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{{trope}}
{{quote|"I don't know -- I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election."
|John McCain's Concession Speech, Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix, November 4, 2008 }}
{{quote|'''Interviewer''': How do you think your fans will react [now that you're returning to playing golf after being treated for sex addiction]?
'''Tiger Woods''': I don't know. I don't know.
|Interview, March 22, 2010}}
An ubiquitous utterance in film, television, and the legitimate theatre, signifying that the protagonist is (dramatically) out of ideas. For real, this time.
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'''[[Very Special Episode|After School Specials]]'''
{{quote|'''Concerned Parent:
'''Troubled Teen:
(runs away, slamming any doors in her path) }}
'''Sci-Fi'''
{{quote|'''Guy At Console:
'''Captain:
(close-up of pulsating space-gas blob on the view screen) }}
The '''Double "Don't Know"''' is closely related to [[One-Liner, Name. One-Liner.]] - simple, repetitive phrases used to provide closure to a scene or plot, including but not limited to: "I do, Billy. I really do," or, "It sure is, Billy. It sure is." etc. This variation is mostly a [[Dead Horse Trope]], though the namesake phrase(s) linger on.
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* [[The Terminator]]: When Kyle and Sarah are on the run from the Terminator, she asks him if he can stop it.
{{quote|'''Sarah''': Can you stop it?
'''Reese''': '''I dunno'''. With these weapons, '''I dunno'''. }}{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
* In the ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' series film [[The Enforcer]], one of the terrorists wants to know something:
{{quote|'''Bobby''': Did Wanda deliver the [Ransom Note] tape to the cops?
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