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"Stop repeating what I just said! You've been doing that for a while now! YOU'RE JUST WASTING PANELS!!! It's already bad enough that we've got tons of things that need to be drawn for the first chapter!!"

The Custodian: My divine lord, we have managed to implement a text-to-speech device to your glorious Golden Throne! Please, lord, speak to us!
The Emperor: [garbled noise] ABOUT FUCKING TIME.
The Custodian: At last! Our glorious lord can command us once aga—
The Emperor: I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT.
— The very first episode of If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device

Alessandro: Excuse me, where is the director?
Sergio: [Briefly interrupts the phone call] What?
Alessandro: The director, do you know where he is?
Sergio: Go fuck yourself.
— The first five seconds of Boris

"Okay, let me get this straight, we are two minutes and thirty-nine seconds into this movie, we haven't even seen the definitive main character yet, and Mr. Clean has already rolled up to the party, and they spent the joke about him getting dirty already! (*incomprehensible swearing*)"

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