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Jokes
- What's the difference between a musician, an engineer, and an entrepreneur? A musician says "This amp goes up to 11!" An engineer says "It has the same amount of power, all they did was add an additional designation to divide that power." An entrepreneur says "For the right price I can get you one that goes up to 12." It also exists as an XKCD strip
now.
Newspaper Comics
- Close to Home: "Mega Mart is plunged into chaos when, acting on a secret intuitive signal, every toddler In the store simultaneously throws a tantrum."
Professional Wrestling
- King Kong Bundy had, as a central part of his gimmick, the "five-count". Normal pinfalls go to a three-count; when Bundy pinned someone, to show how completely he'd beaten them, he held up a hand and yelled "FIVE!", demanding the referee count to five instead. Big E. Langston also used the five-count gimmick during his NXT run.
- A fairly common joke on commentary when an opponent gets knocked out cold is that the referee could count to 100 (sometimes even 1000) and the pin would still be successful.
- The Rock writes in his autobiography, “The Rock is Dwayne Johnson … with the volume … turned … WAY … UP!”note
- Beyond, in the case of ODB. One of her big moves is The Dirty Dozen, where she slams her opponent's face into the top turnbuckle twelve times.
- Delirious has The Neverending Story, where he will clothesline his opponent in the corner up to twenty times!
Theatre
- There is a game in improvisational theater called "Toppers", which is this trope.
- Lyrically referenced in one of the choruses of the song "Raise Your Voice" from the musical version of Sister Act.
Theme Parks
- In Terminator 2, the characters fought the T-1000. In Terminator 2 3-D: Battle Across Time at Universal Studios, they fight the T-1000000, a gigantic liquid metal spider which is defending the Skynet system core.
Gauge Inflation
Possible quote, recycled from old page:
Nigel Tufnel: What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put [the volume] up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Put [the volume] up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
