| 1 | ->''"She's a cheerleader. You've seen ''Star Wars'' 27 times. Do the math."'' |
| 2 | -->-- '''Neal Schweiber''' to Sam Weir, ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' |
| 3 | |
| 4 | A character is noted to have watched a movie/seen a show/read a book/listened to an album/attended a theatrical production/seen a recording artist or band live/etc. on a high enough number of occasions for it to sound geeky, obsessive, embarrassing, and possibly even unhealthy. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Rewatching or rereading one's favorite stories is a very common, very human activity, as well as a principal hobby of any fandom. However, whenever an actual ''number'' is given for how many times a person has enjoyed a specific work, it's usually never something for anyone to take much pride in having done--even if the work in question is ''good''. After all, EvenNerdsHaveStandards. |
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| 8 | This is also a common trait of younger children, both in real life and fiction, who often find the familiar stimuli very comforting. This can, however, grate on their parents and older siblings, which is probably a big part of why there's so often a PeripheryHatedom around media aimed at younger kids. |
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| 10 | In fiction, such information about a character is usually brought up either by ''another'' character, in which the remark is typically intended to be an insult or a put-down, or by the character himself, wherein the character may not show any shame for his devotion for a work, but it's still something that nobody else (be it the audience or other characters) reveres the character for doing all the same. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | At its most extreme, this trope can be invoked when explaining how a character [[IKnowMortalKombat came to acquire an actual talent or skill]]. Can also be combined with RedFlagRecreationMaterial if the thing being rewatched is particularly disturbing. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Not to be confused with Administrivia/SeenItAMillionTimes. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | ---- |
| 17 | !!Examples: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 22 | * In one commercial for Ride/WaltDisneyWorld, a boy visiting the park tells ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and Jasmine, "I saw your movie three times!" In this case, his remark shows that he's having fun at the park and is excited to see his favorite Disney characters. Another commercial has a girl tell this line to one of the Dwarfs from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. |
| 23 | * "Advertising/AmericanHondaPresentsDCComicsSupergirl": Steve Gordon has watched "Battle for Neptune", his favorite movie, twenty times and intends to watch it several more times, to his co-workers' bafflement and his boss' exasperation; the latter joking Steve's mind is "somewhere north of Neptune". |
| 24 | [[/folder]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 27 | * Sei Iori from ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' is such a fanboy for the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise that he memorized all of the dialogue of the 1979 ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' anime to heart to the point that he does a one-man reenactment of the show while hypnotized. |
| 28 | * In a dubbed episode of Anime/LupinIIIPartII, Lupin [[{{TaughtByTelevision}} alludes to]] the mystery identity of the MonsterOfTheWeek by stating he'd seen Film/TheWizardOfOz "a hundred times". In Lupin III fan circles, this line (as well as most [[{{Woolseyism}} changed-from-the-original-Japanese lines]]) gained a MemeticMutation. |
| 29 | * In one chapter of ''Manga/ViolenceJack'', Mondo's friend Mido asks him if he took martial arts because he beat up three {{yakuza}} members; he replies that he didn't, but he watched "The Tears of Chen" 30 times. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/WhyTheHellAreYouHereTeacher'': Kobayashi is a huge fan of the first manga he read, Minato-sensei's one-shot ''Floating Island Courier'', and will sing its praises to anyone who will listen. His friend asks for a different recommendation since Kobayashi's made him read it more than a dozen times already. |
| 31 | [[/folder]] |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 34 | * In Season 7 episode 41 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Doctor H. watches a drama called "Making Paste While Smiling" that stars his CelebCrush, Miss Peach. He enjoys the show so much that the television station boss, Mr. Lightbulb, decides to rerun the drama ''over and over again''. By the end of the episode, Doctor H. has witnessed this program 107 times and has grown tired of it. And then the Supermen become excited to watch it one more time since it helped them to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek... |
| 35 | [[/folder]] |
| 36 | |
| 37 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 38 | * From one of Creator/DavidLetterman's Top Ten lists, "Top Ten Excuses for Losing an Election," Number 7 is "Should've kept quiet about seeing ''Film/HelloDolly'' 63 times." |
| 39 | * Creator/BillHicks had a bit where he would extensively castigate ''Film/BasicInstinct'' as being a "piece of shit" before admitting to having watched it about 8 or 9 times (if only for the explicit sex scenes). |
| 40 | [[/folder]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 43 | * The 37th issue of Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}'' comic book mentioned that ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} intended to see ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' for the 14th time. |
| 44 | * In an issue of ''ComicBook/DominicAndClaire'', Dominic claims to have seen ''Film/{{Tron}}'' fifty-five times in one story to justify to Claire that he knows about machines. |
| 45 | * In the first issue of ''ComicBook/DylanDog'', while at a horror movie marathon, Dylan sees that the next film will be ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' and casually states that he saw it 14 times. When Sybil incredulously repeats that number, Dylan asks her to be quiet because the movie is starting and he doesn't want to miss the beginning and not understand any of it. |
| 46 | * In ''ComicBook/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'' miniseries ''The Last Battle'', Danny gets into an argument with Jimmy the talking rabbit and quips on how seeing ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'' 200 times doesn't make him some kind of lagomorphic ninja. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 50 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': |
| 51 | ** From a SundayStrip of the early 1970s: |
| 52 | --->'''Snoopy as Joe Cool:''' I see they're showing ''Film/CitizenKane'' again... I've only seen it 23 times. |
| 53 | ** Charles Schulz used ''Citizen Kane'' for this a few times, in an apparent example of AuthorAppeal as it was his own favorite film. The strip where Lucy [[ItWasHisSled spoils the ending]] for Linus has her say she's seen it "about 10 times", and there's another strip where Sally is in the movie theater line behind Linus talking about how she's pretending they're on a date until Linus gets to the box office and says, "One, please!" Cut to Sally in front of the TV. |
| 54 | --->'''Charlie Brown:''' I thought you were going to the movies.\ |
| 55 | '''Sally:''' I am. I'm watching ''Citizen Kane'' for the eighth time. |
| 56 | ** In the November 12, 1976 strip, Schroeder mentions that his grandfather has seen ''Series/VictoryAtSea'' twelve times. |
| 57 | * ''ComicStrip/{{FoxTrot}}'': |
| 58 | ** In a series of strips, Roger gets concerned over Andy watching ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' way too many times. By his estimates, it was at least twenty-four before this revelation: |
