Quotes / Big Red Button

"Do You know the button song?
The Button Song, the Button Song
When you play the Button Song
You'll find out what goes wrong!"

— Wander (while pressing random buttons on Lord Hater's ship controls), Wander over Yonder, "The Prisoner"

Now why would you go and do something like that? Didn't you see the sign that said 'DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON!'? —How will we finish testing with the self-destruct mechanism ACTIVE!?

— Mimiron, World of Warcraft

Mechanacles: Stay away from that lever!

Aladdin: Why?

Mechanacles: It'll destroy my precious invention!

[Aladdin puts both hands on lever]

Mechanacles: [writing on scroll] Never tell enemy which lever will destroy invention.

— Aladdin: The Series

Krieger: Press that red button.

Archer: Wait, is that going to kill everybody?

Krieger: ...press that blue button.

—Archer

Cornmander: Scrooge, push the button!
Scrooge: No, not the red button!
Cornmander: The red button!
(Scrooge presses the button and Giant Robot Christopher Walken kicks Giant Super Saiyan Vegeta's butt.)

—Ducktalez 3

He pressed the big red button labelled DO NOT PRESS.

— Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocaylpse Love Story

Rocket: All right, first you flick this switch, then this switch. That activates it. Then you push this button, which will give you five minutes to get outta there. Now whatever you do, don't push this button, because that will set off the bomb immediately, and we'll all be dead. Now, repeat back what I just said.
Baby Groot: I am Groot?
Rocket: Mm-hm.
Baby Groot: I am Groot.
Rocket: Uh–huh.
Baby Groot: [reaching for the death button, excitedly] I am Groot!
Rocket: [annoyed] NOOOOO!

— Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

(grinning) And how am I gonna react when I see this?! A great, big, threatening button. A great, big, threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstances, am I right? [...] Which leaves us with a great, big, stinkin' problem, 'cos... I really don't know who I am. I don't know when to stop. So if I see a great, big, threatening button which should never, ever, EVER be pressed, then I just want to do this. (whacks the button)

— The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Christmas Invasion"

Now, how do you work? Why is there never a big red button?

— The War Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Day of the Doctor"

Sigma: Most of the buttons are boring or just incomprehensible, but this one speaks to me.
Alice: What does it say...?
Sigma: Come on, a big red button on a plate with black and yellow stripes? It couldn't scream "don't press me" any louder if it said "don't press me" on it!

— Virtue's Last Reward

Billy: We're pushing that, right?
Nora: It's too red not to push.

— The Thundermans

Announcer: Oh, how long can trusty Cadet Stimpy hold out? How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to push the button that could erase his very existence? Will his tortured mind give in to its uncontrollable desires? Can he withstand the temptation to push the button that, even now, beckons him ever closer? Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history?! At the MERE! PUSH! OF A SINGLE! BUTTON! The BEAUTIFUL, SHINY BUTTON! The JOLLY, CANDY-LIKE BUTTON! Will he hold out, folks?! CAN he hold out?!
Stimpy: NO I CAAAAAAN'T!!!

Ren & Stimpy, "Space Madness"

"Full power to the Telsa device!" cried Zarkendorf. "Focus the beams! Press the Big Red Button! Ragnarok is at hand — let the world be purged in fire, ice and flood!"

— Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space

I'm just gonna say this once. They wouldn't have put a big red button there if they didn't want you to press it.

— Cranky Kong, Donkey Kong Country Returns

Karai: [about to press a button on a mutagen container] What happens if I do...this?
Raph: No!
Leo: Don't do that!
Kraangdroid: Highly undesirable outcome.
Karai: Well, now I gotta. [presses button]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), "The Alien Agenda"

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