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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'''}}
 
{{quote|''Abandon free time all ye who enter here.''|'''Anonymous'''}}
 
{{quote|"Do you know the end? Did Mom tell you that Fox is--"<br />
"Oh, shit," Jeremy's father interrupts. "They killed Fox?"<br />
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?]]"''
{{quote|''"It's like 'okay, I'll go to bed after this one', and ten minutes later you have up ten different tabs and are all like 'hurrrneedmoarhurrr'."''|'''A friend of [[User:GG Crono|this troper]]''', who got it right on the money}}
--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''|Jeph Jacques }}
{{quote|''"I need to consume more of your time than this comic alone can do. Here, have a [[Beat Panel|link to TV Tropes]]. [[Take Our Word for It|And another one]]. And [[The Oldest Ones in the Book|another for good measure]]. Bwahahahahah!"''|'''[[User:DMM Aus|David Morgan-Mar]]''', ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1926.html #1926]}}
 
{{quote|''"Warning: this site is fascinating and will eat hours of your time."''|'''[[Phil Foglio]]''', ''[[Girl Genius]]'', [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/fun.php Extra Fun] (providing a link in the process)}}
 
{{quote|''Fifteen minutes into a [[TV Tropes]] voyage I realized my peril and managed to claw free.''|'''Shamus Young'''}}
 
{{quote|''"Have we started [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|linking tropes in conversation now?]]"''<br />
--This Trooper<br />
''"Yes."''|[[This Troper]]. <ref>Seriously, I can't have a conversation with my housemate any more that ''doesn't'' start with "Have you read the TV Tropes page for...".</ref>}}
 
{{quote|''"Hmmm. Well, I have to say that both sides have a point but oooooh [[Small Name, Big Ego]] never seen that one before click click click click click AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH."''|'''judyhazeleyes''' of fandom_wank demonstrates the usual process}}
 
{{quote| ''"WHY DID YOU LINK TO TVTROPES}}
 
{{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''<br />
Jeph Jacques }}
 
{{quote| ''You cannot spell [[TV Tropes]] without "rope".''}}
 
{{quote| "No, honest, there's like, a comprehensive list of every single scary thing that ever happened in kids tv."<br />
"Really? What did you say the name of the site was?"<br />
"...I didn't. I can't. I told someone else ages ago. I haven't seen her since."<br />
[[User:Scarab]] and a classmate, discussing fear in animated television. }}
 
{{quote|''Somewhere on the [[TV Tropes]] Wiki is a theory that [[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure/WMG|Bill and Ted are Time Lords]], but I'm not going to provide a link because that would involve ''entering'' the [[TV Tropes]] Wiki, and it might be months before I came out again.''|[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/393251.html Irony-chan]}}
 
{{quote|''Just tell her parents you weren't watching her because you were editing [[TV Tropes]]. They'll understand.''|''[[Hypocritical Humor|TVTropes]] [[Scare'Em Straight|PSA]]''}}
 
{{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]]'''}}
 
{{quote|The main reason to avoid putting something incorrect or unrealistic-looking in a TV show or film is that it disrupts people's [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief|suspension of disbelief]] ... [but] the only people whose ability to suspend their disbelief might suffer are those who work in TV -- and they will have lost that ability long ago. When they watch telly, all they can see is the work that's gone into it and the mistakes. It's like taking an Egyptian slave on a tour of the pyramids -- he doesn't marvel, he just gets sympathy backache. |'''David Mitchell'''}}
 
{{quote|If you read [[TV Tropes]] <br />
[[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|So much that you're addicted]] <br />
Don't be surprised if you lose your job <br />
And then are soon evicted |''[[Burma-Shave]]''}}
 
{{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.}}
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}}
 
{{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 [[Home Page|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 Celiene, of the [[The Illuminatus Trilogy]], on tv tropes}}
 
{{quote|"Go ahead, wreck your life,<br />
That might be good,<br />
Who can say what's wrong or right?<br />
Nobody can."|"Spiraling Shape," '''[[They Might Be Giants]]'''}}
 
{{quote|"Now, if you'll excuse [[This Troper]], he'll be on [[TV Tropes]]."|[[Tropers/Stong Radd|StongRadd]] when he's bored}}
 
{{quote|'''Audioworm:''' I wish I wasn't so bored.<br />
'''Captain Fabulous:''' [[Home Page|www.tvtropes.org]]. Hope you don't have anything planned...|from the [[Jackass Genie]] [http://www.miraigamer.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3498&page=73 forum game] on Mirai Gamer Forum}}
 
