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The protagonist has had enough. This is the last straw. That evil empire's in for it now. They're going to... write a strongly worded letter? An attempt at some brave or heroic action that falls ludicrously short. When played for laughs, it's often applied to timid or nerdy characters who mean well but aren't prepared to do anything useful. When played for drama, it designates a character who ought to be one of the good guys but who places too much faith in "the proper authorities" and will likely hinder the heroes by insisting they do so too. Often a satire of diplomats. Of course, if the diplomat has a strong country behind them, this actually isn't so weak. Compare Poke the Poodle, the villainous version. Contrast Disproportionate Retribution as a switcheroo of this. If someone, good or bad, does this before or after doing something of actual significance, it may be a Calling Card. |
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How Friendship Accidentally Saved Magical Britain: The shard of Tom Riddle bound to the Diary Horcrux gets so fed up with Lockhart after months of reading the twins' complaints about him in the Diary that he convinces them to transcribe a six foot long scroll of hate mail on Tom's behalf and anonymously send it to Lockhart. Lockhart tries to destroy it, but Fred and George knew this would happen and charmed it to always return to Lockhart in perfect condition no matter how he tries to destroy or dispose of it, and to also float behind him around the school reading aloud choice quotes from the letter in Lockhart's own voice. | |
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Discussed in Mary and Max, as Max tells her that he often writes such letters about local issues. | |
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In webcomic Sluggy Freelance, demons were attempting to take over an alternate universe called "the dimension of lame". Who were so passive and friendly that they had no weapons to fight back with. When the demons had almost finished conquering the Western Hemisphere, the U.N. took action and declared that they would NUKE them. Turns out that NUKE is short for "Notice of Unified Kindness Envelopes", as their missiles contained no explosives, but billions of letters kindly asking the demons to stop being so mean. The NUKE is still considered a WMD due to the high risk of paper cuts. |
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In The Last Unicorn, Captain Cully requests that one of his men sing a song of Cully's heroics. The musician later angrily gets up and reveals that, rather than valiantly fighting off the three villains in the song, he wrote them a letter - which he didn't even sign. | |
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In Polandball, this is the UN's most common reaction to atrocities (well, other than complete indifference). It is occasionally done by other countries and multinational organisations as well. | |
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Honor Harrington: Storm From The Shadows]]: The Manticorans send several letters of varying strongly-worded-ness. Mind you, the first such letter is delivered by a division of destroyers which are destroyed by a squadron of Solarian League Navy warships after a misunderstanding several days later. The second such letter, much more strongly worded and in response to the spoilered-out incident, is delivered personally by a Vice Admiral in command of a squadron of battlecruisers. Rather than accept this letter, the Solarian Admiral moves his squadron to engage the smaller Manticoran unit. After the Admiral's ship is destroyed long before his ships can get close enough to fire at the Manticoran warships, the new commander of the Solarian squadron chooses to accept the letter. The third letter is being delivered by only one destroyer, but after what happened after the delivery of the first letter, and given that the destroyer finds a ridiculously large fleet of Solarian Super Dreadnoughts they decide to turn around and go home to report what they've found before announcing themselves. War of Honor: diplomatic notes from the Republic of Haven become more and more strongly worded as the current Manticoran Government deliberately strings them along. It doesn't help that other parties were deliberately altering some of the diplomatic notes to aid in this. |
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The Kevin and Bean Show: Much comedy fodder is made out of Bean's habit of writing strongly worded letters to various people and institutions for trivial grievances. He's also carried this over into social media, where he'll tweet at people for such crimes as getting the name of Daylight Saving Time wrong. | |
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In the "Summer" episode of The Vicar of Dibley, David Horton writes one of these to the water company that is actually not very strong at all. Subverted by Geraldine's letter, an excerpt of which is "Dear Mr. Useless Babboon's Bottom, It might interest you to know that down our way, you're about as popular as Judas Iscariot at a disciple reunion." It is also implied that she uses the word "dickhead" (or "dick-head, as she's unsure if there's a hyphen. | |
