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What Were You Thinking?
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The inevitable question asked when another character's rash plan or reckless behavior results in disaster or near-disaster. Asked upon discovery of the mayhem caused by said recklessness, or after picking up the pieces, and is usually asked by their superior, a concerned parent, or simply a friend or ally. Popular answers include "I wasn't!", "I don't know!", "It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time!", and "I Did What I Had to Do." If someone answers "For Science!", it's a good bet that he's either a lost cause or a very Mad Scientist. Can follow a My God, What Have I Done? for a Kick the Dog moment. A Deal with the Devil is almost always followed by this, if only from the audience. Not to be confused with What the Hell, Hero?, which has less to do with recklessness and more to do with kicking or shooting the dog, though it can overlap. If someone is asking himself (or herself) this, it's Didn't Think This Through. Compare Flat "What", What the Hell, Hero? and What Did You Expect When You Named It ____? — where this either gets said verbatim as an addendum or is simply loomingly implicit. |
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Used in an episode of Everybody Hates Chris, in which Julius is laid off and has to take care of the house, cooking, and cleaning while Rochelle tries to find a job. After being insulted by Rochelle for most of the episode, Julius makes the mistake of saying that taking care of the house, which Rochelle usually does, isn't that hard. Cue Rochelle, who is known for cursing people out, launching a positively horrifying hour-long tirade that had Julius cowering in the corner, ending with Rochelle yelling "HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND!??!" | |
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Kane buried The Undertaker... again. He decided to hold a funeral in respect of him... and then Alberto Del Rio interrupted. Now, given that Alberto had only been on Smackdown for a few months, and Kane is a veteran who just took out The Undertaker, and that Alberto interrupted his "funeral" just to challenge Kane, the audience, Kane, and pretty much anyone else who may have been watching all exclaimed... | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Elliot Stabler frequently hears this: when he drove a paranoid-schizophrenic to a breakdown to get information, when he tried to convince the parents of a girl beaten up by his friend's son not to testify, when he made his daughter's DUI disappear, the infamous "What possessed you to tell the shrink in your psych evaluation that you fantasized about killing suspects?!" Or the time when he told the father of a murdered girl that the Suspect might get away with it... Captain Cragen also said this to Olivia Benson when she gave a reporter confidential information about an investigation involving Anthrax. Fin Tutuola heard this from John Munch and his ex-wife in the episode when he handled a case against his son poorly. |
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These exact words are used in Ranma ½ when the Tendos, particularly Kasumi, call Genma out for taking his son to the cursed training ground of Jusenkyo. To the annoyance of some readers, though, this is only in the very first chapter of the manga, and nobody so much as raises an eyebrow when Genma later reveals he taught Ranma the Nekoken because he was too lazy to read the next page, which warned that the technique invariably drove trainees insane and was too stupid to use, anyway. Although, it's entirely possible that people stopped asking this of him because they realized it just wouldn't do any damned good. | |
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Asked bluntly of Vanessa Huxtable by her father Cliff in the "Off To See The Wretched" episode of The Cosby Show, regarding not only her deceit (she lied to her parents so that she and her friends could go to an out-of-state concert), but her additional stupid antics, like not reporting the theft of her friend's brother's car. | |
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In The Goonies, Stef barks this at Andy when she hits the wrong notes on the musical lock, causing part of the floor to collapse. | |
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In Donkey Kong Country, Cranky Kong asks this of Donkey Kong when he learns that DK has given the Crystal Coconut to King K. Rool, being told to give up everything to know everything; | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied in one episode: Apu gets an even more spectacular one: In "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Homer's stories land him on an island. An anti-escape orb tries to stop him from leaving but Homer simply pops it with a fork. From "Radio Bart" where Lisa catches Bart pranking Springfield with a microphone-operated radio. |
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Reverend Mother asks it word for word in Sister Act in response to Deloris/Mary Clarence turning the choir into a girl group act. | |
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The Full House episode "Comet's Excellent Adventure" raises this question twice after the part about Jesse giving Michelle to walk Comet by herself, which leads to Comet running away and becoming missing, is revealed. Near the end of the episode, Michelle combines this trope with Calling the Old Man Outnote (technically, Jesse is Michelle's uncle, but the premise still stands) when she asks Jesse this question. A bit earlier, Danny reacts similarly after Jesse confesses his role in Comet's disappearance to him. |
