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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. When Captain Janeway first encounters Seven of Nine, the Borg drone cuts short Janeway's questions about her [[ThatManIsDead pre-assimilation past]]. "Do not engage us in further irrelevant discourse."
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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. When Captain Janeway first encounters Seven of Nine, the Borg drone cuts short Janeway's questions about her [[ThatManIsDead [[ThatWomanIsDead pre-assimilation past]]. "Do not engage us in further irrelevant discourse."
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* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Used for an EstablishingCharacterMoment when the audience is first introduced to [[BigBad Supreme Commander Servalan]] and [[TheDragon Space Commander Travis]]. Servalan tells her aide to have Travis wait outside just to show him who's boss. Travis however pushes his way into her office, an [[YouGotSpunk act of insubordination which Servalan takes entirely in stride.]]
-->'''Travis:''' Your aide said I was to wait. He was obviously mistaken. [[ThisIsNoTimeForKnitting He doesn't realize the urgency of the matter.]]
** This gets a CallBack when Servalan makes Travis wait to speak to her again. She points out that Travis would never have put up with that before, so the fact that he's willing to do so now is a sign of how desperate he is to [[YouHaveFailedMe regain her favour]].
-->'''Travis:''' Your aide said I was to wait. He was obviously mistaken. [[ThisIsNoTimeForKnitting He doesn't realize the urgency of the matter.]]
** This gets a CallBack when Servalan makes Travis wait to speak to her again. She points out that Travis would never have put up with that before, so the fact that he's willing to do so now is a sign of how desperate he is to [[YouHaveFailedMe regain her favour]].
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* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', one sidequest, "Our Own Worst Enemy," involves Shepard coming across the aggressively pro-human political party Terra Firma. Their party leader, Charles Saracino, comes up to greet Shepard, with the brusque Renegade response as follows...
-->'''Saracino:''' Commander Shepard? I'm Charles Saracino of the Terra Firma party. It's an honor to meet you. ''(reaches out to shake his hand)''
-->'''Shepard:''' ''(swats his hand away)'' Cram your honor. What's this riot about?
-->'''Saracino:''' Commander Shepard? I'm Charles Saracino of the Terra Firma party. It's an honor to meet you. ''(reaches out to shake his hand)''
-->'''Shepard:''' ''(swats his hand away)'' Cram your honor. What's this riot about?
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* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', one This trope surfaces in a number of sidequests in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''.
** One sidequest, "Our Own Worst Enemy," involves Shepard coming across the aggressively pro-human political party Terra Firma. Their party leader, Charles Saracino, comes up to greet Shepard, with the brusque Renegade response as follows...
-->'''Saracino:''' --->'''Saracino:''' Commander Shepard? I'm Charles Saracino of the Terra Firma party. It's an honor to meet you. ''(reaches out to shake his hand)''
-->'''Shepard:'''hand)''\\
'''Shepard:''' ''(swats his hand away)'' Cram your honor. What's this riotabout?about?
** After returning to the Citadel for the first time, Rear Admiral Mikhailovich will greet Shepard with a surprise inspection. A Paragon Shepard can reply that they would have prepared a formal greeting if he knew about this meeting, but an unimpressed Mikhailovich quotes the trope almost verbatim as he gets to the point.
** One sidequest, "Our Own Worst Enemy," involves Shepard coming across the aggressively pro-human political party Terra Firma. Their party leader, Charles Saracino, comes up to greet Shepard, with the brusque Renegade response as follows...
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'''Shepard:''' ''(swats his hand away)'' Cram your honor. What's this riot
** After returning to the Citadel for the first time, Rear Admiral Mikhailovich will greet Shepard with a surprise inspection. A Paragon Shepard can reply that they would have prepared a formal greeting if he knew about this meeting, but an unimpressed Mikhailovich quotes the trope almost verbatim as he gets to the point.
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-->'''The Collector:''' Oh, my dear Gamora. How wonderful to meet in the flesh.
-->'''Gamora:''' Let's bypass the formalities, Tivan. We have what we discussed.
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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. When Captain Janeway first encounters Seven of Nine, the Borg drone cuts short Janeway's questions about her [[ThatManIsDead pre-assimilation past]]. "Do not engage us in further irrelevant discourse."
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* In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Beorn loses patience after the first handful of dwarves bow to him and say, "At your service," proceeding to brush the next ones off before they can say anything by telling them he doesn't need their service and they should just say their names.
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* ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017''. Ratchett has been getting anonymous death threats and wants to hire Hercule Poirot as a bodyguard, but he's been ignoring him. Eventually Ratchett sits down at Poirot's table, saying he hates dining alone. Poirot quickly sees through his attempt at small talk.
-->'''Poirot:''' I am of an age when I know what I like and what I do not like. What I like, I enjoy enormously. What I dislike I cannot abide. For instance the temporary pleasantries before what is determined to be a business discussion.
