and gets upset about Zim having had another moose minion before him, Dib comments that he's never seen a jealous moose before. |
| 283 | %%No Link * ''School Watches Assassination Classroom'': From Chapter 36: |
| 284 | %%-->'''Karasuma:''' You can't pimp out your friends for money! ''(exasperated groan)'' I can't believe I even had to say that… |
| 285 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23855998/ Skies of Blue, Red Roses Too]]'' has [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Lapis]] having a discussion with [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] about her past, only to lampshade it afterward. |
| 286 | -->'''Lapis:''' I dunno. I just... I went and had a conversation with the Melons. That’s a rare sentence. |
| 287 | * The ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''/''[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]]'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/52879939/chapters/133865197 Spider-Ninja]]'' has this moment: |
| 288 | --> '''Spider Ninja''': Can you sue a giant lizard man if you don't legally exist? |
| 289 | --> '''Michelangelo''': (internally) There's something you don't hear every day. |
| 290 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12592223/35/The-Spider The Spider]]'' MCU Spider-man ends up in the same dimension as May-Day Parker, where her Peter Parker insists he go to school until he can return to his own dimension. |
| 291 | -->'''May:''' Can you imagine what will happen to my social life when my sixteen year old dad joins up?! ...My life makes no sense. |
| 292 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10241738/chapters/23786505#workskin There is Always Enough Blame to go Around]]'', a ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' story about Tony and Steve each attending therapy, Steve's therapist grows frustrated with Steve's difficulty in understanding why exactly he had to apologize to Tony. Eventually, he spells out that hiding that the Starks were murdered only helped the ones who ordered their deaths. |
| 293 | -->'''Dr. Bortich:''' We generally expect our friends to not help or protect people who kill our family and that…is not something I ever thought I would have to point out to someone. |
| 294 | * ''Fanfic/ThisBites'' has so many of these that [[ARareSentence/ThisBites it has its own page for them]]. |
| 295 | * ''Fanfic/ToldThatDevilToTakeYouBack'': When Dean joins a group of female hunters in confronting the Thule Society as the aforementioned group plan to resurrect Hitler, the hunters make various comments that they explicitly acknowledge are sentences they never thought they’d say, including ''What did your dad do to Hitler?'', ''The watch holds Hitler’s soul'', and ''Yay, commies''. |
| 296 | * In ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'', the weirdness of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] brings some weird sentences [[FirstPersonSmartass snarkingly commented on]] by [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix]]. |
| 297 | -->'''Judge:''' ''[to Apple Bloom]'' Maybe you're a... '''''OH!''''' A cutie mark crusader witness testifier!\ |
| 298 | '''Phoenix:''' ''(Your Honor, how much shame do you have left after saying something like that?)''\ |
| 299 | '''Trixie:''' The zebra told us she was making herbal ointments and medicines. Nothing out of the ordinary.\ |
| 300 | '''Phoenix:''' ''(I've heard it all... a zebra brewing potions is "nothing out of the ordinary"...)'' |
| 301 | * ''FanFic/TheTwilightChild'': "Oh, that's just mom. She wants to destroy time so it won't be Tuesday." Said by a magical unicorn to a time-lord presently in the form of a pony. The "she" in this sentence is a younger alternate version of the aforementioned unicorn's mother, currently in the grips of temporary SanitySlippage. Tellingly, there's an awkward pause immediately after that statement. |
| 302 | * The ''[[Literature/TheSilmarillion Silmarillion]]'' fanfic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/7451032 Three Ainur on a Mountain (To Say Nothing of the Dragon)]]'' gives us this line. |
| 303 | -->'''Melkor:''' Mairon, my dear, have we lost a dragon recently? |
| 304 | * ''Fanfic/UniverseFalls'': |
| 305 | ** Near the end of "Space Race", Greg tells Steven "Maybe now you'll listen to me about going on crazy space missions... You know, I feel like that's something very few other fathers ever have to say." |
| 306 | ** In "Evergreen Inn", Greg does it again after saying "Looks like we better go save Mr. Pines before he gets eaten by that evil spider lady." |
| 307 | * In ''Fanfic/VowOfTheKing'', besides [[INeedAFreakingDrink insisting Yoruichi should be offering him alcohol]], Ichigo comments on both the absurdity of the situation and the sentence used to describe it. |
| 308 | --> '''Ichigo:''' A Shinigami cat just told me his spy in the afterlife said my ghost girlfriend is going to be killed! That sentence shouldn’t exist! |
| 309 | * In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11990775 The Very Wine of Blessedness]]'', Sam gives us this line. |
| 310 | -->'''Sam:''' Are you telling me that Eru Iluvatar is worse than spiders?\ |
| 311 | Frodo had no reply to this, and indeed was not entirely comfortable with the existence of that sentence at all. |
| 312 | * In ''Fanfic/TheWarIsFarFromOverNow'': |
| 313 | ** Tony Stark has to explain Vision's origins in an email to the former members of SHIELD who've joined Stark Industries. |
| 314 | --->'''Tony:''' Basically, JARVIS entered a body that'd been created by Ultron, except what came out of Dr. Cho's Cradle was someone entirely. Vision sounds like him, and he's red, and he can fly.\ |
| 315 | {{Beat}}\ |
| 316 | Reading that makes me regret all life choices that led to this. |
| 317 | ** Another example shows up in an email between a couple members of Stark Industries. |
| 318 | --->The world domination memes are only starting to go out—and I still can't believe that's a legitimate sentence that I just typed. |
| 319 | * In ''Fanfic/WhenReasonFails'', when Katsuki clarifies with Izuku that the latter wants the former to bring the "mobile pile of nightmare fuel and childhood trauma all the way to the UA, just so you can feed the Frog Face with them and get free frog gacha rolls?", Izuku can only be stunned at the absurdity of the sentence before confirming he wants Katsuki to do that. |
| 320 | * In ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'''s side-story "Vet Visits", Wilhelmina tells Ren about the time when Pinkie Pie and Julien were high and tried to get her to turn a hamburger back into a cow, prompting Ren to say, "Hamburgers can’t really feel pain." After a beat, he admits that he can't believe he said that. |
| 321 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13635708/10/Working-for-the-Weekend Working for the Weekend]]'': Joyce's reasoning for not giving her daughter, Willow, and Xander a ride to the spa. |
| 322 | -->'''Joyce:''' I'd never get the scent of sex and penguins out of my car. And I never in my life thought I'd be saying that sentence. |
| 323 | * ''FanFic/XCOMRWBYWithin'' has Blake comment on how weird her life has been during her time as an operative. |
| 324 | -->'''Blake:''' I just asked my best friend to make sure she’s storing her limbs in a safe place while she joyrides in a giant robot. I’ve lost control of my life, Ruby. |
| 325 | * This exchange during a conference call in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27736435 Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]'' regarding an overenthusiastic cat-person: |
| 326 | -->"Strange things are afoot in the multiverse, kid. Is your brother Advertising/{{Pepsiman}} at the moment?"\ |
| 327 | "And for the life of me I can't believe that's a valid question." |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 331 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsMagicalMovieNight'': In "Mirror Magic", after Starlight Glimmer suggests to Sunset Shimmer that she visits the human world with her... |
| 332 | -->'''Sunset Shimmer:''' Well, I haven't ever seen you in that world. So... chances are you aren't gonna run into yourself.\ |
| 333 | '''Starlight Glimmer:''' ... is something you don't hear every day. |
| 334 | * During the climax of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', Batman actually says "Cowabunga" as a code word to get the turtles to help take down the Shredder. |
| 335 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' has this exchange between Tzipporah and her little sisters: |
| 336 | -->'''Tzipporah:''' What are you girls doing?\ |
| 337 | '''Jethrodiadah:''' We're trying to get the funny man out of the well!\ |
| 338 | '''Tzipporah:''' Trying to get the funny man out of the well... well, that's one I haven't heard before. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 342 | * In ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', a reporter reminisces on the advice he gave earlier in the film on how to handle the unfolding ZombieApocalypse [[note]]In a metalicious twist, the reporter is not an actor, but an actual newsreader in real life. If you watch closely during his scenes, he's working very, very, very hard to maintain a straight face.[[/note]]: |
| 343 | -->'''Reporter:''' It's just not something you ever expect to have to say on air: "[[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain Remove the head or destroy the brain]]." |
| 344 | * In ''Film/TeenBeachMovie'', the lead characters utter this exchange: |
| 345 | -->'''Brady:''' I'm looking to see if Les Camembert is building his diabolical weather machine!\ |
| 346 | '''Mac:''' How often do you hear ''that'' sentence?\ |
| 347 | '''Brady:''' Remember, I told you about the maniacal real estate developer?\ |
| 348 | '''Mac:''' Or that one! |
| 349 | * When Inigo first meets Westley in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' (before he relates his past, where he explains he has an ''excellent'' reason for asking this): |
| 350 | -->'''Inigo:''' I do not mean to pry... but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?\ |
| 351 | '''Westley:''' Do you always begin conversations this way? |
| 352 | * ''Film/TheMonumentsMen'': When the Monuments Men learn that the Germans are going to destroy the looted artwork in the event of Hitler's death, they realize the urgency of their mission while Jean-Claude remarks that Hitler better not die. He acknowledges that he didn't think he'd ever hear himself utter that sentence. |
| 353 | * ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'' has this exchange. |
| 354 | -->'''Reporter:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext It's the president! He has a rocket launcher!]]\ |
| 355 | ''[everyone in the CIA now has a FlatWhat look on their face]''\ |
| 356 | '''Ralphelson:''' Well, that's not something you see every day. |
| 357 | * In the movie ''[[Series/GetSmart Get Smart Again!]]'', after a conversation with Max over his ShoePhone is disconnected, the government official he was talking to orders "Dial his other shoe! (Beat) I can't believe I just said that." The phone number for Max's other shoe turned out to be unlisted. |
