Murray Franklin: Let me get this straight. You think that killing those guys is funny?
Arthur Fleck: I do. And I'm tired of pretending it's not.
Arthur Fleck: I do. And I'm tired of pretending it's not.
"Wait a minute..."
Let me get this straight - you're pleased with your current appearance? [chuckles] Ah, why, my good man, you're the fattest thing I've ever seen, and I've been on safari!
— Mr. Burns, The Simpsons, "Brush with Greatness"
"So, let me put this bluntly: There's this soulless psychotic leader with the largest criminal organization on the planet—shoved right inside our fucking ass cheeks!"
— Tangerine, Bullet Train
Nice Guy Eddie: Alright, let me just say this out loud, 'cause I wanna get this straight in my head. You're saying that Mr. Blonde was gonna kill you. And then when we got back, he was gonna kill us, take the satchel of diamonds, and scram. I'm right about that, right? That's correct? That's your story?
Mr. Orange: I swear on my mother's eternal soul that's what happened.
Nice Guy Eddie: The man you just killed just got released from prison. He got caught at a company warehouse full of hot items. He could've fucking walked. All he had to do was say my dad's name, but he didn't. He kept his fucking mouth shut. And he did his fucking time, and he did it like a man. He did four years for us. So, Mr. Orange... You're telling me this very good friend of mine— Who did four years for my father, who in four years never made a deal, no matter what they dangled in front of him— You're telling me that now that this man is free, and we're making good on our commitment to him... HE'S JUST GONNA DECIDE, OUT OF THE FUCKING BLUE, TO RIP US OFF!? Why don't you tell me what really happened?
Mr. Orange: I swear on my mother's eternal soul that's what happened.
Nice Guy Eddie: The man you just killed just got released from prison. He got caught at a company warehouse full of hot items. He could've fucking walked. All he had to do was say my dad's name, but he didn't. He kept his fucking mouth shut. And he did his fucking time, and he did it like a man. He did four years for us. So, Mr. Orange... You're telling me this very good friend of mine— Who did four years for my father, who in four years never made a deal, no matter what they dangled in front of him— You're telling me that now that this man is free, and we're making good on our commitment to him... HE'S JUST GONNA DECIDE, OUT OF THE FUCKING BLUE, TO RIP US OFF!? Why don't you tell me what really happened?
Rimmer: I can't let you out.
Lister: Why not?
Rimmer: Because the King of the Potato People won't let me. I begged him. I got down on my knees and wept. He wants to keep you here. Keep you here for ten years.
Cat: Could we see him?
Rimmer: See who?
Cat: The King.
Rimmer: Do you have a magic carpet?
Lister: Yeah, a little three-seater.
Rimmer: So, let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you are completely sane?!
Lister: Why not?
Rimmer: Because the King of the Potato People won't let me. I begged him. I got down on my knees and wept. He wants to keep you here. Keep you here for ten years.
Cat: Could we see him?
Rimmer: See who?
Cat: The King.
Rimmer: Do you have a magic carpet?
Lister: Yeah, a little three-seater.
Rimmer: So, let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you are completely sane?!
CJ: Not to shit on anyone's riff here, but lemme just see if I grasp this concept, OK? You're suggesting that we take some fucking parking shuttles, and reinforce them with some aluminum siding, and then just head on over to the gun store and watch our good friend Andy play some cowboy movie jump-on-the-covered-wagon bullshit. Then, we're gonna drive across a ruined city, through a welcome committee of a few hundred thousand dead cannibals, all so that we can sail off into the sunset on this fucking asshole's boat? And head for some island that for all we know doesn't even exist?
Kenneth: Yeah.
Tucker: Pretty much, yeah.
Ana: [nods]
Michael: Yeah.
Steve: [sarcastic thumbs-up]
CJ: OK. ...I'm in.
Kenneth: Yeah.
Tucker: Pretty much, yeah.
Ana: [nods]
Michael: Yeah.
Steve: [sarcastic thumbs-up]
CJ: OK. ...I'm in.
"Let me get this straight. You think that your client — one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world — is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands... and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."
— Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight
Red: So you're telling me Doc is out on my field somewhere, even more out of his mind than usual, and heavily armed.
Roger: Well, yeah, but—
Red: On the busiest day we've had in two years, he's out there somewhere, whacked out of his gourd, with an unstable nuclear-powered gatling marker that can shoot around trees and behind bunkers, a backpack full of paint and he's invisible! Do I have that right?!
