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Eggman: Greetings! Eggman here! Now some of you might be wondering where I've been all these years.
Tails: Where did that TV come from?
Knuckles: Oh yeah, it pops up whenever a super villain has to spread a message to a mass audience.

"This is the voice of the Mysterons. We know you can hear us, Earth-men."

"Screenslaver interrupts this program for an important announcement."
Screenslaver, Incredibles 2

As if muted by fear, the discordant clamor of competing advertisements was reduced to a single voice loudcasting on all frequencies, including ringtones and street mimes.

"People of Earth, attention. This is a voice speaking to you from thousands of miles beyond your planet. Look to your sun for a warning."

"My dear Prime Minister. Two atomic bombs, numbers 456 and 457 which were aboard NATO flight 759 are now in the possession of SPECTRE. Unless within the next seven days, your government pays to us one hundred million pounds sterling in a manner of which to be designated by us, we shall destroy a major city in England or the United States of America. Please signal your acceptance of our terms by signalling for Big Ben to strike seven times at 6pm tomorrow."
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Thunderball

"I am Supreme Commander of SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. Yesterday morning, the American Air Force launched 2 cruise missiles from Swadley Air Base in Great Britain. Through the ingenuity of SPECTRE, the dummy warheads they carried were replaced with live, nuclear warheads. Your weapons of destruction are now safely in our possession and will be moved to two secret targets. Please note the serial numbers of the missiles; they will confirm the truth. Your weapons of deterrence did not deter us from our objective! A terrible catastrophe now confronts you. However, it can be avoided by paying a tribute to our organization, amounting to twenty-five percent of your respective countries' annual oil purchases. We have accomplished two of the functions that the name SPECTRE embodies: terror and extortion. If our demands are not met within seven days, we shall ruthlessly apply the third: revenge!"
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Never Say Never Again

"Good morning. I use the name Cobra Commander, and I am the founder of Cobra, an organization you great and glorious people tend to dismiss as 'criminals'. I have always believed that money brings power. This was an error that has cost me a LOT of pain. It recently occured to me, however, that if I have all the power, then everyone would bring me all the money. I therefore make the following proposition. You have 24 hours to turn control of your nations over to me or begin killing nations until such time as you hand over the keys. Now, obviously, no one is going to believe me, and all of you will attempt to mobilize against me. And so I illustrate my point."
Cobra Commander, G.I. Joe: Resolute

"There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive."

Do not adjust your tv sets! That was Rubber Ducky in English, Spanish, Hebrew, German, and French. How may I ask Is this possible? Well, It is possible! Because Sesame Street is the longest street in the world! It can be seen over 83 countries!

"Nothing is wrong with your television. Do not attempt to change the channel. Your regularly scheduled program will not be seen because I am controlling the transmission. I control the horizontal. I control the vertical. And those buttons on your remote that don't seem to do anything? I know what they're for! From this moment on, your television belongs to me—Control Freak!"
Control Freak, Teen Titans (2003)

"Citizens of the human hive, your leaders have withheld the truth. You are not alone in this universe. We have lived among you, hidden, but no more. As you've seen, we can destroy your cities at will, unless you turn over this boy. [Images of Sam Witwicky comes up] If you resist us, we will destroy the world as you know it."

"We'll have Dock Fifteen ready for..."
Then it happened!
The televisor went blank as an untuned wave of incredible power crowded onto it. Then the image of a man appeared.
"What the devil?" Sparks gasped.
The man on the screen was an extraordinary-looking individual. He seemed an Earthman, yet his tall, gaunt, black-clothed figure, his enormous bulging forehead and skull, and his hypnotically burning black eyes, gave to his aspect some indefinable but startling aura of the superman.
"Doctor Zorro calling the Solar System peoples," he rasped in a deep, harsh voice. "People of the nine worlds, I bring you warning of a dreadful peril!"
Captain Future and the Space Emperor, by Edmond Hamilton.

