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What Are You in For?
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A stock line whenever a prison is involved, often with I Always Wanted to Say That thrown in for good measure. Either one of the main characters will ask this to somebody else, or one of the 'locals' will ask the main cast. If the question is posed to the main cast, we often won't hear the reply, since we already know what went before, and it's probably far too bizarre to explain, anyway. If asked to someone else, the answer is almost always truthful, no matter how vile the crime or criminal. (Lying never seems to be an option.) A Dead Horse Trope more often Lampshaded and Subverted than played straight. Someone's crime will likely have involved pulling the tag off of a mattress or pillow. Bonus points if he's treated as the worst or scariest of the lot. In Real Life (at least in UK prisons) they often already know — they read the daily courtcase roundup in the local paper so already know who's been sentenced for what and how long. In countries where this is not the case (Russia, for example), they still either already know or will soon be able to verify your words, using the rumor telegraph and illegally smuggling notes and letters from facility to facility. |
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In Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore, the protagonist, Tommy, is in jail. He asks his cell mate what he's in for, and the man replies "copyright infringement", which he admits isn't really the sort of offense they put you in jail for. Ripping a lawyer's arms out of their sockets, however, is. | |
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In The Walking Dead the heroes ask this question of the small group of surviving inmates they encounter at the zombie-infested prison and are told armed robbery, tax fraud, drugs, and murder. It's probably not hard to pick out which one of these is eventually, horribly, revealed to be a bald-faced lie. | |
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In Artemis Fowl, Holly Short asks Mulch Diggums what he's in for this time. He tells her the truth, that it's tunneling and entering, and asks her to put in a good word for him. | |
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Henry's Crime: When Henry first becomes Max's cellmate, Max asks him what he is in for. Henry replies "bank robbery" and Max approves; commenting it is a "clean" crime. When Henry asks Max what he is in for, Max answers "Life". | |
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In the second Bottom Live stage show: | |
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In the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence", Lieutenant Reed keeps getting into awkward conversations due to getting caught running a black op for Section 31 and being thrown in the brig for it. Since everyone is busy dealing with the Klingons, both he and Captain Archer have no time to explain why he's in the brig to anyone... except when one of the Klingons who attacked the Enterprise gets tossed into the cell next to him. When Reed replies to his inquiry on why he's in the brig with "That's a long story," the Klingon prisoner in turn replies "Entertain me." Reed then manages to give him a minimal-details summary in one line. | |
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The Simpsons: "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish": When Mr. Burns is jailed for stealing valuable art, he seemingly lucks out by being put in the same cell as another white-collar criminal... until he finds out said inmate went to Dartmouth College. |
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In a surprisingly dark joke from Full House, Danny and Joey end up in a holding cell with a man who was arrested for scalping. He was not scalping tickets. | |
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An episode of Men in Black: The Series features an alien race that's downright obsessive about law and order, complete with an ultra-brutal gulag for housing the many, many lawbreakers they round up. How strict are they? When Jay finds himself in the prison, he asks a fellow inmate what he's in for, and, well, it turns out they take their mattress tags very seriously. | |
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In addition to regular prisons, Gotham also features Arkham Asylum for the criminally insane. When Barbara is sent there in Series Two, Jerome, taking an immediate interest in her, asks what she's in for. "Killing my parents," she tells him flatly. Which pleases him further as he's in for killing his mother. | |
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Looney Tunes: Variant. At the end of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Wabbit Twouble", after a typical Bugs once-over, Elmer Fudd angrily trashes a sign at Jellostone National Park, which leads to him getting arrested for destroying government property. In his cell, Bugs and the bear that chased Elmer earlier both ask "How long ya in for, doc?" | |
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Cinema Purgatorio: In the final issue, the staff members of the theater introduce themselves to the protagonist by name along with a crime they committed. They're prepping her for the revelation that the place is Hell by telling her what they did to get themselves condemned. They already know what she's in for, but due to her amnesia, she doesn't — that's what the next film they play is about. | |
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One episode of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated has the gang trying to get help from one of the people they've put away. Shaggy and Scooby, in their usual fashion, slink away to the cafeteria. One inmate asks them what they're in for, and Shaggy responds "The food!" | |
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Played with in The Shawshank Redemption: Andy Dufresne maintains his innocence, making everyone else laugh: "everyone's innocent in here" and "[I'm in because] a lawyer fucked me" become Running Gags among Andy's friends, while Red wryly refers to himself as "The only guilty man in Shawshank." ( Andy's telling the truth about being innocent, though.) | |
