Fiction
Tom: [as "Captain Proton"] Take a look around you. This is how the twentieth century saw the future! We are studying sociology!
Doctor: Perhaps you can teach a course at Starfleet Academy: "Satan's Robot - an Historical Overview."
Doctor: Perhaps you can teach a course at Starfleet Academy: "Satan's Robot - an Historical Overview."
— Star Trek: Voyager, "Night"
Archchancellor Ridcully: So why, every year, do we hang a damn great bunch of mistletoe up there?
Senior Wrangler: Well, er ... well, it's ... it's symbolic, Archchancellor.
Archchancellor: Ah?
Wrangler: Of ... the leaves, d'y'see ... they're symbolic of ... of green, d'y'see, whereas the berries, in fact ... symbolize white. Yes. White and green. Very ... symbolic.
Archchancellor: What of?
Wrangler: [coughs] I'm not sure there has to be an of.
Archchancellor: Ah? So it could be said that the white and green symbolize a small parasitic plant?
Wrangler: Yes, indeed.
Archchancellor: So mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe?
Wrangler: Exactly, Archchancellor.
Archchancellor: Funny thing, that. That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Wrangler: It could be both.
Archchancellor: And that comment is either very perceptive or very trite.
Wrangler: It might be bo—
Archchancellor: Don't push it, Senior Wrangler.
Senior Wrangler: Well, er ... well, it's ... it's symbolic, Archchancellor.
Archchancellor: Ah?
Wrangler: Of ... the leaves, d'y'see ... they're symbolic of ... of green, d'y'see, whereas the berries, in fact ... symbolize white. Yes. White and green. Very ... symbolic.
Archchancellor: What of?
Wrangler: [coughs] I'm not sure there has to be an of.
Archchancellor: Ah? So it could be said that the white and green symbolize a small parasitic plant?
Wrangler: Yes, indeed.
Archchancellor: So mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe?
Wrangler: Exactly, Archchancellor.
Archchancellor: Funny thing, that. That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Wrangler: It could be both.
Archchancellor: And that comment is either very perceptive or very trite.
Wrangler: It might be bo—
Archchancellor: Don't push it, Senior Wrangler.
Scott: What are you idiots doing?
Phillip: We're searching for treasure!
Scott: Is that some kind of metaphor for a search that can't be described?
Phillip: ....noooo, we're searching for treasure!
Phillip: We're searching for treasure!
Scott: Is that some kind of metaphor for a search that can't be described?
Phillip: ....noooo, we're searching for treasure!
Robot: That's your point, isn't it? No matter how much we produce, there will be those who are never satisfied. Our perception is shifted when it comes to humans. We needed a sqid to see this with lenses clean of bias. You are a very wise teacher.
Sam: I appreciate that you think I'm deep and all, but really, I'm just trying to steal from you.
Sam: I appreciate that you think I'm deep and all, but really, I'm just trying to steal from you.
— Freefall
Clark Kent: A girl I knew back home got hurt. Burned real bad. We all chipped in, raised money. Took a month of her suffering. These dumb things could have paid for her surgery three times over. And you're eating them like they're potato chips.
Partygoer: Never thought I'd hear Bruce Wayne worry about money.
Clark: I'm not Bruce Wayne.
Partygoer: ...Deep.
Partygoer: Never thought I'd hear Bruce Wayne worry about money.
Clark: I'm not Bruce Wayne.
Partygoer: ...Deep.
"Oh, Ormus has been talking in riddles for years. I think he does it to cover up the fact that he's got nothing intelligent to say."
— Alkor, Diablo II
Caboose: And I will put Kool-Aids in all the water fountains! And we won't have to wear uniforms...anymore! And Principal Kimball... will...allow us...double recess! [echoing] Recess, recess recess...
Tucker: Caboose, you're not running for class president.
Smith: No, don't you see? We won't need uniforms anymore because the war will finally be over. Kimball will send us out into the world and we'll never have to raise another gun ever again. By god, he has such a way with words.
Grif: Is this guy for real?
Simmons: Wait, what about the Kool-aid in the water fountains?
Smith: Oh yeah, that sounds awesome.
Tucker: Caboose, you're not running for class president.
Smith: No, don't you see? We won't need uniforms anymore because the war will finally be over. Kimball will send us out into the world and we'll never have to raise another gun ever again. By god, he has such a way with words.
Grif: Is this guy for real?
