History Quotes / Mindscrew

->''The whole movie has strange use of StockFootage, [[FauxlosophicNarration strange use of voiceovers]], it begins like a documentary depicting cultural deviance, [[UnexpectedGenreChange soon it becomes a horror movie]] and [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible an experimental art film]], [[{{Biography}} an auto-bio]], [[BoundAndGagged a bondage movie]] and then it ends with a sex change! What the ''fuck'' kind of twisted piece of ''crap'' is this?!"''

->''"I said to myself, 'I've never seen ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams''; I wonder what the fuck it's about?' So I sat through a longplay of the game on Website/YouTube, and when it was finished, I said, 'I have now seen ''[=NiGHTS=] into Dreams...''; I wonder what the fuck it's about?'"''

->''You're a pair of fingers in chequerboard land with upside down doors. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs What kind of drugs were they on?]] Was this game even made by a human being?''

->''Further down this page: the land of analogies of truly hallucinogenic incomprehensibility. So far I've got one person comparing taxation to three contractors painting a house, and another to Creator/MeganFox [[AnythingThatMoves having sex with everyone in the world]], and I'm honestly not even sure which side they're trying to argue on.''

->''Alright, so this-this game, what ''is'' this? What is it even trying to do? Like, is it ''actually'' being weird on purpose? Is this an interactive storybook for kids, or is it... [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python]] meets Creator/DonHertzfeldt and WebAnimation/YouTubePoop in a nightmare-fueled acid dream of...?'' (drifts into {{Angrish}})

->''You know [[SarcasmMode this may come as a surprise]], but I still don't know what the fuck is going on. You've got a lady shooting lasers with two angels, you've got muscular guys scooting by on computer chairs, muscular guys... uh... pogo sticking on other muscular guys? It looks like [[SistineSteal Adam's back there waiting for God to come create him!]]''

-->-- '''WebVideo/Civvie11''' on ''[[{{VideoGame/Postal}} Postal 2]]'''s Russian expansion pack ''Corkscrew Rules''.

->''The [[Film/{{Toys}} finished film]], released in 1992, features Michael Gambon as a militaristic toy developer who wants to [[GeneralRipper make human-murdering toys for the military]], Music/LLCoolJ in an early king-making role as Creator/RobinWilliams' [[TangledFamilyTree improbable cousin]], and Joan Cusack as Williams' [[RoboticReveal secretly robotic sister]]. That sentence [[ARareSentence sounds like someone spilled Wite-Out in a TV Guide and put all the surviving words together in a straight line]].''
-->-- '''{{Website/Cracked}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-famous-filmmakers-whose-dream-projects-were-disasters/ "5 Famous Filmmakers Whose Dream Projects Were Disasters"]]

->''As the popular ensemble sitcom ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' draws near the end of its nine-season run, a downer of a fan theory is starting to look more and more feasible. The theory: The Mother has been dead this whole time. Creator/MNightShyamalan'd!... Of course, maybe the show is fucking with its viewers. If the whole framing device for the show is a father telling a story to his kids to help them remember their dead mom, then why would Ted's long, 9-season-long story about a dead woman be so focused on, uh, Ted's dating life before he met her? [[DeadAllAlong What if Ted is the dead or dying one?]] [[EpilepticTrees What if nobody's dead?]] [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory What if we are actually all dead and part of purgatory]] is that we all have to sometimes catch an episode of ''How I Met Your Mother'' in syndication?''
-->-- '''Jezebel'''

->I have no idea what's going on!

->[[{{Understatement}} You met me at a very strange time in my life.]]

->A mental mindfuck can be nice.

->Well, Cohaagen, I have hand it to you. That's the best mindfuck yet.

->[[MyNameIsInigoMontoya My name is Alex Drake]], and frankly, your guess is as good as mine.

->I don't understand it, [[SeenItAll and I understand everything!]]

