History Main / TheReasonISuckSpeech

-->'''Woody''': Wait a minute. Being a toy is a lot better than being a Space Ranger. (...) [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre Look, over there in that house is a kid who thinks you are the greatest, and it's not because you're a Space Ranger, pal, it's because you're a toy. You are his toy]]!

-->'''Woody''': [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Why would Andy want you]]? Look at you! [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You're a Buzz Lightyear! Any other toy would give up his moving parts just to be you]]. [[JetPack You've got wings]], [[BioluminescenceIsCool you glow in the dark]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking you talk]], [[BuffySpeak your helmet does that... that "whoosh" thing]]. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You're a cool toy]]. As a matter of fact, you're ''too'' cool. I mean, what chance does a toy like me have against a Buzz Lightyear action figure? All I can do is this...

* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In "Sidebottom Blues", Wembley tries to talk Boober into joining the other Fraggles for a game of Follow the Leader in the Gorgs' garden, as their roving medic. But when he [[OutOfContextEavesdropping overhears Gobo calling Junior Gorg (who's set Fraggle traps all over the garden) a big goof, Boober thinks he's talking about him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': After Sulley finds Mike [[HeroicBSOD in a depressed funk after realizing that everyone was right about him not being scary]], he tries to comfort him by explaining how he feels. When Mike lashes and and dismisses Sulley's advice as ignorant, Sulley fires back to prove that Mike is still wrong...

* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': In the episode "Spock Amok", Admiral April and Captain Pike spend all episodes trying to convince the Rangovians to join the [[FictionalUnitedNations Federation of Planets]] with middling to negative results. Later, when Pike realizes that the Rangovians are looking for someone who understands their apprehensions of the Federation, he delivers a speech on why they ''shouldn't'' join the Federation, including the fact that the Federation doesn't really respect the cultures of its member planets, is only looking for resources, just finished a major war, and is powerful enough to have equally powerful enemies that the Rangovians would have to agree to fight. Later, the Rangovians agree to join since Pike was able to demonstrate that the Federation genuinely understood and were sympathetic to the risk that the Rangovians were taking.

Often follows a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment. Can be responded to with YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre. Potentially leads to a RousingSpeech.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': When the reactionary [[spoiler:elf prince Karim]] tries to get the former dragon king Sol Regem to retake his throne, the disgraced archdragon gives a bitterly sarcastic boast about his numerous flaws to show [[spoiler:Karim]] [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen how far past his prime he's gotten]] and now won't make for a good ruler.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse:'' Luz explodes at her English teacher in the episode "Thanks to Them," insulting the main character of the text that the class is going over in a way that heavily insinuates she feels the same way about herself.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Big Pink Loser", [=SpongeBob=] tries imitating Patrick to get even with him copying him, but this instead causes Patrick to blame himself for having [=SpongeBob=] copy someone as pathetic as him.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E8MrGreg Mr. Greg]]", Pearl reflects on her [[AllLoveIsUnrequited complicated relationship]] with Rose Quartz in the song "It's Over, Isn't It?" As she sings, she talks about her various shortcomings and why she feels she ''needed'' Rose to give her life meaning.

-->'''Patrick:''' ''Patrick's not here!''

-->"I can't use swords! I can't navigate! I can't cook! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And I can't tell lies!]]"