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The Simpsons: From "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 1": From "Faith Off", featuring Homer's college nerd friends: In "Blood Feud," this is surprisingly effective. Homer, angry at getting a thank-you note rather than a material reward after a blood transfusion from Bart saves Mr. Burns' life, sends him an insulting letter. After some cajoling by Smithers, Burns decides that the Simpsons do deserve a reward and sends them an expensive (but useless for practical purposes, and presumably not easily re-sellable) Olmec totem. Which, it is pointed out, is still more than they'd have gotten without sending the letter. "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge" features many of the Escalating War kind. Marge writes a somewhat condescending letter to Roger Meyers Jr about the violent nature of his cartoons. Meyers replies with an openly insulting one that makes clear he is not empathetic ("...and the horse I rode in on???"). Marge in turn encourages other parents to write to Meyers, resulting in the studio getting a truckload of hate mail bordering on death threats. |
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James Cameron's Titanic (1997). | |
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In one episode of Mama's Family when Vint finds out that he's been laid off, Iola decides to write a "scathing letter" to his company. | |
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Aram in Men in Hats: "Don't worry, I'll show him who's boss... THROUGH E-MAIL CORRESPONDENCE!" | |
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Mr. Show has a brief sketch involving Bob and David trying to incite their viewers to send them hate mail. The show cuts to a man played by David writing a letter in which he never gets to the thing he's angry about. "I have never... ever... never... nevenevenev..." | |
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In Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Frylock writes an angry letter to the city for a radioactive black man putting the bite on Master Shake. Shake stands near Frylock, helping him to make the letter even angrier. | |
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In Anachronox, the rulers of Planet Democratus respond this way to an alien invasion. | |
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In an episode of Scrubs, Turk and J.D. believe a nurse has got their patient's file confused with someone else's. J.D. insists on taking the lead in confronting her, and Turk asks if he's going to write one of his strongly worded letters. J.D. replies that he's not because he doesn't have his thesaurus. It's not clear if Turk realises what a lame response the letter would be, or thinks it's going too far. | |
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When Dilbert writes the governor to complain about prison overcrowding, the governor sends a convicted murderer to live with him for "thirty or forty years." | |
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In an episode of Ugly Betty when Betty is high on toad venom from a spiked bottle of perfume and acting irrationally, she makes the decision to finally stand up to Gio (a sandwich vendor who she finds irritating but has Unresolved Sexual Tension with)... by writing him a strongly worded note. | |
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In Rebel Stand, the cast is looking over new developments in the war. Since the book is written by Aaron Allston, they snark constantly. | |
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At one point, Hank of King of the Hill is charged a ludicrous amount for a haircut by the US Army, and gets fed up to the point that he stands and declares that he is going to write to his Congressman. Naturally, he doesn't even know how to turn on the computer and writes his letter out by hand. Subverted, when it's revealed that the Congressman obviously never even read Hank's letter. It is actually a bit of a Running Gag with Hank, who will usually threaten someone with a letter of dis-satisfactory. |
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Discworld: Interesting Times: La Résistance does this to rebel against the emperor. As the China stand-in, they have to have revolutionary elements, but as the feudal Japan stand-in, they're just too deferential to go through with it, instead shouting slogans like "we humbly suggest reasonable change within a respectable time frame if that's not too much to ask!" "Gently Push Over The Forces Of Oppression!" Rincewind gets so frustrated with it that he suggests "Slightly Bad Things Please Happen To Our Enemies!" Monstrous Regiment has Nuggan, a god who is described by a diplomat as the divine counterpart of the kind of person who constantly sends such letters to the editor signing off as "Disgusted of Ankh-Morpork". (See "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" in Real Life, below.) This was supposed to convince Sam Vimes that Nuggan is not actually insane. In The Truth, William notes that most of the type of people who write these to newspapers are nuts and/or prejudiced in some way, e.g. an old lady who hates all young people and a letter complaining about dwarves. While William says not to print it, Goodmountain, who is a dwarf, says to print it, and when someone writes in to object to the complaint, to print his letter too. He thinks it'll help bring attention to the newspaper. |
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In an early MADtv (1995) sketch, "Annie Ho" (a gangsta film as written and directed by Woody Allen), a neurotic gangsta on the way to a drive-by shooting asks his colleagues, "Do we really have to kill this guy? Can't we just send him a nasty note?" | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: The letters from Mrs. Trellis of North Wales would sometimes veer into this territory; not helped by the fact that she was often unaware of exactly what programme she was writing to. | |
