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If My Calculations Are Correct
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Stock phrase and verbal shortcut used by intellectual types in shows with any sort of scientific theme. It denotes that whatever statement it references is, in fact, a carefully assembled construct of reason, probability, and logic instead of, say, an Ass Pull, while still allowing for the writer-friendly possibility that something might Go Horribly Wrong. Often takes the less rigorous form of "If I'm right..." usually with the addendum of "...and I (always) am..." to show bravado. In these cases, something may be more likely to go wrong. Incidentally, the chances of the calculations actually being correct are roughly equal to the percentage of episode shown at the point it's said. Unless it's Tony Stark, Hari Seldon or Doc Brown. Usually said in reference to something that is being done For Science!. A character may respond to a usage of this trope with I Like Those Odds or Never Tell Me the Odds!. See also Million to One Chance, Finagle's Law. |
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Delivered at least once an episode on The Penguins of Madagascar by Kowalski, the resident Gadgeteer Genius. He then laughs at the very idea of them being wrong with, "Pfft... if..." | |
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: What are the odds of Professor E. Gadd having deployed a Toad assistant to the very next location Luigi has to visit? Why, they are 1 in 734,958! (But rest assured that there is one there every single time.) | |
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In the Adam West Batman (1966) it was once phrased as "If my memory serves..." and Robin interjected "Which it always does!" | |
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Riff of Sluggy Freelance uses an after-the-fact version of this, reaching into his coat and muttering, "Let me check my notes," immediately after one of his inventions goes horribly awry. | |
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Spoofed by The Simpsons in "Itchy and Scratchy Land": in the Itchy and Scratchy theme park populated by animatronic robots, Professor Frink warns that "all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok, in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving." But he adds that "According to my calculations, the robots won't go berserk for at least 24 hours." Immediately, all the robots start attacking the humans. Frink says in a slightly embarrassed tone, "Oh. I forgot to Carry the One." | |
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In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, one of the ordinary Cipher Peons always quotes probabilities, which are clearly just pulled out of thin air. Although the one about how likely the player is to wreck their plans if not stopped seemed pretty accurate. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Subverted when the calculations are wrong and the Theme Music Power-Up cuts off. In actually, the calculations were completely correct — the shield was neutralizing all damage done with 100% probability. However, the bad guys were throwing enough PLANETS at them that probability itself bent and they took damage. Follows the trope right afterwards when Genome calculates that they can fire at EVERYTHING in the near past and near future in order to hit the Anti-spiral ships. They do. "The probability of success was zero percent. But I've learned that probabilities are meaningless when it comes to you guys." Calculations become even more useless when both sides start using Probability-altering missiles against each other ("they negate the probability of the enemy defending against them!"). |
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Mega Brain from Widget the World Watcher constantly uses this phrase. | |
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The Backyardigans: A variation of the phrase is used by Pablo during the "Mission to Mars" episode. Near the beginning of one of the episode's songs, he sings, "My calculations say...we're pretty much toast". | |
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Used by Dr. Arne Magnusson in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, as a way to further emphasize just how hopelessly self-important the character is. He even tacks on, "and I have no reason to doubt myself." There's also a memorable exchange in Episode One, when DOG proposes an... unusual method of getting you and Alyx into the damaged Citadel - having Gordon and Alyx pile into a minivan while DOG grav-guns it across the chasm in downtown City 17. She expresses doubt about their odds of making it, but DOG insists, leading to this exchange: | |
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The Secret Show: Subverted. In an episode revolving around a Mirror World, according to Professor Professor, when the dimensional doors close, if things aren't in their proper place (as in, the worlds they came from), both will explode. Everyone has prepared for the worst when they realize they got all their people out successfully, but left Doctor Doctor behind... but the calculations turn out to be, in the chief's words, "completely and utterly wrong." | |
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This happens in The Dark Knight Rises, when Bane wants to pull the core out of a nuclear reactor. | |