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Happens in The Last Castle when Irwin asks the doctor why he is in prison. The doctor says he was busted for marijuana possession. Irwin points out that marijuana possession will get you discharged from the military but not normally earn you a stint in a maximum security military prison. The doctor agrees and starts to explain, but they are interrupted and the audience never does get to hear the full story. | |
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In Undisputed, there's a code among the prisoners to not to ask such questions casually, as it is seen disrespectful. | |
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In the first LEGO Island game, when you visit the Brickster in his lone jail cell next to the police station, this begins one of the quotes he says. | |
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On What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?, Nash and Tara will occasionally discuss how awkward these conversations will be for people who committed especially stupid, embarrassing, or petty crimes (like the guy who stole money from a child's lemonade stand... after they gave him free lemonade.) | |
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An episode of Scrubs has Elliot and Carla arrested for soliciting a male prostitute (they wanted to do a favor for a female patient who didn't want to die a virgin). At the station, Elliot asks people going in what they're in for and brags that they're in for prostitution. Carla tells her to stop enjoying it so much. | |
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In the season 2 finale of Rick and Morty, After turning himself into the Galactic Federation so his family can return to Earth in peace, an inmate asks this question to Rick. He replies, in a defeated tone, "Everything." | |
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Dilbert: In an older story, Dilbert is sent to jail after killing one of the company executives with an ear of corn. Mere seconds after he shares this with his cellmate... In another strip, the Pointy-Haired Boss decides to rent to firm's unused cubicles to the state — as cells for prisoners. Cue the criminal asking Dilbert what he's in for. In yet another, Dogbert converts the house to an upscale prison. Dilbert bitterly explains this to the asking prisoner, who concludes that he's the wrong guy to talk to during happy hour. |
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Freefall: Florence (the sentient wolf) in the dog pound, asking this question to the pooch in the next cage. Later, Sam talks his way into a night in jail (which requires effort because the Warden refuses to take him because of how many times he's escaped); when another inmate asks him what he's in for, he replies, "Meatloaf night!" |
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In the made-for-tv Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends movie "Good Wilt Hunting", Wilt ends up in prison. His cellmates are explaining what they're in for and comparing how vile their actions, before Wilt solemnly states he could top their actions. Wilt just says "I crushed [a kid’s] dreams." | |
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Animaniacs: Rita asks Runt this when they first meet in the city pound. Runt's answer is "peeing on the floor". | |
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In the Supernatural episode "Folsom Prison Blues", Sam and Dean intentionally get themselves arrested in order to investigate mysterious deaths at a prison. When Sam tries to probe Randall, a veteran inmate for clues, Randall changes the subject by asking Sam why he's there. Sam, who wasn't happy with the plan in the first place, responds: "Because I've got an idiot for a brother." | |
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The Manhunt has a variation in that someone else says what the prisoner is in for. When Ethan Wayne is first placed in the cell in prison, the cell's hard man Ford suspects he is a snitch planted by the guards. However, The Scrounger says that he isn't a snitch, but that he got one and half years for stealing two horses. When Ford demands to know how he knows that, the scrounger just says that he knows everything that goes on in the prison. | |
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In Martial Law, the cop duo go undercover in jail. The Asian one's backstory is killing a dozen people in a restaurant shootout, and the black guy, purse theft. | |
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White Wolves: The third and fourth movies both have kids who are in the wilderness as an alternative to reform school and discuss the crimes they committed which landed them there. In the third film, Steve admits he's a tagger and Crystal says she was arrested for stealing a cheerleader's CD but falsely claims innocence, while Beri refuses to discuss her crime. Early in the fourth film, Jack boasts about stealing a CD and leading the police on a chase, then asks Pamela what she did. She claims that she didn't do anything and is just going to the camp to write an essay about troubled youth, but she might be lying. |
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In the remake of Attack of the 50-Foot Woman, the main character's cheating husband found himself in a spaceship with two other guys and one of them asked, "What are you in for?" | |
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Penny Arcade did a strip where a serial killer who cut out his victims eyes is in the same cell as a former Midway employee who made the decision to not put multiplayer in the now-obscure flight racer game Freaky Flyers. | |
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Max Payne 2 features a long (and hilarious) conversation between two guys stuck in the police stations holding cell about how one of them ended up getting arrested because he stole a car that had a murder weapon in it. He asks the other guy what he's in for and he just says "Who, me? DUI." | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim you can be thrown in the Markath prison mine. An Orc in there answers the question with: | |
