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1!!Fiction
2
3->''[[FridgeLogic If you're wondering how [Joel/Mike/Jonah] eats and breathes]]\
4And other science facts (la-la-la),\
5Just repeat to yourself ''' 'It's just a show,\
6I should really just relax.' ''' ''
7-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', the {{Trope Namer|s}}
8
9->''"If we shadows have offended,\
10Think but this, and all is mended,\
11That you have but slumber'd here\
12While these visions did appear.\
13And this weak and idle theme,\
14No more yielding but a dream,\
15Gentles, do not reprehend:\
16if you pardon, we will mend:\
17And, as I am an honest Puck,\
18If we have unearned luck\
19Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,\
20We will make amends ere long;\
21Else the Puck a liar call;\
22So, good night unto you all.\
23Give me your hands, if we be friends,\
24And Robin shall restore amends."''
25-->-- '''Puck''', last lines of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''
26
27->''"I guess you have to fill in the rest of the holes yourself."''
28-->-- '''Caveman''', ''Literature/{{Holes}}''
29
30->''"Relax kid, it's just a movie."''
31-->--'''Ham Salad''', ''Hardware Wars''
32
33->'''Austin Powers''': Wait a tick. Basil, if I travel back to 1969 and I was frozen in 1967, presumably, I could go back and visit my frozen self. But, if I'm still frozen in 1967, how could I have been unthawed in the '90s and traveled back to -- [[MindScrew oh, no, I've gone cross-eyed.]]\
34'''Basil Exposition''': I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself. [''Looks at the camera''] [[BreakingTheFourthWall That goes for you all, too.]]
35-->-- ''Film/AustinPowers: The Spy Who Shagged Me''
36
37->'''Matt Burch''': Well, first you have to explain how the crew of a Corvette could storm a cruiser...\
38'''[=AndrewWelc=]''': Matt, it's a game, we don't have to explain everything! :)\
39'''Matt Burch''': Oh yeah. :)
40-->-- ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity'', "EV - A Blast From the Past (portions of an AOL chat room log)"[[note]]The game also contains parodies of the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ThemeTune.[[/note]]
41
42->''"You know, if you're going to let every little thing bother you, it's going to be a very long night!"''
43-->-- '''Prince Naveen''', ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''
44
45->'''Bolin''': Wait! You like that? It didn't make any sense! [...] Stars are magic fairy dust? Are you guys crazy? Are you crazy?\
46'''Baraz''': It's just a mover. Don't over-think it. It's like a ride.\
47'''Varrick''': Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, kid!
48-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', "Remembrances"
49
50->'''[[IdenticalGrandson Cornelius]] [[Music/JustinTimberlake Timberlake]]''': I actually dream of a day when my great-great-grandson will bring [[TitleDrop sexy back]].
51->'''Bobby Moynihan''': Bring sexy back? What does that mean?
52->'''Cornelius Timberlake''': It'll be gone, and he’ll bring it back.
53->'''Will Forte''': Where did it go?
54->'''Cornelius Timberlake''': Just trust me, people will be on board!
55-->-- ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9N9kMD7qCk "Immigrant Tale"]]
56
57->"But it doesn't make sense," [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Connie]] insisted. "Pearls aren't stones, they're hardened secretions created by mollusks. Humans only consider them gems because we think they're pretty. How could Gems have a type that can only be formed biologically?"
58
59-> "Well, there's a simple explanation for that, Connie," Pearl said, projecting her holoscreen and writing, in neat letters:
60
61-> "Shut the hell up, Connie"
62-->--'''badficniverse''', "[[http://badficniverse.tumblr.com/post/183578786609/from-the-fanfic-garnets-not-really-a-garnet-you Garnet’s not really a garnet; you have a problem with her too?]]"
63
64-> '''Fillmore:''' Where are these Winter Olympics?
65-> '''Hawthorne:''' The Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The longest mountain range in the world, and it just happens to be underwater.
66-> '''Fillmore:''' But how can there be snow?
