| 1 | [[quoteright:252:[[ParodiesForDummies https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/russianreversal.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:252:Русская инверсия для чайников!]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''"In America, there's plenty of light beer and you can always find a party!\ |
| 5 | In Russia, the Party always finds you."'' |
| 6 | -->-- '''Yakov Smirnoff, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbP1DVeJCT0 Miller Lite Commercial, 1985]]''' |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere In Soviet Russia, Russian Reversal Describes You.]] |
| 9 | |
| 10 | The Russian Reversal, more technically called an antimetabole, is a type of joke popularized by Ukrainian comedian Yakov Smirnoff. It is based on taking a statement about capitalist United States and inverting it to describe the then-communist Russia as a dystopian hellhole. Smirnoff later added the prefix "UsefulNotes/{{Soviet|RussiaUkraineAndSoOn}}" to indicate the jokes were meant to target the past regime, as opposed to UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia. For instance: |
| 11 | ->''"In America, you watch Television.''\ |
| 12 | ''"In Soviet Russia, [[SinisterSurveillance television watches YOU]]!!"'' |
| 13 | |
| 14 | The political undertone of Smirnoff's original jokes tends to be conspicuously missing from the imitations, leaving the joke as just "[[RuleOfFunny it's funny when things are opposite]]". |
| 15 | |
| 16 | At its most basic, the Russian Reversal takes a situation where a noun normally does something to another noun, and flips it in dialogue to where the second noun acts on the first. For instance, a murder mystery that had a butler as the BodyOfTheWeek could be described in a QuipToBlack as "It Did the Butler" or the equivalent instead of "TheButlerDidIt." |
| 17 | |
| 18 | This trope may also have a linguistic basis, as Russian uses Object-Verb-Subject word order for unusual situations. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Can cause an InvertedTrope rather easily, if the starting trope can be described as "X verbs Y." If in this instance, "Y verbs X," it is both this trope and an inversion of the other trope. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | It's also the source of many trope names: |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[folder:Russian Reversals with a Trope Name]] |
| 25 | [[index]] |
| 26 | * AdventureRebuff (alternately: "[[CallToAdventure The Call]] [[RefusalOfTheCall Refuses You]]") |
| 27 | * AffablyEvil (alternately: "[[GoodIsNotNice Nice Is Not Good]]") |
| 28 | * AssKicksYou |
| 29 | * AwesomeMomentOfCrowning (from "Crowning Moment Of Awesome", which was the old name of SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.) |
| 30 | * BallsOfSteel (from GroinAttack) |
| 31 | * BulletDodgesYou (from DodgeTheBullet) |
| 32 | * TheCanKickedHim ("Kick the can") |
| 33 | * CallASmeerpARabbit (from CallARabbitASmeerp) |
| 34 | * ChildrenRaiseYou |
| 35 | * CoolOfRule (from RuleOfCool) |
| 36 | * CopKiller (from KillerCop) |
| 37 | * DeathEqualsRedemption (from RedemptionEqualsDeath) |
| 38 | * DogWalksYou |
| 39 | * TheDoorSlamsYou |
| 40 | * DumbIsGood (from GoodIsDumb) |
| 41 | * FauxAffablyEvil (alternately: "[[AffablyEvil Evilly Affable]]") |
| 42 | * FoodEatsYou |
| 43 | * TheGamePlaysYou |
| 44 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil (from EvilCannotComprehendGood) |
| 45 | * HellIsWar (from WarIsHell) |
| 46 | * IntendedAudienceReaction (alternately: "[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste]]") |
| 47 | * JokeOfTheButt (from the phrase "butt of the joke") |
| 48 | * KidsPunishingParents |
| 49 | * LadyLooksLikeADude (from DudeLooksLikeALady) |
| 50 | * LukeYouAreMyFather (from LukeIAmYourFather) |
| 51 | * MageBornOfMuggles (from MuggleBornOfMages) |
| 52 | * MindHive (from HiveMind) |
| 53 | * OverdosedTropes (from JustForFun/TropeOverdosed) |
| 54 | * PedestrianCrushesCar |
| 55 | * PhraseCatcher (from {{Catchphrase}}) |
| 56 | * RushBoss (from BossRush) |
| 57 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules (from ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney) |
| 58 | * SheepInWolfsClothing (from WolfInSheepsClothing) |
| 59 | * ShootTheDog (alternately: "[[HonorBeforeReason Reason Before Honor]]") |
| 60 | * ThisLoserIsYou (alternately: "[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Shows Complaining About You]]") |
| 61 | * Administrivia/TooRareToTrope (alternately: "[[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Chairs Sit on People]]") |
| 62 | * WeaponWieldsYou |
| 63 | * AWeightyAesop (alternately: "[[IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou If It Tastes Good, It Must Be Bad for You]]") |
| 64 | * YouHateWhatYouAre (from YouAreWhatYouHate) |
| 65 | [[/index]] |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | See also GloriousMotherRussia for the HollywoodAtlas version of Soviet Russia that inspired the jokes, and {{Spoonerism}} for the same thing done on a smaller scale with syllables within a single word. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with TheBackwardsR. Compare JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites, when the context remains the same even when roles are swapped. |
| 68 | ----- |
| 69 | !![[Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly In Soviet Russia, in-universe examples list you!]] |
| 70 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 71 | [[folder:Advertising advertises you!]] |
| 72 | * A while back there was an anti-smoking ad campaign proclaiming "Tobacco smokes you!" |
| 73 | * A NoTalkingOrPhonesWarning was based on the idea of not interrupting the movie because "movies don't interrupt ''you,''" and showing people whose lives ''were'' being interrupted by movie characters. |
| 74 | * A vodka ad stated that for years Russia had only one [[DirtyCommunists Party]]. "Now there's one every night." |
| 75 | * A 1995 advert for the candy Daim bar, made from crunchy almond caramel covered in milk chocolate that is "smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside", had a character state he preferred to eat armadillos as they are "crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside". |
| 76 | * ''Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld'' has several "facts" about him using this trope. |
| 77 | -->Sharks have a week dedicated to him.\ |
| 78 | When he went to Rome, the Romans did as he did.\ |
| 79 | His mother has a tattoo that says "Son". |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Anime & Manga animates you!]] |
| 83 | * In ''Manga/FairyTail'', when Elfman grows tired of Natsu's ever-lasting motion sickness. |
| 84 | --> '''Elfman''': Vehicles shouldn't make a man sick. A man should make vehicles sick. |
| 85 | * ''Anime/HareGuu'': According to Haré, some RPG are so linear that it feels as if not you're playing the character, but the character is playing you. |
| 86 | * One of Team Rocket's motto openings, from the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY: Kalos Quest'' episode "A Not-So-Flying Start!": |
| 87 | -->'''Ash''': I know that balloon!\ |
| 88 | '''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, the balloon knows ''you''!\ |
| 89 | '''James''': And make it double, [[LampshadeHanging it's silly but true!]] |
| 90 | * Farnese nearly becomes the victim of a horrific variant in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' when she orders the horse Guts kidnapped her on to let her mount it so she can escape, only to find out that it's been possessed by one of the demons after Guts and [[AttemptedRape intends to "mount" HER instead]]. She is only saved when Guts [[FlashbackEcho flashbacks to a certain horrific moment from the Eclipse]], goes berserk and kills the horse. |
| 91 | * In ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'', [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Geto]] uses this in a question to his former best friend: |
| 92 | -->"Are you the strongest because you're [[TheAce Satoru Gojo]]? Or are you Satoru Gojo because you're the strongest?" |
| 93 | * In the ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' episode "An Anecdote with Horses", one of the segments has five of the sextuplets use a HorseOfADifferentColor to compete in a race, with Choromatsu shooting their attempts down. Trying to be clever, Osomatsu shows up with an actual horse... er, [[BestialityIsDepraved "riding" him]], as it were. |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[folder:Comedy laughs at you!]] |
| 97 | * The {{Trope Namer|s}} is Yakov Smirnoff, who made jokes about how the U.S.S.R. had a BigBrotherIsWatching regime. It's also a case of BeamMeUpScotty; his most famous line was simply "In Russia...", not "In Soviet Russia..."[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke 'Russia' at the time, though not a country alone, all but answered for the whole Soviet Union.]][[/note]] He shifted his comedy after starting his theater in Branson back in 1992 (where he is still playing), which means he quit using this joke long before it became an internet meme. |
| 98 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5T1zYccU8 In Soviet Russia, the war begins you!]] |