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Parodied in The Handbook of Heroes, where it's two Talking Swords in a cell. | |
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In Mask of the Betrayer, the Wychlaran of Mulsantir allows you to take one of the local prisoners to fight with you against the giant bear spirits waiting outside the gaits. Naturally, you get to ask what they're in for: Groznek killed some men who taunted him; Joeb's in for pickpocketing; and Gannayev is there because, well... | |
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Winston muses that a question like this is essentially moot in Nineteen Eighty-Four. There is only one crime the Party cares about, so the answer is always Thoughtcrime. | |
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Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic: Gertrude the Valkyrie (on visiting from Cowboys and Crossovers) asks this to another frog in a cage after being herself turned into a frog. Yeah, that tends to happen when you piss off a wizard. | |
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In a MAD parody of The Longest Yard (first version), this results in a long list of murders, ending with "and strangling a tractor". | |
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Porridge: New prison officer Mr. Beale briskly asks prisoner Oakes what he's in for, when trying to assert his authority. He also asks Fletcher the same question, who replies "got caught". | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In his review of Baby's Day Out, during the scene where a lady takes Bink to the daycare center, the Critic dubs two of the other babies with his own dialogue. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: | |
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When Harry of Incompetence is arrested for Impersonating an Officer, he is forced into a massively overcrowded holding cell for people who are awaiting trial. He notes that asking What Are You in For? used to be a taboo question until an overabundance of regulations and laws that makes criminals of everybody means that hardened criminals need to know if they are mixing with real crooks or people who are arrested for displaying their fruits in pounds instead of kilos. A cellmate does enthusiastically tell Harry in excruciating detail exactly what bureaucratic cock-up led to him being detained, causing Harry's eyes to glaze over. | |
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In "Sgt. Gravel to the Rescue" from PB&J Otter, Peanut has an Imagine Spot about being sentenced to row the book boat as a prison barge for returning a library book late. An otter who looks like an older version of himself with a beard asks him what he's in for. He tells him it was an overdue library book, but it was only one day late. The elderly otter replies that this is what they all say and the other prisoners laugh at him. | |
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In Queer as Folk (US), when a letter addressed to Ben arrives while he's at work and Hunter wants to open it: | |
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Farscape: After stealing their Prison Ship in the premiere, Zhaan and D'Argo have this conversation because they've never had a chance to become acquainted due to being confined in separate cells. Ironically, both turn out to be lying, or at least not telling the full truth, whereas untrustworthy Rygel gives the real reason straight off — deposed by his own cousin in a palace coup. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Hard Time", this is used to establish the kind of society that has just imprisoned Chief O'Brien. His cellmate asks what he's in for, and then continues, "Let me guess. Sedition?" It's espionage, actually, but this establishes that it's not exactly a world with Federation values. | |
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Arcane. A variation when Caitlyn asks this of Vi. Caitlyn is asking because she's an Enforcer with no idea of who Vi is because the corrupt Enforcer who threw Vi in Stillwater Prison made sure there was no record of her incarceration. | |
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After Helena from The L Word is sent to jail, she's scared of her cell mate, who she's sure is a murderer. Actually, she's in for embezzlement, she just works out a lot. | |
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Mass Effect 2: Shepard can ask this of an NPC on the Purgatory Prison Ship. He casually explains that he killed a few people — only about twenty or so — and blew up "that one habitat". This is apparently small-time by Purgatory standards. | |
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In one Bloom County strip, Opus ends up in jail, and learns that his new cellmate is in for "strangling Oakland." And no, it's not a colorful sports metaphor. It means he strangled each and every single person in Oakland. | |
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In Garfield and Friends, Wade, after ripping the a tag off the bottom of a couch and learning that it's against the law, imagines himself in a prison cell with two dangerous-looking criminals: | |
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Star Trek: In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Hard Time", this is used to establish the kind of society that has just imprisoned Chief O'Brien. His cellmate asks what he's in for, and then continues, "Let me guess. Sedition?" It's espionage, actually, but this establishes that it's not exactly a world with Federation values. In the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence", Lieutenant Reed keeps getting into awkward conversations due to getting caught running a black op for Section 31 and being thrown in the brig for it. Since everyone is busy dealing with the Klingons, both he and Captain Archer have no time to explain why he's in the brig to anyone... except when one of the Klingons who attacked the Enterprise gets tossed into the cell next to him. When Reed replies to his inquiry on why he's in the brig with "That's a long story," the Klingon prisoner in turn replies "Entertain me." Reed then manages to give him a minimal-details summary in one line. |
