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A [[Comedy Tropes|Comedy Trope]]. A character is noted to have watched a movie/seen a show/read a book/etc. on a high enough number of occasions for it to sound geeky, obsessive, embarrassing, and possibly even unhealthy.
Rewatching or rereading one's favorite stories is a very common, very human activity<ref>Especially made easier over the decades, thanks to advancements in home viewing technologies and [[The Internet]].</ref> as well as a principal hobby of any fandom. However, whenever an actual number is given for how many times a person has enjoyed a specific work, it's usually never something for anyone to take much pride in having
In fiction, such information about a character is usually brought up either by ''another'' character, in which the remark is typically intended to be an insult or a put-down, or by the character himself, wherein the character may not show any shame for his devotion for a work, but it's something nobody (be it the audience or other characters) reveres the character for doing all the same.
At its most extreme, this trope can be invoked when explaining how a character [[Taught
Not to be confused with [[Seen It a Million Times]].
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== [[Comedy]] ==
* From one of [[David Letterman]]'s Top Ten lists, "Top Ten Excuses for Losing an Election," Number 7 is "Should've kept quiet about seeing ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'' 63 times."
== [[Film]] ==
* [[
* In ''[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]'', Scooter takes a job as an usher at a theater showing the 3D film ''Attack of the Killer Fish''. When Lew Zealand heads in without taking a pair of glasses, Scooter follows him in with a
* In ''[[Strange Brew]]'', Bob says that Doug saw ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' 17 times.
* In ''[[High School Musical]]'', Chad mentions that his mother has seen ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' on Broadway 27 times.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'', Alpa Chino says he's seen Tugg Speedman's first "Scorcher" movie twenty times when he was in 8th Grade.
* [[Played for Drama]] during the opening scene of ''[[Scream (
== [[Literature]] ==
* Stacey in the ''[[Babysitters Club]]'' series states that her favorite film is ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' and watches it at least once a week, adding up to hundreds of viewings.
** Kristy (at least) makes a similar remark about Dawn's repeated viewings of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]''.
* In [[Bruce Campbell]]'s autobiography ''If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor'', Bruce describes the difference between a mainstream movie and a cult film as 1,000,000 people watching a movie 10 times and 10 people watching a movie 1,000,000 times.
* In ''[[American Psycho]]'', Patrick Bateman mentions that he has rented ''Body Double'' 37 times. One chapter follows his train of thought at a video rental store as he picks the movie out "as if he'd been programmed." He also pretends to ignore "the horrified reaction" of a store employee who recognizes Bateman upon being handed the movie box when renting it out for what would be the 38th time. He sometimes likes to describe some of the film's more violent moments to both the reader and other characters throughout the story. "The drill power scene" is Patrick's favorite part.
* In ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer|trope name]] and page quote come from the [[The Pilot|pilot]] episode of ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' when Neal is giving his opinion of Sam's chances of going to a school dance with Cindy. Of note, the show takes place in 1980, so Neal would be suggesting that Sam has seen ''[[Star Wars]]'' (1977) twenty-seven times ''within three years of its release'' (and before home video was in widespread use).
** When Star Wars was in theaters, it wasn't that unusual for kids to go see it almost every day if they had the money (and movies were much cheaper then.)
* Something of a [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Scrubs]]'', Turk and J.D. have watched ''[[Judge Dredd (
** They and Elliot have also watched ''[[Red Dawn]]'' together, two at a time or all three of them, many, many times.
* Fox Mulder of ''[[The X-Files]]'' reveals in the episode "Hollywood, A.D." that he has seen ''[[Plan 9
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'''Mulder:''' Yes.
'''Scully:''' Doesn't that make you sad? It makes ''me'' sad. }}
** In an earlier episode, the agents ran across a woman who was convinced she'd been impregnated by Luke Skywalker. This becomes even more hilarious when it is revealed she's seen ''Star Wars'' 368 times, and was hoping to break 400 by Memorial Day.
** And in the infamous episode "Home", Scully mentions having babysat her nephew the previous weekend, and claims that he watches ''[[Babe]]'' "fifteen times a day".
* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One With The Prom Video," Monica says that Roy, her prom date, had seen ''[[Star Wars]]'' 317 times. His name was in the paper. (At the time of the clip, set in 1984, the movie was only available on laserdisc; however, it had been re-released to theatres multiple times since its original 1977 run).
* Teal'c of ''[[Stargate SG
** Seconds later the joke is reversed when it's revealed that O'Neill has not seen Star Wars ''even ONE time'' and Carter considers ''him'' to be the weird one.
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* In ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
* Humorously used in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzwTHBLGOg#t=00m15s this scene] in ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' episode "Eclipse" where Chuck, who is uncomfortable with the creepy man who picked him up while he was hitchhiking, tries to lighten the mood by sharing how he's reminded of an ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' story about a man with "a big butcher knife" who was picking up hitchhikers. Getting creeped out by the man again, Chuck decides to drop the discussion, leading to the following exchange:
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'''Creepy Guy:''' 27 times! ''[creepy stare]'' }}
:: Chuck quickly leaps out of the moving pickup truck.