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A lot of people screamed this at Mohinder from Heroes when he injected himself with a Super Serum he'd invented mere hours ago from studying a woman who cries death, while outside in a bad part of town. And also wanted to distribute it to the general public, despite the fact that a remarkable proportion of those with powers kill people a lot or even try to destroy the world. | |
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In Justice League, Hawkgirl chews out Fire for dropping Flash into the sea after Flash told her to do it so she could help Hawkgirl, reminding Fire that Flash can't fly. Fire feebly responds that she figured she could trust a founding member of the Justice League to have a plan, not knowing that Flash didn't have one. Fortunately, Flash was able to think of something in the nick of time. Hawkgirl immediately switched targets to Flash and furiously ordered him to never scare her like that again. In "Doomsday Sanctum", Amanda Waller asks this of General Eiling when she learns he launched a Kryptonite-tipped nuclear warhead at the inhabited island that Superman and Doomsday were fighting on behind her back. |
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The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Total Re-Carl" involves Frylock trying to make Carl a new body after his original one gets liquefied by Frylock's Super Toilet. One of the options Frylock almost goes with is putting Carl's head on a lethal military robot, leading to this exchange: | |
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In the pilot episode of Corner Gas, Oscar does this when he sees Brent do some changes to the gas station, namely the introduction of video rentals. Oscar does not take this well. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "World Wide Wabbit" has Frankie ask this to Bloo when he starts a website based on Herriman's embarrassing "funny bunny" video that got 20 million hits. "Mac Daddy": Bloo says this about Mac having apparently conjured up "Cheese". Mac's response: "Exactly, I wasn't thinking." |
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Spyro says this to the Professor in Spyro: A Hero's Tail after the latter gets captured by Red and forced to transform Red's army into robots. | |
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In the Static Shock episode "Jimmy", Robert Hawkins says this to Jimmy's father when he calls him out for having a gun where his son could easily get to it. | |
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Sollux: Fling stars specibus-ward. | |
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In Max Payne 3, Max thinks about asking this of Giovanna and the now deceased Marcello, but stops and reminds himself that his long list of failures gives him no right to criticise. | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the Sovereign pursue the Guardians because Rocket stole some of their batteries | |
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In PAYDAY 2, Bain gets nervous when he realizes what the gang's stealing this time around. | |
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Bravelands: Loyal questions Fearless about what he was thinking when growling that Fearless had made an oath he couldn't possibly keep. | |
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Halfway through Fallout: New Vegas, you'll receive an invitation to visit Caesar, ruler of the despotic, slaving Legion, at his Fort, along with a promise of safe passage if the Legion considers you an enemy. If you've done a lot of quests against the Legion over the first act of the game, Caesar will greet you with Tranquil Fury, reciting a Long List of ways you've screwed him over, and end by asking what you were thinking, daring to come before him after all that. If you reply that the Mark of Caesar guaranteed your safety, Caesar will declare that he's going to have you executed regardless... and then admit that he's "just fucking with you." Alternatively, if you have the Terrifying Presence perk, you can answer Caesar's question with "That I'd decorate this tent with your guts" and initiate combat with the dictator. | |
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Comes up quite a lot in WWE, either from skits backstage after a loss (or near-loss) because of a tag team partner, or when a commenter wonders what a high-flyer was thinking after attempting a high risk move successfully (or unsuccessfully) and losing the match. | |
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In Turning Red, Mei asks herself this after her drawing of her crush ends up causing major embarrassment for her even though it was due to her mother's actions that it ended up that way and not Mei's fault. | |
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In The Dark Knight, Lucius Fox meets with Coleman Reese, who says that he's figured out that Bruce Wayne is Batman and wants $10 million a year for the rest of his life to stay quiet. | |
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A sad example occurs in Call the Midwife: after several attacks on women in the neighborhood, the midwives are told to travel in groups. Sister Mary Cynthia is separated from her partner and tries to walk home alone. After she's jumped, a heartbroken Sister Julienne asks this trope. | |
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Walker, Texas Ranger: At the beginning of Season 6's "Test of Faith" while Walker and Trivette are pursuing a trio of bank robbers, their chase ends at an abandoned building, where the robbers have an accomplice in a helicopter waiting for them. After Walker and Trivette kill the other two robbers, their leader gets away, but Walker grabs hold of the copter's skid for a short time, and is able to force the robbers to land their chopper so they can be arrested. After the fact, it leads to this exchange between the two Rangers: |
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Disney Chills: John and Michael ask Barrie this when he confesses that he stole the pirate captain's hook. They say stealing from a guy like that, even if he's supposedly dead, is asking for trouble. | |
