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Let Me Tell You a Story
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Alice and Bob are having a conversation. Alice wants to make a point, but to tell Bob straightforwardly wouldn't have the impact she wants to make. So she decides to tell him a story. The story at first seems somewhat random and unrelated to the matter at hand. (This might result in annoyance on Bob's part, especially if something important is going on and it seems like Alice is wasting time, or if this is something she does a lot.) However, once the story is finished, it becomes clear that there is a moral behind it. If Bob still seems confused about the story's relevance, Alice may spell it out for him. Or she may just leave him guessing. The most common term for these stories is the parable, a tale used to illustrate some message. The term often refers to religious parables meant to express spiritual concepts. Of course, it's not limited to that. Old people are very prone to do this, often in the form of a Rambling Old Man Monologue. They have a lot of stories to tell. The musical version of this is Morality Ballad. May overlap with Appeal to Familial Wisdom. See also …And That Little Girl Was Me. Examples |
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Lincoln tells numerous stories throughout the movie. When Edwin Stanton realizes that Lincoln is going to start another one, he storms out. | |
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In the Mage Storms trilogy, Shin'a'in magus An'desha tells a story about himself to get a fellow Shin'a'in to reconsider his antagonism to the focus character, Karal. | |
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The whole novel Frankenstein is Victor Frankenstein telling his life story to Robert Walton in an attempt to disuade him of exploring the North Pole; he tries to illustrate how there are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and the blind pursuit of knowledge will bring him only suffering, as it happened to Frankenstein himself. | |
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BoJack Horseman's Wanda Pierce decides to illustrate the title character's problems in the form of long, narrative jokes. The first one she tells has no real point, but the punchline comes around again in the second one to provide a brilliant metaphor. | |
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CSI: NY: In several early episodes, Mac begins interrogations with the phrase, "Let me start this story for you." He then runs down all of the suspect's actions that the team has discovered. Danny does this at least once as well. In "The Lady in the Lake," Adam recounts the details of the case of a poor young woman who was taken to a party at Belvedere Castle in Central Park by her new boyfriend as "a princess story" to two little girls waiting for their mother at the precinct. He refers to the couple as a prince and princess. |
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Fargo has loads of characters doing this, often to the bemusement of the person they're talking to, as the story/riddle/anecdote could be interpreted in several different ways or may not seem remotely relevant to the situation at hand. The final example is when Lester Nygaard tells the policewoman who's been suspicious of him from the start that he's not a monster, and she responds by telling him about a man with a pair of gloves who got onto a train, and as it was pulling away realised that one of his gloves had fallen onto the platform, so he threw the other glove out after it so that whoever found it could have both. In a probable Lampshade Hanging, Lester (and possibly the audience,) have no idea what to make of it. She never clarifies, but the likely interpretation is that once you're accidentally in something halfway, you feel you have nothing to lose and might as well go the full distance. | |
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The Guilty: While trying to convince Iben not to kill herself, Asger relates to her the story of a young man he killed in the line of duty to assuage her guilt. | |
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In the Starlight and Shadows novel Daughter of the Drow, a warrior amuses a drow mage (who saved him from carnivores and tried to claim as a slave) with a folk tale about how "old favors are soon forgotten". Then managed to get away and added the phrase to his "farewell" as he ran off. | |
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In Brother Bear, Kenai does this with Koda in order to break it to him that he killed his mother. | |
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The Simpsons In "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie", Homer has forbidden Bart from seeing the movie and tries to tell him a similar story from his childhood. Parodied in the episode "The Heartbroke Kid", when Bart is sent to a fat camp and Tab Spangler, the camp owner, catches him pigging out: |
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Defied on Grey's Anatomy: | |
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In Wolf 359, this is how Kepler talks in any case, but a standout example is "A Matter of Perspective". In the opening scene Eiffel is overworked and tired, but Kepler insists on telling him a long-winded joke about a miraculously talented pig, and then doesn't even give the punchline. At the end of the episode (twelve hours later, in-universe, and they're still working) he "remembers" the punchline. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: While Ann is on her way to The Walter Raleigh, K, a passenger on the boat decides to tell her a story about a child involved in a experimental trial who had to make a choice to prevent the deaths of other children. | |
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The Joker offers parables as death notices, alluding to morals but amounting to executions as punishments for garnering his attention. | |