| 99 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton In Port Coquitlam, pork eats you!]] |
| 100 | * Subverted by writer Emil Vrabie: ''"Don't you know the difference between the two economic systems? Under capitalism man exploits man. But, under communism, it's just [[DistinctionWithoutADifference the other way around]]."'' |
| 101 | * Several stricter or looser, but genuinely Soviet cases occur in Radio Yerevan routines, for example: |
| 102 | --> '''Listener:''' Why do you never speak critically of socialism? |
| 103 | --> '''Radio Yerevan:''' Because we prefer white bread by the Black Sea to black bread by the White Sea.[[note]]Soviet Black Sea coast has a pleasant mediterranean climate. White Sea... well, let's say Siberia is not the only desolate and cold place to set up some prison camps in.[[/note]] |
| 104 | * During his stand-up comedy days, Creator/WoodyAllen used to tell a joke about his carrying a bullet in his breast pocket; once someone threw a Bible at him and [[PocketProtector the bullet saved his life]]. |
| 105 | * In a federal society, it's your vote that counts. In a feudal society, it's your Count that votes. |
| 106 | * An old one liner from a stand up routine: Our house is so messy, the cockroaches tried to have us exterminated. |
| 107 | * With all the "Soviet Russia" jokes, it was perhaps inevitable that someone would reciprocate with a "Capitalist America" joke: |
| 108 | --> "In Soviet Russia, you rob bank. In capitalist America, bank robs you." |
| 109 | --> "In Soviet Russia, government controls corporations. In capitalist America, corporations control government." |
| 110 | * Creator/RalphieMay argues against the border wall between Mexico and the United States by saying that the Mexicans who were around when the US won Mexico's territory were never quite given notice that they didn't belong there anymore - in other words, they were ''already there'' when the northernmost regions of Mexico became the US. As a result, they didn't cross the border - "the border crossed ''them''." |
| 111 | * What's the difference between Music/MickJagger and a UsefulNotes/{{Scot|land}}tish shepherd? Jagger says: "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Hey you, get off of my cloud!]]" The shepherd says: "Hey [=MacLeod=], [[BestialityIsDepraved get off of my ewe!]]" |
| 112 | * Any number of jokes about supporting the [[BearsAreBadNews right to arm bears]] (as opposed to the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics right to bear arms]]). [[https://boardgamegeek.com/camo/91562c4e22098f58b1876d7d3534a642a0c28f3c/687474703a2f2f73746f72652e6166612d6f6e6c696e652e6f72672f696d616765732f502f737469636b725f31373233302e6a7067]] |
| 113 | * A king got overthrown because his subjects didn't like his laws on hunting. The reign was cancelled on account of game. |
| 114 | * Creator/JerrySeinfeld has a bit on the effectiveness of wearing a helmet while skydiving: |
| 115 | -->''If you jump out of a plane at ten thousand feet and your parachute doesn't open, the helmet is now wearing '''you''' for protection.'' |
| 116 | * Chuck Norris doesn't get vaccinated for [=COVID=]. [=COVID=] gets vaccinated for Chuck Norris. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Comic Books punches you!]] |
| 120 | * This is ''Bizarro'''s entire shtick - he does the opposite of what Superman does, due to belief in BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad. |
| 121 | * ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is not alone in the multiverse, there are several others, of all types and kinds. Lady Deadpool, Dogpool, Kidpool, Iron Pool, Captain Poolmerica, whatever. And one of them is... PANDAPOOL! The species that endangers YOU! |
| 122 | * In ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: ComicBook/TheAvengers'', ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} infiltrate a weapon-manufacting plant controlled by ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. Storm tells the other to leave while she'll destroy all the equipment in the room. An Ultron drone quips to her that "[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Your last statement is factually inverse]]". |
| 123 | * ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has the Scavengers, a group of ex-Decepticons summed up thusly: |
| 124 | -->'''Crankcase''': We have adventures! We do stuff! \ |
| 125 | '''Krok''': No, Crankcase. Stuff does us. |
| 126 | * From ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', a PlayedForDrama example when Rorshach dumps a pot of bubbling-hot fry fat over a fellow inmate's head when the man tries to pick a fight with him in the chow line, mortally wounding his would-be attacker: |
| 127 | --> '''Rorshach:''' None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with ME. |
| 128 | [[/folder]] |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[folder:Comic Strips punches you!]] |
| 131 | * Alice from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' gives us, "He's so slimy, slugs pour salt on HIM!" |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder:Fan Works made you!]] |
| 135 | * The ''Series/StargateSG1'' fanfiction [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4531912/4/ "Hero of the Soviet Union"]] spends several pages detailing the operation of a Soviet-run SGC, [[OverlyPrePreparedGag all to set up the punchline]] when a KGB major mocks a captured Goa'uld: "In Soviet Russia, Gods bow to you!" |
| 136 | * From the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fic "It's a small world after all": the characters get kidnapped by fangirls. [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Russia]] responds "In Russia, fangirls don't kidnap chibis, chibis kidnap them, da?" |
| 137 | * [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2565609/130/Odd-Ideas ''Ambition,'']] a short ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic by Rorschach's Blot, references the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' line above. The speaker, in this case, is Harry himself. A pack of Ravenclaws lived to regret it. |
| 138 | * In ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'' [[spoiler:[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Benjamin Sisko]]]] mildly chides Eleya for her derisive attitude towards the Bajoran prophecies.[[labelnote:*]]She worships the Prophets, but she doesn't pay much attention to the prophecies due to their tendency towards {{Prophecy Twist}}s.[[/labelnote]] |
| 139 | -->'''[[spoiler:Sisko]]:''' You may not put much stock in the prophecies but the prophecies put stock in ''you''. |
| 140 | * ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' has a chapter titled "Storm Before the Calm" rather than "Calm Before the Storm". |
| 141 | * In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8636728/ Keibatsu]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1634435/brown-phantom brown phantom]], the Suna ninjas' attitude towards Gaara is described by the following Russian Reversal: |
| 142 | -->[...] in Suna you don't go looking for Gaara. Gaara goes looking for you. And if he does, you just pray he finds someone else first. |
| 143 | * ''Fanfic/TopDog'': |
| 144 | -->'''Harry Johnson:''' [N]o plan ever survives contact with the enemy, as the saying goes. Well, [[BadassBoast no enemy is going to survive contact with this plan.]] |
| 145 | * ''Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters'': One incident had an upper-class Earth woman (an admiral's wife) be introduced to a Denali officer. The Denali mentions God while greeting her, and the woman comments, [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions "We don't believe in God on Earth in the 25th century."]] The Denali cheerfully replies, "That's okay, He believes in you." |
| 146 | * From ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' episode 52, Kaiba is dueling the villain Lecter, who's just completed a plan to render most of Kaiba's deck useless. He gloats to Kaiba (the TropeNamer for ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney) that "it looks like the rules just screwed you!", to which Kaiba mutters that [[LameComeback the taunt doesn't really work]]. |
| 147 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiPIY9yHCsg this video]] spoofing the ''Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld'' ad campaign with ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Rainbow Dash is described in the following way: "Her childhood fantasies dreamt about being her when they grow up". |
| 148 | * When the BigBad of ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'' is [[spoiler:[[DevouredByTheHorde eaten alive]] by the Changelings]], the narration states that [[spoiler:they "had a meal fit for a king, or a king fit for a meal"]]. |
| 149 | * The first Knud in ''LetsPlay/KnudKnytlingPrinceOfDenmark'' described his tendency to have monks raise his (illegitimate) offspring by saying 'I send all my problems to the church'. A few generations later, Marguerite Knytling calls TheInquisition in and remarks that she's sending the church at her problems. |
| 150 | * ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': In Alola, Trainers and Pokemon will perform their [[LimitBreak Z-Move]] with the trainer holding the Z-Ring and Z-Crystal and the Pokemon holding a Z-Crystal and performing the Z-Move. [[spoiler:In her rematch against Tapu Koko, Yang has her Combusken Lux and her Hakamo-o Sabra holding the Z-Ring and Z-Crystal, while the Huntress uses the Z-Move Inferno Overdrive]]. |
