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Now I Know How an X Feels
Boy, oh boy, working at TV Tropes has been really getting me into a rut. I feel like I deserve a good break after all of this. Now I know how a troper feels.

Wait a minute! I just created a new trope! This is basically a Stock Phrase that a character uses to describe the mood that he's in.

Examples

Anime and Manga

Film
  • Die Hard - Now I know what a TV dinner feels like .
  • My Little Pony: The Movie
    Danny: Now I know how an ant feels.
  • Meet the People (1944)
    Julie Hampton: [after kissing hundreds of shipyard workers] Now I know how a trumpeter feels!
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze''. Michaelangelo has been spun in circles, been thrown through the air and hit a wall.
    Michaelangelo: Now I know what a postal package feels like.
  • How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    Peter McGowan: [after a prostate exam] Now I know what a Muppet feels like.
  • Patterns (1956)
    Nancy Staples: [dropping Fred off at work] Now I know what a mother feels when her child goes to school for the first time.
  • Citizen Cohn
    Roy Cohn: [after being paid a compliment by an opponent] Now I know what a pancake feels like after it's had syrup poured all over it.

Literature
  • The classic children's book Bread and Jam for Frances after she goes through the Radish Cure.
    Jam for breakfast
    Jam for meals
    Now I know how a jam jar feels
  • The Hobbit. Bilbo, after being rescued from the top of a burning tree by an eagle, says that he now knows what a piece of bacon feels like when it is taken out of the pan and put back on the shelf.

Live-Action TV
  • NCIS: Los Angeles episode "Anonymous"
    Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: March!
    Marty Deeks: Now I know how Cinderella felt with her evil stepmother.
  • Married... with Children Unknown episode
    Peggy: Al, how am I supposed to do my job and yours? I tell ya, now I know how Hillary [Clinton] feels.
    • "Valentine's Day Massacre"
      Bud: [after being raped by a very large older woman] Now I know how Tom Arnold feels.
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode "Sleepless in Bel-Air". Philip is bothered by a noisy cricket.
    Philip Banks: Now I know how Captain Ahab felt when he was chasing Moby-Dick.
  • Star Trek: Voyager episode "Parallax". The Doctor is activated to provide hydroponics supplies.
    The Doctor: Now I know how Hippocrates felt when the king needed him to trim a hangnail.
  • Knight Rider episode "The Wrong Crowd"
    Bonnie Barstow: Now I know how Michael felt when K.I.T.T. was destroyed. Like half of me is missing.
  • The Bionic Woman episode "The Jailing of Jaime"
    Jaime Sommers: Boy, now I know how Bambi felt on the first day of deer season.
  • Half and Half
    Big Dee Dee Thorne: Well, since no one has offered to buy me a drink, I guess I'll buy my own. Now I know how Phyllis feels.
  • The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones episode "Daredevils of the Desert"
    Indiana Jones: [about the rugby match] Too bad I got pounded by British artillery. Now I know how the Turks feel.
  • The New 3 Stooges. Moe hits Curly Joe in the nose with a broom.
    Curly-Joe: Now I know how Pinocchio felt.
  • The Office episode "Cafe Disco"
    Michael Scott: Now I know what the founders of Philip Morris felt like. You just want to give people a smooth, fun way to relax and suddenly you're just some terrible monster.
  • Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Spiders: Part Five"
    The Doctor: [being held in a giant cobweb] Now I know what a fly feels like.
  • Jackass:
    Johnny Knoxville: [being doused with red wine] Now I know what it feels like to be my liver!
  • Electra Woman And Dyna Girl episode "Glitter Rock: Part 1"
    Glitter Rock: Those walls are gonna keep moving in, and hit with a big bang!
    Dyna Girl: Now I know what a sardine feels like!

Puppet Shows
  • The Puzzle Place episode "Cute Is as Cute Does"
    Jody Silver: [after being caught by the vine] Now I know what a tossed salad feels like.

Video Games
  • Monster House
    Chowder: Now I know how taco meat feels.
  • The Dig: After the first time he uses the planet's tram system, Commander Lowe comments, "Now I know what my pet hamster felt like."

Webcomics
  • In Gunnerkrigg Court, Annie, falling into a canyon, remembers dropping and breaking a glass, and thinks:
    "Now I know how the glass felt."

Western Animation
  • From the Super Mario World episode "Mama Luigi":
    Mario: Now I know how a meatball feels!
  • A Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade announcer does this on The Simpsons, to the perplexity of his colleagues.
    Bill: Ha ha. Wait, what did... Did what I say make sense?
    Marty: Well, no, not really, Bill.
    Bill: Boy, now I know how the Pilgrims felt.
    Marty: What are you talking about, Bill?
    • The episode "Mypods and Boomsticks":
      Bart Simpson: Stupid angry mob chasing me for shining a harsh light on modern society. Now I know how Dane Cook feels.
    • During the episode "Missionary Impossible", after Homer introduces gambling to the natives:
      Homer: Now I know how Bob Stupak feels.
  • Family Guy, "Emission Impossible" - Peter and Lois are trying for another baby, and Stewie doesn't fancy the competition:
    Stewie Griffin: My God, they're at it again! All this time keeping people from having sex...now I know how the [Roman] Catholic Church feels. BA-ZING!
    • "Wasted Talent"
      Peter Griffin: Oh man, this is the happiest day of my life. Now I know how Barbra Streisand must've felt the day she married James Brolin.
  • King of the Hill:
    Bobby Hill: Everybody's got a deer and I don't. Everything looks so Christmasy. Now I know how the Jewish kids feel.
  • Teen Titans:
    Beast Boy: Now I know how George Washington felt when Napoleon beat him at Pearl Harbor.
  • Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode "A World Below Us":
    Kwame: [While imprisoned in a net] Now I know how fish feel!
  • G.I. Joe: The Cobra troops are surrounded.
    Major Bludd: Now I know how Custer felt!
  • Totally Spies!: The girls are tangled in seaweed.
    Clover: Now I know what sushi feels like.
  • The Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "Hair-Raising Harness Race", after the Ant Hill Mob land in fresh concrete:
    Clyde: Now I know what a statue feels like.
  • The Magic School Bus episode "Revving Up", while in the bus' carburetor:

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