The Joker: Ladies and gentlemen! We interrupt your regularly scheduled mayhem to bring you this important announcement. From the IN-Justice league!
Count Vertigo: We are responsible for the attacks on your cities. If you wish to save them, a ransom of ten billion American dollars is required. Delivery instructions have been sent to the United Nations. There is no time limit, but the longer your governments wait...
The Joker: The more we get to have our...jollies!

"Between Scarecrow and Riddler up on those billboards, I'm kinda hoping for Gotham to have a power outtage."

"Poor Foo-Foo! I know you want to see your Lassie re-runs, but there's nothing on except this tacky man covered in aluminum siding!"
Miss Forbes, Fantastic Four: The Animated Series, "The Silver Surfer and the Return of Galactus"

Announcer: Nick Jr. will not be seen today because of The Non-Stop Nicktoon Weekend. But don't worry, Nick Jr. will return on Monday December, 1.
—From the 1997 American thanksgiving announcement when Nickelodeon had a bumper to inform preschoolers that Nickelodeon will not be doing Nick Jr. due to a special Nicktoon marathon weekend called The Non-Stop Nicktoon Weekend.

Master: Peoples of the universe, please attend carefully. The message that follows is vital to the future of you all. I offer you a simple choice: continued existence under my rulership, or total annihilation. If you desire continued existence, press 1. If total annihilation, press 2. If you would like to hear amazing deals on tissue compression eliminators, please stay on the line.
Doctor: Wow, you have surpassed yourself, Master.
Master: Oh thank you, Doctor. I do try.
Doctor: ...in that you have cooked up the most gloriously retarded plan I have ever heard. You do realise that that message will take thousands of light years before it even reaches another populated planet? You really haven't thought through this whole taking over the universe thing, have you?

"All the important systems are yours to command, my Lady. Shall I set up a city-wide broadcast so you may begin your reign with a nice rant?"

Then there was a slight whisper, a sudden spacious whisper of open ambient sound. Every hi-fi set in the world, every radio, every television, every cassette recorder, every woofer, every tweeter, every mid-range driver in the world quietly turned itself on. Every tin can, every dustbin, every window, every car, every wine glass, every sheet of rusty metal became activated as an acoustically perfect sounding board. Before the Earth passed away it was going to be treated to the very ultimate in sound reproduction, the greatest public address system ever built. But there was no concert, no music, no fanfare, just a simple message.
"People of Earth, your attention please," a voice said, and it was wonderful. Wonderful perfect quadrophonic sound with distortion levels so low as to make a brave man weep. "This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council," the voice continued. "As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you."

"Humans of Earth, I come in peace. You need not fear me, I mean you no harm. However, it is important to note that most of you will not survive the next 24 hours. The few of you that do survive will be enslaved and experimented upon. You should, in no way, take any of this personally. It's just business. So to recap, I come in peace, I mean you no harm, and you all will die. Gallaxhar out."
Gallaxhar, Monsters vs. Aliens

"Tor, prepare the com to transmit on all frequencies. I want every single human on that planet to hear what I have to say."
General Dru-Zod, Daughter of Fire and Steel

The grinning visage of Dr. Sivana smiled out upon the television viewers of Earth, making those who were waiting for Uncle Miltie sit up in shock.
"Greetings to the populace of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and anyone else fortunate enough to have a set," sneered the scientist. "This message is pretaped and was broadcast from the surface of Venus some hours ago, by your reckoning. My name is Sivana. Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana. Soon to be known to all as the Rightful Ruler of the Universe, and by one other name as well. But we'll get to that later."
[...]
The image of Sivana dissolved in snow, and was replaced by that of Milton Berle in a dress and makeup. Not too many paid that much attention to the latter.

"Attention! This is Luthor speaking from Metropolis Prison via an electronic thought-projector which has cut into the transmission frequency of your tv hookup! I have an important announcement! I've just achieved the ultimate triumph of my criminal career!"


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