| 59 | --->'''Roger:''' Watching it over and over isn't going to change the ending... the boat ''sinks!'' It's sad but what's done is done!\ |
| 60 | '''Andy:''' I know, but when I'm in the theater it's like everyone's still alive for those six hours.\ |
| 61 | '''Roger:''' Um, don't you mean three hours?\ |
| 62 | '''Andy:''' I can't drive all the way to the cineplex and just see it once. |
| 63 | ** In another series of strips, Peter gets a job as a theater cashier on the eve of ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ThePhantomMenace''. After rattling off all six showtimes to a kid in a Sith costume, the kid asks for six tickets. |
| 64 | --->'''Peter:''' To which showing?\ |
| 65 | '''''Star Wars'' Fanboy:''' One of each, obviously. |
| 66 | ** Another strip has Jason camping out (on his computer server) to get tickets to see ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. |
| 67 | --->'''Jason:''' Guess who has eight tickets to see ''Star Wars''?\ |
| 68 | '''Paige:''' Who's going with you?\ |
| 69 | '''Jason:''' My friend, Marcus.\ |
| 70 | '''Paige:''' I'm confused.\ |
| 71 | '''Jason:''' Guess who has tickets to four consecutive showings of ''Star Wars''? |
| 72 | ** In another strip, Jason and Marcus go to the movies to see the re-released Star Wars trilogy. The entire trilogy, back to back. Three times. Because it's a trilogy. |
| 73 | ** An early strip has Peter renting the movie ''Film/RaisingArizona'', which Paige says Peter has seen about four zillion times. He explains it's because Holly Hunter is in it. Paige says "Oh, '''that's''' a reason". However, it turns out the video store screwed up and gave Peter a tape of ''Film/DirtyDancing''. Paige wants to watch it, and Peter says she has seen it eight billion times. Paige explains it's because Patrick Swayze is in it, resulting in the IronicEcho of Peter saying, "Oh, '''that's''' a reason." |
| 74 | ** Jason does this quite a bit. It started with seeing ''Film/Batman1989'' four times in a row. Later instances involve seeing ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' somewhere in the low-eighties and attempting to see ''Film/XMen1'' enough to memorize it. |
| 75 | * In ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Jon once takes Liz to the movie '' The Sludge Monster Meets Vermin Man'', which he and Garfield already saw eight times. |
| 76 | * In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin demands to be read a book called ''Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie'' every night before bed. His dad hates it. |
| 77 | [[/folder]] |
| 78 | |
| 79 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 80 | * In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7144149/25/Not-Normal Not Normal]]'' Harry's father admits to having seen ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' forty-seven times. |
| 81 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11033616/1/You-re-my-Density You're My Density]]'' a minor character strikes out in a pub and one of his buddies heckles him. |
| 82 | -->Hey Marty, so is it ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' for the two hundred and eighteenth time tonight? You might as well, it seems like you've nothing else on. |
| 83 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7421567/9/Scandalous-Affair Scandalous Affair]]'' Lucius has seen ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana_%28Orff%29 Carmina Burana]]'' twenty-seven times. |
| 84 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8333963/24/Emerald-Flight-Book-One-Union Emerald Flight Book One: Union]]'': |
| 85 | -->'''Clark Kent:''' Hey, it's ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''. I remember this special, I watched it a few times when I was a kid.\ |
| 86 | '''Martha Kent:''' A few times, Clark?\ |
| 87 | '''Jonathan Kent:''' Yeah, you seemed to watch it about a dozen times a year. I wouldn't be surprised if you could recite the entire thing by heart. |
| 88 | * ''Never Cut Twice'' (a ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2292009/1/Never-Cut-Twice fanfic]]): While numbers aren't specified, Kisame Hoshigaki is noted as being a huge fan of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''; he used to own the world's largest collection of memorabilia from the film (but had to leave it behind when he became a missing-nin) and makes a habit of periodically going to a theater and watching every showing of the movie that day. While loudly cheering for the shark (he has a very unique view of the film, which tends to weird out other viewers in the same theater). Itachi, when explaining all this to Naruto and Temari, also grumbles about Kisame having dragged ''him'' in to see it seven times. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/CatTales'': When Clayface returns to the Iceberg during "Blueprints", Sly recognizes him as the actor he used to be and exclaims that "I have seen ''Space Tempest'' like 60 times!" |
| 90 | * ''Fanfic/{{Eye of the Storm|KenyaStarflight}}'': Used twice in the midquel ''A Midsummer Night's Chaos'': |
| 91 | ** When Vader agrees to babysit for Rachel while her parents are out, she decides she wants to watch a movie. After rejecting ''Star Wars'', Vader agrees to "suffer through a fifteenth showing" of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' (which Rachel adores but Vader can't stand). |
| 92 | ** When he starts to fanboy about the arrival of the real Darth Vader at their Sons of the Sith meeting, Darth Ramirez is reminded of how he bragged about having seen ''Return of the Jedi'' "no less than fifty-seven times", and should therefore remember that Vader is a traitor to their Order. |
| 93 | * ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/1792096/1/Changes Changes]]'', a ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fic by gromittd, has Genma Saotome reveal to his new partner in crime (a panda named Frank) that he's seen ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'' thirty-seven times. This comes in handy when he has to escape the police after being caught driving a car while in panda form. |
| 94 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12578431/3/The-Chessmaster-Black-Pawn The Chessmaster: Black Pawn]]'' Harry has read ''Literature/TheHobbit'' seventeen times. |
| 95 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11667786/1/Unspeakably-Recruited Unspeakably Recruited]]'' mentions that Neville dragged Harry to see ''Film/GoldenEye'' six times the year it was released. |
| 96 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9825588/1/Brief-Encounter Brief Encounter]]'' mentions that Harry's seen the movie ''Brief Encounter'' so many times that he could practically recite the lines along with the actors. |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 100 | * ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldsThanksgiving'': Garfield's talking scale is said to have seen ''Film/CitizenKane'' 8 times. (ItMakesSenseInContext) |
| 101 | * Fishlegs Ingerman in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' had read the Book of Dragons seven times before he officially started dragon-training, making him [[TheSmartGuy the most book smart]] of the group. |
| 102 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', Fowlmouth has seen ''Skunknophobia'' a hundred times. When he takes Shirley to see it, [[DisruptingTheTheater he pretty much spoils the whole movie by talking about what is going to happen while annoying the people in the theater]], and is eventually thrown into the movie screen and into the actual film itself. The actors complain about Fowlmouth talking during the film, and then they throw him into a theater door, which makes the audience cheer. It's also implied that the number of times Fowlmouth saw this movie and presumably yielding the same result made the producer aware of how disruptive he was and put up the label "The following movie is rated '''F''' - Not suitable for Fowlmouth" during the title screen. |