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Both played straight and spoofed by combat droid K-2SO in Rogue One. For example, to Cassian, when he sees reluctant recruit Jyn Erso with a blaster: | |
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In The Martian, there are repeated variations on "I did the math. It checks out.", emphasizing the Science Hero nature of, well, basically everyone in the main cast. One character does use the exact phrase - Teddy Sanders, who uses it to grimly predict that Mark will starve to death long before they can get to him. Mark Watney, meanwhile, gives an enthusiastic "Okay, let's do the math!" while recording a log on his plans to grow potatoes on Mars, in order to create enough calories for him to survive until the intended arrival of the Ares IV mission and thus (unknown to him at the time) prove Teddy wrong. | |
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The Iron Man movie has Tony Stark finishing his first miniature Arc Reactor. His assistant Yinsen asks how much power it could generate, and Tony begins his reply with "If my math is right - and it always is" Presumably they're talking about a theoretical full-scale version of the reactor, because the number Tony gives was absurd otherwise (3 gigawatts). | |
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In Plain Sight had a witness who insisted that a bridge collapse was caused by faulty materials rather than his calculations. He goes to the government, testifies in court, and holds the owner of the construction company at gunpoint to force him to admit that substandard materials were used in the bridge...and it turns out that the materials were switched without his knowledge, and the collapse really was sparked off by events beyond his control. Unfortunately, during the course of his rigorous investigation to prove that it was not his fault, and after he gets the culprit to confess, he learned that it was his fault anyway. Though this particular collapse was instigated by the improper construction, he had been used flawed math on every bridge he ever made, and one of them was going to collapse sooner or later, this one just went first because there were additional problems. To his credit, he told everybody that part, too, in addition to what the constructor did. | |
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The Order of the Stick: V, as The Smart Guy (girl?), is naturally fond of this trope. Also, Redcloak can do the math on god-killing abominations. | |
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In Sonic Adventure 2, Gerald Robotnik uses this line in his recorded "death sentence for every human on Earth" message. To be precise, he says: "If my calculations are correct, the Space Colony ARK will impact the Earth in 27 minutes and 53 seconds." | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, Mr. House runs many calculations. They're mind-blowingly accurate - even his prediction for the day the bombs dropped was only off by a single day. The Courier is the only wild card variable in his calculations, and he does his damnest to play them in his own favor. | |
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In Fallout, Overseer Jacoren says this word for word and is somehow able to deduce that an army of Super Mutants is being formed just on the scant numbers the Vault Dweller reports encountering. Being in direct contact with the Enclave probably had something to do with it. | |
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The Beatles episode "Mr. Moonlight" has the boys following Professor Ludwig Von Brilliant to a native island to see a lunar eclipse. He's a bit daffy, but he was right about his calculations as to when the eclipse starts. | |
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Used several times by Samantha Carter on Stargate SG-1, e.g.: "If my calculations are correct, we should emerge on the other side of the Earth...". Usually followed by nervous glances by the rest of the team. McKay on Stargate Atlantis once used precisely this phrase to predict where a fleet of enemy ships would come out of hyperspace, punctuated by a little smug look as if to say "And of course, they are correct." Infuriatingly, they were. One time a villain, hearing one of his plans depending on such calculations was going wrong, calls him on this, and Rodney responds with something like, "You may not have noticed but I'm a very arrogant man who thinks all of his plans are going to work!" And it does, he was just feigning failure so that the bad guy would abandon the city. It was also a landmark, being about the only time his feigned protestations of failure were actually taken seriously. |
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An episode of Storm Hawks has Piper using the "If my calculations are correct... and they always are" line. Unfortunately, she then has to make such large-scale calculations, a small margin of error was inevitable. Fortunately, Aerrow saves her from a Heroic BSoD by reaffirming her that he has faith in her calculations, and she's able to make new calculations to successfully resolve the problems created by her first one. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: One of The Brain's many catchphrases was "If my calculations are correct...and they always are..." While the duo are parachuting Brain says "If my calculations are correct, which they always are, we will land directly on the roof". His calculations are correct in terms of their landing, but he failed to take into account the fact that the roof was covered in ice, so they slide right off. |
