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A Stock Phrase commonly used when a character complains or brags about something, to which another character disregards their comment by saying something around the lines of "Don't tell me about that, I wrote the book on it!". There are two distinct contexts in which this gets used: A character is making a boast about their own expertise on a subject. A character commends someone else for being well-renowned on a given subject. Generally, the "book" in question is just hyperbole and no such thing was ever published; although this can be parodied if it's claimed that they "literally wrote the book on it". Common variations include "X? I'm the king of X!", "I invented X!" and "X is my middle name!" Again, usually hyperbole, except when it isn't. |
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From the episode "The Return of Bigfoot" of The Six Million Dollar Man: | |
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Clue: In the introduction to the book The Vanishing Vampire, Mr. Boddy says of Mrs. Peacock, "When it comes to manners, this lady wrote the book. In fact, she wrote all of them." | |
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All-Star Squadron: In Issue #16, Wonder Woman tells Metal Man that when it comes to tough, the Amazons wrote the book. | |
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From Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, Joe The Condor's victory quote against Zero: | |
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In The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett, Terry describes a particularly lazy cat who gained a reputation as a mouser by stealing mice from another cat with "When it came to delegation, this was the cat who got someone else to write the book". | |
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In 11eyes, the reason that Kusakabe Misuzu's techniques doesn't work on Superbia is because the latter is actually Kusakabe Misao, the founder of her very techniques, who is also her distant ancestor. | |
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"Ain't My Last Dance" and "Roll Dem Bones" by Five Finger Death Punch. Coincidentally, both songs are track 4 on their respective albums. | |
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The Simpsons: From the "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": In "The Great Money Caper", Homer and Bart have been scamming people when Grampa asks to join, saying he wrote the book on conning. Then he hands a book about conning to Bart, who looks at the "About the Author" section on the back cover and sees a picture of a young Abe Simpson. |
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In Eureka, Allison literally wrote the book on space medicine... or at least her alternate-universe counterpart did, which is almost as good. (She apparently did all the same research, she just never got around to publishing her thesis.) | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: After Daisy nearly gets herself killed in a prison riot, May confronts her: In episode "Alien Commies from the Future", used quite literally by Sharpe when Mack and Yo-Yo tries to interrogate him: |
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Looney Tunes: The Foghorn Leghorn cartoon "Raw Raw Rooster!" has Foggy trying one-up his loudmouthed college classmate Rhode Island Red with a series of mistimed booby traps, one of them an exploding golf ball. | |
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Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: At the beginning of "The Ranger's Guide to Nature", Walt introduces the show by inviting us to take a trip to a special nature camp and opening the book it happens to be in. | |
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Herbie Rides Again: Alonzo Hawk claims to have written the book on harassment: | |
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Godmothered: Agnes says that Moira wrote the book on fairy godmothering. This is both metaphorically and literally true. | |
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The Community episode "Competitive Wine Tasting" has a professor who wrote a book on Who's the Boss? He then proceeds to try to shoehorn his opinion on Abed, but it turns out Abed knew more than he did. | |
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Harry Potter: Inverted in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when Hagrid complains that Lockhart (who did write the book on dealing with magical pestsnote Although not the book on magical creatures, that was Newt Scamander. ) insisted on giving him advice despite the fact it wasn't anything he didn't know. In the end we find out Lockhart didn't actually do anything he wrote about, having learned and the memory-wiped those responsible. When Snape eagerly starts in on how Harry and Ron have broken Wizarding law with the whole "flying car" stunt, Dumbledore cuts him off, saying, "I'm well-aware of our by-laws, Severus, having written quite a few of them myself." |
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In Super Mario 64, one of the Toads in the castle says that "Bowser wrote the book on bad." | |
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In Rick and Morty episode "Rick: A Mort Well Lived", the villain is a terrorist deliberately invoking "Die Hard" on an X who states that he's written several books on Die Hard since it's a universal monomyth that every civilization eventually develops under different names. This actually bites him near the end of the episode when Summer (who's never actually seen Die Hard) comes across one of the books, which allows her to actually learn the tropes of the film (specifically taping a gun to her back). | |
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Supernatural. After having outsmarted Crowley, Lucifer points out that he invented the double-cross. Literally. But then Crowley outsmarts Lucifer. "I perfected the double-cross. Literally." | |
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Garfield: April 21, 1990. | |
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From the episode "Jumpin' Crack Bass" of King of the Hill (also a case of Metaphorgotten): | |