-->'''Poirot:''' I am of an age when I know what I like and what I do not like. What I like, I enjoy enormously. What I dislike I cannot abide. For instance the temporary pleasantries before what is determined to be a business discussion.
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'''The First''': You think you can fight me? I'm not a demon, little girl. I am something that you can't even conceive. The First Evil. Beyond sin, beyond death. I am the thing the darkness fears. You'll never see me, but I am everywhere. Every being, every thought, every drop of hate—\\
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "Amends", Buffy manages to combine this trope with "DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu":
'''The First''': You think you can fight me? I'm not a demon, little girl. I am something that you can't even conceive. The First Evil. Beyond sin, beyond death. I am the thing the darkness fears. You'll never see me, but I am everywhere. Every being, every thought, every drop of hate—\\
'''Buffy''': Alright, I get it. You're evil. Do we have to chat about it all day?
'''The First''': You think you can fight me? I'm not a demon, little girl. I am something that you can't even conceive. The First Evil. Beyond sin, beyond death. I am the thing the darkness fears. You'll never see me, but I am everywhere. Every being, every thought, every drop of hate—\\
'''Buffy''': Alright, I get it. You're evil. Do we have to chat about it all day?
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' MirrorUniverse episode "In a Mirror, Darkly", Mayweather helps Archer [[KlingonPromotion oust Captain Forrest]] and become TheCaptain himself, and is rewarded by becoming Archer's personal bodyguard.
--> '''Mayweather:''' And Captain...I'd like to be the first to congratulate you on a brilliant stratagem. I'm certain that in years to come--\\
'''Archer:''' You've already got the job, Sergeant. Don't talk yourself out of it.
--> '''Mayweather:''' And Captain...I'd like to be the first to congratulate you on a brilliant stratagem. I'm certain that in years to come--\\
'''Archer:''' You've already got the job, Sergeant. Don't talk yourself out of it.
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'''Thundering Rhino:''' ''Your'' house?\\
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* In the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "Doppelganger", as Not-Tony tries to hit on Kate, inviting her to dinner:
---> '''Kate''': "Why not just go right back to your place?"
---> '''Not-Tony''': "[[SarcasmBlind Are you serious?]]"
---> '''Not-Gibbs''': ''[gives him a DopeSlap]'' "She's not, but I am."
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Jerry is perplexed at the forwardness of a woman he encounters in a store--asking him out, suggesting that they go back to his place, immediately jumping on him--without any lead-in to any of these activities, until she breaks down and tells him her [[ItMakesSenseInContext husband asked her to behave like this]].
---> '''Kate''': "Why not just go right back to your place?"
---> '''Not-Tony''': "[[SarcasmBlind Are you serious?]]"
---> '''Not-Gibbs''': ''[gives him a DopeSlap]'' "She's not, but I am."
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Jerry is perplexed at the forwardness of a woman he encounters in a store--asking him out, suggesting that they go back to his place, immediately jumping on him--without any lead-in to any of these activities, until she breaks down and tells him her [[ItMakesSenseInContext husband asked her to behave like this]].
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* Parodied in one [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Spaceman Spiff]] adventure. When Spiff is brought before the [[AVillainNamedZrg Zorg]] despot, it tells him that if he cooperates in handing over the information they need, his death will be quick and painless. He tells the twisted space crustacean to dispense with the pleasantries and just tell him what information they want.
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* Parodied in one [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Spaceman Spiff]] adventure. When Spiff is brought before the [[AVillainNamedZrg Zorg]] despot, it tells him that if he cooperates in handing over the information they need, his death will be quick and painless. He tells the twisted space crustacean to dispense with the pleasantries and just tell him what information they want.
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': on one occasion, Sisko told Weyoun that he could skip his whole AffablyEvil act.
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': on On more than one occasion, Sisko has told Weyoun that he could can skip his whole AffablyEvil act.
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* [[Series/TheSopranos Tony Soprano]] usually has little tolerance for beating around the bush, particularly when in an irritable mood (which is a lot of the time). He's very much a "let's get straight to business" kind of guy.
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* In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Korra has been arrested by the abrasive Chief Lin Beifong who refuses to cut her any slack despite the fact she's the reincarnation of her mother's best friend. Tenzin arrives and begins to barter with Lin, starting by saying she looks "radiant", only for Lin to immediately growl at him to cut the crap. The gruff response also partially stems from the fact that the two used to be in a serious relationship which ended in a nasty breakup.
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* After being freed in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', Po Kong the Mountain Demon tells her sibling "Enough fanfare. [[BigEater What's for supper]]."
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--> '''Riff:''' (''before the planned fight) Come center and shake hands.
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--> '''Riff:''' (''before the planned fight) fight'') Come center and shake hands.
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* A recurring motif in Theatre/WestSideStory, especially in interactions between the two gang leaders:
--> '''Riff:''' Set ’em up, Doc--Cokes all around!
--> '''Bernardo:''' Let’s get down to business.
--> '''Riff:''' Bernardo hasn’t learned the procedures of gracious living.