| 103 | * ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' has [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Yakko Warner]] confiding that he still doesn't understand ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' after watching it twice -- implying that he plans to rewatch it at least a few more times. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 107 | * ''Film/BadhaaiDo'': Shardul says he watched ''Film/PumpingIron'' over 30 times to motivate himself to get jacked. |
| 108 | * In ''Film/Barbie2023'', Depression Barbie's ad states she's watched the ''[[Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995 1995 series of Pride and Prejudice]]'' seven times. |
| 109 | * Film/{{Beetlejuice}} has "seen ''Film/TheExorcist'' about a hundred and sixty-seven times" (and [[MisaimedFandom it keeps getting funnier]] every time he sees it). |
| 110 | * In ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', Scooter takes a job as an usher at a theater showing the [=3D=] film ''Attack of the Killer Fish''. When Lew Zealand heads in without taking a pair of glasses, Scooter follows him in with a pair -- and learns Lew doesn't need them because "I've seen this movie ninety-seven times!" His favorite part is when the fish attack, at which point he tosses his boomerang fish around the theater to add to the excitement (the other moviegoers think it's AllPartOfTheShow). |
| 111 | * In ''Film/StrangeBrew'', Bob says that Doug saw ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' 17 times. |
| 112 | * In ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', Chad mentions that his mother has seen ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' on Broadway 27 times. |
| 113 | * In ''Film/SmokeSignals'', Victor Joseph tweaks Thomas Builds-The-Fire over how many times the latter has seen ''Film/DancesWithWolves''. |
| 114 | * In ''Film/TropicThunder'', Alpa Chino says he's seen Tugg Speedman's first "Scorcher" movie twenty times when he was in 8th Grade. |
| 115 | * PlayedForDrama during the opening scene of ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}''. Casey claims to have watched ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' "twenty goddamn times" in response to being told that she gave the wrong answer to a trivia question about it (which asked her to name the killer) with the stakes being her boyfriend's life. Unfortunately for Casey, the killer was not talking about the series as a whole, but [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 the original movie]], whose killer was ''not'' Jason Voorhees but his mother. The boyfriend gets GuttedLikeAFish soon after. |
| 116 | * ''Film/TheCableGuy'' crosses this with CriticalBacklash when he says of ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' "I don't know what all the fuss is about. I've seen that movie six times; it ''rules!''" Mind you, he says this after [[BeamMeUpScotty quoting a line that Kevin Costner's character never actually says in the movie]]. |
| 117 | * The phrase itself isn't used outright in ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', but it's clear [[ArtificialHuman David]] gets many of his preconceptions about himself from repeated viewings of ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' while the crew of his ship are in stasis. |
| 118 | * In the Dutch movie ''Film/{{Filmpje}} (1995)'' with comedian Paul De Leeuw the hopelessly naïve woman Annie de Rooy has watched ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' thousands of times and still goes to see it every day. The local film theater only keeps programming it just for her. |
| 119 | * In ''Film/TheOmegaMan'' the last person on Earth visits an abandoned movie theater, activates the projector by himself and plays Film/{{Woodstock}} alone for himself. He has clearly watched it countless times, given the fact that he is able to quote it line by line by this point. |
| 120 | ** The remake ''Film/IAmLegend'' has a similar scene with the protagonist quoting ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' line by line. |
| 121 | * Alien in ''Film/SpringBreakers'' cultivates his gangsta creds by having ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'' on repeat. |
| 122 | * The end of the Canadian slasher film ''The Wisher'' (aka ''Spliced'') ends with voiceover exposition from Ron Silver explaining the killer was an obsessive horror movie nut who was basing his killings on [[FilmWithinAFilm a fictional in-story film]], which he is especially noted as having viewed "25 times in one week" during its theatrical run. |
| 123 | * In ''Film/{{Laserblast}}'' when the police are questioning the witnesses of the explosions Billy caused with a laser gun the night before, one officer says to another that one of the witnesses, Froggy "must've seen Star Wars 5 times" after hearing his account of the event. |
| 124 | * ''Film/OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank'': The plot is set off by the protagonist getting caught watching ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' over and over again instead of working. As a result, his simulated reality inside the HX-368 computer ends up becoming an ersatz version of both Rick's nightclub and the titular city. |
| 125 | * In ''Film/JaneWantsABoyfriend'', Jane has seen her favorite old movies, like ''Film/KansasCityConfidential'', so many times that she can recite the dialogue from memory. |
| 126 | * In ''Film/Molly1999'', Molly's favorite movie is ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', which she watches almost every day. At one point she makes her babysitter watch the flying monkey scene six times in a row. |
| 127 | * In ''Film/YouveGotMail'', Creator/MegRyan's character mentions that she reads ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' every year. |
| 128 | * In ''Film/TheVideoDead'', after zombie hunter Joshua pulls out a chainsaw, his younger partner Jeff claims that his all-time favourite horror film is ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'', and that he's seen it 6 times. |
| 129 | * In ''Film/MermaidDown'', the mental patient Charlotte has been rereading the romance novel ''Water Bound'' for the last two years. |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 133 | * ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': |
| 134 | ** Stacey states that her favorite film is ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and watches it at least once a week, adding up to hundreds of viewings. |
| 135 | ** Kristy (at least) makes a similar remark about Dawn's repeated viewings of ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}''. |
| 136 | * In Creator/BruceCampbell's autobiography ''If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor'', Bruce describes the difference between a mainstream movie and a cult film as 1,000,000 people watching a movie 10 times and 10 people watching a movie 1,000,000 times. |
| 137 | * In ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'', Patrick Bateman mentions that he has rented the movie ''Film/BodyDouble'' 37 times. One chapter follows his train of thought at a video rental store as he picks the movie out "as if he'd been programmed." He also pretends to ignore "the horrified reaction" of a store employee who recognizes Bateman upon being handed the movie box when renting it out for what would be the 38th time. He sometimes likes to describe some of the film's more violent moments to both the reader and other characters throughout the story. "The power drill scene" is Patrick's favorite part. |
| 138 | * In ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged]] asks his ship computer if there's any movie he '''hasn't''' already seen "over thirty-thousand times." However, this is less about devotion or obsession and more about him being bored with immortality. |
| 139 | * The nerds in "One of Us" from the anthology ''[[Literature/GeektasticStoriesFromTheNerdHerd Geetkastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd]]'' have all seen something -- be it Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, etc. -- tons of times. They take pride in this when talking with each other, but they seem to be embarrassed with others. |