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During The Cinema Snob's crossover with Phelousnote Neither has brought anything to review, so Brad is looking at a clothes iron held by Phelan: | |
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In Bob and George, you built dangerous robots and let the bad guy take them to conquer the world. Followed by the Stock Phrase. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Jolyne Cujoh, who's imprisoned in Green Dolphin Street Prison, acquires her father Jotaro's Stand Disc, one of two key items needed to ensure he awakens from his coma, and places a call to the Speedwagon Foundation and mentions the Disc over the phone. Emporio Alnino, a boy who lives in the prison, angrily uses this phrase on her, noting that their enemies could be listening. He's proven right when Whitesnake's user listens in on the call. | |
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Big Hero 6 has this part after Hiro's big brother Tadashi helps him get out of a nasty incident. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Impulsive Anti-Villain Zuko frequently hears this from his uncle in response to his short-sighted plans. Notably in season 2, Zuko successfully manages to capture Appa with the Gaang none the wiser, only for Iroh to call him out on how, among other things, they've got no way to transport or contain the flying bison. | |
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Arthur: In "Elwood City Turns 100!", The Brain said this line as he reprimanded Buster for destroying the set. | |
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God of War Ragnarök: Spoken verbatim by Kratos and Freya on two different occasions, Kratos when he catches Atreus in Midgard when he disappeared from Sindri's house for two days, unaware that he was actually in Jotunheim for a few hours and Atreus has to keep it a secret, and Freya when everyone learns Atreus freed Garm, a wolf that can chew through the fabric of reality. | |
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Late in the Band of Brothers miniseries, Easy Company passes some surrendering Germans traveling in the other direction, troops marching and officers on wagons. Webster leans out of a troop transport and starts berating them: "You stupid bastards, look at you! You have horses! What were you thinking?!" For added irony, they are on the autobahn. The Americans in trucks on the road, the Germans walking the other way in the median. | |
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Swindle: Mrs. Bing questions Griffin about his thought process after he was caught making a sting operation against suspects of his in the courthouse. | |
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In the backstory of Mass Effect, this was the salarian and asari response when they learned how the turians responded to humanity opening a mass relay: destroying the fleet that did it and conquering the planet involved. Without telling the humans why they did it. (Randomly opening mass relays has a high, historically-proven chance of letting very bad things into civilized space, but an uncontacted species would have no way of knowing this.) Naturally, humanity took this as an act of war, turning First Contact into a diplomatic nightmare. | |
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Lance Vance says this in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City after a lackey's failed attempt to blow up a coffee shop leaves behind a veritable Orgy of Evidence. | |
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The captain asks Cool Hand Luke what he thought defacing parking meters would get him. Luke replies that, being drunk at the time, he probably wasn't thinking. | |
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What If… (Gamebooks): Often said by the author when the audience makes a bad decision. Sometimes it's directed at the reader, but it does often go to Haley. Book #2 even has a dead end that opens with asking you why you left Haley alone with a delinquent, and listing the awful things that happened because of it. Book #7 also opens a dead end berating you with this, telling you that you shouldn't have made Haley take slimming pills and she was lucky to end up in a psych ward and not the morgue (aka dead). Also inverted when the author congratulates you in some scenes. Book #6 tells you that it was very generous of you to help Mia (if you choose to) because Haley will get good karma from it. Consequently, if you consciously choose for Haley to ignore the situation, you reach a dead end. |
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This line often pops up verbatim in Transformers: Prime. Miko nearly got herself (and others) killed several time in the series premiere alone. Her friend Jack said the line word for word each time, until he got tired of repeating himself so much. | |
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Law & Order Adam Schiff does this to Jack McCoy when he cuts a very favorable deal for a mob hit man in "House Counsel" because he wants to beat the mobster's attorney, who happens to be an intense rival of McCoy's from law school. | |
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American Dragon: Jake Long: In the episode "Family Business", Lao-Shi says this verbatim to Sun Park after finding out she was already bringing Haley into battle for her dragon training. His reaction is more than justified, because while she may be a Child Prodigy, Haley is still only 8 years old. |
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Chicago Med: In the Season 3 episode "Down by Law", a patient named Ben has checked himself into the psychiatric ward due to having repetitive homicidal thoughts towards his wife, who happens to be pregnant. So Dr. Reese's bright idea to help him is via exposure therapy; by locking herself in a room with him and giving him a knife. While Ben ultimately doesn't harm her or himself, she gets reamed out by Dr. Charles for defying his orders and recklessly putting herself and Ben in danger. | |
