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• The X-Files: "I'm sorry...but you've got something I need." That's a mutant who survives by eating cancerous tumors, talking to Scully.
  • Still regarding Scully, a lesser example from "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose": "All right, how do I die?" "You don't."
• Many episodes of Dallas ended with one of these.
  • "New Beginnings":

Jeremy: I want you to call our offices in the Far East, I want every available man sent to work, have them send you every document they can get. I want Cliff Barnes to have all he needs for a full investigation. Dave: We're changing sides? We're getting into bed with Cliff Barnes? Jeremy: I want Ewing Oil involved in a scandal so big that their charter will be revoked. I want to see the end of Ewing Oil so that I can pick up the pieces, and if J.R. Ewing goes to jail, so much the better.

• • "It's Kristin, calling from California. She just gave birth to a baby boy. You have another son."
  • And, of course, the series' most infamous Wham Line was one of the most innocuous two-word phrases in the English language:

Bobby: (in shower) Good morning!

• House
  • "Three Stories", "God, you were right...it's House."
  • "Finding Judas", Wilson to Tritter: "I'm gonna need my thirty pieces of silver."
  • "House's Head, "What's my necklace made of?"
  • "Saviors", Amber to House: "Solved another case, busted Wilson. Looks like you're not losing it after all."
  • "Both Sides Now", Amber: "So this is the story you made up about who you are. It's a nice one." Kutner: "Too bad it isn't true."
  • "Body and Soul", Wilson: "I have cancer."
  • "Everybody Dies" (series finale), House: SHUT UP YOU IDIOT.
  • Many episodes featured the Wham! Line "you're dying" or something to that effect. Sometimes they really were dying, but it was usually the penultimate diagnosis and was followed by a Wham Moment in which House had an epiphany and came up with the correct diagnosis. Cue happy, or, at worst, Bittersweet Ending.
• D. Gibbons is a bad man.
  • Message received.
• Fringe: During the third season's 19th episode, after Peter and Walter successfully rescued Olivia from the confines of her mind, Peter comes to visit her to see if she's okay. He notices a drawing of "Man X" whom they met aboard the zeppelin, and Peter asks who he is...

Olivia: "I dunno, I never met him before. But, I think he's the man who's gonna kill me."

• Smallville: "I was raised in your shadow. Now you're gonna die in mine. No one will even remember your name."
  • Episode 3x16: "I've been, um, diagnosed with a rather unique...liver disease and I'm running out of options."
  • Episode 4x16 "Lucy": "How does he know you don't like tomatoes?"
  • Last line of Season 8: "Zod!"
  • Episode 10x8: "Abandonded". Not so much a Wham Line as a Wham Birth Certificate. "Lutessa Lena Luthor"
• Doctor Who:
  • From "Dalek": "E-LE-VATE!"
  • From "The Impossible Planet": "The Beast and his armies, shall rise from the pit, to make war against God."
  • "Army of Ghosts" has "The sphere is not of Cybermen design", followed thirty seconds later by "Location: Earth! Lifeforms detected! Exterminate! Exterminate!"
  • "Utopia" has "I...am...the Master..."
  • "Last of the Time Lords": "Right across the world. One word, just one thought, at one moment, but with fifteen satellites!"
  • Not as influential, but in the end..."The Face of Boe, they called me."
  • "The Stolen Earth" has a few.

"Why don't you ask her yourself?" "Exterminate!"

• • From The End of Time, Part 1: "This was the day the Time Lords returned."
  • Victory of the Daleks: BRACE-WELL-IS-A-BOMB."
  • This little crap-inducing exchange from "The Time of Angels":

The Doctor: Bob, keep running, but tell me: how did you escape?" Bob:I didn't, sir. The angels killed me too."

• • And arguably "The aplans! They have two heads!" "So?" "So why don't the statues?"
  • From the classic series, "The Time Meddler" gives us "It's a TARDIS! The Monk's got a TARDIS!".
  • In "The Green Death", we get "I am the BOSS. I'm all around you. Exactly! I am the computer!"
  • From "The Pandorica Opens."

Sontaran: The Pandorica is ready! The Doctor: Ready for what? Dalek: READY. FOR. YOU.

• • From "The Impossible Astronaut":

Canton:" That is most certainly the Doctor, and he is most certainly dead."

• • "The Almost People":

Doctor: Whatever happens, however hard, however far, we will find you. Amy: I'm right here. Doctor: No, you're not. You haven't been here for a long, long time.

