Quotes / Cash-Cow Franchise

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

— American proverb

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Films — live-action

Lone Starr: I wonder: Will we ever see each other again?
Yogurt: Who knows? God willing, we'll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.

— Spaceballs

Live-action TV

This industry's "in flux"
It's run by mucky-mucks!
Pitchin' tents for tent poles
And chasin' Chinese bucks!

—Jack Black, 87th Academy Awards (shortly before Anna Kendrick hurls a shoe at him)

Web Original

Hell, I'd even go see Tyler Perry's Madea Meets The Muppets, if only to keep myself guessing which of the gang ends up coming to Jesus — Beaker, obviously.

— Luke Y. Thompson, Topless Robot

And it goes without saying that Angela Lansbury better be cast as Mrs. Potts, or so help me god, I will only see this movie 26 times.

—DListed, "Emma Watson Will Play Belle"

The stories aren't about truth and justice, they're set inside Superman the symbol, the trademark, the brand. We are meant to feel truth and justice through association with the brand, not through the characterization and dramatization of truth and justice here and now.

—Marc Pritchard on Bryan Q. Miller's Smallville: Season 11 — Chapter #28

There’s a line of critique against Monty Python’s musical Spamalot — really just Eric Idle’s musical — that amounts to the accusation that a troupe whose comedy was once about transgression and surprise now amounts to nothing more than delivering lines that the entire audience has memorized and calling it comedy.

—El Sandifer

Web Video

Artists begging me to stop
I won't let 'em
Labor conditions in my shop?
I don't sweat 'em
I'm powerful enough to make a mouse gigantic
With only three circles, I dominate the planet

— Walt Disney to Jim Henson and Stan Lee, Epic Rap Battles of History

"Experience the massive success that Marvel turned into a formula for printing money."

— Honest Trailers, Iron Man

"Just Dance: Greatest Hits, or as it should be called, Just Dance: GIMME ALL YO MONEH!"

— Wii Viewer

Deadpool: If we can find him, we can end this.
Spider-Man: Wait, why do we want to end this again?
Deadpool: Yeah you're right! This franchise could pay off the national debt!

— I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC

Real Life

We were wild-eyed fanatics to rival the loopiest thugee cultist or member of the Manson family. We were True Believers.

—Alan Moore on growing up a Marvel fan

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