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You Can't Handle The Parody

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You want this trope's definition? You can't handle this trope's definition!
We've all heard this phrase used a million times in a million different ways. Sometimes it's the exact phrase, but more often than not the writer will twist it in some way, just a bit, to impart a little comedy while not compromising the actual quote - like replacing "truth" with "tooth". Or maybe "parody".
The phrase itself comes from the famous rant by Jack Nicholson's character at the end of A Few Good Men. Thanks to Pop-Cultural Osmosis, and particularly this trope, this phrase has become more well known than the actual movie (which is by no means an "unknown" film, nor an unmemorable one).
The original line, as demonstrated in the page quote, was said by two characters. However, many of the parodies will instead be said by one person. This may be because the one-person variation of the quote ("You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!") is often incorrectly believed to be the real line.
A Stock Parody. Compare "Here's Johnny!" Homage for another stock parody of one of Jack Nicholson's roles.
Here is a compilation with a lot of examples.
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In Ultimate Spider-Man, the joke is made by Deadpool after Spidey is fed up with his many silly "origin stories".
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The Big Hit:
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Royal Canadian Air Farce:
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Psych:
Episode "Dis-Lodged":
The episode "You Can't Handle This Episode" may qualify.
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The Simpsons:
The episode "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" combines this with three other film parodies for extra comedy:
From the episode "Sideshow Bob Roberts":
In the episode "Mommie Beerest," a trailer for the CGI-animated movie Cards (starring talking playing cards) parodied DreamWorks Animation's movies, known for being full of parodies.
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In the Whose Line Is It Anyway? follow-up series, Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, Colin says the above Tooth Fairy line while talking about some toothless lions. Long story.
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Kronk's New Groove:
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Community: One of Pierce's suggestions for ending verbal marketing presentations is by quoting Nicholson films. His is "You can't handle a moist towelette!".
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Parodied in Freefall:
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine the season 1 finale has this:
In The Box, Jake is about to interrogate a dentist and he tells Holt how he plans to use "You can't handle the tooth!" somehow during the interrogation.
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During WWE's "WrestleMania Goes Hollywood" campaign for WrestleMania 21, John Cena and JBL did a commercial themed on A Few Good Men based on this scene, with Jonathan Coachman playing the judge.
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Ultra Fast Pony: In the episode "How to Control Freaks", the other ponies lambast Fluttershy for "hogging all the catchphrases." Her reply is "You can't handle the catchphrases!"
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Farscape. In "Thanks for Sharing", John Crichton is being interrogated by an alien who needless to say has never heard of Jack Nicholson.
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Avatar Deleted Scenes 3 (YouTube video):
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In one episode of Seinfeld George walks into Jerry's apartment and just says the line with no provocation or set up, apparently finding the line to be so cool that he couldn't wait for an appropriate moment to use it.
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The Colbert Report:
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The Red Green Show has this exchange after Harold threatens to leave the show:
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30 Rock:
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ReBoot has an episode where the main characters are in a game that require beating the user to a tooth (the goal of the game). The user breaks in at the 11th hour to announce that he he wants the tooth. One of the temporary characters responds with "You can't handle the tooth!"
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Kim Possible episode "Return to Wannaweep":
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In the Recess episode "The Trial", during which Randall accuses Spinelli of throwing a rock at him during a dirt-clod war, Spinelli reveals that she was helping Miss Finster's cat out of a tree during this time. Everyone glares at Randall for his perjury.
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In The Tooth Fairy, Dwayne Johnson plays a bruiser of a pro hockey player whose nickname is the Tooth Fairy. He has a line in tooth-related punny catch-phrases, including "You can't handle The Tooth!" It turns up as a tag-line on the posters for the movie as well.
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At the end of CollegeHumor's Hardly Working sketch "You'll Never Guess" some of the staff are re-enacting the iconic scene from A Few Good Men, so the line of course gets said. They're also not wearing shirts while doing it.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000. In the Red Zone Cuba episode, at one point a general is shown perusing a paper and then setting it down. This prompted Mike to chime in: "I can't handle the truth!"
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I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC: During the climax of Zero Hour #7
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Ethan from Ctrl+Alt+Del tells Zeke "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!". Zeke immediately replies "This conversation is over until you decide to stop imitating Jack Nicholson on me."
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In 17 Again (2009), Mike's friend Ned marches into Mike's divorce hearing (which Mike can't show up for because he's been turned into a teenager) shouting "You can't handle the truth!" because it's a courtroom and that's the lawyer phrase he knows.
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On film review site Letterboxd, reviews which contain spoilers are often marked with a message that says "This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth."
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In an episode of Spin City mayor's staff must write a speech (about a gay pride parade) but waste their time watching A Few Good Men and fall asleep. They end up using lines from the movie in the speech, with the mayor and a reporter reenacting the "you can't handle the truth" dialogue.
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Doctor Who episode "Smith and Jones":
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In the dub of Digimon Adventure 02, BlackWarGreymon gets this thrown at him when he asks Azulongmon what his purpose is.
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In Ring of Honor, Truth Martini's Power Stable The House of Truth's entrance theme started by quoting the Trope Namer.
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The Spoony Experiment: The Spoony One dropped one of these parodies at the end of a vlog post reviewing Survivor Series 2014. He specifically was angry over the debut of Sting, saying that it was lackluster and boring.
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In Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Daffy Duck tries to persuade Kate Houghton not to fire him by saying "I can do voices, listen!" and rattling off a rapid-fire string of impressions, the last of which is a gruff, "You can't handle the truth!"
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Burger King's Rodeo Burger (a cheeseburger with BBQ sauce and 2-3 fried onion rings on it) was introduced in a full-on A Few Good Men parody, with a lawyer questioning Chip from Small Soldiers, who eventually shouts, "You can't handle the Rodeo Burger!"
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Imitated in How I Met Your Mother when Ted found out that Lily had sabotaged six of his relationships. Interestingly, the scene uses several other lines from Jessup's Motive Rant but not "You can't handle the truth!"
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One episode of The Critic concerned a remake of A Few Good Men, starring Jack Nicholson, Christian Slater, and William Devane. One shared voice, naturally. That's the joke.
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