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn has an implicit subversion in the backstory: take a look at the entry for the UN under real life, then realize that in the Tiberian continuity, the UN for years appeared to be exactly as in real life while secretly having (and using) a black-ops team to "solve problems." | |
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One episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody has Cody suggesting writing one of these to the city council in order to prevent a park from being bulldozed. | |
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In Christmas Carol: The Movie, after her boss is arrested for failing to pay a debt, Belle writes to Scrooge asking for leniency. The mice spend much of the movie trying to get him to read said letter. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit has a variation. After discovering that his wife was caught playing Patty-Cake with another man, Roger Rabbit in a drunken stupor vows that he and his wife will be happy before running out. The next day, the man that was playing Patty-Cake was found having been killed by a safe dropping on his head and all evidence points to Roger, however as it turned out Roger wasn't the guilty party because after leaving the office he went to his wifes' apartment and had wrote her a love letter in hopes of winning back his wife. | |
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Rare serious example: in Deadwood, the local residents of Deadwood publish a strongly worded letter in the local paper calling Corrupt Corporate Executive, Big Bad, and all-around evil George Hearst to task. Resident throat-cutter Al Swearengen remarks on what a strange decision it is, but everyone seems to agree that it's the right decision even if they realize that it's not an effective one. | |
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Get on the Bus has a variation. One of the black men on the bus relates an anecdote about how he got in deep trouble with his white mother, causing her to lecture him. The rest of the black men are unimpressed, saying their mothers would have surely beaten them for the same offense. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): The Nova Corps's official response to Ronan the Accuser's rampage is to contact the Kree government and request that they issue a statement condemning his actions. They don't even demand anything, they just ask for the Kree to do the most minimal thing possible. And the Nova Corps is supposedly the side that won the war. | |
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In the The Order of the Stick prequel-book Start Of Darkness, Redcloak vows to fire off one these to the Inter-Humanoid Council after his carefully-planned raid is preempted by some Lizard-people. On-going events probably cause him to drop the idea, but this is Redcloak we're talking about here. | |
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Occurs multiple times in Schlock Mercenary Once the Fleetmind starts interfering in governments: And just to rub it in: ''I'm here to lodge a protest. I'll let you read it yourself. The formal document uses some of the strongest words you can write in Galstandard West without violating grammatical checksum.'' As far as Schlock himself is concerned, the words "temporary restraining order" mean "come back with guns." Subverted on one occasion, however. |
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Used in Red Dwarf when Rimmer, after having his anger sucked out by a polymorph that feeds on human emotions, suggests that they defeat the creature by hitting it "hard and fast" with a "major leaflet campaign... And if that's not enough, then I'm sorry, it's time for the t-shirts". And in "The Beginning", Rimmer starts writing a strongly worded letter to Geneva complaining that the simulants are violating Treaty 5 as said simulants are launching a barrage of photon mutilators at the Starbug. Subverted when it turns out that he's intentionally baiting them as part of a trap. |
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In a MAD Magazine parody comic from the late 80s, Captain Picard is unfavorably portrayed as the kind of diplomat who'd ask Starfleet to send a strongly-worded letter to the Klingons... while they're firing on the Enterprise. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, a blood mage who assisted in taking over the Circle of Magi tries to justify her actions by saying Andraste, the prophet of the game's main religion, changed the world through violent rebellion against the Tevinter Imperium. "She didn't write them a strongly-worded letter," the mage says. | |
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The Cinema Snob alluded to this in his Maniac! (1980) review: | |
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Door Monster's recurring deranged hobo character gives us a subversion in "Comical Road Trip": Apparently, filing a "strongly-worded complaint" consists of mailing them a dead bird. | |
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So did the Resistance in Baron Underbite's country in the The Venture Brothers. Their primary means of rebellion was sneaking hairs into his water. In a subversion, it actually really pissed him off. | |
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In the world of Harry Potter, Howlers are what happen if you could hear the voice of the writer of said Strongly Worded Letter: open them and they scream the message's content at the recipient as loudly as possible. Then Molly Weasley writes one to Ron. The longer you go without opening the Howler, the louder it will shout the message, and if you don't open it immediately, it will explode. And still shout the message, amplified tenfold. | |
