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Comic Strips
"If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around and it hits a mime, does anyone care?"
Fan Works
"WHAT IF HE'S A MURDERER! WHAT IF HE'S A WEREWOLF! WHAT IF HE'S A VAMPIRE! WHAT IF HE'S A ROBBER! WHAT IF HE'S A GOBLIN! WHAT IF HE'S A MIME!''
Film
Zeus Carver: Watch it! Watchitwatchitwatchitwatchit! Oh my god-are you aiming for these people?!
John McClane: No! (Someone screams in pain) Well, maybe that mime...
—This conversation takes place as John McClane drives through the middle of Central Park in Die Hard With A Vengeance.
Dr. Weaver: I'm sorry to report that once again, there is a blight on our town. I refer, of course, to the return of the extremely irritating Living Statue!
(round of boos and hisses from the rest of the Neighbourhood Watch)
(round of boos and hisses from the rest of the Neighbourhood Watch)
Use your body-words. Where? [...] Enough of the games, say it. Just say it! Talk, YOU STUPID MIME!
—Pikachu interrogating a Mr. Mime, Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Narrator: Acme Falls was a town filled with happy inhabitants, including the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. And a mime.
Yakko: Well, no place is perfect.
Literature
Boggis: [Vetinari] does have all street-theatre players and mime artists thrown into the scorpion pit.
Slant: True. But let's not forget that he has his bad points too.
Slant: True. But let's not forget that he has his bad points too.
It was furnished in a style that I could only term "Early Atrocity." Bleached bones, presumably of former enemies, decorated the walls and not only that, had been incorporated into much of the furniture. The legs of the main dining table were genuine legs, the armchairs, I'm sure you can guess. There were tapestries, but they consisted mostly of depictions of slaughter, slaughter everywhere. Women being raped, children being tossed onto fires, men being crucified. All of it, a celebration of the worst sort of brutality. Suddenly the line of demarcation between the festivals of good and evil became that much clearer for me. When good is celebrating, you don't have an overwhelming urge to run screaming into the night. Well... unless a mime is performing.
The title character, narrating, from Sir Apropos of Nothing.
Live-Action TV
Buffy: ...so then Kathy's like, 'It's share time.' And I'm like, 'Oh yeah? Share this!' (She punches at the air)
Oz: So, either you hit her, or you did your wacky mime routine for her.
Buffy: Well, I didn't do either, actually. But she deserves it, don't you think?
Oz: Nobody deserves a mime, Buffy.
Oz: So, either you hit her, or you did your wacky mime routine for her.
Buffy: Well, I didn't do either, actually. But she deserves it, don't you think?
Oz: Nobody deserves a mime, Buffy.
Video Games
I hate mimes.
—Caleb after killing a harmless mime, Blood (1997)
I ventured into a mortal city recently and encountered—oh, what were they called again?—ah, mimes, that was it. I encountered mimes for the first time. They are absolutely horrifying. Well done.
—Lyranth, The Elder Scrolls Online
Definitely no mimes allowed! There's no box! There never was!
—Grunt, Mass Effect 3, "Citadel"
Web Comics
Senator: You stole a red Fokker triplane and strafed the Snoopy float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Black Hat: Got three mimes, too.
Black Hat: Got three mimes, too.
— xkcd, "Secretary: Part 3
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Anytime I see a mime in a movie, it's like seeing a mime in Real Life, it's just it's gonna suck.
"[confused] Hey, these mimes aren't attacking me! [starts chuckling] Ah, the game just assumes everyone is going to automatically gun down all mimes. They don't even need to make an attack."
Western Animation
Narrator: "Luckily, [Max's] manslaughter charges were dismissed, because he was labeled mentally deficient, and unlikely to have a motive for killing a mime artist. Unlike most people."
Clay: I think we all learned a little something today.
Kimiko: Never lose faith in a friend?
Omi: The value of simple solutions to complicated problems?
Raimundo: Omi can't use slang?
Clay: Nope. Everybody hates a mime.
