"It is the episode of any given TV show long past when they've jumped the shark, and they go, 'Well, let's do the It's a Wonderful Life episode!'"
Chris: Pa Kent shows up ripped on moonshine to talk about how much Ollie sucked and spit on his coffin. The man who raised Superman, everybody! ... apparently the only thing keeping him from becoming an alcoholic hobo with a ruined marriage is having an alien baby.
David: Yeah! I kept expecting it to turn out that Martha died tragically or something and that’s why he lost it, but nope, he just drove her away by turning into Frank Gallagher from Shameless.
David: Yeah! I kept expecting it to turn out that Martha died tragically or something and that’s why he lost it, but nope, he just drove her away by turning into Frank Gallagher from Shameless.
—Chris Sims and David Uzumeri, on
Smallville ("Kent")
Smallville ("Kent")"I feel like I'm in a bad episode of Quantum Leap."
—Buster Bunny, It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special
Donkey: Look, Shrek, I know things might seem a little bleak right now, but things always work themselves out in the end. You'll see. Why, I bet by this time tomorrow...
Shrek: Hey, don't you understand?! There is no tomorrow! There's no day after that, and there's no day after that day after that! My life was perfect! And I'm never gonna get it back!
Donkey: Well, if your life was so perfect, then why'd you sign it all away to Rumpelstiltskin in the first place?
Shrek: Because I didn't know what I had until it was gone, alright?! (sigh) I didn't know what I had.
Guardian Angel: And there you go, you and Donna never kissed.
Eric: Well, thanks, this was nice. (pats his shoulder) Good night.
Angel: (grabbing Eric) Oh, no, we're gonna follow her home and see what happened next.
Eric: Are you an angel or a stalker?
Angel: Hey, let me do my job. I'm going to prove to you that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all... ya pansy.
(the Angel lightly slaps Eric)
— That '70s Show, "It's A Wonderful Life"