| 140 | * In ''Literature/GoodOmens'': |
| 141 | ** Crowley highlights the [[HellOfAHeaven unending sameness of Heaven]] by implying that it's nothing but watching ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' over and over. "And you'll enjoy it." |
| 142 | ** Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell is noted to have seen ''Film/TheDevilRidesOut'' fifteen times, sixteen if you count the time he got thrown out of the cinema for loudly criticizing the main character's demon-fighting methods. |
| 143 | ** Also from Creator/NeilGaiman, ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' has a scene where its hero, Charlie, is being mind controlled to get out of his apartment for a few hours, and ends up at a movie theatre watching ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' over and over again. He's not sure he fully understood it the first time. |
| 144 | * ''Literature/OneEightHundredWhereRYou'': Jess and Ruth have seen ''[[Film/{{Nikita}} Point Of No Return]]'' nine times. Apparently it's the only movie that they know of which fits both of their tastes in movies -- Ruth prefers films with beauty makeovers, and Jess (at the time) likes films with explosions. |
| 145 | * ''Literature/CampHauntedHills'': In the first book, Stuart Glassman admits to having seen ''Battle For the Galaxy'' fifteen times the first week it was open. |
| 146 | * In Creator/BruceCoville's ''Series/IWasASixthGradeAlien'' series, protagonist Tim Tompkins mentions in the first book that he's been waiting for aliens to contact Earth since the first time he saw ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', and that he's seen it 47 times by that point. |
| 147 | * It's said in ''Literature/WelcomeToNightVale'' that Diane (and most other people in Night Vale) has seen John Franheimer's 1973 adaptation of ''The Iceman Cometh'' at the local movie theater dozens of times in her life, as there were nightly screenings of it by Night Vale city ordinance. |
| 148 | * Roy Pond's ''Literature/TheMummyMonsterGame'': In book 1, Josh and Amy's cousin Harry has seen the horror film ''[[Literature/TheJewelOfSevenStars Blood From the Mummy's Tomb]]'' six times (not counting the time he watches it with his cousins in the book). His Egyptologist mother has apparently also watched it many times and thinks it's funny. |
| 149 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' book "Beavis & Butthead's Huh-Huh For Hollywood", it's mentioned that [[{{Pyromaniac}} Beavis]] saw ''Film/{{Backdraft}}'' 27 times the year it came out. |
| 150 | * March from ''Literature/TheEagleTree'' has seen a documentary about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Butterfly_Hill Julia Butterfly Hill]] 117 times. |
| 151 | * In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', when the owner of the Odium is rhapsodising to Dibbler about ''Sword of Passione'', he says his wife reported several women swooning over Victor, then suspiciously notes that she watched it five times herself. |
| 152 | * ''Literature/ATwistOfTheKnife'': How Maureen Bates met theatrical producer Ahmet and eventually went to work for him: he was doing the booking for ''Cats'' and found out that Maureen had seen the show a hundred times. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 156 | * The [[TropeNamer trope name]] and page quote come from the [[ThePilot pilot]] episode of ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' when Neal is giving his opinion of [[NerdsAreVirgins Sam's chances of going to a school dance with Cindy]]. Of note, the show takes place in 1980, so Neal would be suggesting that Sam has seen ''Film/ANewHope'' (1977) twenty-seven times ''within three years of its release'' (and before the film was released on home video). |
| 157 | * Something of a RunningGag on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Turk and J.D. have watched ''Film/JudgeDredd'' together on a surprising number of occasions. In the episode "My Déjà Vu My Déjà Vu," Turk invites J.D. to watch the movie at his place at which point they both loudly proclaim in unison, "NINETY-NINTH VIEWING" before high-fiving each other. |
| 158 | ** They and Elliot have also watched ''Film/RedDawn1984'' together, two at a time or all three of them, many, many times. |
| 159 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': |
| 160 | ** Fox Mulder reveals in the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E19HollywoodAD Hollywood, A.D.]]" that he has seen ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' forty-two times. He claims that the sheer badness of the film numbs his brain, allowing him to make intuitive leaps and solve problems that have him stumped. |
| 161 | --->'''Scully:''' You've seen this movie ''42 times?''\ |
| 162 | '''Mulder:''' Yes.\ |
| 163 | '''Scully:''' Doesn't that make you sad? It makes ''me'' sad. |
| 164 | ** In an earlier episode, the agents ran across a woman who was convinced she'd been impregnated by Luke Skywalker. This becomes even more hilarious when it is revealed she's seen ''Star Wars'' 368 times and was hoping to break 400 by Memorial Day. |
| 165 | ** And in the infamous episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E02Home Home]]", Scully mentions having babysat her nephew the previous weekend, and claims that he watches ''Film/{{Babe}}'' "fifteen times a day". |
| 166 | * In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With The Prom Video," Monica says that Roy, her prom date, had seen ''Franchise/StarWars'' 317 times. His name was in the paper. (At the time of the clip, set in 1984, the movie was only available on laserdisc; however, it had been re-released to theatres multiple times since its original 1977 run). |
| 167 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'': |
| 168 | ** Teal'c has seen ''Franchise/StarWars'' ten times. Not that large a number compared to some on this page, but the humor comes from the fact that he's a FishOutOfWater, unfamiliar with Earth culture... except movies. He recognizes [[Franchise/DieHard John McClane's name]] and, upon having the concept of a virgin conception described to him, immediately thinks of Darth Vader. |
| 169 | ** In another episode, the joke is reversed when it's revealed that O'Neill has not seen Star Wars ''even ONE time'' and Carter considers ''him'' to be the weird one. |
| 170 | -->'''O'Neill:''' Oh, come on Carter. [[HypocriticalHumor You know me and sci-fi]]. |
| 171 | * In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', when Carlton's ex-girlfriend comes back with a baby she claims is his, Will explains to Phil and Vivian that the baby belongs to "a young man who has seen ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' 8 times." |
| 172 | * Humorously used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzwTHBLGOg#t=00m15s this scene]] in ''Series/TheWonderYears'' episode "Eclipse" where Chuck, who is uncomfortable with the creepy man who picked him up while he was hitchhiking, tries to lighten the mood by sharing how he's reminded of an ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' story about a man with "a big butcher knife" who was picking up hitchhikers. Getting creeped out by the man again, Chuck decides to drop the discussion, leading to the following exchange: |
| 173 | -->'''Chuck:''' Nevermind, probably didn't see the episode[[{{Beat}} ...]] Did you? |
| 174 | -->'''Creepy Guy:''' 27 times! ''[creepy stare]'' |
| 175 | ** Chuck quickly leaps out of the moving pickup truck. |
| 176 | * In ''Series/TopGear'', the Stig's African cousin has seen ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' 1,780 times. |
| 177 | * In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', Perry White mentions having seen ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla '85]]'' on cable over a hundred times because he liked seeing Creator/{{Elvira|MistressOfTheDark}} present it. |