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The Spectacular Spider-Man's Norman Osborn solidifies his Genre Savvy credentials by asking his son Harry this when he learned he had been drinking the Green Goblin serum. | |
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Pops up in Mystery Science Theater 3000 on occasion, such as Joel to Crow for letting Timmy on board, or (much later) Crow to Mike after he's just blown up his third planet. | |
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Dragon Ball Super: This is 18's (rather understandable) reaction to learning that Krillin asked for Goku to punch him. Krillin's explanation is that It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, since he wanted to know how strong Goku had gotten. | |
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The Fast and the Furious: Dominic Toretto asks this of Jesse after he races Johnny Tran for pink slips. | |
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"What were they thinking!?" is one of The Angry Video Game Nerd's many catchphrases, used for an asinine flaw with a bad game. | |
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Some fans exclaim this when a promotion has a good angle or rivalry going and then proceeds to screw it up somewhere along the line. WWE tends to get this a lot. For example, dropping the US Title rematch of Daniel Bryan vs Sheamus from Wrestlemania 27, considering that they're two of WWE's most consistent workers and could have put on an awesome match. | |
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Used verbatim in FlashForward, regarding Mark Benford's actions in the last episode. | |
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Saturday Night Live: Parodied by Norm MacDonald during a "Weekend Update" segment: And in another: |
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Some editors in This Wiki tend to use this at times as a reaction... and Pothole it to this very page. | |
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Zits has Mom convey an expression that says this phrase without using words to react to Jeremy's antics. Likely she doesn't say it because Jeremy will likely react with some quip. | |
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In Fate/stay night, Shirou gets this a lot, because what he does tends to get him disemboweled or otherwise grievously harmed while the person he was helping probably would have been okay, or whoever he was trying to save was clearly beyond help. Unusually for this trope, Shirou fully realizes that what he's doing is mind-bogglingly stupid even as he's doing it, but he's so dependent on his "save everyone" philosophy that he refuses to compromise it in any way, even if it means his own life. | |
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In Oh God! You Devil, when Bobby literally finds God near the end of the film, the Almighty agrees to help him out of the predicament he's in, but not without giving Bobby a (for God) gentle rebuke. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "The Lost Mattress", Mr. Krabs is sent into a coma after the loss of his old mattress, which had all of his money stored in it. At the hospital, his gurney is parked in front of a vending machine until a nurse puts him outside. An administrator comes in and says this verbatim to the head doctor, who calls for the same nurse to take care of it... and she kicks Mr. Krabs down the hill. | |
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Transformers: Animated: Megatron kidnaps Bulkhead to complete his space bridge, and Bulkhead is so sick of people assuming he can't do anything that he makes it work. When Professor Sumdac calls him on this, Bulkhead points out that Sumdac was the guy who rebuilt Megatron (although he had no idea about the evil tyrant thing). | |
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Happy Feet: Gloria asks a version of this after she discovers that him singing to her at the mating season is really him lip-synching and letting someone else sing (Mumble can't sing). | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Maud Pie", Pinkie nearly gets killed by a dangerous obstacle course she sets up. After Maud saves her, she asks her this verbatim. Notably, it's one of the rare times Maud raises her voice. | |
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Yuna Roma Seiran gets this from the ORB military officers in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, for hiding war criminal Lord Djibril in ORB and denying it, then acting all surprised when ZAFT sees through his obvious lies and invades in full force. Apparently, he thought that since ORB had successfully hidden the Archangel from them two years ago, but not even in anime do politics bend to the Rule of Cool... | |
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Believing Is Seeing: Chrestomanci asks the officials in Theare about what they were thinking. He says that by trying to avoid their destiny, they only came to meet it and caused disruption to their own world. | |
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Used in The League of Gentlemen when a minor member of a gentleman's club of... purveyors of Special Stuff (which makes even human flesh seem upstanding and moral) run by Hilary Briss decides to bring his wife to a secret meeting: | |
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Leaving the Cradle: It's said pretty much outright when Zane learns about the doctored data in Gharr's report. | |
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Spoofed in the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Cry Ed", where, after Ed drops a house on Eddy in response to Eddy's scheme to get himself injured and gain sympathy, the following exchange occurs: | |
