History Quotes / ReadTheFinePrint

->''"At first, Pinkie was cool, she had this card the doctor gave her 'cause the medicine salesman said it would help pay for things. [[FailedASpotCheck But it turns out that the free medicine advertisement on the card had a little star next to it]]... So, um, it didn't cover anything really. Then Pinkie got really mad and she said some things, and the stallion at the store cried and then the store manager came out, and he gave Pinkie a card that offers up to 90% off her prescriptions, so she calmed down again, [[YankTheDogsChain until the corporate system reminded everyone that "up to 90%" is a range of values including -- but not limited to -- 0%]], and that's pretty important."''

->''"At first, Pinkie was cool, she had this card the doctor gave her 'cause the medicine salesman said it would help pay for things. [[FailedASpotCheck But it turns out that the free medicine advertisement on the card had a little star next to it]]... So, um, it didn't cover anything really. Then Pinkie got really mad and she said some things, and the stallion at the store cried and then the store manager came out, and he gave Pinkie a card that offers up to 90% off her prescriptions, so she calmed down again, [[YankTheDogsChain until the corporate system reminded everyone that "up to 90%" is a range of values including - but not limited to - 0%]], and that's pretty important."''
-->--''[[WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries Rainbow Dash Presents]]'': "{{Fanfic/Bittersweet}}"

->"...Should've read the contract more carefully..."
-->-- '''Martina''', ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina''

->"Don't you quote the small print at me. For every sentence of small print you produce, [[MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours I can produce smaller!]]"

->Blockbuster understood the appeal [of Netflix] and decided to abolish their long-hated "late fees" for good. Unfortunately for anyone who decided to take Blockbuster up on this offer, they didn't so much "abolish" late fees as "[[{{Newspeak}} rename them]] while [[VeryFalseAdvertising significantly increasing]]" them. Anyone who kept their movie longer than a week after the due date noticed that costly unauthorized charges were being made to their credit card, because Blockbuster had charged them a 'restocking fee,' which just happened to be the full cost of the movie... It almost sounds like some kind of charge, and all for being less than timely in returning the film. If only we had a term for that.
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_20975_the-5-biggest-disasters-in-history-marketing-pt.-4.html "The 5 Biggest Disasters in the History of Marketing (Part 4)"]]

->''Small print leads to large risk.''
-->--'''[[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #8]]'''

->'''Duncan:''' Oh, forget this. I didn't agree to Season Two.\\
'''Chris:''' Actually, you did. It's called the fine print. Read it, live it, ''love'' it.\\
'''Gwen:''' I ''hate'' the fine print!
-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]]'', "[[Recap/TotalDramaTotalDramaDramaDramaDramaIsland Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island]]"

-->-- [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Gatherer]] ruling on "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=398433 Demonic Pact]]"

->'''Mayor:''' My worthy colleague will bring the receipt. All you have to do is sign, on the designated line.
->'''Piper:''' Without reading you'd have me sign?
->'''Mayor:''' Your signature's a mere formality, required by any municipality.
->'''Piper:''' I think I'd better read it.
->'''Mayor:''' You'll find nothing improper, sir. Just, here and there a clause, to conform with custom and the laws.
->'''Piper:''' I'll read it!
->'''Mayor:''' Well, we're busy men, but if you must: unroll the scroll. ''(scroll reaches halfway across the room)''
->'''Piper:''' [[SarcasmMode Just here and there a clause, to conform with the laws?]] ''(reading)'' Could be held in escrow, for a hundred years?!!
->'''Mayor:''' A mere formality regarding your fee. A hedge against litigation, inflation, any currency.
->'''Piper:''' Ha-ha, I see. And this?
->'''Mayor:''' Guaranteed warranty. A stipulation that your fee be forfeit should there be any pollution of the river. No danger of course, but required by the courts under the law of torts.
->'''Piper:''' And this, about rebuilding roads?
->'''Mayor:''' Required by our building codes!
->'''Piper:''' I see as we go up the line, the print gets rather fine.... ''Reparations?!''
->'''Mayor:''' A safeguard for future generations.
->'''Piper:''' Ahhhh this is best. Far cleverer than the rest.
->'''Mayor:''' A mere legal art, protecting the party of the first part.
->'''Piper:''' I'm now to deposit with you the sum of 1000 guilders, guaranteeing the plague [of rats] will never return. And if by chance they do, then I owe you...
->'''Mayor:''' 50,000 guilders!

