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What Is This, X?
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This Stock Phrase is usually said in exasperation or annoyance to highlight an unlikely, unusual, nonsensical, or out of character moment. It is most often said by the Plucky Comic Relief or the Deadpan Snarker. The related phrase "Who are you, and what have you done with X?" is used when a character is Not Himself. It may or may not be Leaning on the Fourth Wall. Not to be confused with the outraged "WHAT IS THIS!?!?" usually expressed by medieval heroes or the biggest of bads - very often followed by a resounding Oh, Crap!. A close relative of If I Wanted X, I Would Y. |
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From the Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Episode, after Pee-Wee asks for an extra wish. | |
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In Cthulhu Saves the World, right at the beginning where Interactive Narrator explains the player basics of the game, and on subject of saving the game Cthulhu has this to say: | |
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On MythBusters, just before a test regarding alkali metals in a water-filled bathtub: | |
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In "Game Glitches", the Nerd is distracted by the Glitch Gremlin messing up Rocky Balboa (Bug-Eyed Balboa) and Spider Rico (Spider Rico with no jaw) on the Rocky PS2 game: | |
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In Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers, Mario is cursed to wear Brown Note clothes that send Bowser bounding about. His response? | |
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In an episode of Rick and Morty, alien parasites with the monikers of Ham Samurai (a samurai armoured in ham) and Amish Cyborg prompt Rick to ask "what is this, 90s Conan?" | |
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The Black Ranger uses it in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Fiery Redhead Tsundere Asuka Langley Soryu's catchphrase is rendered as "What are you, stupid?" in the ADV Films dub of the series. | |
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A variation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, when Eddie tries to pay for a Red Car ride with a check: | |
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Also, in the Nerd's and The Nostalgia Critic's collaboration review of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells Tour, when they see the Shredder crashing the turtles' party: | |
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Variant: In the Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines episode "Sappy Birthday," the pigeon flies by Vulture Squadron HQ so Dick Dastardly orders the squadron to charge. When Muttley and Zilly don't budge, Dastardly asks "What are you two waiting for? Engraved invitations?" | |
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From Occupy Richie Rich: | |
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The Aquabats! Super Show!, episode "ManAnt!", after Jimmy the Robot fires a buttermint at the MC Bat Commander: | |
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This exchange in Time Crisis 4: | |
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The film Holiday Inn makes use of it: | |
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Good Burger: Dexter's reaction when Ed explains how he climbed the giant food on Mondo Burger's roof. | |
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The Streamline dub of The Castle of Cagliostro gives us the following when Jodo's assassins open up the door to Lupin and Jigen's rented cabin: | |
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In an episode of Futurama, when Bender's automatic beer dispenser screws up, he angrily complains "What is this, the Middle Ages?!" | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd In "Game Glitches", the Nerd is distracted by the Glitch Gremlin messing up Rocky Balboa (Bug-Eyed Balboa) and Spider Rico (Spider Rico with no jaw) on the Rocky PS2 game: In the Pong episode: Also, in the Nerd's and The Nostalgia Critic's collaboration review of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells Tour, when they see the Shredder crashing the turtles' party: |
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Danger Mouse and Penfold are captured by an alien craft in "Close Encounters Of The Absurd Kind," and DM thinks it's Greenback's craft. He also thinks the alien leader Dr. Zok is Greenback in disguise. As he's being assimilated in front of Dr. Zok's class: | |
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In his review of Shantae and the Seven Sirens, Yahtzee sees Shantae's using her hair and dancing moves as weapons and says, "Hair attacks and dance attacks? What is this, the Bayonetta Saturday morning cartoon?!" | |
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In the CSI episode, "Sheltered", Morgan discovers a secret bunker in the middle of a desert: | |
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In one episode of FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman, Ruff does this when he sees Chet pasting an underwater wallpaper on the studio wall: | |
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In the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball, in one episode, when Bulma gets surprised that she has to wear a Playboy Bunny costume: "What is this, Easter?!" | |
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"What is this? Communist Russia?" is Daffy Duck's standard response whenever he is asked for an innocuous piece of information in The Looney Tunes Show. | |
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In the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Urban Ed", in response to a traffic jam, obnoxious loudmouth driver Eddy repeatedly honks his horn and cries out, "What is this, a funeral?!" | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has two examples: As the group makes its way through a variety of optical illusion-based corridors to get to the Chocolate Room, Mr. Salt asks "What is this, Wonka, some kind of funhouse?" Mr. Wonka replies, "Why, having fun?" During the creepy boat ride, Violet asks "What is this, a freak-out!?" |
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In the November 2002 issue of Game Informer, Matt Helgeson's review of Shox starts off with, "What is this, National Mediocre Games Month?" | |
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In Batman: Arkham Origins, whenever Batman hits Firefly with one of his glue grenades, Firefly will ask: "What's this, bat spit?" | |
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Family Guy gives us this example: In "Brian in Love", after Brian urinates at the supermarket, Peter asks him "Where do you think you are, Payless?" |
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In the Zero Punctuation review of Velvet Assassin, when Yahtzee discovers that the game is a World War II game made in Germany, he thinks about the other game about World War II made in Japan: In his review of Shantae and the Seven Sirens, Yahtzee sees Shantae's using her hair and dancing moves as weapons and says, "Hair attacks and dance attacks? What is this, the Bayonetta Saturday morning cartoon?!" |
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From Garfield: A Tale Of Two Kitties, after Garfield is served a Carlyle Log: | |
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In one "Bullseye" page of Entertainment Weekly Issue #1248 (March 1, 2013): "Downton Abbey adds to its body count. What is this, a Saw movie?" | |
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