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Discworld: According to Making Money, this is quite literal for zombie-lawyer Mr. Slant. Another Discworld example is in Sourcery, where Evil Chancellor Abrim is described with the sentence "He probably wrote the book on dirty tricks, or more probably, stole it from someone else." In Carpe Jugulum, when Reverend Oats confronts the Count with passages from the Book of Om, the Count starts quoting the passages back at him, and reveals that he was involved in writing some sections of the book himself, causing Oats to quite seriously question his faith in the holy text. |
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From the episode "T'was the Fight Before Christmas" of McCloud: | |
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According to Making Money, this is quite literal for zombie-lawyer Mr. Slant. | |
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In the first Protector of the Small, Keladry actually grins when she finds out the textbook on Yamani manners being used in her etiquette class was written by her father, the former Yamani ambassador. When challenged by her instructor, she tells him that it's not uncommon to be executed for bowing the wrong way. | |
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The Twilight Zone: The episode "He's Alive" centers around a neo-Nazi speaker getting tips from a man standing in the shadows. When the neo-Nazi accuses his benefactor of skulking in the darkness, the man answers, "I invented darkness!" He then emerges from the shadows, revealing that he's Adolf Hitler. | |
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Everworld: Merlin tells Senna it's not a good idea to play games with gods. Senna bitterly counters that he plays those games, Merlin smiles and says "I invented those games". | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas the chef of White Glove Society offers the following appraisal of his culinary talents: | |
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XCOM: Chimera Squad: One of Chimera Squad's agents is Godmother, a veteran agent and former military instructor. Her main quote is almost the trope title. | |
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In ECW, Joey Styles said that Nova "invented wrestling." | |
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Wolverine Vol 2, #13: | |
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Code Geass: The Prepared Rebellion: C.C. states that Nonette was one of the original Knightmare test pilots and functionally wrote the book on Knightmare Frame combat. | |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Pappy O'Daniel says of himself, "I invented moral fiber!" (This in response to his political rival, also KKK member Homer Stokes, whose campaign claims that O'Daniel "lacks moral fiber".) | |
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Bram & Vlad: Of course Abraham Van Helsing wrote a 900 pages handbook on vampires. Of course he did. | |
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From the episode "Revenging Angel" of Farscape, in which Crichton is trapped in an imaginary cartoon version of the series. Being Genre Savvy however, he can outsmart everyone else there. | |
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Another Hatchling: Turns out Spike literally wrote the book on a certain subject. And it's one of his friends who points this out (with Twilight immediately asking why he didn't mention it sooner and where she can get a copy): | |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World: LePlume says that he wrote the book on love (he's a talking quill pen). | |
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In Mass Effect 3, Garrus invites Shepard to a friendly shooting competition on the Presidium. After Shepard makes the first shot, Garrus claims that it was an easy one and says "Long range, I wrote the book." | |
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Wacky Races #4 (Gold Key run, August, 1971): In "Follow Through To Yoo-Hoo", the narrator notes that the racers' devil-may-care driving is attributed to a book—"How To Win A Race By Hook or Crook," written by the series' villain, Dick Dastardly. | |
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Dr. Grace Augustine in Avatar, being one of the lead scientists in the Hell's Gate colony, quite literally wrote the book on Pandora and the Na'vi. | |
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A Young Woman's Political Record: Ian Flemons gives a variation regarding Tanya, saying most aerial mages "learned their business by cribbing from [her] notes" before stating that the naval battle between Germania and Francois has made it clear that "school is back in session". | |
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In Kingdom Come, Clark and Diana go to eat at Planet Krypton (a themed restaurant parodying Planet Hollywood), and Clark is concerned about the two of them possibly being noticed. Diana simply comments, "You wrote the book on secret identities." | |
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Girl Genius, after Gil reminds Vole who's the boss: | |
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In Carpe Jugulum, when Reverend Oats confronts the Count with passages from the Book of Om, the Count starts quoting the passages back at him, and reveals that he was involved in writing some sections of the book himself, causing Oats to quite seriously question his faith in the holy text. | |
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Red Alert: Uprising, Commander's Challenge. | |
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From the episode "That's Show Biz" of M*A*S*H: | |
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In the second book of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Machiavelli uses this. He gets to say not only that he wrote the book, but that he did so four hundred years ago. (If it isn't obvious, this is one of the Not Hyperbole examples.) | |
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Played with in Patton: General Patton knows that Rommel literally wrote the book on tank warfare, so he reads it and uses that knowledge to predict what Rommel will do at their first big showdown. | |
