Line #17 Quotes/MrExposition


1	!!AnimeAndManga
2	->'''Fakir:''' What do you know?\
3	'''Autor:''' Everything you want to know.
4	-->-- ''Anime/PrincessTutu''
5
6	->'''Noa:''' Arrgh! I'm a country girl, I can't keep up with all this geographical data!\
7	'''Asuma:''' Don't worry, I'll explain it [[BreakingTheFourthWall two pages later]].
8	-->-- ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'', manga chapter 1
9
10	!!{{Film}} --Live-Action
11	->'''Basil Exposition:''' Hello, Austin. This is Basil Exposition, Chief of British Intelligence. You're Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, and you're with Agent Mrs. Kensington. The year is 1967, and you're talking on a picture phone.\
12	'''Austin Powers:''' We know all that, Exposition.\
13	'''Basil:''' I just wanted to be extremely clear so that everyone knows what's going on at any given time.
14	-->-- ''Film/AustinPowers'' [[http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/clarke/38/scripts/Austin-Powers.htm early draft script]]
15
16	->'''Miss Piggy:''' Um, why are you telling me all this?\
17	'''Lady Holiday:''' It's plot exposition. It has to go ''somewhere.''
18	-->-- ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''
19
20	!!{{Literature}}
21	->'''Hermione:''' Aren't you two ever going to read ''Hogwarts: A History''?\
22	'''Ron:''' What's the point? You know it by heart, we can just ask you.
23	-->-- ''Literature/HarryPotter''
24
25	!!LiveActionTV
26	->''"You're like a textbook with arms."''
27	-->-- '''Buffy''' on Giles, ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
28
29	->'''Angel:''' What do we know about [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]]?\
30	'''Wesley Wyndam-Pryce:''' Ahh, yes. The power of moving things with one's mind. ''[beat]'' [[SubvertedTrope That's pretty much it]].
31	-->-- ''Series/{{Angel}}'', "[[Recap/AngelS02E04Untouched Untouched]]"
32
33	->''"Meandering exposition is kind of my thing."''
34	-->-- '''Harold Finch''', ''Series/PersonOfInterest''
35
36	->'''Sam:''' Oh, my guess is, he'll take the Trans-Canada Highway to New Brunswick, then maybe catch the 1 and take the scenic route along the coast of Maine. 95 through New Hampshire to the Mass Pike, and then cut over to the Merritt Parkway round Milford.\
37	'''Toby:''' 'Something really kinda ''freakish'' about you, you know that?\
38	'''Sam:''' Yeah.
39	-->-- ''Series/TheWestWing'', "Celestial Navigation"
40
41	->'''Hathaway:''' I wouldn't read too much into the absence of a 'Goodbye Cruel World', sir. Statistically, the instances of suicide notes in Graham's demographic is in the 12-to-20% range.\
42	'''Lewis:''' Where do you ''get'' this stuff?\
43	'''Hathaway:''' [[AskAStupidQuestion The back of cereal boxes]].\
44	'''Lewis:''' Some days, I'm grateful you're on ''our'' side.
45	-->-- ''Series/{{Lewis}}''
46
47	->'''Three:''' You have an answer for everything, don't you?\
48	'''Android:''' Yes, I am an excellent source of information.
49	-->-- ''Series/DarkMatter2015''
50
51	->'''Helga:''' When do you intend to put into operation your ingenious plan to commandeer a captured British Wellington bomber, with artificial smoke belching from the engine, from which you will leap disguised as British airmen, hoping to be picked up by the Resistance and taken to their secret headquarters, so you may infiltrate the Resistance, escape and organise their capture?\
52	'''Herr Flick:''' Congratulations Helga, you have expounded the plot well.
53	-->-- ''Series/AlloAllo''
54
55	!!{{Music}}
56	->''[[TheComicallySerious A sense of humor is not my forte]]\
57	A sense of purpose is all-important\
58	I'm the man with the answer''
59	-->--'''Music/{{Telex}}''', "The Man With the Answer"
60
61	!!{{Video Game}}s
62	->''"I'm spouting exposition again, aren't I? Apologies.'''
63	-->--'''Sir Hammerlock''', ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''
64
65	->''"Thanks for the exposition, Gloucester boy."''
66	-->--'''Judith''' to Lorenz, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses''
67
68	->'''Amy''': Oh, Omochao, you're the master exposition!\
69	'''Omochao''': Yeah. It's kinda my deal, isn't it?
70	-->-- ''VideoGame/TeamSonicRacing''
71
72	[[AC:Webcomics]]
73
74	->'''Ms. Pauling:''' What do you guys know about New Zealand?\
75	'''Spy:''' That you're about to [[DeadpanSnarker tell us about it at length.]]
76	-->-- ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', "[[Webcomic/TeamFortress2 Blood in the Water]]"
77
78	[[AC:Web Video]]
79
80	->'''Narrator:''' "An example of this is Saya Takagi, from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', who, due to her outstanding intellect, will often analyze the group's condition and sum it up for the audience."
81	-->--from '''[=WatchMojo=].com's''' Top 10 Anime Cliches ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2aY0iFWi7A from 2:20-2:31 here]])
82
83	!!WesternAnimation
84	->''"The year, {{blah blah blah}}. The place, blah blah blah."''
85	-->--'''Father Time''', ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}} Histeria!]]''
86
87	->'''Lisa:''' Dad! The flash must have scrambled their circuits!\
88	'''Homer:''' What are you, the narrator?
89	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
90
91	->'''Stan''': Just one thing, Creator/MorganFreeman: how come every time something convoluted needs explaining, [[{{Typecasting}} you show up?]]\
92	'''Morgan Freeman''': Because every time I show up and explain something, I earn a freckle.
93	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' (later repeated in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'')
94
95	->'''Shredder:''' Only mutants are immune to the Mesmerizer's beam. Humans like myself can't be near it when they set it off!\
96	'''Krang:''' You don't have to explain it to me. ''I'' invented it, remember?\
97	'''Shredder:''' I wasn't explaining it to ''you! (points at the camera)'' I was explaining it to ''them.''
98	-->--''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', "Super-Rocksteady and Mighty-Bebop"
99
100	->''"Thank you, [[TropeNamer Mr. Exposition.]]"''
101	-->-- '''Slappy Squirrel''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''
102
103	->'''Grim:''' What is this place?\
104	'''Mandy:''' I'm sure a writer's convenience will turn up and fill us in.
105	-->--''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', "Which Came First?"
106
107	->''"Professor Exposition, Explainer of things! He’s clarifying plot points to explain away confusion!"''
108	-->''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'', "Man’s Best Fiend"
109
110	!!RealLife
111	->''"Tony has all the exposition, which is always the hardest part of doing any script... It's like in a theatre piece: actors really hate having to deliver exposition. It's called 'heavy lifting', and that's his job. Spike's a badass, because ''he'' said so. Tony does that great."''
112	-->--'''Creator/JamesMarsters''' [[http://www.jamesdb.com/index.php?c=3&s=23&q=972#972 on]] Creator/AnthonyHead
113
114	->'''Interviewer:''' Will Harry and Ron ever read ''Hogwarts, a History''?\
115	'''Creator/JKRowling:''' [[BookDumb Never.]] [Laughter.] It’s a gift to me, because all my exposition can be dressed up as, [[RunningGag “When are you going to read it?”]] So Hermione fills in the reader as well, so I could never let them read it.

Context Quotes / MrExposition