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Mariko: We need to move, now!
Tejada: You're not going anywhere without me – not till you tell me what the fuck is going on-
Mariko: Then run and talk! Let's GO!

Alice: Angelina, I still have something to tell you.
Angelina: What is it?
Alice: You know how it stinks that we go to different schools?
Angelina: No time now! Tell me later!
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps, "Angelina and Alice's Big Night"

Felicity: Curtis, I don't even have the time to tell you that I don't have the time!
Curtis: You just did.
Arrow, "Lost in the Flood"

"There seems little point in wasting time on such an explanation since you would be incapable of understanding it."

Riley: How'd you get in?
Buffy: Talk later. Stealthy escape now.

Cindy: Who the hell are you, huh? You steal my car, you rip the seat out, you kidnap me, you ask me to help you find your daughter, which I very kindly do, and then you get me involved in a shoot out where people are dying and there's blood spurting all over the place, and then I watch you rip a phone booth out of a wall, swing from the ceiling like Tarzan, and then there's a cop that's going to shoot you and I save you and they start chasing me! Are you going to tell me what's going on or what?!
Matrix: No.

"Love to explain all that to you, but you know us Brits; very imperious, not prone on explaining ourselves to anyone."
The Doctor, Doctor Who, "Rosa"

T'Pol asks how the hologram which conceals the Syrrannite hideout works in an area where no technology can function. T'Les replies "I'll explain later", then dies.

Johanssen: Who are you?
AL: No time for introductions. You have something that doesn't belong to you.
— Meeting AL in Gene Troopers

Ahme: Flee!
Ringo: Who are you?
Ahme: Run!
Ringo: Will you explain everything when the opportunity presents itself?
Ahme: Oh please, flee!
Ringo: Okay.
Help!

Wendy: Stop doing that!
The Middleman: What?
Wendy: Don't talk until the world is un-doomed! You can't cry until you've reached the international safe house. You have forty seconds to save your friendship!
The Middleman: These rules exist for a reason.
Wendy: Why?
The Middleman: I don't have time to explain now.
The Middleman, "The Accidental Occidental Conception"

"I am you from the future! There's no time to explain, follow m- *smash* OH CHRIST!"
Future You, No Time to Explain

"I'd explain, but it would take seventeen chapters," said Proton.

"Let me 'splain." Beat "No, there is too much. Let me sum up."
Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

"Sorry, Doctor, but I have no time to discuss this logically."

Torres: How did you manage to reintegrate his consciousness?
EMH: It involved three neural transceivers, two cortical stimulators and fifty gigaquads of computer memory. I would be happy to take you through the process, but it would take at least ten hours to explain it all to you.
Star Trek: Voyager, "Cathexis"

"GUYS! EMERGENCY! NO TIME TO EXPLAIN! COME ON, GET IN THE CAR, WE GOTTA GO!"
Robin, Teen Titans Go!


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