Deconstruction/Quotes

""You'd think a house full of crazy people'd be fun. Actually, it's really depressing.""

- Bart Simpson, The Simpsons

""Deconstruction" is an academic word. It means saying what everybody knows about the movies in words nobody can understand."

- Roger Ebert, reviewing Scream

""Now that we're done deconstructing everything, maybe we should start putting everything back together.""

- Signature of a TROPER on the TV Tropes forums, origin unknown.

""Sometimes, it's fruitful to take a step back and examine the things we've come to accept, like saying the word 'Scunthorpe' over and over again until it's reduced to nothing but meaningless syllables and a spicy hidden cuss.""

- Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

""Yeah, there’s a universe where your favorite childhood television show is completely and utterly real. There are also plenty of universes that will take that, rape it, and run it through a meat grinder.""

- A researcher at the SCP Foundation discussing alternate universes