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Hanna-Barbera's Secret Squirrel uses this phrase when trying to catch a bomb launched from a submarine in the episode "Sub Swiper". | |
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Parodied in an episode of Phineas and Ferb, when Dr. Doofenshmirtz's plan results in him and Perry being stuck to thousands of balloons and flying off into the stratosphere: | |
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Bentley says this as a catchphrase in the Sly Cooper games, usually going "If I did my math right, and I always do my math right..." While he never screws up safe combinations, his calculations are sometimes off in later games, hitting unforeseen security. This does not hurt his confidence any. | |
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On The Magic School Bus, Dorothy Ann could be expected to start every sentence related to the lesson of the day (and a few that weren't) with "According to my research..." Lampshaded on one episode where she loses her bookbag, when she's asked if the observation she made about a volcano is 'according to her research' she snaps "How can it be according to my research?!? I don't HAVE my research! |
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Léonard le Génie does this occasionally, usually adding arrogantly that they always are. Once, he 'proved' they are correct by checking a randomly chosen part of his long calculation and verifying it. The chosen part? 1 + 1 = 2 | |
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Caramba from Zak Storm frequently uses this phrase. | |
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Fi in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword throws out percentages at nearly every chance she gets. Turns rather chilling when you head for the final battle and Fi says that there is a 0% chance of returning if you don't win. | |
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Parodied by Monk who often gives the line "Unless I'm wrong," but always follows it up with "Which, you know, I'm not." And he is not wrong. Though, he does at least occasionally mention a percentage of how 'sure' he is. One time, he was roughly 90% sure that the man he was speaking to had killed his own wife... only for the man to open the door to his hotel room and introduce them. Oops. The Captain, frustrated by this habit of Monk's, once ordered him to give a more definite statement, which Monk did: "Captain, I am one hundred percent sure that he probably killed his wife." Randy Disher, during a moment of low self-esteem, once borrowed Monk's gimmick, changing it to, "Unless I'm wrong, which I probably am." |
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The Back to the Future trilogy. Fortunately for the protagonists, Doc Brown's calculations are always correct, even if they involve unnecessarily complicated and implausible plans — especially standing in front of a car approaching 90 mph. | |
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In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang gets out a calculator to figure out if he can make forty-nine human sacrifices and stay on the right side of the Moral Event Horizon. He can't. | |
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In Speed Kills, Cyberia, a robotic race contestant, likes calculating your allegedly low odds of success against her. When you win, she dismisses it as "an anomaly" which is highly unlikely to reoccur. | |
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In the Alvin and the Chipmunks episode "Food for Thought", pilgrim Simon uses an abacus to calculate the groups chances of survival, beginning each announcement with "According to my calculations..." | |
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Used often by the titular character in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. | |
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Parodied in EvAbridged 4.0, when people's calculations don't match up. | |
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Tintin. In Explorers of the Moon, Calculus is hoping that his device will prevent the rocket from crashing against a meteor. Otherwise he would have to redo all his calculations! | |
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Parodied in Futurama: A giant asteroid of garbage is about to hit the city. Professor Farnsworth has arranged the construction of another ball of garbage to be fired at the asteroid to deflect it, and declares that if his calculations are correct, the two balls should collide. Not to be outdone, his archrival Dr. Wernstrom declares "And if my calculations are correct, we're all going to die horribly!" and laughs - until he realizes what this means for him personally, at which point his laughter dies away quite quickly. "Our calculations are always correct, for we are gigantic brains." |
