Quotes / Cue the Rain

Frederick: What a filthy job!
Igor: Could be worse.
Frederick: How?
Igor: Could be raining.
[Thunderclap, followed by torrential rain]

— Young Frankenstein

Stewie: Well, at least it's not raining.
(a man runs up and stabs him)

—Family Guy, "Brian Writes a Bestseller"

Stewie: It could be worse, though; at least I'm not getting stabbed by some random guy in the street.
(it starts raining)
Stewie: (to the audience) See? It's the exact opposite.
(the same man runs up and stabs him)
Stewie: Aowwwww, it happened anyway!

—Family Guy, "Stewie Goes for a Drive"

Miguel: Tulio, look on the positive side. At least things can't get--
(a massive thunderstorm starts)
Tulio: Excuse me. Were you going to say "WORSE"?!
Miguel: Absolutely not. I've revised that whole thing.
(They continue to argue as the camera pulls out to reveal a few sharks following their rowboat)

—The Road to El Dorado

It can't get any worse, can it?
(begins raining)
Obviously it can.

— Jane Porter, Tarzan

Jon: It's a gloomy day, but at least it isn't raining.
(it starts raining)
Jon: Well, at least it isn't snowing.
(it starts snowing)
Jon: Well, at least it isn't hailing.
Hail: *tok tok tok tok tok*
Jon: Well, at least there isn't lightning.
Lightning: *CRACK!*
Garfield: How about stopping there, jinx-boy!
Jon: I'm glad I didn't mention a volcano.
Volcano: *FOOM*

—Garfield, July 27, 2014

Pintel: Have you noticed that, on top of everything, it's raining?!
Ragetti: That's a bad sign!

— Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Roy: Look, you're both overreacting. It's a simple meteorological phenomenon. Absolutely nothing dramatic—
[A lightning strike illuminates a cloaked figure with blades drawn in a huge thunderclap]
Roy: —is about to happen.

— The Order of the Stick, "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"

"Well, gentlemen," I said, putting on what I hoped was a confident, cheerful expression, "it might be worse."
One of the group, in a sepulchral voice, replied with a single word:
"How?"
I could have cheerfully murdered him, but instead I had to keep my temper.
"Oh," I said, grinning, "it might be raining."
Two hours later, it was. As I crept under a truck for shelter I thought of that fellow and wished I had murdered him.

— Field Marshall William Slim

"Summer rains, you can never predict them."
(It starts raining again.)

— Edd, Ed, Edd n Eddy

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