| 151 | * In ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'', TheBoogeyman, having previously attempted to eat Franchise/HarryPotter, decides to try his luck with his adopted little sister...who happens to be [[VideoGame/KanColle Hoppou, the Northern Ocean Princess]]. Hoppou's response is to eat the Boogeyman instead. |
| 152 | * ''Fanfic/AnythingForFamily'': While the Twinkling Flowers are in the dangerous woods, [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Cure Bloom]] comments that here, you don't eat your vegetables; the vegetables eat ''you''. |
| 153 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfS8QgUdeGYrvfzovvf3o0EyJcPBJvfU1 Jace Beleren Must Die]]'': Rhode's sister Triska, despite Rhode's efforts, gets increasingly drawn into the plot as she encounters both the player characters and the shady conspirators embedded in the Senate. This includes getting attacked by each group, which only makes her more convinced something is happening. When she confronts Rhode, she tells her that she's been following the leads, "and sometimes the leads follow me". |
| 154 | * ''Fanfic/DaylightBurning'': When a character named Cinnamon Oatmeal questions the sanity of a plan proposed by another character, Pinkie cracks a joke about how "In Soviet Equestria, Oatmeal asks if ''you're'' crazy." Another character, not getting the joke, asks her in surprise if she's ever been to Stalliongrad. |
| 155 | * The comments in ''Fanfic/GreatGrandUncleSchimmelhornsToolbox'' joke that Taylor caused Queen Administrator to Trigger when she taught QA how to look Beneath with a device she made and gifted to Queen Administrator. |
| 156 | -->So... one being (Taylor) looked into the brain of a different being (Queen Administrator) and determined that said being was going through a sufficient crisis (not knowing how to look Beneath and also it’s entire existence) that she should use powers her friend couldn’t understand to implant something beyond its comprehension in said brain, thereby giving it new, strange powers, a crisis of faith, and a paradigm shift, to the point where someone who knew Queen Administrator before this (Scion) might think it was being mentally manipulated. In other words, Taylor made her power trigger. |
| 157 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3191147/1/ Honestly, Headmaster]]'': "While the food was eating the Death Eaters..." |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Film -- Animation watches and animates you!]] |
| 161 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', the Boss Baby tells Tim that "Either you run the day, or the day runs you." |
| 162 | * ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' has a serious example, when Donkey asks Shrek what his problem with the whole world is, and Shrek says "Look, I'm not the one with the problem, okay? It's the world that seems to have a problem with me!" |
| 163 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', the hyenas comment on Simba being a king fit for a meal. |
| 164 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'': When the Decepticons attack Autobot City, Kupp and Hotrod get caught outside. Kupp says that the Deceptions are in their way, but Hotrod contradicts him by saying that the Decepticons are their way in and drives through a hole that the Insecticons have made in Autobot City's outer wall. |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action watches you!]] |
| 168 | * ''Film/{{Congo}}'' used as its TagLine "where ''you'' are the endangered species" courtesy of an ancient KillerGorilla tribe. |
| 169 | * One of the first examples, and a contemporary with Yakov Smirnoff's standup comedy, comes from the movie ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', when the henchman of galactic gangster "Pizza the Hutt" warns Lone Starr about what will happen if he and Barf don't pay a million spacebucks: |
| 170 | -->"...or else ''Pizza'' is gonna send out for ''you!''" |
| 171 | * ''Film/Heist2001'' has this particular gem: |
| 172 | --> '''Jimmy:''' So, is he going to be cool?\ |
| 173 | '''Pinky:''' My motherfucker is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him. |
| 174 | * In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', Jay imagines a ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''-style dystopian world where "we will not spank the monkey; the monkey will spank us!" |
| 175 | * In ''Film/VanHelsing'', [[TheIgor Igor]] says this, when the hot female ally and the Q of the hero try to force Igor into giving them the Werewolf antidote: |
| 176 | -->"You try to get Igor. Igor get you!" |
| 177 | * ''Film/TheBigLebowski'': "Sometimes you eat the b'ar and sometimes the b'ar, well, he eats ''you''." |
| 178 | * The 4th theme of the ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' soundtrack is named "In Russia, phone dials you". |
| 179 | * In ''Film/TropicThunder'': |
| 180 | --> '''Kirk Lazarus''': I don't read the script. The script '''reads me'''. |
| 181 | * ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' has this exchange: |
| 182 | --> '''Nick:''' Hammond's cheque cleared or I wouldn't be going on this wild goose chase.\ |
| 183 | '''[[DeadpanSnarker Ian:]]''' Ah, where you're going is the only place in the world where [[RaptorAttack the geese chase you!]] |
| 184 | * ''Film/MalcolmX'' has the memetic line, "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock! Plymouth Rock landed on us!''' |
| 185 | * ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' spoofs ''Malcolm X'' with the line: "We didn't land in Sherwood Forest! Sherwood Forest landed on us!" |
| 186 | * ''Film/SomethingToTalkAbout'': |
| 187 | --> '''Emma Rae King:''' I got to see a horse about a man. |
| 188 | * ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has the following exchange after Quatermain and Sawyer capture Mr. Hyde: |
| 189 | --> '''Skinner:''' Hullo, Dorian. The {{great white hunter}}'s bagged his prize.\ |
| 190 | ''(One of Captain Nemo's {{redshirt}}s goes flying across the corridor in front of them.)''\ |
| 191 | '''Dorian:''' Or the prize bagged ''him''. |
| 192 | * Played with in the ''Film/TheCrow'' |
| 193 | -->'''Cop:''' ''(pointing gun at title character)'' You move and you're dead!\ |
| 194 | '''Crow:''' I ''am'' dead, and yet I move! |
| 195 | * This BondOneLiner from Franz Sanchez in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' (borrowed from the novel ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''), after feeding Felix Leiter to a shark: |
| 196 | --> "He disagreed with something that ate him." |
| 197 | * ArcWords from ''Film/VForVendetta'': "People shouldn't be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people." |
| 198 | * Rocket Raccoon in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': "You want him, you have to go through us! Or more accurately, we go through you!" |
| 199 | * ''{{Film/Machete}}'': "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us!" |
| 200 | * This example, from ''Film/LoveAtFirstBite'': |
| 201 | --> '''Renfield:''' You have 30 seconds to tell me where Miss Sondheim is, or...\ |
| 202 | ''(Opens his lunch pail)''\ |
| 203 | '''Cindy's Modeling Agent:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Or what? You'll eat your lunch in my office?]]\ |
| 204 | '''Renfield:''' No, my lunch will eat ''you''.\ |
| 205 | ''(Snake comes out)'' |
| 206 | * OlderThanYouThink: In the Creator/MarxBrothers movie ''Film/DuckSoup'', Rufus T. Firefly tells dancer Vera Marquette, "Why, I could dance with you 'til the cows come home! On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows 'til you come home!" |
| 207 | * ''Film/LandOfTheBlind'': Joe acidly remarks to Thorne: "Under the old regime, man exploited man, but since the revolution [[DistinctionWithoutADifference it's the other way around]]." |
| 208 | * ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': Actually a plot point: [[spoiler:Uhura's CunningLinguist ears are able to recognize the similarity in Krall's line to a recording of USS ''Franklin'''s missing CO, Captain Balthazar Edison, cluing her in that they're the same person.]] |
| 209 | -->'''Krall:''' The Federation has pushed the frontier for centuries. But no longer. This is where it begins, Lieutenant [Uhura]. This is where the frontier pushes ''back''. |
| 210 | * ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'': Ajax turns it into a threat. |
| 211 | -->'''Ajax/[[RunningGag Francis:]]''' I hear you grow back body parts now, Wade...when I'm finished, [[LudicrousGibs parts will have to grow back you!]]\ |
| 212 | '''Deadpool:''' Good one. ''(beat, then [[AsideGlance faces audience]])'' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Yep, that's a good one.]] |
| 213 | * ''Film/MysteryMen'': Mr. Furious tries to point out to his team that The Sphinx's [[IceCreamKoan "wisdom"]] consists entirely of doing this (e.g. "learn to hide your strikes from your opponent, and you will more easily strike his hide."). |
| 214 | -->'''The Sphinx:''' Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage... |
