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{{quote|''"With the Casper series, you never knew what picture you were working on, because they were all exactly the same."''|'''Lee Mishkin''', a [[Famous Studios]] animator summing up the ''[[Casper the Friendly Ghost]]'' shorts in a nutshell.}}

{{quote|''"I think the problem lay in the attitude of the management. The bosses would go to screenings with a list of all the gags in a film on a clipboard. They'd put a check after each gag that got a laugh and use it in the next picture. If a gag got a laugh in three pictures in a row, it became a standard and they'd use it in every picture after that. They had a real nuts-and-bolts approach to making films."''|'''Lee Mishkin''', stating why [[Famous Studios]] shorts were so formuliacformulaic.}}

{{quote|''"Formularisation is compulsory in commercial TV, and has struck [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|STTNG]] hard. The [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|NCC1701D]] now has less time than ever to explore strange new worlds - half the season is prebooked for return visits to the Klingons or Cardassians, and guest spots for Barclay, Ma Troi, Q, Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all. Not that I want to see any fewer Romulan Warbirds, Borg motherships etc; I just regret this inevitable loss of novelty in favour of the kind of ''petty'' continuity that [[Star Trek|STTOS]] tried so hard to avoid."''|'''Justin B. Rye'''. ''[http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/trek/3.html Star Trek: Mark Two]''}}

'''Messy''' (entering): Ha! Never underestimate the element of surprise!|''[[Mad Magazine]]'', [[Pokémon|"Hokéycon"]]}}

{{quote|'"They really are all the same, aren't they?' she said to the three-eyed teddy bear. 'You know it's going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and [[Love Triangle|there's going to be two men]] and she will end up with the nice one, and [[Comedy of Errors|there has to be misunderstandings]], and they never do anything more than kiss and it's absolutely guaranteed that, for example, an exciting civil war or an invasion by trolls or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|even a scene with any cooking in it]] is not going to happen. The best you can expect is a thunderstorm.'"|'''Glenda Sugarbean''', ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]''}}

{{quote|"The first episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' that aired on network TV was episode #42, "The Problem with Paras." There are over 700 ''Pokemon episodes'' in existence now, so you might not remember this particular one. It's the one where they go somewhere and meet a Pokemon with a problem, and the gang tries to solve that problem, and Team Rocket tries to mess it up. It's that one."|'''[[Platypus Comix]]''', "First Kids WB airing of Pokemon"}}