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"What is this?! What the hell's going?! Somebody! Anybody! Isn't there anyone left who's still sane?!
— Ichigo Kurosaki, Bleach
Comic Books
"Mad! You're all mad. I'm a death-worshiping tumbleweed and I'm literally the sanest one here."
— Sister Six, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, "Remastered"
Starline: You've yet to inoculate us to the metal virus!
Eggman: Shows what you know. There is NO vaccine!
Starline: Then... But... How were you going to protect us from the infection?
Eggman: By not touching the Zombots. Duh.
Starline: What if there was a spill on the Faceship!? Or a mishap in the field!? Or it mutates and becomes airborne!?
Eggman: You've exceeded my threshold for nitpicking, doctor.
Starline: (seething with rage) It's not nitpicking! It's common sense!
Eggman: Shows what you know. There is NO vaccine!
Starline: Then... But... How were you going to protect us from the infection?
Eggman: By not touching the Zombots. Duh.
Starline: What if there was a spill on the Faceship!? Or a mishap in the field!? Or it mutates and becomes airborne!?
Eggman: You've exceeded my threshold for nitpicking, doctor.
Starline: (seething with rage) It's not nitpicking! It's common sense!
— Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW), Issue #23
Fan Fiction
"I'll text Miki about it. She's relatively level-headed; I'm sure she can help us find a logical answer."
Asuna sighed like she was surrounded by idiots. Kirito didn't really understand why.
—Fate Revelation Online as the rest of her party geeks out over making lightsabers
"He is the SON of my COUSIN and my EX. Does NOBODY else see a problem with this? note "
Film - Animated
"I'm surrounded by idiots..."
— Scar, The Lion King (1994)
"Next time you get the urge to take over someone else's holiday, I'd listen to her. She's the only one who makes any sense around this insane asylum!"
— Santa Claus on Sally, The Nightmare Before Christmas
"Oh terrific! I was hoping to add kidnapping, theft, and INSANITY to the list of things I did today!"
— Pleakley, Lilo & Stitch
Film - Live-Action
"You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example. Eighteenth century: no such thing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person. Along comes this doctor, Semmelweis. He's trying to convince people that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny? Tiny? Invisible?
Now, up to the 20th century, last week I go in to order a burger at this fast-food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. James, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says "I don't believe in germs. Germs is a plot made up so they could sell disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See? There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion."
Now, up to the 20th century, last week I go in to order a burger at this fast-food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. James, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says "I don't believe in germs. Germs is a plot made up so they could sell disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See? There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion."
— Jeffrey Goines, 12 Monkeys
"Who cares about Derek Zoolander anyway? The man has only one look for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They're the same face! Doesn't anyone notice this?! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! I invented the piano key necktie! I invented it! What have you done, Derek?! Nothing! You've got nothing! NOTHING!"
— Mugatu, Zoolander
"I knew it! I'm surrounded by Assholes!"
— Dark Helmet, Spaceballs note
Clive: "Am I the only sane person here?! There is an alien in the kitchenette making bagels and coffee."
Graham: "Did you want tea?"
— Paul
President Lockwood: One of us has got to try sanity.
General Wombat: Don't do it, Mr. President. You'll hate it!
"I don't care what'cha say, there are some very odd people on this site."
— Arthur Upmore, Carry On Behind
"I've never had a trip like that in all of my life. And with such fearsome people. Have you ever seen anything like them? I swear they're all odd."
— Rob Tweet, Carry On Abroad
Kermit: You... You kidnapped Jack Black? That's illegal!
Fozzie: But Kermit, what's more illegal: briefly inconveniencing Jack Black, or destroying the Muppets?
Kermit: Kidnapping Jack Black, Fozzie!
Miss Piggy: Kermit, listen. Whatever I may think of you right now, these guys are counting on you! You inspire them.
Kermit: What? To-to kidnap people?
Miss Piggy: To work together!
Kermit: To kidnap people?!
Lew Zealand: Mr. The Frog, we all agreed a celebrity is not a people.
Fozzie: But Kermit, what's more illegal: briefly inconveniencing Jack Black, or destroying the Muppets?
Kermit: Kidnapping Jack Black, Fozzie!
Miss Piggy: Kermit, listen. Whatever I may think of you right now, these guys are counting on you! You inspire them.
Kermit: What? To-to kidnap people?
Miss Piggy: To work together!
Kermit: To kidnap people?!
Lew Zealand: Mr. The Frog, we all agreed a celebrity is not a people.
Literature
"Sanity is not Statistical."
— Winston, Nineteen Eighty-Four
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs, and blaming it on you..."
Are losing theirs, and blaming it on you..."
— "If", Rudyard Kipling
"All of you are lunatics, and I made the mistake of trying to talk sense."
— Weaver, Worm
Xavier: What do you do if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work for? What do you do when everyone tells you not to worry, you can't do anything about it, it was a long time ago?
Charlie: I suppose you go crazy.
Xavier: Or worse. Sane.