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In Something*Positive, after a guest on his radio show pushes Gaspar's Berserk Button a couple of times too many (insulting his daughter's heritage and sexuality) he decides to do the worst thing he can think of to the jerk; a stern letter. | |
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In Sword Art Online Abridged, when Sugou announces his intention to marry a currently-comatose Asuna at the start of the second season: | |
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A Sev Trek cartoon spoofing Deep Space Nine asks why former Bajoran terrorist Major Kira never seemed to do any of the Kick the Dog acts that real terrorists do like deliberately targeting civilians or moderate Bajorans. When asked how they managed to throw the Cardassians off their planet; "I wrote strongly worded letters of complaint!" | |
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Interesting Times: La Résistance does this to rebel against the emperor. As the China stand-in, they have to have revolutionary elements, but as the feudal Japan stand-in, they're just too deferential to go through with it, instead shouting slogans like "we humbly suggest reasonable change within a respectable time frame if that's not too much to ask!" | |
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Parodied mercilessly (along with online successors like 'Comment Is Free' and 'Have Your Say') by That Mitchell and Webb Look. | |
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Monstrous Regiment has Nuggan, a god who is described by a diplomat as the divine counterpart of the kind of person who constantly sends such letters to the editor signing off as "Disgusted of Ankh-Morpork". (See "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" in Real Life, below.) This was supposed to convince Sam Vimes that Nuggan is not actually insane. | |
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Adrian Mole: There are many of these in the books, as letter-writing is Adrian's preferred method of communication with many people. In Growing Pains, Adrian writes a series of goodbye letters to the people in his life just before he runs away from home, including a scathing one to his headmaster Mr Scruton, asking him if he knows that his nickname is "Pop-Eye". Later, Adrian is extremely worried about this, and a psychologist promises to write to Mr Scruton to inform him that Adrian was under great stress at the time. Also in Growing Pains, Adrian has been entrusted with looking after the Braithwaites' house while they are on holiday, and he comes across a strongly worded letter from Ivan Braithwaite tendering his resignation from the local Labour party. Seeing a stamped addressed envelope nearby, Adrian posts the letter; unfortunately, Mr Braithwaite had written it, but decided not to post it. In Wilderness Years, Adrian writes a short and scathing letter of resignation to his manager Mr Brown. He writes "for the attention of Mr Brown", stares at it for a full hour, then puts it under his blotting pad. Later, while away from his desk, he finds that somebody has delivered the letter, and his resignation has been accepted, and he is ordered to leave the premises immediately. He never finds out who delivered the letter. In Wilderness Years, Adrian receives a strongly worded letter from John Tydeman at the BBC, telling him he has more neck than a giraffe, after Adrian has contacted him once too many about his manuscript, finally asking him to photocopy it for free. In Wilderness Years, Adrian receives a short letter peppered with F-words from Barry Kent, after he has suggested that Barry funds Glenn's education at Eton; then, it was not known whether Glenn was Barry's or Adrian's son. In Weapons of Mass Destruction, Adrian struggles massively with writing a letter to end his relationship with Marigold Flowers. Daisy takes charge, and sends him her draft of an extremely strong letter, which horrifies Adrian. |
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Subverted in Sandra and Woo by Yuna here. When a teacher during a 'Bullying Prevention Day' lesson asks her how she'd deal with incessant chicanery, and Yuna replies that she'd get out her pencil, the teacher immediately assumes that she would send a Strongly Worded Letter to a teacher or maybe the principal. Nope. Yuna's the daughter of an ex-Special Forces operative and a former south-east Asian rebel, who named their kids after characters from Final Fantasy and gave them combat training to match. How 'bout a magic trick? I'm gonna make this pencil disappear... | |
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Three's Company: In "Out on a Limb," a food critic comes into Jack's Bistro, takes a quick bite, and leaves, causing Jack to worry that the critic hated the food and is going to give him a bad review. Larry suggests that Jack send the critic an angry letter, with Janet typing it. Larry starts the letter with "Dear Sleazebucket," and it goes downhill from there.note Jack and Janet ask Larry how he could come up with such a hostile letter off the top of his head like that. He says it was easy because he got the exact same letter that morning at the used-car dealership. Of course, the critic loved the food and gives Jack a great review, so the gang has to retrieve the letter before the critic can see it. Oh, and Janet actually toned it down. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Stuffed Gopher", Mr. Conklin thinks he's going to be fired as principal from Madison High School. He writes a strongly-worded letter of resignation to Mr. Stone, the head of the school board. | |
