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Quotes: Red Herring
"By the way: when the hell did it become so verboten to use foreshadowing, that you have to actively go out of your way to prove your foreshadowing wrong?"
- Viewer reaction to Battlestar Galactica

"It's more important for a gun which is fired to be shown than it is for a gun which is shown to be fired."
- Alexandra Erin

"Communism was just a red herring."
— Three characters, one for each ending, from the movie Clue

"Wow, there are shapeshifters in the Star Wars universe! We've been shown that fact quite explicitly. Surely this will become important later in the plot. Only it never does. It's never mentioned again anywhere else in any of the movies. I think Anton Chekhov just committed suicide with his gun."
-Darths & Droids commentary box

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