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{{quote|''I sure have, [[Tropey the Wonder Dog]]. I suuure have.''}}
Often used as a dramatic bookend before the credits or commercial break, or a cliffhanger ending. A variant common enough to get its own trope is "[[Double "Don't Know"|I don't know, Billy... I just don't know.]]"
Not to be confused with [[One-Liner Echo]], where a ''different'' character repeats the line. Compare [[Call Back]], where a line is echoed much
▲Not to be confused with [[One-Liner Echo]], where a ''different'' character repeats the line. Compare [[Call Back]], where a line is echoed much later -- this is when the line is echoed straight away. See also [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]].
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* ''[[
▲== Comics, Troper, Comics ==
▲* ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'' used this for [[The Reveal]] of Ninjette's real name: "You're welcome, {{spoiler|Kozue Kaburagi}}!... you're welcome."
== Films, Troper, Animated Films ==
* ''[[Shrek]]'' [[Shout
* ''[[Monsters, Inc.]].''
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== Films, Troper, Live Action Films ==
* ''[[Babe]]''
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* ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'': "Zed's dead, baby... Zed's dead."
* ''[[
* ''[[Chinatown]]'': "Forget it, Jake. Forget it."
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[It's Been Done|did it]]: "Run, Luke, run!"
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* ''Old School'': "Y-You're crazy, man! You're crazy!" Something of a [[Memetic Mutation]] with someone's name substituted for "man".
* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''
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* Brand uses this in ''[[
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'''Brand:''' Long enough, Mikey. Long enough. }}
* ''[[Aliens]]'': "[[Wangst|Game Over, man! Game Over!]]"
* [[CSI|William Petersen]]'s "impossibly corny final line" in ''[[The Skulls]]'', "[http://www.cracked.com/article_18495_the-skulls-10-year-old-movie-thats-already-baffling.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrackedRSS+%28Cracked%3A+All+Posts%29&utm_content=Google+UK delivered so overearnestly it would make his perpetually sunglassed CSI counterpart David Caruso blush]";
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* ''[[
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* ''[[
== Literature, Troper, Literature ==
* ''[[
* ''[[The Outsiders]]'': "Stay gold, Ponyboy... Stay gold..."
* "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/sherlock/lostworld1.shtml The Adventure of the Lost World]", a [[Sherlock Holmes]] parody in which Holmes disguises himself as a one-legged man, much to Watson's confusion:
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"But Holmes", I protested. "I have seen you run, and jump!"
"Have you, Watson? Have you really?" }}
* In one essay, David Sedaris says that in his family it was considered "queer" to do this.
* [[The Lord of the Rings|"Yet we may, Mr. Frodo. We may."]]
== Live-Action TV, Troper, Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[The Wire]]'': [[Schiff One-Liner|Final line]] of Season 1.
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* Horatio on ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', when he isn't declaring that [[
* Lampshaded in an episode of ''[[Modern Family]]''.
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'''Cameron:''' Do I, Mitchell? Do I? ''(exits)''
'''Mitchell''': No, stop. Don't do the double question thing to prove a point. I hate it when people do that.
'''Cameron:''' ''(holding baby Lilly around the door, in a falsetto)'' Do you, Mitchell? Do you?
'''Mitchell:''' Lilly! }}
* ''Grey's Anatomy,'' Season 6, Episode 16. Dr. Webber tells Dr. Shepherd, "I had to pee in a cup today, Derek. I had to pee in a cup."
* ''[[Star Trek:
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'''Spock:''' He knows, Doctor. He knows. }}
* Used to convey scheming on ''[[
== Music, Troper, Music ==
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* "Die Motherfucker Die" by Dope.
* "Gone Daddy Gone" by Violent Femmes.
== Theater, Troper, Theater ==
* ''Carousel'': "Give it to 'em good, Carrie, give it to 'em good!"
** Echoed in the second act: "Tell it to her good, Julie, tell it to her good!"
* ''[[
== Video Games, Troper, Video Games ==
* A background character in a ''[[Guild Wars]]'' mission does this twice in a fairly short conversation, with a third instance only averted because he doesn't say "son" before he repeats himself.
* One of the lines added to go with the [[
== Web Comics, Troper, Web Comics ==
* ''[[Ansem Retort]]'': "That'll do, Fangirl, that'll do."
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'':
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== Western Animation, Troper, Western Animation ==
* ''[[Family Guy]]'':
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** Also in the trailer for ''Passion of the Christ 2'', Chris Tucker: "You crazy, Jesus! You crazy!"
* ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' ("That will do, bitch. That will do")
* In ''[[Invader Zim]]'': "Dumb like a moose, Dib. Dumb like a moose!"
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* At the end of the ''[[
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'''Brett:''' Believed in what?
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'''Stan:''' Whatever you want, pal. Whatever you want. }}
** Earlier than that, at the end of the episode 'Lincoln Lovers,' where Stan hugs his son Steve:
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'''Stan:''' Only if you get a boner, son. Only if you get a boner. }}
* ''[[Futurama]]''
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* Played with in ''[[
* ''[[Sealab 2021]]'' might count in the early "Predator" episode (after Stormy suggests that he and [white] Debbie may have to repopulate the species together):
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'''Stormy:''' Is it, Debbie? ''(long beat)''... Is it?
'''Debbie:''' YES! }}
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'': "There, there, Ren... there, there."
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* ''[[Clone High]]'': [[Kick Them While They Are Down|"Stupid, Joan. Reeeeeal stupid."]]
* On Archer, when Krieger remembers his pig-boy.
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