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Boy, oh boy, working at [[TV Tropes]] has been really getting me into a rut. I feel like I deserve a good break after all of this. Now I know how a troper feels. 

Wait a minute! I just created a new trope! This is basically a [[Stock Phrase]] that a character uses to describe the mood that he's in.
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== '''Examples'''  ==

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Lupin III]]'' episode "Lupin Becomes a Bride" 
{{quote|.'''Lupin III''': Now I know [[Some Like It Hot|how Jack Lemmon felt]]... }}

== [[Film]] ==
* [[Die Hard]] - [[Air Vent Passageway|Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.]]
* [[My Little Pony]]: The Movie 
{{quote|'''Danny:''' Now I know how an ant feels. }}
* ''Meet the People'' (1944) 
{{quote|'''Julie Hampton:''' [after kissing hundreds of shipyard workers] Now I know how a trumpeter feels! }}
* [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] II: The Secret of the Ooze''. Michaelangelo has been spun in circles, been thrown through the air and hit a wall. 
{{quote|'''Michaelangelo:''' Now I know what a postal package feels like. }}
* ''How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog'' 
{{quote|'''Peter McGowan:''' [after a prostate exam] Now I know what a [[Muppet]] feels like. }}
* ''Patterns'' (1956) 
{{quote|'''Nancy Staples:''' [dropping Fred off at work] Now I know what a mother feels when her child goes to school for the first time. }}
* ''Citizen Cohn'' 
{{quote|'''Roy Cohn:''' [after being paid a compliment by an opponent] Now I know what a pancake feels like after it's had syrup poured all over it. }}

== [[Literature]] ==
* The classic children's book ''Bread and Jam for Frances'' after she goes through the [[Radish Cure]]. 
{{quote|Jam for breakfast
Jam for meals
Now I know how a jam jar feels
[[This Is Sparta|Full. Of. Jam]].  }}
* ''[[The Hobbit]]''. Bilbo, after being rescued from the top of a burning tree by an eagle, says that he now knows what a piece of bacon feels like when it is taken out of the pan and put back on the shelf.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[NCIS|NCIS: Los Angeles]] episode "Anonymous" 
{{quote|'''Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange:''' March!
'''Marty Deeks:''' Now I know how [[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]] felt with her evil stepmother.  }}
* ''[[Married... with Children]]'' Unknown episode 
{{quote|'''Peggy:''' Al, how am I supposed to do my job and yours? I tell ya, now I know how Hillary [Clinton] feels. }}
** "Valentine's Day Massacre" 
{{quote|'''Bud:''' [after being raped by a very large older woman] Now I know how Tom Arnold feels. }}
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' episode "Sleepless in Bel-Air". Philip is bothered by a noisy cricket. 
{{quote|'''Philip Banks:''' Now I know how Captain Ahab felt when he was chasing [[Moby Dick]]. }}
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Parallax". The Doctor is activated to provide hydroponics supplies. 
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Now I know how Hippocrates felt when the king needed him to trim a hangnail. }}
* ''[[Knight Rider]]'' episode "The Wrong Crowd" 
{{quote|'''Bonnie Barstow:''' Now I know how Michael felt when K.I.T.T. was destroyed. Like half of me is missing. }}
* ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'' episode "The Jailing of Jaime" 
{{quote|'''Jaime Sommers:''' Boy, now I know how [[Bambi]] felt on the first day of deer season. }}
* ''Half and Half'' 
{{quote|'''Big Dee Dee Thorne:''' Well, since no one has offered to buy me a drink, I guess I'll buy my own. Now I know how Phyllis feels. }}
* ''[[The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones]]'' episode "Daredevils of the Desert" 
{{quote|'''Indiana Jones''': [about the rugby match] Too bad I got pounded by British artillery. Now I know how the Turks feel. }}
* ''The New 3 Stooges''. Moe hits Curly Joe in the nose with a broom. 
{{quote|'''Curly-Joe:''' Now I know how [[Pinocchio]] felt. }}
* ''[[The Office]]'' episode "Cafe Disco" 
{{quote|'''Michael Scott:''' Now I know what the founders of Philip Morris felt like. You just want to give people a smooth, fun way to relax and suddenly you're just some terrible monster. }}
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Planet of the Spiders: Part Five" 
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' [being held in a giant cobweb] Now I know what a fly feels like. }}
* ''[[Jackass]]'':
{{quote|'''Johnny Knoxville:''' [being doused with red wine] Now I know what it feels like to be my liver! }}
* ''Electra Woman And Dyna Girl'' episode "Glitter Rock: Part 1" 
{{quote|'''Glitter Rock:''' Those walls are gonna keep moving in, and hit with a big bang!
'''Dyna Girl:''' Now I know what a sardine feels like!  }}

== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* ''[[The Puzzle Place]]'' episode "Cute Is as Cute Does" 
{{quote|'''Jody Silver:''' [after being caught by the vine] Now I know what a tossed salad feels like. }}

== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Monster House]]''
{{quote|'''Chowder''': Now I know how taco meat feels.}}
* ''[[The Dig]]'': After the first time he uses the planet's tram system, Commander Lowe comments, "Now I know what my pet hamster felt like."

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Annie, falling into a canyon, remembers dropping and breaking a glass, and thinks: 
{{quote|"Now I know how the glass felt." }}

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* From the ''[[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]'' episode "[[Memetic Mutation|Mama Luigi]]": 
{{quote|'''Mario:''' Now I know how a meatball feels! }}
* A Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade announcer does this on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', to the perplexity of his colleagues. 
{{quote|'''Bill:''' Ha ha. Wait, what did... Did what I say make sense?
'''Marty:''' Well, no, not really, Bill.
'''Bill:''' Boy, now I know how the Pilgrims felt.
'''Marty:''' What are you talking about, Bill?  }}
** The episode "Mypods and Boomsticks": 
{{quote|'''Bart Simpson:''' Stupid angry mob chasing me for shining a harsh light on modern society. Now I know how Dane Cook feels. }}
** During the episode "Missionary Impossible", after Homer introduces gambling to the natives: 
{{quote|'''Homer:''' Now I know how Bob Stupak feels. }}
* ''[[Family Guy]]'', "Emission Impossible" - Peter and Lois are trying for another baby, and Stewie doesn't fancy the competition: 
{{quote|'''Stewie Griffin:''' My God, they're at it again! All this time keeping people from having sex...now I know how the [Roman] Catholic Church feels. BA-ZING!}}
** "Wasted Talent" 
{{quote|'''Peter Griffin:''' Oh man, this is the happiest day of my life. Now I know how [[Barbra Streisand]] must've felt the day she married James Brolin. }}
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'':
{{quote|'''Bobby Hill''': Everybody's got a deer and I don't. Everything looks so Christmasy. Now I know how the Jewish kids feel. }}
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': 
{{quote|'''Beast Boy:''' Now I know how [[George Washington]] felt when Napoleon beat him at Pearl Harbor. }}
* ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'' episode "A World Below Us": 
{{quote|'''Kwame:''' [While imprisoned in a net] Now I know how fish feel! }}
* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'': The Cobra troops are surrounded. 
{{quote|'''Major Bludd:''' Now I know how Custer felt! }}
* ''[[Totally Spies]]'': The girls are tangled in seaweed. 
{{quote|'''Clover:''' Now I know what sushi feels like.}}
* ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]'' episode "Hair-Raising Harness Race", after the Ant Hill Mob land in fresh concrete:
{{quote|'''Clyde:''' Now I know what a statue feels like.}}
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' episode "Revving Up", while in the bus' carburetor:
{{quote|'''Wanda:''' [[Have a Gay Old Time|Now I know how a tossed salad feels.]]}}

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