Simmons: Wait, what about the Kool-aid in the water fountains?
Smith: Oh yeah, that sounds awesome.
— Red vs. Blue, "Teaming with Problems"
"I may speak in a way that suggests a deeper meaning, but rarely is that actually the case."
— Zelkov, Fire Emblem Engage
Dot: We're all about to die!
Yakko: Well, that's a bit dramatic, but I know how you feel, sis. Animaniacs brings laughter and hope to so many across the globe, so without it, yes — a little piece of all of us would die.
Dot: [pointing out a falling meteor heading towards them] No, we're really all about to die.
Yakko: Well, that's a bit dramatic, but I know how you feel, sis. Animaniacs brings laughter and hope to so many across the globe, so without it, yes — a little piece of all of us would die.
Dot: [pointing out a falling meteor heading towards them] No, we're really all about to die.
— Animaniacs (2020), "Everyday Safety: Giant Adirondack Chair"
"Two months later her 18th birthday, in 390, Helia was crowned queen. At the end of the ceremony at the Celestum, Helia said her most famous phrase: "The Crown Weighs". Although many interpret that Helia referred to all the pressure of being queen, the simple truth was that the St. Urania's Crown was literally heavy."
Real Life
A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. Now it is not only a sport, it's in the Olympics... And that's what freedom is all about.
That's right. In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien is really writing up the real history of the world that he had discovered in ancient Finnish texts, and which had been suppressed by the powers that be, though the story really involved aliens and archons ... archons? Oh, yeah — those....And not only are The Lord of the Rings real. The Hunger Games are real as well; the films "show the unaware public a theatrical play or representation of what has been actually occurring in secret enclaves." His evidence? "Why wouldn't the real elite that run the planet just LOVE the Hunger Games? New World Order obviously financed the series. Examine posters for film #2 Catching Fire. You see there is a sun in one of them; and fire. These are all Illuminati themes."
— Encyclopedia on American Loons, Doug Yuchey
Rihanna said "People should not take the lyrics too literally. I don't think of it in a sexual way, I'm thinking metaphorically. It's more of a thing to say that people can talk about you, you just have to be that strong person who—" Oh, I'm not even going to dignify that.
Yeah, and "Let's Get It On" is actually a protest song about the Vietnam war!
Yeah, and "Let's Get It On" is actually a protest song about the Vietnam war!
— Todd in the Shadows, reviewing "S&M"
The game is patterened on IndyCar racing, Formula racing is the most popular type of racing in every part of the world that is not the United States, and the US's Indianapolis 500 is one of the three most important races within it. This is ironic. So Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat is specifically a type of heat that is looking at the rest of the world. The Indianapolis 500 draws its power from places other than Indianapolis, which would itself no doubt prefer NASCAR because it is more American. Here we recognize a bit of wordplay. 'Indy' refers not just to Indianapolis, but to independence...We glimpse a world outside. These other cars want to be first. They have the same obligation we do. The mandala demands two people be first but allows only one to be. It sets someone up for failure. And because we have chosen to obey, we scream that it will not be us, blow our turbo, press onward. Damn the torpedos. Damn the man. Damn everyone but us. This is our path towards enlightenment.
In time we realize that we have gotten wrapped up in a specter. We were never racers. Were never anything but us, playing a child's game.
In time we realize that we have gotten wrapped up in a specter. We were never racers. Were never anything but us, playing a child's game.
One of the many questions I have about the post-animapocalypse world of Slylock Fox involves biodiversity: have the newly sapient animals remained restricted to their original ranges, or, like the early members of genus Homo, are they using their smarts to conquer new environments? Today we learn that Australia, at least, is still largely the domain of its unique native fauna, who have in their brief period of ascendency already established an iron-clad hierarchy: the marsupials wear fancy clothes and sell expensive baubles to each other, while the monotremes live on the margins of society and are forced to steal to survive. Unfortunately, the marsupials aren't equipped to maintain the oppressive social structure they've created and have been forced to call in placental mammals from outside to help. If human history is any guide, this is a terrible, terrible mistake.
You can especially tell that Davison doesn't have a clue how to play the Doctor and so he walks from the TARDIS and simply grins like a lunatic until he meets somebody. That's his default setting and yet people seem obsessed with the fact that he is really channeling something deeper (Paul Cornell) when the actor himself admits he was just winging it at this stage with little off screen assistance.
