History Main / WhereDoYouThinkYouAre

Not to be confused with ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'', [[GurrenLagann Who The Hell Do You Think We Are?]], a certain WhamLine from ''{{Scrubs}}'', or ThisIsSparta.

* Quoth Harry Dresden when pursuing "Grey Cloak" using Little Chicago. "You might have gotten away with this in other cities, asshole, but Chicago my city."

Compare with ThisIsReality.

* "This ain't the Garden of Eden/There ain't no angels above/And things ain't like they used to be/And this ain't the summer of love!" - BlueOysterCult, 1976

** And in an early scene in the ''Chinatown''-like ''Mulholland Falls'' (which is set in Los Angeles sometime in the early 1950s), a suspected criminal warns a gang of renegade cops that they can't just throw him off a cliff, because "This is America." The gang leader retorts with "This isn't America. This is L.A." Cue screaming guy being thrown over the cliff.

* "This ain't no disco!/And it ain't no country club, either!"

* In [[{{Main/Killzone}} Killzone 3]], during Captain Varville's execution, Stahl proceeds to shoot one of the other POWs in the head, much to Narville's surprise.

* In ''[[{{Yu-Gi-OhTheAbridgedSeries}} Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series]]'', Tea sees a museum of ancient history, and wonders whether "they will have [[DanceDanceRevolution DDR machines]] in there." Yami says, "Tea, this is Japan. Of course they will."

* Writer ChuckPalahniuk of ''FightClub'' fame has a short story called ''Guts'' from the book ''{{Haunted}}''. The story is infamous for being a real life BrownNote, and according to Wikipedia has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_%28Palahniuk_novel%29#.22Guts.22 caused more than 60 people to faint while hearing readings of it]]. At one reading in NewYorkCity, Palanhiuk finished and noted with surprise that no one had fainted. Someone in the front row responded by snorting and saying "This is [[BrooklynRage New]] [[BigApplesauce York]]."

** Apu, seeing Bart and Lisa looking through magazines and comic books at the Kwik-E-Mart, throws them out, scolding "This is not a library!" They then take their soft drinks to the library, only to get thrown out of ''there'', with the librarian saying "This is not a convenience store!"

** And in an early scene in the ''Chinatown''-like ''MulhollandFalls'', a suspected criminal warns a gang of renegade cops that they can't just throw him off a cliff, because "This is America." The gang leader retorts with "This isn't America. This is L.A." Cue screaming guy being thrown over the cliff.

* ''TwilightZone'', typical [[TwilightZoneTwist Twist]]. Small-time crook dies, and everything is wonderful, he always wins when he gambles, has women around, then admits he should never have been allowed into heaven, he wants to go to "the other place." "Heaven? What makes you think this is heaven? This IS the other place!"

* Used a few times in ''ShanghaiNoon'' to point out contrasts between the east (ie China) and the west (ie TheWildWest)

-->'''Leonides''': "Madness? (long pause) ''This Is SPARTA''!"

-->'''Leonides''': "Madness? (long pause) ''ThisIsSPARTA''"

-->'''Leonides''': "Madness? (long pause) ''[=~This! Is! SPARTA!~=]''"

Not to be confused with ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'', [[GurrenLagann Who The Hell Do You Think We Are?]], or ThisIsSparta.

* In the episode of ''{{Arthur}}'' where Muffy first arrives at Lakewood, she repeatedly comments about how much classier everything was at her old school (probably an expensive private school). Finally Buster interrupts, "We're not ''at'' your old school, fancy pants! We're at plain-old Lakewood Elementary!"

'''JD:''' ... [[WhamLine Where do you]] [[TropeNamer think we are?]]\\

'''JD:''' ..Where do you think we are?\\