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Black Mage: (regarding the card that says Glorious Chainsaw Method) This tells me less than nothing. Do you understand? You made me forget things I didn't even know.
Red Mage: Look, it makes perfect sense. Flip it over.
(The other side reads, "Make Your Swords Become Like Things Unto Chainsaws.")
Black Mage: This tells me even less than before, but with more words!

"If I had a dollar of every bit of sense this made, I would be in debt for the rest of my life."

"Yes, the CIA made Jackson Pollock's career to undermine communism. It makes a strange kind of sense when you think about it, doesn't it?

No. No, it doesn't."

"Frankly I’m stunned. I know actors do things for paychecks, but I have to wonder how much is enough to take some of this direction. 'Yes John, glad you could make it on set. Now, your SS uniform is around the corner along with the rat teeth and platinum white shock wig. Now, in this scene you are going to be singing about your evil deeds to a jazz band in the background and it culminates in you killing a shark. No, I’m not kidding. John, this is my vision.'"

"You know what, the context for this one doesn’t even matter. No explanation would ever be sufficient."
Superdickery talking about a Jonah Hex cover where he threatens Santa Claus

"You know what? Even if we just went point by point, what happens in this, it would still sound context-free."

"Yes, you are seeing a giant octopus on land and eating sheep. And no, context doesn't help, because this is the first scene of the first episode."
The Mysterious Mr. Enter on the first episode of Kirby of the Stars.

"I saw this video and thought "wow. Out of context, without the rest of the movie this scene is so weird and makes no sense." So I decided to watch the entire movie. I came back to this video and it makes even less sense now."
—A comment on the Insanoflex transformation scene from Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

Nate Cosby: There's some sort of cheerleader-related stuff going on with tentacles, which generally does not take place during other football games (except maybe as a portion of the halftime entertainment).
Jordan D. White: Those are most definitely NOT tentacles. They are super-whips that take possession of Honey (Lemon) and turn her into a supervillain.
Nate: ...I'm going back to watching football.

"There is SOME context for that, but the truth is, it honestly wouldn't make it much more sense."
John Oliver, on a clip of Tyra Banks acting like she has rabies, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

"You see, as long as the General, who is some sort of vampire hunter, I guess, thinks he has Carmilla, he doesn't have the real Carmilla, which means the real Carmilla is free to... ride in the back of a Jeep. Or something. It makes a lot more sense when you watch it. Oh wait, no, no it doesn't. Actually, it makes a lot less sense when you watch it. I'm simplifying things for the sake of this review."
Something Awful review of Vampires vs. Zombies

"Marville depicts Iron Man, Batman, and Black Panther as right-wing creeps under the sway of Rush Limbaugh, who perplexingly is depicted as being far younger and more attractive than he actually was. Then, for reasons (Bill) Jemas never bothers to delineate, Limbaugh turns against his ostensible political allies by destroying them with a magical golden microphone because he’s only pretending to be a right-wing blowhard? Or maybe he is a right-wing tyrant but even he hates superheroes? Honestly, none of this makes any more sense in context."

Peggy: I, um, I did the work on the weight loss belt, like you asked.
Don: That was fast.
Peggy: You asked me to.
Don: And what is your unique point of view?
Peggy: I wrote it down.
Don: Summarize.
Peggy: It's one day. I don't know if I lost any weight.
Don: Do you feel different?
Peggy: I wrote it down.
(Don sits down in his chair, picks up the folder, and takes a good look in it).
Don: Peggy, you're saying even less in here than you are right now.
Mad Men, "Indian Summer"

Wait? You need to see the scene with context? Alright let me give you some context?
(After clip ends) Did it help? No? Well, too bad!
Joey Tedesco on the "All animals look the same" scene from Norm of the North, Cartoon Palooza

Kevin Sr.: If I could do this instead of you, I would.
Kevin Jr.: I know. But the secure location can only be accessed by my exact biometrics.
Kevin Sr.: Is that supposed to make sense to me?.
Kevin Jr.: It doesn't make sense to me.
The Leftovers, "The Most Powerful Man in the World (And His Identical Twin Brother)"

"I would give you context for that line, but it would just make it even dumber."
Bennett the Sage, on Kate Bosworth's "Why'd you become a Sad Flute?" line in The Warrior's Way

"Only hbomberguy fans would change "out of context" to "devoid of context""
—A comment under Hbomberguy Devoid of Context

"It's a waste of time to worry about the context of this anime."
Kagura lampshading the trope, Gintama

"I’m the Nostalgic Critic, pumpkin juice! (beat) Why did I say that? BECAUSE IT’D MAKE ABOUT AS MUCH GODDAMN SENSE AS THIS FUCKING ENDING! "

Quotes About Things That Don't Make Any Sense In Context

"I guess it's true what they say about a camel's ass: I am hungry".

