Up to Eleven: Difference between revisions

[[File:goes_to_eleven.jpg|link=This Is Spinal Tap|frame|Try to top this.]]

 

'''Marty DiBergi:''' Put [the volume] [[Trope Namer|up to eleven]].<br />

'''Nigel Tufnel:''' Eleven. Exactly. One louder.|''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]''}}

** The concept of "anti-time" took [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies]] Up To Eleven. An energy field grows to the point of consuming Earth before life on Earth evolved.

* The ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' season 6 episode '[[Epic Fail]]' includes House joking about this to Wilson:

House: Should've been here when I was butchering the ox. What do you expect? I'm an addict. I turn everything up to eleven. }}

** In "TB or not TB", House and Foreman have a bet going on whether a test will gain any results. As soon as it looks like House is losing, he turns the dial up to 11, gets expected results, as well as $20.

** Hell, [[Make My Monster Grow|any time a monster grows]] ([[Once Per Episode]]), it takes it [[Up to Eleven]]. Tommy also grows, and a Tommy, Goldar, and Scorpina vs. the Megazord battle takes it [[Up to Eleven]]. (Until then, the rangers only faced one monster at a time.) Tommy and Goldar have zords too, more [[Up to Eleven]], and at the end of Zeo, all the Rangers grow. And [[Power Rangers in Space|Dark Specter]]'s as big as a small moon.

* ''[[iCarly]]'': from the episode "iOMG", Gibby and Carly put Spencer into a box for their project to see how he reacts to different stimuli, one of them being stink gas.

'''Spencer''': ''slides down the side of the box'' }}

* On 'TV Heaven, Telly Hell,' Jimmy Carr refers to 'Flavour of Love' as reality TV '[[Up to Eleven]].'

== Music ==

* In Camera Obscura's "Dory Previn":

* [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZnxvAPkL8 Black Or White]'' music video features this in the first two minutes, when the [[Loud of War|son retaliates against his dad.]]

* Buckcherry's cocaine anthem ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpiF4QGJNY Lit Up]'' alludes to this when making a comparison between the norm and the coked-up person.

* Peter Tagtgren from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hMPcHZJ0M PAIN/HYPOCRISY].

* Citizen King's song "Better Days" features the line "Crank it to eleven/blow another speaker".

* Natasha Bedingfield's heart megaphone is set on eleven. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

* The song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrE5x9mOkQ Smack Down]'' by [[Thousand Foot Krutch]] mentions turning it to eleven.

Then we can't go wrong }}

 

* In ''[[Burnout|Burnout Paradise]]'' the SFX volume goes up to 11.

* 11 is an [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Eleven intentionally recurring number] in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''. In particular, the Super-Secret Canadian Mind-Control Device goes Up To Eleven, with a reference to ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]''.

* Games company Team17 were originally known as 17-Bit Software - because they were "that bit better than the rest".

* In ''[[Digimon World 3]]'', {{spoiler|[[Game Breaker|Imperialdramon Paladin Mode]]}} takes digivolving power up to 11 with the following: Heals that do everything but rez KO'ed allies or recover MP, a devastating 3-hit attack technique (not to mention the already crazy physical attack power), a [[One-Hit Kill|OHKO]] attack technique that always works in random encounters {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and even has a chance of OHKO'ing the 2nd phase of Galacticmon, the final boss]]}}, not to mention his signature technique, {{spoiler|[[Smite Evil|Omega Blade]], which can OHKO an evil Armageddemon (if you have enough strength) on the [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Gunslinger satellite]]}}.

* ''[[Vexxarr]]'': [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=021811 Up to eleven was mentioned.]

* The [[Serial Escalation|entire story of]] ''[[Homestuck]]'' takes it up to eleven, then goes up to eleven from ''there'', repeatedly, all the while never taking it back down. Quoth [[Andrew Hussie]] on the matter:

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' sometimes does this:

'''Ennesby''': I don't know. I'm reindexing "frying pan" for a higher baseline, though. }}

 

** At this point Bob jumps up on stage, whips out his own guitar, and the two of them have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al6ssH4vkdY an epic rock-off]. Megabyte then says "I've always wanted to do that", gives Enzo the guitar as a birthday present, and drives off in his stretch limo.

* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''' episode 'Bubblevicious', Bubbles got sick of being the "kid" in the group, so she turned the training simulator up to eleven to prove she was "hardcore". The result is an entire [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for her, and her sisters acknowledge it.

* In the opening sequence of ''[[Bump in the Night]],'' Mr. Bumpy actually uses a crayon to add an 11 setting to his amp before jacking it all the way up.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Pete Townshend (Guitarist for The Who) has an amp with a setting in place of 11 reading simply "Whuh-Oh", that's strong enough to partly demolish a wall made of solid garbage.

** Mr. Burns hires a hypnotist to motivate his softball team.

'''Team''': That's impossible. No one can give more than 100 percent. By definition, that is the most anyone can give. }}

* In the ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' video "The Star of Christmas," [[Gadgeteer Genius|Seymour (Pa Grape)]] sends Bob and Larry's characters to the church where a Christmas pageant is going to be held in a Rocket car. He warns them that although the car has 11 engines, they should only fire engines 1 through 10, and that [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|under no circumstances should they fire the untested rocket 11.]] Larry does anyway when the car shows that the church is out of the range of 1-10.

* In the "S'Winter" episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', Doofenshmirtz builds a laser that has a melting capacity of seven...on a scale of one to five.

** Much of the show is the titular brothers taking everything Up To Eleven.

* In ''[[Home Movies]]'', Duane's band SCAB scrawled the number 11 on the far end of their amps' volume dials.

* In one episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Cyborg complains that, as a machine, he cannot go beyond 100% of his ability. By the end of the episode, he does, and throws away the corresponding indicator.