Chekhov's Gun/Quotes

"Gumball: Man, I really wish something that once seemed insignificant would show up and save me!

(Darwin charges at Bobert, but he gets knocked away for the second time.)

Gumball: Okay, something else insignificant."

- The Amazing World of Gumball, "The Robot"

"Thornton Reed: Take this, Dag.

Dr. Rick Dagless M.D.: What is it?

Thornton Reed: Something that might come in handy."

- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, "Scotch Mist"

"It appears that you're heading directly into the heart of the volcano. On reflection, this was inevitable, really. I mean, you can't just have a Final Boss Battle near a volcano. It would be like having a car chase in which the fruit cart doesn't get knocked over. Or fighting crime in a giant robot and never using Rocket Punch."

- Kingdom of Loathing

"TG: you just HAD TO FIGURE all that juice was going to come back to haunt me

TG: like frankensteins incontinent fucking ghost

TG: it was like

TG: chekhov's juice"

- Dave Strider, Homestuck

"Vyvyan: "It's a potion I've invented, where, when the patient drinks it, he turns into an axe-wielding homicidal maniac. It's basically a cure...for not being an axe-wielding homicidal maniac. The potential market's enormous!"

Neil: "Is this it?"

Vyvyan: "Yeah, yeah, I put it in a Coke can so nobody'd drink it by mistake."

Neil: "Y'know, I just bet a bit later on somebody does drink that and turns into an axe-wielding homicidal maniac."

Rick: "Yes, I bet that as well. That's just the sort of crazy, imaginative thing that happens around here.""

- The Young Ones

"This means nothing right now, but obviously will later."

- Andrew Hussie

"Casey: Well, you know what they say about a gun in the first act, Ron.

Kyle: First act of what?"

- Party Down

""We’ve been trained by movies that if you find some seemingly unimportant bauble, then the story will later create a situation where it will be the key to solving a problem in an unexpected way.""

- DM of the Rings

"Archer: "God, I SAID the cap slips off the poison pen for no reason, didn't I?!"

Cyril: "I know, I know, but I just assumed that if anything bad happened it-it would've been-"

Archer: "No, do NOT say the Chekhov gun Cyril! THAT, sir, is a facile argument!"

Woodhouse: "Also woefully esoteric.""

"The coffin was the trap, the coffin was the solution. That's so neat I could write a thesis."

- The Doctor, The Sarah Jane Adventures

"Works like a charm. I could build a mechanical barrel-maker in my sleep, but for real inventing genius, these Brain-Transfer Helmets have to be my pièce de résistance!''"

- '''Cranky Kong, in a scene which, assuming you're Genre Savvy, doesn't need any further explanation.

"[James Bond] always used every single item. He never came back and said "Q, I've got a lot of stuff I didn't use on that adventure.""

- Eddie Izzard, Unrepeatable