Chekhov's Gun/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Gumball''': Man, I really wish something that once seemed insignificant would show up and save me!<br />

(''Darwin charges at Bobert, but he gets knocked away for the second time.'')<br />

'''Gumball''': Okay, something else insignificant.|'''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''', "The Robot"}}

{{quote|'''Thornton Reed''': Take this, Dag.<br />

'''Dr. Rick Dagless M.D.''': What is it?<br />

'''Thornton Reed''': ''Something that might come in handy.''|'''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (TV)|Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]''', "Scotch Mist"}}

{{quote|''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 [[Chase Scene|car chase]] in which the [[Fruit Cart|fruit cart]] doesn't get knocked over. Or fighting crime in a [[Giant Robot|giant robot]] and never using [[Rocket Punch]].''|''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''}}

{{quote|{{color|red|TG: you just HAD TO FIGURE all that juice was going to come back to haunt me}}<br />

{{color|red|TG: like frankensteins incontinent fucking ghost}}<br />

{{color|red|TG: it was like}}<br />

{{color|red|TG: chekhov's juice}}|Dave Strider, ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]''}}

{{quote|'''Vyvyan''': "It's a potion I've invented, where, when the patient drinks it, he turns into an [[Ax Crazy|axe-wielding homicidal maniac.]] It's basically a cure...[[Psycho Serum|for not being an axe-wielding homicidal maniac.]] The potential market's enormous!"<br />

'''Neil''': "Is this it?"<br />

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

'''Neil''': "[[Lampshade Hanging|Y'know, I just bet a bit later on somebody does drink that and turns into an axe-wielding homicidal maniac.]]"<br />

'''Rick''': "Yes, I bet that as well. That's just the sort of crazy, imaginative thing that happens around here."|''[[The Young Ones]]''}}

{{quote|'''Casey''': Well, you know what they say about a gun in the first act, Ron.<br />

'''[[The Ditz|Kyle]]''': First act of what?|''[[Party Down]]''}}

{{quote|''"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]]''}}

{{quote| '''Archer''': "God, I SAID the cap slips off the poison pen for no reason, didn't I?!"<br />

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

'''Archer''': "No, do NOT say the Chekhov gun Cyril! THAT, sir, is a facile argument!"<br />

{{quote|''The coffin was the trap, the coffin was the solution. [[Lampshade Hanging|That's so neat I could write a thesis.]]''|'''The Doctor''', ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures (TV)|The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''}}

{{quote|''Works like a charm. I could build a mechanical barrel-maker in my sleep, but for '''real''' inventing genius, these '''[[Freaky Friday Flip|Brain-Transfer Helmets]]''' have to be my pièce de résistance!''|'''[[Donkey Kong Country (Animationanimation)|Cranky Kong,]]''', in a scene which, assuming you're [[Genre Savvy]], doesn't need any further explanation.{{context|reason=MOD: I don't play video games, Please explain.}}}}

{{quote|''[[[James Bond]]] always used every single item. [[Deconstructed Trope|He never came back and said "Q, I've got a lot of stuff I didn't use on that adventure."]]''|'''[[Eddie Izzard]]''', ''Unrepeatable''}}