| 215 | -->'''Mr. Furious:''' ...your rage will become your master? That's what you were going to say. Right? |
| 216 | -->'''The Sphinx:''' Not necessarily. |
| 217 | * ''Film/TooBigToFail'': When discussing the various big banks and their [=CEOs=], Treasury Secretary Paulson quips |
| 218 | -->”Vikram Pandit is the head of Citigroup. We don’t know if he is running Citi, or if [[RunningTheAsylum Citi is running him]].” |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Literature writes you!]] |
| 222 | * Creator/FriedrichNietzsche: "If you gaze for long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes back [into you]." |
| 223 | * In Literature/NineteenEightyFour, we get "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship." from [[spoiler: O'Brein]]. |
| 224 | * From ''Ye Gods!'' by Tom Holt: |
| 225 | -->When Jason opened his eyes, all he could see was a perfectly ordinary Underground carriage, and Virgil sitting on one of the seats, meditatively stirring a large pile of ash and charred bones. Jason winced.\ |
| 226 | "Let me guess," he said, "this is a No Smoking carriage."\ |
| 227 | "On the contrary," Virgil replied. "Only here, the train smokes the people." |
| 228 | * ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': |
| 229 | ** In an 1962 issue: "Russian politics can best be understood by comparing them with American politics. For instance, in America, [[PoliticiansKissBabies politicians have to kiss babies]], and if they don't, the mothers can take their offices away from them. In Russia, the system is somewhat different. To get food, mothers have to kiss politicians and if they don't, the politicians can take their babies away from them." |
| 230 | ** "When you're down and out, you wait in line at the clinic. When you're just getting by, you wait in line to see your family doctor. When you're making it, you're put first in line to see your family doctor. When you're on top of the heap, your family doctor waits in line to see you." |
| 231 | * Subverted in the philosophy book ''Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar'', when describing the difference between capitalism and communism. |
| 232 | --> Under capitalism, man exploits his fellow man. Under communism, the opposite is true. |
| 233 | ** This is a pretty common joke in the old Eastern Bloc. It's also been used as an UsefulNotes/{{East German|y}} "[[GermanHumour Fritzchen]]" joke, although it's been told as a Russian/Soviet "Vovochka" joke, as well. |
| 234 | ** Mike Myers parodies this on a behind-the-scenes feature on the DVD for ''The Cat In The Hat'', combining it with a running joke. "Under capitalism, man exploits his fellow man. Under communism, it's the complete opposite. *pause* Because of the sand which is there." |
| 235 | * ''Literature/{{City of Thieves|2008}}'' mentions this: |
| 236 | -->"We couldn't feed our pets, so our pets fed us." |
| 237 | * In ''[[Literature/HumanxCommonwealth Mid-Flinx]]'', Teal warns Aimee about the flower in her hair: "You do not wear the cristif, the cristif wears you." Unfortunately for Aimee, Teal's not making a Yakov Smirnoff reference: [[spoiler: The "flower" is an invasive parasite, which sends its tendrils fatally bursting from Aimee's flesh seconds later.]] |
| 238 | * In nonfiction text ''The Steampunk Bible'', a troper is quoted about whether the Steampunk movement has jumped the shark: |
| 239 | -->'''Creator/JessGulbranson''': In alternate timeline Czarist Russia, clockwork shark jumps you. |
| 240 | * In Mark Coggins' novel ''[[Literature/AugustRiordan Candy from Strangers]]'', PrivateDetective August Riordan is talking to a disdainful police detective. |
| 241 | --> '''Det. Calhoun:''' Do you have a problem with authority, Mr. Riordan?\ |
| 242 | '''August:''' Not really. It may be that authority occasionally has a problem with me. |
| 243 | * In ''Literature/HowToSurviveAHorrorMovie'', discussing the HauntedHouse trope: You don't gut the interior, the interior guts you. |
| 244 | * Common in ''Literature/{{Unsong}}'' because the viewpoint character likes them. He uses the original "party finds you" one when describing a plan to find the eponymous SecretPolice force's hidden base by using a copyrighted [[WordsCanBreakMyBones name]] then tailing whoever comes to investigate. He also coins several new ones, such as "In Soviet Russia, drugs get addicted to you." to describe the situation of an EldritchAbomination that can only possess people while they are high. |
| 245 | * In R Scott Bakker's ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'' the Skin Eaters' Banter suggests that in Zeüm the beggars give ''you'' money. |
| 246 | * In one of the short stories for the ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' books, Jolly Yon asks Whirrun of Bligh if he ever sharpens the Father of Swords. Whirrun replies, "It sharpens me." |
| 247 | * In ''Piglet to the Rescue'', a ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' book from the ''Disney's Pooh and Friends'' picture book series, Piglet is upset about being small after being blown away in the wind on his kite. When he's back on the ground, he throws a fit and says that he's so small, he can't even fly a kite. Pooh comments that he was just flying one and he replies "No, the kite was flying me." |
| 248 | * OlderThanTheyThink: ''The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man, Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations Upon Uncommon Subjects'' is an eighteenth-century chapbook (available online [[https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-world-turned-upside-down-18th-century/ here]]) that uses non-sequitur reversals to satirize the then-current group of political revolutions. The illustrations show such reversals as [[ChildrenRaiseYou children raising parents]], chickens roasting people, horses riding people, and fish catching people. |
| 249 | * In one of his SF essays, Creator/StanislawLem discussed how to get instant SF ideas by noun reversal (OK, so it's not noun-verb, but that would work either). Protip: It's only that easy if you are Stanislaw Lem. |
| 250 | * Creator/ENesbit’s FairyTale short story “Literature/{{Melisande}}” hinges on one of these, in which a princess is cured of a crippling case of supernatural RapidHairGrowth by a prince who winds her hair around a suspended hook and cuts her down as she hangs from it. When asked why this worked, he responds, “You have always cut the hair off the Princess. I just cut the Princess off the hair.” [[spoiler: His InsaneTrollLogic comes back to bite him when his solution causes the princess herself to grow as quickly as her hair did until she becomes a giant; when she cuts her hair off her head again, she returns to normal size, but the hair grows at the rate it did before. The problem is finally solved by weighing the princess and her hair equally in a large set of scales and cutting the hair in the middle so that neither side knows which to grow.]] |
| 251 | * ''Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy'': In a scene from ''Showdown At Centerpoint'', Han tells Dracmus that he's tired of waiting. Dracmus responds that "Waiting is not yet tired of you." |
| 252 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' |
| 253 | ** In ''Literature/TheTruth'', the beggars are discussing a plan to rescue some dogs that have been thrown over a bridge by Pin and Tulip, and one of them says he used to mess about in boats. Another, being realistic about the consistency of the river Ankh, replies that they would actually "boat about in mess." |
| 254 | ** In ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'', [[spoiler:Hiver!]]Tiffany tells her broomstick "I am not going to learn you, ''you'' are going to learn ''me''", then says that or else, [[ImpliedDeathThreat the next lesson would involve an axe]]. Its days of aerial acrobatics were over after that. |
| 255 | * Creator/TSEliot's "Choruses" has "Has the Church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the Church?" [[https://mystiekfilosofie.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/ts-eliot-web.pdf#page=23&zoom=page-actual,-416,819]] |
| 256 | * In ''[[Literature/PigeonSeries The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!]]'', the Pigeon states that the question is not will he be ready for the roller coaster but rather will it be ready for him. |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[folder:Live-Action TV watches you!]] |
| 260 | * The compare-one-country-to-another form is OlderThanTheyThink, first appearing on ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'' where Creator/ArteJohnson's [[NonSpecificallyForeign ambiguously]] [[{{Ruritania}} Eastern European]] character Rosmenko simply refers to "[[TheOldCountry Old Country]]." |
| 261 | --> "Here in America, is very good, everyone watch television. In Old Country, television watches you!" |
| 262 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' has a Yakov Smirnoff [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed knockoff]] saying: "In your country, you watch movie ''Film/TheRock''. In my country, we break rock in Gulag!" |
| 263 | * Used in ''Series/{{Grimm}}''. As the Blutbad (werewolf) Monroe explains to Nick, the Grimm, while human children are told stories of all the different monsters who make up the Wesen world who will come to get them if they are bad, Wesen children are told the same kind of stories about the Grimms. |
