History Quotes / MetaGuy

-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/10/forms-into-other-patterns-terror-of.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons}} "Terror of the Zygons"]]

->'''Jeff:''' Abed, it makes the group uncomfortable when you talk about the group like we're characters in a show you're watching.\\
'''Abed:''' That's sort of my gimmick, but we did lean on that pretty hard last week. I can lay low for an episode.
-->--''Series/{{Community}}''

->''"[[Creator/PatrickTroughton Troughton's]] Doctor was in some ways [[AudienceSurrogate the audience's agent]] inside the narrative, but Baker's is nobody's agent -- a force that stalks the liminal space between audience and narrative, commenting freely on both."''

->''"He takes the role of ''[[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine SpecOps]]''[='=] Colonel Konrad here: he uses a lot of double entendres to speak both to the player and the main character. And instead of hamming it up with some guilt-trppy drama, that self-awareness is more played for laughs this time--which is awesome. There are some genuinely funny jabs during the intro and the outro where he actually uses the entire rest of the plot of the game as ''[[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs the butt of his jokes]]''. It's actually really weird, it's like he was written by an entirely different person from the the other characters; like he's an outsider of this story, existing somewhere outside of the fourth wall...it will literally [[ThisIsThePartWhere spoil everything that happens within the next 20 hours]]. And that's kinda hilarious; I kinda love that."''

->''"And then on top of that we get a Doctor who is even more mercurial and anarchic than [[Creator/PatrickTroughton Troughton]]...The most obvious instance of this, of course, is [[Creator/TomBaker Baker's]] hilarious fondling of the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar rather suggestive-looking]] Zygon controls. But Baker also, in this story and others, displays an amazing talent for pulling a somewhat inscrutable and puzzled expression when he's doing a reaction shot to a dodgy effect, as if he's [[WhoWritesThisCrap vaguely appalled by it]] as well. Which is helpful given that the Skarasen is a disaster. But it's also an interesting updating of Troughton's old tendency to look out of television screens. Baker has a similar power to defy and control he medium. Not only does he make frequent eye contact with the camera that emulates Troughton's peering, but he also reverses it, seeming to look at things within the narrative with the perspective of someone outside the narrative. Troughton's Doctor was in some ways [[AudienceSurrogate the audience's agent]] inside the narrative, but Baker's is nobody's agent - a force that stalks the liminal space between audience and narrative, commenting freely on both."''

->''Hold on there, Sora, let's hit these plot points in order!''

->'''Summer:''' Okay, I'm with Flynn. This is so ''weird''.
->'''Ziggy:''' "Weird"? Okay - ''you'' cruise around in a giant yellow teddy-bear, okay?! I drive a big green FISH! Look in the mirror, people, we're in no position to be sitting in judgment of anything weird!
->'''Dillon:''' Man's got a point.

->"Abed, it makes the group uncomfortable when you talk about the group like we're characters in a show you're watching."
->"That's sort of my gimmick, but we did lean on that pretty hard last week. I can lay low for an episode."
-->'''Jeff''' and '''Abed''', ''Series/{{Community}}''

->"I reveal two of my face-downs!"
->"But how?!"
->"Easy. I just call out their names [[LargeHam dramatically]] and they pop up. Haven't you played this game before?"
-->'''Adrian''' and '''Chazz''', the ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' dub

-->'''Xigbar''', ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''

->''"He takes the role of ''[[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine SpecOps]]''[='=] Colonel Konrad here: he uses a lot of double entendres to speak both to the player and the main character here. And instead of hamming it up with some guilt-trppy drama, that self-awareness is more played for laughs this time--which is awesome. There are some genuinely funny jabs during the intro and the outro where he actually uses the entire rest of the plot of the game as ''[[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs the butt of his jokes]]''. It's actually really weird, it's like he was written by an entirely different person from the the other characters; like he's an outsider of this story, existing somewhere outside of the fourth wall...it will literally [[ThisIsThePartWhere spoil everything that happens within the next 20 hours]]. And that's kinda hilarious; I kinda love that."''

->''"So in this story we have mysterious monsters in the highlands, doppelgängers, and a traditional alien invasion all co-existing. And then on top of that we get a Doctor who is even more mercurial and anarchic than [[Creator/PatrickTroughton Troughton]]...The most obvious instance of this, of course, is [[Creator/TomBaker Baker's]] hilarious fondling of the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar rather suggestive-looking]] Zygon controls. But Baker also, in this story and others, displays an amazing talent for pulling a somewhat inscrutable and puzzled expression when he's doing a reaction shot to a dodgy effect, as if he's [[WhoWritesThisCrap vaguely appalled by it]] as well. Which is helpful given that the Skarasen is a disaster. But it's also an interesting updating of Troughton's old tendency to look out of television screens. Baker has a similar power to defy and control he medium. Not only does he make frequent eye contact with the camera that emulates Troughton's peering, but he also reverses it, seeming to look at things within the narrative with the perspective of someone outside the narrative. Troughton's Doctor was in some ways [[AudienceSurrogate the audience's agent]] inside the narrative, but Baker's is nobody's agent - a force that stalks the liminal space between audience and narrative, commenting freely on both."''

