Explain, Explain, Oh Crap: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Star Wars]]'': "But if they traced the robots here, they may have learned who they sold them to, and that would lead them back... home!"

** ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'': "But how could they be jamming us if they don't know we- ...if we're coming? {{spoiler|[[Oh Crap|Break off the attack! The shield is still up!"]]}}

** "RUN AWAY"

* ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'' - Hell yes, the bomber has a chance to make it through!

{{quote|'''Tony:''' That's the point. That's Loki's point. [[Smug Snake|He'll get all of us right at where we live. Why?]]

'''Cap:''' [[We ARE Struggling Together!|To tear us apart]].

'''Tony:''' Son of a bitch... ( {{spoiler|he realizes Loki will use his own Stark Tower for summoning the Chitauri}}) }}

 

* In ''[[Timeline]]'', one character is trying to convince the others that it is possible to travel to the past via a wormhole. Another character points out that it is impossible for a physical body to safely go through one. The first character retorts that the same can be said about a fax machine. The second character launches into trying to explain that the fax machine first has to convert the scanned data into a "stream of electrons", before realizing that the first character is talking about the same for the wormhole with a big "[[Oh Crap|Oh shit!]]".

* A comedic version in the [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''The Traitor's Hand''. Cain is discussing [[Mauve Shirt]] "Jinxie" Penlan with the command staff when her reputation comes up, and...

{{quote|'''Cain''': "But she's not nearly as accident prone as she's supposed to be. I'll grant you she fell down an ambull tunnel once, and there was that incident with the frag grenade and the latrine trench, but things tend to work out for her. The orks on Kastafore were as surprised as she was when the floor in the factory collapsed, and we'd have walked right into that hrud ambush on Skweki if she hadn't triggered the mine by chucking an empty food tin away..."

My brain finally caught up to what I was saying and I trailed off rather lamely. "Well, you know how soldiers exaggerate these things." }}

* In ''Wizard's First Rule'', first book of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, Zedd invokes this on a mob that's coming to burn him for being a witch. Zedd asks them why, exactly, they want to burn him, and they say it's because of his horrible magic powers. Zedd asks them to elaborate and be more specific. As they list all the different ways that they think Zedd can throw magical wrath around, the crowd slowly realizes that attacking someone who can shoot fire out of his fingertips might not be the brightest idea after all.

 

* In the second season episode of ''[[White Collar]]'' called "By the Book" there is a [[Let Me Get This Straight...]] moment when Peter points out the flaw in the Perfect Exchange but later when Mozzie figures it out its more of one of theses as he exclaims 'There is no middle man!'

* ''[[Firefly]]'' plays with this in the episode "Out of Gas". The crew of Serenity is in a dire situation with the life support system failing. They are in a deserted region of space with little chance of any ships wandering around there. Wash has lost all hope, when Mal suggests a way to boost the SOS signal.

'''Cat:''' You mean he's not a...

'''Kryten:''' No. }}

{{quote|'''John:''' You think maybe you could let me in this time? Oh for heaven's sake. Can you not keep doing this, please?

'''Sherlock:''' I'm not the first.

'''John:''' What are you saying?

'''Sherlock:''' Why didn't he close it when he left-? *''[[Beat]]''* [[Eureka Moment|Stupid. Stupid. It's obvious!]] [[Oh Crap|Because he's still in here]]. }}

{{quote|'''Sheppard:''' I'm just thinking out loud here…

'''McKay:''' What?

'''McKay:'''''(horrified)'' Oh, my God. It is possible. We've got to get out of here. }}

 

* [[Eminem]]'s "Stan."

{{quote|''I seen this one shit on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick.''

''[[Oh Crap|Damn...]]'' }}

 

* Deianira has shades of this in ''[[The Women of Trachis|The Trachiniae]]'' as she talks to the chorus about the "strange sight" that is the bubbling, disintegrating piece of cloth she used to smear a love potion onto a shirt she just gave her husband.

 

* ''[[StarCraft]]'': "It's a zergling, Lester. A smaller type of zerg. But one of them wouldn't be out this far unless... OH SHIT!"

