Line #19 Quotes/GenreBlindness


1	!!!On works
2	->''"As a rule, people in movies haven't ever seen a movie. They're not equipped to deal with anything strange."''
3	-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-great-occupations-for-horribly-stupid-people/ 7 Great Occupations for Horribly Stupid People]]''
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5	->''"I don’t want to be teamed up with Dax if I ever get stranded in a horror film. 'As long as we can maintain contact, it should be reasonably safe to [[LetsSplitUpGang split up and see if any of us can find a way out of here.]]' Pfft."''
6	-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2013/09/09/star-trek-deep-space-nine-move-along-home-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Move Along Home"
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8	->''"The good guys wouldn't have been surprised by Darth Vader winning if they'd known from the outset they were in a movie called ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack.''"''
9	-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article/185_6-movie-plots-made-possible-by-bafflingly-bad-decisions/ 6 Movie Plots Made Possible by Bafflingly Bad Decisions]]''
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11	->''"I love how nobody on the wrestling program actually'' watches ''the wrestling program."''
12	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiller]]''' about ''Wrestling/{{TNA}} Impact''
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14	->"''Right off the top you know who the villain is, because of his [[ScaryShinyGlasses scary shiny glasses]], and, like all transparent villains, he is contractually dumb. Why one would send a morally inflexible and preternaturally strong man on a mission when one has two perfectly competent officers who are already bent is far beyond me. For reasons of villainy, I guess. And I bet he never even bothered to watch the show.''"
15	-->-- '''Spacey''', ''Pity for the Fool", a review of [[http://www.comicvine.com/a-team-war-stories-ba-/37-205820/user-reviews/?review_id=14602 The A-Team: War Stories:B.A.]]
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17	->''"Good morning! I'm looking for a job."''\
18	''"The only one left is in an abandoned hotel built on a graveyard, where a madman slaughtered his family and left their bodies in the bathtub."''\
19	''[[TooDumbToLive "Okey-dokey."]]''
20	-->-- '''Italian comedian Marco Bazzoni''' as his character "Baz" [[note]]"Baz, the living multimedia player"[[/note]] pretty much sums up this trope with a farcical re-enacting of '''Film/TheShining'''.
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22	->''"“There’s something wrong with this house,” says the serenely beautiful Rachel Weisz’s yummy mummy, Libby. No shit, Sherlock! Most of us have seen enough creepy movies to pack our bags and race to a motel the minute the youngest child discovers a secret room or sees a scary face at the window. But nobody in the movies ever seems to have seen a movie, so they don’t know how to behave."''
23	-->-- '''Angie Errigo''', "[[http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=137437 Dream House Movie Review]]"
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25	->''Watching a Japanese indie horror game where the protagonist is like "it's the '''[[FourIsDeath 4th]]''' [[FourIsDeath of]] '''[[FourIsDeath April]]''' and I just moved in to this apartment with '''weirdly cheap rent''' that is fully furnished and the '''landlord is creepy''' but I'm so excited to '''live alone for the first time''' and anyway it's so great living in apartment '''104''' :)" and I guess I'm just happy to see being an absolute doorknob in a horror scenario is a universal experience''
26	-->-- [[https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/storygirl000/688883545452740608?source=share This]] Tumblr post
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28	!!!Fiction
29	->''"I don't know where we'd be without Delacroix. This whole ship is falling apart and she's the only one who knows what from what. I saw her arguing with that creep [[RenegadeRussian Anatoly Koretzkin]] or whatever his name is, and she was giving it to him but good. But that freak job stares her straight in the eye and starts babbling about how she doesn't [[AC:[[HiveMind 'know the pleasure of the joyful unity]]']] or some such. Mama mia, the clowns are running the circus."''
30	-->--'''Constance Sanger''', ''VideoGame/SystemShock''
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32	->''[[AC:You let [[CargoCult one of those nutty cults]] gain a hold of Mankind and grow to become a]] '''[[TheTheocracy State Religion]]''' [[AC:of The Imperium. Becoming this fucking Ecclesiarchy thing. And then, people start to cut their own fucking spleen out, waving it around and throwing it at people, all in a pool of their own jizz and blood: to profess their love for me. And Then, you let some power-hungry motherfucking bureaucrat become the master of both the Administratum, and [[AllHailTheGreatGodMickey that overly dominant Ecclesiarchy Groxshit]]. Effectively controlling [[FemmeFatale all our hot, leathery assassins]] from the Officio Assassinorum, and [[MilitaryMage all Asshole Psykers]] in the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. Oh, and our Flashlight guys as well.]]'' '''''[[AC:[[RuleOfThree AND THEEEN]]]]''' [[AC:this balls-to-the-walls paramount of Imeperial incompetence that has become your leader starts to kill and torture anyone and and everyone he feels like [[ForTheEvulz because it makes his bureaucrat balls tingle with delight]] initiating a massive, totally pointless purge of all Mankind. And in addition: he did all this with the most evil fucking name I've ever heard: Goge Vandire.]]''\
33	''[[AC:Seriously, how could you ever trust a guy with that name?]]'' [[AC:G-O-G-E Vandire.]] ''[[AC:That name is just screaming "I'm gonna take your eye sockets and put my penis into them". I mean, fuck.]]''