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--> '''Riff:''' (''before the planned fight) Come center and shake hands.
--> '''Bernardo:''' More gracious living?
--> '''Riff:''' Set ’em up, Doc--Cokes all around!
--> '''Bernardo:''' Let’s get down to business.
--> '''Riff:''' Bernardo hasn’t learned the procedures of gracious living.
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--> '''Riff:''' (''before the planned fight) Come center and shake hands.
--> '''Bernardo:''' More gracious living?
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* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Hermes receives an inspection from the Central Bureaucracy which he fears demotion thanks to Bender's antics. Sure enough, the inspector, Morgan Proctor arrives and the two introduce themselves and their grades (19 and 35, respectively) before reading, signing, and stamping several pages of each others' folder reports. The ever stoic Proctor announces that the time for small talk is over and she would like to begin the inspection.
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': on one occasion, Sisko told Weyoun that he could skip his whole AffablyEvil act.
-->'''Weyoun:''' How delightful. You feel comfortable enough around me to make jokes. I'm so pleased to see our relationship evolving beyond the stale adversarial stage.
-->'''Sisko:''' No it's not. But before you twist that into a compliment, let me be blunt. I don't like the Dominion, I don't like what it stands for, and I don't like you. So let's dispense with the hollow pleasantries and stick to business.
-->'''Weyoun:''' How delightful. You feel comfortable enough around me to make jokes. I'm so pleased to see our relationship evolving beyond the stale adversarial stage.
-->'''Sisko:''' No it's not. But before you twist that into a compliment, let me be blunt. I don't like the Dominion, I don't like what it stands for, and I don't like you. So let's dispense with the hollow pleasantries and stick to business.
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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode ''Full Circle'' when Daniel (who has at this point AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence) shows up again and immediately launches into a detailed explanation of what Anubis is up to and what they need to do about it. [[GenreSavvy O'Neill]] gets upset ''because'' Daniel didn't even bother with such basic pleasantries as saying hello to him first, and forces the conversation to restart with greetings and pleasanties.
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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode ''Full Circle'' when Daniel (who has at this point AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence) shows up again and immediately launches into a detailed explanation of what Anubis is up to and what they need to do about it. [[GenreSavvy O'Neill]] O'Neill gets upset ''because'' Daniel didn't even bother with such basic pleasantries as saying hello to him first, and forces the conversation to restart with greetings and pleasanties.
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Lady Sansa and Jon Snow must appeal to the ten year-old ruler of House Mormont for armed support in attacking Winterfell. They try to flatter Lady Mormont by comparing her to her namesake Lyanna Stark and talking about her uncle Jeor, but she will have none of it and demands to know what they want.
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "Mors Praematura"
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''.
-->'''Root:''' We're on a bit of a clock here, so let's dispense with the temper tantrum.
-->'''Root:''' We're on a bit of a clock here, so let's dispense with the temper tantrum.
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* [[MonsterClown Kefka]] does this in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' during the scene on the Imperial base outside Doma. Where some of the other examples are intended to underscore the workman-like nature of the characters who do this, Kefka's example just underscores his barely-concealed psychosis.
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->'''Vader''': You may dispense with the pleasantries, commander. I'm here to put you back on schedule.
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->'''Vader''': You may [[TropeNamer dispense with the pleasantries, pleasantries]], commander. I'm here to put you back on schedule.
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* Used in [[Literature/LeiningenVersusTheAnts The Naked Jungle]]. It's a bad sign when this happens at your first meeting.
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* Used in [[Literature/LeiningenVersusTheAnts ''[[Literature/LeiningenVersusTheAnts The Naked Jungle]].Jungle]]''. It's a bad sign when this happens at your first meeting.
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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'' when Daniel (who has at this point AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence) shows up again, and [[GenreSavvy O'Neill]] immediately asks him what's wrong. Daniel gets upset ''because'' O'Neill didn't even bother with such basic pleasantries as saying hello to him first.
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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode ''Full Circle'' when Daniel (who has at this point AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence) shows up again, again and immediately launches into a detailed explanation of what Anubis is up to and what they need to do about it. [[GenreSavvy O'Neill]] immediately asks him what's wrong. Daniel gets upset ''because'' O'Neill Daniel didn't even bother with such basic pleasantries as saying hello to him first.first, and forces the conversation to restart with greetings and pleasanties.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2''
-->'''Lord Shen:''' Good afternoon, gentlemen. Now, we've got the pleasantries out of the way. Please leave my house.\\
'''Thundering Rhino:''' ''Your'' house?\\
'''Lord Shen:''' Yes, didn't you see the peacock on the front door?
-->'''Lord Shen:''' Good afternoon, gentlemen. Now, we've got the pleasantries out of the way. Please leave my house.\\
'''Thundering Rhino:''' ''Your'' house?\\
'''Lord Shen:''' Yes, didn't you see the peacock on the front door?