* In ''[[Top Gear]]'', the Stig's African cousin has seen ''[[The Lion King]]'' 1,780 times.
* In ''[[Lois and Clark]]'', Perry White mentions having seen ''[[The Return of Godzilla
* ''[[Glee]]'' has a moment like this with one of their new characters, Sam, who, up till that moment, seemed like just your average jock. When helping him clean up some blue slushie stains that he'd gotten on his uniform, Quinn mentions that it can dye your clothes "Like those aliens in ''[[Avatar (
* British comedian Toby Hadoke played a character in ''[[Holby City]]'' who shamelessly boasted how many times he had seen ''[[The Matrix]]'', the slight irony being that Hadoke himself is [[One of Us|famously enthusiastic]] about ''[[
* On ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', Tracy Morgan once said he's seen ''[[Star Wars]]'' 500 times.
== [[Music]] ==
* From "Cable TV" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]:
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They think I'm turning into some kind of freak.
Aw, but [[You're Just Jealous|they're just jealous]], 'cause I've seen ''Porky's'',
[[Arc Number|Twenty-seven]] times this week. }}
* From the song "Nineteen Something" by Mark Willis:
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* From a ''[[Peanuts]]'' [[Sunday Strip]] of the early 1970s:
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** Charles Schulz used ''Citizen Kane'' for this a few times. The strip where Lucy [[It Was His Sled|spoils the ending]] for Linus has her say she's seen it "about 10 times", and there's another strip where Sally is in the movie theater line behind Linus talking about how she's pretending they're on a date, until Linus gets to the box office and says, "One, please!" Cut to Sally in front of the TV.
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'''Sally:''' I am. I'm watching ''Citizen Kane'' for the eighth time. }}
* In a series of ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strips, Roger gets concerned over Andy watching ''[[Titanic]]'' way too many times. She even admits going all the way to the cinema and watching it ''twice in a row''.
** In another series of strips, Peter gets a job as a theater cashier on the eve of ''[[Star Wars]]:
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'''''Star Wars'' Fanboy:''' One of each, obviously. }}
** Another strip has Jason camping out (on his computer server) to get tickets to see ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''.
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'''Paige:''' Who's going with you?
'''Jason:''' My friend, Marcus.
'''Paige:''' I'm confused.
'''Jason:''' Guess who has tickets to four consecutive showings of ''[[Star Wars]]''? }}
** An early strip has Peter renting the movie ''[[Raising Arizona]]'', which Paige says Peter has seen about four zillion times. He explains it's because [[Holly Hunter]] is in it. Paige says "Oh, '''that's''' a reason". However, it turns out the video store screwed up and gave Peter a tape of ''[[Dirty Dancing]]''. Paige wants to watch it, and Peter says she has seen it eight billion times. Paige explains it's because [[Patrick
== [[Print Media]] ==
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* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie," Milhouse brags about seeing the ''Itchy & Scratchy'' movie 15 times and Nelson brags that he saw it 17 times. Bart (who has been grounded from seeing the movie after failing to watch Maggie) tries to joke that the two must have been sick of seeing it and ends up getting chased by Nelson and Milhouse.
** In "Co-Dependents Day", after the latest ''[[Writing Around Trademarks|Cosmic Wars]]'' movie "The Gathering Shadow" is a disappointment, Comic Book Guy makes the following comment.
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* In an episode of ''[[Doug]]'', the title character mentions in his voice-over that he and Skeeter saw a Smash Adams movie 7 times.
* According to ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' episode "The DVD", Gumball is said to have seen "Alligators on a Train" 72 times.
* In ''[[Garfield Specials
== [[Real Life]] ==
* According to some stories, Alec Guinness (Old Obi-Wan Kenobi) was once asked for an autograph by a fan who claimed to have watched the first ''[[Star Wars]]'' film a hundred times. Alec gave him the autograph but only under the condition that he never watch it again.
** Guinness' autobiography ''A Positively Final Appearance'' confirms that the story did indeed happen. Guinness, however, states that the boy's mother dragged her crying son away after Guinness' request, and he never mentions actually giving the autograph. To elaborate, Guinness was becoming very religious at the time, and was worried about the boy's quasi-religious obsession with the movie. He was (perhaps unneccessarily) worried that the boy would treat ''[[Star Wars]]'' as like a religion, rather than as a movie.
* The 2009 film ''[[Avatar (
** [[Conan O
* Fans of [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]] are well known for this. Somebody who's seen the film twenty times is still a neophyte. A few fans claim to have watched the film over 1,000 times, equivalent to [[Fridge Horror|once a week for twenty years]].
** If you see it with a live cast, it's never the same show twice.
* In the first of his autobiographies, ''[[Moab Is My Washpot]]'', [[Stephen Fry]] stated that in his schoolboy days, he and a few friends went to see ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
* Apparently, a fan once approached [[Edgar Wright]] and asked him to sign his ticket stubs for ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]''... all 55 of them.
* The writer of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118692/board/thread/753534?p=1 this essay] on [[
* A San Francisco youth made national news when saw the movie ''[[Rocky (
* [[Christopher Lee]] has stated that he has read the ''[[The Lord of the Rings
* Alas, [
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