34	-->--'''The Emperor of Mankind''', ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice''
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36	->'''Seven of Nine:''' A wormhole?\
37	'''Harry:''' ''The'' wormhole. It leads all the way back to Earth!\
38	'''Seven:''' The odds of finding such a phenomenon are infinitesimal.\
39	'''Janeway:''' [[NeverTellMeTheOdds Never bet against the house.]]
40	-->--'''''Series/StarTrekVoyager''''', "Bliss"
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42	->'''Gwen''': Ok, rule number one: Do ''not'' go off on your own. Rule number two: If you ''do'' go off on your own, ''never'' go in the woods. Rule number three: If you do go in the woods, never, ever, ''ever'' make out in the woods or you will ''die'' in the woods! ({{Beat}}) Where's Izzy and Owen?\
43	'''Duncan''': Breakin' rules one through three.
44	-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]]'', "[[Recap/TotalDramaHookLineAndScreamer Hook, Line, and Screamer]]"
45
46	->''"Did you guys ever actually'' watch ''the show?!"''
47	-->-- '''Guy''', ''Film/GalaxyQuest''
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49	->''"This is something that nobody has ever heard about or seen before."''
50	-->-- '''Ben''', ''Night of the Living Dead'' (1990 movie)
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52	->''"Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon’s lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons."''
53	-->-- ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader''
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55	->''"Yes, when it's Hallerwern night and there's an insane paintin' runnin' around, there's no safer place for a pretty young thing like me than in the shower. My good man, would ya please pass the Port Plus?"''
56	-->-- '''Coach Z''', ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', "Jibblies 2"
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58	->'''Malcolm:''' This is like the beginning of every horror movie I've ever seen. \
59	'''Reese:''' [[LetsSplitUpGang I think we should all split up.]]
60	-->-- ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', "Carnival"
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62	->''"There's a lot of things you're blind to. But you don't realize it until it's too late."''
63	-->-- '''Harmon Rabb''', ''{{Series/JAG}}'', "Déjà Vu"
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65	->''"Walking around the aisles of shelves and racks in the Haunted Wine Cellar, you find yourself thinking about how great electric light is, and [[TemptingFate how terrible it would be if you were stuck in total darkness in the basement of the spookiest house in the Kingdom]].''\
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67	''[[LampshadeHanging You might also think that]], as an adventurer, [[YouJustHadToSayIt you would know better than to have thoughts like that]]."''
68	-->-- ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', "Lights Out in the Wine Cellar"
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70	->''"Ye'd best start believin' in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're ''in'' one."''
71	-->-- '''Captain Barbossa''', ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''
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73	->''Well, look at that, a real hot dog. But serious, who follows a stranger down a dark alley dressed as pups? I mean, on principle alone, I can't let this end well for ya.''
74	-->--'''Hellfire''', ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''
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76	->''"I should have hired those sellswords in the first place. Perhaps there's no need. This place is just a tomb, after all, and there are no obvious signs of habitation. [[TooDumbToLive It isn't as though the]] [[OurWightsAreDifferent thousand-year dead]] [[TooDumbToLive will mind if I have a look around.]]"''
77	-->-- '''Heddic's Volunruud Notes''', found next to his corpse, ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''
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79	->''"I can't believe he didn't suspect a trap. See what happens when you don't watch enough television?"''
80	-->-- '''The Joker''', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "Wild Cards Part 1"
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82	->'''Vanessa:''' Okay guys, we gotta figure out a plan. \
83	'''Birgitte:''' [[LetsSplitUpGang We should totally split up!]] \
84	'''Lacie:''' I'm gonna go hide in the bathroom where it's safe. \
85	'''Dana:''' I know. I'll run off to check an obscure noise in the kitchen! \
86	'''Heather:''' I'm gonna slowly walk backwards into a dimly lit room. \
87	'''Candace:''' Really? See, if they watch more domestic horror films, they'd know...
88	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Night of the Living Pharmacists"
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90	->"That's crazy! The government doesn't lie to people!"
91	-->--''A clueless human woman'', ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem''
92
93	->''”Right, I’m going to wander down that lonely deserted street and get my bag.”''
94	-->--'''Professor [=MacDougal=]''', said during a ZombieApocalypse, ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare''
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96	->''"DO PEOPLE NOT RESPECT TIMEOUTS ANYMORE?!! Jeez, I can tell you guys didn’t play outside with your friends growing up."''
97	-->--'''Marti Belle''', ''Mission Pro Wrestling Keep 'Em Talkin'''
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99	->Horror movie characters aren't killed by [[OurSlashersAreDifferent machete-wielding monsters or reincarnated psychopaths]] - they're killed by ignorance. Ignorance of the mortal danger they're in. Of the butcher lurking in every shadow. Of the new rules. Ignorance of the fact that they're in a horror movie.
100	-->--''Literature/HowToSurviveAHorrorMovie''
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102	->The problem with [[CharacterNarrator telling a story]], of course, is that you already ''know'' that I'm telling you about something significant that happened ... So of course, when you read me dreaming about the moroi, it seems significant. Doubtless I seem like a proper fool for not immediately packing up and going back to Paris. You can turn the page and assure yourself that you would be much wiser in my situation.
103	-->-- ''Literature/WhatFeastsAtNight'', by Creator/TKingfisher
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