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"Sound of Madness" by Shinedown has the lyric "I wrote the book on pain." | |
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A variation in The Professionals when George Cowley is detained on suspicion of being The Mole in the episode "Need to Know", and it's pointed out that he wrote the procedures they're using on him now. | |
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Inverted in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when Hagrid complains that Lockhart (who did write the book on dealing with magical pestsnote Although not the book on magical creatures, that was Newt Scamander. ) insisted on giving him advice despite the fact it wasn't anything he didn't know. In the end we find out Lockhart didn't actually do anything he wrote about, having learned and the memory-wiped those responsible. | |
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Elvis Costello, "Every Day I Write the Book" | |
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Used to psych out Chidi and Eleanor in the fifth episode of The Good Place. The neighbor come to stay with them claims to have written the book on healthy relationships (literally and figuratively), which puts them in trouble since they're just pretending to be soulmates. | |
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Spoofed on Futurama, "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" | |
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: "I know regulations. I wrote half of them!" quoth Buzz. | |
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The "I invented" variation is used in The Santa Clause 3: | |
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In the film of L.A. Confidential, when Exley and Bud White go to question the DA, at one point he tells them "Don't pull that Good Cop/Bad Cop crap on me, I practically invented it." At that point Exley just lets Bud go into full blown Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique. At the end, after the terrified DA has told them everything he knows, Exley sarcastically asks him if that's how he used to do the good cop/bad cop routine. | |
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In the episode "The Reunion Job" of Leverage, Larry Duberman (or Doucherman as people called him in high school) wrote the book on Database Security... I mean he literally wrote the book on Database Security. | |
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From the 1989 film The Punisher: | |
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Doctor Who gives us this gem in the episode "The Satan Pit": | |
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In Justice Society of America, when Green Lantern faces his corrupted son Obsidian, the latter dismisses his willpower, to which Alan answers that he wrote the book about willpower. | |
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Child of the Storm Doctor Strange is the literal author of several authoritative books of magic. However, in keeping with his need-to-know attitude (as Harry puts it, 'there's one person who needs to know, and it's him'), they tend not to appear often. Furthermore, in keeping with his quirky sense of humour, they tend to have rather odd titles - he gives Harry one called Blood Magic for Morons, just after Harry's done something particularly stupid. The Lady Knight takes this up a notch - she didn't write the book on swordsmanship, she taught the people who wrote the book(s) on swordsmanship (in the West). |
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Pretty Woman: Late in the film, Richard Gere's character of Edward Lewis says that "I know about wanting more. I invented the concept." | |
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From the 1990 film The Grifters: | |
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Another Discworld example is in Sourcery, where Evil Chancellor Abrim is described with the sentence "He probably wrote the book on dirty tricks, or more probably, stole it from someone else." | |
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From the 1994 film The Pagemaster: | |
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In the first chapters of Monster Hunter International, Earl Harbinger reassures Z that Owen isn't a werewolf, giving a bunch of syndromes he doesn't have and stating that "he wrote a book about werewolves". It's unsure whether he did or not , as Earl is a werewolf himself. | |
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From the episode "There Might Be Blood" of Gossip Girl: | |
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Anastasia: While Dimitri and Vlad sing to "Anya" about Anastasia's mischievous childhood: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Mayor. "There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I happen to know that's factually true!" | |
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Bray Wyatt: "I CREATED WAR!" | |
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Likewise in Zack Snyder's Justice League. When a soldier in a Hazmat Suit tells Dr. Silas Stone that he has to be quarantined due to U.S. Government protocols for contact with aliens, Dr. Stone interrupts to say that he already knows as he was the one who wrote them. | |
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Friends: In the episode "The One Where Ross Moves In": In the episode "The One With Rachel's Sister": |
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From the 1999 film Teaching Mrs. Tingle: | |
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Harry and the Shipgirls reveals that the destroyer Fubuki, after studying countless records of naval battles in World War II, wrote a comprehensive book on tactics that shipgirls should use in combat. Yet another reason the Mother of Modern Destroyers is treated with respect by countless ships, even those far above her weight class. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation From the episode "The Best of Both Worlds: Part Two": From the episode "Relics", where La Forge and Scotty are trying to restart an antique starship: "Descent: Part I" opens with Data playing poker with the holographic recreations of Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton: |
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