Cryptically Unhelpful Answer: Difference between revisions

'''Ax''': What do you mean, how do I eat? I have hooves, don't I''?|''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]''}}

Whenever the heroes, and by extension the audience, have a question, it's generally good form for it to be answered at some point, lest the audience get pissed and demand their money back. These questions can vary in importance, but when it comes to the [[Cryptically Unhelpful Answer]], they sometimes have one thing in common: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|The answers are cryptic. As well as unhelpful.]]

* From ''[[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Yellow Submarine]]'':

* In ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', Tobias asks Ax how he eats, as he doesn't have a mouth. Ax replies, "What do you mean, how do I eat? I have hooves, don't I?" Thanks for clearing that up for us, Ax. <ref>It's later explained that Andalites actually absorb nutrients through their hooves, mostly from crushed up grass and the like.</ref>

* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': Worf refuses to explain why 23rd-century Klingons don't look like their [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|24th-century counterparts]], saying only, "[[Noodle Incident|We do not discuss it with outsiders!]]"

* ''[[The X -Files]]'': This is the job of pretty much every one of Mulder's "informants".

* Ambassador Kosh of ''[[Babylon Five5]]'' [http://arborius.net/~jphekman/b5/koshisms.html has dialogue consisting of almost nothing but this trope.] It's even lampshaded in the series.