"What Dr. Cox did was classic reverse psychology. And so is this: [backing up] Behavioral modification can sometimes be brought about through classic conditioning! [Beat] Reverse psychology? Nothing? 'Cause that really kills at the psychiatric conferences."
— Dr. Molly Clock, Scrubs ("My Old Friend's New Friend")
"With Duncan [MacLeod] taking over for Connor, the producers still felt that there needed to be a passing of the torch of some sort. Otherwise, Duncan would just be seen as a cheap knockoff of Connor. So they went back to Christopher Lambert and offered him that obscene amount of money to guest star in the show. Lambert still didn’t want to do TV on a regular basis, though, and said that his price had gone up, and that the obscene amount of money they were offering him would only be good for one episode.
So what happened? The producers caved, and Lambert made out like a bandit. I don’t know who his agent was, but the guy was a mastermind. He took a half-blind, non-English speaking actor and turned him into a major action hero, making a killing in a franchise that should have died with the first sequel."
So what happened? The producers caved, and Lambert made out like a bandit. I don’t know who his agent was, but the guy was a mastermind. He took a half-blind, non-English speaking actor and turned him into a major action hero, making a killing in a franchise that should have died with the first sequel."
—The Screemsheet
on Highlander: The Series
on Highlander: The Series"If there’s one thing Hulk Hogan understands, it’s that for true longevity, you need to weave yourself into the fabric of history. For example, Elvis was a huge fan when Hulk was working in Memphis, and would regularly go to see him wrestle. Hogan debuted in ’79, the King died in ’77. During one interview, he made a point to stamp out all those incorrect stories of him being romantically linked with Dolly Parton. And Pamela Anderson. Oh, and Drew Barrymore and Brooke Shields. Actually, rumour-killing is a great idea. While I’ve got your attention, I just went to put the record straight and say that all that stuff you might have heard about me ruining Jennifer Lawrence with my Pringles-can of a nob is hearsay at best."
"...if you were on the Price is Right and your Showcase Showdown was Flavor Flav on a dinette set with his dick out, you would pass. And the second contestant would bid one dollar and still go over. Because it's no longer medically legal to sell that dinette set, and buying dick from Flavor Flav... why, that's like trying to buy a rain cloud. That's why on game shows where the prize is a person, TV producers had to come up with a whole new system for winning and losing.
The Bachelor developed the rose ceremony and, since then, all dating reality shows have used a slight variation on it. It goes like this: You line up the people trying to win you and hand out roses until you're out of roses. Then the remaining people emotionally break down as it hits them that they're not even in the top 17 people that Flavor Flav would allow on his furniture-tainting dick."
The Bachelor developed the rose ceremony and, since then, all dating reality shows have used a slight variation on it. It goes like this: You line up the people trying to win you and hand out roses until you're out of roses. Then the remaining people emotionally break down as it hits them that they're not even in the top 17 people that Flavor Flav would allow on his furniture-tainting dick."
Chuck: The trick to dealing with stubborn people is making things so that they are stubborn about exactly the thing you want to accomplish instead of the opposite.
Eve: How?
Chuck: Mind tricks. Like, for example, there is this really really important mission, but you are not sure if your guys are willing to do it. So just have to act like they are not ALLOWED to go on that mission, and soon you have an entire squad insisting that they want to do it no matter what.
Eve: How?
Chuck: Mind tricks. Like, for example, there is this really really important mission, but you are not sure if your guys are willing to do it. So just have to act like they are not ALLOWED to go on that mission, and soon you have an entire squad insisting that they want to do it no matter what.
Scar: Your father didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border?
Simba: Well, no. He said I can't go there.
Scar: And he's absolutely right! It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there...An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince.
Simba: An elephant what? Whoa!
Scar: Oops! Oh, dear, I've said too much! Well, I suppose you'd have found out sooner or later, you being so clever and all. Just promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place!
Simba: No problem.
Scar: There's a good lad. You run along and have fun. And remember: it's our little secret!
(Simba runs off. Scar smirks wickedly)
Simba: Well, no. He said I can't go there.
Scar: And he's absolutely right! It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there...An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince.
Simba: An elephant what? Whoa!
Scar: Oops! Oh, dear, I've said too much! Well, I suppose you'd have found out sooner or later, you being so clever and all. Just promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place!
Simba: No problem.
Scar: There's a good lad. You run along and have fun. And remember: it's our little secret!
(Simba runs off. Scar smirks wickedly)
Suzy: You're right, Johnny; toy stores are stupid, who'd ever want to go there?
Johnny: (beat) Ha! Nice try, little girl, but I'm way too smart to fall for the old reverse psychology routine.
Suzy: That's right, you'd never fall for the old reverse psychology routine.
Johnny: Oh, wouldn't I!? Well we'll just see about that! Come on, missy, we're going to the toy store!
—Johnny Bravo, "Virtual Johnny"
Agatha: I am not your creator! You were not created to serve me — and I do not expect you to obey my commands or crush my enemies!
Huge Monstrosity: GRA— ... [snorts and waddles off]
Violetta: ...You are kidding me.
Krosp: Finally one of you gets it right!
Huge Monstrosity: GRA— ... [snorts and waddles off]
Violetta: ...You are kidding me.
Krosp: Finally one of you gets it right!
Daddysaurus: "I don't care if you NEVER use the potty, Littlesaurus!"
Littlesaurus: "What? Never? Hmmm... I think... I'll use the potty."
"Stay awake, don't rest your head.
Don't lie down upon your bed.
Though the moon drifts in the skies,
Stay awake; don't close your eyes.
Though the world is fast asleep.
Though your pillow's soft and deep,
You're not sleepy as you seem.
Stay awake; don't nod and dream.
Stay awake; don't nod and dream."
Don't lie down upon your bed.
Though the moon drifts in the skies,
Stay awake; don't close your eyes.
Though the world is fast asleep.
Though your pillow's soft and deep,
You're not sleepy as you seem.
Stay awake; don't nod and dream.
Stay awake; don't nod and dream."
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
"Oh, it's fine. It doesn't bother me how long Pound stays in diapers. All that matters is that he's happy, and if that means stopping his potty training until he's ready, that's fine by me. You don't have to use your potty anymore, Pound Cake. Though it would make me very happy if you did. I suppose I can't expect you to do everything I ask of you, though. I mean, I only gave birth to you, fed and nursed you, bathed you, changed you, and played with you. You really don't owe me."
"Go ahead, get trampled by a rhino.
Go ahead, get mugged and left for dead.
Me, I'm just your mother, what do I know?
I only bathed and changed and nursed you."
Go ahead, get mugged and left for dead.
Me, I'm just your mother, what do I know?
I only bathed and changed and nursed you."
— Gothel, Tangled
"There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honor of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my back was turned."
—Montresor, The Cask of Amontillado
