Quotes / Old Shame

Film - Animated

"I saved a bunch of people, fell in love, saved the city, and then I saved the city again... and again and again and again. And I did, uh... I did this."
(Cut to him doing the emo dance in full Spider-Man costume)
"We don't really talk about this."

— Peter Parker, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Music

A painful picture I can't forget

Now what I see is what I get

— "Switchback", Celldweller

Video Games

"The fact that you were once my apprentice is a source of great shame."

— Sagat (to Adon),Super Street Fighter IV

Webcomics

Pit: Hey man! Haven't seen you in a while. Now we just need to get Simon—
Mega Man: Ssh! Don't bring that up!
Pit: Bring up what-icus?
Mega Man: AARGH

— Brawl in the Family

Sometimes it’s just fun to dig into your past.

… Until you uncover something that never should have seen the light of day again.

— Sandra North, Sandra and Woo

Web Animation

99% of creators claim to loathe everything they made more than 5 years ago, and the remaining 1% are liars.

— Yahtzee Croshaw, Zero Punctuation

Web Video

On the other side, you have people calling it the most overrated game ever made, saying it singlehandedly RUINED Final Fantasy, and anyone who likes it is a close-minded pretentious tool clinging to nostalgia.... and to my everlasting shame, I was in that camp once.

— Josh Scorcher

Western Animation

Sideshow Bob: Oh, must you bray night and day at that infernal television!?
Cellmate 1: Oh, look who's talking.
Cellmate 2: Yeah, Bob, you used to be on this show.
Sideshow Bob: Don't remind me! My foolish capering destroyed more young minds than syphilis and pinball combined!

— The Simpsons, 7.09 Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming

The 86 hour PBS series "Ken Burns' Bicycles". A documentary so unwieldy and meandering, Burns himself has disavowed it.

—Klaus, American Dad!

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