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Commander Chakotay, his features deadpan with fury, stormed onto Holodeck Two.
— Opening line of Software Error, a Star Trek: Voyager Parody Fic

"Oh Chuckles, you can't be dead! You're showing as much expression as you normally do!"
Voyager Chicks Behind Forcefields

    Film — Live-Action 

Mal: Fear is nothing to be ashamed of, Doctor.
Simon: This isn't fear. This is anger.
Mal: Well, kind of hard to tell one from t'other, face like yours.
Simon: Well, I imagine if it were fear my eyes would be wider.

    Music 

Their small-town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at seventeen
— "At Seventeen", Janis Ian

    Podcast 

(Noriko witnesses a volcano erupt in the distance while traveling to her father's resort.)
Noriko: (with dull surprise) An active volcano. Another reason for the decline of my father's property.
Mike: (imitating Noriko) My entire family burned to death in a river of lava right before my eyes. Shall we get going?
RiffTrax, The Revenge Of Dr. X

(Noriko looks out a window.)
Kevin: (as Noriko, with dullest surprise) Oh, he stepped in a gopher hole. He snapped his leg. He's dead.
RiffTrax, The Revenge Of Dr. X

    Web Animation 

"Aiden and his sister both look at the grave of the child (that is his sole motivation) the way they'd look at a middling-difficult Sudoku puzzle."

    Web Original 

If Paz de la Huerta had even a smidgeon of acting ability Nurse 3D probably wouldn't work at all. It's basically a mix of American Mary and Single White Female...On paper, that sounds like a recipe for a perfectly rote slasher/thriller that you'd forget about within moments of the film's conclusion, but since even merely saying a character's name proves to be an insurmountable task for Paz, it takes on this bizarre, nearly alien tone that, intentionally or not, turns the film into a trashy comic delight.

Horrible black magic stuff happens to what are either the most unflappable, or possibly just the most stoned, people on earth...two villagers run in, and react exactly the way one would expect after stumbling on a disembodied head eating an unborn baby out of a dying woman's vagina.

General Plotdevice: So wait, are you ALL mutants? What about January Jones?
Kevin Bacon: Her too. Her ability is to suck all life out of any line of dialogue.
January Jones: also i read minds and turn to diamond
Kevin Bacon: And let's not forget your power to make sexy lingerie look strangely bland.

In the comments of the previous strip, I said, "In hindsight, the ideal thing would have been to cast Aragorn as a dumb, distracted stoner. He spends about half of the movie blinking very, very slowly. I can come up with a shot of him looking baked or mouth-open stoopid in just about any scene. I should make a "I am so high" montage out of all these shots."

The amount of screen time he spends in a vacant stare or a prolonged blink is sort of alarming. I've come to think of him as Stareagorn.

Only Lofranco doesn’t overact here, because he can't act at all, coming across as the human equivalent of a giant block of granite.

The expression in question is a vapid, empty look where you can just hear the character in question going "Guuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" while waiting for the next neuron to fire in their puny brain.

During the fight, we see Randy's wide range of emotions shine forth. I swear, you'd think the only thing keeping this guy conscious during most of the movie is smelling salts. No emotion, just a blank, dumbfounded stare. I guess Rip inherited all the genes that mattered.

    Web Videos 

"Can someone please tell me what emotion Batman is expressing with that line? Confusion? Irony? Sadness? Anger? Acceptance? Disgust? Surprise? Anticipation? Contempt? Awe? Disappointment? Shame? Sympathy? Rage?! Oh wait, that's me. Agony? Frustration? Apathy? It's apathy, isn't it? [sighs] OK, you don't care, Batman, so we don't either."
Linkara on the "Bees. My God." quote from Amazons Attack!

Claudia: We have a tragedy here.
Chick: (in the same dull voice) I flunked acting.

"I also like how Cloud reacts to the fact that his nemesis that he thought he'd killed in the climax of the game is finally back to life. (wiggles eyebrows) That's pretty much the extent of most of the emotions in this movie."

"You know, everybody in this movie takes really bad news shockingly well. Did everyone just drink a Xanax cocktail?"

"Ah, fuck. I can't believe you've done this."
Paul Weedon, on getting sucker-punched in the face [1]

"Legend says you only get to see an emotion on Dominic Purcell's face every thousand years…"
Benzaie, in his review of Vikingdom

"Sometimes, you gotta keep a cool head in a life-or-death situation."
Markiplier, in the hostage escape video of Unus Annus

"In a rush, our hero of this adventure, steps out. The tragedy fills their eyes. As you can see, every single emotion riding on their face at once."
Failboat, narrating Static's 'adventure', you cannot hide.

    Western Animation 

"So, um, is Bella a zombie? She's always just like, standing there with her mouth open, and she acts like she's dead."
Beavis, Beavis and Butt-Head ("Werewolves of Highland")

"You're not acting hard enough!"

    Real Life 

"Clint Eastwood has two expressions: with and without a hat."

"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."


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