| 264 | * The Creator/TomBaker era ''Series/DoctorWho'' arc "The Seeds of Doom" featured a plant-monster called a Krynoid. At one point the Doctor observes, "Well, on most planets, the animals eat the vegetation. On planets where the Krynoid gets established, the vegetation eats the animals." |
| 265 | ** A particularly memorable example in ''Parting of The Ways'': "I looked into the TARDIS, and the TARDIS looked into me." |
| 266 | * Since it ''was'' the Cold War, no Soviet reference is made, but the original intro of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' ends with "...and there in this house, the girl in the bottle plays spin the astronaut." |
| 267 | * In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "The Gamekeeper," SG-1's Planet of the Week has a deserted but apparently well-tended garden, and an overgrown greenhouse in the center of it. |
| 268 | --> '''Daniel:''' I love what they've done with the place.\ |
| 269 | '''Jack:''' ''(seeing several people plugged into chairs in suspended animation)'' I love what the place has done with ''them''. |
| 270 | * In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', when Leonard and Sheldon argue in the episode "[[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS3E22TheStaircaseImplementation The Staircase Implementation]]": |
| 271 | --> '''Leonard:''' Aw, screw the roommate agreement!\ |
| 272 | '''Sheldon:''' No, ''you'' don't screw the roommate agreement, the roommate agreement screws ''you''! |
| 273 | * In ''{{Series/Deadwood}}'', after someone says "Fuck the future," the county commissioner replies, "You can't fuck the future, sir, the future fucks you." |
| 274 | * In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', when River starts "correcting" the scientific inaccuracies in Book's bible, Book gently tells her, "You don't fix faith, River. It fixes you." |
| 275 | * "The Van Buren Boys," ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. "I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ''me''!" says Jerry. |
| 276 | * One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch, "Pothead Theater", had the writers going to a marijuana festival and interviewing the attendees for what kind of cartoons they wanted to see. All of the suggestions were this trope (nature exploiting people, a dog walking a person, ketchup getting people out of a bottle) followed by the cartoon in question and the attendee laughing like they're stoned. The last one suggests television watching people...which looks exactly like people watching television. The attendee doesn't laugh, but just acts confused. |
| 277 | * ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', [[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS2E10RhondaDianaJakeAndTrent "Rhonda, Diana, Jake, and Trent"]]: When Jason says he's gonna order the Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity in IHOP of the Neutral zone, Michael warns him that in their realm, IHOP stands for "Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes". You don't really eat these pancakes. It's more like they eat you. |
| 278 | * The Creator/InvestigationDiscovery show "Murder Chose Me" combines this with a TitleDrop in the intro: |
| 279 | --> '''Rod Demery:''' I didn't choose murder. Murder chose me. |
| 280 | * On ''[[Series/GLOW2017 GLOW]]'', Ruth is inspired to create her Zoya the Destroya persona after Gregory the Russian American hotel manager tells her that "In Russia, television watches you." |
| 281 | * When ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' introduces Rita, she mentions getting back to the school. Michael replies "You teach kids?" She responds "It's more like they teach me." [[spoiler:It turns out they do teach her at the school. A later episode reveals she's mentally challenged.]] |
| 282 | * The BirthdayEpisode of ''Committed'' has the Clown perform a trick for Marnie at her birthday party. |
| 283 | -->'''Marnie:''' It's like a clown tradition. They do a trick for you on your birthday. Last year, he pulled a hat out of a rabbit.\ |
| 284 | '''Nathan:''' Don't you mean...\ |
| 285 | '''Marnie:''' No, I said that right. |
| 286 | * ''Series/BarneyMiller'': In "[[Recap/BarneyMillerS1E08 Ms. Cop]]", Yemana, the Japanese detective, tells a joke. Why was the Japanese thermometer factory forced to close? "They found some swordfish in the mercury." |
| 287 | [[/folder]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:Music listens you!]] |
| 290 | * Music/OfMontreal has a song titled ''The Party's Crashing Us''. |
| 291 | * A line in the Music/{{Muse}} song "Knights of Cydonia" goes, "Don't waste your time or time will waste you". |
| 292 | * From Music/BrokenSocialScene's "7/4 (Shoreline)": "If you try to steal the beat, the beat will steal you." |
| 293 | * Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge's "Someone's In The Wolf" has the line "You don't find your way, the way finds you." |
| 294 | * Music/{{Halestorm}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t5hD4DP2Xc "Daughters of Darkness"]]: "We can turn you on / Or we can turn on you" |
| 295 | * Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8ykQLYnX0 "Storytime"]] references a "tale that reads you" multiple times (it's one of the lines in the chorus and second verse) |
| 296 | * From Music/SmashMouth's Walkin' On The Sun: "Put away the crack before the crack puts you away." |
| 297 | * Music/GeorgeClinton and Parliament-Funkadelic's "Funkentelechy": "Mind your wants 'cause there's someone that want your mind." |
| 298 | * Music/MarilynManson’s “I Don’t Like the Drugs But the Drugs Like Me” |
| 299 | * Mark Lowry's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXmfkFoX-PE "Mary Did You Know?"]]: "This child that you've delivered / Will soon deliver you" |
| 300 | * Music/TaylorSwift says in her song "Endgame": "I swear I don't love the drama, it loves me." |
| 301 | * Music/{{Train}}'s "Wonder What You're Doing For The Rest Of Your Life" has the repeated line "That Big Apple took a bite out of me". |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Podcasts podcasts you!]] |
| 305 | * Used in the Podcast/RiffTrax of ''Film/SpiderMan3'' when Spidey nearly gets hit by a subway car: "In Soviet Russia train misses you!" |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Puppet Shows put a hand in you!]] |
| 309 | * In "Welcome to Woodland Valley, Part 1" from ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'', Jack the dog talks about having a dream in which fire hydrants were chasing ''him''. |
| 310 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': During a MiseryPoker session with guest start Phyllis Diller, Rowlf says his fleas bought dog collars to keep ''him'' away. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Radio listens to you!]] |
| 314 | * ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' had Yakov Smirnoff himself call in to give the answer in [[http://www.npr.org/2017/02/11/514683508/bluff-the-listener "Bluff the Listener" on the 02/11/17 show]], prompting this comment from Peter Sagal: |
| 315 | -->"That was, yes, comedian Yakov Smirnoff talking about Soviet jokes. Remember, in Soviet Russia, listener bluffs you." |
| 316 | * TheStinger to one episode of ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' was "For more information about the BBC website, just listen to BBC radio. We bang on about it constantly." -- both a reversal of, and a reference to, continuity announcers always saying "For more information about BBC radio..." |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Tabletop Games plays you!]] |
| 320 | * One collection of epic monsters for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' introduces the junkyard golem with the line, "On the world of the Sklavadok, the trash takes you out!" |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Theater plays you!]] |
| 324 | * The title song of ''Theatre/AnythingGoes'' (1934), making this trope OlderThanTelevision: |
| 325 | -->Times have changed\ |
| 326 | And we've often rewound the clock\ |
| 327 | Since the Puritans got a shock\ |
| 328 | When they landed on Plymouth Rock.\ |
| 329 | If today any shock they should try to stem\ |
| 330 | 'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock\ |
| 331 | Plymouth Rock would land on them. |
| 332 | * In the musical ''Leave It to Me!'' (1938), set largely in Soviet Russia, journalist Buck Thomas is handed a telegram by a messenger. He reaches in his pocket for a tip, but the messenger tells him: |
| 333 | -->'''Graustein''': No tipping. In Soviet Russia, messenger tips you.\ |
| 334 | '''Thomas''': Propaganda.\ |
| 335 | '''Graustein''': Correct. |
| 336 | * In "Monica" from ''ILoveMyWife'', the effects the eponymous girl has on people include "Men go ape/Apes go man." |
| 337 | * JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples even applies to this one: in ''Theatre/RichardII'' the title character, reflecting on his reign, laments that "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." |
| 338 | * ''Theatre/CityOfAngels'' has this in the PrivateEyeMonologue for the scene where Stone returns home after his unsuccessful dame-hunt: |
