Now I Know How an X Feels
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.
Examples
Anime and Manga
- Lupin III episode "Lupin Becomes a Bride"
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.Lupin III: Now I know how Jack Lemmon felt... |
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Film
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Danny: Now I know how an ant feels. |
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- Meet the People (1944)
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Julie Hampton: [after kissing hundreds of shipyard workers] Now I know how a trumpeter feels! |
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- 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.
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Michaelangelo: Now I know what a postal package feels like. |
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- How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
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Peter McGowan: [after a prostate exam] Now I know what a Muppet feels like. |
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- Patterns (1956)
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Nancy Staples: [dropping Fred off at work] Now I know what a mother feels when her child goes to school for the first time. |
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- Citizen Cohn
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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. |
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Literature
- The classic children's book Bread and Jam for Frances after she goes through the Radish Cure.
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Jam for breakfast |
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- 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: Los Angeles episode "Anonymous"
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Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: March! |
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- Married With Children Unknown episode
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Peggy: Al, how am I supposed to do my job and yours? I tell ya, now I know how Hillary [Clinton] feels. |
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- "Valentine's Day Massacre"
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Bud: [after being raped by a very large older woman] Now I know how Tom Arnold feels. |
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- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode "Sleepless in Bel-Air". Philip is bothered by a noisy cricket.
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Philip Banks: Now I know how Captain Ahab felt when he was chasing Moby-Dick. |
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- Star Trek Voyager episode "Parallax". The Doctor is activated to provide hydroponics supplies.
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The Doctor: Now I know how Hippocrates felt when the king needed him to trim a hangnail. |
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- Knight Rider episode "The Wrong Crowd"
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Bonnie Barstow: Now I know how Michael felt when K.I.T.T. was destroyed. Like half of me is missing. |
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- The Bionic Woman episode "The Jailing of Jaime"
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Jaime Sommers: Boy, now I know how Bambi felt on the first day of deer season. |
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- Half and Half
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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. |
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- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones episode "Daredevils of the Desert"
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Indiana Jones: [about the rugby match] Too bad I got pounded by British artillery. Now I know how the Turks feel. |
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- The New 3 Stooges. Moe hits Curly Joe in the nose with a broom.
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Curly-Joe: Now I know how Pinocchio felt. |
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- The Office episode "Cafe Disco"
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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. |
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- Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Spiders: Part Five"
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The Doctor: [being held in a giant cobweb] Now I know what a fly feels like. |
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Johnny Knoxville: [being doused with red wine] Now I know what it feels like to be my liver! |
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- Electra Woman And Dyna Girl episode "Glitter Rock: Part 1"
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Glitter Rock: Those walls are gonna keep moving in, and hit with a big bang! |
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Puppet Shows
- The Puzzle Place episode "Cute Is as Cute Does"
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Jody Silver: [after being caught by the vine] Now I know what a tossed salad feels like. |
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Video Games
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Chowder: Now I know how taco meat feels. |
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- 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:
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"Now I know how the glass felt." |
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Western Animation
- From the Super Mario World episode "Mama Luigi":
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Mario: Now I know how a meatball feels! |
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- A Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade announcer does this on The Simpsons, to the perplexity of his colleagues.
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Bill: Ha ha. Wait, what did... Did what I say make sense? |
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- The episode "Mypods and Boomsticks":
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Bart Simpson: Stupid angry mob chasing me for shining a harsh light on modern society. Now I know how Dane Cook feels. |
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- During the episode "Missionary Impossible", after Homer introduces gambling to the natives:
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Homer: Now I know how Bob Stupak feels. |
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- Family Guy, "Emission Impossible" - Peter and Lois are trying for another baby, and Stewie doesn't fancy the competition:
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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! |
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- "Wasted Talent"
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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. |
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Bobby Hill: Everybody's got a deer and I don't. Everything looks so Christmasy. Now I know how the Jewish kids feel. |
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Beast Boy: Now I know how George Washington felt when Napoleon beat him at Pearl Harbor. |
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- Captain Planet and The Planeteers episode "A World Below Us":
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Kwame: [While imprisoned in a net] Now I know how fish feel! |
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- G.I. Joe: The Cobra troops are surrounded.
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Major Bludd: Now I know how Custer felt! |
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- Totally Spies: The girls are tangled in seaweed.
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Clover: Now I know what sushi feels like. |
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- The Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "Hair-Raising Harness Race", after the Ant Hill Mob land in fresh concrete:
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Clyde: Now I know what a statue feels like. |
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- The Magic School Bus episode "Revving Up", while in the bus' carburetor:
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