History Main / WroteTheBook

* In the SeriesFinale of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', a future Starfleet instructor introduces Admiral Janeway as "the person who, literally, wrote the book on the Borg."

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Foghorn Leghorn cartoon "Raw Raw Rooster!" has Foggy trying one-up his loudmouthed college classmate Rhode Island Red with a series of mistimed booby traps, one of them and exploding golf ball/

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Foghorn Leghorn cartoon "Raw Raw Rooster!" has Foggy trying one-up is loudmouthed college classmate Rhode Island Red with a series of mistimed booby traps, one of them and exploding golf ball/

'''The Head:''' That's alright. I was just, as usual, thinking.\\

* ''OBrotherWhereArtThou'': Pappy O'Daniel says of himself, "I ''invented'' moral fiber!" (This in response to his political rival, [[spoiler: also KKK member]] Homer Stokes, whose campaign claims that O'Daniel [[TakeThat "lacks moral fiber"]].)

* From the episode "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':

** In "The Great Money Caper", Homer and Bart have been scamming people when Grampa asks to join, saying he wrote the book on conning. Bart looks at the About the Author section on the back cover and sees a picture of a young Grandpa, showing that it was a LiteralMetaphor.

* From the episode "Revenging Angel" of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
-->'''John Crichton:''' Dr. Chuck Jones wrote the book on these situations.

-->'''[[LargeHam Patton]]:''' Rommel, you MagnificentBastard, I '''''[[DangerouslyGenreSavvy read your book!]]'''''

* ''[[FanFic/AdoptedDisplaced Another Hatchling]]'': Turns out Spike ''literally'' wrote the book on a certain subject. And it's one of his friends who points this out:

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', after Gil reminds [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080227 Vole]] who's the boss:

-->'''Doctor:''' [[WordSchmord Gravity, Schmavity!]] My people practically invented black holes. Actually, they did!

* In ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark]] and [[ComicBook/WonderWoman Diana]] go to eat in at Planet Krypton (A themed restaurant parodying Planet Hollywood), and Clark is concerned about the two of them possibly being noticed. Diana simply comments, "''You'' wrote the book on secret identities."

* When Rae Johnston was told by a man who took offense at her ''Bioshock Infinite'' T-Shirt "I bet you haven't even played", she took revenge by [[http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/ultimate-revenge-i-saw-his-face-crumble-20130423-2ibnt.html telling him the ending.]] It was obvious on his face that he hadn't reached the ending yet. The story developed into an urban legend in which the person who was accused of not having played the game was someone who was involved in its' ''creation''. (Or maybe there is an actual event like this that was mixed up with the above-mentioned one)

** In ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'', when Reverend Oats confronts the Count with passages from the Book of Om, the Count starts quoting the passages back at him, and reveals that he, was involved in writing some sections of the book himself, causing Oats to quite seriously question his faith in the holy text.

* Inverted in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', when Hagrid complains that Lockhart (who ''did'' write the book on dealing with magical pests[[note]]Although not ''the'' book on magical creatures, [[FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem that was Newt Scamander]].[[/note]]) insisted on giving him advice despite the fact it wasn't anything he didn't know.

A StockPhrase commonly used when a character complains or brags about something, to which another character disregards their comment by saying something around the lines of "Don't tell me about that, I WroteTheBookOnIt!". There are two distinct contexts in which this gets used:

* In the second book of ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'', Machiavelli uses this. He gets to say not only that he wrote the book, but that he did so four hundred years ago.

-->''"[[FragileSpeedster You've got speed]], I'll give you that. But your textbook fighting style isn't gonna work on the man who wrote the book!"''