I Don't Pay You to Think: Difference between revisions

== Comics ==

* One standalone strip in ''[[Fluble]]'' rides this for all its worth, with Clown's boss saying no less than three variations of it:

"Dammit Coinean, I don't pay you to shred Arruda files! I pay you to shred Arruda files!" }}

* A single panel strip from ''[[Sticky Comics]]'' features a boss saying this line and nothing else to a corporate scientist.

== Films -- Animation ==

* In ''[[Rock and Rule]]'', Mok comes up with this gem when his talking-head minions actually dare to voice their doubts about his plan:

* In the original ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'', Horace comments "I've been thinking," and Jasper grabs him by the shirt and tells him that he's warned him about thinking. "I've got the knob for this job, so let's get on with it."

* In the film ''Dark Blue'', Jack Van Meter tells Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr. "Your job is not to think. It is to follow orders, to execute plans and to be a good soldier."

* ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'':

'''Q:''' You're not here to think, you're here to do what I tell you! }}

* Vizzini to Fezzik in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'': "Am I going mad, or did the word 'think' just escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippapotamic land mass!"

* In ''[[Tron]]'', Sark tells an underling, "Don't think anymore. I do the thinking around here."

* ''[[Total Recall]]''. Cohaagen is berating his subordinate Richter.

'''Cohaagen:''' Who told you to think? I don't give you enough information to think. You do what you're told. That's what ''you'' do. }}

* Agent Smecker gets a few of these in ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'', including one along the lines of, "Greenly, the day I want the Boston Police to do my thinking for me, I will have a fucking tag on my toe!" Though in Smecker's case, it's more of looking down on their investigative capacity than "hiring them for their brains."

* ''[[Things to Come]]'' actually has this line used in a [[Rousing Speech]] given by The Chief, a local tinpot dictator, to the men who've tried to provide him with an air force (a few decrepit biplanes) capable of taking on John Cabal's huge flying wings.

* The villain of ''[[Kiss of the Dragon]]'' executes one of his own men for this reason.

'''Richard:''' [shoots him] Don't think! }}

* Weird Al's ''[[UHF]]'' has R. J. Fletcher, the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who is so evil he does this to his own son.

* In ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', Directive 10-289, the "moratorium on brains," chains all existing employees to their jobs, with a potential penalty of jail for any that quit. If any do quit, anyway (or lose their job for other reasons), that job is then assigned to someone else by a government committee, regardless of that person's ability to actually do the job.

* Dr. Cruces gets Lord Downey both coming and going in ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]''.

'''Cruces:''' You didn't ''think''? What are you paid for? }}

* Similarly in ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. The Chief of the [[Divided States of America|California Confederacy]] tells one of his minions that HE does the thinking, then moments later chews the minion out for not getting Friday a chair, saying: "Do I have to think of everything myself?"

* In the episode "Bar Association" on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Quark tells Leeta "I don't pay you to think. I pay you to spin the Dabo wheel."

* From "LGB Tease," on ''[[The L Word]]'':

'''Jenny:''' No. No, no. I don't pay you to think. ''(to the dog)'' Do I, Sounder? Do I pay her to think? ''(to Marissa)'' He hates you. So take him back to the groomers now and get orange ribbons so that he can like you again. That's it. }}

* In "Smart the Assassin" from ''[[Get Smart]]'', Devonshire tells someone "KAOS doesn't pay you to think, you men were sent here to obey."

* This is inverted on [[News Radio]] in a episode. Dave brings a problem to Jimmy and Jimmy points out Dave was hired to worry about these problems so Jimmy doesn't have to deal with them.

* ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]''. The alien mooks have contacted their ruling trio for instructions.

"OUR job is to think! THEIR'S is to obey, and we must never confuse the two!" }}

** Computer: "You don't pay me at all..."

* [[Transformers Generation 1]] has an instance of this in ''Five Faces of Darkness'' part 3.

'''Scourge''': "It's not your ''place'' to think! [[My Master, Right or Wrong|Where he leads, all Decepticons must follow]]!" }}

== Web Original ==

* 'There's Something About Halo 2'

'''Cortana''': You don't pay me at all, I'm a computer... }}