->''"He takes the role of ''[[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine SpecOps]]''[='=] Colonel Konrad here: he uses a lot of double entendres to speak both to the player and the main character here. And instead of hamming it up with some guilt-trppy drama, that self-awareness is more played for laughs this time--which is awesome. There are some genuinely funny jabs during the intro and the outro where he actually uses the entire rest of the plot of the game as ''[[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs the butt of his jokes]]''. It's actually really weird, it's like he was written by an entirely different person from the the other characters; like he's an outsider of this story, existing somewhere outside of the fourth wall...it will literally spoil everything that happens within the next 20 hours. And that's kinda hilarious; I kinda love that."''

->''"He takes the role of ''[[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine SpecOps]]''[='=] Colonel Konrad here: he uses a lot of double entendres to speak both to the player and the main character here. And instead of hamming it up with some guilt-trppy drama, that self-awareness is more played for laughs this time--which is awesome. There are some genuinely funny jabs during the intro and the outro where he actually uses the entire rest of the plot of the game as ''the butt of his jokes''. It's actually really weird, it's like he was written by an entirely different person from the the other characters; like he's an outsider of this story, existing somewhere outside of the fourth wall...it will literally spoil everything that happens within the next 20 hours. And that's kinda hilarious; I kinda love that."''

-->--'''''Series/LoisAndClark''''', "Tempus, Anyone?"

->''"So in this story we have mysterious monsters in the highlands, doppelgängers, and a traditional alien invasion all co-existing. And then on top of that we get a Doctor who is even more mercurial and anarchic than [[Creator/PatrickTroughton Troughton]]...The most obvious instance of this, of course, is [[Creator/TomBaker Baker's]] hilarious fondling of the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar rather suggestive-looking]] Zygon controls. But Baker also, in this story and others, displays an amazing talent for pulling a somewhat inscrutable and puzzled expression when he's doing a reaction shot to a dodgy effect, as if he's [[WhoWritesThisCrap vaguely appalled by it]] as well. Which is helpful given that the Skarasen [[SpecialEffectsFailure is a disaster.]] But it's also an interesting updating of Troughton's old tendency to look out of television screens. Baker has a similar power to defy and control he medium. Not only does he make frequent eye contact with the camera that emulates Troughton's peering, but he also reverses it, seeming to look at things within the narrative with the perspective of someone outside the narrative. Troughton's Doctor was in some ways [[AudienceSurrogate the audience's agent]] inside the narrative, but Baker's is nobody's agent - a force that stalks the liminal space between audience and narrative, commenting freely on both."''
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons}} "Terror of the Zygons"]]

->''"So in this story we have mysterious monsters in the highlands, doppelgängers, and a traditional alien invasion all co-existing. And then on top of that we get a Doctor who is even more mercurial and anarchic than [[Creator/PatrickTroughton Troughton]]...The most obvious instance of this, of course, is [[Creator/TomBaker Baker's]] hilarious fondling of the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar rather suggestive-looking]] Zygon controls. But Baker also, in this story and others, displays an amazing talent for pulling a somewhat inscrutable and puzzled expression when he's doing a reaction shot to a dodgy effect, as if he's [[WhoWritesThisCrap vaguely appalled by it]] as well. Which is helpful given that the Skarasen [[SpecialEffectsFailure is a disaster.]] But it's also an interesting updating of Troughton's old tendency to look out of television screens. Baker has a similar power to defy and control he medium. Not only does he make frequent eye contact with the camera that emulates Troughton's peering, but he also reverses it, seeming to look at things within the narrative with the perspective of someone outside the narrative. Troughton's Doctor was in some ways the audience's agent inside the narrative, but Baker's is nobody's agent - a force that stalks the liminal space between audience and narrative, commenting freely on both."''

->''"So in this story we have mysterious monsters in the highlands, doppelgängers, and a traditional alien invasion all co-existing. And then on top of that we get a Doctor who is even more mercurial and anarchic than [[Creator/PatrickTroughton Troughton]]...The most obvious instance of this, of course, is [Creator/TomBaker Baker's]] hilarious fondling of the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar rather suggestive-looking]] Zygon controls. But Baker also, in this story and others, displays an amazing talent for pulling a somewhat inscrutable and puzzled expression when he's doing a reaction shot to a dodgy effect, as if he's [[WhoWritesThisCrap vaguely appalled by it]] as well. Which is helpful given that the Skarasen [[SpecialEffectsFailure is a disaster.]] But it's also an interesting updating of Troughton's old tendency to look out of television screens. Baker has a similar power to defy and control he medium. Not only does he make frequent eye contact with the camera that emulates Troughton's peering, but he also reverses it, seeming to look at things within the narrative with the perspective of someone outside the narrative. Troughton's Doctor was in some ways the audience's agent inside the narrative, but Baker's is nobody's agent - a force that stalks the liminal space between audience and narrative, commenting freely on both."''