67-> '''Hawthorne:''' You need to believe in the magic of comic strips.
68-> '''Fillmore:''' Is a hermit crab with no shell part of the magic?
69-> '''Hawthorne:''' The BEST part.
70-->-- ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon''
71
72->''"Oh, and for any of you continuity police out there, sometimes I just like to imagine myself back on the island in my Arrow costume, okay?"''
73-->--'''Green Arrow''', ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'' Arrow DLC
74
75->''"And none of this is canon, so just relax."''
76-->--'''The Opening Crawl''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbStarWars''
77
78->'''Mr. Reynolds''': That cardboard headstone tipped over! This graveyard is obviously phony.
79->'''Ed Wood''': Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details–it's about the big picture!
80-->-- ''Film/EdWood''
81
82-> ''"Don't try to understand it. Feel it."''
83-->-- '''Barbara''' telling the the Protagonist ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall and the audience]]) not to bother trying to figure out Inversion, ''Film/{{Tenet}}''
84
85-> ''"Look, it’s just monkeys singing songs, mate. Don’t think too hard about it."''
86-->-- '''Bandit''' to Bluey regarding the movie they're watching, ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'', "Movies"
87
88->'''Hack:''' So? How were the comics?\
89'''Britz:''' They were somewhat confusing.\
90'''Hack:''' They were? Always seemed pretty clear to me!\
91'''Britz:''' You recall when the Doctor invented that tiny radio, right?\
92'''Hack:''' Yeah! Wish I had one just like it!\
93'''Britz:''' But no one could ever make anything like that, right? It's impossible.\
94'''Hack:''' Well, yeah, but this is just a comic. It's not a true story.\
95'''Britz:''' Even if you could build a radio that small, wouldn't the army come in and force the Doctor to work for them?\
96'''Hack:''' Maybe, but there aren't any soldiers or anything in the comic…\
97'''Britz:''' None? Then how do they defend their countries from attack?\
98'''Hack:''' You're even more serious about stuff than I thought.\
99'''Britz:''' Am I?
100-->-- ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel2''
101
102->''"At least one of our xenogeologists [[RageQuit quit in a rage]] when research started on this region. Instead of having conventional polar ice caps, and in violation of all physical laws we know of, [[ArtisticLicenseGeology the continental plates of Hoxxes rest on top of a planetwide permafrost layer several miles deep]]. As always, DRG recommends a "don't ask" approach when dealing with the peculiarities of Hoxxes' makeup."''
103-->-- '''Glacial Strata description''', ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic''
104
105!!RealLife
106
107->''"It's only a movie, and after all, we're all grossly overpaid."''
108-->-- '''Creator/AlfredHitchcock'''
109
110->''"Calm down, it's only wrestling."''
111-->-- '''[[Wrestling/DonCallis Cyrus]]''', ''Wrestling/{{ECW}}''
112
113->''"If you need the security a strong continuity provides, you may not want to seek psychological security in Franchise/StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, or any other science fiction series (or computer game continuity). There's holes, gaps, and other problems -- my suggestion to you would be to just try to relax a little and enjoy the escapism. When escapism becomes work, an obssession [sic], or is just stressing you out in general, then it's not doing its job and you need to take a step back and take a breather."''
114-->-- '''Creator/ChrisAvellone'''
115
116->"''The Franchise/IndianaJones movies are all entitled to some dumb moments. They recapture the spirit of the old adventure films that came out during The Great Depression and World War II. Audiences were looking to [[ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars escape the real world and forget about their troubles]]. And that's what movies are all about: entertainment. But today, audiences are far more critical, have less imagination, and aren't as willing to suspend their disbelief; and that is the death of cinema."''