| 358 | * In the film ''Film/IronSky'', when Vivian Wagner has to tell the president who is invading America, she sounds like she can barely believe it herself. |
| 359 | -->'''Vivian:''' They're Nazis... from the moon... |
| 360 | * ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'': |
| 361 | -->'''Waverley:''' A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon. Words fail me, gentlemen. |
| 362 | * ''Film/TheShaggyDog'' (the 1959 original version): |
| 363 | -->'''Police Chief:''' Would you kindly have my car sent round? That is unless [[ItMakesSenseInContext it's been stolen by a purple kangaroo wearing a checkered vest]]! |
| 364 | * ''Film/TheLadykillers1955'': "Give the parrot his medicine!" Even Louis can't believe what he just said. |
| 365 | * When Tony fills Peter ([[OneSteveLimit Parker]]) in on the happenings of the first twenty minutes of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', he sounds like he's fully aware of the ridiculousness of the situation. |
| 366 | -->'''Tony Stark:''' He's from space, he came here to steal a necklace from a wizard. |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 370 | * Creator/CharlieBrooker, in his "Screen Burn" column: "Downright heartwarming. That's a phrase I don't use very often. I don't have a heart." Also comes up after a description of something absurdly weird on TV "... which is a sentence I never thought I'd write." |
| 371 | * One of the Top 10 Lists in Creator/DavidLetterman's first book of them has rarely used adjectives, including "owl-flavored" and "Hitleriffic". |
| 372 | * ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'': Alcatraz Smedry notes at one point that his life "involves some of the strangest lines of dialogue you'll ever read," and uses the following for example: |
| 373 | -->'''Grandpa Smedry:''' Fine. You fetch your evil Librarian mother from the jail. I'll go warm up the giant penguin. |
| 374 | * In one of the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' books, the group travels back in time to various eras, one of which is the night UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington crossed the Delaware River. They immediately come to the (correct) conclusion that the time-traveler they're following is going to try to assassinate the Father of the United States. |
| 375 | -->'''Jake:''' <Rachel? Find Washington. He must be the target. Stay on him. Whatever you do: Protect George Washington.>\ |
| 376 | '''Marco:''' There's three words you never thought you'd say. |
| 377 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Moist von Lipwig tries to prevent Lord Vetinari from being publicly humiliated by a clown gone mad. When the clown goes in for the old SquirtingFlowerGag, Moist shouts [[HesGotAWeapon "Look out! He's got a daisy!"]], then does a mental double-take on realizing what he just said. |
| 378 | -->''I just shouted "Look out! He's got a daisy," and I think I'm going to remember forever just how embarrassing this is.'' |
| 379 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]: The ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''Trading Futures'' features the following exchange; |
| 380 | -->'''Fitz Kriener:''' Hey, I just saved the Earth from a race of invincible would-be time-travelling space rhinos.\ |
| 381 | '''Eighth Doctor:''' In all of the history of the English language, I doubt that sentence has ever been spoken before. Well done. For the last few minutes, it's been nothing but "Doctor, help!", "Doctor, look out!", "Doctor, they've got us pinned down", "We're not going to make it". I'd begun to think I would never hear an original sentiment expressed again. |
| 382 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Played with in ''Literature/WhiteNight'', as Dresden is explaining how he managed to get Thomas into the Deeps on Raith Manor, in a CallBack to ''Literature/BloodRites''. |
| 383 | -->'''Harry:''' He's a vampire, and they have the ability to cross into the Nevernever at certain places. [...] In Thomas's case, he was nearly sacrificed by a cult of porn-star sorceresses in those caves a few years a--\ |
| 384 | '''Molly:''' I'm sorry, but it sounded like you said "cult of porn-star sorceresses."\ |
| 385 | '''Harry:''' Yeah.\ |
| 386 | '''Molly:''' Oh. ''[skeptical look]'' Sorry, then. Keep going. |
| 387 | * Christopher Moore's ''Literature/FlukeOrIKnowWhyTheWingedWhaleSings'' contains this gem: |
| 388 | -->"Shoes off inside the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus." Two things that, if asked about an hour earlier, Nate might have said with conviction he'd never hear in a lifetime of conversation. |
| 389 | * ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'': In ''The Lies of Locke Lamora'', Calo says, "Rejoice! The Sanza brothers are returned!", and Jean uses this as an insult, wondering "if that particular combination of words has ever been uttered by anyone, before now." |
| 390 | * Jenny Lawson's memoir, ''Let's Pretend This Never Happened'', has this gem (the "baby" in question is a falling-apart Betsy Wetsy doll): |
| 391 | -->''Then one night we used the baby's head as a bong. (I'm pretty sure that's the only time this sentence has ever been used in a memoir. One would hope.)'' |
| 392 | ** Her follow-up book ''Furiously Happy'' has this exchange between Jenny and her long-suffering husband Victor: |
| 393 | --->'''Victor:''' FINE. WE'RE NOT FIGHTING.\ |
| 394 | '''Jenny:''' THEN WHY AM I APOLOGIZING?\ |
| 395 | '''Victor:''' I have no idea. Everything after George Washington's dildo was a blur.\ |
| 396 | '''Jenny:''' You can say that again.\ |
| 397 | '''Victor:''' No, actually. I ''never'' want to have to say that again. |
| 398 | * ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'' has the main character internally bemoaning the fact he can say he got to discuss with a goat in Jotunheim. |
| 399 | * ''Literature/MartyPants'': Marty makes four in "Do Not Open!" |
| 400 | ** I'm not putting lipstick on rats! |
| 401 | ** I [=AM=] putting lipstick on rats. |
| 402 | ** Let's all smell monkey butts. |
| 403 | ** My sister is a ray of sunshine. |
| 404 | * The Creator/StephenKing memoir/writing guide ''On Writing'' notes that any noun and any verb, put together, make a legitimate sentence. This includes even the strangest ones, his example being "Plums deify" (which becomes a RunningGag). |
| 405 | * In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Penny's father [[SueDonym Brian/Brainy Akk]] remarks on the debut of the Inscrutable Machine (a villain team of thirteen-year-olds), suggesting letting superpowered kids fight each other may be healthier for them, then remarks to The Audit that he can't believe he said that. |
| 406 | --> '''Brainy Akk:''' If there are more supervillains this young, it may be healthier to let them fight kids their own age. |
| 407 | --> '''Brainy Akk:''' I can't believe I just said that. |
| 408 | --> '''The Audit:''' I can't believe life gave you the chance. |
| 409 | * ''The Power of Babel'' has the statement, which MakesSenseInContext, "Languages are chock-full of Charlie Brown heads", and lampshades it with a [[FootnoteFever footnote]]: "Never again will that sequence of words be used in the English language."[[note]] All books explaining linguistics to a general audience have a version of this: a sentence that makes sense grammatically but describes bizarre or inconceivable idea (e.g. "the treacherous, liquid windowpane swam gleefully to the edges of the seas on Mars"). The purpose is to demonstrate that grammar makes language capable of infinite expression despite having at any given time a finite vocabulary.[[/note]] |
| 410 | * ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'': In ''Foxglove Summer'', Dominic, a village policeman who's just discovered the reality of the supernatural, comments that he can't believe he's saying things like, "Do we actually have an operational plan for dealing with the unicorns?" |
| 411 | * In the first ''Literature/TroyRising'' book, "They can take our maple syrup when they pry it from our cold, dead hands." ItMakesSenseInContext. |
| 412 | * ''Literature/{{Zomboy}}'': Calvin says this near the beginning of chapter 16. |
| 413 | -->'''Calvin:''' I am not a piano. |
| 414 | * ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' has the protagonists [[AntiHero Dave]] and [[TheStoner John]] investigating events related to an [[EldritchAbomination interdimensional]] [[EvilIsVisceral biomechanical horror]], one of which is a killer dog that suddenly exploded, upon finding its owner, John interrogates her with this gem "Ma'am, if your dog was dabbling in the occult while you had her it's best you tell us now. We're experts." |
| 415 | * In chapter 65 of ''Literature/TheSalvationWar: Armageddon???'', a US Navy Admiral asks how many carrier groups will be deployed to {{hell}}, then quips, "I still can't believe I just said that." |
| 416 | * From ''Brotherhood Literature/InDeath'': |
| 417 | -->'''Eve:''' I expect the lab to confirm the elephant this morning.\ |
| 418 | '''Roarke:''' That's not a phrase you hear often.\ |
| 419 | '''Eve:''' Heavy object used to whack Mr. Mira. Fancy elephant statue. |
| 420 | * In ''Children of Ruin'', the sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime2015'', a character has this response to [[ItMakesSenseInContext a security breach by octopuses aboard their spacecraft]]: |
| 421 | -->''But then, when you're designing an interface to let molluscs play computer games you probably don't build in that much security.'' Baltiel had a moment to consider how that was a sequence of words he'd never expected to be relevant in his life. |
| 422 | * In ''Literature/BadMermaids: On the Rocks'', Zelda complains, 'I did not just get sucked tail-first through a washing machine to be bitten by a fish. And ''that'' is a sentence I never thought I'd say.' |
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| 425 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 426 | * ''Series/BigFatQuizOfTheYear 2018'': Quote Richard Ayoade, in response to the question "why were some Americans confused by the relationship between two characters in ''Series/{{Bodyguard|UK2018}}''": "We put baby shark, but I said incest! That's the strangest sentence I've said." [[note]]Incest was actually right, thanks to how Brits pronounce 'ma'am' similar to how Americans say 'mom', many American viewers thought the relationship between David and Julia was ParentalIncest.[[/note]] |
| 427 | * ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'': |
| 428 | -->'''Stephen Fry:''' [[CharacterFilibuster ... Our language, tiger, our language, hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of possible legitimate new ideas, so that I can say this sentence and be confident it has never been uttered before in the history of human communication:]] "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." |
| 429 | * ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'' has this from the episode "Ohana", as the team is chasing a scientist who's attempting to sell some bees that have been genetically modified to carry a deadly toxin: |
| 430 | -->'''Reade:''' We need to find Nick and those poisonous bees before they change hands. (''beat'') [[LampshadeHanging Wow, that is a crazy sentence.]] |
