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Barney: (on phone) Well then go visit Cousin Cecil at his skydiving school and ask him! ...Oh, God, he did? Well I guess that can happen no matter how experienced you are, I'm so sorry. (hangs up) My cousin Cecil... got fired.
Robin: Oh, that's a relief.
Barney: He was so distraught he jumped off a bridge, he's dead.

"Spot the person least likely to have committed the crime and in nine times out of ten your task is finished. Since I do not want my faithful readers to fling away this book in disgust, I prefer to warn them beforehand that this is not that kind of book."

Eleanor: You never really talk about your mom.
Jason: Yeah, she died when I was pretty young. I lost her to the big "C". That's what we called the crocodile that lived by my house. (Beat) Ah, I'm just playing, it was cancer! Watch me do a handstand!
The Good Place, "The Funerals to End All Funerals"

"I remixed a remix; it was back to normal."

Quinn: Sparks, how are you paying for all this?
Sparks: Selling pot... holders... Made of hemp.
Sealab 2021, "Murphy Murph and the Feng Shui Bunch"

Talking Is a Free Action Only Because The Speakers Are Still Keeping An Eye On Their Adversary.
Author Luigifan explaining why Lily and Legault are able to have an extended conversation in the middle of a fight with a woman who wants them Deader than Dead without getting sneak-attacked during the "Library work" roleplay of White Dark Life

"Oh, son of a b-b-bi— Son of a b-b-bit— Son of a b-b-b— Gun! (points at the viewer) Ha-ha-ha! You thought I was going to say 'S-s-son of a bitch', didn't ya?"
Porky Pig, 1938 Looney Tunes Blooper Reel


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