| 339 | -->"The one advantage to living alone was you never had to lie to anyone about what a great day you'd had. Looking for Mallory Kingsley was about as refreshing as a quick dip in a cesspool. And just as rewarding. For now, it was time to hit the sack."\ |
| 340 | ''(After a sudden movement under the bedsheet:)''\ |
| 341 | "Living in earthquake country, sometimes the sack hits you."\ |
| 342 | ''(He draws his gun, whips the sheet aside to reveal a naked, cheerful Mallory Kingsley)'' |
| 343 | * In ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', after the Wizard declares Elphaba to be an enemy of Oz, Glinda tells her, "Don't be afraid." Elphaba answers, "I'm not. [[BadassBoast It's the Wizard who should be afraid of me.]]" |
| 344 | * When the Creator/MarxBrothers were still performing their stage show ''The Cocoanuts'' (a precursor to the movie of the same name), Harpo decided to throw brother Groucho a curveball by chasing a screaming chorus girl across the stage in the middle of one of Groucho's scenes, honking his trademark horn the whole way. He had, however, underestimated Groucho, who improvised a one-liner on the spot: "First time I ever saw a taxi hail a passenger." |
| 345 | * In ''Theatre/LeBossu by ''Creator/PaulFeval'': "If you will not go to Lagardere, Lagardere will come to you!" |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder:Video Games plays you!]] |
| 349 | %%* ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'': The Heavy will speak in this manner on occasion. |
| 350 | * ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' has this trope between two ghosts the player encounters: |
| 351 | -->'''Ghost 1:''' Fuck Fontaine!\ |
| 352 | '''Ghost 2:''' You don't fuck Fontaine. Fontaine fucks you! |
| 353 | * From ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight'': |
| 354 | -->'''Marisa:''' Move and I'll shoot! ... I messed up. I mean, shoot and I'll move. [[SuperSpeed In a flash.]] |
| 355 | * In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', when you attack a monster named Lurk, he says "In Nagrand, food hunt ogre!" |
| 356 | * In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', as part of the symbolism the game is steeped in there are three agents associated with the Virtuous Mission: Snake, and two spies codenamed Adam and Eve. By WordOfGod this a StealthPun Russian Reversal: it is not [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Snake who tempts Eve]]; rather, Eve tempts him. |
| 357 | ** In most ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games, [[StealthBasedGame you hide from your enemies]]. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', your enemies ([[OneManArmy try to]]) hide from you. Almost every enemy encounter is an ambush of some kind, and a few [[EasterEgg hidden]] enemies even try [[SignatureMove hiding in cardboard boxes]]. |
| 358 | * In ''VideoGame/MarioGivesUp'', the OptionalBoss is introduced with a screen that states, "In Soviet Russia, [[spoiler:key uses]] you!" |
| 359 | * The contrast between the two big [[TheReveal plot twists]] of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' is a classic example. In ''Arkham City'', [[spoiler:someone else is [[BodyDouble impersonating]] the Joker]]. In ''Arkham Origins'', [[spoiler:the Joker is [[DeadPersonImpersonation impersonating]] someone else]]. |
| 360 | * ''VideoGame/TheEscapists'' has a reversal of the FlyInTheSoup joke: "There's a meal in my fly!" |
| 361 | * In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''' Paragon Chat, trying to enter a nonfunctional door might give you the message: "In Soviet Russia, the door cannot enter YOU." |
| 362 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', one of the unlockable voice lines for Zarya the HuskyRusskie is: "In Russia, game plays you." And in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', she has another one, which happens if [[StopPokingMe she gets poked a lot]]: "In Mother Russia, this joke is tired of you." |
| 363 | * ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'': Dr. Snoozemore is a researcher of sleep who is also prone to the SeniorSleepCycle. |
| 364 | -->'''Dr. Snoozemore:''' As you may know, I research sleep... Clearly sleep also researches me... |
| 365 | * ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesHeroes'': The flavor text for the [[DepravedDwarf Imp]]-Throwing [[GiantMook Gargantuar]] is "Much more successful than the Gargantuar-Throwing Imp." [[note]]The latter was {{Defictionalized}} for the [[MilestoneCelebration 8th Birthdayz]] event.[[/note]] |
| 366 | * In ''VideoGame/MedievalCop 8: [=DeathWish=]'' Amber is chased by chickens. The chicken leader, who's accompanied by a bear, complains that the heretic is getting away. |
| 367 | -->'''Soviet Bear:''' In old country, heretics chase you... |
| 368 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': One of [[HotAsHell Evelynn]]'s quotes on activating her invisibility is "They can touch, but they can't look". |
| 369 | * In the bulk of the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series, the player as a Lord goes around hiring troops by persuading them to join him. In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Three Houses]]'', the player as a mercenary is approached by no less than three Lords (well, two Lords and a Lady) from three different factions, all of them trying to hire them. That's right, in God-blessed Fódlan, Lords Hire ''You''! |
| 370 | * Normally in the ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' universe, demons possess humans. But in ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', ''you'' gain the ability to possess ''demons'' in order to accomplish various objectives. |
| 371 | * ''VideoGame/Stinkoman20X6'': Stinkoman chokes on a bone in his chicken soup. Incensed by this, he goes on a journey to find the (still living) chicken the bone belongs to and choke ''him'' out. Brody, the chicken in question, is also an example: instead of "choking the chicken" applying to him, he's big and powerful enough to do his own choking. |
| 372 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': During the quest "The Mind of Madness," when talking about [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Potema Septim]], Daedric Prince of Madness Sheogorath mentions he can't remember if she "wielded fear like a cleaver" or "wielded a cleaver and made people afraid". |
| 373 | * ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': A Servant can qualify for the Foreigner class if they are a visitor from another world. Voyager - the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1 space probe]] - also qualifies, because the probe was built on Earth and then launched into space to visit other worlds. |
| 374 | * ''VideoGame/ABiteAtFreddys'': ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' and many of its fangames have [[spoiler:Fredbear biting a kid on the head]] as a key part of their story. In this game, the reason the Fazbear Grill lost its popularity is because [[spoiler:a kid bit ''Fredbear'' on the head]]. |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Web Animation watch you!]] |
| 378 | * Weebl's "WebAnimation/RussianDancingMen" has an image of a Whac-a-Mole machine with the caption, "Do not whack Russian, Russian whaks [sic] you." |
| 379 | [[/folder]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[folder:Webcomics make you!]] |
| 382 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150828 The university in Paris]] does not accept the old "[[ADogAteMyHomework My homework ate my dog]]" excuse. |
| 383 | * ''Webcomic/GorgeousPrincessCreamyBeamy'': "In Russian East Stereotypia, prostitute pays YOU! ... Why did I ever leave Russian East Stereotypia?" |
| 384 | * ''Webcomic/TropeOverdosedTheWebcomic'' has the Heavy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' saying "In America, spy sap sentry. In Russia, sentry sap spy!" |
| 385 | * ''Webcomic/{{Mulberry}}'': When the title character and her friends visit Russia in one comic, Jack claims to have trouble believing they're really there, since "the movies aren't watching people, the hamburgers aren't eating people, [and] the pants aren't wearing people". Mulberry explains that things have changed since the Soviets lost power. [[spoiler: However, [[BrickJoke a later panel shows an anthropomorphic burger threatening to eat a Russian.]]]] |
| 386 | * ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'' has its resident Badass Russian say a version of [[http://deadwinter.cc/page/338.htm this]]: |
| 387 | --> '''Yuri:''' Bah! Yuri does not need God. It is God who needs Yuri instead! |
| 388 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' had the eponymous amorph remind local frat boys that [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-04-07 "Sometimes you have fun, and sometimes the fun has you."]] |
| 389 | * A wordless strip of ''Webcomic/NerfNow'' shows a bunch of people in what's evidently Soviet Russia, standing side by side at a bus stop. When enough people arrive to completely fill the panel, [[http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/376 their lower bodies bloodily vanish]]. According to TheRant, "... ''Tetris'' plays you." |
| 390 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-10-18 In Soviet America Comic Strip Laugh At You!]] |