->''"You should have read the fine print, my friend\\
Should have read the fine print\\
You should have read the fine print, my friend\\
Should have read the fine print"''
-->-- '''Music/TheStupendium''', "[[VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds The Fine Print]]"

->'''ComicBook/LanaLang:''' Excuse me, Lex, but '''where''' is that in my contract?\\
'''ComicBook/LexLuthor Hologram:''' Ah, Lana. I'm '''disappointed'''. You're just like '''all''' the others after all. You didn't read the fine print. Very, '''VERY''' fine print.
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheComingOfAtlas''

->"Our EULA is six petabytes[[note]]''6,144'' terabytes, or ''one million'' gigabytes[[/note]] in size. We encourage click through by ensuring it is too large for a human to read in a single lifetime."
-->-- '''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2900/fc02870.htm Clippy]]''', ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''

-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts 2}}''

->'''''176.''' Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember that the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.''
-->-- ''Literature/LifesLittleInstructionBook, Vol. I''

->'''Duncan:''' Ha, forget this. I didn't agree to season two.\\

--> -- ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''

->"..Should've read the contract more carefully..."

-->-- '''[[DaChief Cowley]]''', ''Series/TheProfessionals'', "The Female Factor"

-->-- "Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin" (1957 musical)

->'''ComicBook/LanaLang'': Excuse me, Lex, but '''where''' is that in my contract?\\
'''ComicBook/LexLuthor Hologram'': Ah, Lana. I'm '''disappointed'''. You're just like '''all''' the others after all. You didn't read the fine print. Very, '''VERY''' fine print.

-->-- ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1957 musical)

->"Don't you quote the small print at me. For every sentence of small print you produce, I can produce smaller!"

-->-- ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1957 musical)

-->-- '''Cowley''', ''Series/TheProfessionals'', "The Female Factor"

->'''Piper:''' I'm now to deposit with you the sum of 1000 guilders, guaranteeing the plague will never return. And if by chance they do, then I owe you...

-->-- [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Gatherer]] ruling on "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=398433 Demonic Pact]]"

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->''You can read it [[SleazyPolitician after we pass it]].''
-->--'''Nancy Pelosi''' on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement

->''"Blockbuster understood the appeal ''[of Netflix]'' and decided to abolish their long-hated "late fees" for good. Unfortunately for anyone who decided to take Blockbuster up on this offer, they didn't so much 'abolish' late fees as '[[NoExceptYes rename]]' them while '[[VeryFalseAdvertising significantly increasing]]' them. Anyone who kept their movie longer than a week after the due date noticed that costly unauthorized charges were being made to their credit card, because Blockbuster had charged them a 'restocking fee,' which just happened to be the full cost of the movie... It almost sounds like some kind of charge, and all for being less than timely in returning the film. If only we had a term for that."''

->''"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."''
-->-- '''Music/TomWaits''', "Step Right Up"

->''"The large print [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe giveth]] and the small print taketh away."''

->''"Turns out Jobs might have literally been speaking in the first person when he started slapping I's in front of everything he sold. As in, "I am Steve Jobs and I just sold you suckers a gadget that [=iDesigned, iControl and iBreak=] if you break my arbitrary rules."''
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html 5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Apple]]"

->''Turns out Jobs might have literally been speaking in the first person when he started slapping I's in front of everything he sold. As in, "I am Steve Jobs and I just sold you suckers a gadget that [=iDesigned, iControl and iBreak=] if you break my arbitrary rules.''