| 178 | * ''Series/{{Glee}}'' has a moment like this with one of their new characters, Sam, who, up till that moment, seemed like just your average jock. When helping him clean up some blue slushie stains that he'd gotten on his uniform, Quinn mentions that it can dye your clothes "Like those aliens in ''Film/{{Avatar}}''." Sam's immediate reaction is "I watched that film seven times! Lor menari," (apparently, it's "you have beautiful eyes" in Na'vi.) |
| 179 | * British comedian Toby Hadoke played a character in ''Series/HolbyCity'' who shamelessly boasted how many times he had seen ''Film/TheMatrix'', the slight irony being that Hadoke himself is [[JustForFun/OneOfUs famously enthusiastic]] about ''Series/DoctorWho''. |
| 180 | * On ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', Creator/TracyMorgan once said he's seen ''Star Wars'' 500 times. |
| 181 | * In the ''Series/SportsNight'' episode "Thespis", after Jeremy gives Dana some sage advice, she gives him the backhanded compliment, "You know, for a guy who's read ''Literature/TheHobbit'' 14 times, you're not so dumb." |
| 182 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': |
| 183 | ** Sheldon mentions having played 3000 hours of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. |
| 184 | ** Penny often can't understand why the gang of four rewatch movies like ''Franchise/StarWars'' so many times, especially one time when they were going to a theatrical showing of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' to see a promised 20 seconds of never before seen footage. |
| 185 | ** Sheldon says he's seen ''Raiders'' "36 times. Except for the snake scene and the face-melting scene, which I can only watch when it's still light out". |
| 186 | * On ''Series/GoOn'', Mr. K claims to have seen ''Film/MaryPoppins'' over 500 times... but not by choice. "It's a compulsion known as supercalifragilisticexpialidocia." |
| 187 | * In the ''Series/ISpy'' episode "So Long Patrick Henry", Kelly is annoyed that Scotty hired a kid to be a lookout for them who was constantly making ''Film/JamesBond'' references, having seen the still in theatres film ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' 27 times. |
| 188 | * In a special episode of ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'' in which the critics pick their all-time favorite scenes of specific genres, Creator/GeneSiskel picked for Best Musical Scene the dancing contest scene from ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''. Creator/RogerEbert remarked he "could have guessed that would be the movie you would pick, since I know you've seen that film 27 times." |
| 189 | * In the ''Series/{{Sopranos}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranoS1E10AhitIsAHit A Hit Is a Hit]]", one-off GangstaRap exec Massive Genius expresses his admiration for the ''Cosa Nostra'' by saying he had watched ''Film/TheGodfather'' "like 200 times." |
| 190 | * Creator/TheBBC television and radio series ''I've Never Seen Star Wars'' uses the opposite of this as its premise. British celebrities came on the show and tried out various things they'd never done before such as listening to ''Thriller'' by Music/MichaelJackson, reading ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'', or eating a Big Mac. |
| 191 | * ''Series/TheMiddle'' revealed that Axl Heck knows about black holes from ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'' many times, CelebrityParadox[[note]]Charlie [=McDermott=], who plays Axl also played Chaz in the movie[[/note]] be damned! |
| 192 | * In the 80s sitcom ''Series/SquarePegs'', La Donna Hendricks, who has a star complex, says she's seen "Fame" 75 times. |
| 193 | * In ''Series/TheGetDown'', Ra Ra had seen ''Film/ANewHope'' 57 times by 1978. |
| 194 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "Scoobynatural," where Sam, Dean, and Castiel are plopped into the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' episode "A Night Of Fright Is No Delight," Dean says he's seen the episode a million times, so he knows what is supposed to happen. [[spoiler: Except, it doesn't.]] |
| 195 | * ''Series/ForAllMankind''. The astronauts on stranded on the Jamestown MoonBase only have a videotape of ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'' for entertainment. They've seen it so many times that when the tape player breaks down they're able to reenact the entire show by rote. |
| 196 | * A similar scene happens in ''Series/{{MASH}}'' when Hawkeye complains about how the Army has just sent them the one movie to watch by reenacting the entire dialogue with the sound off. |
| 197 | * ''Series/FullHouse'': In "El Problema Grande De D.J.", when Uncle Jesse discovers that Kimmy Gibbler got a C in Spanish while D.J. got a D, Kimmy tells him that she saw ''Film/LaBamba'' five times. |
| 198 | * In the ''Series/FamilyTies'' episode "Father, Can You Spare a Dime?" Mallory and Nick watch ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' for the 101st time. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Magazines]] |
| 202 | * ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'': One issue had a bit that looked at scenes from redneck life all over the country. It included one family in which the highest status symbol is how many times you've seen ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'', with the champion sitting down to his six hundredth viewing. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 206 | * From [[Music/DareToBeStupid "Cable TV"]] by Music/WeirdAlYankovic: |
| 207 | -->''My friends are getting kinda worried,\ |
| 208 | They think I'm turning into some kind of freak.\ |
| 209 | Aw, but [[YoureJustJealous they're just jealous]], 'cause I've seen ''Film/{{Porkys}}''\ |
| 210 | [[ArcNumber Twenty-seven]] times this week.'' |
| 211 | * From the song "Nineteen Something" by Mark Willis: |
| 212 | -->Saw ''Franchise/StarWars'' at least eight times, had the ''VideoGame/PacMan'' pattern memorized. |
| 213 | * The song "Livin' It Up" by Music/LimpBizkit has Fred Durst bragging about having "seen the ''Film/FightClub'' about twenty-eight times". Given the context of the song, though, as well as Limp Bizkit's general output, it's likely that Durst is part of the film's MisaimedFandom. |
| 214 | * [[https://thepdxbroadsides.bandcamp.com/track/nerd-love-song "Nerd Love Song"]] by the PDX Broadsides says, "We can go and see your favorite movie in 3D for the seven hundred thirty second time". |
| 215 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAApU-QHfI "Do You Think I'm Disco?",]] a [[DiscoSucks disco-bashing]] parody of Music/RodStewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by the Chicago ShockJock Steve Dahl, has its HandsomeLech protagonist Tony boast about having seen ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'' eighty-seven times as he tries to pick up women at the club. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Newspapers]] |
| 219 | * ''Website/TheOnion'': |
| 220 | ** [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/clinton-takes-leave-of-office-to-stand-in-line-for,743/ One article]] written during the [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton administration]] mentions the President planning to see ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' at least twenty times during its opening weekend, after which, he will return to his office and follow a once-a-day viewing schedule. |
| 221 | ** [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-googles-matt-damons-address-because-well-hes-c,30303/ A man googling Matt Damon's house address because he's crazy and wants to murder him]] is said to have recorded ''Ocean's Eleven'' on his DVR and have viewed the film "more than 200 times in the past month". It's also said that the man is in possession of 100 DVD copies of ''The Legend of Bagger Vance''. |
| 222 | ** The headline [[https://entertainment.theonion.com/man-who-saw-star-wars-the-force-awakens-6-times-over-1819578513 Man Who Saw 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Six Times Over the Holidays Thought It Was Pretty Good]] |
