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{{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]]''', "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]] doesn't get knocked over. Or fighting crime in a [[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]]''}}
 
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{{quote|''This means nothing right now, but obviously will later.''|[http://www.formspring.me/mspadventures/q/172838272148466310 Andrew Hussie]}}
 
{{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 />
'''Woodhouse''': "[[Genius Bonus|Also woefully esoteric.]]" }}