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Brink!: Used word-for-word by Brother Chen at the end of "Critical Reaction" when he discovers a rogue splinter of the Resistance destroyed the Ark's nuclear reactor, especially since he said he merely intended to threaten to do so and not actually follow through on it. | |
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ER. Carol to Doug when he shows up at her apartment drunk, uninvited and unannounced, disrupting her romantic evening with her boyfriend. | |
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Mike Mozart of Jeepers Media uses this catchphrase when he comes across a toy with a... suggestive design flaw. | |
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In Hell's Kitchen, Chef Ramsay does not suffer fools lightly. If any of the chefs do something incredibly bone-headed, especially if it hits his Berserk Buttons, he will ask what their thought process was in doing so. Sometimes, the chefs themselves will express disbelief in one of their actions or even lampshade it themselves when they do so. | |
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In the South Park episode "Ike's Wee Wee", Kyle decides to save his brother Ike from being circumcised by sending him on a train bound for Nebraska. He crafts a decoy made out of butcher shop bones in an effort to trick his parents into canceling the bris. A dog follows him home and attacks the Ike doll before getting hit by a tanker truck. While his parents mourn the supposed loss of their baby, Stan and even Cartman glare at Kyle for doing this. | |
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In Warrior Cats: A Vision Of Shadows, after Onestar explains the connection between him and Darktail, the she-cats seem to get the gist of where his story's going. | |
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Used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, see the page quote. | |
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Implied in Star Wars Legends books about starfighters, such as the X-Wing Series. One type of "Ugly," spaceships cobbled together Frankenstein-style from various parts, combines the ball cockpit of a TIE Fighter with a Y-Wing's engines. The result is slow, sluggish, unshielded, and only has a pair of lasers for weapons, giving it all the downsides of its parent vehicles and none of the benefits. This Ugly design is variously known as the T-Wing, TYE-Wing, Die-Wing, and most tellingly as the Why-Fighter. | |
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Go to Sleep (A Jeff the Killer Rewrite): After the brothers retreat to their home, Jeff spits blood in the bathroom sink from how badly beat up he got fighting Randy. Liu sees this and asks "What were you even thinking!" in regards to Jeff running into that fight in retaliation of Randy insulting him and the late Ben, to which Jeff replies, "I wasn't." | |
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Family Guy: In "The D in Apartment 23", Lois says this verbatim when calling out Brian for writing a racist tweet. Brian gives a "Just Joking" Justification but Lois points out that they live in a time where you can't just say whatever you want online and expect to get away with it. | |
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In Saiyuki's "Kami-sama" arc, Sanzo attempts to break a barrier that he thought was created by will power by shooting at it, on the "rationale" that the bullets are infused with his will power, and thus the two will cancel out...yeah, no. Instead, the bullets ricochet back and everyone dives for cover, with Hakkai yelling, "What are you DOING, Sanzo??" | |
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In the feature film adaptation of Shane Acker's 9, 7 asks 9 this after 9 put the talisman into the machine, causing it to wake up and kill 2. | |
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Over the Hedge: The animals in general have this reaction to learning that Verne returned all the food they had gather over the week to the humans (or at least tried to), with Ozzie saying the trope name word-for-word. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Said verbatim by Lestat de Lioncourt in "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self" when he rebukes Louis de Pointe du Lac for throwing caution into the wind by murdering the assistant of Alderman Fenwick. | |
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Transformers: Transformers: Animated: Megatron kidnaps Bulkhead to complete his space bridge, and Bulkhead is so sick of people assuming he can't do anything that he makes it work. When Professor Sumdac calls him on this, Bulkhead points out that Sumdac was the guy who rebuilt Megatron (although he had no idea about the evil tyrant thing). This line often pops up verbatim in Transformers: Prime. Miko nearly got herself (and others) killed several time in the series premiere alone. Her friend Jack said the line word for word each time, until he got tired of repeating himself so much. |
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In Full Metal Panic!, Kaname tends to yell this whenever Sousuke does something insane. More often than not, he proceeds to explain the ridiculously complicated terrorist plot that he foiled to justify his actions. Sometimes the plot is even real. | |
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Zoe Heller's novel Notes on a Scandal (later made into a film of the same name) was released under the (patently absurd, given the novel's tone) title of What Was She Thinking? Notes On a Scandal in the US. | |
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Cobra Kai: Johnny chews out Hawk for kicking Robby In the Back at the All-Valley Tournament, between rounds. | |
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