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[[File:recap.jpg|link=Don Rosa|frame|Uncle Scrooge [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|tells it like it is]].]]
{{quote|'''Thetis:''' Why then, child, do you lament? What sorrow has come to your heart now? Tell me, do not hide it in your mind, and we shall both know.
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See also: [[Mr. Exposition]], [[The Watson]], [[Expospeak]], [[Captain Obvious]]. A subtrope of [[Show, Don't Tell]]. Contrast with [[Don't Explain the Joke]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* 80s anime series ''[[The Mysterious Cities of Gold]]'' employed this trope regularly. This was mostly because, unlike many other '80s cartoons, it featured an on-going storyline that frequently built upon events from previous episodes. Of course, [[Viewers are Morons|children couldn't be expected to watch a show that patiently]] so cue many long conversations with characters telling each other "Yes, you may remember the golden condor we discovered underneath the Inca ruins," etc., etc.
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== Literature ==
* Dicken's ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' and any parody/homages to it. Because of the time travel aspect of voyeuring into people's lives it somewhat requires them to explain the situation to each other in order to further the plot.
* Within the first chapter of the original ''[[Shannara]]'' book a character tells shares, quite literally, "As you know, [Entire history of the world]".
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* Robert Jordan beat this trope to death with the copious amounts of exposition in his ''[[The Wheel of Time|Wheel of Time]]'' series to recap events already firmly established in previous novels in the series, many of which was delivered through character dialogue; somewhat justified by the Door Stopper size of the series and difficulty in keeping track of the myriad of dangling plot threads.
* Subverted in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' books, whenever the scene includes Richard and two other mages. On finding some kind of magical oddity or artifact, the two or more learned mages will start talking to one another, entirely leaving out the "As You Know" bits...until Richard, who barely knows a thing about magic, tells them to stop and explain in terms he can follow.
* The novelization of the film ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension]]'' employs the conceit that is just the latest volume of a large series of such books, and uses variations on this trope ("As faithful readers will recall from ''Bastardy Proved a Spur''...") to make bogus [[Continuity Nod]]s to events in the prior (non-existent) books.
== Live-Action TV ==
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