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From Drake & Josh: "I sent him a very angry letter, with, like, five frownie faces." | |
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In Level 30 Psychiatry Gardevoir and Slippy get attacked by head crabs in the middle of a session. Gardevoir's response: | |
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In the Super Mario Bros. story 'Bedtime For Drainhead', Luigi tells the sleep-deprived Mario (fresh from a 72-hour-long reading marathon of his Dirk Drainhead comics) that Toad has been kidnapped by King Koopa. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie: In the last series, a very drawn-out version of their typical "vox pops" scenes had a woman played by Laurie threatening to write "a very stiff letter... on cardboard." Another sketch involves Laurie's character attempting to convince a psychiatrist played by Fry that he was mad. To Laurie's annoyance, the psychiatrist refuses to believe that he's anything other than eccentric, and he announces that he'll be writing a very stiff letter to the Daily Mail about this. That gets the psychiatrist's attention. |
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This was a standard response by Sir Humphrey of Yes, Minister fame to diplomatic niggles, on one occasion saying it had not yet been sent because they had not secured an agreement from the people they were sending it to on how strongly worded it would be. Used in Yes, Prime Minister when discussing how to deal with the leader of a local council. |
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Team America: World Police had UN inspector Hans Blix and Kim Jong-il have this exchange; | |
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American comedian Rich Hall in Live at the Apollo once said of British people that when they are annoyed, their response is typically a tut followed by: "...I'm gonna write a letter." | |
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Outside Xbox: Luke Westaway's survival plan for getting thrown off a ledge is to send one of these, then work up to the nuclear option of tutting. | |
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Admiral from Wings of Fire wants to convince the HiveWings to better the condition of SilkWings like him, and is content with his position as a glorified prisoner since he thinks it gives him the power to create reforms this way. The problem is that all of his suggested reforms are laughably small and only humored by the authorities. Talking to Admiral makes Blue, The Hero of the book where Admiral appears, realize how complacent his own idea of changing the world is. | |
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Gretchen in Recess at one point takes action on behalf of her friend in the form of an "Angry E-Mail". The AI in her pocket computer (the episode was written before the days of smartphones) becomes very excited about the idea. Notable as the angry e-mail does achieve its objective, which is more than any of the pranks the gang pulls during the episode do. | |
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Mentioned in Monkey Business when racketeer Alky Briggs catches Groucho with his wife. | |
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Marmee does this in response to Amy's teacher striking her with a ruler in the film version of Little Women. | |
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In the Blandings Castle series, the Duke of Dunstable is "a great writer of letters to the Times", and the Government "could not move a step without hearing from him". Given the Duke's character, such letters could not fail to be strongly worded. | |
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The Good Place: Referenced in "The Book of Dougs". After a frustrating meeting with the Good Place Committee, Michael declares "the Titanic is sinking, and they're writing a strongly worded letter to the iceberg!" During season 4, the Good Place Committee return, and this time they literally draft up a sternly worded letter regarding the Judge erasing all human life. Then they decide stern is too much, and the guy writing it quits forever. |
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Mr. Tyler, neighbor of Adam Young in Good Omens and Tadfield's resident busybody, who will send a very angry letter to the local newspaper about all these young trouble-makers riding motorcycles, littering his lawn, and driving burning cars, just you wait. | |
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To quote Sam Seaborne in the Very Special Episode: "We jumped out from behind bushes while the British came down the road in their bright red jackets, but never has a war been so courteously declared. It was on parchment with calligraphy and 'Your Highness, we beseech you on this day in Philadelphia to bite me, if you please.'" | |
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In one episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Zurg attacks the planet of Tangea and kidnaps their king. The Tangean response? To immediately form a committee to evaluate the situation. The "committee" is later seen preparing a letter to send to Zurg and one of them asks if "displeasure" is too harsh a word. | |