| 223 | * In an inversion similar to the BBC example above, ''The A.V. Club'' had the series [[http://www.avclub.com/features/better-late-than-never/ Better Late Than Ever]], with the writers experiencing pop culture they had avoided that far. |
| 224 | * [[http://blogs.disney.com/insider/articles/2013/11/20/walters-favorite-moments-from-the-muppets-most-wanted-trailer/ In an article]] about the trailer for ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' written by the Muppet character Walter, Walter states that he has watched the trailer 37 times in a row (and expects the readers to have done the same). |
| 225 | * Creator/RogerEbert's review of ''Camille 2000'' begins by noting, at length, that its director watched ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' 103 times but apparently didn't learn much from the experience. Ebert then adds this tidbit: |
| 226 | -->''I wonder if he was the guy who sat behind me the last time I saw it at the Clark. He was reciting the dialog under his breath and when the usher protested, he flashed a card with the name Fred C. Dobbs on it.'' |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 230 | * This is the premise of ''Podcast/TheWorstIdeaOfAllTime'', where the two hosts, Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery, watch the same film once a week and then review it for a year for each season. There is a reason for the podcast's title, though -- namely because the subjects the duo pick for the podcast aren't exactly films that are known for being great or just alright or not even SoBadItsGood, but rather some that are remembered for being rather bad at worst and somewhat pedestrian at best, such as ''Film/GrownUps2'', ''Film/SexAndTheCity2'', and ''We Are Your Friends''. |
| 231 | * The premise of the early episodes of ''Podcast/BlankCheckWithGriffinAndDavid'' was them analyzing every aspect of all the ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies, meaning they fell into this trope just by virtue of doing the podcast. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 235 | * During a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mg1v5PH_Q promo]] [[Wrestling/BrittBaker Dr. Britt Baker DMD]] cut on ''[[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW Dynamite]]'' outlining [[MakesSenseInContext the conspiracy against her]], she compared herself to UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan and her [[TheDitz ditzy]] [[BeleagueredAssistant assistant]] Rebel [[MaliciousMisnaming (not Reba)]] chimed in with "I watched ''Film/SpaceJam'' 19 times and he beats the Monstars every time!" |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 239 | * In the musical adaptation of ''Theatre/AmericanPsycho'', Patrick Bateman's movie rental fixation is changed from ''Film/BodyDouble'' in the original book to ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984''. |
| 240 | -->'''Video Store Clerk:''' You've rented this movie 37 times. |
| 241 | -->'''Patrick:''' ''[slowly leaning in]'' And I find something new ''every... single... time.'' |
| 242 | * In ''Theatre/BeyondTheFringe'', one sketch is about a man who has seen an unnamed theatre show nearly 500 times, because he'd heard a rumour that members of the royal family were going to attend... someday. |
| 243 | [[/folder]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 246 | * The main character in ''For Love of Digby'' has the distinction of having seen ''Digby the World's Biggest Dog'' "six or ten or eighteen times. But it's a classic." |
| 247 | * In the final mission of ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', after Pierce asks the Boss if they've got anything to get off their chest, a Boss speaking with Male Voice 1 will [[HiddenDepths admit that he's read]] ''Literature/JaneEyre'' [[HiddenDepths thirteen times]]. |
| 248 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', Futaba claims to have seen a movie called ''Back to the Ninja'' "like 50 times," but says that seeing it with the player character in the Yongen-Jaya movie theater is more fun than seeing it alone in her room. |
| 249 | * In ''Homescapes'' Scotty states that he's seen ''The Avenge-Hers'' a hundred times and would be more than willing to watch it a hundred more. |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 253 | * In ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'', Maddie, the main character, has apparently watched ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'' many times, since she often watches movies to relax. |
| 254 | -->'''Tara''': How many times can you watch 2001 without getting sick of it?\ |
| 255 | '''Maddie''':''(cheerfully)'' I dunno, but I intend to find out. |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 259 | * ''Webcomic/{{Hypergamouse}}'': Doof's EstablishingCharacterMoment is when he spies a lady with a ''Franchise/StarWars'' DVD and R2-D2 T-shirt, and tells her he's seen the film 87 times. She flees immediately. |
| 260 | * In ''Webcomic/WildeLife'', Oscar has apparently forced Clifford to watch ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' multiple times in the relatively short time that they've known each other, so we can only guess how often he's done it alone. |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 264 | * The WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic's FanDumb character Douchy [=McNitpick=]: "I've watched every single one of your videos 37 times...!" |
| 265 | * An episode of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' revealed that before the cast got relocated between seasons 5 and 6, Tucker hosted movie nights with the only film they had, ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. When Caboose destroys the tape, he enters a state of depression which the guys decide to heal by making a recreation of the movie (after all, given how many times Tucker made them see it, they know the whole thing pretty well). |
| 266 | * Inverted with ''WebVideo/TamarasNeverSeen'', in which Tamara Chambers, who missed out on a ton of classic (and [[SoBadItsGood not-so-classic]]) movies growing up, watches them for the first time as an adult. |
| 267 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL0pVIWDN2g This humorous video]] which pokes fun at all the people who took the "let's unironically watch ''Film/{{Morbius|2022}}''" fad back in Spring 2022 too seriously. In the video, Walter White Jr. (from ''Series/BreakingBad'') says "Dad, we have already watched (Morbius) 32 times this week. I don't want to watch it anymore!" |
| 268 | * WebVideo/DougDoug has a Twitch channel point reward with [[HostileShowTakeover a 10% chance of playing]] [[Creator/BillyMays Billy Mays' Zorbeez ad,]] [[InterfaceScrew covering whatever is on screen at the moment]]. Due to the amount of times that [[{{Troll}} his Twitch chat]] has redeemed it, Doug can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fGjYW5aH48 recite the entire ad from memory]], matching Billy Mays' pitch and cadence with near-perfect accuracy. |
| 269 | [[/folder]] |
| 270 | |
| 271 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 272 | * ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' episode "That's Monstertainment" has Flim-Flam [=McScam=] claim to have seen ''The Son of The Bride of The Ghost of Frankenstein'' 100 times. |
| 273 | * According to ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The DVD", Gumball is said to have seen "Alligators on a Train" 72 times. |
| 274 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' episode "Spaced Out", Dog wanted to see ''Mean Bob in Space, Part 12'' for the 73rd time. Dunglap also wanted to see the movie for the 74th time in the same episode. |
| 275 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'', Sunny Bridges has seen ''Film/FreeWilly'' 40 times. |
| 276 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', the title character mentions in his voice-over that he and Skeeter saw a Smash Adams movie 7 times. |