Roger: Well, yeah, but—
Red: On the busiest day we've had in two years, he's out there somewhere, whacked out of his gourd, with an unstable nuclear-powered gatling marker that can shoot around trees and behind bunkers, a backpack full of paint and he's invisible! Do I have that right?!
"Huh... (Lifting up his shirt, Chai realizes his music player is stuck in his mechanical core transplant and his eyes go wide.) Hmm... If I'm getting this right... First: music player in my chest. I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to be there. Second: it's powering up my new robot arm. Third: it's making everything sync up with the beat! And... this sounds ridiculous... but when the music kicks in, it feels like... like... Like I'm on a stage!"
— Chai, Hi-Fi RUSH
"Let me get this straight: The company will side with petulant, unreasonable, angry, demanding customers instead of with me, its loyal employee? And this is meant to lead to better customer service?"
— Employees everywhere, Not Always Right
Glon Half-Orc: Let me get this straight... you want me to help a bunch of elf slaves escape from the drow queen to cement an alliance between the elves and the humans in an attempt to overthrow the hobgoblin king?
Rescue team: Uh yeah. Pretty much. That's right.
Glon: Sounds like a hoot!
Rescue team: Uh yeah. Pretty much. That's right.
Glon: Sounds like a hoot!
Reverend Theo: Let me see if I understand this... My fiancee offered to help you defraud one of our clients by desecrating, copying, and then substituting a corpse. In a moment of greed-fueled exuberance you grabbed her and kissed her full on the mouth.
Captain Tagon: That about sums it up, yes.
Reverend Theo: Are you seeking my forgiveness, or are you trying to come to grips with your deeper faults?
Captain Tagon: That about sums it up, yes.
Reverend Theo: Are you seeking my forgiveness, or are you trying to come to grips with your deeper faults?
"If I may summarize my mission, I and my people are going to use an inter-dimensional rift created by a masochistic paranoid schizophrenic transsexual acting on information received from a turncoat succubus to invade Hell, start an insurgency with the aim of destabilizing the whole set-up there, subverting the rule of Satan and eventually organizing an internal coup to overthrow him."
— Major Warhol, The Salvation War
"Let me get this straight... you're telling this court that the Federation, which flies around the galaxy with magnetic bottles of antimatter strapped to its backside, would rate these shuttles as too hazardous to fly?"
—Chief Justice Bob, Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger
Stopped Speeder: My life is over!
Policeman: Well, you were only going fifteen miles an hour over the limit. I wouldn't consider that fatal at this time. May I see your driver's license please?
*One explanation later*
Policeman: So let me get this straight: you're speeding on a revoked license, the car is stolen, the tags are stolen, and you have no registration or proof of insurance. I'm going to have to agree with you. Your life is over.
Policeman: Well, you were only going fifteen miles an hour over the limit. I wouldn't consider that fatal at this time. May I see your driver's license please?
*One explanation later*
Policeman: So let me get this straight: you're speeding on a revoked license, the car is stolen, the tags are stolen, and you have no registration or proof of insurance. I'm going to have to agree with you. Your life is over.
—World's Dumbest... Criminals
Digger: So, let me see if I've got all this. There's an arrow hole in my shoulder—
Hag: No, there was an arrow hole in your shoulder. I had to make a much bigger hole to get the head out after those idiot Veiled snapped the shaft off and got it lodged under your collarbone.
Digger: Ah. Okay, so there's a gaping hole in my shoulder, I still don't know where home is, the person who might be able to tell me may be dead, the local theocratic police believe that I'm consorting with demons and wanted me drugged unconscious, and I now owe a god yet another favor for having straightened that out.
Hag: And you might be addicted to poppy milk. I had to use a lot to keep you down.
Hag: No, there was an arrow hole in your shoulder. I had to make a much bigger hole to get the head out after those idiot Veiled snapped the shaft off and got it lodged under your collarbone.
Digger: Ah. Okay, so there's a gaping hole in my shoulder, I still don't know where home is, the person who might be able to tell me may be dead, the local theocratic police believe that I'm consorting with demons and wanted me drugged unconscious, and I now owe a god yet another favor for having straightened that out.
Hag: And you might be addicted to poppy milk. I had to use a lot to keep you down.
