I'm leaving this sentence or thought incomplete, but you should already get the point I'm trying to make, so... yeah. Not to be confused with
If You Know What I Mean.
.....Still here? Okay, okay.
So Yeah is basically a half-assed way of explaining the
Self Explanatory. The most popular version of this trope has someone going into some detail about some scenario that's going on, but not going into the
implications of the events, leaving the thought incomplete in the hope that said implications are so blatantly obvious that the other person can figure it out on their own. Sure, you can explain
how the Big Bad is going to take over the world, and
why, but only those with an IQ of broccoli won't get why it's bad for him to succeed, and what would happen if he does.
It's also common for
So Yeah to be used when it's assumed that nothing more can be said to adequately explain what's happening, or when the user just feels lazy or embarrassed about what's being said. In other words, "I've explained all I can about this, so you'll have to
Figure It Out Yourself". In a media setting, it is usually done to add drama to the scene, letting the audience figure out the rest along with the other character and shuddering when they do get it, but in
real life, (
and on this wiki) it just comes off as a half-assed, lazy response.
Unix geeks have been known to refer to this kind of expression as
"tab completion"
, whereas literary nerds will call it
aposiopesis.
Examples:
Live Action TV
Western Animation
- In a full length half hour episode of The Powerpuff Girls, the girls are forced by their Satanic enemy, Him, to solve a series of riddles and tasks of increasing danger and complexity or else their creator, the Professor, "will Pay!" The girls solve all the other tasks with great difficulty but fail in the last one...only to discover that the Professor was eating at a diner Him owned, and Him was betting the Professor a free breakfast that the girls couldn't solve all of Him's challenges. With the girls having failed the last one, the Professor will Pay...the full price of the breakfast. The Narrator ends the episode, not with the normal "And So Once Again The Day Is Saved thanks to the Powerpuff Girls!", but with, "And so...um...hmm. Yeah."
- Family Guy - "If you're watching a TV show and you decide to take your values from that, you're an idiot. Maybe you should take responsibility for what values your kids are getting. Maybe you shouldn't be letting your kids watch certain shows in the first place if you have such a big problem with them, instead of blaming the shows themselves..... Yeah."
Film
- John Ritter's character in the comedy Noises Off! spoke nearly entirely in 'So Yeahs' when not acting (he himself was an actor in a farce), seemingly unable to completely finish a single thought or sentence.
- In The Informant! There is a disclaimer at the beginning of the film stating that it was a real event, with some modifications. It ends in "So there..."
Real Life
- Jeff Goldblum seems to be like this in real life.
- Anything ever recorded as being said by Adolf Hitler during his reign over Nazi Germany. Though he was many other things as well, one of the least remembered was his being an honest politician.
- When an honest politician starts issuing his personal enforcers with uniforms featuring skulls, it should be considered a hint...
- You mean like every Special Forces unit ever?
- Nah, the Prussian Imperial Guards had had the Totenkopf motif since Frederick the Great, so the SS uniforms were just a part of the nationalist thing.
- Most of his supporters had been thinking, "Like He Would Really Do It". Some might say that it shouldn't take an Einstein to realize that, yes, he would.
- Er, considering that Einstein left Germany at the very beginning (in 1932), and most people didn't bail until it was too late, it did take an Einstein to figure that out...
- This is extremely common in spoken Japanese, especially when either explaining something uncomfortable or asking someone to do something. Implying is always more polite than saying it directly.
Comic Books
- In one issue of the Avengers: The Initiative, one character with super-soldier abilites was asked to reveal his powers. This was neatly avoided, until the annual, where it was revealed to be the result of a special diet and exercise regimen concocted by his Mad Scientist great-grandfather. The responding quote was this:
Web Comics
- In Schlock Mercenary, this is Kevyn and Doctor Bunnigus' response to seeing a clone of Xinchub naked. Well, Kevyn's goes a little further (that is, on a bender).
Comedy
- Eddie Izzard embodies this trope
- While Izzard does use the "So... yeah..." often, it's only occasionally in the sense we mean. It's often because he doesn't write his stand-up and is searching his memory between sketches.
- Or there's nothing to remember because he make the entire thing up on the spot, and the joke didn't work in the slightest.
- The joke did work. It was just a 3-person joke. So Yeah
Video Games
- In a literal way, while playing Left 4 Dead during the elevator in No Mercy, Zoey will sometimes say "So, uh... yeah." while no one responds.
- Specifically, after the other three survivors have started whistling elevator music as the machine grinds slowly and tensely upwards.
- Battlefield: Bad Company
Preston: "With the army, there's always a hidden agenda. So they made us an offer that... you know."
... So, yeah.