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The Maltese Falcon: The book has a scene that wasn't translated to any movie adaptation, where Spade tells Brigid O'Shaughnessy about a previous investigation of his just before Cairo and Gutman arrive with the bird. A married salesman, one Flitcraft, disappeared from his old town, and years later his wife discovered that he was living in another city with another name and a new family. Flitcraft's old wife hired Sam to discover what happened to him and to avoid a scandal. Spade narrates how Flitcraft was a normal man who once had a nearly fatal accident with a falling beam, and then he realized life is random, We Are as Mayflies and he had to Became Their Own Antithesis to live his new life. What Flitcraft never realized, and Spade immediately noticed, is that he never did that - or at least, went back. Flitcraft eventually moved to a city very similar to his old city, got a new job doing exactly the same and got a new family very much like his old, and he sincerely never realized he was living an Ignored Epiphany. This seemingly pointless tale (the plot stops for several pages, and the story is never referred to again) could be interpreted at Sam's attempt to convince O'Shaughnessy of the pointlessness of her own task: once the four get the bird, her Chronic Backstabbing Disorder means O'Shaughnessy will betray everyone to get the bird to herself. Or a statement of Spade's philosophy, or an offer to Let Off by the Detective The Flitcraft Parable (as it is called by literary analysts) is sometimes printed on its own. See Twenty Writers: Dashiell Hammett, The Flitcraft Parable (from The Maltese Falcon) for a discussion of it. | |
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In A Day of Fallen Night, Tunuva asks the Prioress to give the impetuous young sister Siyu an assignment in the outside world so that she won't feel so restless. The Prioress responds by talking about how she always leaves her glass of sun wine unfinished, but that others are unable to taste it without losing themselves to it. Later, when she decides to send Siyu out after all, Tunuva reminds her of the exchange. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Lampshaded when a young Durkon asked his uncle how his father died. Earlier, when Vaarsuvius seeks Roy's counsel on their prior Deal with the Devil, Roy alludes to the death of his baby brother Eric as the result of one of his father Eugene's magical experiments many years before, and of Eugene's denial that it was his fault, in a bid to try and convey that at least V is repentant for their actions and wants to try and make things right. The unique circumstances facing them muddies the message somewhat, however: |
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In Harbourmaster, Governor Tal uses a story to explain the motives behind a treaty that an off-planet developer wants him to break. | |
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In The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne is trying to figure out The Joker's motivations. Alfred tells him this story: The Joker offers parables as death notices, alluding to morals but amounting to executions as punishments for garnering his attention. |
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Mariner is doomed to wander the earth for eternity recounting his story. | |
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The Owl House: In "Wing It Like Witches", Amity tells Luz the time when she was the grudgby team captain, and how she quit the team after hurting her own teammates by using a flashy move without consulting them about it. Hearing her story makes Luz realize how reckless she was to Willow and Gus and decide to take Willow's punishment to make it up to her. | |
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In Deewaar, Vijay relates the fable of The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs to Samant when the latter suggests killing Vijay to get a Ballistic Discount. | |
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Batman Beyond: In "Dead Man's Hand", Terry finds himself attracted to a girl who turns out to be Ten from The Royal Flush Gang. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Most of the in-universe book The Way of Kings (which is also the title of the first book in the series) consists of parables from the author's life, similar to the Bible. The book became the foundation of the Knights Radiant and was required reading for every Alethi ruler, but then the knights fell, and the Alethi went from a Proud Warrior Race to Blood Knights. By the time of the story, it's considered nearly blasphemous for such things as suggesting that sometimes there are better solutions than killing everyone. | |
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In the Quantum Leap episode "Jimmy", Sam leaps into a mentally retarded man in the 1960s. Eventually he freaks out in frustration, since he's being treated like an idiot all day. Casanova Wannabe Al interrupts him mid-rant: "There was this girl named Trudy..." Sam snaps at him that this is no time for another irrelevant, sleazy sex story — but this time, the girl in question was Al's younger sister, who was also mentally retarded. | |
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The Victors Project: As Boudicca is agonizing over whether to choose Justus as tribute for the 27th Games, Snow calls her and tells her he is agonizing over whether to give his most prized horse to President Lucius's grandson and asks her what he should do. Boudicca gets the message, tells Snow to do his duty, and then selects Justus as tribute. | |
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Subverted in Sword Art Online Abridged when Kirito tries to explain how he managed to find some Ragout Rabbit meat, the single rarest food item in the game. | |