| 431 | * ''Series/{{Conan}}'' has a recurring bit called "Things That Have Never Ever Been Said". |
| 432 | * ''Series/{{Coupling}}'': |
| 433 | ** After deciding to flash the rest of the cast to show them how low, pathetic and desperate they've all become... |
| 434 | --->'''Susan:''' But I want you to remember, I intend this breast satirically!\ |
| 435 | '''Patrick:''' Now there's a sentence that can't come up too often. |
| 436 | ** In another episode, following an offscreen incident at a pregnancy seminar where Steve compared a fetus to a jelly baby, which he then ate. |
| 437 | --->'''Steve:''' I don't bite the heads off live fetuses!\ |
| 438 | '''Susan:''' Words never before uttered at a pregnancy seminar. |
| 439 | ** Another gem, this time from Jane: |
| 440 | --->'''Jane:''' I prefer it when firemen go on strike. That's the cutest. You've got a whole protest march of lovely little firemen and you can just pick one off.\ |
| 441 | '''Sally:''' How romantic.\ |
| 442 | '''Jane:''' It's like a buffet. Or a herd of gazelles.\ |
| 443 | '''Sally:''' You know, little fireman-wise, I doubt that comparison's ever come up before. |
| 444 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "You've Got Male", Grissom discovers that the killer had taken water from a farmer's irrigation tank, leading to this exchange: |
| 445 | -->'''Grissom:''' Can I fingerprint your spigot?\ |
| 446 | '''Farmer:''' No-one's ever asked me that before. |
| 447 | * During ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', as the Clark and Lois of [[Series/{{Supergirl2015}} Earth-38]] and Iris of [[Series/{{Arrow}} Earth]][[Series/TheFlash2014 -1]] promise to protect the Superman of [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Earth]][[Film/SupermanReturns -96]] from Lex Luthor, who is out killing Supermen, Lex drops in and groans "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm tired of killing Superman." This is mostly because of the humiliating defeat by the Clark Kent of [[Series/{{Smallville}} Earth-138]]. |
| 448 | * Given the unique nature of the people and situations that Mike Rowe often encounters on ''Series/DirtyJobs'', improbable sentences occur fairly regularly, and Mike never hesitates to point them out. During the "Exotic Nanny" episode, he tells his current host that he tries to make sure that every episode includes at least one sentence "never before uttered in the history of human time." (In this particular case it involved kangaroo milk and whack-a-mole.) |
| 449 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 450 | ** Subverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh The Rebel Flesh]]": |
| 451 | --->'''The Doctor:''' I have to get to that cockerel before all hell breaks loose! ''[{{beat}}]'' I never thought I'd get to say [[OhNoNotAgain that]] [[NoodleIncident again.]] |
| 452 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E4ThePowerOfThree The Power of Three]]": |
| 453 | --->'''Rory:''' There are soldiers all over my house and I'm in my pants!\ |
| 454 | '''Amy:''' All my life I've wanted to say that and I miss it by being someone else. |
| 455 | * ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'': |
| 456 | -->'''Frank:''' I'm sorry [[MakesSenseInContext the check got stuck to the chubby hubby]].\ |
| 457 | '''Marie:''' Oh, Frank. You've never said that to me before.\ |
| 458 | '''Robert:''' No one's ever said that before. |
| 459 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 460 | ** "[[Recap/FriendsS7E10TheOneWithTheHolidayArmadillo The One with the Holiday Armadillo]]": |
| 461 | --->'''Monica:''' Okay, Ben, why don't you come open some more presents? And Santa, the armadillo and I will have a little talk in the kitchen. There's a sentence I never thought I'd say. |
| 462 | ** "[[Recap/FriendsS10E4TheOneWithTheCake The One with the Cake]]": |
| 463 | --->'''Ross:''' Ask them if it would be faster if we cut the baby's face off the penis so we can put it on the bunny... That was a weird sentence. |
| 464 | * ''Series/TheGruenTransfer'': While discussing superannuation advertising, Wil says: |
| 465 | -->'''Wil:''' But my favorite super ad -- Honestly, not something I ever thought I'd say... |
| 466 | * ''Series/HannahMontana'': |
| 467 | -->'''Robby:''' Jackson, I'm gonna ask you a question I've never had to ask one of my kids before. Why didn't you break up with your sister? |
| 468 | * ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'': |
| 469 | -->'''Paul Merton:''' You come along here with your bowl of fruit and you think you're UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton!... And how many times has that sentence been uttered in anger? |
| 470 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', regarding metaphorical "mermaids" (unattractive women who spontaneously seem extremely attractive thanks to a dearth of sex and their proximity in the workplace or social circle, as with sailors seeing mermaids on long voyages) and "manatees" (what the literal mermaids actually are, and the metaphorical mermaids are otherwise considered to be): |
| 471 | -->'''Marshall:''' Once a mermaid gets pregnant, she becomes a manatee again. ''[{{beat}}]'' Never thought I'd say that sentence. |
| 472 | * ''Series/ICarly'': From "iGive Away a Car", when they're about to play a game called Cupcake Slam, in which the contenders throw cupcakes at a door or wall, and the first one to fall loses. This game's bet: loser drinks pickle juice. |
| 473 | -->'''Carly:''' Ew, I don't wanna drink pickle juice.\ |
| 474 | '''Freddie:''' Well then, you better throw that cupcake hard and hope it's sticky.\ |
| 475 | '''Carly:''' ...That's not something you hear every day. |
| 476 | * ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'': |
| 477 | ** In the segment on the NCAA: |
| 478 | --->'''John:''' I never thought I'd say this, but Alabama, stop showing off your ostentatious wealth. |
| 479 | ** The sentence, "We did it perfectly at the end of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar", regarding resettling refugees who helped the US during the war, which he comments, "There is a sentence you don’t often get to say out loud." |
| 480 | ** "Scorpions, what is wrong with you? Stop hiding in bananas in Pittsburg area Walmarts, get your shit together, and fight terrorism like snakes and bees! ''What'' a sentence!" |
| 481 | ** "The protest worked," a sentence he immediately compares to "Great one-man show," "Guy Fieri, that was delicious," or "I met my wife at Dave & Buster's." |
| 482 | ** In the segment on dialysis: |
| 483 | --->'''John:''' Yes, that's right! Taco Bell is owed an apology and that sentence has never before made sense in the English language. |
| 484 | ** In the segment about the 2017 French presidential election, John plays a clip of National Front candidate Marine Le Pen making a racist comment on refugees by comparing it to inviting people into your home only for them to steal your wallet, brutalize your wife, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking rip off the wallpaper]]. He uses this to express his disgust back at her: |
| 485 | --->'''John:''' I never thought I'd say this to someone, because it doesn't really make sense, but I hope someone steals your wallpaper! I don't know why they would Marine, but I hope they do. |
| 486 | ** When discussing Lord Buckethead, a joke candidate in the UK's 2017 snap election who's made public denouncements about both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn's lack of preparation for the upcoming Brexit talks: |
| 487 | --->'''John:''' I never thought I'd say this, but that intergalactic space lord is right! |
| 488 | ** A RunningGag in Season 4 is that every time he starts a story talking about President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, he notes that it's a set of words that just [[TakeThat never sound right together]]. |
| 489 | ** In a segment discussing Chiitan, an unofficial mascot terrorizing a town in Japan: |
| 490 | --->'''John:''' Chiitan is a giant otter wearing a turtle as a hat, which is incidentally already my favorite sentence of all time, right next to "Welcome to the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward." |
| 491 | ** On Equifax: "That angry business-casual farm animal on Fox Business is talking sense." |
| 492 | ** On NRA TV: "I didn't think this was possible, but I think that guy just slut-shamed marijuana." |
| 493 | ** In the story about COVID-19 conspiracy theories (and conspiracy theories in general), John plays a clip of Rush Limbaugh, [[EveryoneHasStandards of all people]], calling out Trump on how he spreads conspiracy theories in such a way that he never says he actually believes them, as a way of deflecting backlash. |
| 494 | --->'''John:''' Rush Limbaugh gets it, which is a sentence I thought I'd only ever say about toilet-based chlamydia. |
| 495 | ** In the story about Texas' 2021 anti-abortion law, John recounts how some Tik-Tok users are protesting it via posting links to ''Shrek'' porn on the website set up to report people violating it. |
| 496 | --->'''John:''' "Tik Tok users bombard anti-abortion website with ''Shrek'' porn" is one of those sentences I never thought I'd have to say, like "Everyone needs to stop talking about [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Kim Jong-un's]] sexy bod"[[note]]Around the time the episode was aired, Kim Jong-un made a public appearance in which he was noted to have drastically lost weight.[[/note]] and "Creator/BenAffleck looks so happy right now."[[note]]Around the time the episode was aired, Affleck reunited with his early-2000s girlfriend Music/JenniferLopez.[[/note]] |
| 497 | * In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', the unit is investigating a case where a man was attacked and had his genitals cut off and stolen. Cragen makes a remark about a "penis-ectomy" and follows that up immediately with "a term I don't get to use every day." |
| 498 | * ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'': In the episode "And Santa's Midnight Ride", a ''very'' over-it Baird has this to say: |
| 499 | -->"Number 943 of things I never thought I’d say until I got this job... Santa, where did you park your sleigh?" |
| 500 | * ''Series/LittleLunch'': In "The Top of the Fireman's Pole", Debra Jo is explaining Rory's plan to get Mrs Gonsha down from the top of the pole: |
| 501 | -->"Rory was a genius, and that's a sentence I thought I'd never say." |
| 502 | * ''Series/Lucifer2016'': In Season 2, Chloe and Lucifer find themselves at the scene of a murder where the victim has been burned at the stake. Everyone's taken aback when Ella's assessment concludes that the victim died after his crotch was set on fire, leaving them briefly mesmerised by the region in question. When Lucifer tentatively reaches out towards the body, Chloe is forced to intervene. |
| 503 | -->'''Chloe:''' ''Do not'' touch the charred crotch...(''{{beat}}'') ...is a sentence I never thought I'd say out loud. |
| 504 | * In ''Series/TheMagicians'' Quentin just determined that thanks to some students trying ([[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct and failing]]) to kill Hitler, there's a portal to World-War-II-era Great Britain. |
