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To Make a Long Story Short

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To Make a Long Story Short	comment	A sister trope to It's a Long Story, this is a Stock Phrase, usually pulled out when a character sums up something really complicated with a few choice words. Either that, or that character is using the phrase ironically. For example: Character A: And then what happened? Character B: Well, to make a long story short, I won't be going to the Noodle Emporium anytime soon. And for the second variety: Character 1: ...and so, to make a long story short, we ended up using two chopsticks, a scarf, a bottle of shampoo, a dead moose, and the tophat from Monopoly to make our escape. Character 2: You call that story short? If it's used ironically, see Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking.... Compare Rambling Old Man Monologue. Contrast with Short Story Long.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_102a22a7	comment	Ansem Retort: Back at FOX, we had this great idea for the next plot line. It had monkeys and samurai, crazy stuff. Long story short: big chemical spill.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_1645fb27	comment	All-New Ultimates: Lana visits her mother Lori at prison. Prisoners have a fixed short time for visits, so Lori tries to avoid the introductory conversation and go straight to the point.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_22147342	comment	Arrow. In "Restoration", Felicity Smoak shows that, despite being a notorious Motor Mouth, she can cut to the chase when needed. And again when the Villain of the Week attacks Felicity and Curtis Holt.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Hurricane Neddy'', Ned Flanders asks Rev. Lovejoy if God is testing him, Lovejoy answers, "Short answer: yes, with an if. Long answer: no, with a but." And in another episode with Grandpa Simpson telling a long, pointless story to the rest of the family...
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_30d9627b	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978): In the second series, Corrupt Corporate Executive Hig Hurdenflurst only happens to have Lintilla (and her identical clones, both also named Lintilla) at gunpoint and demands an explanation. Lintilla says it's a long story, so he asks her to just give a quick precis. Lintilla narrows it down to "because".
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_35bceb50	comment	Despite saying the opposite, Polonius in Hamlet proceeds to go on a long-winded rant of 'advice' to his daughter Ophelia. To boot it's pretty useless and patronizing advice. Later, when Polonius confronts King Claudius and Queen Gertrude regarding Hamlet's apparent madness, he declares, "Since brevity is the soul of wit, I shall be brief." By the time he gets around to saying that, he's already wrong on both points; his speech is neither short nor witty. Gertrude has to tell him, "Less art and more matter," which is Shakespearean for "Cut to the chase."
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: Kelso uses this a lot. To give one example: "I was one of the most promising young shortstops ever to come out of Altoona Pennsylvania. Then came the Dominicans. Long story short...calling them all 'Pepe' was apparently just racist enough to get me a life-long ban from the Appalachian Rookie League."
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_4ba2403f	comment	In the short story Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving uses the phrase to wrap up the narrative.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: After the Sentry system provides the first view of Gah Lak Tus, Nick Fury asks how big is it. The scientist starts giving the reasons for the estimations, and Nick interrupts him with, "Get to the point!" Ultimate X-Men: Wraith calls Ross and asks if the budget cuts mean that SHIELD wants to close Weapon X. After some evasives (he was in the middle of a conference), Ross gave a straight answer: yes, Weapon X will be closed. All-New Ultimates: Lana visits her mother Lori at prison. Prisoners have a fixed short time for visits, so Lori tries to avoid the introductory conversation and go straight to the point. The Ultimates: Captain America wakes up in the hospital. The last thing he remembers is the military operation at the Chitauri base, which he is informed was a success, followed by the Allied victory in WWII. He accepts it, and asks how much time he has been out. Days? Weeks? Months? Bruce Banner starts ranting theories about the super soldier serum, but Cap asks for a straight answer.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf, "Gunmen of the Apocalypse":
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_679edf73	comment	Terminator Genisys. Detective O'Brien offers Sarah Connor his help if she'd just explain what's going on, but acknowledges that any explanation involving time travel is likely to be complicated.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_7c6f5e19	comment	In one episode of The Red Green Show Red says "So to make a long story, well, fairly long..."
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_7cf1b706	comment	Used with snarky commentary in Escape from Monkey Island.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_7f6eb95d	comment	In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence begins his explanation of what happened with "I will be brief" and then goes on for about forty lines.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_8cea2648	comment	When Peter B. Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse asks how Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker and Spider-Ham came to Miles' universe, Noir claims that it was a long story. Cut to the three of them crash landing onto different screens in Times Square, similar to Peter B.'s story. They quickly admit it's maybe not that long of a story.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_9ff7441c	comment	In The Men from the Ministry Mr. Lamb often tries to do this when forced to explain a complicated situation. However, he always just takes random segments from the events that don't make any sense at all when combined.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_a058fdcf	comment	In Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, Bridge sums up where he's been since the end of Power Rangers S.P.D.: "Oh, uh, yeah, well, long story short, our mentor who's, well, a dog, got promoted to head of SPD which was run by a bird but he retired to Miami, and Sky got promoted and I got promoted. That's why I'm the Red Ranger, or will be."
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_a3ef164b	comment	Ultimate X-Men: Wraith calls Ross and asks if the budget cuts mean that SHIELD wants to close Weapon X. After some evasives (he was in the middle of a conference), Ross gave a straight answer: yes, Weapon X will be closed.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_affd17dc	comment	Nabari no Ou:
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_b3693333	comment	In the movie version of Clue, Wadsworth repeatedly says this, with the other characters always shouting "Too late!" in unison afterwards.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_b53b86fa	comment	The Princess Bride:
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_c78aeb5	comment	Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: After the Sentry system provides the first view of Gah Lak Tus, Nick Fury asks how big is it. The scientist starts giving the reasons for the estimations, and Nick interrupts him with, "Get to the point!"
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	The Ultimates: Captain America wakes up in the hospital. The last thing he remembers is the military operation at the Chitauri base, which he is informed was a success, followed by the Allied victory in WWII. He accepts it, and asks how much time he has been out. Days? Weeks? Months? Bruce Banner starts ranting theories about the super soldier serum, but Cap asks for a straight answer.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_d9c602eb	comment	Inverted horrifically in the South Park episode "I Should Never Have Gone Ziplining": one of the other folks on the ziplining tour basically tells everyone his life story... prefacing each part with "To make a long story short...". For the boys, it practically becomes a Madness Mantra.
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars: An episode had Veronica's friend Wallace happily taking his sweet time, now that he got to tell the story about how he weaselled information out of somebody, getting to the point. After which he summed up with, "To make a long story short..." to which she replied "Ha!"
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Subverted multiple times, usually along the lines of:
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_e99bd5d4	comment	In Fire Emblem Warriors, Lucina makes her proper introduction and explains to the group explains that she's from the same world as cast from Awakening, albeit from when it fell into a Bad Future. Owain, who's also from the same future, goes into a bunch of theatrics to further explain the situation, in which Chrom eventually tells him to get to point. Owain then says "OK! Long story short... Lissa's gonna be my mom!".
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing: "Long story short, you have a magical evening. Short story long? Anything by Dickens."
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_f42befdb	comment	Every Captain Underpants story has a chapter entitled this, usually after a character says something to the effect of "I hope this works!" followed by the chapter only having something like "It worked".
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To Make a Long Story Short / int_f724b70d	comment	In Code Lyoko, Teen Genius Jeremie tries to explain how he got the materialization program working to Aelita in hard to understand terms, until Odd cuts him off with a "Time-out, Einstein!" and Ulrich yawns. Jeremie then references the trope by name and say, "It works."
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