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Serpico: When Serpico expresses his anger that he's regarded with suspicion because he's the only detective in their division who isn't corrupt, his girlfriend tells him a story of a Wicked Witch who poisoned a well and drove everyone mad, except for the king who hadn't drunk from the well. So the townspeople decide to kill the king because he is 'insane', until the king too drinks from the well and goes crazy too. "And the next day there was much rejoicing as the king had regained his sanity." | |
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Popeye does this in many of his 1960 shorts, usually to entertain Swee'Pea or to illustrate a lesson. Such stories almost always feature Popeye himself and his supporting cast. | |
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The Rise of Darth Vulcan: In order to get her point across about how a corrupt town fabricated natural disasters for profit, Twilight tells an old zebra story. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: In A Clash of Kings Ygritte tells Jon the legend of Bael the Bard. It foreshadows where Bran and Rickon hide from the Ironborns and is very reminiscent of Lyanna Stark's arc, though Jon is oblivious to both. In A Storm of Swords Meera and Jojen tell Bran about The Mystery Knight at Harrenhall and they're very surprised that Bran has never heard this story at Winterfell. Probably because of a certain She-Wolf of Winterfell and a Dragon Prince... |
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The Three Musketeers (1993) film: "Love? Let me tell you about love." | |
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The West Wing: In the first episode, a group of Christian pols complain to President Bartlett about an insult Josh made to a political opponent, quoting the Bible while doing so. In response, Bartlett tells of how his 12-year-old granddaughter was recently threatened by a Christian fringe group for her pro-choice views, before saying that they'll get nothing from him until they denounce the extremists within their ranks. In the second season Christmas episode "Noel", Leo insists that Josh go into counseling to deal with his PTSD. Toward the end of the episode Leo assures Josh that he doesn't have to handle his problems alone by telling him a joke: "This guy's walking down a street when he falls in a hole..." |
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The Bible: The parables of Jesus are among the most famous examples. Jesus would often tell stories to convey his messages. In 2 Samuel 12, King David has just had one of his soldiers killed to cover up the fact that he (David) had impregnated the man's wife. The prophet Nathan shows up and calls him to repent by giving an account of a rich man who stole the only lamb of his poor neighbor to feed a houseguest, despite having many sheep of his own. He asks what should be done to this man. David, incensed, declared that the man should be put to death and asked who he was. Nathan replies, "That man is you!" |
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Due South: Fraser does this Once per Episode, relating tales about wolves or the Inuit people to serve as parables for various people in Chicago. By midway through the first season, this is getting lampshaded just as often as it is employed. | |
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In A Clash of Kings Ygritte tells Jon the legend of Bael the Bard. It foreshadows where Bran and Rickon hide from the Ironborns and is very reminiscent of Lyanna Stark's arc, though Jon is oblivious to both. | |
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In 2 Samuel 12, King David has just had one of his soldiers killed to cover up the fact that he (David) had impregnated the man's wife. The prophet Nathan shows up and calls him to repent by giving an account of a rich man who stole the only lamb of his poor neighbor to feed a houseguest, despite having many sheep of his own. He asks what should be done to this man. David, incensed, declared that the man should be put to death and asked who he was. Nathan replies, "That man is you!" | |
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In Targets, Orlock gives a nice recitation of the story "An Appointment In Samarra." It doesn't seem to be told to anyone in particular, which would make it a Story Within a Story... though it could be meant for the movie watchers. | |
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In A Storm of Swords Meera and Jojen tell Bran about The Mystery Knight at Harrenhall and they're very surprised that Bran has never heard this story at Winterfell. Probably because of a certain She-Wolf of Winterfell and a Dragon Prince... | |
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Mr. Nancy (aka. Anansi) from American Gods (2017), being the folkloric storyteller character that he is, often tells tales and stories to get his points across. A lot of these stories focus on the hardships black people face or will eventually face especially in America; one he tells to captive slaves during the 1600s in order to rile them up and burn the ship they're held in. He even opens his stories with the exact phrase, "Let me tell you a story." | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "A Hearth's Warming Tail", Twilight uses this approach to encourage Starlight to overcome her Crappy Holidays attitude toward Equestria's major gift-giving holiday. | |
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Happens a lot in Boardwalk Empire. Margaret tells this to Lucy after Lucy brags that all she has to do is spread her legs to keep Nucky interested: This happens two-and-a-half times in the episode "A Man, A Plan...", all concerning Harry Daugherty's consideration whether to kill Jess Smith to keep him from talking. First Daugherty tells the story of a mean dog he knew as a child who became friendly around Jess, illustrating how Jess is ultimately decent and likeable. Gaston Means reverses the meaning of this story by saying he had a dog like that, but "we had to put him down". Later Daugherty provides Jess a false allegory, reminiscing about rebuilding after a tornado hit their town as children, and tricking Jess into thinking he's had enough of the turbulent world of politics and wants them to retire. Turns out he hadn't had enough and he sends Means to kill Jess later that episode. |