Edd: Ed...do you know there's a turtle on your head?
Ed: (Beat) Yup!
Ed, Edd n Eddy, "From Here to Ed" While Ed shows off his materials to help Eddy ambush Kevin, he is shown with a turtle tied on his head like a party hat, for no particular reason.

"SM64: The story of Mario's missing cap and my emerging childhood sexuality..."

"THERE ARE NINJAS KIDNAPPING PEOPLE ON TV!!!"
Noah "The Spoony One" Antwiler, Wrestle! Wrestle! TNA Vlog 2-27-10 wherein Samoa Joe is suddenly abducted by masked ninjas, disappearing for several weeks and then released with no explanation.

(917): you wouldn't come out from under your bed because you said there were six-armed bears everywhere.
(720): ohhh that explains the pepperonis i found in my sock drawer this morning...
(917): no it doesn't.

"In a time before time, I attacked me."
Random NPC, Dwarf Fortress. It's Artificial Atmospheric Actions and Good Bad Bugs running into each other and crashing. "In a time before time" means either the world is young or it's the item testing arena, as the events happened before the years began. "I attacked me" is the result of neither the creature nor the victim having Nominal Importance, which causes the game to mix them up.

"Girls with big boobs? Bunny suits? What the hell do you want me to do?!"
Durarara!!, "Declaration of Disbandment"

To be fair, math doesn't really start until you eradicate all numbers and replace them with ethereal concepts that can only be represented in swahili.

How do you like that, Obama?! I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT!
Dr. Eggman, Real-Time Fandub, Sonic Adventure 2 (Dark Story + Final Story)

A fuckin' chicken mask! An upside down fuckin' chicken mask! (goes into Stunned Silence for several seconds)
The Angry Video Game Nerd, about Plumbers Don't Wear Ties having a picture of the narrator in a chicken mask shown upside down.

"Y'know what, I have age, experience, a beard, what do YOU have, baby?! …a gun? Yeah, that beats all those things..."

Mario: What are you doing?
Luigi: Eating some garbage.
Mario: Would you stop?!
StacheBros, "Let's Kill Luma" When Mario thinks about getting rid of a Luma that crashed into his house by throwing it out onto the curb, Luigi is eating trash for seemingly no reason.

Skyler White: Walart White, my good husband, sex?
Walter White: Can't bother, mate, I'm cooking 448 kbps of methef.
Walter White Jr.: Yes.

Jesse, we have to fuck, it is the only way to defeat goose.
Walter White, breaking good episode 3

Walter White: Jedsea, my wife left and cancelled my son.
Walter White Jr.: I have nothing of substance to say.

Hahahaha, Jessde Big Chungus.
Walter White, breaking good episode 3

He uses these tarot cards, and he comes the conclusion that, "Oh my God, my daughter's gonna be eaten by a shark ghost!"
Elvis the Alien, Hilariously Dumb Shark Movies

Plastic Man: Are you seeing what I'm seeing? Because I'm seeing gorillas, riding pterodactyls, with harpoon guns, stealing a boat.
Batman: (flatly) It's Gorilla Grodd.
Plastic Man: It's messed-up is what it is.

I can cross "Stab Hitler To Death" off my list of "Cool Crap I Thought I'd Never Get To Do".
Brock Samson after stabbing a dog that was the Soul Jar of Adolf Hitler, The Venture Bros.

Green Arrow: Urgh! When's the last time you brushed?
Aquaman: Only Mera knows.

It seems very pretty," [Alice] said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate.

Rimmer: I can't let you out.
Lister: Why not?
Rimmer: Because the King of the Potato People won't let me.
Red Dwarf, "Quarantine", Rimmer is suffering a terrible case of Space Madness. When the rest of the crew decides to run with it, he's quick to point out how much of a smeg the above line is and comes to conclusion that they must be crazy to believe it.

"The present, the past, they're both in the future! The future is in the past!"
Tom Paris, Star Trek: Voyager, "Threshold"

"You're gonna endanger us, you're gonna endanger our client, the nice lady who paid us in advance before she became a dog."
Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters (1984)

"Yeah AI, that sounds like crap to me, looks like BT ain't for me either."
— A phrase that appears wholesale in several of Solargress' Recursive Translation video series, often in place of 'Um' or 'Uhh' in the original script.

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