History Quotes / LiteralMetaphor

->'''Iroh:''' (getting in between a fight between Zuko and the pirate captain) Are you so busy fighting, you cannot see your own ship has set sail?\\

->'''Leela:''' Alright! Cool your jets, hot shot.
->'''Fry:''' Come on, Leela, why won't you go out with me? We both know there's something there!
->'''Leela:''' No, I mean cool your jets! You're melting Bender's face!
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Time Keeps on Slippin'"

->'''Puff Daddy:''' Apparently, you haven't heard of my "Vote or Die" campaign. ''(holds up a t-shirt with the slogan on it)''
->'''Stan:''' "Vote or Die"? What the hell does that even mean?!
->'''Puff Daddy:''' ''[[DramaticGunCock (cocks his gun)]]'' What you think it means, bitch!
-->--''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "Douche and Turd"

->''You feel a cold hand on your shoulder and a voice says, "may I have this dance?" You turn and see Lady Spookyraven herself, or the ghost thereof, hovering beside you.\\
"Uh, sure," you say, "but I kind of have two left feet. I don't mean that metaphorically, either; it's a pretty serious deformity."''
-->--''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', "Having a Ball in the Ballroom"

-->--''Series/{{Community}}'', "Introduction to Finality"

-->--''Blog/WhatIf'', "$2 Undecillion Lawsuit"

->''Looks like it's time to pay the Piper... Griselda, ''seriously'', it's time to pay the Piper! Now go get my checkbook!''
-->--'''Rumpelstiltskin'''; ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter''

-->--'''Creator/ThoughtSlime''', "My third job in a retail heck-scape" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkBi4ewqq0]]

-->--'''[[spoiler:The Nift AI]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Nifty}}''

-->--Flavor text of the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=513657 Blade Historian]]

->'''I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards. OK? What I was asking in that scene is: what if politicians continue to pay doctors peanuts, could they literally turn into monkeys? And no-one's asked that before.''
-->--'''Garth Marenghi''', ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace''

-->--'''Cloned Adam Gibson''', ''Film/The6thDay''

->'''Simon Cowell''': You're on fire Donkey!\\
'''Donkey''': ♪Burn baby burn...♪\\
'''Shrek''': No, you're really on fire!\\
'''Donkey''': ♪Burn baby burn, oh, yeah!♪ ''[sees that his tail's literally on fire]'' AAAAAAAH!!!!!!
-->--''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''

->'''Allen Bestwick:''' Tony Stewart ''owns'' this speedway... Tony Stewart has won three of the four races the SRX Series has run on dirt tracks... ''({{beat}})'' He's pretty good at it.\\

->'''Bird Brain''': Wait a minute... Hold the phone!\\
'''Zippy''': Are you getting an idea?\\
'''Bird Brain''': No, I want you to hold the phone. [''proceeds to give Zippy the phone, causing her to fall to the floor because of its weight'']

->'''Tohru''': Uh, Jade. I will have to buy you a new computer. I'm afraid Sensei has... crashed this one.\\
'''Jade''': Tch, crashes are a cinch to fix. Just hit the reset button and--\\
'''Tohru''': Uh, no. I mean he has crashed it... onto the floor.\\
[''The scene shows that Uncle has literally crashed Jade's laptop onto the floor and is whacking it with a broom.'']

->The Earth's crust contains a bunch of atoms,[citation needed] some of which are valuable. If you extracted all the elements, purified them, and sold them, the market would crash.[[labelnote:[5[=]=]]]Both in the sense that the supply would cause a drop in prices, and the sense that the market is like 20 miles above the mantle and you just removed the crust supporting it.[[/labelnote]]

'''Joey Logano:''' He's pretty good, there's a lot of places we talk about a driver that owns that track because he's really good at it... no, Tony Stewart actually ''owns'' the track.

'''Bird Brain''': No, I want you to hold the phone. [proceeds to give Zippy the phone, causing her to fall to the floor because of its weight]

'''Joey Logano:''' He's pretty good, there's a lot of places we talk about a driver that owns that track because he's really good at it, no, Tony Stewart actually ''owns'' the track.

-->--'''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing''', "Having a Ball in the Ballroom"

->''The Earth's crust contains a bunch of atoms,[citation needed] some of which are valuable. If you extracted all the elements, purified them, and sold them, the market would crash.[[labelnote:[5[=]=]]]Both in the sense that the supply would cause a drop in prices, and the sense that the market is like 20 miles above the mantle and you just removed the crust supporting it.[[/labelnote]]''
-->--'''Blog/WhatIf''', "$2 Undecillion Lawsuit"

-->--'''WebVideo/ThoughtSlime''', "My third job in a retail heck-scape" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkBi4ewqq0]]

->''Looks like it's time to pay the Piper. ''({{Beat}})'' Griselda, ''seriously'', it's time to pay the Piper! Now go get my checkbook!''

->"Looks like it's time to pay the Piper. ''({{Beat}})'' Griselda, ''seriously'', it's time to pay the Piper! Now go get my checkbook!"

->"Looks like it's time to pay the Piper.'' ({{Beat}}) Griselda, ''seriously'', it's time to pay the Piper! Now go get my checkbook!''

->''The Earth's crust contains a bunch of atoms,[citation needed] some of which are valuable. If you extracted all the elements, purified them, and sold them, the market would crash.[[labelnote:[5[=]=]]]Both in the sense that the supply would cause a drop in prices, and the sense that the market is like 20 miles above the mantle and you just removed the crust supporting it.[[/labelnote]]