Or So I Heard: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* ''[[Sister Act]]'':

'''Deloris (as Sister Mary Clarence):''' It’s [[Better Than Sex]]. ''[[[Beat]]]''. No, no, I’ve heard. }}

* ''[[Serenity]]'': Inverted during a dialog in the ''[[Firefly]]'' movie.

 

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]].

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' - During ''The Atomic Brain'', Mike compares a scene to ''[[The Facts of Life]] Go to Europe''. ("Not that I've seen it...")

** During the opening credits of ''Overdrawn at the Memory Bank'':

* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'': "It's like something out of a German porn film... apparently."

* ''[[Father Ted]]'': Uses this in one episode, wherein the titular character and his fellow priest, Father Dougal, accidentally find themselves in "Ireland's biggest lingerie section, I understand. Yeah I read that... somewhere." {{spoiler|They then proceed to meet a number of other Priests who have "accidentally" found themselves in the store, and the scene turns into a war film parody as Ted leads the band to escape out the fire exit without anyone noticing half a dozen priests surrounded by ladies' intimate items.}}

* ''[[Torchwood]]'': uses this in the episode "Sleeper," when the [[Monster of the Week]] comments on Jack's bedside manner, Gwen responds "You should see his manners in bed, they're atrocious. Apparently, so I've heard..."

'''Jack:''' (coughs loudly) }}

* In the ''[[NCIS]]'' episode "Singled Out", McGee describes a speed dating service as "designed to introduce successful men to a wide assortment of eligible women. Each night brings the promise of romance and the chance of finding your soul mate." His team mates look at him questioningly and he hurriedly adds "... or so I've heard."

* ''[[Bones]]'': Not referring to a work of fiction specifically, but does reference this.

* Detective Beckett in ''[[Castle]]'' says this after making reference to ''[[Showgirls]]''.

** Alexis also does this when speaking about a specific scene from a horror movie she's not supposed to have seen, fairly unsubtly.

** Even Castle himself does this once, regarding a phone sex line:

'''Castle''': It's therapy. ''[[Beat]]'' Or... so I've been told. }}

* On an episode of ''[[Law and Order]]'', Briscoe tells Curtis about a dockside location where detectives in the old days would go to [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|waterboard difficult suspects]]. He immediately follows up with "or so I've heard."

* ''Cops L.A.C'': <ref>The Australian police drama, not related to ''[[Cops (series)]]'' the American [[Reality TV]] show.</ref>, the detectives find a flyer for Romnett in a murder victim's house. A junior officer standing nearby tells them it's an internet dating site, "I've been told."

* ''[[White Collar]]'':

'''Neal:''' And who knows what else, because I have never considered stealing gems in Burma. }}

* ''[[MASH]]'':

'''Trapper''': And it's beautiful . . . I hear. }}

* One character on ''[[Little Britain]]'' is a retired actor who always steals his sister's Meals on Wheels dinners. He is very bad at hiding at, as he tends to praise the meals to the delivery boy's face, adding "Kitty said," when he realises he's almost given himself away.

* ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' Season 12 Episode 9:

'''Detective Fin Tutuola''': One of those vacuum tube things they sell on the back of magazines to make you bigger... ''(seeing Stabler's smirk)'' or so I've heard. }}

* In a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch about Nazis hiding in England:

'''"Ron Vibbentrop":''' ''(shouting)'' Nein! Nein! ''(calms down)'' Oh. Ha ha. Different other chap. I in Somerset am being born. Von Ribbentrop is born Gotterdammerstrasse 46, Dusseldorf Vest 8... so they say! }}

* During the opening of one episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', Colbert gives "a shout-out to all of my [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Bronies]]", followed by an insincere "And I do want to reiterate that I do not know what that means."

* The Devil in ''[[Old Harry's Game]]'' does this whenever he is describing one of his own deeds while disguised as a mortal.

* In an episode of ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'', the panellists are playing a game based on ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire''...except all about hats.

'''Tim:''' That's tiny! That's a schoolboy's size! ...I'm told. }}

 

* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'': There's a running joke that Miles Edgeworth is a big fan of the tokusatsu [[Show Within a Show]] ''Steel Samurai'', although he [[Closet Geek|tries to distance himself from it]]. He invokes [[Or So I Heard]] a lot when {{spoiler|the Steel Samurai and company becomes a major part of the final case of ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]''.}}

* Optional dialogue in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' between Mordin and a krogan scientist. {{spoiler|The real kicker is that Mordin actually did make the krogans more infertile by upgrading the genophage when it started to look like the krogans were recovering.}}

'''Fortack:''' Yeah, yeah, what else can the salarians can do to us at this point? It's not like they can make us even more infertile. Actually, wait, forget I said anything. }}

 

== Webcomics ==

* [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/189 This strip] from ''[[Loserz]]''.

* [http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000717.html This strip] from ''It's Walky''.

* ''Shabot6000'' asked a Rabbi [http://shabot6000.com/archive.php?id=8 about Kosher Bacos]:

* ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'': [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080527 "Gosh... That could explain... (beat) Uh... All sorts of things. That I've heard. From other people."]

* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|Most Definitely Not Ferretina]] in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' side story, [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070914 on giant rabbits].

* [http://stummervogel.deviantart.com/art/Too-much-information-109154598 This] comic based on ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''.

* [[Tim Minchin]] tells of a time when he caught Mariah Carey lipsynching.

* ''[[Skippy's List|Skippys List]]'' has examples:

209. An airsickness bag is to be used for airsickness *only*. (Also not a Skippy-ism...this was the same dinner.) }}

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" plays this for laughs; all the men in town only have to hear the title "Backdoor Sluts 9" and they all know exactly which porn it is.

'''Mr. Brovloski''': I, uh, read about it in People. }}

* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'': When Wanda takes over [[The Family for the Whole Family|her father's business]], she put a ficus in the meeting room. One of the men comments on a gardening tip for it, then quickly invokes this trope when the others stare at him surprised.

 

 

== Real Life ==

* Actual quote from a review by Germany's leading culinary critic Wolfram Siebeck:

* Sometimes, this can happen when trying to teach Martial Arts to others.

"... Not that I would know personally, though." }}