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{{quote|''"I just want to say to you guys: Get out of my head! Thanks to the amount of time I've spent here, it's been months since I was able to sit down and watch a movie or TV show without knowing by the first commercial break, every major event that was going to happen in the [[Plot]]''."|'''Red Shoe'''}}
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That's the problem with being a writer, Jeremy knows. Even the biggest and most startling twists are rarely twists for you. You know how every story goes.|''"Magic for Beginners"'', by Kelly Link}}
{{quote|''"Have we started [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|linking tropes in conversation now?]]"''
--This Trooper
''"Yes."''|[[This Troper]]. }}
{{quote|I FORGOT TO TIE OFF A ROPE AND NOW I'M DROWNING"''|'''queenanthai''', [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1074381.html?thread{{=}}31308493#t31308493 on scans_daily]}}
{{quote|''the TVtropes [[Questionable Content|QC]] page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document''
{{quote|''TV Tropes must be the only wiki where I can start off looking at Doctor Who and end up with advice over what gun I should buy. ''|'''[[Wrong Genre Savvy|TV Tropes]]'''}}
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{{quote|10. *BZZRT* WE DON'T *ZAP* ZOMBIES *ZAP* MENTION *BZZRRT* TVTROPES HERE *BZZRT* CAAAEEEEEEEEEKK! *BZZRT* *STATIC* *BUZZ* ore you wil dai.|the rules for http://www.fsdlcookies.myadopts.com/}}
{{quote|I once overheard two <s>botanists</s> [[Troper|tropers]] arguing over a Damned Thing that had blasphemously <s>sprouted in a college yard.</s> happened on a T.V. show. One claimed that the Damned Thing was a <s>tree</s> [[Xanatos Gambit]] and the other claimed that it was a <s>shrub</s> [[Batman Gambit]]. They each had good scholarly arguments, and they were still debating when I left them.
{{quote|''Go ahead, wreck your life,
▲{{quote|The world is forever spawning Damned Things— things that are neither <s>tree</s> [[Xanatos Gambit]] nor <s>shrub</s> [[Batman Gambit]], <s>fish</s>[[Bittersweet Ending]] nor <s>fowl</s> [[Earn Your Happy Ending]], [[Blue and Orange Morality|black nor white]]— and the categorical thinker can only regard the spiky and buzzing world of <s>sensory fact</s> [[Canon]] as a profound insult to his card-index system of classifications. Worst of all are the facts which violate <s>"common sense,"</s> "[[Magic A Is Magic A]]," that dreary bog of sullen prejudice and muddy inertia. The whole history of <s>science</s> TV Tropes is the odyssey of a pixilated card-indexer perpetually sailing between such Damned Things and desperately juggling his classifications to fit them in.|Hagberd Celine, of the ''[[The Illuminatus Trilogy]]'', on tv tropes}}
''That might be good,▼
''Who can say what's wrong or right?▼
''Nobody can.''
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''Running for the door▼
▲That might be good,
''I had to find the passage back▼
▲Who can say what's wrong or right?
''To the place I was before▼
▲Nobody can."|"Spiraling Shape," '''[[They Might Be Giants]]'''}}
''"We are programmed to receive.▼
''You can checkout any time you like,▼
▲Running for the door
|"Hotel California," '''The Eagles'''}}
▲I had to find the passage back
▲To the place I was before
▲’relax,’ said the night man,
▲We are programmed to receive.
▲You can checkout any time you like,
▲But you can never leave!|"Hotel California," '''The Eagles'''}}
{{quote|[[TV Tropes]] is a veritable black hole of hyperlinks, each leading further into the center of oblivion. The entire site is made up of a community that spends its life collecting patterns and commonalities between fictional worlds. It applies names to every plot device, every story arc and every cinematic tool ever captured by a camera and then links them to one another. The result is like being in the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic deciphering hidden codes in newspapers. Clicking on one link will ensure that you click on another, and another until you have lost your way back home and forgotten who you are.|[[Cracked.com]] columnist [[Soren Bowie]], '''[http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-internet-in-11-days-epic-online-odyssey/ "Charybdis"]'''}}
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{{quote|There are two things about the book that make it purest evil: the first is that anyone can add to it, so it's always changing and growing larger. The second is that every entry contains several references to other cleverly-named [[trope]]s, and touching one of those names sends you to an explanation of that trope's name, complete with references to other tropes . . . and at some point you look up and see you're eight years older than when you started.|[[Kingdom of Loathing]], "Tome Of Tropes" encounter}}
{{quote|''During ''[[Lost]]'', after writing scripts and editing episodes all day, it was nearly impossible for me to come home and watch scripted television without my critical brain kicking in. Instead of being caught up in the narrative, I could see only what was underneath — the blueprints and building materials.''|'''[[Show Runner]] Carlton Cuse''', [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/arts/television/30lost.html?nl{{=}}todaysheadlines&emc{{=}}tha28 The New York Times]}}▼
▲{{quote|''During ''[[Lost]]'', after writing scripts and editing episodes all day, it was nearly impossible for me to come home and watch scripted television without my critical brain kicking in. Instead of being caught up in the narrative, I could see only what was underneath — the blueprints and building materials.''|'''[[Show Runner]] Carlton Cuse''', [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/arts/television/30lost.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28 The New York Times]}}
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