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In Due South, when Fraser and Ray are trapped in a bank vault which robbers are trying to breach, Fraser starts his lecture with "Now, I don't have the specifications for the door, Ray. But I've been making calculations based on its thickness, the depth of the existing hole and the reflection of the tonal input as it percusses against my tuning fork." Ray doesn't want to even hear it, let along participate in the plan, but eventually permits Fraser to proceed to share his estimate of the amount of time it will take for the robbers to break into the vault and to activate the sprinklers so that the vault will fill with water, leaving the two of them with an inch of breathing space but allowing them to surprise the robbers when they get the door open. Provided, they maintain a constant rate of drilling. | |
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Dmitri Petrovich of Backyard Sports. | |
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The Spongebob Musical: "No Control" has Sandy sing the lines "If I read these figures right / Our time is up tomorrow night!" Sandy also says this in Act II in reference to her "Eruptor Interruptor", a device set to detonate at the exact moment of volcanic eruption, thus preventing the eruption and saving the town. |
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Green Lantern: "Two-Six" will state the odds, or refer to them, while facing a fight, but will amusingly cheerfully lie about what she'd said later when things turn out better than they'd looked to begin with. | |
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In The Princess Bride, Prince Humperdink says, "Unless I am wrong — and I am never wrong — they are headed straight into the Fire Swamp," as part of a demonstration of his tracking skills. | |
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The Blues Brothers: At the climax, Elwood informs Jake that if his calculations are correct, as they're being chased by every police officer in downtown Chicago, they're coming up on the honorable Richard J. Daly Plaza. | |
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Hamish X: Parveen is always saying this. | |
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In Doctor Who, the Fourth Doctor goes for the less modest approach: "Now, assuming I'm right, and I invariably am..." (He is, of course. He's the Doctor.) | |
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Played straight in Lemon Demon's "Dinosaurchestra Part Three": | |
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The characters in Blake's 7 routinely consult battle computers which do these calculations for them, often replayed via Master Computer Zen or Orac. | |
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Spoofed in the Leeroy Jenkins Video, where the calculations being performed were clearly an Ass Pull. | |
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The Ultimates: If Banner's calculations are correct, Captain America (found frozen in the artic, decades after WWII) would barely have enough strength to talk. If only he hadn't Misplaced a Decimal Point... | |
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3-2-1 Contact: In The Bloodhound Gang story, "The Case of the Dark Night," the young kid member of the gang member explains he calculated how much gas a car that does 14 MPG would need to start up and run out after going around 5 ft, 4 teaspoons. With this being a trap for car thieves using Mr. Bloodhound's antique car as bait (and this being an educational series) he has all the incentive necessary to get that right. As it happens, the trap works perfectly: the crooks go the expected distance, which is just enough to incriminate themselves to the waiting police officers. | |
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This exchange in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014): | |
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Some permutation of this phrase is often used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel when trying to decode a book/scroll/anything-in-an-ancient-language that holds information vital to the current plot arc (usually a prophecy detailing the end of the world). Will probably be uttered by either Giles, Wesley, or Fred. Parodied in "Bad Girls" when Wesley (at the time an Ensign Newbie Watcher) smugly announces that according to his "mission scenario" his Slayer will return in one minute. Gilligan Cut to Buffy and Faith surrounded by sword-wielding vampires. | |
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McKay on Stargate Atlantis once used precisely this phrase to predict where a fleet of enemy ships would come out of hyperspace, punctuated by a little smug look as if to say "And of course, they are correct." Infuriatingly, they were. One time a villain, hearing one of his plans depending on such calculations was going wrong, calls him on this, and Rodney responds with something like, "You may not have noticed but I'm a very arrogant man who thinks all of his plans are going to work!" And it does, he was just feigning failure so that the bad guy would abandon the city. It was also a landmark, being about the only time his feigned protestations of failure were actually taken seriously. |
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"If my calculations are correct" was the catchphrase of the inventor Newton Gimmick in The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie Dr. Robotnik says the line. Nobody listens to him. "According to my calculations, if the Robot Generator isn't stopped by sunrise tomorrow, there will be a giant explosion... huh?" |
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