Unspoken Plan Guarantee/Quotes

Al Swearengen: Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.

—Deadwood

Roy: "Ok, uh, are you going to let me know what it is?"
Elan: "Well of course not, Roy! Everyone knows that plans only work if you keep them a secret first!"

Roy: "What? That's not true at all!"

Elan: "Sure it is! If you talk about them and then they happen exactly that way, there's no tension!"

—The Order of the Stick

John Connor: "You know what you have to do!"

Mike Nelson: "Well of course, but tell me again so that we can have a laugh at how obvious it is."

—Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Riff Trax

"And now that I've described the plan in full, nothing can possibly go wrong."

—Red Mage, Eight Bit Theater