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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]]'''
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'''Troubled Teen:
(runs away, slamming any doors in her path) }}
'''Sci-Fi'''
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'''Captain:
(close-up of pulsating space-gas blob on the view screen) }}
The '''Double "Don't Know"''' is closely related to [[One
The
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Literature ==▼
* Happened by accident in ''[[The Stand]]''. Near the end, one character is asked the reason for all of what happened. He says, "I don't know," then pauses. [[Stephen King]] spent a good month trying to come up with an answer, couldn't, and had him repeat himself.▼
== Live Action Television ==▼
== [[Film]] ==▼
* A sample exchange from ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' ("The Battle"): ▼
{{quote| '''Beverly:''' You had no choice. <br />▼
'''Picard:''' Didn't I? I don't know anymore... I just don't know. }}▼
* Spoofed in the "Killer Sheep" sketch on ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' by having a scientist ramble "I just don't know. I really just don't know. I'm afraid I really just don't know," and so on. ▼
* In the comedy TV show ''Corner Gas'', the theme song goes, in part: "I don't know, the same things you don't know. I don't know, I just don't know."▼
== Western Animation ==▼
* From the ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' episode "The Robot Spy": ▼
{{quote| '''Jonny:''' What is it, Dad? <br />▼
'''Dr. Quest:''' I don't know, Jonny, I really don't know! }}▼
▲== Film ==
* Played straight - as so many things were - in ''[[I Was a Teenage Werewolf]]''.
* ''[[Top Gun]]'', as the classic '80s cliche storm, features it, though in a slightly different way than might be expected.
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'''Jester:''' I dunno. I just don't know. }}
* In ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', after being fired from the University:
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'''Peter''': [takes a swig from a bottle] I don't know, Ray. I don't know... }}
* [[The Terminator]]: When Kyle and Sarah are on the run from the Terminator, she asks him if he can stop it.
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'''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|
'''Lalo''': I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I wasn't with her. }}
▲== [[Literature]] ==
▲* Happened by accident in ''[[The Stand]]''. Near the end, one character is asked the reason for all of what happened. He says, "I don't know," then pauses. [[Stephen King]] spent a good month trying to come up with an answer, couldn't, and had him repeat himself.
▲'''Picard:''' Didn't I? I don't know anymore... I just don't know. }}
▲* Spoofed in the "Killer Sheep" sketch on ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' by having a scientist ramble "I just don't know. I really just don't know. I'm afraid I really just don't know," and so on.
▲* In the comedy TV show ''Corner Gas'', the theme song goes, in part: "I don't know, the same things you don't know. I don't know, I just don't know."
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* From the ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' episode "The Robot Spy":
▲'''Dr. Quest:''' I don't know, Jonny, I really don't know! }}
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'''[[The Stinger|Waldorf]]''': I don't know, Statler, I just don't know!
'''[[Those Two Guys|Both]]''': [[Memetic Mutation|Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!]] }}
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