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"The lab boys just informed me that I should not have mentioned the control group. They're telling me I oughtta stop making these pre-recorded messages. That gave me an idea: Make more pre-recorded messages. I pay the bills here, I can talk about the control group all damn day."
Cave Johnson, Portal 2

"You might want to cogitate on this: ocean water is colder than a witch's tit. You don't heat the pipes, the pipes freeze."
Bill McDonagh, BioShock

"Oh, oh, NOW you want my opinion? That's always the way, isn't it? You smugly go about your ways, smirking at each other about the paranoid Klingon until things go wrong, which they ALWAYS do, you drop your tofu in horror and turn to me, right at the time when it's become so powerful that all it does is kick my ass. So yes, Commander Jellyfish, I will sort this shit out for you, like I always do, and you can go back to sorting your tampons by their shade of pink."
SF Debris, as Worf during his review of Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Darmok"

"I'm a professor! Why isn't anyone listening to me?"
"PROFESSOR! LAVA! HOT!"
Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Futurama

"It's really a simple choice. You can either listen to the expert advice you are being given or you can brace yourself for the assfuck of the century. 'Cause it's coming. You can mark my words on that."

Dr. Sciuridae: [narrating flashback] I attempted to make my superiors understand that it probably wouldn't work, but my efforts were futile.
Dr. Sciuridae: [in flashback] It will never, ever, work. Ever.
Executive: Sure it will! Now start breeding those assassins!

Margaery: There's something wrong.
High Sparrow: You have nothing to fear, Your Grace. The trial will begin shortly.
Margaery: Cersei is not here. Tommen is not here. Why do you think they are not here?
High Sparrow: If the accused is not here, she will be tried regardless. We cannot escape the justice of the gods...
Margaery: Forget about the bloody gods and listen to what I'm telling you! Cersei understands the consequences of her absence, and she is absent anyway, which means she does not intend to suffer those consequences. The trial can wait; we all need to leave.
[High Sparrow scoffs]

Captain Picard: Guinan, your people have been in this part of the galaxy?
Guinan: ...Yes.
Commander Riker: What can you tell us?
Guinan: Only that if I were you, I'd start back now.
[scene cut]
Captain Picard: Captain's Log, Stardate 42761.9. Despite Guinan's warning, I feel compelled to investigate this unexplored sector of the galaxy before heading back.
Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Q Who", shortly before the Enterprise first encounters the Borg

"Though academic circles warn of rising sea levels, the policy makers pay them no heed. At this rate, human civilization may be lost beneath the tide."
Sunken Scroll 25,note  Splatoon

"I've only been here for twenty-eight years, what do I know?"
Lt. Hank Marlow, Kong: Skull Island

General Moradmin Bast: We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by?
Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin: Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!

Jor-El: Your work may be in vain, my brother! I believe a nuclear chain reaction in the interior of our planet will explode Krypton within months!
Zor-El: I've heard your theory, Jor-El! You worry needlessly. Nothing can explode our mighty planet!

"I'm the only one who even talks to you. You're their analyst for Christ's sake!"
Laz Carides, Phoenix

"Sage keeps running the numbers by me and it's getting tedious. Yes, the power that wiped out the Ancients was formidable. Yes, unleashing it on this world would be catastrophic. But I'm a genius."

"I warned you. But did you listen to me? No, you knew it all, didn't you? It's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it?"
Tim the Enchanter, Monty Python and the Holy Grail


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