Faux Symbolism/Quotes
The rats symbolize obviousness!
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Well, the guinea pigs play a central role in the metaphor for David's life as an albino, because he kills all the guinea pigs with his fists. |
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Dora: Oh, there's TONS of deep meaning there. The pinup girls represent your feminine side, and the dinosaurs represent the oppressive, male-dominated society you were raised in. The wizard and the robot represent the struggle between superstition and technology. |
Kane says it's symbolic and important, but I'm never certain whether he's serious or spinning nonsense to be mystifying.
—LEGION, Tiberium Wars
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Not everything is a metaphor!
—Candace, Phineas and Ferb
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Stan: More and more of us are against this book every day! The author is cruel and offensive! And for these reasons, we demand this book be banned from all schools, stores, and libraries! This book is nothing but smut and vulgarity purely for the sake of smut and vulgarity! —The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs, South Park
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Goddammit, will you people stop reading into stuff that isn't there!!
—Stan Marsh, South Park
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Really? You're throwing in a cloth with Jesus' face on it? I can just see Tarsem dancing in the background shouting "Ask me what it means! Ask me what it means!"
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SYMBOLISM! OMFGBRILLIANT!!!
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"Lazarus Heart was a vivid nightmare that I wrote down and then fashioned into a song. A learned friend of mine informs me that it is the archetypical dream of the fisher king...can't I do anything original?"
—Sting, liner notes to Nothing Like the Sun
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So now the director has shown these two images, of Muslim and Hindu origin respectively, it's likely that he's establishing the core belief system of the film as being derived from the quasi-Orientalist teachings of early New Age philosophy contemporary to this time. Or it just looks cool.
—Oancitizen, on the eye imagery in Zardoz
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