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But Wait, There's More!

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But Wait, There's More!	comment	(When reading this entry, please instruct the voice in your head to use a tone of rapid, breathless excitement to properly convey the importance and amazement involved, a la Billy Mays.) A common phrase often heard in infomercials that resemble a high pressure sales pitch! After demonstrating why the product is the best thing ever, how it lets people who don't know how to use a strainer to drain pasta without burning themselves and does your taxes for you! A price is set! But wait! There's more! In addition to the product, you can get more of them, in a handy travel size, along with this other product that helps you sort your drawers and store food, and costs far more than a couple of mason jars or some of those Glad disposable tupperware things! All this for only 69.99, or four equal payments of 49.99! Operators Are Standing By! But only if you act now! Don't think, it's a great deal! Buy now! Offer Void in Nebraska. (Your mental voice may calm down now, if it wants to.) A stock phrase uttered by infomercial hosts after telling you all about the great product they're hawking. They proceed to sweeten the deal by adding a few more things, or refills, or another product that's not selling so well on its own, or "double your order" when that's how much they intended to sell for the price in the first place. But only if you act now! Now! Now! There's even a bit of unintended humor to the phrase, since it can give the impression that the ad itself knew you were about to change the channel on it. The phrase has become so associated with infomercials that it's hard to believe that it's Older Than Steam, but it's one of The Oldest Tricks in the Book. The only reason that we can't date it back before the 1400s is that we simply don't know a lot about common life before the Renaissance - until then, nobody wrote down what the average person said or did (or if they did we don't know it). Suffice it to say that archaeologists wouldn't be at all surprised to find the Latin equivalent of "But wait! There's more!" scrawled on the wall of a Pompeii shop.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_1cf9838c	comment	Bill Nye invokes a variation of it ("Wait, wait, there's more!") in his famous debate against Ken Ham, when talking about the topminnows and sexual reproduction.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_20948a39	comment	Spoken by LeChuck in Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood, when, after confessing to the court that he was the one who spread the Pox of LeChuck, he has something else (i.e., the Voodoo Lady's diary) to show to the court.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_29e77392	comment	Horrible Histories: Nero does this while reciting his deeds in "The Evil Emperors' Song", where four of the nastiest Roman emperors try to outdo each other via Villain Song:
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But Wait, There's More! / int_3095b3a0	comment	In the Cyanide and Happiness short "Book", the salesman says this at one point. There's then an awkward pause while the other guy waits for him to continue, and just as he's about to interrupt, the salesman resumes his pitch at an ever faster speed than before.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_326c82c5	comment	In the NCIS: Los Angeles episode "In The Line Of Duty", Eric parodies this trope while presenting evidence to the rest of the team, including saying the trope name verbatim.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_3653240d	comment	In The Peter Serafinowicz Show, terrible salesman Brian Butterfield often uses this phrase in his adverts - ending in an anticlimactic "That's all."
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But Wait, There's More! / int_42256342	comment	Fast Forward did several parodies of Tim Shaw. In one skit he sells so many extras he also throws in a free warehouse to hold them all, and in another he ends up getting stabbed in the back with his free steak knives as the only way to stop him selling more.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_43628937	comment	The Pythia in Greek Ninja says this to Sasha after she's dropped the bomb on her that she's the reincarnation of Eli of Thrace.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_45501b8c	comment	This trope is why one of the rooms in Super Metroid (which contains an additional, hidden pickup) is called "The Billy Mays Room".
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But Wait, There's More! / int_4e0ae9f0	comment	Megumi uses this line on Satou, Misaki and Yamazaki in episode 18 of Welcome to the NHK in order to sell them on the dietary supplement/keep Satou in the pyramid scheme.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_55db07fc	comment	In the former Ghostbusters Spooktacular show at Universal Studios Florida, when showing off the "Ghostbuster starter kits" to the guests, Louis Tully mentions, "But that's not all! Because if you act right now, we'll throw in these handsome ghost blasters for no extra charge!"
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But Wait, There's More! / int_5921531b	comment	In Persona 4 this happened weekly, without fail during the in-universe shopping show, "Tanaka's Amazing Commodities."
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But Wait, There's More! / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic is in the habit of saying this in his strained, pained ironic way when the stupidity of a particular scene just keeps coming. Here's an example.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_76dd7ef1	comment	From Banana-nana-Ninja!:
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But Wait, There's More! / int_7c038c18	comment	On Phineas and Ferb, Doofenshmirtz creates the scorch-inator to destroy the towers that broadcast infomercials, because he has an addiction to them and it's taking time away from his evil plans. His speech to Perry the Platypus is in the form of an infomercial, and at the end he says: "But wait! There's more!" It is then revealed he doesn't actually have anything more to say.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_7e63a2e3	comment	Played with: Todd Rundgren's song "International Feel" keeps promising "more," "yet there's more," but never specifies anything.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_910dcc8c	comment	Byleth says this word for word in Chapter 7 of Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path which the narration Lampshades as "the first example of an infomercial saleswoman."
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But Wait, There's More! / int_9b891ef2	comment	Scary Movie parodies this trend when the a copycat killer is explaining his actions.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_a454f368	comment	Smoldep from Smoldeps Magickal Adventure says this trope word for word right before introducing her Pop Quiz.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_b1df22ec	comment	Pascal uses the exact line in Tales of Graces when presenting her Derris Bit invention.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_b55114e6	comment	Jedite does this occasionally in Sailor Moon Abridged.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_bc8b07	comment	Epic Rap Battles of History has Billy Mays lead his second verse with these exact words in the battle with Ben Franklin, just before Mays dies of a heart attack in mid-battle... so that Vince Offer can sub in instead.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_bcdcf629	comment	Transformers: Animated featured Swindle, a gratuitous parody of Ron Popeil and shameless shill-bot for all manner of hardware. He practically oozes with insincere charm and is only too happy to try and sweeten his deals to sucker in buyers, right down to quoting the trope verbatim and claim he's throwing in 'extras' for them. Notably, while some Decepticons fall for the 'extras' pitch, Megatron is much too Genre Savvy for this, outright mocking Swindle's claim of having any scruples at all.
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But Wait, There's More! / int_cc1bf35b	comment	Monkey Island: Spoken by LeChuck in Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood, when, after confessing to the court that he was the one who spread the Pox of LeChuck, he has something else (i.e., the Voodoo Lady's diary) to show to the court. As an archetypal Snake Oil Salesman, Stan also frequently says this line.
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