1 | -> ''"The only permanent rule in [[TropeNamers Calvinball]] is that you can't play it the same way twice!"'' |
2 | -->-- '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' |
3 | |
4 | -> ''"I'll invoke [[ThirdPersonPerson Poland]]'s rule! It'll always be my turn!"'' |
5 | -->-- '''[[NationsAsPeople Poland]]''' during a game of chess, ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' |
6 | |
7 | -> ''"That's Numberwang!"'' |
8 | -->-- '''The host of Numberwang''', frequently, at ''completely random intervals'', ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' |
9 | |
10 | ->"Malachi shrugged. He didn't follow human sports. They were too dull and the rules never changed." |
11 | -->-- Malachi's Narration summarizing TheFairFolk's sports in ''[[Literature/QuantumGravity Chasing the Dragon]]'' |
12 | |
13 | -> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': Hike Patrick, hike! |
14 | -> ''[Drops rock, which breaks in two, as Patrick blows chess pieces forward on a board]'' |
15 | -> '''[=Spongebob=]''': You just lost 3 points! |
16 | -> ''[Climbs up coral]'' |
17 | -> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': 1, 2, 5! |
18 | -> ''[Stands on his head and blows a bubble in the shape of "G7"]'' |
19 | -> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': G7! |
20 | -> '''Patrick''': G7?! King me, king me! |
21 | -> ''[Runs and smashes into coral; [=SpongeBob=]'s bubble kit lands in his hand]'' |
22 | -> '''Patrick''': ''[triumphantly]'' I lose! |
23 | -> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': But it's not Tuesday, Patrick! |
24 | -> '''Patrick''': Tartar sauce! |
25 | -> '''Squidward''': What are you two [[HypocriticalHumor invertebrates]] doing?! |
26 | -> ''[{{Beat}}]'' |
27 | -> '''[=SpongeBob=] and Patrick''': We don't know. |
28 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E11 Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost]]" |
29 | |
30 | -> ''"Could someone please tell me what we are supposed to be doing? What's the point? This entire game is completely random! It jumps from one thing to another, I don't know how you are supposed to win, and Patrick seems to be making up the rules as he goes along!"'' |
31 | -->-- '''Squidward''' on Patrick's game, ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' |
32 | |
33 | ->'''Humph''': Fingers on buzzers, teams. How many legs have donkeys? |
34 | ->'''Tim''' [''buzzing'']: Four! |
35 | ->'''Humph''': Tim says four. Barry and Graeme? |
36 | ->'''Barry and Graeme''': Higher, higher, no, I think it's lower. Lower. |
37 | ->'''Humph''': You say lower? Well, the right answer is no legs have donkeys. So, you were right to go lower. And Tim gets ten points. Tim, question or nominate? |
38 | ->'''Tim''': Nominate Graeme! |
39 | ->'''Humph''': No, the correct answer is "nominate Barry". You lose ten points. Barry, what's the first letter of the word "aardvark": A, B, C or D? |
40 | ->'''Barry''': Can I go 50-50, Humph? |
41 | ->'''Humph''': Very well. Computer, take away one wrong answer and one right answer. Barry, you have two wrong answers left. Which do you go for? |
42 | -->-- "The Quiz of Quizzes", ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'' |
43 | |
44 | ->''"Other kids' games are such a bore!\ |
45 | They gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!\ |
46 | Calvinball is better by far!\ |
47 | It's never the same! It's always bizarre!\ |
48 | You never need a team or a referee!\ |
49 | You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!"'' |
50 | -->-- ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' |
51 | |
52 | ->'''Twilight''': What's Blernsball?\ |
53 | '''[[Series/RetroGameMaster Arino]]''': It's baseball, but they jazzed up a lot.\ |
54 | '''Twilight''': Ah baseball. I love complicated games!\ |
55 | '''[[VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}} Maxwell]]''': Oooh! I love it when they bend the rules! At least it's more fun than the Giant Ape Fights, that just sounds boring. |
56 | -->-- ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars'' |
57 | |
58 | ->'''Jim:''' All right. So each player gets six cards, except the one on the player's right, who gets seven. The second card is turned up, except on Tuesdays.\ |
59 | '''Sulu:''' Is today Tuesday?\ |
60 | '''Scotty:''' It's got to be Tuesday ''[[UniversalUniverseTime somewhere]]'', Mr. Sulu.\ |
61 | '''Jim:''' Stipulated. Now, two jacks is a half-fizzbin, but you don't want three. Three is a shralk. You get those, you get disqualified.\ |
62 | '''Ael:''' You do?\ |
63 | '''Jim:''' Absolutely. Now look there: Sulu's got two jacks. That's good. Now he wants a king and a deuce.\ |
64 | '''[=McCoy=]:''' Except at night. In which case he wants a king and an ace.\ |
65 | '''tr'Keirianh:''' How is "night" determined? If playing aboard ship, does ship's time prevail? Or is it always determined to be night in space?\ |