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In the second Fletch movie the protagonist asks the cellmate — a huge, scary-looking guy — and the guy answers "molesting a dead horse". He then tells Fletch to bend over. Fortunately for Fletch, that's when the cops come in to move the guy. However it's later revealed this is all a plot to frighten Fletch, so we don't know if he really was arrested for that reason. | |
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Schindler's List: When Oskar Schindler is arrested by the German police in occupied Poland for possibly violating the Nazi racial acts by kissing a Jewish girl, his cellmate's first question is "What about you?" Schindler's answer prompts the incarcerated man to counter with a lurid anti-Semitic joke. | |
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Girl Genius: Phil Foglio's Author Avatar is in prison for including the Prince as a character in his story. When Agatha enters Castle Heterodyne, she is asked if she can cook, and says yes. Then, when asked what she's in for, she says she poisoned thirty-seven people because they complained about her cooking. (In the print-novel adaptation of the comic, "mass poisoning" is indeed the charge listed on her forged commitment papers.) |
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In Killer Klowns from Outer Space, one of the Klowns allows himself to be locked up in the town jail. A nebbish human prisoner then invokes this trope. | |
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Monk once went to prison on an undercover mission. His cellmate quickly noticed that he was obviously unused to prison and didn't seem like a criminal type. When he asked this, Monk improvised and said "embezzlement." | |
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Asked multiple times throughout Orange Is the New Black. Occasionally, new inmates like Piper will be under the impression that it's taboo to ask this question. | |
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off: | |
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In the first Police Academy, Mahoney (detained for property damage) asks Jones what is he in for. Jones convincingly imitates the sound of a machine gun, creating panic in the police station. Mahoney decides to take him to the academy too. | |
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In Swamp Thing, Abby goes to jail for "crimes against nature" when her relationship with the title character becomes public knowledge. Her cellmate, after relating how she was caught shoplifting, asks her what she's in for. Abby, in no mood for small talk, says, "Hugging vegetables." The cellmate backs away to the other end of the bench. | |
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U.S. Acres: As alluded to in the explanatory section, Wade steps on a rake, sending him into a musical number, followed by a short trial sentencing him to 9999 years in prison. Once there, two inmates brag about their crimes. When Wade sheepishly admits his, the other two pull on the bars, terrified of sharing a cell with such a psychopath. Similar to this, in a comic strip, two criminals are bragging about their crimes, when their third cellmate says that he's in for beating up Santa, causing the other two to cower in a corner. |
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In Dynomutt #2, the villain Mastermind is apprehended and jailed for a very mundane crime: not returning an overdue library book. In jail, two bruisers tell each other what they're in for, then they ask Mastermind what he's in for. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: When Galadriel is sent in prison by queen Miriel for acting entitled, she has this exchange with Halbrand: | |
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Happens in The Santa Clause. The waitress at Denny's asks if Scott and Charlie if they're affiliated with the Japanese company seated in the front room. Charlie blurts out "Dad burnt the turkey." Speaking in a dry tone, the waitress leads them into another section of the restaurant, where they are surrounded by other single dads and their children. | |
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In I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, the hero is asked this by a fellow inmate but refuses to answer. Clearly he was still not over the fact that he was convicted to 10 years of hard labor for stealing $5. | |
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Played somewhat straight in Down by Law: the arguably tough looking Tom Waits and John Lurie are sent to prison on separate frame-up jobs. Their cellmate, the tiny, meek and bumbling Roberto Benigni reveals in the What Are You In For scene that he's in for a pool hall murder, which he provoked by cheating at cards. | |
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In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Asneeze informs Robin that he was in for "Jaywalking". In 12th century Jerusalem. It's a Mel Brooks movie. | |
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In an episode of Home Improvement, Tim and Al were arrested for scalping tickets and end up in a cell with a man who "gave someone a tattoo." When they question why that was a problem, he states that the man who he gave the tattoo to didn't want it. | |
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One Timon & Pumbaa episode has the recurring bear acting as a fire warden for the forest, and swallows anyone whole that brings it into the woods, with the last ones being a couple of kids. At the end of the episode, after he gobbles up the man who had been forcing Timon and Pumbaa to fetch him fire, the little girl in his stomach asks him what he's in for. | |
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Pv P has a story where Brent took Skull to a veterinarian for a checkup, and ends up in jail for owning an exotic animal without a license (they thought he was a gorilla). When the other, significantly more hardcore criminals in lockup ask Brent what he did, he gives a legalese answer about not filing the proper paperwork, and receives blank stares. | |
