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{{quote|''"Let me explain. ''[[Beat|<nowiki>[Beat]</nowiki>]]'' No, there is too much. Let me sum up."''
|'''Inigo Montoya''', ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''}}
This is a phrase typically used when a character has finished an adventure isolated from the others. Since it is redundant to have him/her explain the events we just saw ourselves, the typical move to have the character answer the others' questions of what happened is with, "It's a long story" with the assumption that he tells it to them later, off-screen.
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* From ''[[The Wicker Man]]'', "Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent."
* Awesomely spoofed in ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' when Fozzie starts to reiterate the whole plot so far to the Electric Mayhem. Kermit decides to save time by letting them read the script.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Generations]]'', Geordi and Data go to Ten Forward after the former installs the emotion chip in the latter. Data tries Guinan's latest [[G-Rated Drug|syntheholic]] beverage and makes a face. She asks him what he thinks of it, and he says he's not sure because he doesn't recognize the emotion.
{{quote|'''Guinan:''' Emotions?
'''Geordi:''' I'll explain later. }}
* In ''[[Uncle Buck]]'', Miles grills Buck with a [[Long List]] of questions, including:
{{quote|'''Miles:''' Are you married?
'''Buck:''' No.
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