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In The Truth, William notes that most of the type of people who write these to newspapers are nuts and/or prejudiced in some way, e.g. an old lady who hates all young people and a letter complaining about dwarves. While William says not to print it, Goodmountain, who is a dwarf, says to print it, and when someone writes in to object to the complaint, to print his letter too. He thinks it'll help bring attention to the newspaper. | |
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Parodied in The Fairly OddParents!, a particularly stupid alien plays this trope, claiming he will write an angry letter. He then proceeds to write a large red letter Q on a piece of paper and demand that someone mail it. The other high-caliber response he has to the situation is... pouting. | |
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In Psychonauts, the gun-toting rebels of Lungfishopolis plan to fight against their tyrannical monster overlord by distributing pamphlets. Not precisely a letter, but equally unimpressive. | |
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On Rocky and Bullwinkle, Boris Badenov is working as a lion tamer under the alias "Claude Badly" at the Bumbling Brothers Circus when he deliberately lets the lion loose to run amuck. The Brothers warn him that if he does this again, they'll write him a nasty letter. This is because they don't know of any other lion tamers. | |
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Sorcerer mentions this as a potential way of delivering a curse; strongly-worded emails are an option for the more tech-savvy sorcerer. | |
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Of particular note is the letter sent in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram. Mr. Arkell had his lawyers send a stern warning to Pressdram (the publishers of Private Eye) because they had accused him of taking bribes. Pressdram and their lawyers, meanwhile, were certain that their evidence was good, and sent a reply, quoted here in full: "We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr. J. Arkell. We note that Mr. Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off." | |
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In Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Sheriff Buzby's reaction to Billy Bob's Reckless Gun Usage shooting off the belt to his pants (but doing no damage, aside from causing the sheriff's pants to drop) is to threaten to write the hillbilly a citation. Billy Bob ignores him and shoots out the flashing lights on his car, at which point Buzby retreats, vowing that when he comes back, he'll give Billy Bob two tickets. | |
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Babylon 5 has a case of a note of protest actually being regarded as a sign of how seriously the sender takes a matter — the Vorlons practically never take any interest in the concerns of younger races (openly, anyway), to the point of often not even bothering to show up to the Babylon 5 council, so even if it doesn't stop the perpetrators, them filing an official protest against the Centauri bombardment of Narn using mass drivers, in direct and open violation of treaties banning mass drivers is something people notice. | |
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Used in the Robot Chicken parody of Armageddon (1998). | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squidville", Squidward is chased by a mob of angry squids. When they corner him, the mob gives Squidward a well-thought-out grievance letter. | |
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In Blazing Saddles, Harriet Johnson reads a telegram she has written to the governor, expressing Rock Ridge's discontent with Bart, the new sheriff. At first, she starts off in a soft tone, much to the discontent of everyone, but soon after, her voice matches the strength in her letter: | |
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In the "Smile" episode of Spin City, this is Carter's first response to someone parking a bicycle in his spot while Stuart mocks his diplomatic approach. When the bike's there again, however, Stuart eggs him on to mow the thing down. | |
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On Hercules: The Animated Series, when school rivals pull a prank on Prometeus Academy, student body president Adonis plans to retaliate with a strongly worded letter, "with lots of verbs, action words!" | |
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In one episode of Black Books, they are building very noisily next door to Bernard's shop and will continue doing so for two weeks, leading to this exchange: | |
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Doctor Who: During "The Monster of Peladon," the ambassador from Alpha Centauri threatens to make their displeasure known by sending an official communication to the Galatic Federation. This is during the middle of an armed uprising against the government. In "City of Death", the Doctor tells Duggan that if he knocks anyone else out, extreme measures will be taken...like asking him not to. |
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While not exactly a letter, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series has something in the same spirit. | |
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In Central Park, Season 1 "Hot Oven", Owen and Paige don't write an angry letter to Bitsy, they write on her angry letter. After reading the smear letter Bitsy puts in the newspaper trashing Central Park and its management, Owen and Paige's response is to doodle over Bitsy's picture in the letter. They don't even show the doodle to Bitsy and she isn't even aware of it. | |