| 391 | * In [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=586#comic this]] ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' comic, the absurdity of this trope has lethal consequences. |
| 392 | --> '''Cowboy:''' Sonny, 'fore you hop in that saddle, there's somethin' you oughta understand -- when you're a cowboy, you don't ride the horse. The horse ... ride's you. |
| 393 | * Some characters in ''Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}}'' try to make these jokes. One character states something, and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-271828-04-01 the other character reverses it]]. Because of DadaComics, the reversal tends to be as nonsensical as the original statement. |
| 394 | --> "In Soviet Russia, you make no sense to this joke!" |
| 395 | * The ''Webcomic/MonsterOfTheWeek'' version of ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Tunguska" has the EitherOrTitle [[http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/2014/02/28/02282014/ "Tunguska, or In Russia, Oil Lightly Seasons YOU"]] |
| 396 | * ''Rock Paper Cynic'' reversed the reversal, to give us ''In Capitalist America, Hope Loses You''. [[RunningJoke Next]] ''In Capitalist America, Money Makes You''. Next, they [[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=664 made a contest about it!]] |
| 397 | ** [[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2010-05-24 One of the contest winners.]] |
| 398 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'', Rikk combines this trope with ShutUpHannibal: |
| 399 | -->"I... hate... ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''. Every time I try to treat prisoners as people I have to sit through another variation of...'HELLOOOOO CLARICE! AM I TRAPPED IN HERE WITH YOU OR ARE YOU TRAPPED IN HERE WITH MEEEE?'" |
| 400 | * Strip no. 542 of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': ''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0542.html In Azure City, shark jumps YOU!]]'' |
| 401 | * In [[http://nonadventures.com/2009/06/27/flight-of-the-aggrivator/ this]] ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' strip, Wonderella makes a Russian Reversal joke while on the phone with Patrianna. [[ComedicSociopathy About ex-KBG agents poisoning the reservoir with polonium.]] |
| 402 | -->'''Wonderella:''' In Soviet Russia, water softens YOU! |
| 403 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Sette makes a joke about body disposal in her notoriously crime ridden home, saying; |
| 404 | -->''"In Sharteshane [[FedToPigs pork eats you.]]"'' |
| 405 | * In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', Sydney is discussing vampiric thirst with a vampire she insists on miscategorizing as Russian, thanks to his accent. It turns out that if a vampire does not feed his thirst gradually overwhelms his rational mind until (as as Sydney says), [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2281 "in mother Russia hunger eat you!"]]. |
| 406 | [[/folder]] |
| 407 | |
| 408 | [[folder:Web Original make website out of you!]] |
| 409 | * Yakov Smirnoff's "In Soviet Russia" version went memetic long after the fall of communism. The Internet being what it is, these jokes ignored any attempts to make it seem Orwellian in favour of non-sequiturs like "In Soviet Russia, motorcycle rides YOU''!!''" |
| 410 | * In the middle of a [[http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3007083/In/ serious discussion]] about a guy getting his arms blown off by a bomb, some dipshit drops in with, "In Soviet Russia, bomb disarms you!!" This got a well-deserved DudeNotFunny reaction. |
| 411 | * Despair.inc advertised a T-shirt which mocked the bail-out General Motors received with the text: "In Soviet America, the car drives you... bankrupt." |
| 412 | * In the second season of ''Game Dogs'' they're called "game makes you" when they meet the new Russian owners. |
| 413 | * Website/DeviantArt: |
| 414 | ** [[http://fav.me/d27uwij]]: In Soviet Russia, [[BlackComedyRape Tentacle Monster gets raped...by you]]. |
| 415 | ** [[http://rainbowjerk.deviantart.com/art/In-Soviet-Russia-48462156 In America, You Break Law. In Soviet Russia, Law Breaks You!]] |
| 416 | * Website/SFDebris: |
| 417 | ** ''Twice'' in Chuck's review of the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration ST:TNG]]'' episode "The Naked Now", referring to the Soviet-built ship ''Tsiolkovsky'': |
| 418 | --->'''Chuck (as Picard):''' You know, number one, in your country, you send ships into space, but in Soviet Russia, ship sends YOU into space!\ |
| 419 | [later...]\ |
| 420 | '''Chuck:''' Well, looks like they're screwed; unable to muck with the tractor beam that can only pull things...it looks like that ship seeking boulder is going to take out the ''Enterprise'' and ''Tsiolkovsky'', which won't make them happy back in Soviet Russia. Wait, that's it! In Soviet Russia, tractor beam will PUSH! |
| 421 | ** Chuck explains how they got the idea for ''Franchise/RoboCop'': |
| 422 | --->"Edward Neumeier happened to walk past a poster for ''Film/BladeRunner'' and asked what it was about. And his friend told him it was about a cop who catches robots. So, Neumeier had an idea. In ''Blade Runner'', human cop catches robot. But in ''his'' movie, robot cop catches human. [[LampshadeHanging And Yakov Smirnoff says, 'Hey, that's my routine! You go find your own!']]" |
| 423 | * In Russia you rob bank. [[http://imgace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/in-kapitalist-amerika-bank-robs-you.jpg In Capitalist America bank robs you.]] |
| 424 | * [[http://imgur.com/gJODXj5 In Soviet Russia, English learns YOU!!]] |
| 425 | * [[http://www.motifake.com/in-soviet-russia-soviet-russia-sins-sin-commit-tattoo-prison-demotivational-posters-72384.html In Soviet Russia, sin commits YOU!!]] |
| 426 | * [[http://shirtoid.com/17180/in-soviet-russia-zero-divides-by-you/ This t-shirt.]] In Soviet Russia, zero divides by you! [[http://rainbowjerk.deviantart.com/art/ISR-Dividing-by-zero-48613176 But it's bad for your health.]] |
| 427 | * [[http://www.glarkware.com/adult/in-soviet-russia In Soviet Russia, shirt wears YOU!]] |
| 428 | * Seen on the Website/GameFAQs forum [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/616012-tales-of-xillia/66464488 here]], and then {{lampshaded}} by the next poster. |
| 429 | --> '''darkzero16:''' [A moderator or administrator was deleted at the request of this message] |
| 430 | * One of the comments on [[http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/the-life-and-death-of-buran-the-ussr-shuttle-built-on-faulty-assumptions/ this article]] about the Soviet-made ''Buran'' space shuttle, which had a fully-functional autopilot system: |
| 431 | -->'''Kassad''': "In America, you fly shuttles. In Soviet Russia, the shuttles fly you." |
| 432 | * [[http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=13201841&postcount=5808 A post]] in a "forumites being silly" thread on the ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' forums: |
| 433 | --> '''centersolace:''' Post 404: Error not found. |
| 434 | * In your typical Wizard of Oz logic, you follow the Yellow Brick Road. [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/697717-tumblr In this partial screencap from Tumblr]], said yellow brick road starts following ''you''. |
| 435 | %%* This is everywhere on Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}. |
| 436 | * ''Website/{{Cracked}}'': From the intro to [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19142_5-soviet-space-programs-that-prove-russia-was-insane.html 5 Soviet Space Programs that Prove Russia Was Insane]]: "Here are five spectacularly audacious Soviet space programs that prove that in Soviet Russia, ''space goes into you''." |
| 437 | * ''Literature/{{Unsong}}'' parodies this with: "In America, Mohammed goes to mountain. In Soviet Russia, mountain comes to ''you''." |
| 438 | * A few ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' are like this. |
| 439 | ** When Chuck Norris goes swimming, he doesn't get wet. Water gets Chuck Norris. |
| 440 | ** My dog house has a sign on it saying "Beware of Chuck". |
| 441 | ** Physics is bound by the laws of Chuck Norris. |
| 442 | ** Chuck Norris doesn't want to be cool. Cool wants to be Chuck Norris. |
| 443 | ** Chuck Norris doesn't get sunburned. The sun gets Chuck Norris-burned. |
| 444 | ** One of them references and inverts the trope with "In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris still kicks your ass". |
| 445 | ** Chuck Norris was bitten by a werewolf. When the full moon came, the werewolf turned into Chuck Norris. |
| 446 | ** You can't spell Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris spells you. |
| 447 | * 'In a list asking "Can You lick the science?" this was the response listed for Zoology. |
| 448 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'' SCP-956 is a piñata that breaks ''you'' open and makes candy spill out. Well, provided that "you" are a [[WouldHurtAChild child under 12]]. |
| 449 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-707 SCP-707]] is a matryoshka doll that disassembles ''you''. |
| 450 | [[/folder]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[folder:Web Videos watches you!]] |
