Line #8 Quotes/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs


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2	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
3	->''"You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, [[RealityIsUnrealistic and that your own lives are unreal]]. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs!"''
4	-->-- '''Howard Beale''', ''Film/{{Network}}''
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7	[[folder:Literature]]
8	->''"As stated before, in Western--especially American--culture, there is the myth of the individual superbeing. One man or woman, well-armed and highly skilled, with nerves of steel, can conquer the world. In truth, anyone believing this should simply strip naked, holler for the undead, and lie on a silver platter. Not only will going it alone get you killed--it may also create one more zombie. Working together, always together, has shown to be the only successful strategy for annihilating an undead army."''
9	-->-- Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide
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12	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
13	->''"Torture works on ''Series/TwentyFour'' and in movies because ''it has to''. It's a dramatic device to move the plot along. But ask terror experts and they'll tell you it's one of those movie tropes that's got no basis in real life, like a wedding being interrupted, or someone this handsome feeling sad, or [[Creator/EmmaStone this]] [[Film/{{Aloha}} character]] being part Asian."''
14	-->-- '''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', on torture
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17	[[folder:Music]]
18	->''"Television rules the nation."''
19	-->-- '''Music/DaftPunk'''
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22	[[folder:Video Games]]
23	->''"Attention, Test Prisoners attempting to [[AirVentPassageway escape through the air ducts]]. I don't know what nonsense you learned on TV, but [[ThisIsReality in real life air ducts just go to the air-conditioning unit]]. It's also pretty dusty, so if you've got asthma, chances are you're gonna die up there. And we'll be smelling it for weeks, because again, the air ducts ''aren't'' a secret escape hatch, they're how we ventilate the facility."''
24	-->-- '''Space Prison Warden Cave Johnson''', ''VideoGame/Portal2: Endless Testing Initiative''
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26	->''"It is not impressive to [[SafetyGearIsCowardly forgo ear protection]] when shooting."\
27	"In real life, it is not advisable to [[SuperWindowJump jump face-first through plate glass windows]]."''
28	-->-- Two pause menu tips in ''VideoGame/Receiver2''
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31	[[folder:Webcomics]]
32	->'''Peggy:''' Before you start [firearms training], there's something important you need to do.\
33	'''Sydney:''' What's that?\
34	'''Peggy:''' Close your eyes and think of every TV show and movie you've ever seen with guns in it.\
35	'''Sydney:''' Uh... okay...\
36	'''Peggy:''' Really visualize all your favorite fight scenes, all that action hero stuff. Got it?\
37	'''Sydney:''' Yeah, have you ever seen ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''? That GunKata...\
38	'''Peggy:''' ''smacks her hand on Sydney's forehead'' OUT FOUL DEMONS!!\
39	'''Sydney:''' Ow! Hey! What the hell?!\
40	'''Peggy:''' Nearly all popular media is absolutely terrible when it comes to the portrayal of guns and what constitutes acceptable cover. ''[[{{Geek}} You]] especially'' are going to need to retrain how you think about them.\
41	'''Sydney:''' You're saying I must unlearn what I have learned?\
42	'''Peggy:''' Saying precisely this, I am.
43	-->-- ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-330-action-zeroing-the-needle/ #330]]
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45	->''"You still got people who think [[BulletSparks bullets spark]], that [[EveryCarIsAPinto gasoline is as explosive as nitro]], and that [[SoftGlass you can jump through pane glass without a scratch]]--all because "they saw it in a movie." People make bad decisions all the time--bad decisions based on what they saw up on a movie screen, because they think we were careful enough to get it right."''
46	-->-- '''Nip Todd''', ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck''
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49	[[folder:Western Animation]]
50	->''"This little boy broke his leg trying to fly like Franchise/{{Superman}}. This boy's brother hit him in the head with a wrench, mimicking [[ProfessionalWrestling a recent TV wrestling match]]. I won't even subject you to the horrors of our ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges Three Stooges]]'' ward."''
51	-->-- '''Dr. Hibbert''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil Bart the Daredevil]]"
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