->'''Franchise/{{Superman}}:''' My cousin... died recently[=--=]\\
'''Superboy-Prime:''' ''Kara? ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' really ''died?'' Not a hoax? Not a dream? Not an imaginary story?\\
'''Superman:''' Imaginary story? What are you talking about...?
-->-- '''''Creator/DCComics Presents'' #87'''

->''"''Videogame/EarthBound'' offers us a glimpse into the mind of the dungeon design auteur. Meet Brick Road. Jeff first bumps into him in Winters after navigating the "modest" dungeon he constructed and opened to the public (with no admission fee). Judging by all the signs and signatures he places throughout his dungeons, Brick Road feels very passionately about his work and wants people to understand and appreciate what goes into it. He's so interested in dungeons, in fact, that he has Dr. Andonuts turn him into one... But soon Dungeon Man gets inextricably tangled in some trees. Aside from feeling sad about saying goodbye to his new friends, Brick Road doesn't seem too upset about being stuck in the same spot for the rest of his existence. Staying in one place and waiting for people to find you is the lot of the dungeon, after all. (Could it otherwise be an allusion [[CreatorCameo to the loneliness of the dedicated video game designer?!]] Workers in the field are known to work very long hours. [[Creator/ShigesatoItoi Itoi]] himself admits to sleeping on a row of chairs in the APE offices during Videogame/EarthBound's development.)"''
-->--'''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=earthbound Pat R.]]'''

->''"''EarthBound'' offers us a glimpse into the mind of the dungeon design auteur. Meet Brick Road. Jeff first bumps into him in Winters after navigating the "modest" dungeon he constructed and opened to the public (with no admission fee). Judging by all the signs and signatures he places throughout his dungeons, Brick Road feels very passionately about his work and wants people to understand and appreciate what goes into it. He's so interested in dungeons, in fact, that he has Dr. Andonuts turn him into one... But soon Dungeon Man gets inextricably tangled in some trees. Aside from feeling sad about saying goodbye to his new friends, Brick Road doesn't seem too upset about being stuck in the same spot for the rest of his existence. Staying in one place and waiting for people to find you is the lot of the dungeon, after all. (Could it otherwise be an allusion [[CreatorCameo to the loneliness of the dedicated video game designer?!]] Workers in the field are known to work very long hours. [[Creator/ShigesatoItoi Itoi]] himself admits to sleeping on a row of chairs in the APE offices during EarthBound's development.)"''

'''Franchise/{{Superman}}:''' Imaginary story? What are you talking about...?

-->--'''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=earthbound Pat R.]]'''

->''"''EarthBound'' offers us a glimpse into the mind of the dungeon design auteur. Meet Brick Road. Jeff first bumps into him in Winters after navigating the "modest" dungeon he constructed and opened to the public (with no admission fee). Judging by all the signs and signatures he places throughout his dungeons, Brick Road feels very passionately about his work and wants people to understand and appreciate what goes into it. He's so interested in dungeons, in fact, that he has Dr. Andonuts turn him into one... But soon Dungeon Man gets inextricably tangled in some trees. Aside from feeling sad about saying goodbye to his new friends, Brick Road doesn't seem too upset about being stuck in the same spot for the rest of his existence. Staying in one place and waiting for people to find you is the lot of the dungeon, after all. (Could it otherwise be an allusion [[CreatorCameo to the loneliness of the dedicated video game designer?!]] Workers in the field are known to work very long hours. [[Creator/ShigesatoItoi Itoi]] himself admits to sleeping on a row of chairs in the APE offices during EarthBound's development.)
-->--'''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=earthboundPat R.]]'''

->''Hold on there, Sora. Let's hit these plot points in order!''

-->'''Adrian''' and '''Chazz''', the ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' dub

-->'''Jeff''' and '''Abed''', ''{{Community}}''

->'''Ziggy:''' Weird? Okay, you cruise around in a giant yellow teddy-bear, okay? I drive a big, green FISH! Look in the mirror, people, we're in no position to be sitting in judgment of anything weird!

-->'''Jeff''' and '''Abed''', ''Series/Community''

-->'''Jeff''' and '''Abed''', ''{{Series/Community}}''

-->'''Jeff''' and '''Abed''', ''{{Community}}''

-->-- ''PowerRangersRPM'', "Ghosts"

->'''Adrian''' and '''Chazz''', the ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' dub

-->'''Jeff''' and '''Abed''', ''{{Community}}''