He blanked out the mental picture of himself as the last one left sane. He'd followed that one through before. It always led to the conclusion that it would be better to be one of the first.
— Thunder and Roses by Theodore Sturgeon.
Live-Action TV
"WRONG. I'm perfectly sane, everyone else however is insane and trying to steal my magic bag!"
— Dana Carvey as John McLaughlin, Saturday Night Live
"Watch him for me, will you, darling? He's the last sane man in the world."
—Madame Egadine regarding Number Six, The Prisoner (1967)
"Whatever your plan was, it was probably better than my plan to escape the trenches by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?"
I always imagined, early on, that Frankie belongs to a very remarkable family that’s also incredibly unstable. Sort of the same way that Marilyn Munster was the ugly one because she was beautiful — Frankie is the hero of her family because she’s sane. That usually doesn’t get you a lot of ribbons, but if you grew up in the Hemingway family or something where the life expectancy was literally affected by the genius and imbalance of the rest of the family — if there’s a person in that family whose talent is for being predictable and solving problems, I imagine that person would be looked at as a superhero by the crazy people around them. That’s how she’s always lived her life. And she enjoys the company of the screwed-up...She doesn’t blink when she’s faced with craziness; she enjoys cleaning it up and helping it.
— Dan Harmon talking about the character of Frankie Dart, from Community
"I'm living in a house filled with crazy people!"
— Mike Baxter, Last Man Standing
Lesley Ann Warren: You know, Kermit, I thought you were the one person on this show who wasn't crazy.
Kermit the Frog: Me, not crazy? I hired the others!
Kermit the Frog: Me, not crazy? I hired the others!
"So, only the dreamer and the madman left. Who the fuck is gonna be the sensible one now?"
Paddy Mayne after the death of Jock Lewes, SAS: Rogue Heroes
Music
"Day after day
Alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
And he never gives an answer
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round...
And he never listens to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him"
Alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
And he never gives an answer
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round...
And he never listens to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him"
— The Beatles, "The Fool on the Hill"
"Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you"
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you"
— Stealers Wheel, "Stuck In The Middle With You"
Newspaper Comics
"I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination."
— Dilbert
"Why is it that the nuttiest people define reality?"
— Dilbert
"If you spend all of your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts."
— Dilbert
Podcasts
Eric: Are [the Funns] insane, or am I?
Georgie: I'm the only one who isn't.
Georgie: I'm the only one who isn't.
Video Games
Tallis: So, "Champion of Kirkwall". Fancy title.
Hawke: "The Only One in Kirkwall not Completely Insane" was considered.
Hawke: "The Only One in Kirkwall not Completely Insane" was considered.
"Ex-Alliance. Biotic training. Despite solid service history, clearly placed on Shepard's team primarily for stabilizing elements of personality."
— The Shadow Broker sums up Jacob Taylor, Mass Effect 2
James: Everyone wait! Haven't we all had enough of war lately?
All other Gods: NO!
All other Gods: NO!
"Good God, I'm smack dab in the middle of crazyland! I can't take two steps without stepping in a pile of wacko!"
"Guys, I'm dying over here! Don't you have any idea how long I've been shooting down this ridiculous conversation inside my head?!"
— Arisa Ichigaya thinking to herself, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party
Council Member 1: We have no evidence that the missiles are even destructive in nature.
Council Member 2: Evidence!? The Verilent Hive has been doing this for hundreds of years: Bomb planet, wait for dust to settle, then re-colonize to expand hive! What exactly do you think is inside those warheads? Gift baskets?
Visual Novel
Kengo: Saigusa doesn't make any sense as usual...
Riki: Indeed...
Riki (narrating): When it came to lack of common sense, she was standing on equal footing with Kurugaya-san and Rin. But I wonder, why am I alone surrounded by that sort of girls? I couldn't help but wonder about that.
Kenji: Something on your mind, dude?
Hisao: Just thinking about what it's like to be the last sane man in an insane world.
[Kenji frowns, looking deeply upset]
Kenji: You mean that's you? That can't be, because I'm the last sane man in an insane world. That is my dream; you can't just steal a man's dream. What the hell? There can't be two last sane men. It would invalidate that whole "last" part... and that part is kind of important. There can only be one, like in that foreign movie where there could only be one, and in the end there is only one dude left, because that was the point.
Hisao: Just thinking about what it's like to be the last sane man in an insane world.
[Kenji frowns, looking deeply upset]
Kenji: You mean that's you? That can't be, because I'm the last sane man in an insane world. That is my dream; you can't just steal a man's dream. What the hell? There can't be two last sane men. It would invalidate that whole "last" part... and that part is kind of important. There can only be one, like in that foreign movie where there could only be one, and in the end there is only one dude left, because that was the point.
Web Animation
"Am I having an aneurysm, what is happening?!"
— Ramsey Murdoch, after watching a guy eat a pair of crayons and cough up several dozen rubber ducks, Epithet Erased
Epsilon: Come on Wash, you're supposed to be the smart one in the group.