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Live A Live: The Near Future chapter is entirely this, with Akira as the storyteller. Even has a bit of He Knows About Timed Hits as Akira introduces you to the gimmick of the chapter being his mind reader skill. | |
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Inherit the Wind: Drummond tells Brady a story about "Golden Dancer", a perfect-looking rocking horse that he wanted as a child, and how he found it out to be a cheap and inferior product that broke as soon as he tried it out. His story is meant to be an allegory for people like Brady and Rev. Brown: people who present themselves to the public as wholesome crusaders, but are really rotten to the core. | |
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A favorite tool of Sophia's in The Golden Girls. Sometimes subverted when her story ends up having absolutely no connection to the matter at hand. | |
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Bacon in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels tell the guys the story of Smithy Robinson, an old geezer beaten to death with a "15-inch black rubber cock" as a warning tale of what happens to the people that don't pay Hatchet Harry what they owe him. | |
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The entirety of Dragon Age II is the story of the main character being told by one of your party members, complete with Unreliable Narrator moments. | |
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In Conspiracy (2001), Dr. Kritzinger relates a story to Reinhard Heydrich as a warning to what he is trying to accomplish at the conference (the extermination of the Jewish people), which Heydrich later relates in turn to Müller and Eichmann at the end. It concerns a boyhood friend of Kritzinger, who hated his abusive father fiercely but was devoted to his loving mother. When his mother died some years later, the man tried to cry as her casket was lowered into the grave, but wasn't able to. When his father died at a much older age, the man couldn't control his tears. The moral of the story is that being consumed by hatred for something will mean that once that thing is gone, the hater's life will be nothing but a hollow shell anymore. | |
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Soul: Dorothea when Joe expresses his disappointment about becoming a professional jazz player. This exchange provides the page quote. | |
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On Star Trek: Voyager, when Chakotay decides to tell Janeway how he feels about her, he tells her an "ancient legend" from his tribe about an angry warrior unable to find peace until he swears loyalty to a woman warrior. Janeway catches on pretty quick. In "Jetrel", Neelix uses the trope sardonically to the scientist who invented a Weapon of Mass Destruction that destroyed his homeworld. |
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In The Moomins story "Cedric", when Sniff is upset that he gave away a toy dog he loved, Snufkin tells him the story of his aunt, who gave away everything she owned in rather different circumstances. Sniff realises there's a point to this, and to Snufkin's annoyance keeps trying to second-guess it. | |
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Said word for word at the beginning of a season two episode of Burn Notice, in which Michael recounts the story of how he tracked down the bomber who nearly killed him and killed her sniper to Carla. Unusually for him, he is actually telling the truth. | |
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In the final SP Mission of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Matias Torres fakes a surrender, to buy time for the Alicorn to line up the railgun to target Oured. David North, the analyst who had been assisting the LRSSG into hunting him down, sees through his ruse, and tries to talk Torres out of it. Torres responds by telling him about how during the Usean Uprising, when he was a gunnery officer, he managed to land a shot on an enemy vessel 30 kilometers away in the middle of a raging storm. The story is both a distraction, and to prove that Torres is not going to stop, so Trigger disobeys orders to not fire on a surrendering enemy, and strikes the Alicorn's railgun, throwing off its trajectory. | |
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Spongebob Squarepants: Mr. Krabs' story to SpongeBob about spending a dollar on a soda to persuade SpongeBob to let his seahorse go. | |
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Training Day: Alonzo's friend Roger decides to tell rookie officer Jake a joke. He tells him about a snail that gets thrown off some guy's porch into the backyard and nearly dies. However, it recovers and after awhile it gains enough strength to crawl again. After about a year, the snail makes its way back on to the porch. The man comes out, looks at and says, "What the ***'s your problem!?" Jake laughs until he sees Roger and Alonzo's serious expressions and realize that it isn't a joke at all. Roger tells him that when he figures the joke out, he'll figure the streets out. Also, there is a deleted scene where Alonzo tells Jake of one of his early work experiences involving a black man who was paid by another man named "Spooky" to beat up a doberman he was raising. Alonzo came across the man with his fellow officer, who was completely accepting of it and explained to Alonzo that Spooky was teaching the dog to hate black people. |
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