Quotes / Yo-Yo Plot Point

"Once is bad luck. Twice is a bad habit."

— Mrs. Bridges, Upstairs Downstairs

I feel like we've been here before, have we been here before? Oh my God this is happening again!"

— Freeza after Vegeta claims, again, to be a Super Saiyan, Dragon Ball Z Abridged

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results."

— Albert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin. But really neither of them.

Chuggaaconroy: It's like he's trying to swim off a deserted island, passes out while swimming, and then gets washed back up ashore.
ProtonJon: No, it's Gilligan's Island, is what's happening right now! It's Gilligan's Island! They always got off the island, but then it brought them back!

— The Runaway Guys, Mario Party 5

Comic Books

"This will only be the third or so time you've had to bury her. It must be getting rather tedious, Scott dear. These reruns of your grief."

— Emma Frost to Cyclops, about burying his wife Jean Grey (codename Phoenix) again, New X-Men, Issues #151 and 154

"Every X-Men story is the same."

— Cyclops, leaning on the fourth wall as hard as he possibly can, Uncanny X-Men (2018), Issue #11

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