| 277 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 278 | ** In the episode "Now Who's The Dummy?", Bobby starts naming off rules and facts for golf during a game, and Hank asks how he knows so much about it. Bobby explains, "I've seen ''Happy Gilmore'' 50 times", to which Hank replies, "I hate Adam Sandler!" |
| 279 | ** In an earlier episode, Hank mentions having rented ''The Great Santini'' 23 times. |
| 280 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 281 | ** In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"]], Milhouse brags about seeing the ''Itchy & Scratchy'' movie 15 times and Nelson brags that he saw it 17 times. Bart (who has been grounded from seeing the movie after failing to watch Maggie) tries to joke that the two must have been sick of seeing it and ends up getting chased by Nelson and Milhouse because they know he would make that joke if he hadn't seen the movie himself. |
| 282 | ** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E15CoDependentsDay "Co-Dependents Day"]], after the latest ''[[WritingAroundTrademarks Cosmic Wars]]'' movie "The Gathering Shadow" is a disappointment, Comic Book Guy makes the following comment. |
| 283 | --->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Worst ''Cosmic Wars'' ever! I will only see it three more times. Today. |
| 284 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 285 | ** Eric Cartman claims to have seen ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' 34 times (in movie theaters) in the episode "The Passion of the Jew". |
| 286 | ** In "Elementary School Musical", Bebe says that Bridon Gueermo has seen ''Film/HighSchoolMusical3SeniorYear'' over 100 times. |
| 287 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E29LogDate7152 "Log Date 7 15 2"]], Peridot becomes a shipper, drawing up charts and graphs detailing which characters are an ideal match for each other, after watching a single episode of the SoapWithinAShow ''Camp Pining Hearts'' for nearly three days straight. |
| 288 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' |
| 289 | ** Gwen mentions seeing a movie called ''Alien Chunks'' 27 times. Duncan tops her by saying he's seen it 53 times. |
| 290 | ** [[LoonyFan Sierra]] claims to have watched every episode of the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe show]] fifteen times. |
| 291 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'', Noah's mentions he's seen [[Film/Titanic1997 "that movie about the couple and the sinking ship"]] 700 times. |
| 292 | [[/folder]] |
| 293 | |
| 294 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 295 | * This phenomenon is very common with children. They love repetition and are at an age where they are far more immersed in stories, because they are still discovering the world. Plus, they are not yet aware of or bothered by clichés and platitudes. If it holds their attention then they feel it's good. |
| 296 | * Autistic people commonly watch/read favorite movies, shows, books, comics etc. over and over again, to a degree neurotypicals can find concerning. For example, someone with a special interest in Creator/JaneAusten might re-read her books dozens or hundreds of times. |
| 297 | * According to some stories, Creator/AlecGuinness (Obi-Wan Kenobi) was once asked for an autograph by a fan who claimed to have watched [[Film/ANewHope the first]] ''Franchise/StarWars'' film a hundred times. Alec gave him the autograph but only under the condition that he never watch it again. |
| 298 | ** Guinness' autobiography ''A Positively Final Appearance'' confirms that the story did indeed happen. Guinness, however, states that the boy's mother dragged her crying son away after Guinness' request, and he never mentions actually giving the autograph. |
| 299 | ** Ironically, Guinness himself was not immune to this -- he never traveled anywhere without taking an Creator/AnthonyTrollope novel to re-read. |
| 300 | * The 2009 film ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' spawned many examples of this. [[http://www.avatar-forums.com/showthread.php?t=4333 Several]] [[http://www.avatar-forums.com/showthread.php?t=4140 threads]] exist on one Avatar forum relating to how many times each poster has seen the movie. The second even has photos of ticket stubs as proof... |
| 301 | ** Creator/ConanOBrien saw the film five times during the first three weeks of release and even learned Na'vi (which he demonstrated on one of the last episodes of his run on ''Series/TheTonightShow''). |
| 302 | * Fans of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' are well known for this. Somebody who's seen the film twenty times is still a neophyte. A few fans claim to have watched the film over 1,000 times, equivalent to [[FridgeHorror once a week for twenty years]]. |
| 303 | ** It's common for live casts to fish out first-time viewers ("virgins") by having the entire audience stand, then sit as they count down how many times they've seen the film [[note]]''In a theater'', as watching it at home is "just masturbation"[[/note]]. |
| 304 | * In the first of his autobiographies, ''Literature/MoabIsMyWashpot'', Creator/StephenFry stated that in his schoolboy days, he and a few friends went to see ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', ''Film/TheGodfather'', and ''Film/{{Cabaret}}'' over and over, each one having different elements that appealed to him at the time. He ended up cutting a lot of school to do it, however, and was eventually expelled. |
| 305 | * Apparently, a fan once approached Creator/EdgarWright and asked him to sign his ticket stubs for ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''... all 55 of them. |
| 306 | * The writer of [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118692/board/thread/753534?p=1 this essay]] on Website/IMDb claims to have seen ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' a grand total of three-hundred and eighty-one times, as of 2003. Going from Dec 31, 1991, to Jan 1, 2003, that adds up to around 4015 days, adding up to once every ten days. |
| 307 | * A San Francisco youth made national news when saw the movie ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' [[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19770625&id=TMMzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wjIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=3288,5315145 81 times]] (and possibly more) during its first-run release in 1976 and 1977. After the 27th viewing, the theatre started letting him in for free. |
| 308 | * Creator/ChristopherLee once stated that he had read ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' all the way through every year after it was first published. It was for this reason that he was one of the main consultants for Creator/PeterJackson's [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings film adaptations]], in addition to playing Saruman in them. |
| 309 | * Alas, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley_Jr John Hinckley, Jr.]] watched ''Film/TaxiDriver'' 15 times in a row and got the [[MisaimedFandom entirely wrong idea]] from it, stalking [[Creator/JodieFoster an actress in it]], and attempting to assassinate [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan the President]] (something ''like'' in the movie) because she wasn't impressed. |
| 310 | * When ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' came out in 1988, legendary animator Creator/ShamusCulhane recommended that all serious students of animation watch it several times; it was ''that'' groundbreaking, he claimed. |
| 311 | * Roberto Sadovski, best known for editing defunct Brazilian movie magazine ''Set'', declared in an interview that he saw ''Film/Batman1989'' over 50 times when it was in theaters in 1989, while adding that ending movie night at his house with a screening of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' is a constant. [[https://robertosadovski.blogosfera.uol.com.br/2017/03/15/por-que-um-reboot-de-matrix-quase-duas-decadas-depois-do-original-nao-e-uma-ma-ideia/ Another time he wrote that]] he saw ''Film/TheMatrix'' over six times in theaters while he was travelling to New York (the movie having not entered his country yet), and just about every month he watches it again. |