Simmons: I thought I was the smart one in the group?
Grif: Ehh. Smart's relative.
Simmons: I thought I was the smart one in the group?
Grif: Ehh. Smart's relative.
— Red vs. Blue, "Out of the Frying Pan"
Red: This is a bad idea.
Akio: Then why'd you come with me?
Red: Because if I don't you're going to do something stupid.
Akio: Then why'd you come with me?
Red: Because if I don't you're going to do something stupid.
Webcomics
"Normal? If we're all freaks and you're normal, you're the freak."
— Roger, College Roomies from Hell!!!
"As a sane man, you are badly outnumbered again, my good lord. Perhaps you should defect, and join us all."
"If you had to hang out with a Greek deity, I’d go with Hestia. She never married, just cooked food, lit fireplaces, took care of travelers, and basically just chilled out at home. All-around cool lady."
— Postscript to a comic
depiction of the Olympian family tree
depiction of the Olympian family treeCG: I HAVE GA LINED UP FOR THE RED TEAM BECAUSE SHE IS ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING SANE ONES LEFT TO PLAY.
CG: OK, THE ONLY SANE ONE.
CG: OK, THE ONLY SANE ONE.
Web Original
"Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only sane man left in this world. This increasingly appears to be the case."
— Tybalt Capulet (Drake)
"WHY ARE THE SOLDIERS BOMBING EACH OTHER? IS THIS REAL?! I JUST WANNA GO HOME! EVERYONE IS CRAZY EXCEPT ME!"
Fleischer: You're all fucked in the head!
Lucy: The good kind!
Fleischer: There is no good kind!
Fleischer: (upon discovering Dorothy's headless body hanging up in the shed) What the fuck did I miss? What the actual fuck did I miss? Why do I leave you guys alone for five minu- (Cut to credits)
"I am the only serious character in this show. That's the joke."
— Tien, Dragonball Z Abridged
"I feel like the only sane person in crazytown."
— Jacksfilms on the abundance of Hallmark Christmas movies, and their repetitiveness and weirdness.
Saber: (in response to Archer's Motive Rant) That's inane!
Archer: Oh, we're all inane, every one of us here is an idiot, you and I are just the only ones trying to do something about it!
Archer: Oh, we're all inane, every one of us here is an idiot, you and I are just the only ones trying to do something about it!
"I think that we all have to accept that everybody here is a potential fucking powder keg. Except for [Orym]. For some reason we decided to have one person who seems healthy and well-adjusted, honestly it's a little irritating."
— Ashton, Critical Role
Western Animation
"All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!"
— Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Fans frequently point out her later mental breakdown as evidence she was right
Frank Grimes: Hey, look, everybody! Simpson's in a contest with children!
Lenny: Hey, shush.
Carl: You're making us miss the contest.
Mr. Burns: [...] Could you explain your model, young man?
Frank: What's to explain? He's an idiot.
Lenny: Pipe down!
Homer: [...] Well, basically, I just copied the plant we have now. Then I added some fins to lower wind resistance, and this racing stripe here is pretty sharp.
Mr. Burns: Agreed! First prize!
Frank: WHAT?
Carl: Way to go, Homer!
Lenny: You're number 1, Homer!
Frank: B-but, but this was a contest for children!
Lenny: Yeah, and Homer beat their brains out!
[the crowd cheers and applauds]
Frank: I can't stand it any longer! This whole plant is insane! (flails his arms) INSANE, I tell you! Aaahh! AHHH!
Lenny: Hey, shush.
Carl: You're making us miss the contest.
Mr. Burns: [...] Could you explain your model, young man?
Frank: What's to explain? He's an idiot.
Lenny: Pipe down!
Homer: [...] Well, basically, I just copied the plant we have now. Then I added some fins to lower wind resistance, and this racing stripe here is pretty sharp.
Mr. Burns: Agreed! First prize!
Frank: WHAT?
Carl: Way to go, Homer!
Lenny: You're number 1, Homer!
Frank: B-but, but this was a contest for children!
Lenny: Yeah, and Homer beat their brains out!
[the crowd cheers and applauds]
Frank: I can't stand it any longer! This whole plant is insane! (flails his arms) INSANE, I tell you! Aaahh! AHHH!
SpongeBob: [Imitating Squidward] Everybody's an idiot except for me.
Squidward: Well, it's true.
Squidward: Well, it's true.
It may be a coincidence, but it seems good judgment is at a premium today.
—Edd, Ed, Edd n Eddy, "Dim Lit Ed"
I am surrounded by idiots.
—Edd, much later in the same episode, after scamming Johnny into buying a sprinkler that looks like an iguana.
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore."
—Professor Farnsworth, Futurama, "A Clockwork Origin", in response to a crowd believing that his work to prove evolution actually disproves it.
"Am I the only one here who thinks this is COMPLETELY CRAZY?!"
— Gumball', The Amazing World of Gumball, "The Safety", on Darwin's extremely overbearing safety measures that the rest of the Wattersons are going along with willingly
