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Mr. Potato Head: (Upon seeing a world-destroying demon in the kitchen) This looks like a job for Spudman!note 
Baloney: PH! NOOOOO! ...Oh! I hate it when he confuses fiction and reality!
(beat)
Potato Bug: There's a difference?

Gypsy: (Upon seeing the movie's opening scene with some "good-natured brawling" going on between a large group of men.) , Hey, stop fighting! Everybody stop fighting!
Joel: (hiding his amusement) Um, it's...it's okay, Gypsy. It's just a movie.
Gypsy: (catching herself) Oh?...Oh! Sorry, sorry...

David: Is this a game or is it for real?
Joshua: What's the difference?

Burt Wilson: I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!
Frank: It worked in the movie!
Burt: Well, it ain't working now, Frank!
Freddy: You mean the movie lied?

"You know, sometimes what you actually see and what you imagine... get mixed up in your memory like a cocktail... from which you can no longer distinguish one flavor from another."
Carlo, Deep Red

"I've said it before and I'll say it again, war stories and monster movies are educational. They're survival-oriented. They always neutralize the enemy in the end."
Grandpa Putterman, TerrorVision

Chris: Ah there's one on top now! You gotta do something!
Colton West: I am doing something!
Chris: Do that thing you like you did in that movie!
Colton: Chris, you know the difference between real life and movies?
Chris: No.
Colton: Darn.

Blackadder: As I've told you about eight times - the man playing Julius Caesar was an actor named Kemp.
Prince George: Thundering gherkins! Brutus must have been pretty miffed when he found out.
Blackadder: What?
Prince George: That he hadn't killed Caesar after all, but just some poxy actor called Kemp. What do you think he did, go round to Caesar's palace after the play and kill him then?

Buzz: Don't talk to me about importance! Because of you, the security of this entire universe is in jeopardy!
Woody: WHAT?! What are you talking about?!
Buzz: Right now, poised at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet. I alone have information that reveals this weapon's only weakness. And you, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command!
Woody: (beat) YOU! ARE! A! TOOOOY!!! You aren't the real Buzz Lightyear! You're a—Ah, you're an action figure! You are a child's plaything!
Buzz: ...You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity. Farewell.

Ronald Reagan: Where'd you serve, son?
Lou Solverson: Mekong Delta. Swift boat patrol, two tours.
Reagan: Well, I sure appreciate your service. Every generation has their time. I remember back in '42, America just joined the war. I was working on, uh... "Operation Eagle's Nest" for Paramount. I got dropped behind enemy lines trying to rescue Jimmy Whitmore and Laraine Day from this SS commando. Bob Stack was on loan from Selznick. That Nazi bastard had us cornered. We were done for, but in the end, with a little American ingenuity, we managed to, uh... Oh, no. No, no, wait a minute. Um... Come to think of it, I don't think we made it out of that one. ...Or did we? Oh, shit, I can't remember. Well, either way, it was a fine picture.
Fargo, "The Gift of the Magi"

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