->You have been chosen because you are unknown to the enemy, and you all have a special skill. [[GeniusCripple Professor Hawking]], [[BloodSport John Leslie]], [[TokenEvilTeammate Phil Neville]], the Wu Tang Clan, [[DanceBattler Usher]], the [[{{Mascot}} Sugar Puffs Monster]], and [[ChewingTheScenery Daniel Day-Lewis]]: welcome... to [[OperationBlank Operation Mind Fuck]]!.

->To make matters worse, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} she]] claims the universe\\

Then where is it expanding to?!

->The starmaker says it ain't so bad\\

It's all in your mind

->Wearing a raincoat is flying around in a yellow rubber airplane\\

And you'll need your mind for later on

->[[TitleDrop Mutilated Lips]]\\

Yeah, you wish

->Everything you know is wrong\\

Everything you know is wrong!

->'''Tor Anderson:''' It [[SanityHasAdvantages takes]] [[InvertedTrope crazy]] to know [[MindScrew crazy]]!\\

->[[PunctuatedForEmphasis What. The. Fuck.]]

->How do you compress... time? I'm getting dizzy...

->So, you have come this far and ''still'' you understand ''nothing''.

->There's nothing simple about an Elder Scroll. It's a reflection of all possible futures and all possible pasts. Each reader sees different reflections through different lenses, and may come away with a very different reading. But at the same time, all of it is true. Even the falsehoods. ''Especially'' the falsehoods.

-> Am I in the fucking [[Series/TwinPeaks Black Lodge]]? What is happening?!?

->The [[Film/{{Toys}} finished film]], released in 1992, features Michael Gambon as a militaristic toy developer who wants to [[GeneralRipper make human-murdering toys for the military]], Music/LLCoolJ in an early king-making role as Creator/RobinWilliams' [[TangledFamilyTree improbable cousin]], and Joan Cusack as Williams' [[RoboticReveal secretly robotic sister]]. That sentence [[ARareSentence sounds like someone spilled Wite-Out in a TV Guide and put all the surviving words together in a straight line]].

->Further down this page: the land of analogies of truly hallucinogenic incomprehensibility. So far I've got one person comparing taxation to three contractors painting a house, and another to Creator/MeganFox [[AnythingThatMoves having sex with everyone in the world]], and I'm honestly not even sure which side they're trying to argue on.

->Strap in, kids. [[{{Understatement}} It's going to get fucking weird...]]

->Okay, if I'm interpreting this correctly (which I highly doubt) then, taken at face value, with as little induction as possible, the main character is a she-male and/or transgender and/or imaginary friend with benefits who is also a time-traveler and/or dimension shifter and/or a necrophiliac and/or a polygamist and/or a lesbian and possibly the last of his/her/its kind. To be honest, I'm not sure if he/she/it/they is/are human. Trippy.

->As the popular ensemble sitcom ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' draws near the end of its nine-season run, a downer of a fan theory is starting to look more and more feasible. The theory: The Mother has been dead this whole time. Creator/MNightShyamalan'd!... Of course, maybe the show is fucking with its viewers. If the whole framing device for the show is a father telling a story to his kids to help them remember their dead mom, then why would Ted's long, 9-season-long story about a dead woman be so focused on, uh, Ted's dating life before he met her? [[DeadAllAlong What if Ted is the dead or dying one?]] [[EpilepticTrees What if nobody's dead?]] [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory What if we are actually all dead and part of purgatory]] is that we all have to sometimes catch an episode of ''How I Met Your Mother'' in syndication?

->When did this game go from a game called ''Monster Party'' to a game where I fight ''shrimp'' and ''onion rings?!'' [[{{Angrish}} WHY?! And what th...]] Why is there a space station IN THE BACKGROUND?!!!

->You know [[SarcasmMode this may come as a surprise]], but I still don't know what the fuck is going on. You've got a lady shooting lasers with two angels, you've got muscular guys scooting by on computer chairs, muscular guys... uh... pogo sticking on other muscular guys? It looks like [[SistineSteal Adam's back there waiting for God to come create him!]]

->Holy shit, Disney! You've inserted your giant magical cock into my ear and FUCKED MY MIND!

