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[[File:IHYYHTG.jpg|frame|A crude diagram]]

{{quote|''"There'll be only two blows struck: [[Trope Maker|I'll hit him, and he'll hit the earth.]]"''|
'''Flip''', ''[[Little Nemo in Slumberland]]'', [http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display.php?id{{=}}550&full{{=}}1 1909-06-20]}}

Stock phrase originating...we're not really sure. The internet doesn't seem to know either. Our best guess is ''[[Little Nemo in Slumberland]]'' (see page quote). It's been showing up fairly frequently in the early 21st century, making it a [[Stock Phrase]]. The implied threat is obvious: Screw with me, I'll punch your lights out. Obviously, it doesn't have to be the ground, just whatever surface is under your feet. A subtrope of [[Badass Boast]], and related somewhat to [[Chew Bubblegum]]. Not to be confused with [[Meteor Move]].

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== Film ==
* In ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', Andrew Clark ([[Emilio Estevez]]) says to John Bender ([[Judd Nelson]]), "Two hits: Me hitting you, you hitting the floor."
* In ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'', Sgt. Donny Donowitz says this to a Nazi soldier when leading him to be interrogated by Lt. Aldo Raine.
* ''[[The Devil's Rejects]]'', Captain Spaulding to Otis Driftwood during a tense moment; "Two hits; I hit you, your dick hits the dirt!"
* Subverted in [[Scooby-Doo (film}|the first live action ''Scooby-Doo'' movie]], When Shaggy and Scooby are about to fight each other over {{spoiler|Scooby accusing Shaggy's love interest of being one of the monsters}} Shaggy says;
{{quote|"There will be two hits, I'll hit you, and then I'll hit you again." }}
* The ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' movie has a little bit of a variant. "The first click is me hanging up the phone. The second is me pulling the trigger."

== Live-Action TV ==
* Variation from ''[[Titus]]''; Ken Titus says to his girlfriend's gay ex-husband, "There's gonna be three hits; me hitting you, you hitting the floor, then you hitting on the ambulance driver."
* In "The Fight" episode of ''[[The Office]]'', [[Steve Carell]]'s character gets the line just a bit wrong: "Two punches: Me punching you, you hitting the floor."

== Music ==
* Variation in a [[Will Smith]] song: "Three hits, I hit you, you hit the floor; this track is the third hit, that's for sure!"
* Sick Puppies' song ''You're Going Down'': "When my fist hits your face; and your face hits the floor"
* Mindless Self Indulgence's song ''Lights Out'' is about a guy who enjoys the mindless ultraviolence that can come with this trope: "Punch your lights out, hit the pavement, that's what I call entertainment!"

== Newspaper Comics ==
* The above mentioned ''[[Little Nemo]]'' example makes this phrase [[Older Than Television]].

== Professional Wrestling ==
* The stage-name of the late Scott "Bam-Bam" Bigelow was derived from this. 
* A variation of this comes from Harley Race: "If I hit him with my left [hand] and he doesn't go down, I will walk around him to see what's holding him up."

== Video Games ==
* ''[[Punch-Out!!]]'': "I have a three-step program for you. I punch you, you fall down, I win!"
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', one of companion Jericho's battlecries is "Two hits, kid! Two hits!" (Oddly enough, his default weapon fires three-round bursts.)

== Web Comics ==
* A variation in ''[[How I Killed Your Master]]'': "I don't know what it's like to hit a man [[One-Hit Kill|twice]]."

== Web Original ==
* Kind of a variation from ''[[Old Man Murray]]'': "You be Sonny Bono, and I'll be a tree. You hit me and die."
* On one of the "Mr. T facts" pages, there was this gem: "If you try to fight Mr. T, it will end in two hits. Him hitting you, and you hitting the surface of the sun"
* ''[[Persona 4 Endurance Run]]'': Episode 93. "This will be over in two hits, Yosuke. Me hitting the X button and you hitting the floor."

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'': During one music video review, Butt-head does this to Beavis when he keeps telling him to shut up. But, being Butt-head, he doesn't quite get how you're supposed to do it.
{{quote|Beavis, there's going to be two hits. My fist hitting your face, and, uhh...my fist hitting your face again.}}
* In the "Sven Hoek" episode of ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', a [[Tranquil Fury|tranquilly furious]] Ren says to Stimpy and Sven that "I'm gonna hit ya...and you're gonna faaaaaaall."

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