66 | '''Jim:''' Only in leap year.\ |
67 | '''Sulu:''' When the moon is full.\ |
68 | '''K's't'lk:''' Now wait a minute. ''Whose'' moon?\ |
69 | '''Ael:''' And why should a year leap?\ |
70 | ''(reportedly goes on for two more hours)'' |
71 | -->-- A game of fizzbin, ''Franchise/{{Star Trek|ExpandedUniverse}}: Literature/{{Rihannsu}} -- The Empty Chair'' |
72 | |
73 | ->''" No, Ozy, "House Rules Parcheesi" is absolutely nothing like "Calvinball." Now, you have seven blorms, and you have to move your roll of duct tape around the giant ceramic hippo."'' |
74 | -->-- '''Isolde''', ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'' |
75 | |
76 | ->''Once the gong is rung, the offensive team serves the pom-pom and advances down the field. The defending cyclists race past the tackling dummies and try to get into scoring position. If they manage to return the pom-pom into one of the scoring locations, they will be awarded a chance to chase the jumbo riding ball past the midfield skiing defender, while the other team tries to hit as many tennis balls as they can using golf clubs. I don't know why this guy has a canoe paddle.'' |
77 | -->-- '''"Playing a Game of Sports"''' - ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' |
78 | |
79 | ->'''Future Ted:''' ''[narrating]'' Now, I had been to a lot of casinos before that night, and I've been to a lot of casinos since, but in all that time I've never seen a game quite like this one. To this day, I have no idea how it was played. But luckily, Barney did.\ |
80 | '''Lily:''' Do you understand what's happening?\ |
81 | '''Ted:''' Not a clue.\ |
82 | '''Robin:''' Do you think he's winning?\ |
83 | '''Ted:''' I don't even know if he's playing.\ |
84 | '''Marshall:''' Wait, I get it, I understand this game.\ |
85 | '''Ted:''' ...no you don't.\ |
86 | '''Marshall:''' I totally understand the game, Theodore! Barney, split your tiles. You can triple your money if you find the jellybean.\ |
87 | '''Barney:''' Marshal, please. Don't you think I know what I'm-- ''[glances over the board]'' My God, you're ''right''! |
88 | -->-- ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' season 2 episode 8 "Atlantic City," regarding a game of "Shing Hasabu Shing" |
89 | |
90 | ->'''Steelbeak''': ''[laying down two circle cards]'' Go fish.\ |
91 | '''Launchpad''': ''[laying down two hearts]'' Old maid.\ |
92 | '''Steelbeak''': Uhh... ''[plays a double diamond card]'' Crazy eights.\ |
93 | ''[Suspense {{Beat}}]''\ |
94 | '''Launchpad''': ''[laying down entire hand]'' Checkmate.\ |
95 | '''Steelbeak''': ''[throws his cards in frustration]'' Well played.\ |
96 | '''Dewey''': It was?! |
97 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Steelbeak and Launchpad are playing Baccarat. |
98 | |
99 | ->...it was [Creator/HGWells and I] who invented the well-known and widespread national game of Gype. All sorts of variations and complications were invented in connection with Gype. There was Land Gype and Water Gype. I myself cut out and coloured pieces of cardboard of mysterious and significant shapes, the instruments of Table Gype; a game for the little ones. It was even duly settled what disease threatened the over-assiduous player; he tended to suffer from Gype's Ear. My friends and I introduced allusions to the fashionable sport in our articles; Bentley successfully passed one through the Daily News and I through some other paper. Everything was in order and going forward; except the game itself, which has not yet been invented. |
100 | -->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton''' describes a "standing joke" in his social circle, ''Autobiography'' |
101 | |
102 | ->'''Baljeet:''' If I miss the third shuttlecock with my rubber chicken, does Buford have to jump over the chokecherry bush before or after the girls finish peeling their tangerines?\ |
103 | '''Buford, Candace, and Isabella:''' ''After!'' |
104 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Got Game?" |
105 | |
106 | ->''Man, I've been watching this game for about an hour and I still don't get it. Go team!'' |
107 | -->-- '''Man''', referring to "Critterball", ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'', "Critterball Crisis" |
108 | |
109 | ->'''Angel Dust:''' Go fish.\ |
110 | '''Sir Pentious:''' No wait, I have the TabletopGame/{{Uno}} card, that makes me ''immune!''\ |
111 | '''Angel Dust:''' That's only in the first round, dummy!\ |
112 | '''Sir Pentious:''' Not if your birthday is in April!\ |
113 | '''Husk:''' This game is an abomination. |
114 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' [[https://www.tumblr.com/greykolla-art/743886214991577088/imagine-spending-all-your-energy-being-cool-and fan comic]] by greykolla-art |
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