->I have a theory that I've blundered across the best definition of a Paul Magrs novel (although this one is co-Jeremy Hoad). It's when you get to the end of the book and hear yourself cry - "So what's with the mermaid, then?"
-->-- Naomi Claydon reviews the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''The Blue Angel'' for Outpost Gallifrey

->The whole movie has strange use of StockFootage, [[FauxlosophicNarration strange use of voiceovers]], it begins like a documentary depicting cultural deviance, [[UnexpectedGenreChange soon it becomes a horror movie]] and [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible an experimental art film]], [[{{Biography}} an auto-bio]], [[BoundAndGagged a bondage movie]] and then it ends with a sex change! What the ''fuck'' kind of twisted piece of ''crap'' is this?!"''

->On the story end of things, I can't put this thing down. It's throwing so many curve balls that it resembles a batting cage in a hurricane. To sum it up so far, I ''might'' be a robot who can see the future. On the moon. Maybe.

->Just to make sure we're all on the same page here, what we're looking at is a giraffe with a string of pearls resting atop an air helmet, hiding in a treasure chest at the bottom of the ocean, talking to a fox in a frog suit. Just... just... we just gotta accept it.

->I've had acid trips more consistent than this.

->The first time I reached this boss, I instantly lost all my lives cause I had no idea wtf was going on. I fainted afterwards.

->This game involves elite cyber-assassins fighting their way into [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], [[GeniusLoci semi-sentient]] ruins populated by [[ScaryDogmaticAliens hostile, overly-religious robots]] on a mission to rescue what may or may not be a stray cat. Also, an abstract concept is a superstition is a double entendre is a croissant.

->'''Mario:''' If you need instructions on how to get through the hotels, check out the enclosed instruction book.\\

->You're a pair of fingers in chequerboard land with upside down doors. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs What kind of drugs were they on?]] Was this game even made by a human being?

->Alright, so this-this game, what ''is'' this? What is it even trying to do? Like, is it ''actually'' being weird on purpose? Is this an interactive storybook for kids, or is it... [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python]] meets Creator/DonHertzfeldt and WebAnimation/YouTubePoop in a nightmare-fueled acid dream of...? (drifts into {{Angrish}})

->Just, what is going on? There's, like, a giant metal tube. And there's a fist. This reminds me of a fever nightmare.

->''[[Series/ThePrisoner1967 The Prisoner]]'' was a very surreal show. I've seen the whole thing, and I'm ''still'' not sure what happened.
-->--'''Ross Scott''', ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon: Super Cult Tycoon''

->There ''is'' [[NoEnding no final conclusion]] to ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}''. We were fortunate enough to do something as audacious as that, because people do want the words "TheEnd" put up there.

->What is this I don't even

->When you see it, [[BowelBreakingBricks you'll shit bricks]].
-->-- Anon

->The below statement is false.\\
[[LogicBomb The above statement is true.]]
-->-- Anon

->'''Cyborg:''' Let me get this straight. We're inside Mumbo's hat and Raven's inside Mumbo's hat ''inside Mumbo's hat?''\\

-> '''Cyborg:''' Let me get this straight. We're inside Mumbo's hat and Raven's inside Mumbo's hat ''inside Mumbo's hat?''\\
-> '''Beast Boy:''' Dude, you're making my brain hurt!

-->--'''Urag gro-Shub''', ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

-->-- '''Music/TheyMightBeGiants''', "Wearing a Raincoat"

-->-- '''Music/{{Ween}}''', "Mutilated Lips"

-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "Everything You Know is Wrong"

->This game involves elite cyber-assassins fighting their way into [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]], [[GeniusLoci semi-sentient]] ruins populated by [[ScaryDogmaticAliens hostile, overly-religious robots]] on a mission to rescue [[EpilepticTrees what may or may not be]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a stray cat]]. Also, [[{{Metaphorgotten}} an abstract concept is a superstition]] [[IceCreamKoan is a double entendre is a croissant]].