Quotes / It Was His Sled

Comic Strips

Lucy: What are you watching?
Linus: Citizen Kane.
Lucy: I've seen it about ten times.
Linus: This is the first time I've ever seen it...
Lucy: "Rosebud" was his sled!
Linus: AAUGH!!

— Peanuts

Live-Action TV

Tony: Disgruntled employee steals from the office on the way out of town. Stops for a little while and winds up dead just like Marian Crane in Psycho.
Jimmy: Spoiler alert, okay? Haven't seen it.
Tony: You've had 50 years to catch up on the story of Norman Bates.

— NCIS, "One Last Score"

"Alright, film students, are you ready? IT WAS HIS SLED! HAHAHAHA! Now you don't have to sit there for three hours!"

— Craig Ferguson, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

"...and Rosebud was just a sled. Oh no, I didn't spoil it for you, did I?"

— Veronica, Veronica Mars

"'Rosebud...' the last word in sleds!"

— Colin Mochrie, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, "Scenes From A Hat" suggestion: "If famous movie lines included product plugs"

Music

Leia's his sister and Vader's his dad
What could I have said that would make her so mad?
Norman Bates' mom is dead, Bruce Willis is a ghost,
And Jesus comes back three days after he's toast

— "Spoiler Alert" by Tom Smith

"Norman Bates, is that all you got?

Might have guessed from the name of the thing." Don't complain

that you never heard the ending of The Crying Game.

Well, it's a penis, and at this point a shaggy dog

(which is: nothing to see here; move along).

—MC Frontalot, "Spoiler Alert"

Web Original

"If you are going to complain about a spoiler that the Master (hehehe) features in "The Keeper of Traken" then tough shit, you're about 30 odd years too late to have a whinge."

— Joe Ford on Doctor Who, "The Keeper of Traken"

"Spoiler Alert - This article contains spoilers for Harry Potter (Snape kills Dumbledore), Star Wars (Darth Vader is Luke's father), Citizen Kane (it was his sled), The Sixth Sense (Bruce Willis is a ghost) and the dictionary (zyzzyva)."

— LEGO Harry Potter as Explained by Someone Who Has Never Read Harry Potter

"- So wait!!! The crazy old hobo WAS LUCY!?!?!?!"
"- Yes, and Snape kills Dumbledore. Also, Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father."
"- And, appropriately enough, Soylent Green is people."

— Comments to a Sweeney Todd video, long since taken down from YouTube.

Web Video

So after you endure hardship after hardship, struggle after struggle, you finally free the souls of all six Sages and you return to the Temple of Time, and this is where you learn that— Oh, hold on. SPOILER WARNING if you've never played a single video game in your life. [Sheik] was Zelda the whole time!

— Schaffrillas Productions on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Yami: I see. Then the only way to defeat you is to spoil every plot twist in existence, thereby ridding the public of any desire to see your convoluted mess of a movie series!
Arkana: You wouldn't dare!
Yami: Wanna bet? [inhales] Snape kills-
[many spoilers later]
Yami: ...Nicole Kidman is a ghost, and Rosebud is the sled.
Arkana: No! He's spoiling all the best plot twists!

— Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, episode 30

Narrator: Uhh, I guess spoilers? Even though this game came out in 1993. Look, it's not my fault you were born too late!

— Honest Trailers at the beginning of the trailer for the 2019 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Cloud87450: Yeah, Super Mario Bros. 2 was actually All Just a Dream!
Chip Cheezum: Whaaaat?
slowbeef: Oh my god, the surprise twist to this twenty-year-old game.

— Retsupurae^note "Uh, well close to like 25, really."

"You gotta keep it ground in realism, okay? Dumbledore didn't die for this. [reads chat] 'spoilers'? Guys, it's Harry P-Look, Dumbledore dies, Darth Vader dies and he's Luke's father, Spider-Man doesn't feel so good at the end of Infinity War, like c'-You've had time. You've had time. [reads chat again] 'Jesus dies' [Corpsing] Yeah, spoiler, at the end of the Bible."

— RTGame, I Asked My Subscribers To Build A Knock-Off Hogwarts In Minecraft

Zamasu: See? Easy. Now can I please finish my book?
Goku Black: [glances at Zamasu's book] He dies in the end.
Zamasu: Oh, you divine cunt!

— DevilArtemis, "Goku Black's Zero Pizza Plan"

Webcomics

SNAPE KILLS TRINITY WITH ROSEBUD! (And then it turns out they're both Tyler Durden.)

— xkcd

"What?! Gandalf comes back?! Dude, why'd you spoil it?"
"Dave, it's been in print for 50 years. It's like me telling you that Hamlet dies at the end of the play."
"Hamlet dies!?"

— Dave and Maelyn, Real Life Comics

"Kong? You don't want me to spoil Kong, a seventy year-old movie? There's a statute of limitations on this shit, man. [...] Have you seen The Passion yet? Here's a spoiler for you: Jesus dies."

— Gabe, Penny Arcade

Western Animation

Sideshow Bob: [discussing his murder plan as Walt Warren] I can stand in one state, and fire a gun in the second state; the bullet will travel through the third, hitting you in the fourth, so you'll fall down dead in the fifth! No single act is against any law, but their sum total is the greatest murder since Snape killed Dumbledore!
Bart: Aw, I haven't gotten to that part yet!
Bob: It's a four-year-old book.
Bart: I'm a slow reader.

— The Simpsons, "The Bob Next Door"

"In other news, the chick in the Crying Game is really a man."

(crowd boos)

"I mean, man, is that a good movie."

(crowd cheers)

—Mayor "Diamond" Joe Quimby, The Simpsons

Gizmoduck: Gee, never saw how this [movie] ends.

Darkwing Duck: They shoot the dog in the last act.

Gizmoduck: WHAT?!

Darkwing Duck: Did I spoil it for you?

—Darkwing Duck, "Tiff Of The Titans"

Real Life

"Is that a spoiler? The story has been out since 490 B.C."

— Roger Ebert, discussing a plot point in his review of Clash of the Titans

"Normally, I wouldn’t spoil myself on a series with this much depression behind it, but thanks to my natural curiosity, over 9000 hours on TV Tropes, and the first in CSW’s five-part series on why Jun Maeda hates you, I just couldn’t help myself. So, spoiler alert: Misuzu dies. But it isn’t like you saw that one coming or anything."

— Pokenirvash on Air

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