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-->'''Nibutani:''' ''[shaking him by the collar]'' [[SuddenlyShouting SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT NEW YEAR'S EVE AND VALENTINE'S DAY WENT BY]] [[ChastityCouple AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T EVEN HELD HANDS!]]

* The English dub of ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone]]'' tries to use this to cover up for an AsYouKnow in the original script -- Ritsuko had explained Misato's plan ''to Misato'' just so the audience could hear it. The dub makes it smoother by having Ritsuko take up the SnarkBall and say something to the effect of "Let me get this straight: your plan is to [exposition goes here]? ''That's'' not crazy at ''all.''"

* In Creator/TomCardy's ''The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy'', "Let me get this straight" is practically Joe's catchphrase, always by [[FlippingTheBird flipping his opponents off]]. [[spoiler:The same goes for his daughter.]]

** While not the actual plan, but in response to the crew trying to explain around Rimmer's temporary insanity in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season V Quarantine}} Quarantine]]": "So let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet, to see the King of the Potato People, and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you're completely sane?"

-->'''Manny: So let me get this straight… If I get Glottis some tools…\\

* ''Film/StarTrekIV'' has the crew encounter an alien probe that's completely shut down Starfleet and is vaporizing earth's oceans. After analyzing the signal they realize it sounds like humpback whale song if heard underwater. Unfortunately humpbacks have been extinct for a few centuries. As [=McCoy=] neatly summarizes:

* In the ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', Sith Inquisitor storyline, an artifact you need is inside a wrecked, toxic waste filled vault. The scientist you capture to help has this reaction:

'''Tyrek:''' So let me get this straight: you kidnapped me away from the Republic just so you could go skinny dipping in a toxic waste pit?

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': "Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you tellin' me you built a ''time machine''... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint out of a DeLorean?]]"

* In ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'', [[Creator/DenzelWashington Joe Miller's]] {{catchphrase}} is some variation of "Explain this to me like I'm a six-year-old," followed by him repeating what the other person said in a way that makes it sound much less reasonable.

-->'''The Rock:''' So let me get this straight... The [=WWE=] has gone from the powerful "[[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Austin 3:16]]"... to the dominant and iconic "[[CatchPhrase Can you smell what The Rock is cookin'?!]]"... ALL THE WAY to ''[switches to a childish voice]'' "You can't see me..."

* A variant of this phrase "Let's get the facts" was one of Keisha's {{catch phrase}}s in ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', usually said when the class is going through something that should be impossible.

* ''Film/StarTrekIV'' has a probe vaporizing earth's oceans. After analyzing the signal they realize it sounds like humpback whale song. Unfortunately humpbacks have been extinct for a few centuries. As McCoy neatly summarizes:
-->'''McCoy:''' Let me get this straight. You plan to go back in time, find a pair of humpback whales, beam them up, come back, drop 'em off, and hope to God they tell this probe what to go so with itself?\\

* In ''The Disappearance of LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', Koizumi says this in regards to the things Kyon said he did in the "normal" world.
* The first episode of ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' gently spoofs '''and''' {{justifie|dTrope}}s this: After [[GenkiGirl Nyarko]]'s explanation turns into [[MotorMouth nonsensical rambling]] that gets [[FastForwardGag fast-forwarded]], [[TheWatson Mahiro]] boils it all down to the key points for the sake of his own sanity. This is the result of a PragmaticAdaptation, since in the original LightNovel Nyarko's disjointed monologue goes on for ''several pages''.

* From ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Bruce Wayne's accountant Coleman Reese has stumbled upon blueprints for the Tumblers, realizes that Bruce is Batman, and demands from Fox $10 million a year for the rest of his life. Fox's deadpan response: "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]]. [[BullyingADragon And your plan is to blackmail this person?]] Good luck."

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': When Tony Stark talks with Fury, they make a recapt on their Ultimate prospects so far: Stark, Pym, his wife, and some marine that Banner upgrades once he cracks the Super Soldier formula.