History Main / LetMeGetThisStraight

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* Played straight in the ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake, where the resident character with the JerkassFacade points out all the flaws with the proposed plan of action... then signs on to help anyway.

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* Played straight in the ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}'' remake, where the resident character with the JerkassFacade points out all the flaws with the proposed plan of action... then signs on to help anyway.

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* In ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', irritated parents confront their babysitter, who is obviously a wicked witch:
-->"Now let me get this straight. We hired you to babysit the kids, and instead you cooked and ate them BOTH?"
:: Double points for the implication that they wouldn't have minded if she only ate one.
* Peter also says this regarding Jason's ideas for the Special Editions of StarWars in FoxTrot:
-->"Let me get this straight - You think they should digitally insert '''you''' into the revised "Star Wars" movies?!"
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* Played straight in the ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake, where the resident character with the JerkassFacade points out all the flaws with the proposed plan of action... then signs on to help anyway.

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-->''Snifit:''' I'm pretty sure we did...and some of the less stupid guys said we weren't supposed to.

-->'''Alex:''' "So to defeat the fighters we've gotta take out the command ship, but to get to the command ship we've gotta [[MortonsFork get through the fighters]]. We're dead."

-->'''Al:''' We're in a middle of a desert, looking for the source of a river polluting wells, using as our map a cave drawing of a civil war gunship which is also in the desert. So I just wondered when we're gonna have to sit down and reevaluate our decision-making paradigm.
** And in a deleted scene: "I just realized the funny part" "What's that" "We're a couple of oceanografers, probably gonna die in a desert, chained to-to truck parts? So, when they write our obituaries," both: "That'll be the funny part."

* This is usually how Scully reacted to [[AgentMulder Mulder's]] paranormal theories on ''{{Series/The X-Files}}''. One clip show featured a collection of all the times Scully had a line with some variant of, "Mulder, are you saying that [ghosts/aliens/the Loch Ness Monster/werewolves] did it?". The collection took several minutes.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': "Let me get this straight: You think that your client, [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world]], is secretly [[Franchise/{{Batman}} a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And your plan is to blackmail this person?]] Good luck."

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': "Let me get this straight: You think that your client, [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world]], is secretly [[{{Batman}} a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And your plan is to blackmail this person?]] Good luck."

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': "Let me get this straight: You think that your client, [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world]], is secretly [[ComicBook/Batman a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And your plan is to blackmail this person?]] Good luck."

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': "Let me get this straight: You think that your client, [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world]], is secretly [[Main/Batman a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And your plan is to blackmail this person?]] Good luck."

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': "Let me get this straight: You think that your client, [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world]], is secretly [[Batman a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And your plan is to blackmail this person?]] Good luck."

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': "Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And your plan is to blackmail this person?]] Good luck."

-->'''Sokka:''' ''I hate this world and everything in it.''

* The first episode of ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' gently spoofs '''and''' [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this: After [[GenkiGirl Nyarko]]'s explanation turns into [[MotorMouth nonsensical rambling]] that gets [[FastForwardGag fast-forwarded]], [[AudienceSurrogate Mahiro]] boils it all down to the key points for the sake of his own sanity.

* The first episode of ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' gently spoofs '''and''' [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this: After [[GenkiGirl Nyarko]]'s explanation turns into [[MotorMouth nonsensical rambling]] that gets [[FastForwardGag fast-forwarded]], [[OnlySaneMan Mahiro]] boils it all down to the key points for the sake of his own sanity.

A form of quick {{exposition}}, used to sum up the crazy situation that the characters have gotten themselves into. Can be for a few different reasons. Maybe someone's playing a game of XanatosSpeedChess or XanatosRoulette, or there's a GambitPileup going down, and the character(s) are assessing the problem to make a quick decision on their feet. Maybe someone is about to do / has done [[IdiotBall something insanely stupid]], and another character tries to [[AreYouSureYouWantToDoThat talk them out of]] / [[WhatTheHellHero calls them out on]] it by [[LampshadeHanging pointing out the idiocy of the plan]]. Sometimes a character, finding themselves in an [[FishOutOfWater unfamiliar]] / [[NightmareFuel scary]] / MindScrew situation, speaks to him/herself to clear their own head. And sometimes a previous character has just explained it for the first time, either offscreen, but presumably at too much length to show the audience, or onscreen, but in a [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness way the audience is not expected to comprehend]]. Could happen as an InnerMonologue, or by [[MirrorMonologue speaking to a mirror]] or [[SurrogateSoliloquy some other object]].

Frequently begins with the words "So let me get this straight...", and also frequently ends with "... is that about right?" However, it can also be pulled off without saying either of those phrases. Often, after the LetMeGetThisStraight exposition is provided, a character will support the plan by saying that it's CrazyEnoughToWork.

If the exposition puts the whole plot or certain point in a nutshell, there is a very high chance that the line will be used in the trailer for the movie/episode.

Not related to KirkSummation. Is usually delivered by a DeadpanSnarker. When the characters are talking about something the audience aren't aware of, it's AsYouKnow.

-->'''Zefram Cochrane:''' Let me see just make sure that I understand you correctly, Commander. A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race, and you're here to stop them?\\

* From ''[[Film/Argo Argo]]'', (although the stock phrase itself is not actually used)

* From ''Film/Argo'', (although the stock phrase itself is not actually used)
--> '''Chambers:''' "[[SoLetMeGetThisStraight So]] you wanna come to Hollywood and act like a big shot...?"

--> '''Chambers:''' "So you wanna come to Hollywood and act like a big shot...?"

--> '''Chambers:''' [[HypocriticalHumor "You'll fit right in."]]

* ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' features an outrageously straight version of this trope. "All right. Let me get this straight. You want to burn it down and out of the pipes, force it in here, slam the door -- and trap its ass? And you want help from us Y-chromo boys?" One can only wonder how Ripley managed to explain the plan in a way convoluted enough that Dillon had to get it straight.

* [[GeraldFord Jerry Frond]] of Antia to the Voyagers in ''StationeryVoyagers'':
-->'''Frond:''' Pardon me for asking... but just [[NoSuchThingAsHR who the devil runs your HR department]]!?\\
'''Pextel:''' I don't follow.\\
'''Frond:''' ''You're'' a professional at ''[[TheyKilledKenny getting yourself killed]]'', and your first mate is a daredevil! Your girlfriend is a professional ''[[{{Ojou}} corporate princess]]'' whose [[CorruptCorporateExecutive daddy was a crook]], and that... that blue boy there is a [[BoyBand sissy singer]]!\\
'''Oceanoe:''' ''[[InsistentTerminology Pop star]]!''\\
'''Frond:''' Whatever. The other guy is a ''cowboy''! Then there's the exotic dancer...\\
'''Viola:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Gymnast]]!\\
'''Frond:''' [[RunningGag All right, fine!]] Then there's the hooker, and a dude who's a walking atomic bomb...\\
'''Liquidon:''' Uh... afraid [[AtLeastIAdmitIt I can't argue with that one]]...\\
'''Frond:''' NOTHING IN THIS FILE STATES '''ANYTHING''' ABOUT HAVING ''DIPLOMACY'' CREDENTIALS!\\
'''Pextel:''' The Xyliens, I guess... [[CrazyEnoughToWork really took to heart]] [[AsTheGoodBookSays that part about the foolishness of God being wiser than our wisdom???]]\\
'''Frond:''' [[FacePalm I need an aspirin]]!!!