* ''[[Star Control 2]]'': The Slylandro purchase a probe from the Melnorme, which would explore the galaxy, replicate itself periodically, and report back once it finds something interesting. However, in the midst of an in-depth discussion of said probes with the player, they realize that, due to an attempt to get the probes to replicate faster (by changing the priority of replication to 999, the highest setting on the dial), they have inadvertently caused their probes to attempt to procure raw materials for replication from ANYTHING they encounter, with a special priority on alien ships. This has effectively transformed their peaceful exploration fleet into a [[Horde of Alien Locusts]].

** It happens ''again'' a minute later when Shepard explains that he/she was sent by a privately-funded human group to recruit Mordin. Immediately, Mordin starts sorting through a long list of possible candidates for the aforementioned group. After disregarding the [[The Federation|Alliance]], the [[Space Police|Spectres]], [[Those Wacky Nazis|the Terra Firma Party]], he finally realizes (with some shock) that the most likely candidate is Cerberus, a terrorist group with human-supremacist leanings.

 

* ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' has it happen on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130305093635/http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=3285 this]^{SFW, for once} page.

* It's more of an Explain Explain Oh My moment, but... ''[[Freefall]]'' [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff800/fv00710.htm has one somewhat like this.]

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' shows Kevyn learning that there is a right time and a wrong time to invoke this on someone [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-02-04 here.]

** Also happens [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-06-03 with transformed Gavs] looking into anomalous activity of nanobots inside themselves (minor spoiler).

* In ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0573.html this] happens to Annie when she finally tells Jim that she'd lost her job and in that same frame of time realizes it wasn't his fault entirely.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' had a [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-03-24 hilarious version] with [[Gender Bender|female Tedd]] and too reasonable Susan.

* In ''[[Gene Catlow]]'', Gene Catlow and CatsWhisker are discussing the First Animen, who are hostile to them. CW wonders how beings so ancient who have been in psychic contact with so many minds remained sane{{spoiler|--and Gene realizes that they didn't}}.

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0688.html here], with Belkar far too slow to [[Side Effects Include|read the label]] on what he consumes, and then a little too slow to realize what did he just read.

{{quote|'''Layla''': And if you look at the facts, I didn't kiss your [[Fur Against Fang|mutt]] boyfriend at all! He was possessed just then! The one I actually kissed was [[Abhorrent Admirer|Blair]]!

(stops and makes a face)

(cut to Layla ferociously brushing her teeth)}}

* ''Pitch Black'' had [http://pitchblack.thecomicseries.com/comics/85/ a robed gentleman] who clearly didn't think his speech all the way through before starting it.

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has a moment with Violetta and Wooster [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180207 discussing] the sort of a lunatic who could hijack one of Her Majesty's sub-hunters all on his own.

 

* In the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode "Brinky," Pinky's genetic material accidentally gets introduced into Brain's cloning experiment, essentially resulting in their having a child together.

{{quote|'''Pinky:''' I'm a mommy, I'm a mommy!

{{quote|'''Homer:''' Rich laughing with poor, bullies breaking bread with nerds, orphans lighting candles over a leaking gas line. '''LIGHTING CANDLES???'''}}

* In the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Clean Slate", Dr. Drakken starts describing how he drove all the soldiers off a military train by activating an overload alarm... and then reveals/realizes that he caused an ''actual'' engine overload rather than a false alarm.

{{quote|'''Robotnik:''' Must be a side-effect. What a waste of a good invention. I wonder if the same thing's happened to- ''Dingo's guarding Sonic!''}}

* In the pilot of [[DuckTales (2017)|''DuckTales'' (2017 version)]], Scrooge gives the boys a tongue lashing, accidentally striking an antique gong with his cane; the boys are terrified, as Webbie already told them it's cursed"

{{quote|'''Scrooge:''' Oh, what are ye gapin; at? Da curse is only activated if ya ring the gong three times, and, and... ya already hit it two times, didn't ya?}}

 

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