The Load/Quotes
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"On their own, the giant infant scientists survived another minute, and then crashed."
—Mystery Science Theater 3000, episode #816: Prince of Space
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"All he does is follow Quaid around and be... funny? I think this is supposed to be funny."
—The Nostalgia Chick, on the Monk character in Dragonheart
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"I tend to see Elan more as an obstacle that this team overcomes on a regular basis. Traveling with Elan is kind of like, say, adventuring with syphilis. It can be done, for a while, but it's not easy and it's not pretty."
—Roy Greenhilt, The Order of the Stick
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"Are you sure you want Fluttershy to come along? I mean, that pony is afraid of her own shadow. She's just going to slow us down."
—Rainbow Dash, My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
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First they ran out of Red Shirts, and now the writers of The Walking Dead are fresh out of Convenient Burdens, too. Don't mistake the two: Red Shirts are entirely different from Convenient Burdens. Red Shirts are just disposable cannon fodder, while Convenient Burdens usually aren't even killed -- they're just perpetually on the verge of it. And they make for bad storytelling because they're usually painfully transparent: The Convenient Burdens only exist as easy plot devices to put the group in trouble when shit gets boring.
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