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In The Lydian Option, played straight with the prisoners revealing offenses ranging from the major (murder) to the minor (a bar fight), all with the same punishment. | |
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In the Danny Phantom fanfic "The Lunch Club", a fanon concept that Danny and Sam first met while serving lunch detention together, Danny asks Sam this. Sam retorts if they're in some '40s prison break movie. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"; | |
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A variation appears in Arlo Guthrie's song/monologue "Alice's Restaurant": | |
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An early episode of Growing Pains had Mike in jail for graffiti. One of his cellmates asks this question to which he replied, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die." | |
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Lions & Liars: At one point, the kids in Cabin 13 all confide in each other why they're at Camp Omigoshee. Specs is there for breaking a kid's glasses in two. The Professor is there for refusing to sign up for his school's football team, which said school interpreted as him not being an agreeable person or team player. Nosebleed is there because he wants to go to summer camp, and decided to go there as a trial run for the real thing. |
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Played straight ("What did they get you for?" "Oh, It's a long story. You wouldn't believe me even if I told you.") and then inverted in the Doctor Who serial "Frontier in Space", when the Third Doctor is sent to a prison full of political prisoners: | |
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The Beetlejuice episode "The Birdbrain of Alcatraz" has Beetlejuice ask this to a fellow inmate of The Big House. | |
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Blake's 7: The moment Blake meets his future companions in "The Way Back", the Snark-to-Snark Combat commences. | |
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Asked of a demon within the Hell prison in Void Domain. | |
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In The 10th Kingdom, Tony is technically arrested for being found in the Queen's cell (wearing handcuffs) when everybody awoke to find her gone. When asked though, he says that he was arrested for a bank robbery. Which is technically true, he was arrested on Earth for the robbery before fleeing through the magic mirror. | |
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American History X has a scene in which the main character is talking to a black prisoner why they are in prison. The scene is played straight, however. | |
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In The First Wives Club, when the three main characters' ex-husbands are coerced into congregating at the titular club's headquarters, the last to arrive, Brenda's ex-husband Morty, sees the other two in the waiting room and asks, "What are you guys in for?" | |
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The prison drama Oz averts this frequently relative to their large cast of prisoners, instead introducing new prisoners via Augustus Hill's narration to the audience, in which he also lists the length of the person's sentence. Inmates usually become aware of other inmates' crimes by reputation or by implied offscreen conversations. | |
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Krage asks this question at the end of the Marvel Adventures: The Avengers comic he appears in to Fancy Dan (who mistakenly spam-called Iron Man). | |
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A Monopoly-themed sketch from Robot Chicken has a prison inmate ask the shoe, dog, thimble, and car what they're in jail for. | |
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In Help I Am Being Held Prisoner by Donald Westlake, the protagonist played a silly prank that ended in a traffic accident. Because said accident resulted in the exposure of a politician's unsavory sexual habits, said politician pulls strings so the protagonist will get punished as hard as possible. Because of this his sentence and the description of his crime, while ambiguously vague, make him sound like a hardened, inhuman murderer — so the toughest gang in prison recruit him to their schemes... | |
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In the final episode of Every Faggot Ever, the titular faggot's new cellmate asks him this question when he's locked up. | |
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In Batman: Arkham Origins, when you infiltrate Blackgate Prison for a second time, you can overhear this exchange via Enemy Chatter: | |
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Family Guy: In the episode "Chris Has Got a Date, Date, Date, Date, Date" Stewie and Peter send out a tweet that a movie was "Just okay" and promptly get arrested by the "Internet police". When they get to jail, they run into another inmate; Brian asks "What are you in for"? and he replies "I thought that Caytlin Jenner wasn't very courageous or good looking." In "Dial Meg for Murder", Meg is sent to a women's prison, and her black cellmate asks her "Did you get caught trying to vote in Ohio?" |
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Transformers (2007) had this on a helicopter: | |
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Madea Goes to Jail. Well, the title character's cellmate already knows why she's there. | |
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In "Black Gold and Red Blood" from The Mentalist, one of Patrick Jane's gambits results in him getting thrown in prison with a Scary Black Man who goes by "Boo." | |
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Friends: Chandler says this to a couple of girls while he's going to talk to Phoebe's policeman boyfriend. He thinks it's funny, they don't. | |
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In the second part of The Stranger, when Meursault is first put into prison, a few people ask him what he's in for. "Killing an Arab." Guess what kind of people are mostly in that prison. | |
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