I Can't Feel My Legs: Difference between revisions

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'''Ray:''' Dude... you never could.|''[[Scary Movie]] 2, after the paraplegic Hartman has fallen out a window.''}}

 

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''Silver Bullet'', the film adaptation of [[Stephen King]]'s ''Cycle of the Werewolf'', after the kids have killed the werewolf, Jane asks Marty if he's okay, and Marty (who is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair), says "No... I think something's wrong with my legs! I can't feel them!" Cue the [[Dope Slap]] in response.

* Donkey in ''[[Shrek]]'':

* ''[[The Usual Suspects]]''. The following scene occurs at the beginning of the movie. {{spoiler|Later, we hear that Keaton was shot beforehand.}}

Keaton: I can't feel my legs...Keyser. }}

* ''[[Scary Movie]] 2''. Dwight is paraplegic.

Dwight Hartman: Hey you stay out of this, all right? }}

* In ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men: First Class]]'', Xavier says this after {{spoiler|being shot in the back}}. Given the character is usually best known for A. his psychic powers, B. being bald, and C. being confined to a wheelchair, this is more or less a [[Foregone Conclusion]].

== Jokes ==

* An old joke has a guy waking up in the hospital after an accident:

'''Doctor:''' Of course you can't - I had to cut off your arms. }}

 

* Mad TV, parodying the Budweiser's "Bud-Bowl" advertising campaign, featured a skit where a beer bottle got injured and yelled out, "I can't feel my label!"

* ''[[Charmed]]'' episode "All Hell Breaks Loose". {{spoiler|Piper has been shot.}}

* Stevie used this at least once as a joke on ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]''.

* Danny on [[CSI: NY]], after the shooting at the bar where he was shot in the back.

* ''[[Mock the Week]]'', "Unlikely things to hear in a war film"

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

* In ''Klay World: Pancake Mines'', A Klayman steps on a mine, which blows his legs off. He screams, "I can't... feel... my arms!" The Klayman's head then falls on another mine, setting off a chain reaction of explosions.

* After being paralyzed from being pushed off a cliff {{spoiler|by Vriska}}, Tavros of ''[[Homestuck]]'' says the following:

{{color|#a15000|AT: wOW, i'M SURE THERE WAS A BETTER WAY TO SAY THAT,}} }}