Quotes / Russian Reversal

"The Thievius Raccoonus doesn't create great thieves, it takes great thieves to create the Thievius Raccoonus."

— Sly Cooper, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

"I takes what I wants and I wants what I take! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

— Captain Kidd, Felix the Cat, "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg"

Lone Starr: A million [space bucks]? That's unfair!
Pizza the Hutt: Unfair to the payer, but not to the payee. But you're gonna pay it, or else!
Lone Starr: Or else what?
Pizza the Hutt: Tell 'em, Vinnie.
Vinnie: Or else Pizza is gonna send out for you!

— Spaceballs

Now I know what Yakov Smirnoff meant when he said that in Soviet Russia fucks don't give you.

— Cracked, "7 Athletes Who Had More Crazy Than Talent"

"In Mother Russia, this joke is tired of you."

— Zarya, Heroes of the Storm

"The radio's Russian; the dials work backwards!"

— Lt. Fynn, The Wild Geese

"We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us!"

— Old Mexican-American saying ^note  Many Mexican-Americans trace their ancestry to citizens of Northern Mexico whose homelands were forcibly annexed by the United States in the Mexican-American War. Despite having lived in the United States for well over a century, they're often assumed to be more recent immigrants from south of the border.

Dad: So you're saying [Burt] makes burgers into rats?!
Zoe: No, Dad, it's the other way round!

— Ratburger

"It looks like the dogs are walking Mr. Noodle!"

— Elmo, a Licensed Game of Sesame Street

"I'm in the milk and the milk's in me!"

— Mickey, Maurice Sendak in the Night Kitchen ^note He was swimming in some milk and drank some.

"I love my teeth and my teeth love me."

— Fonzie from Happy Days making an appearance on Sesame Street

No crocodiles, no rhinoceruses. I only like hippopotamuses, and hippopotamuses like me too."

— Gayla Peevey, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"

"I love the rain and the rain loves me!"

— Kitty White, Hello Kitty, "Mom Loves Me After All"

"I love you, you love me, we're a happy family."

— Barney, Barney & Friends

"Start punching out on time or I'll punch you out on time! ...I don't mean that violently, I was just trying to turn a phrase."

— Dr. Kelso, Scrubs

Sheldon: This is the temperature you agreed to in the Roommate Agreement!
Leonard: Oh, screw the Roommate Agreement!
Sheldon: No, you don't screw the Roommate Agreement, the Roommate Agreement screws you!

— The Big Bang Theory, "The Staircase Implementation"

"Boy — I say — boy, Mr. Kaiba, I do declare, it looks like the rules just screwed you!"

— Lector/Ginzo, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series

Doctor Fate 1: Does Kent Nelson wear the helm?
Doctor Fate 2: Or does the helm wear Kent Nelson?
Doctor Fate 1: Let us find out.

Darkseid: This is not your world to protect.
Jay Garrick: Doesn't matter. I'll save it on principle.
Darkseid: But will your principle save you?

Aquaman: Bane!
Bane: I have caught a merman.
Aquaman: Or has he caught you?

Black Adam: Relinquish the helm to me.
Doctor Fate: You would corrupt its power.
Black Adam: Its power has corrupted you.

Bizarro: Why hairy lady behind Bizarro?
Starfire: The Titans can help you, Bizarro...
Bizarro: You help Bizarro, Bizarro help you.

— Injustice 2

"Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form."

— The Heart Sutra

"You've taken everything from me. My reputation is ruined, now I will ruin YOU!"

— Dmitri Johannes Petrov, Henry Stickmin: Completing the Mission

"Pelagius' mother was... well... let us say 'unique.' Although, I suppose in the grand scheme of things, she was fairly average for a Septim. That woman wielded fear like a cleaver. Or did she wield a cleaver and make people afraid? I never get that part right..."

— Sheogorath, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Xenk: You may have forsworn your oath, but your oath hasn't forsworn you.
Edgin: [scoffs] Just because that sentence is symmetrical doesn't make it not nonsense.

— Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Claire: We're making bits and parts!
Andy: Although, sometimes, I feel a bit like the parts are making me!

— Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

"Around here, you don’t eat your veggies; the veggies eat you!"

— Cure Bloom, Anything for Family

"You here make trouble, Skinny? Trouble make YOU!"

— Ferra before fighting Kung Jin, Mortal Kombat X

"I didn't choose the thug life; the thug life chose me."

— Tupac Shakur

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