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Double Don't Know
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A ubiquitous utterance in film, television, and the legitimate theatre, signifying that the protagonist is (dramatically) out of ideas. For real, this time. Whereas in Real Life, most of us are content to say "I don't know" once, if at all, fictional characters are likely to repeat the phrase for dramatic effect. It's a common act break, being almost magnetically attracted to music stings and commercial breaks. Although there are several variations of the Double Don't Know, there are a few particularly common breeds. Samples, with context: After-School Specials Sci-Fi The Double Don't Know is closely related to One-Liner, Name... One-Liner — which is made of simple, repetitive phrases used to provide closure to a scene or plot, including but not limited to: "I do, Billy. I really do," or, "It sure is, Billy. It sure is." etc. This variation is mostly a Dead Horse Trope, though the namesake phrase lingers on. This is a stock phrase trope. It has nothing to do with "what now?" cliffhangers that don't feature repetitive statements akin to those described above. It's also unrelated to Donald Rumsfeld's famous Unknown Unknowns — "the things we don't know we don't know". |
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Bosch: In the episode "Blood Under the Bridge", Robertson (who is investigating the Gunn murder) talks to Edgar. He first states that he thinks Bosch is being framed. He next says that maybe, to put heat on someone else, Bosch is framing himself. Edgar shuts him down with "Never." Robertson says to him, "You don't know, youngblood, you don't know." | |
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In the Season 8 finale of Suits, Thomas, a furniture manufacturer owner (and Donna's current love interest) has a handshake agreement to sell furniture to all of a real estate client's shopping malls, is going to betray Thomas' company by using them as a stalking horse for getting better terms from a competing manufacturer. Donna, not knowing what has happened, sees Harvey's face and queries him. He admits what is happening but asks her to wait while he tries to arrange a replacement deal. Donna goes on her date, and Thomas tells her about how he got a really sweet deal from his current landlord, but this offer is only good until noon tomorrow. Worried he might get no deal at all, Donna tells him what's happening. He immediately takes the current offer and puts out a press release. The mall company is going to sue them for violating privilege. Louis wants to know how this happened: | |
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In The Enforcer, one of the terrorists wants to know something, prompting a tripled variant: | |
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WandaVision: A justified version, as they're answers to multiple questions about which there is insufficient information. | |
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In Lord of War, a triple version: | |
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The theme song of Corner Gas goes, in part: "I don't know, the same things you don't know. I don't know, I just don't know." | |
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In the Supernatural episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One", Sam replies twice with "I don't know" when Andy asks him where they are. | |
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In JFK, after the team views David Ferrie's body. Garrison begins walking away, dejected at losing the prosecution's best witness to the conspiracy. "Where you goin', Boss?" Bill calls after him. Garrison replies, "I don't know, Bill. I just... don't... know." (In the two-tape set of the Director's Cut on VHS, Tape 1 ended immediately after this line. Thus, it actually served as the Act Break while the viewer switched tapes.) | |
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In Escape from the Planet of the Apes, a presidential advisor has discovered from them that one day apes will become sentient, and the world will be destroyed in the year 3955, so he tells the President of the United States that to prevent a Stable Time Loop, he should have the two chimpanzees from the future (Cornelius and Zira) killed. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who drama Bang-Bang-a-Boom!, Dr. Fassbender — the science officer on Dark Space Eight — responds to every problem presented to him with "I don't know... I just don't know." It turns out that he never knows because he's The Alcoholic, and whatever scientific expertise he started with is long forgotten. | |
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In Time for the Stars, Tom Bartlett — an identical twin with his brother Pat — has discovered through testing by the Long Range Foundation that they communicate telepathically, and the foundation has offered them a lucrative contract as communication specialists, in which one will get to go in a spaceship to the stars to collect information about planets they reach while the other stays home. Tom is unhappy because Pat arranged to sign the contract last, making him the one who gets to go to space. Tom wonders to himself in his journal if Pat did this deliberately and whether he would have done so himself. | |
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In Band of Brothers, when Easy Company advances into Foy and Lieutenant Dike completely loses his cool, he's surrounded by subordinates demanding to know, "What are your orders, sir?" and wails back, "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know!" | |
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In Kung Fu Panda, after Shifu is finally persuaded to train the (by now thoroughly demoralized) Po: | |
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This happens in the film version of The Sound of Music. When the Von Trapp family sits down to dinner, Captain Von Trapp announces that he's going away on yet another trip, to groans from his children. Gretl asks "How long will you be gone this time, Father?" and Captain Von Trapp says "I'm not sure, Gretl, not sure." | |
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In Red Planet, the new headmaster at the only high school on Mars has posted an announcement on the bulletin board that all student rooms must be neat and orderly, and that inspections will be done weekly by him personally, instead of each floor monitor handling the issue. The change is not appreciated. | |
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The Terminator: When Kyle and Sarah are on the run from the Terminator, she asks him if he can stop it. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Ultimate Computer", when it becomes evident that the M-5 computer is dangerously out of control: | |
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Top Gun, as the classic '80s Cliché Storm, features this, though in a slightly different way than might be expected. | |
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In Futurama, Amy and Hermes after watching All My Circuits: | |
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Happens by accident in The Stand. Near the end, one character is asked, on the other side of The End of the World as We Know It, if she believes whether "people ever learn anything". She says, "I don't know," then pauses. Stephen King spent a good month trying to come up with an answer, couldn't, and had her repeat herself. | |
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In Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Bruce has yet to become Batman, and is torn between fulfilling his promise to his parents and his new love Andrea Beaumont. He knows that he can't risk his life if someone is waiting at home for him. Alfred walks in and suggests that he tell her so, as she's on the phone. | |
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Robot Chicken: In the final sketch of "Some Like It Hitman", which gives an explanation for the absence of Della Duck, Donald's nephews ask him when they can see their mother again. | |
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In Hellfighters, Chance tells Madeline that Greg, who took over the company, is in trouble and Chance is going to have to go help him. He admits this was bound to happen, and if it happens again, he'll go. Chance's work putting out oil fires is what broke up their first marriage; how does she feel this will affect things? | |
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In the Jonny Quest episode "The Robot Spy", Doctor Quest is puzzled by the appearance of the titular device in its hidden form. | |
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In Ghostbusters (1984), after being fired from the University: | |
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In the Warrior Cats book The Darkest Hour, Bramblepaw asks Firestar whether Sorrelkit, who has just eaten poisonous berries, will survive. | |
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From Spots Off, after Adrien and Alya see Marinette's identity being reported on the morning news: | |
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In The Sum of All Fears, the US President was whisked out of the Baltimore football stadium before a nuclear bomb goes off. His aide asks: | |
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In Hill Street Blues Season 3, Episode 11, "No Body's Perfect," Nate, a trainee police officer, is talking to his partner who has had years in the precinct, after a harrowing pursuit including where the perpetrator held Nate hostage before Nate knocked him down and captured him, about is misgivings. | |
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In Revolution, a guy has a mook on a table and asks him where his son is. "I don't know. I swear I don't know." The mook makes several promises, but still can't tell the man where his son is. The man says "Okay", then gives the mook a lethal injection. | |
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A sample exchange from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Battle": | |
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