| 505 | -->'''Quentin:''' I never thought I'd say this, but thank god for Hitler.\ |
| 506 | '''Julia:''' Yeah, no, that still sounds bad. |
| 507 | * ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': In Season Two's "The Grandparents", Malcolm exclaims, ''"Grandma, I'm not going to hit you!"'' then [[BreakingTheFourthWall turns to the camera and says]], ''"no kid should have to say that."'' |
| 508 | * ''Series/MastersOfHorror'': In "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E7DeerWoman Deer Woman]]", Faraday discusses the first Deer Woman murder with Dana, the medical examiner. He pauses for a moment when she proposes that the victim was beaten to death with a prop deer leg, because murder by taxidermy isn't something you hear very often. |
| 509 | -->'''Faraday:''' That is just one of those sentences you never expect to hear. |
| 510 | -->'''Dana:''' How do you think I feel saying it? |
| 511 | * ''Series/MockTheWeek'' built a whole round out of this trope with "Scenes we'd like to see", or "bad things/missing lines/things you wouldn't find a X". Where they take turns on coming up with odd phrases never before spoken at places/events. It's easily the funniest part of the show. |
| 512 | * In one episode of ''Series/ModernLifeIsGoodish'', Dave's colleagues get him a custom-made jigsaw of Alan Sugar: |
| 513 | -->"I literally spent 3 evenings filling Alan Sugar's face in, that is a sentence I never thought I'd get to say." |
| 514 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 515 | ** In "[[Recap/MonkS2E11MrMonkAndTheThreePies Mr. Monk and the Three Pies]]", Adrian suspects that Pat van Ranken, who murdered his wife, is looking for an incriminating shell casing from her murder that he believes landed in one of the cherry pies she baked for a town festival: |
| 516 | --->'''Stottlemeyer:''' Mr. van Ranken, we would like permission to search your pie.\ |
| 517 | '''Pat van Ranken:''' What?\ |
| 518 | '''Stottlemeyer:''' Please don't make me say that again. |
| 519 | ** In the novel ''Literature/MrMonkGoesToTheFirehouse'', Stottlemeyer's reaction to Monk using clam chowder bowls as a means to blind Lucas Breen as he's attempting to make a getaway. |
| 520 | * ''Series/{{Motive}}'': This exchange from "Oblivion": |
| 521 | -->'''Betty:''' The toothbrush proved interesting.\ |
| 522 | '''Angie:''' First time anyone's said that. |
| 523 | * ''Series/MrYoung'': "Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say: that clown is HOT!" |
| 524 | * In an episode of ''Series/MurphyBrown'', the FYI crew is forced to work in a cheesy dating show. At one point, Murphy complains about having to say the word "Smooch-o-meter" which "is third in the list of things I would never say, right after 'How much for that Music/NeilDiamond CD?' and 'I, Murphy, take you, [[Creator/NewtGingrich Newt]].'" |
| 525 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'': |
| 526 | -->'''Voldar:''' No one on Earth will ever know that Santa Claus was kidnapped... by Martians!\ |
| 527 | '''Joel:''' Do you realize what you just said? |
| 528 | * ''Series/MythBusters'': |
| 529 | ** This gem: |
| 530 | --->'''Kari:''' Now, go on—go back to whatever you're doing—I have an incredibly busy afternoon of stuffing dead birds into sexy lingerie ahead of me.\ |
| 531 | '''The Narrator:''' Now there's a sentence you don't hear very often... |
| 532 | ** In another episode, the narrator remarks on Jamie and Adam's "sausage-based evidence"[[labelnote:*]]They were using sausages to test the myth whether it was safe to stick your finger into molten lead[[/labelnote]] and follows it up by saying "clearly, a sentence never before used." |
| 533 | * From ''Series/TheNanny''. |
| 534 | -->'''Maxwell:''' C.C.! I will not pass off Duraflame residue as the mother of my children! |
| 535 | * Season 2 of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' gives us "Rumplestiltskin and Captain Hook got in a fight and someone got hurt, and Dr. Frankenstein is trying to fix him." The way Emma says it makes it clear she's still confused and annoyed that her life has just turned into a FairyTaleFreeForAll. |
| 536 | * ''Series/OnlyConnect'': |
| 537 | -->'''Victoria:''' It's a gecko; a nocturnal lizard with adhesive feet. That sounds rather cool. I'd like to have adhesive feet. ''({{beat}})'' That might be the oddest thing I've said on this show, and that's saying a beakful. |
| 538 | * ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' has Hanna and Spencer discussing whether a mask-maker will notice that they've taken one of his masks: |
| 539 | -->'''Hanna:''' Please, that guy has so many heads, he'll never notice just one is missing.\ |
| 540 | '''Spencer:''' I may have to write that sentence down. |
| 541 | * ''Series/{{QI}}'': |
| 542 | ** In the "Health and Safety" episode (The answer, in case you're wondering, is [[spoiler:to cure hiccups]].): |
| 543 | --->'''Creator/StephenFry:''' Speaking as a health and safety officer, why would I stick my finger up your bottom if you couldn't name seven bald men apart from Yul Brynner? That is one of the oddest questions I've ever asked in my life. |
| 544 | ** One correction ends up being like this. |
| 545 | --->'''Creator/StephenFry:''' The language of [[WesternAnimation/BillAndBenTheFlowerpotMen the Flower Pot Men]] is actually called Oddle-poddle. "Flobbadob" means "flowerpot" in Oddle-poddle. I cannot believe I just said that. |
| 546 | ** Such an eclectic show is prone to such statements, but Creator/PhillJupitus seems to take more pleasure than other guests in pointing them out, usually by bursting out in laughter rather than uttering the trope phrase. Examples include: |
| 547 | --->'''Creator/StephenFry:''' Though ''slightly'' put off by the idea of a child buffing...\ |
| 548 | '''Stephen Fry:''' That's the miracle of kangaroo suckling.\ |
| 549 | '''Creator/AlanDavies:''' The gravy boat's fallen off! |
| 550 | * ''Series/RadioEnfer'': During the episode where Vincent is dating Dominique, the former's father states that he never thought he would ever say the words "Vincent's girlfriend". |
| 551 | * ''Series/RedDwarf'': "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVBackToReality Back To Reality]]": |
| 552 | -->'''Lister:''' Why would a haddock kill itself? ''[{{beat}}]'' Why am I even asking that question? |
| 553 | * ''Series/RussellHowardsGoodNews'': In Series 10, Episode 1: |
| 554 | -->'''Russell:''' Not that it is the maddest bread story in the news, and you don't get to say that often. |
| 555 | * On ''Series/{{Scorpion}}'', Paige gives us one in "Once Bitten, Twice Die". Toby naturally points it out. |
| 556 | -->'''Paige:''' I slipped on taco grease getting out of the van, and when I fell, the ferret with the venom got away.\ |
| 557 | '''Toby:''' That's the first time anyone has ever said that. |
| 558 | * ''Series/ShakespeareAndHathawayPrivateInvestigators'': In "[[Recap/ShakespeareAndHathawayPrivateInvestigatorsS1E6 Exit, Pursued by a Bear]]", Luella suggests that the crime could be the work of ''"aggressive Shakespeare traditionalists, which isn't something you say very often"''. |
| 559 | * From ''Series/ShaunMicallefsMadAsHell'': |
| 560 | -->'''Shaun:''' Actually speaking of zombies, and that's not a line you often hear in a news program.\ |
| 561 | ''[cut to clip from ABC News 24]''\ |
| 562 | '''Juanita Phillips:''' [[IronicEchoCut Actually, speaking of zombies...]]\ |
| 563 | ''[cut back to Shaun]''\ |
| 564 | '''Shaun:''' My mistake. |
| 565 | * ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': This exchange from "[[Recap/SherlockS03E01TheEmptyHearse The Empty Hearse]]": |
| 566 | -->'''Sherlock Holmes:''' No, I prefer my doctors clean-shaven.\ |
| 567 | '''Dr. John Watson:''' That's not a sentence you hear every day. |
| 568 | * From an episode of ''Series/SpicksAndSpecks'': |
| 569 | -->'''Alan:''' Can I just say something that I thought I'd never get to say in my life? So, you're about to have sex with Music/TomJones, and then what happened? |
| 570 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'', "Moebius": |
| 571 | -->'''General Hammond:''' Now, this mission is recon only. You are being allowed the use of this ship because of the obvious tactical advantages it provides. Under no circumstances is it to be used to travel through time. ''[{{beat}}]'' Never in my life did I imagine giving ''that'' order. |
| 572 | * On occasion, Sam and Dean of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' have to say things that baffle [[SeenItAll even them]]. |
| 573 | -->'''Dean:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext I'm going to stop the big bad wolf,]] [[LampshadeHanging which is the weirdest thing I've ever said.]] |
| 574 | * From ''Series/TonightlyWithTomBallard'': |
| 575 | -->'''Tom:''' That's a good question, which not something I ever thought I'd say after showing a clip from Fox News. |
| 576 | * ''Series/{{Top Gear|UK}}'': |
| 577 | ** For starter: |
| 578 | --->'''Clarkson:''' Guys, problem! I've shoved my anarchy flag through my water lilo!\ |
| 579 | '''Hammond:''' Nobody's ever said that before. |
| 580 | ** Similarly: |
| 581 | --->'''Hammond:''' You've just pulled the wobbly head off the former president of Nissan USA!\ |
| 582 | '''Clarkson:''' Nobody's ever said that before.\ |
| 583 | '''Hammond:''' No, I don't suppose they have. |
| 584 | ** From the African Special: |
| 585 | --->'''Clarkson:''' Look. Do you want to go out there with a hippopotamus or do you want to stay in here with a horse's head?\ |
| 586 | '''Hammond:''' That's not a question that's ever been asked.\ |
| 587 | '''Clarkson:''' [[FailedASpotCheck And it's not a horse, it's a cow.]] [Chuckles] |
| 588 | ** And: |
| 589 | --->'''Clarkson:''' This is enough to shake the skulls from your bonnet. And no one in the whole of human history has ever said ''that'' before. |
| 590 | * ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' has a reversed example in "Captain Terry's Spray-On Hair" where Charlie sees Alan walking into the kitchen with the titular hair formula running down from his head: |
| 591 | -->'''Charlie:''' Alan, I don't know how to tell you this, but your bangs are dripping down your face. |
| 592 | * From ''Series/{{Wings}}'', after the gang has learned that {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lowell's family possesses a huge family trust from which all Mathers get a huge payout upon turning 31 1/2 years old: |
| 593 | -->'''Antonio:''' God, if only I'd been born a Mather!\ |
| 594 | '''Joe:''' Now there's something you don't hear every day. |
| 595 | * One clip on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' features a man in a [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]] costume swearing and shouting about how he works for crime boss John Gotti, prompting someone to ask, "Hey, Elmo, what's your problem?" |
| 596 | -->'''Mike Britt:''' Now that's something you thought you'd never hear. |
| 597 | * From ''Series/WouldILieToYou'': |
| 598 | -->'''Marcus Brigstocke:''' I'd quite like to see some of MC Hammer's curlies in a Regals packet.\ |