— Digger
Pete: Let's just recap here. We've given away our only means of transportation to someone to throw a race in which—at our insistence—he is no longer competing. We've bet all our money on a nine-year-old driver who has never raced before, in a vehicle he built in his backyard—
Sally: Whatsa never been driven before!
Pete: We've sold all of our decent weapons to raise the money for the aforesaid bet. And if by some bizarre unforseen chance we don't win, you've agreed to hand the Queen of a planet we're meant to be helping over to a sadistic slave-owner—
Sally: And Shmi will come after us, muy angry!
Pete: And...a group of mercenaries, armed by you, Jim, will expect you to help them capture...you.
Jim: That's about right.
[Beat]
Pete: This campaign is awesome.
Sally: Whatsa never been driven before!
Pete: We've sold all of our decent weapons to raise the money for the aforesaid bet. And if by some bizarre unforseen chance we don't win, you've agreed to hand the Queen of a planet we're meant to be helping over to a sadistic slave-owner—
Sally: And Shmi will come after us, muy angry!
Pete: And...a group of mercenaries, armed by you, Jim, will expect you to help them capture...you.
Jim: That's about right.
[Beat]
Pete: This campaign is awesome.
Squidward: So let me get this straight, you two ordered a giant screen television just so you could play in the box?
SpongeBob: Pretty smart, huh?
Patrick: I thought it wouldn't work.
SpongeBob: Pretty smart, huh?
Patrick: I thought it wouldn't work.
"Let me get this straight... A planet just... crashed into the middle of a train car?!"
— Wizard Cookie, Cookie Run: Kingdom, "Episode 15: Dream Express"
Marco: So let me get this straight. We have to rescue a paralyzed Chee from a stolen goods warehouse before the Controllers get her. Then we have to dive down to the bottom of the ocean, find the Pemalite ship, somehow get inside it and turn off the signal before ten o'clock tonight so the Yeerks don't get the Chee in the safe at the nuclear waste facility. Is that pretty much it? Or do we have to discover the Fountain of Youth and come up with a low-fat cookie that tastes as good as Mrs. Fields's, too?
Rachel: [grinning] Ticktock. Ticktock.
Marco: You are mentally ill.
Rachel: [grinning] Ticktock. Ticktock.
Marco: You are mentally ill.
—Animorphs #27: The Exposed
Pikachu: So let me get this right. We're forced to listen to this spa music so your head doesn't explode and kill us all?
Psyduck: (nods) Psyduck!
Psyduck: (nods) Psyduck!
(to Flintheart Glomgold) Let me get this straight. You stole ALL of our fortunes and then lost it ALL to a child
Tony Stark: Okay, let's review this line-up SHIELD is talking about. There's me, Pym, that poor, little wife he shrunk and whatever marine we end up with once Banner cracks the Captain America formula, correct?
Nick Fury: That's about the size of it, Tony
Nick Fury: That's about the size of it, Tony
GM: Fluttershy? Just so we're clear. What you want to do... is employ bees... by asking nicely.
Fluttershy: Yes!
[Beat]
GM: Alright. Guess I get to roleplay as bees tonight.
Rarity: Every session is a new opportunity!
Fluttershy: Yes!
[Beat]
GM: Alright. Guess I get to roleplay as bees tonight.
Rarity: Every session is a new opportunity!
"So what you're telling me, there is a floati—no wings, no wings—there's a floating monster, that's got like, multiple tentacles, it's absolutely giant, capable of Hoovering up the land itself—it's apparently eating soil, it's attracted to only the most fertile soil, in fact it's incredibly octopus-like, yet has seemingly, the world's freakiest human teeth that's just so uncannily aaagh! And, it seems to hatch and breed literal insects inside its body, while having its own entire micro-ecosystem atop its back, and, it just goes where the breeze takes it...and...this is the first time we've seen one."
— Josh of RageGamingVideos on the Yama Tsukami
Tuco: Let me get this straight. I... steal your dope, hm? I beat the piss out of your mule boy! And then you walk in here and you bring me more meth?! (Starts laughing) Whoo, that's a brilliant plan, ese!
Walter White: You got one part of that wrong. (Picks up the crystal Tuco was examining) This... is not meth.
Walter White: You got one part of that wrong. (Picks up the crystal Tuco was examining) This... is not meth.
— Breaking Bad, Crazy Handful of Nothin
"Let me see if I have this," says Furnace. "I've learned never to agree a bargain that can't be put in clear language."''
The Solicitor-Baroness waves her on.
