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| 2 | |
| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 6 | ->'''Inumuta:''' A Three-Star Goku Uniform unravelled by pulling out a single thread! How can that be?!\ |
| 7 | '''Nonon:''' Isn't it ''[[MrExposition your]]'' job to explain how these things work?\ |
| 8 | '''Inumuta:''' Impossible. I cannot analyze anything without data. |
| 9 | -->-- ''Anime/KillLaKill'' |
| 10 | |
| 11 | ->'''Panty''': Can this get any more fucking predictable?\ |
| 12 | '''Stocking''': Nope. She's a queen, she's a bee. [[MeaningfulName She's a Queen Bee]]. We fucking get it! |
| 13 | -->-- ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' |
| 14 | [[/folder]] |
| 15 | |
| 16 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 17 | ->''"Someone must be doing this on purpose..."'' |
| 18 | -->-- '''Jane''', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7111141/ King of Dreams]]'', a ''Film/{{Thor}}'' fanfic (Chapter 4) |
| 19 | [[/folder]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 22 | ->''"You should know that this is the ''strangest'' thing I've ever done!"'' |
| 23 | -->-- '''Flynn''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' |
| 24 | |
| 25 | ->'''Kuzco:''' No, it can't be. How did you get back here before us?\ |
| 26 | '''Yzma:''' ...How did we, Kronk?\ |
| 27 | '''Kronk:''' Well, you got me. ''[pulls down a map showing where they fell off a cliff chasing Kuzco and Pacha]'' By all accounts, it doesn't make sense.\ |
| 28 | '''Yzma:''' ''[shrugs]'' Oh, well, back to business. |
| 29 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' |
| 30 | [[/folder]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 33 | ->''"If you've got a weak spot in a movie or what could be perceived as a weak spot, then you should attack it, then no one (in the audience) can be at fault when thinking of it themselves"'' |
| 34 | -->-- '''Matthew Vaughn''', ''Film/KickAss'', DVD and Blu-Ray commentary. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | ->''"Guy named [[PropheticNames Otto Octavius]] winds up with eight limbs. What are the odds?"'' |
| 37 | -->-- '''J. Jonah Jameson''', ''Film/SpiderMan2'' |
| 38 | |
| 39 | ->''"Why is there always someone who [[ProducePelting brings eggs and tomatoes to a speech]]?!"'' |
| 40 | -->-- '''The Penguin''', ''Film/BatmanReturns'' |
| 41 | [[/folder]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 44 | ->''Of all the strange things that might have come riding out of the night, the last one Asha Greyjoy would ever have expected was a Braavosi banker. It was all too absurd. She had to laugh.'' |
| 45 | -->-- ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' |
| 46 | |
| 47 | ->''"If, reader, you are slow now to believe what I shall tell, that is no cause for wonder for I who saw it hardly can accept it."'' |
| 48 | -->-- '''Dante''', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' ([[OlderThanPrint 1324]]) |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 52 | ->''"Everything in this school happens to this band, their friends and their stupid colored jeans."'' |
| 53 | -->-- '''Bruce the Moose''', ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' |
| 54 | |
| 55 | ->''"I want to be remembered when I'm dead. I want books written about me. I want songs sung about me. And then, hundreds of years from now, I want episodes of my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by [[Creator/RowanAtkinson some great heroic actor of the age]]."'' |
| 56 | -->-- '''Edmund Blackadder, Esq.''', ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' |
| 57 | |
| 58 | ->''"Ugh. TV Doctors."'' |
| 59 | -->-- '''Carol Hathaway''', ''Series/{{ER}}'' |
| 60 | |
| 61 | ->'''Martin:''' A top-secret government program involving instantaneous travel to other solar systems, by means of a device known as a "Stargate".\ |
| 62 | '''O'Neill:''' Sounds like a good idea for a TV show. If you're... into that sort of thing. |
| 63 | -->-- ''Series/StargateSG1'', "[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E11PointOfNoReturn Point of No Return]]" |
| 64 | |
| 65 | ->''"Hey, screenwriters, having your characters call out the clichés in your own script doesn't absolve you from having those clichés in the first place."'' |
| 66 | -->-- '''Ellen Fox''', ''The Rotten Tomatoes Show'', presumably on ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'' |
| 67 | |
| 68 | ->''"This is like that episode of... well, ''everything''."'' |
| 69 | -->-- '''Malcolm''', ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' |
| 70 | |
| 71 | ->''"Yeah, Ted can really [[FramingDevice drone on about a bitch]]."'' |