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The fondness of the English for these was parodied multiple times in Monty Python's Flying Circus with sketches containing letters complaining about the sketches (and in some cases the previous letter). | |
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On The News Quiz, Sandi sometimes reacts to controversial gags with "Oh, there'll be letters!" | |
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A recurring character in the last season of The Chaser's War On Everything was an angry letter writer who would watch the show, waiting for something offensive to happen so he could write a Strongly Worded Letter to The ABC. He was never disappointed. | |
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On one episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee warns that people who anger the Canadian government "might find themselves on the business end of a very sharply worded letter." | |
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A Morris Marina Owners Club member's reaction upon the wanton destruction of Morris Marinas in Top Gear was: | |
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Ask a Ninja had this question in Episode 17, "Ninja Omnibus". | |
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In Sam & Max: Freelance Police, this is Sam's reaction to discovering that his office is located a few doors down from the gateway to hell. | |
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Casino Royale (1967) has Woody Allen in Central America, threatening an angry letter to The Times, as he's stood before a firing squad. | |
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Played straight in Hyperdimension Neptunia, where Neptune and her friends send a series of threatening letters as a tactic to lure out Arfoire, Overlord Momus' messenger and separate her from a group of extremists she's leading. The plan actually works, but for a reason none of them expected - because Neptune misspelled Momus' name as "Overlord Moron". | |
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Played straight in the early issue of The Authority to a villain that has just turned Moscow into a charnel house. The U.N. ups the response by blatantly *cough* not sending in a kill squad. | |
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Happens in Snoopy, Come Home where due to a new "No Dogs Allowed" law, Snoopy couldn't go to the beach, so he returns home and has Woodstock dictate a letter to The Editor in protest over this law that gets mailed off. | |
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Played for laughs in a cutaway gag in Family Guy, where Mort Goldman is revealed to write these to different companies, demanding compensation for the most trivial things, such as the letter he's currently writing to Ritz Crackers just because some of the crackers in a box he bought were broken. | |
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Completely inverted in Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, where grown men would commit suicide rather than receive a strongly-worded letter from Queen Elspeth. | |
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In the Sherlock Holmes case "The Adventure of the Second Stain", a letter written by an unnamed European leader to Britain is described as being so inflammatory that its public release would lead to war. The British Government, wanting cooler heads to prevail and to avoid war, want Holmes to recover the missing letter before it can be put in the hands of third parties who would gain advantage by war. Holmes writes his guess of the leader in question and passes it unrevealed to the client, who admits that's who it is. It's not difficult to figure out who it's supposed to be. | |
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Pop Team Epic: The one-off gag superhero Twitter Bitching Man solves problems by making strongly-worded tweets about them. When a person notices a mother not paying attention to her child in the subway, he's summoned into the subway car to make a complaint. | |
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Wander over Yonder's Heist Episode "The Big Job" has Sylvia and Wander teaming up with an A-Team-style Caper Crew called the Insurgent Generals to destroy a newly-developed piece of Hater Empire technology called the HT-125-F, otherwise known as Lord Hater's hot tub. While Sylvia's less than impressed when the others inform her of the true nature of the mission, this is about as much as they dare to do. | |
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Frasier has done this a few times. One time he got his way by accident, but since he was still deluded that this trope was the proper way, he still didn't consider it a victory. | |
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The Tonight Show: A common additional punchline to Dude, Not Funny! jokes about current events told by Jay Leno was for Leno to mime writing a letter while muttering "Dear Mr. Leno, I just saw your recent show and..." | |
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Characters on The Goon Show would often threaten to write an angry letter to The Times when being robbed, kidnapped, having their country invaded, being hit by a batter pudding, etc. This being The Goon Show, this is often treated as actually being a credible threat. On one occasion, when Neddie Seagoon tried to write a letter to the papers complaining about his hands being tied behind his back, Grytpype-Thynne attempts to throw them off the scent by substituting a "Dear sir, today I heard the first cuckoo" letter. | |
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