| 599 | '''Lee Mack:''' No one has ever said that before in the history of the world. |
| 600 | ** David Mitchell once asked Kate Humble, "Where do you go in London to distribute your clippings?" When Lee Mack called him on this, he admitted it was not something he had ever asked before, but it was germane to the topic. |
| 601 | ** Emma Bunton once claimed that, when she first adopted the identity of Baby Spice, she mostly ate only baby food. [[spoiler:It was true, by the way.]] This prompted this question from Shaun Williamson and response from David Mitchell (who were on the same team): |
| 602 | --->'''Shaun:''' What were your stools like?\ |
| 603 | '''David:''' I don't think that question's ever been asked before. |
| 604 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': From Season 3's "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E12WarOfTheCoprophages War of the Coprophages]]": |
| 605 | -->'''AgentMulder''': It appears that cockroaches are mortally attacking people.\ |
| 606 | '''AgentScully''': I'm not going to ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said. |
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| 608 | |
| 609 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 610 | * In the album recording out-takes for Music/EmilieAutumn's ''Opheliac'', after singing a couple of lines of "The Art of Suicide" she remarks on how unusual it is for the word "ankles" to be used in a song, and challenges the listener to come up with other examples of its use. |
| 611 | * A Pitchfork review of a Music/GuidedByVoices album noted that many of the band's song titles, such as "Tractor Rape Chain" string together words that nobody had ever said or written in that order before. |
| 612 | * Discussed in the song "Bobby Fischer" by Lazy Susan: "Reykjavik, nobody ever says Reykjavik in a song". |
| 613 | [[/folder]] |
| 614 | |
| 615 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 616 | * ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'' has a few crop up due to its nature as a WeirdCrossover. |
| 617 | ** Edith tells [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Doctor K]] "I don't agree with you! I don't think you're giving Criss Angel enough credit! He's a good guy, he's doing his best!" Which seems pretty mundane, but do remember that this is Edith trying to convince K that Criss Angel should be the Black Ranger. |
| 618 | ** In episode 14, Riley tells the party that "David Blaine has been kidnapped from Criss Angel's heart and is being held captive in the castle". |
| 619 | * ''Podcast/MomCantCook: A DCOM Podcast'' has several: |
| 620 | ** A moment in the episode on ''Cow Belles'' prompts Luke to declare that "[Jackson is] huffily wrangling an enormous milk hose", which unsurprisingly causes Andy to [[invoked]][[{{Corpsing}} Corpse]]. |
| 621 | --->'''Luke:''' Well, he is! ... I don't know what to tell you. |
| 622 | ** Andy also notes that that episode made him say "cow afterbirth" more times than he'd like. |
| 623 | ** When discussing ''Film/StepsisterFromPlanetWeird'', Luke states there must be "many sensual pleasures associated with being a gas bubble". |
| 624 | ** The East Appleton bowling team from ''Film/AlleyCatsStrike'' is stated to look like "an Eastern Bloc bowling team". This leads to a brief tangent about "test-tube bowlers", raised from birth to do nothing but bowl. |
| 625 | ** {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''Film/GetAClue'' episode: |
| 626 | --->'''Andy (quoting Jack):''' Didn't you ever hear of Lizzie Borden, the dainty murderess? |
| 627 | --->'''Luke:''' And other normal things teens say. |
| 628 | * ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac'': |
| 629 | ** |
| 630 | --->'''Drom:''' So you mean someone was pretending to be an ornithologist for nefarious purposes of their own?\ |
| 631 | '''Mord:''' Indeed.\ |
| 632 | '''Drom:''' I bet that's the first time somebody's ever said that sentence. |
| 633 | ** |
| 634 | --->'''Drom:''' As long as I keep licking these horrible inedible fruits, I'll be safe from the mind control. Wow, there's a phrase I didn't expect to have to utter twice in one lifetime.\ |
| 635 | '''Mord:''' I beg your pardon?\ |
| 636 | '''Drom:''' College was wild. |
| 637 | [[/folder]] |
| 638 | |
| 639 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 640 | * Back in the late '90s when Wrestling/AlSnow first came to the WWF, he was in an angle that forced him to defeat Too Much (Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor) in a {{tag team}} match. Unfortunately for Al, there was only one viable option for a tag team partner: Head, the mannequin head with the word "HELPME" written backwards on its forehead that he always carried around. Now, in an attempt to pull off a two-fer, we will introduce the Rare Sentence in question with a Rare Sentence of his own: Toward the end of the match, Al Snow made the hot tag to the mannequin head with the word "HELPME" written backwards on its forehead that was sitting on top of the ring post. |
| 641 | -->'''Wrestling/JimRoss:''' And now, Head is the legal man. ''[beat; dejectedly]'' What the ''hell'' am I saying? |
| 642 | * After Wrestling/JackSwagger and Zeb Coulter took one of Adam Rose's Rosebuds (who was wearing a lemon costume) hostage to force a confrontation between him and Swagger, Rose angrily said 'Nobody touches my lemon!' The commentators were extremely bemused that somebody had actually just said that. |
| 643 | * In Paul London's match against Vibora in ''Series/LuchaUnderground'', London decides to put Kobra Moon (Vibora's leader) into a hostage situation by putting a carrot to her throat (yes, this actually happened). To which Matt Striker chimes in with |
| 644 | -->'''Matt Striker:''' Now holding Kobra Moon hostage with the carrot. I cannot believe I'm calling this. |
| 645 | [[/folder]] |
| 646 | |
| 647 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 648 | * In ''Series/TalesOfTheTinkerdee'', Taminella casts a spell that paralyzes Princess Gwendalinda, and the only way to undo it is to say, "My uncle was bouncing through the ice cream on his pogo stick," and she's confident that nobody will say it. As it happens, King Goshposh is reminded of when his uncle threw an ice cream party and brought his pogo stick... |
| 649 | [[/folder]] |
| 650 | |
| 651 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 652 | * ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'': |
| 653 | ** Subverted when he describes encountering thumb-sellers who claim they get their thumbs from a combined bacon slicer and distillery. |
| 654 | --->"The owner of that thumb was no alcoholic bacon slicer!" It was a sentence I'd uttered a thousand times before, but rarely with such meaning. |
| 655 | ** Lampshaded in a later episode: |
| 656 | --->"Well, since you ask me for a tale containing the sentence 'that robot weasel might just be King Edward the 7th'... I don't have anything like that. I mean seriously, what were the odds? However, I do have one containing the sentence 'that robot weasel might just be Queen Victoria'. Is that any good?" |
| 657 | * In ''Radio/CabinPressure'', a plot involving Martin and Caroline attempting to complete their competitive list of the seven dwarves occasions the following exchange between Martin and [[DeadpanSnarker Douglas]] respectively: |
| 658 | -->"I have to get my last dwarf before Caroline gets hers!"\ |
| 659 | "Now there's a phrase you don't hear so much... since the dwarf-hunting ban..." |
| 660 | * A BBC radio tie-in for ''Film/IndependenceDay'', which was basically ElsewhereFic combined with a ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' homage, featured the following exchange: |
| 661 | --> '''RAF officer:''' Either I'm concussed or I'm watching Creator/PatrickMoore fist-fighting with an extra-terrestrial.\ |
| 662 | '''A Radio 1 disk jockey:''' No, that really is happening.\ |
| 663 | '''RAF Officer:''' Oh. Now there's something you don't see every day |
| 664 | * On ''Conversations with Richard Fidler'' Richard was interviewing Creator/BillBailey when he said "You've spent a lot of time with owls... I don't think I've ever said that to a guest before". |
| 665 | * In ''Radio/TheUnbelievableTruth'', series 20, episode 5, Ellis James, given the subject of dancing, claims that it is perverted to enjoy dancing. Creator/DavidMitchell says this is the first time that sentence has been used in mass media since the 17th century. |
| 666 | [[/folder]] |
| 667 | |
| 668 | [[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]] |
| 669 | * Creator/FrankieBoyle recounts how he would still be in parenting mode even when he was without his children and end up saying things that "have never been said in human history." His example is that he said "hello, Mr Cheese" at a supermarket and had to explain to an offended man that he was talking to the ''cheese.'' |
| 670 | [[/folder]] |
| 671 | |
| 672 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 673 | * From the quest description of the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' quest "A Wolf in Bear's Clothing": |
| 674 | -->These Worgen take us for fools! One would think that only an idiot would mistake one of their druids in bear form as a real bear. Unfortunately, there are many idiots here at the Forsaken Front. We've already lost a few battalions to organized worgen bear attacks. Yes, it's even more idiotic than it sounds. |
| 675 | * ''[[VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven Fever's]]'' description of the "Tap Trial" minigame: |
| 676 | -->Think you've got what it takes to tap-dance with the monkeys? (Has anyone ever written that sentence before?) |
| 677 | * ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' gives us this gem when trying to break into the bank vault of the Sheriff of Lynchwood. He promises that the ingredients mentioned will have a situation that MakesSenseInContext, though it doesn't seem that way at the point stated: |
| 678 | -->'''Brick:''' Now that you've got the laxative, it's time to find some explosives. That may be my favorite sentence I've ever said. |
| 679 | * From ''Bloodbowl: Chaos Edition'', Jim Johnson utterly freaks out when he sees the Daemons of Khorne take to the field so an almost equally nervous Bob Bifford tries to reassure him by saying "Now, now don't worry. They're not here to harm us... they're just here to play Bloodbowl, though I have to admit I never thought I would ever be saying that!" |
| 680 | * Hugh Bliss's reveal at the end of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxSaveTheWorld''. |
| 681 | -->'''Hugh Bliss:''' Hi! [[spoiler:We're Hugh Bliss! We're a sentient colony of spacefaring bacteria.]]\ |
| 682 | '''Sam:''' A sentence I really did not expect to hear today. |
| 683 | * ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' |
| 684 | ** The description for the effect "Full Bottle in Front of Me" (obtained from an adventure in a zone based on ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'') reads "Your magical ability is amplified because you're visualizing a mysterious bottle from the collection of an extinct alcoholic bird. I ''defy'' you to use that sentence on your way home from work today." |
