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T-Rex: Whenever there's trouble, their computer is always all "15 seconds until fatal radiation exposure", as though if you get 14, you're fine, and if you get 16, you're dead for sure! Expiry dates, like those on ST:TNG, are false and needlessly strict.
God: MAN T-REX YOU'RE ABOUT THREE SECONDS AWAY FROM FATAL RADIATION EXPOSURE YOURSELF
T-Rex: It's different when YOU do it! Sheesh! Also what?

Buck: Now, we'd better get on the road because time until impact is roughly (digital clock flashes up on screen) two days, four hours, one minute and 16 seconds...15 seconds...14 seconds...
Diego: I think we get it.

Bailey: We've only got eight minutes left.
Sulu: Seven minutes and forty five seconds.
Bailey: He's doing a countdown!
(Three minutes, fifteen seconds later...)
Sulu: Four minutes, thirty seconds.
Scotty: You have an annoying fascination for timepieces, Mister Sulu.
Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Corbomite Maneuver"

Larry: Here's a not-so-fun fact, Vince.
Vince: And what is that, Your Larry-ness?
Larry: A rollover happens every ten minutes.
Vince: Well, how long have we been driving?
Larry: Nine minutes and fifty-eight...
Both: AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Perch: It was right after the camp cook finished preparing the last hot dogs when he noticed the expiration date on the side of the hot dog crate...
Plankton: "Do not use after July 28th, 12:09 p.m." Hmm, that's oddly specific. (sees calendar) Oh, no. That's today! (looks at his watch, screams) Three seconds from now!

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