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[[Popcultural Osmosis|Culturally ingrained]] from ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]'' (the most commercially successful American board game [[Kanye West|of all time]]), this has become a [[Stock Phrase]] for anything that must happen ''immediately'' with no waiting, no intermissions, no detours, stops or breaks until it is completed.
 
In normal Monopoly play, the starting corner square is marked "Go" and instructs the player to collect $200 each time they pass over it; the "Go to Jail" card (as pictured) makes it very clear that any player who draws this card must move their token ''directly'' to the "Jail" square, and may ''not'' pass over "Go" en route and collect the usual $200.
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* ''[[The Westing Game]]'' has a message left like this by Westing ([[The Tape Knew You Would Say That|who, by the way, is dead]]) when the person in charge of opening the envelopes with his messages inside is late in opening the next envelope. It essentially tells the players where to go with the addition of, "Do not collect $200."
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* On an episode of [[CHiPs]], Ponch says this to a group of criminals he and John are arresting at the end.
* ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', in the episode "Dick Behaving Badly":
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''Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect 200 [[Painful Rhyme|dollas]].'' }}
 
== Theater[[Theatre]] ==
* Quoted by the Judge in ''[[The Case of Alex Hansen]]'' when discussing how to execute Alex.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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