History Main / ImThinkingItOver

** The story of how the line was invented is also a bit of this trope. Short version: The writers came up with a lot of punchlines. They finally pinned one of the writers for his opinion and his response was "I'm thinking it over!" The longer version is [[url:http://www.jimramsburg.com/your-money-or-your-life-audio.html here]], although there are a few versions of the story floating about. The episodes are hilarious and well worth the listen.

* In one story from ''Comic/UsagiYojimbo'', a minor reoccurring character who loves money is given a choice to give up the money or take a beating. The entire scene is an homage to the Jack Benny routine.

* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', "[[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/041230 George's Decision]]":

* [[EmoPhillips Emo Philips]] tells a story of offering to rescue a drowning woman if she will have sex with him. So she thinks it over..

* ''GarfieldAndFriends'': In one episode, Jon said he'd no longer feed {{Garfield}} unless Garfield got along with Nermal. As Jon started to repeat his ultimatum, Garfield interrupted him to tell he was thinking over it.

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* [[EmoPhillips Emo Philips]] tells a story of offering to rescue a drowning woman if she will have sex with him. So she thinks it over..
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'''Bester:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Oh... good.]]

* The famous ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram'' bit quoted above. The routine first appeared on the March 28, 1948 broadcast, in which Jack was robbed of Ronald Colman's Oscar after borrowing it. His uncertainty stems from the character's well-known [[TheScrooge stinginess]]: during the pause, the audience was already laughing at the thought of Jack having to make such a difficult decision.

(''Yomiko visibly mulls it over'')

'''Jack Benny:''' ''(long pause)''\\

* From the anime of ''ReadOrDie'', Ms. Deep to Yomiko
--> "Which is more important, your life or that book?"
--> *visibly mulls it over*

Sometimes, the choice the character is put before offers something s/he wants or needs, but accepting it would mean breaking some sort of a personal rule (like agreeing with the stupid member of the party). Or the character is just tired of being SurroundedByIdiots and [[ICanNotSelfTerminate the option of being killed sounds oddly inviting]].

This situation is always spawned by SkewedPriorities, and often implies or results in the character being TooDumbToLive. But more often than not it is a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

'''Jack:''' [[TropeNamer I'm thinking it over!]]

* In one episode of ''{{Monk}}'' the cast is hiding out in a cabin in the woods due to Monk having been marked for death by a Chinese mafia. Monk, of course, is desperate to leave, leading to this exchange:
--> '''Stottlemeyer:''' "It's either stay here for another week or go home and get shot in the head!"
--> '''Monk:''' (looking around the cabin, thinking) "Stay here...get shot in the head..."

''(beat panel)''\\

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has most of the cast travel to a parallel universe inside a small box. Hermes, not knowing the situation, has been told to throw the box into the sun. He flies into space, puts the box into an airlock, and is just about to launch it into space when the other characters emerge. They shout for him not to push the button and kill them all, and he thinks carefully for a moment, looks back and forth between the button and Prof. Fonsworth, before giving a halfhearted "Okay".

'''Jack:''' I'm thinking it over!

-->'''[[SmugSnake Bester]]:''' If you weigh the momentary pleasure of blowing me out of the sky against a life of never knowing what brought me here, I assure you, you'll make the right choice.\\

** It perhaps doesn't help that at least one of B5's command staff actually did plan to have Bester killed previously before being convinced it wasn't necessary.

'''Jack O'Neil:''' We're thinking.