| 453 | * During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara's]] joint review of ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'', the two of them are stunned when Superman talks to some Russian astronauts... while still in [[SpaceIsNoisy the vacuum of space]]. "In Soviet Russia, physics breaks you!" |
| 454 | * In his review of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', [[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]] says that Creator/TomHardy as ComicBook/{{Bane}} sounds like a mix between [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] and "every Russian comedian you've ever heard", and then imitates Bane by saying: "In my country, fingerprints search for you!" |
| 455 | * ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'': "In Soviet Russia, Chick remembers you!" C'mon, she was reviewing ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', she had to. |
| 456 | * The internet short paying tribute to ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o52X9xXs3g8 Tomatoes Eat You]]. |
| 457 | * WebVideo/MatthewSantoro: |
| 458 | ** In ''20 Valentines Day facts'', Matt says that many countries celebrate Valentine's Day, including European and Asian countries, with the exception being Russia: "Because in Russia, Valentine's Day celebrate you." |
| 459 | ** In ''The 10 WEIRDEST Superstitions in the World!'', Matt says, "In Soviet Russia, web gets posted on the cat." |
| 460 | * One episode of ''PBS Space Time'' mentioned the Chelyabinsk meteor. The host couldn't resist quipping "In post-Soviet Russia, space explore you." |
| 461 | * ''WebVideo/{{Dream}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oySp75huAp8 In the 3 Hunters Grand Finale explanation video]], [=BadBoyHalo=] stated that when [[spoiler:the Hunters set up the End spawn trap, he was expecting to get a video clip of the Hunters destroying Dream]]... which would've happened if [[spoiler:Dream didn't blow up the place with the TNT first; Dream got a video clip [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tylNqtyj0gs in the main video]] of him destroying the team of hunters]]. In short, [[spoiler:instead of the ''Hunters'' destroying Dream (and recording it), ''Dream'' destroys the Hunters (while recording it)]]. |
| 462 | * ''LetsPlay/{{TheRunawayGuys}}:'' To start of their LP of ''VideoGame/WiiPartyU'', Emile does his own take on this while making a pun about the game's title: "In Soviet Russia, Wii Party U." [[note]]We party you.[[/note]] |
| 463 | * ''WebVideo/StacheBros'': In the ''VideoGame/MarioSportsMix'' episode of "Luigi Time!!!", when Mario remembers all the times Luigi asked for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, one of his memories is Luigi saying "In Soviet Russia, Nintendo 3DS want Luigi!". |
| 464 | * Nash from ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'' makes a comment along these lines when reading a story about a Russian bear stealing a hunter's guns. |
| 465 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/c/thejackexperience Jack Edwards]] has a habit of reading books which make him ask "Did I finish this book, or did this book finish me?". |
| 466 | [[/folder]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | [[folder:Western Animation animates you!]] |
| 469 | * Creator/CartoonNetwork: "City E-Scape", an interstitial short by Creator/MoWillems, had WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw travelling to the city to fight crime. After Quick Draw wears himself to exhaustion catching bad guys, Baba Looey quips "That Quick Draw! He thinks he can wipe out city crime, but crime has wiped ''him'' out!" |
| 470 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' involved a car with a GPS system, and one of its voice settings was "Yakov Smirnoff". |
| 471 | -->'''GPS:''' Turn left at the fork in the road. In Soviet Russia, road forks you! |
| 472 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 473 | ** "That's Lobstertainment!": Zoidberg's brief career as a stand-up comedian consisted solely of this type of joke. |
| 474 | --->'''Zoidberg:''' Earth! What a planet! On Earth, you enjoy eating a tasty clam. On my planet, clams enjoy eating a tasty you!\ |
| 475 | ''([[ChirpingCrickets glass clinking]])'' |
| 476 | ** Used and lampshaded in "Crimes Of The Hot": |
| 477 | --->'''Fry:''' That ice dispenser is so big, the ice crushes you! *laughs to self* Yakov Smirnoff said that.\ |
| 478 | '''Leela:''' No he didn't. |
| 479 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 480 | ** In "The Old Man And The Key", there's a revue of stars of TheEighties in a song "Ode To Branson". There is the line "So sit back, relax, and watch our revue," and Yakov slides in and says with a homophone pun, "In Soviet Union, revue watches you!" This probably had a hand in revitalizing the meme for the Internet crowd. After Grandpa causes his mischief on stage, Smirnoff subverts this trope by commenting "In Russia, stage is for performers only." |
| 481 | ** "Sorry, Lis - I no longer control the hand. The hand controls ''me''!" |
| 482 | ** In "Step Brother From The Same Planet", Lisa says “I tried to throw throw a party, but the party threw me.” |
| 483 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 484 | ** "The Bluegrass Is Always Greener" guest stars Smirnoff and shows him buying one of these jokes from Bobby, despite the comedian's protestations that he has abandoned this type of material in favor of relationship humor. But give Bobby credit, at least he plays with the trope. "In America, you put 'In God We Trust' on the money. In Russia, we ''have'' no money!" Yakov pays for the joke and says keep 'em coming. |
| 485 | ** In "Tankin' It To The Street", Kahn shows off his new gigantic SUV, but it's so big it won't fit in his garage. |
| 486 | --->'''Hank:''' Where are you gonna keep it, smart guy? It doesn't even fit in your garage. |
| 487 | --->'''Kahn:''' [[LameComeback Uh... Maybe I keep garage in SUV]]! Hahahaha! Kiss my ass! |
| 488 | ** "[=SerPunt=]", has a broader example when Hank and Dale need to catch a runaway snake: |
| 489 | --->'''Dale:''' I got a hold of [the snake]! It's trying to wrap itself around me, but it didn't count on my strategy of ''me'' wrapping around ''it''! |
| 490 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' had this line in the episode "The Girl with the Googily Goop": |
| 491 | -->'''Dot:''' You don't need to go to the potty!\ |
| 492 | '''Wakko:''' Oh, yes, I do!\ |
| 493 | '''Dot:''' Nah! In these cartoons, the potty comes to you! |
| 494 | * On ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'', most mornings, George goes out on the porch to find the paper. In the opening of "Curious George Rides a Bike," the narration states that "the paper found George," when the paperboy accidentally hits him with it. |
| 495 | * In "The Real Thomas" from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', the Park crew race to prevent GloriousMotherRussia from starting a war with the US. Since a treaty previents the country from launching missles at the US, they try to deliver a piece of American soil to their missle, which is coincidentally the Park. |
| 496 | * In "Franklin's Backwards Day" from ''WesternAnimation/FranklinAndFriends'', Rabbit puts a chair on his back, saying that in honor of Backwards Day, he thought that his chair should sit on him. |
| 497 | * The pirates in the ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' short "WesternAnimation/TheGooseThatLaidTheGoldenEgg" take what they want and want what they take. |
| 498 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In season one episode "The Storm", Sokka claims he has a dream where instead of people eating food, "Food ''eats'' people!" (Also, Momo could talk, and said some very unkind things.) |
| 499 | * ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' lampshades this in ''[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E4TotalRickall Total Rickall]]'' during the scene where Rick kills Mr. Beauregard. |
| 500 | -->'''Rick:''' I guess ''I'' did the butler! |
| 501 | -->'''[[ItMakesSenseInContext A ghost in a jar:]]''' Oh, I get it. It’s a play on “the butler did it”. |
| 502 | -->'''Rick:''' Thanks, Ghost in a Jar. You were always great at pointing out intentionally obscure comedy. (shoots him) |
| 503 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E10 Klopnodian Heritage Festival]]", Bunny is shown to be an expert at fly-swatting. Afterwards, Squidina tries to attack a single fly. It grabs the swatter instead and hits her multiple times. |
| 504 | * In "[[Recap/TheDragonPrinceS4E2FallenStars Fallen Stars]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', Viren has a terrible fear of heights after having fallen off a mountain and then having to climb that same mountain again to retrieve the staff he lost. Terry states that Viren is legendary, that he shouldn't have a fear of heights, heights should fear him. |
| 505 | * In "The Four Tasks of WesternAnimation/DangerMouse", Count Duckula (in his first appearance) puts on an impromptu magic show where instead of pulling rabbits out of hats, he pulls hats out of rabbits. |
| 506 | * "Sometimes you drink the milk, sometimes the milk drinks you." --Mandy from an opening of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy.'' |
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