117-->-- '''Creator/JamesRolfe''', Cinemassacre's "Top 10 Dumbest Indiana Jones Moments"
118
119->'''Gregg Easterbrook''': In the ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]]'' movies and their endless spinoffs, everybody's fighting over a magical ring. In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' — No. 1 movie of 2014 by U.S. gross — everybody's fighting over a magical stone. Finding and possessing a small mystical object is the MacGuffin of many box-office smash flicks. OK, they are movies. But how many times in the real world has a single small object controlled the fates of millions?\
120'''Drew Magary''': Never! Totally ruined the movies for me. And to think, I cared about this magic 'ring' when no such magic rings occur in nature! And that spaceship in ''Film/{{Close Encounters|OfTheThirdKind}}''! How many times have YOU seen a spaceship in real life? Laughable... I'm gonna hire someone to do their taxes on fucking camera and then send it to Gregggggg for his approval. It'll be his favorite movie ever. WHAT AN ABSOLUTE PENIS.
121-->-- '''[[http://deadspin.com/one-day-well-be-too-lazy-to-watch-football-1679448981 Drew Magary]]''', "Gregg Easterbrook Is a Haughty Dipshit"
122
123->''"''Smallville'' is really a show that [[INeedAFreakingDrink demands lubrication]] to go down smooth."''
124-->-- '''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-8-abandoned/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E08Abandoned Abandoned]]")
125
126->''"So, a recent strip involving Davan explaining how condoms work to my alternate persona with a banana upset some readers... because it was 'unrealistic' for a cat to use a condom. Seriously? This comic involves a jelly cat, subterranean alligators and a core cast that should have been arrested several times over for assault and '''THAT'S''' bothering people? Of course that's not realistic! This is a comic."''
127-->-- '''[[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09022010.shtml Choo-Choo Bear II]] ''', ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''
128
129->''"It's a fanfiction. A ''parody'' fanfiction. Just relax. Try not to think about it too hard."''
130-->-- '''Author's note''' in '''Fanfic/EbonyDarknessDementiaRavenWayVsCanon'''
131
132->''"Science has an explanation for everything. Unfortunately, movies do not."''
133-->-- '''Doc Brown''' in a ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' parody of ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', in response to Marty pointing out a PlotHole.
134
135->''"I asked Creator/{{Michael|Bay}} why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up... so, uh, that was the end of that talk."''
136-->-- From '''Creator/BenAffleck'''[='=]s DVDCommentary for ''Film/Armageddon1998''
137
138->''"'Was that real manure?' No, it wasn't. 'Was that real manure?' No! 'Was that real manure?' '''It's a movie!''' Stop asking me the question!"''
139-->-- '''Creator/ThomasFWilson''', [[http://youtu.be/iwY5o2fsG7Y "Biff's Question Song"]], about questions people ask him most frequently about ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.
140
141->''"I've learned through experience not to question Disney logic. You will never get a satisfactory answer and you will only be left with confusion."''
142-->-- '''Creator/PiperCurda''' [[http://ask.fm/piperjoyc/answer/120773775653 when asked about a plot hole in]] ''Series/IDidntDoIt''.
143
144->''"If you don't buy [[ClarkKenting that]], don't bother watching the show."''
145-->-- '''Creator/DeanCain''', ''Series/LoisAndClark'' DVD commentary track
146
147->''“Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.” ''
148-->-- '''Creator/GrantMorrison''', ''Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human''.
149
150->''"These are questions you don't have to ask... Because wrestling. Isn't. Real."''
151-->-- '''Creator/MaxLandis''', ''Wrestling Isn't Wrestling''
152
153->''"I have hired a panel of 10 to 12 physicists to analyze this problem, and they all say the same thing: 'It's a cartoon show, please leave me alone.'"''
154-->-- '''WebVideo/TheRealJims''', "[[https://youtu.be/iie427RzMRo Simpsons Mysteries - The Drinking Bird]]", on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E7KingSizeHomer King Size Homer]]"
155
156->'''''Q.''' I noticed a mistake or inconsistency in one of your cartoons!! AHHH!''\
157'''A.''' It was either done on purpose or it's just a cartoon and you probably shouldn't worry about it.
158-->-- '''''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''''' FAQ page
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