| 72 | -->-- '''Lily Aldrin''', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' |
| 73 | |
| 74 | ->''"Abed, stop being {{meta|Guy}}! Why do you always have to take whatever happens to us and shove it up its own ass?"'' |
| 75 | -->-- '''Jeff''' getting recursive, ''Series/{{Community}}'' |
| 76 | |
| 77 | ->''"I remember when this show was about a community college."'' |
| 78 | -->-- '''Abed''' showing a perfect example of the above quote, ''Series/{{Community}}'' |
| 79 | |
| 80 | -> '''Eleanor:''' I have all of your sperm.\ |
| 81 | '''Charles:''' But you don't even ''care'' about it, Eleanor! Remember?! ''[[[CopycatMockery adopting a silly high-pitched voice]]]'' "Oh hey, Charles! I'll never have a baby with you, because I don't love you, and a child's not going to fix that!"\ |
| 82 | '''Jake:''' ''[taken aback]'' Oof. [[MoodDissonance When he started doing the silly voice I thought it was going to be more fun, but... wasn't.]] |
| 83 | -->-- ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' |
| 84 | |
| 85 | ->'''Una''': Have you noticed that [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks their]] references are weirdly specific?\ |
| 86 | '''Spock''': Indeed. |
| 87 | -->-- ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'', "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E07ThoseOldScientists Those Old Scientists]]" |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 91 | ->''"If I live to be 100, I will never understand why they keep so many damn weapons under the ring. It's like they ''want'' the wrestlers to use them on each other..."'' |
| 92 | -->-- '''Wrestling/JimRoss''', ''Wrestling/{{WWE}} RAW'' |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder: Theatre]] |
| 96 | ->"You'd never get away with all this in a play,\ |
| 97 | But if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue\ |
| 98 | It's just the sort of story audiences' adore,\ |
| 99 | In fact, it's the perfect opera!" |
| 100 | -->''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', "Prima Donna" |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 104 | ->''"What were you expecting? A confession?"'' |
| 105 | -->-- '''Vieri di'Pazzi''', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' |
| 106 | |
| 107 | ->''"Do you ever feel like we always end up [[WelcomeToCorneria talking about the same things over and over]]?"'' |
| 108 | -->-- '''Mii''', ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' |
| 109 | |
| 110 | ->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' ''[on selling Planet Express to Mom]'' It's not like this is {{the end of the world as we know it}}.\ |
| 111 | ''[Fry turns on the TV]''\ |
| 112 | '''Morbo:''' This is the end of the world as we know it. With the recent purchase of Planet Express, Mom now owns 50% of Earth, making her its supreme ruler.\ |
| 113 | '''Bender:''' Has anyone ever noticed how Fry always turns on the TV [[CoincidentalBroadcast at just the right moment]]? |
| 114 | -->-- ''VideoGame/{{Futurama}}'' |
| 115 | |
| 116 | ->'''Magnus [=McGilded=]:''' Well, it seems the stories are true.\ |
| 117 | '''Ryunosuke Naruhodu:''' Oh? What stories?\ |
| 118 | '''Magnus [=McGilded=]:''' About the six enormous fireworks they do be lettin' off when there's a verdict of not guilty. I'm sure youse must have seen them now. Spectacular, wouldn't ye say? |
| 119 | -->-- ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney: Adventures'' |
| 120 | |
| 121 | ->''"I suppose you've been wondering, 'Hey, seeing as Pinky can fly, why didn't she just fly me across that missing bridge?' [[NonAnswer I have my reasons. Subject closed.]]"'' |
| 122 | -->-- '''Pinky''', ''[[VideoGame/DeBlob de Blob 2]]'' |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 126 | ->''"Who on earth would put any manner of key inside a can and seal it? What sense does that possibly stand to make? I'm reasonably sure this is the only time anyone's ever run into something like this."'' |
| 127 | -->-- '''Muschio Malto''', ''Webcomic/DiveQuest'' |
| 128 | |
| 129 | ->''"Oh no you don't. You can't get away with something ''that'' absurd merely by pointing out how ridiculous it is."'' |
| 130 | -->-- '''Paris''', ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' |
| 131 | |
| 132 | ->''"Incidentally, lampshading basically just means pointing out something people are going to find odd anyway and saying 'yeah, that's weird, you wanna fight about it?' It's a risky style of writing that [[{{Metaphorgotten}} often results in fisticuffs]]."'' |
