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• Truth And Lies
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• Weirdness Isolation

You have heard that line before. It is not a Catch Phrase. It does not need to be the exact same line you have heard a hundred times before, but it is that exact same line at least half of the time.

Closely related to the Stock Parodies. When you've heard the entire conversation before, it has degenerated into a Cliche Storm.

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Tropes

• A Storm Is Coming
• And This Is For...
• And X... Thank you
• Are We Getting This?
• Are We There Yet?
• Are You Done Yet?
• As You Know...
• Attack Pattern Alpha
• Because I Said So
• Best Years Of Your Life
• Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...
• Blackmail Is Such An Ugly Word
• Brain Bleach
• Check Please
• Chew Bubblegum
• Closest Thing We Got
• Come Alone
• Compensating For Something?
• Crazy Enough To Work
• Crush Kill Destroy
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
• Did The Earth Move For You Too?
• Ding! Sportswear, Pantyhose And Tropes
• Does He Have A Brother?
• Does Not Like Men
• Does This Make Me Look Fat?
• Don't Answer That
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
• Dont You Dare Pity Me
• Don't Say Such Stupid Things
• Don't Try This At Home
• Dunno Whats Going On But...
• Double Don't Know
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
• Expecting Someone Taller
• Extra Extra Read All About It
• Fate Worse Than Death
• Figure It Out Yourself
• First Name Ultimatum
• For Your Own Good
• Follow That Car!
• For Science!
• Gesundheit
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man
• Getting Too Old For This
• Give A Whole New Meaning
• Glad I Thought Of It
• Gone Horribly Wrong
• Gonna Need More Trope
• Good News, Bad News
• Good Night Sweet Prince
• Go Through Me
• Go To Your Room
• Haven't You Ever Seen X Before?
• Have You Told Anyone Else?
• He Didn't Make It
• Hello
• Hey, That's My Line!
• Hey Wait
• Hi Mom
• How Did That Get In There?
• How Did We Miss This One?!?
• How Many Fingers
• How Much Did You Hear?
• How Would You Like To Die?
• I Always Wanted To Say That
• I Am Your Opponent
• I Am A Monster
• I Broke A Nail
• I Can Explain
• I Can't See Myself
• I Can't Believe A Guy Like You Would Notice Me!
• I Cant Do This By Myself
• I Didn't Mean to Kill Him

• I Did What I Had To Do
• I Do Not Drink Wine
• I Eat Trope For Breakfast
• If I Do Not Return
• If You Thought That Was Bad
• I Got Better
• I Have A Family
• I Have Just One Thing To Say
• I Have No Son
• I Have Your Wife
• I Heard You Were The Best
• I Just Knew
• I Know You Are In There Somewhere Fight
• I Lied
• I'm Cold... So Cold...
• Im Going For A Closer Look
• I Need You To Shut Up
• If We Survive This
• Insult Backfire
• I Promised Myself I Wouldnt Cry
• I Pulled A Weird Al
• I Remember Because
• I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday
• I Resemble That Remark
• I Take Offense To That Last One
• I Taste Delicious
• Its What I Do
• I Want Grandkids
• I Want Them Alive!
• I Was Just Joking
• I Was Just Passing Through
• I Was Never Here
• I Won't Say I'm Guilty
• I Work Alone
• If I Can't Have You, Then No One Will!
• If I Wanted You Dead
• If My Calculations Are Correct
• If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Her
• If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him
• I'm Not Doing That Again
• Is That What He Told You?
• Is That What They're Calling It Now?
• Is This Thing Still On?
• It Burns!
• It Has Been An Honor
• It Never Gets Any Easier
• It's A Long Story
• It's All My Fault
• It's Like I Always Say
• It's Not You, It's Me
• It's The Best Trope Ever!
• It's The Only Way
• It's Quiet...Too Quiet
• It Was Here I Swear
• I've Never Seen Anything Like This Before