"You want me to have a giant diamond installed for a heart. Next, I turn into an entire city, with plenty of lodging for every member of the Tracklayers' Union. I myself would be the bride of a tract of sentient land, and we'd write me down in the family Bible as sister-in-law to the moon."
"This is almost entirely wrong," says the Solicitor-Baroness. "But you've expressed it as well as can be expressed in your language."
The Solicitor-Baroness waves her on.
"You want me to have a giant diamond installed for a heart. Next, I turn into an entire city, with plenty of lodging for every member of the Tracklayers' Union. I myself would be the bride of a tract of sentient land, and we'd write me down in the family Bible as sister-in-law to the moon."
"This is almost entirely wrong," says the Solicitor-Baroness. "But you've expressed it as well as can be expressed in your language."
(to the United Federation of Homers Through History) "Let me get this straight. None of you had time to take out the garbage?"
—Marge Simpson, The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror XXIII
Kevin: (portraying Dr. Bragon) But just to be clear, your father built a huge resort at great expense...
Bill: (portraying Noriko) Seven billion dollars, yes.
Kevin: ...and decided the location wouldn't work, so he let it go fallow while keeping the greenhouse active and in good condition.
Bill: Yes.
Kevin: Did he do market research before building the resort?
Bill: He is a very talented businessman, yes.
Kevin: Okay, okay, so after he abandoned the resort, his market research led him to believe that it was a good idea to keep the resort's greenhouse up and running?
Bill: Uh, I am not sure I understand your skepticism about this...
Kevin: Well, my point is if you do a cost/benefit analysis, really pencil it out...
Bill: Yes?
Kevin: Well, it seems like... ah, forget it!
— RiffTrax, The Revenge Of Dr. X
"So. Let me see if I'm understanding you correctly. You dissected a psychic's brain, enlisted the morally bankrupt minds of artists and writers from the likes of Hollywood and comic books, and created an "alien invader" that murdered three million people to unite the world. And you're surprised that humanity hasn't stayed united? If you're the smartest man on your planet, I'd hate to meet the dumbest."
—Lex Luthor to Adrian Veidt, Doomsday Clock #2
"Let me get this straight. You've known since last year that someone's been keeping an eye on anyone who tries to sell drugs in Carlton—and you decided to do it anyway?"
— Mateo Wojick, You'll Be the Death of Me
"Let me get this straight. I asked you to finally step up as a father and set a good example for your children. And the way you interpreted that was to take them shoplifting?"
— Nicole to Richard, The Amazing World of Gumball, "The Limit"
Murdoch: George. You think Mr. Newsome confessed to a murder in order to cover up the fact that he cheats at golf?
George: Yes.
Murdoch: That would be mad.
George: Yes.
Brackenreid: He could be right, Murdoch. That twit values his pride over everything. I was once ready to hang him over [him Stealing the Credit for] a bloody maths puzzle [that provoked a murder].
George: Yes.
Murdoch: That would be mad.
George: Yes.
Brackenreid: He could be right, Murdoch. That twit values his pride over everything. I was once ready to hang him over [him Stealing the Credit for] a bloody maths puzzle [that provoked a murder].
— Murdoch Mysteries, "A Case of the Yips"
"Lemme get this straight. You [Simba] know her [Nala], she knows you, but she wants to eat him [Pumbaa]. And everyone's... okay with this? DID I MISS SOMETHIN'?!?!?!"
— Timon, The Lion King (1994)
Jake: Wait a minute. (groan) So, you knew she was cursed all along, which means you knew she wasn't trying to steal your Demonic Eye Junk, or whatever, and you knew you had total control of her!
Ice King: Yeah, yes, that's right.
Jake: So then, why did you make us go through all that junk about why marriage is worth stuff?
Ice King: Oh, I don't know, I'm complicated... And spontaneous! (chuckle) That's probably why she wants to marry me!
Jake: She wants to marry you because you brainwashed her!
Ice King: SILENCE!
Finn and Jake: Whoa, wait, wait! (feet are frozen) Aww, man!
Ice King: Yeah, yes, that's right.
Jake: So then, why did you make us go through all that junk about why marriage is worth stuff?
Ice King: Oh, I don't know, I'm complicated... And spontaneous! (chuckle) That's probably why she wants to marry me!
Jake: She wants to marry you because you brainwashed her!
Ice King: SILENCE!
Finn and Jake: Whoa, wait, wait! (feet are frozen) Aww, man!