| 133 | -->-- '''Dan Shive''', ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', TheRant [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2041 here]] |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 137 | ->''Iconic horror franchises always run the risk of [[{{Sequelitis}} devolving into unintentional self-satire]]. A lot of filmmakers figure they can just combat this head-on by acknowledging the fact openly (or as they say in the biz, "putting a lampshade on it"). But the fact that a lot of people think that ''Killer Axe Man 17'' is getting kind of stupid doesn't actually change if the film's writers point out that they know it's stupid. This acknowledgment just makes everything stupider.'' |
| 138 | -->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18413_the-6-baffling-mistakes-every-horror-franchise-must-make_p1.html "The 6 Baffling Mistakes Every Horror Franchise Must Make"]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | ->''"Self-awareness covers a multitude of sins."'' |
| 141 | -->-- '''Steven D. Greydanus''', [[http://www.decentfilms.com/reviews/adaptation.html reviewing]] ''Film/{{Adaptation}}'' |
| 142 | |
| 143 | ->''"Hip Writing Fact #1: If we say we're doing something painful and stupid, it's immediately no longer painful and stupid!"'' |
| 144 | -->-- '''Peter Soulless''', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' |
| 145 | |
| 146 | ->''Lampshading – addressing a flaw, recurring trope or PlotHole by having a character point it out. There’s a nice example of lampshading in the book of Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory. Just after Violet Beauregarde has been maimed by Wonka’s chewing gum, and the Oompa Loompas have sung about what a terrible thing chewing gum is, one of the parents asks Wonka: if it’s so bad, why are you making it? Wonka gives a short evasive answer, then the story moves briskly on.'' |
| 147 | -->-- '''Andy Riley,''' [[https://misterandyriley.com/2019/10/25/how-to-talk-comedy-writer-updated-25th-october-2019/ How To Talk Comedy Writer]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | ->''"I'll say it again. When the characters themselves are complaining about the plot, you know something's wrong."'' |
| 150 | -->-- '''David R. Henry''''s [[http://www.ibiblio.org/phil/fnordchan/unlimit4.txt Review of X-Men Unlimited #4]] |
| 151 | |
| 152 | ->''"Captain's Log, Day 32. I question the ability for this ship to flawlessly steer itself without the need of a wheel. But nevertheless, we grow ever closer to reaching the promised land as I realize that--" ''[camera cuts to reveal Captain Bones' journal is filled with a bunch of scribbles]'' "--my handwriting is completely incomprehensible." ''[closes book]'' "[[WhoWritesThisCrap This is bullsh*t!]]"'' |
| 153 | -->-- '''Captain Bones''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zOm-tJ2rLk an odd voyage]]'' |
| 154 | |
| 155 | ->''"It also does the thing where it goes, 'Oh, look! A sewer level! How original, [[ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud roll eyes]]!' and then proceeds to un-ironically have a sewer level that goes on way too fucking long. ''[starts [[DopeSlap smacking game with a rolled-up newspaper]]]'' [[PunctuatedPounding IF YA KNOW IT'S BAD, WHY ARE YA DOING IT?]]"'' |
| 156 | -->-- '''Yahtzee''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'', reviewing ''VideoGame/MyFriendPedro'' |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 160 | ->'''Skinner:''' Sir, we have a problem with Lisa Simpson.\ |
| 161 | '''Chalmers:''' Seymour, I superintend 15 schools in the district, yet every time I come here it's to see you about one of the Simpson kids. |
| 162 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' |
| 163 | |
| 164 | ->'''Lana:''' Where did you get a grenade?!\ |
| 165 | '''Archer:''' Hanging from the lampshade!\ |
| 166 | '''Lana:''' Wait, what?! |
| 167 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', "[[Recap/ArcherS1E6Skorpio Skorpio]]" |
| 168 | |
| 169 | ->''[Lana and Cyril both escape death and sort their relationship]''\ |
| 170 | '''Cyril:''' Thank God! Lana, we made it!\ |
| 171 | '''Archer:''' ''Hooray for metaphors!'' |
| 172 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', "[[Recap/ArcherS1E7Skytanic Skytanic]]" |
| 173 | |
| 174 | ->''"This is, by a wide margin, the least likely thing that has ever happened."'' |
| 175 | -->-- '''Leela''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' |
| 176 | |
| 177 | ->'''Ron:''' [[FutureBadass Why is everybody in the future so ripped?]]\ |
| 178 | '''Wade:''' Fighting an evil dictator will do that to you. |
| 179 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', "[[Recap/KimPossibleASitchInTimeS2E15 A Sitch in Time]]" |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
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