| 312 | * Creator/HowardHughes is said to have watched ''Film/IceStationZebra'' 150 times in the years leading up to his death. Initially, he bought a Las Vegas TV station (KLAS) so he could have the film (among others) aired on demand; he would even call up the station and order that a technician rewind the movie if he wanted to see a scene again. He eventually traded up to [[https://www.wired.com/2015/12/howard-hughess-screening-room/ a private screening room]], in which the movie played in a continuous loop. [[note]]Having been an aviator in the days of open plane cockpits, his hearing was shot to the point he could hardly understand dialog over the tinny TV speakers even at maximum volume, which is why he upgraded. The sound system he installed in his screening room was so powerful it made the floor vibrate. Said screening room was in the Desert Inn, which he owned, so he didn't have to worry about noise complaints.[[/note]] |
| 313 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' cartoonist Charles M. Schulz watched ''Film/CitizenKane'' more than 40 times during his lifetime, something he also referenced in his comic strip. |
| 314 | * At the last ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'' movie screening at Shinjuku's Ward 9 theater, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2014-04-17/idolm@ster-superfan-watched-the-movie-102-times one fan revealed to the Aniplex representatives there that he saw it 102 times during its theatrical run]]. |
| 315 | * [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary Clinton]] has said she saw ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' numerous times when she was in college. |
| 316 | * Disney animator Andreas Deja (who animated Jafar for ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', among other assignments), says that as a kid in the 1960s he thought ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'' was so cool that he went to see it every day for a while, to the point that his mother began to worry about him. That was the film that convinced Deja he wanted to become an animator. |
| 317 | * Music/JenniferLopez said in a 2009 interview that she watched ''Film/WestSideStory1961'' "37 times growing up", but: "I never wanted to be that wimpy Maria... I wanted to be Anita, who danced her way to the top." |
| 318 | * Creator/TomHanks has seen ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' "over 40 times" and claimed: "You can look at it over and over and ponder its meaning." |
| 319 | ** Similarly, Creator/DouglasAdams said he saw ''2001'' six times and read the book twice, but was disappointed with the sequel novel, ''[[Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact 2010: Odyssey Two]]''. |
| 320 | * Music/DaftPunk claimed one of the biggest formative experiences as teenagers was ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', which they saw over 20 times together in the theater. It's no surprise the duo adopted similar robotic personas. Or that they managed to eventually collaborate with the film's starcomposer Paul Williams! |
| 321 | * There are apps and social media sites, such as Trakt.tv or the defunct TV Tag/Get Glue, that can keep track of the number of times a person has seen a movie or TV series episodes. Each tally is recorded whenever someone using the app checks in to say they're watching a program. |
| 322 | * Creator/OsamuTezuka claimed he saw ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' over 80 times in the theater as a child, he was able to see it so much because he came from a wealthy family in Osaka, Japan. |
| 323 | * Tom Hall of Creator/IdSoftware fame saw ''Star Wars'' 33 times as a kid (according to the book ''Masters of Doom''). |
| 324 | * Richard Garriott became fixated with the film ''Film/TimeBandits'' when it came out in 1981, and [[https://www.filfre.net/2012/10/the-wizardry-and-ultima-sequels/ he watched it over and over]] ([[https://twitter.com/RichardGarriott/status/1062000529591668739 "like 20 times"]]) with his friends. This was mostly because he wanted to make an accurate copy of the magical map in the movie, only shown in brief glimpses. (''Time Bandits'' went on to provide inspiration for Garriott's ''VideoGame/UltimaII''.) |
| 325 | * The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has some ''really'' dedicated fans: |
| 326 | ** A man named Steve Ruppel watched ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' [[https://www.geek.com/culture/dude-watched-captain-marvel-116-times-to-break-world-record-1784255/ 116 times]] in theaters in 2019, breaking a Literature/{{Guinness World Record|s}}. The previous record was set by a man who watched ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' 107 times. |
| 327 | ** Another guy named Agustiyn Alanis broke that record some weeks later, watching ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' ''202 times'' when it was in theaters. |
| 328 | * As made clear by [[https://twitter.com/TwitterMovies/status/1179488370130472961 the responses here]], it's easy to find fans of ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'' who have seen the movie a lot in theaters, as high as [[https://twitter.com/warrior17739/status/1159387143787012099 77]] or '''[[https://m.weibo.cn/status/4363817103973920 119]]'''. |
| 329 | * A ''very'' devoted French fan of ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'' has seen TheMovie, ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'', ''204 times'' in theaters (all the more impressive due to the film being released during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic). Director and actor Creator/AlexandreAstier promised he would attend a screening with him, and he obliged on the 200th time. |
| 330 | * NBA player Michael Kidd-Gilchrist watches ''Westernanimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' every week as a tribute to his late father, as both used to see the movie together until the father's murder when Michael was 3. |
| 331 | * Creator/CrispinGlover said that he "went and saw ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' at least 12 or 13 times at the Friday midnight shows at the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles in 1980" while doing publicity for when he worked with director Creator/DavidLynch, ''Film/WildAtHeart''. |
| 332 | * In [[https://sports.yahoo.com/the-ncaa-tournaments-hoosiers-story-coachs-favorite-movie-comes-to-life-004443387.html a 2021 interview]], Paul Mills, then the head men's basketball coach at Oral Roberts University, claimed to have seen ''Film/{{Hoosiers}}'' over 1,000 times. In the same story, Baylor head coach Scott Drew, who had previously been Mills' boss, said, "Literally, you can pause it at any time in the movie and he’ll give you the next 10 lines in a row. He has it memorized." |
| 333 | * [[https://screencrush.com/turning-red-review/ One of the reviews]] for ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' references this phenomenon saying "It’s one of those special movies where during your first viewing you already know there’s going to be a 100th viewing someday.". |
| 334 | * It's not unusual for people to watch their favorite holiday films once a year during the appropriate holiday season. If nothing else, TV channels will air ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'', ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'', ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', and at least one of the seemingly infinite variations of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' every December, and some people will watch them. |
| 335 | * ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' host Creator/MayimBialik admitted to having watched ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' an unspecified amount of times, but phrased it as "so many times", when the film was an answer to a clue in an episode. |
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