| 685 | ** The wiki has [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/User:Erich/Manuel a user-written guide]] on how to fill up [[MonsterCompendium Monster Manuel]]. One of the preliminary steps tells you to get the Clan VIP Lounge Key [[BribingYourWayToVictory donation item]] "for Fax access, which is required for older monsters and [[CheekCopy butts]]. That's a sentence that exists." |
| 686 | * After an encounter with some [[MonsterClown evil rodeo clowns]] in ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'', you get the message "Well, that's one group of demonic clowns that won't be troubling people any more, and boy you did not expect to be thinking that sentence today." |
| 687 | * Edmund [=McMillen=] reacted to the many odd things that could be said during a playthrough of ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' by changing the description of the Cancer trinket (a popular power-up in the game) to "Yay, cancer!" in the UpdatedRerelease. |
| 688 | ** [[http://outofcontextboi.tumblr.com/ There's even an entire Tumblr blog devoted to taking things said during BoI runs out of context.]] |
| 689 | * Youtube channel [=TheGamer=] has this to say about the ''VideoGame/GalGun'' series: |
| 690 | -->It's a RailShooter that involves shooting questionably-aged school girls with your love gun. We promise you, that sentence is completely factual. |
| 691 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' features a conversation between the Avatar and the local wyvern rider on the matter of acquiring a mate for her steed. |
| 692 | -->'''Robin:''' I've assembled an extensive dossier on prospective wyvern mates, Cherche. ...I can't believe I just said that. |
| 693 | * ''VideoGame/WishboneAndTheAmazingOdyssey'': During his second visit to Aeaea, Wishbone says to Circe, "Hellooo! I'm back from the underworld! How many people ever get to say that?" |
| 694 | [[/folder]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 697 | * ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'' |
| 698 | ** The end of the ''Atlantis'' video has Red sum up that the most shocking thing she learned about her researching on the mythical city is that ''Anime/YuGiOh'' actually did their research on the subject (referring to the ''Waking the Dragons'' arc) and that the names of Timaeus and Critias were actually real. |
| 699 | -->'''Red:''' ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' knew more about Atlantis than I did. That one...that one kinda stung. |
| 700 | * In ''WebVideo/UndertaleTheNarratorsMusical'' a commenter compliments [[BigBad Genocide Anomaly]]'s [[VillainSong singing voice]]. |
| 701 | -->Genocide has such a gorgeous voice!\ |
| 702 | \ |
| 703 | Six words I never thought I'd say in a sentence together... |
| 704 | [[/folder]] |
| 705 | |
| 706 | |
| 707 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 708 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 709 | ** First, we have [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0515.html this]]: |
| 710 | --->'''Wight #1:''' Did that halfling just hit me in the face with a pineapple?\ |
| 711 | '''Wight #2:''' I think he did. Also, I think no one has ever asked that exact question in the history of civilization, so bonus points there. |
| 712 | ** Later, Roy has [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0990.html an example]]: |
| 713 | --->'''Roy:''' I don't think [[ChaoticEvil Belkar]] is lying -- which, let's be clear, is not a sentence I ever thought I'd say... |
| 714 | * ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' |
| 715 | ** [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=824 This strip]]: |
| 716 | -->'''T-Rex:''' I've allowed my love of gravy to distract from my prescriptivist linguistic crusade!\ |
| 717 | '''God:''' THAT'S THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAS EVER SAID THAT\ |
| 718 | '''T-Rex:''' Seriously? Does that mean I get into heaven FOR FREE??\ |
| 719 | '''God:''' HONESTLY\ |
| 720 | '''God:''' IT HELPS |
| 721 | ** Subverted in [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1765 another one]]: |
| 722 | --->'''T-Rex:''' My final wish is for all life to have developed either in or about my earthly remains.\ |
| 723 | '''Utahraptor:''' Hah! Is that the first time that sentence has ever been said?\ |
| 724 | '''T-Rex:''' Utahraptor, please! That sentence is BASICALLY my daily affirmation. |
| 725 | * The writers of ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' were pleased with using the phrase "[[TheScrappy Jar Jar]], [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap you're a genius]]!", which got zero hits on Google before the strip went online. |
| 726 | * ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'': |
| 727 | ** The comic joked about this in a rant that included the phrase, "Because I only have one radiation suit." |
| 728 | ** Another one: "I bet nobody else in the history of the world has ever had cause to utter the word sequence, 'accidentally had their vital organs removed. [[OhNoNotAgain Again.]]'" |
| 729 | * A comic of ''Webcomic/FunnyFarm'' featured Ront describing the steps required to reach the town of Bucket, which involved going through the Phukket river and ends up summarizing it as "Going around the Phukket until they climax in Bucket." and, as his brother cracks up, remarks that he can't believe that sentence just came out of his mouth. |
| 730 | * ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' has done this a few times, with Google searches rather than spoken sentences (since there's no way to verify the latter). |
| 731 | ** Before [[http://xkcd.com/696/ this]] comic went online, there were no hits for "strip [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Poohsticks]]", "strip [[Film/ThePhantomMenace podracing]]", "strip [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_prisoners_dilemma iterated prisoner's dilemma]]", "strip [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess chess by mail]]", or "strip [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Game_of_Life Conway's Game of Life]]". |
| 732 | ** Similarly, as [[http://xkcd.com/458/ this]] comic's AltText points out, before it went up there were [[TakeThat no hits]] for "I'm glad I saw ''Film/EpicMovie''." |
| 733 | ** See also under WebOriginal, when he checked a number of other rare phrases (this was a blog entry, not a comic). |
| 734 | ** [[http://xkcd.com/798/ Crossed with]] SophisticatedAsHell: "Yes, the Cabernet is piquant as ''shit'' this year." |
| 735 | * From ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace decides the theme she wants for her birthday party is for most of her friends to use alien technology to [[GenderBender temporarily swap their genders]], which isn't nearly as crazy as it would be in a more realistic setting but nevertheless takes a lot of people out of their comfort zones: |
| 736 | -->'''Sarah:''' Part of me just wants to "get a room" with her. But that's just crazy! I don't want to lose my virginity as a guy, and I sure as heck don't want to risk getting Elliot pregnant! Which, by the way, is a sentence I ''never'' thought I'd say. |
| 737 | * Following an edit made to [[http://nonadventures.com/2011/09/02/das-reboot/ this strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'', the author wrote: |
| 738 | -->Due to overwhelming reader response, I have added breasts to the space dinosaur cowboy. This was not a statement I was expecting to make today (or ever), but your logic is irrefutable and I am not above admitting my own mistakes. |
| 739 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 740 | ** This meta-example from Creator/AndrewHussie's [[https://twitter.com/#!/andrewhussie/status/195366116502142976 twitter]]: |
| 741 | --->a line i seriously just wrote in reality: "People were less prepared for a double juggalo presidency than they ever imagined." |
| 742 | ** In act 6, during his altercation with Karkat, Dave himself says "i cant believe i seriously just said dude dont touch my cape to somebody and was serious about it" |
| 743 | ** ''Homestuck'' is probably the only series on the planet that can make a sentence like the following ''actually make sense in context''. |
| 744 | --->'''Jade:''' i never wanted to see my grandpa in [[{{Squick}} a sexy pair of underpants!!!]] |
| 745 | ** The fandom also provides many examples, which sound ridiculous to anyone not familiar with the comic. |
| 746 | --->'''[[http://youdidnotseeme.tumblr.com/post/82772520494/oh-how-i-love-you-you-evil-space-goat-baby-with Blogger]]:''' Oh how I love you, you evil space goat baby with your little bow tie. |
| 747 | * ''WebComic/LookingForGroup'': |
| 748 | -->'''[[TokenEvilTeammate Richard]]:''' [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/582 So...]] I'm going to need to kill [[GreatBigBookOfEverything that book]]. That was a weird thing to have to say. Even for me. |
| 749 | * ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'': |
| 750 | ** Mentioned by the artist in [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_379.php a strip]]: |
| 751 | --->'''Dan:''' My wings just tried to make me coffee!\ |
| 752 | '''Comic comment:''' This is probably the first time that line has been used... ever. |
| 753 | ** [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_150.php An earlier strip]] notes that it is "The first and last time Dan will probably say Dude." |
| 754 | * ''WebComic/{{Narbonic}}'': [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=51927&mpe=1&fromwhich=4&direction=f "I hope you enjoy the fish-ships."]] |
| 755 | ** Also: [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=43902 "Dr. Narbon—I'm so glad to see you!"]] is not something Dave ever thought he'd say. |
| 756 | * According to [[http://skin-horse.com/2008/a-little-ceramic/ this]] early ''WebComic/SkinHorse'' strip "Three cheers for the government!" is one. |
| 757 | * ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': Llewellyn figures that he was the first person ever to say "Look out for that falling emu!" |
| 758 | * ''Webcomic/{{Prequel}}'''s "About" page ends with the author's note "Thanks, and I hope you enjoy reading my story about an alcoholic cat who hears internet voices. That is a sentence I never thought I would type." |
| 759 | * In ''[[http://www.noscrying.com No Scrying]]'', courtesy of an immortal devil who definitely knows what he's talking about: |
| 760 | -->'''Prince Iskardias:''' Guardsman Lucian, I have lived for aeons without cause to say this combination of words. Why is a ''werewolf'' leading a ''paladin'' to a ''mermaid'' in your home? |
| 761 | * ''Webcomic/WildeLife'' provides the current page image. Previously Oscar, a journalist, had mentioned that his dream was "writing sentences nobody had ever read before." |
| 762 | * ''Webcomic/MarioAndLuigiCleanupCrew'': You're getting your counterattack all over everything! |
| 763 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': |
| 764 | -->'''AI:''' :-) I also contain predictive algorithms... and may be able to assist you directly.\ |
| 765 | '''Dr. Mer:''' I'm here with a [[UpliftedAnimal genetically engineered]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman talking wolf]] and would like permission to get it off my [[BlackSite secret arctic base]] without a [[LaserGuidedAmnesia mind wipe]].\ |