{{quote|'''N Tom 64:''' I think it's one "prophecy/seeing into the future-type of event" per person.<br />
'''The Helldragon:''' Or some [[Trope]] like that, I don't know, I don't know. We'll check [[TV Tropes]] after this and we'll find out.<br />
'''N Tom 64:''' Don't go on there; you'll never leave.<br />
'''The Helldragon:''' [Commentary for the movie]...Yeah, [[TV Tropes]]. You get on there; prepare to stay awhile. |From the [[Hellfire Commentaries|Hellfire Comms]] commentary of ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves'' [http://blip.tv/file/4042777 here].}}
 
{{quote|''A [[TV Tropes]] article links here. Kiss your free time goodbye.''|'''A 1d4chan article'''}}
 
{{quote|"Last thing I remember, I was<br />
Running for the door<br />
I had to find the passage back<br />
To the place I was before<br />
’relax,’ said the night man,<br />
We are programmed to receive.<br />
You can checkout any time you like,<br />
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]] columnist [[Soren Bowie]], '''[http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-internet-in-11-days-epic-online-odyssey/ "Charybdis"]'''}}
 
{{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|tropes]], and touching one of those names sends you to an explanation of that [[Trope]]'s name, complete with references to other [[Trope|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|Oh dear, you've found [[TV Tropes]]. Expect to lose years of your life mindlessly clicking on links. Seriously, what's with that site?|'''jimj316''' talking to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/StraightFlame this troper], [http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=1307.msg44621#msg44621 Nifflas Support Forum]}}
 
{{quote|[[TV Tropes]]: "OM NOM CAN CONTROLZ INTERNETZ?"|'''Quotidian Torture''', [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/01/are_you_writing_a_vampire_nove.php#comment-3150393 Pharyngula]}}
 
{{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|After stumbling on this site I left my room to find I had been declared legally dead.|[[User:She Who Chews Gum]]}}
 
{{quote|''"Death Note is (at least the first half) a truly excellent story, but when you put it as Tropey [[Mc Tropeface]] finds a Droppytrope and [[Tropey Angel]] Tropes him into Troping a [[Trope Trope]] along with [[Loli Trope]] and [[No Name Trope]] Trope the Trope, well.. it kind of loses something in the translation, you know?"''|'''[[Billy vs. SNAKEMAN|Al McMasters]]'''}}
 
{{quote|''Go ahead, wreck your life,
{{quote|"But I warn you, [[Cracked|this site]] is like.. like… hrm… [[Stealth Pun|Some sort of addictive substance. Something that will keep you up all night?]] Oh, I know! [[TV Tropes]][[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|.com!]]''[sic]''"|'''[http://manboobz.com/2011/05/10/smurfette-was-a-stuck-up-bitch/comment-page-3/#comment-17282 Commenter] at [http://manboobz.com/ Manboobz]'''}}
''That might be good,
''Who can say what's wrong or right?
''Nobody can.''
|"Spiraling Shape," '''[[They Might Be Giants]]'''}}
 
{{quote|Linking''Last tothing [[TVI Tropes]]?<brremember, />I was
''Running for the door
Why not just throw the readers into a bottomless pit?<br />
''I had to find the passage back
Caution: Entering [[TV Tropes]] should be attempted only if you have the proper gear. I suggest tying a strong guide rope to a tree near the entrance and attaching the other end to your waist—bring along a blind man with instructions to remind you after thirty minutes to quit reading and get back to work. Said blind man should be armed with a cudgel to help persuade you to return.|''Board Admin of [http://www.ofteninspired.com Often Inspired] commenting on someone linking to [[TV Tropes]] during [[NaNoWriMo]].''}}
''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"]'''}}
{{quote|Is the snake an example of the "Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence"? *sigh* I've been to Tv Tropes too many times.|A comment by [[YouTube]] user BigGator5 on a [[Let's Play]] video of ''[[King's Quest V Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4b5J6JbLZo here]. He is describing a snake that is blocking the path to the next major section of the game. The snake will not be moved until you [[Guide Dang It|scare him away with tambourine music]].}}
 
{{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|NB: If you follow the link to TV Tropes, I am not responsible for the approximate 4.5 hours of productive time you will lose. K?|'''SB Sarah''', [http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog/the-grand-sophy-by-georgette-heyer/ review] of ''[[Georgette Heyer|The Grand Sophy]]''}}
 
{{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|'''Aurini''': ...Heh, this might be worth a top level post except tvtropes has covered it all already.<br />
'''[[Eliezer Yudkowsky]]''': The most rationalist-relevant TV Tropes would easily be worth a top post or three.<br />
'''JulianMorrison''': You'd lose your whole crop of rationalists. They would never come back out.|[http://lesswrong.com/lw/169/the_sword_of_good/1334 Comments] on [[Less Wrong]].}}
 
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