• Japanese Stock Phrases
• Jump Off A Bridge Rebuttal
• Just A Kid
• Justice Will Prevail
• Kill Him Already!
• Ladies And Germs
• The Last Thing You Ever See
• Leave Him To Me
• Leave Me Alone
• Let Me Get This Straight
• Lets Have Another Baby
• Like Brother And Sister
• Little Did I Know
• Look Behind You!
• Look Ma I Am On TV!
• More Tropes Than God
• Move Along Nothing To See Here
• My Card
• My God What Have I Done?
• My God You Are Serious
• My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
• Never Heard That One Before
• Nevermind
• Never Tell Me The Odds
• Never Work With Children Or Animals
• No Hard Feelings
• No Just No
• No Matter How Much I Beg
• No One Could Survive That
• No One Is Indispensable
• No Really Its Okay
• NOT!
• No Time To Explain
• Nothing Can Save Us Now
• Nothing Can Stop Us Now
• Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here
• Not Afraid Of You Anymore
• Not In The Face
• Not Listening To Me Are You?
• Not My Driver
• Not Now Bernard
• Not Safe For Work
• Not What It Looks Like
• Not With The Safety On You Won't
• Now If You Will Excuse Me I Have A Noun To Verb
• Now Its My Turn!
• Now You Tell Me
• No You Hang Up First
• Oh God Did She Just Hear That
• Oh God, With The Troping!
• One Thing Led To Another
• Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
• Perhaps You Were Expecting A Trope
• Please Wake Up...!
• Prepare To Die
• Read Em And Weep
• Readings Are Off The Scale
• Read The Freaking Manual
• The Real Heroes
• Right Behind Me
• Sand In My Eyes
• Saw It In A Movie Once
• See You In Hell
• She Is Not My Girlfriend
• Silence You Fool
• So Beautiful, It's A Curse
• So Long Suckers
• So You Were Saying
• Some Kind Of Force Field
• Something We Forgot
• So Proud Of You
• Spy Speak
• Stay Frosty
• Stop Or I Will Shoot
• Such A Lovely Noun
• Such A Phony
• Sure Lets Go With That
• Take Up My Sword
• Taking You With Me
• Tastes Like Chicken
• Tell Me About My Father
• That Didnt Happen
• That Man Is Dead
• That Night Felt Like Months
• That's Gotta Hurt
• There Are No Rules
• There Are Two Kinds Of People In The World
• There Is No Try
• They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
• Think Nothing Of It
• This Cannot Be
• This Is Gonna Suck
• This Is Not A Drill
• This Is No Time For Knitting
• This Is No Time To Panic
• This Is Pest Control
• This Is Reality
• This Is Something He's Got To Do Himself
• This Is The Part Where
• This Is Unforgivable!
• Time For Plan B
• To Make A Long Story Short
• To The Bat Noun
• Trope Is My Middle Name
• Try Not To Die
• Two Words: Obvious Trope
• Wait Here
• The War Has Just Begun
• Was It All A Lie?
• We Could Have Avoided All This
• Welcome To My World
• We Only Have One Chance
• We're Being Watched
• We've Got Company
• We've Got Ourselves A Blank
• We Wait
• We Will Meet Again
• What?
• What An Idiot
• What Are You In For
• What A Senseless Waste Of Human Life
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• What Did I Do Last Night?
• What Does This Button Do?
• What Have I Become?
• What Have You Done For Me Lately?
• Whatever
• What Is Going On?
• What's That? Timmy's In a Well?
• What Were You Thinking?
• What Would X Do?
• What Year Is This?
• Where Do You Think You Are
• Who Dares
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough
• Who Would Want To Watch Us
• Who Writes This Crap
• Why Didn't You Just Say So?
• Why Won't You Die?
• Why Don't You Marry It?
• Worth It
• Wouldn't Hit A Girl
• Years Too Early
• Yo Momma's A Trope
• You!
• You Are A Credit To Your Race
• You Are Not Ready
• You Can Run But You Can't Hide
• You Can Say That Again
• You Can See Me?
• You Can Verb My Noun Any Day
• You Did Everything You Could
• You Did The Right Thing
• You Do NOT Want To Know
• You Fool
• You Got Spunk
• You Had Us Worried There
• You Have Failed Me
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
• You Have To Believe Me
• You Just Had To Say It
• You Just Ruined The Shot
• You Killed My Father
• You Know I'm Black Right
• You Know What They Say About X
• You Know What You Did
• You Look Like You've Seen A Ghost
• You Meddling Kids
• You Need To Get Laid
• You Never Asked
• You're Insane
• You're Just Jealous
• Youre Not My Father
• You Rebel Scum
• You Said You Would Let Them Go
• You Wanna Get Sued?
• You Watch Too Much X
• You Will Know What To Do
• You Wont Get Away With This
• You Wouldnt Believe Me If I Told You
• You Wouldnt Know A Trope

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