| 766 | '''AI:''' :-( There are no predictive algorithms to cover that scenario. |
| 767 | * ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' has these in great abundance! |
| 768 | -->'''Fern:''' He turned into a dolphin and tried to eat the universe. Or something.\ |
| 769 | '''Dr. Man:''' Mmmmm, yes, sounds rather like the sort of thing the brash lad might get up to.\ |
| 770 | '''Fern:''' We'd found some… thing… some red thing. I don't remember what they called it, but I think it's what brought my corpses back to life. I can't believe I'm saying this. |
| 771 | * ''Webcomic/PhilLikesTacos'', while Doug is missing. |
| 772 | -->'''Phil:''' I wonder if this is what Kitsune said Mecha-Doug was up to -- making evil nerds unstoppable.\ |
| 773 | '''Phil's niece:''' [[http://www.fulltimeink.com/plt/20160506/ That sentence was amazing.]] |
| 774 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'', when Spender talks to his spirit, Lucifer, in chapter 4. |
| 775 | -->'''Spender:''' Lucifer, did I... do the right thing tonight? [-...Good lord, if my parents could hear me now.-] |
| 776 | * In ''Webcomic/CarryOn'': Kathy says, "The chimpanzee said I should eat lots of roughage to clean the nanobots from my system so I'll pass the blood test to be accepted as the heir to the Duchess." In the next panel, she says, "Wow. Now THERE'S a sentence most people don't get a chance to say...." |
| 777 | * I'll let Webcomic/SchlockMercenary speak for itself. |
| 778 | -->'''Narrator:''' "Aliens saved the dinosaurs because a mutant frogozoid tried to eat the stars" may sound like an unlikely causal chain, but the universe does this all the time. |
| 779 | ** Karl Tagon utters one such sentence [[ItMakesSenseInContext while beheaded and wired to a headless monkey]]. Not helping matters is that his son Kaff, who he's talking to, is bleeding into his own brain at the time. |
| 780 | --->'''Karl Tagon:''' There's a headless monkey on that drain table right behind you. I need you to toggle the "somatic" switch to "full duplex."\ |
| 781 | '''Kaff Tagon:''' Bleeding into my brain, you say?\ |
| 782 | '''Karl Tagon:''' Quit worrying about hallucinations and ''toggle that monkey!'' |
| 783 | * Webcomic/StationV3 has a lot of them, for example here in [[http://www.stationv3.com/d3/20221216.html the strip for december 16th 2022]] "Rumor has it the staring contest caused a time loop." |
| 784 | [[/folder]] |
| 785 | |
| 786 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 787 | * When WebVideo/{{Pikasprey}} did a SoloCharacterRun of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen]]'' using Slakoth, he mentions Slakoth's slow speed and [[BlessedWithSuck crippling ability]] leading to him having trouble against even the game's ComMons, resulting in him having to stop and level-grind ''before even entering the game's NoobCave'', remarking "Now at this point, to prevent the same thing from happening going forward, I stop to grind for a while before I enter Viridian Forest. Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd have to say in my life." |
| 788 | * WebVideo/TheUnluckyTug: In "The COMPLETE History of Cranky the Crane", he uses the scene from ''WesternAnimation/MistyIslandRescue'' where Cranky reassures Percy that Thomas will be found as an example of Cranky being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, then says he's surprised he used a scene from ''Misty Island Rescue'' (widely considered to be the worst ''Thomas'' movie) as a positive example of something. |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 792 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': "The Friend for Life" features a variant, where the Freelance Police track down [[LoonyFan Lorne]] and the Mad Thespian to a secret lair hidden in "the bowels of that fun-house". |
| 793 | -->'''Max:''' Huh, that's the first time I ever heard the words "bowels" and "fun-house" in the same sentence.\ |
| 794 | '''Sam:''' Get used to it. |
| 795 | * ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'': "Have you guys ever considered there's more to life than all-seeing chins? Hey! There's a sentence I bet I never say again!" |
| 796 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' has Raven say, "I know this isn't my style, but we just kicked Slade's butt. Shouldn't we celebrate, or something?" in Apprentice Part 2. |
| 797 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' |
| 798 | ** Phineas and Ferb's crazy plans and those of Dr. Doofenshmirtz can easily lead to this: |
| 799 | --->'''[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Doofenshmirtz]]:''' Oh, Vanessa, thank goodness you're here! [[ItMakesSenseInContext A platypus has tied me up in my own pants!]]\ |
| 800 | '''[[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Vanessa]]:''' How did my life get to a point where that is not a strange sentence to me?\ |
| 801 | '''Doofenshmirtz:''' ''(mockingly)'' "I am your daughter. I will stop being sarcastic and untie you." |
| 802 | ** In fact, the ClipShow "Phineas' Birthday Clip-O-Rama!" has an entire montage devoted to odd sentences that have showed up at some point, prompted in turn by the line "Super-suit-generated egg renderings always make me a bit peckish": |
| 803 | --->'''Phineas:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPerryLaysAnEgg Nothing says 'mother's love' like a gigantic robotic platypus butt.]]\ |
| 804 | '''Candace:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbItsAboutTime Why am I wearing a turtle on my head?]]\ |
| 805 | '''Buford:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbBubbleBoys I wanna float around! ...like]] ''[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbBubbleBoys men]]''.\ |
| 806 | '''[[FreakyFridayFlip Candace in Perry's body]]:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbDoesThisDuckbillMakeMeLookFat Am I sweating milk?!]]\ |
| 807 | '''Future!Candace:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbsQuantumBoogaloo Gotta go, Stacy. Good luck with that llama legislation.]]\ |
| 808 | '''Man:''' '''''[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbLawnGnomeBeachPartyOfTerror RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!! IT'S GNOME-A-GEDDON!!!]]'''''\ |
| 809 | '''Isabella:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbIsabellaAndTheTempleofSap Stickiness is the most underrated of all the -nesses.]]\ |
| 810 | '''Buford:''' [[NoodleIncident I knew I should have gotten the down payment on the elephant.]]\ |
| 811 | '''Linda:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbUnfairScienceFairRedux It looks a little like a rhesus monkey wearing a powdered wig.]]\ |
| 812 | '''Stacy:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBeak Oh no, you did]] ''[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBeak not]]'' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBeak just tell me to "hench".]]\ |
| 813 | '''Phineas:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBeak What, you think we should have]] ''[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBeak more]]'' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBeak Bulgarian folk-related elements?]]\ |
| 814 | '''Linda:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbRollercoasterTheMusical I'll be in the dairy section if you want to come yell at some cheese.]]\ |
| 815 | '''Phineas:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbItsAMudMudMudMudWorld Dad, you might want to wipe the Queen off your face.]]\ |
| 816 | '''Baljeet:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbGotGame I, too, feel a certain element of kebab-ism.]]\ |
| 817 | '''Ferb:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbOneGoodScareOughtToDoIt Definitely the giant floating baby head.]]\ |
| 818 | '''Buford:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbWeCallItMaze I am to metaphor-cheese as metaphor-cheese is to transitive-verb crackers.]]\ |
| 819 | '''Candace:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheChroniclesOfMeap I just discovered why cows and frogs don't date.]]\ |
| 820 | '''Phineas:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbCandacesBigDay "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Taffeta?" Make a note of that.]]\ |
| 821 | '''Candace:''' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbOneGoodScareOughtToDoIt I'm calling Mom... and I am]] ''[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbOneGoodScareOughtToDoIt not]]'' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbOneGoodScareOughtToDoIt using the banana this time!]] |
| 822 | ** There's also this exchange from "I Was a Middle-Aged Robot", which sort of plays with the trope: |
| 823 | --->'''Candace:''' How many times have I told you to keep Perry out of my way while I'm balancing eggs on a spoon?\ |
| 824 | '''Phineas:''' Um... never? |
| 825 | ** Definitely played with in "One Good Scare Ought to Do It", even though it doesn't follow the mold. This episode is where the last example in the clip show list came from, and this was the response: |
| 826 | --->'''Phineas:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' You guys heard that, right? It ''wasn't'' just me? |
| 827 | ** From "The Temple of Juatchadoon": |
| 828 | --->'''Phineas:''' We've got to lead that corn colossus away from those backup singers!\ |
| 829 | '''Isabella:''' OMG, coolest sentence ever! Somebody write that down. |
| 830 | ** And from "Der Kinderlumper", as Candace is driving a vegetable-shaped go-kart: |
| 831 | --->'''Candace:''' I've got the fennel pedal to the rutabaga metal! And yes, I know that's a weird sentence. |
| 832 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Haylias," Hayley's TriggerPhrase was explicitly chosen to be something nobody would ever say naturally, so that she wouldn't hear it by accident: "I'm getting fed up with this orgasm!" Oddly, another episode reveals that Steve has one too, but it's just "rhubarb". |
| 833 | * The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Spies Reminiscent of Us" had a gag with a TriggerPhrase again being something that nobody would ever say naturally: "Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet." |
| 834 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' |
| 835 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E16MakeRoomForLisa Make Room for Lisa]]", Marge assures Lisa that having a cell phone tower built into her bedroom is temporary: |
| 836 | --->'''Marge:''' It's only until we have to pay off your father's desecration of a priceless artifact. (''sigh'') Never thought I'd ever have to say ''that'' [[OhNoNotAgain again]]... |
| 837 | ** |
| 838 | --->'''Lisa:''' Dad, follow that dinosaur!\ |
| 839 | '''Homer:''' I've waited my whole life to hear that! |
| 840 | ** And in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E15HomieTheClown Homie the Clown]]" |
| 841 | --->'''Homer:''' That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough! I'm going to clown college!!\ |
| 842 | '''Bart:''' I don't think any of us expected him to say that... |
| 843 | ** And when ''Bart'' goes to clown school... |
| 844 | -->'''Homer:''' Bart! What did i tell you about riding a unicycle in the kitchen?\ |
| 845 | '''Bart:''' Nothing, it never came up.\ |
| 846 | ''(Marge checks an enormous book of house rules and nods)'' |
| 847 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': In the episode "Blast from the Past", the Autobots have to stop the Dinobots' rampage through downtown Detroit. [[DumbMuscle Bulkhead]] points out that such a fight would put a lot of humans in danger, and suggests that they lure the Dinos somewhere with more space and fewer people. Prime responds with something the other 'bots rarely hear him say. |
| 848 | --> '''Optimus Prime''': Good thinking, Bulkhead. |
| 849 | --> '''Bulkhead''': (stunned) He said 'good thinking'. |
| 850 | --> '''Bumblebee''': (equally stunned) And 'Bulkhead'. |
| 851 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', Splinter says that Michelangelo is wise when he tries to befriend Leatherhead, and then admits that he never expected to say that. |
| 852 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Used as a TakeThat in the episode "All The Presidents' Heads". |
| 853 | -->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' I'm sure nobody's ever said this before, but I must get to UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} as quickly as possible! |
| 854 | * ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': From "Fanboy Freakout": |
| 855 | -->'''Gretchen:''' Squirt, don't eat our fake poop. There's a sentence I never thought I'd have to say. [[NoodleIncident Again]]. |
| 856 | * A variant from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': |
| 857 | -->'''Archer:''' That's good, because [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've basically been waiting my entire life to say this]]... I'm commandeering this airboat! |
| 858 | * From ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': |
| 859 | -->'''Timmy:''' You were right, Cosmo!... ''You'' were right?\ |
| 860 | '''Timmy:''' Great idea, Cosmo! Wow, there's three words I never thought I'd say in a row. |
| 861 | * ''Series/StrangeHillHigh'': From "The 101% Solution": |
| 862 | -->'''Becky:''' We can't hold off these concrete-pouring helicopters forever, she said saying something no one has ever said before. |
| 863 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has quite a few: |
| 864 | -->'''Mable:''' I guess I'm just sad that my first boyfriend turned out to be a bunch of gnomes.\ |
| 865 | '''Stan:''' Sometimes, Wendy, a man has to steal an animatronic badger in order to stay in this crazy game called life.\ |
| 866 | '''Deputy Durland:''' A bearded witch chasing a talking pig!\ |
| 867 | '''Sheriff Blubs:''' My horoscope came true. |
| 868 | * From ''WesternAnimation/KongKingOfTheApes:'' |
| 869 | -->'''Panchi:''' Those dinosaurs are going to crush Kong! [[LampshadeHanging Wow, I can't believe I just said that]]. |
| 870 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': |
| 871 | ** In "Little Hard Dad", Bob and Gene get home after their crazy adventure, which involved Bob getting ShotInTheAss with an RC helicopter modified to launch sharp, pointy darts. |
| 872 | --->'''Bob:''' Now, how about we go inside and ice my butt?\ |
| 873 | '''Gene:''' I wonder how many other dads are saying that to their sons right now. I bet a lot! |
| 874 | ** In "Ex Mach Tina", Tina injures her leg, and while she recovers the school decides to use her to test a new remote-learning program, which involves Tina operating from home a remote-controlled robot with a camera and video screen. She ends up getting closer to Jimmy Jr., who finds she's easier to talk to via the robot. When he essentially asks Tina's robot avatar out on a date, we get this from her brother: |
| 875 | --->'''Gene:''' I guess we're going robot dress shopping. I've said that so many times and it's finally true! |
| 876 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': There's a few instances of the characters realizing what they're saying is strange. |
| 877 | ** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaHawaiianPunch Hawaiian Punch]]," Cody notes that he's probably the first person to ever say the words "[[AlphaBitch Heather]]'s been pretty good to me overall." |
| 878 | ** Sam gets stung by a jellyfish in "[[Recap/TotalDramaEvilDread Evil Dread]]" and after escaping the creature runs back into the water where he pees to counteract the burn. In the confessional, he defends himself with the words, "Well, no one else was gonna pee on me." Then he laughs and acknowledges that that is a weird sentence. |
| 879 | ** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaNoEggspectsTheSpanishOpposition No Eggspects The Spanish Opposition]]", Mike discusses his Multiple Personality Disorder with Zoey and formulates it in relation to his feelings for her in a way neither can keep a straight face to: "Being around you makes me feel more like the me I wanna be, when I'm around you being me." |
| 880 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyAndScrappyDooShow'' episode “Wizards and Warlocks”, Scooby and Shaggy walk out of an elevator and Scooby reads off the sign. The sign reads “Rhird Revel: Rots of Ruck”, but Scooby reads it normally - “Third Level: Lots of Luck” - prompting a flabbergasted Shaggy to ask what did he just say. |
| 881 | [[/folder]] |
| 882 | |
| 883 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 884 | * Noam Chomsky's sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" -- the point was that it had never been written/spoken before and makes no sense, but is still grammatical and therefore comprehensible. This one has been repeated enough that it no longer counts. Linguistics books usually use [[TextbookHumor weird and goofy sentences]] to make this same point. |
| 885 | * This [[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11122 Language Log]] post glories in the fact that our linguistic faculties allow us to instantly understand such rare sentences as these, using as its example a sentence it calls out from a real news report: "Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers." |
| 886 | * ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Telegraph]]'''s cartoonist Matt said that if he's not sure about a cartoon he can end up roaming the ''Telegraph'' office asking people things like "Does this chicken look worried about monetary union?" |
| 887 | * [[http://www.zompist.com/thought.html This list]] of unlikely phrases found in real phrasebooks. Useful if you ever need to say "Because I was out buying a pair of wooden shoes" in Vietnamese.[[note]] [[RealityIsUnrealistic Which could be useful, if you're discussing Clogs.]] [[/note]] |
| 888 | ** The Somali section is bloodcurdling: |
| 889 | --->Are the snakes here dangerous?\ |
| 890 | ''Masaska halkaan khatar miyaa?''\ |
| 891 | \ |
| 892 | I must operate on you.\ |
| 893 | ''Waa inaan ku qalaa.''\ |
| 894 | \ |
| 895 | We must bury her.\ |
| 896 | ''Waa inaan duugnaa isaga.'' |
| 897 | %% ** The Website/{{Tumblr}} blog [[http://wtfduolingo.tumblr.com/ WTF, Duolingo]] similarly covers unusual foreign-language sentences found on the massively-praised language-learning program VideoGame/{{Duolingo}}. |
| 898 | * Leo Rosten once decided to write an essay (reprinted in his book ''Passions and Prejudices'') about modern poetry and computers that wrote poetry. By (he said) writing down various forms of speech on slips of paper and then pulling the slips from various envelopes, he ended up creating odd short poems that would better be described as WordSalad. The crowning poem? ''Swish green albino dust/Through avatars unborn/And circumcise the circumscribed circumstance:/Juno stabbed the rooster.'' |
| 899 | * From [[http://www.ncregister.com/blog/simcha-fisher/charities-you-ought-to-know this]] ''National Catholic Register'' article: |
| 900 | -->As some of you know, I got a little irritated at the news that Michael Voris and the mostly-reliable Fr. Z have chosen to launch a bizarre Lenten retreat Carribean cruise (I believe that's what's known as a "statistically improbable phrase"). |
| 901 | * From [[https://jewishlinknj.com/features/34665-perfectly-pareve this]] Jewish humor article. |
| 902 | -->As an aside, the chances of finding a Jewish runway model are not as slim, but the chances of finding a Jewish runway model who also [[ThroughHisStomach makes a delicious cholent]], [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage speaks fluent Yiddish]] and [[MassiveNumberedSiblings has eight children]], are infinitesimal. In fact, other than this article, the chances of finding the words cholent, yiddish and runway model in the same sentence are zero. (You can “Google” it all you want.) |
| 903 | * Jake Solomon, the creative director of ''VideoGame/XCOM2'', [[https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/15/xcom-developer-is-surprised-and-flattered-by-turn-based-combat-in-mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle/ noted]] that one of these popped up while he was watching the presentation of ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' at [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3 2017]]: |
| 904 | -->''"Just like everyone else, my jaw dropped a little bit when I heard the phrase, 'As you see, Luigi has taken half-cover.' What world am I in right now? I couldn’t believe it."'' |
| 905 | * Former FBI director James Comey delivers one in a [[https://abc.go.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2018-04/15-james-comey-interview 2018 ABC interview]]: |
| 906 | -->'''James Comey:''' [[ICantBelieveImSayingThis I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth]], but I don’t know whether [[Creator/DonaldTrump the current President of the United States]] was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. It’s possible, but I don’t know. |
| 907 | * There's a [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] called [[https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/ Brand New Sentence]] dedicated to documenting these. |
| 908 | * A Website/{{Facebook}} group called "Previously Unsaid Sentences in Human History" collects these. |
| 909 | * A Brazilian voice actress said dubbing ''Anime/{{Kakegurui}}'' was fun specially for one said sentence, "I wanna rip out your eye to see it from the other side". |
| 910 | * [[https://reddit.com/r/shitrimworldsays Shit Rimworld Says]] collects out-of-context outrageous sentences that are actually a relatively common part of ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'' gameplay. For example: |
| 911 | -->'''''Comment:''' I love how you talk so nicely about the girl you delegged so she can't act up during withdrawal''\ |
| 912 | '''''OP:''' To be fair, she was going to get delegged for bionics anyways! two birds, one stone amirite'' |
| 913 | * Jeffrey Engel on UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump: |
| 914 | -->Donald Trump has a unique distinction -- it's the only president who refused to honor democracy. Stop and think about that sentence: It makes my mouth say, ''How can you say these words?'' And yet, I don't think they're wrong. |
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