• • "A Good Man Goes to War" gives us River's identity:

River: (To Amy and Rory) It's me. I'm Melody. I'm your daughter.

• • In a related version.

Doctor: That name, Mels... Amy: Short for Melody. Yeah, I named my daughter after her. Doctor: You named your daughter after your daughter."

• • From "Night Terrors":

Alex: Of course not! CLAIRE CAN'T HAVE KIDS!

• • From The Ultimate Foe

The Master: They made a deal with the Valeyard, or as I've always known him, the Doctor...

• • The final scene of The Space Museum, leading into The Chase:

Dalek: They cannot escape! Our time machine will soon follow them. They will be exterminated! Exterminated! Exterminated!

• From The Twilight Zone: "Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship. The rest of the book...'To Serve Man'...It's a cookbook!"
• NCIS: "Tell me everything you know about this . . . NCIS." Saleem to a captive Ziva at the end of season 6.
  • "It's nice to meet you, Antony DiNardo." A freaking international arms dealer to Tony, proving that his relationship with Jeanne was an undercover assignment.
• Friends:

"I Ross, Take Thee Rachel..."

• • "Hey, my red sweater!"

Phoebe: Did she show you the place? Chandler: Yeah, it was beautiful. Phoebe: I can't believe you're gonna ask Monica to marry you. Chandler: I know.

• • Ross peeks into Chandler's hotel room to wake him up and express glee over getting married. After he leaves:

Monica: (getting out from under the covers) Do you think he knew I was here?

• Battlestar Galactica, "Crossroads, Part II": "We're Cylons. And we have been from the start."
  • Kara: "Hi Lee...It's gonna be OK. I've been to Earth. I know where it is. And I'm gonna take us there."
  • From the original Battlestar Galactica pilot, after Zack's Viper is destroyed:

Adar: What was that? Adama: That was my son, Mr. President.

• Alias:
  • "I've waited almost thirty years for this." "MOM?!" (Irina to Sydney, "Almost Thirty Years")
  • "Congratulations sir. Phase one is complete. The Alliance is gone." (Sark to Sloane, "Phase One")
    • And from the same episode: "Yes, I'm in position. Everything's in place." (Double!Francie to Sark, "Phase One")
  • "Syd...since that night...you were missing. You've been missing for almost two years." (Vaughn to Sydney, "The Telling")
  • "Well, for starters, my name's not Michael Vaughn." (Vaughn to Sydney, "Before the Flood")
• Criminal Minds:
  • "God is in all of us." "So is Tracy Lambert." ("Lucky")
  • "Hey Garcia? I've been waiting all night to do this." ("Lucky")
  • "Did you get all that?" ("Masterpiece")
  • "Don't tell them about your brothers." ("Bloodline")
  • "You really should have taken the deal." ("...And Back")
  • "There! Were! Rules!" (First season finale)
  • "There won't be anyone to open that door for at least 13 minutes." Picks up picture of a previous victim "It took me less than five to do this." ("Damaged")
• 24 has a memorable one in Day Five:
  • Evelyn Martin: The Vice President has nothing to do with this!
  • Also in Day 2, when Roger Stanton is being interrogated about his role in the conspiracy. After learning that his plan has failed, he says, out of the blue, "Ask Sherry."
  • Tony Almeida: I'm sorry, Larry.
  • From the finale of Day 7, Tony gives us the tragic punchline to his madness. "YOU KILLED MY SON!"
  • Janet York in Day 1: "Who are you? Where's my father?"
  • An exchange between Jack and Dana Walsh on Day 8 as Dana begs for her life with Jack, who's essentially turning into Day 7 Tony at this point.

Dana: "Jack... tell me what I can do." Jack: "Nothing. Nothing at all."

• • Aaron Pierce to Charles Logan on Day 5: "Is there anything else, Charles?"
• Lost:
  • "I need to talk to you."
  • "Jack! One of them isn't on the manifest. He wasn't on the plane."
  • "The Others are coming."
  • "Only, the thing is...we're gonna have to take the boy."
  • "Ignore everything I'm saying."
  • "Interesting theory...LIGHT 'EM UUUUUUPPPPPP!!!!"
  • "What-what boat?"
  • "What...friends?"
  • "Who's Aaron?"
  • "We have to move the island."
  • "Yes, I was here 30 years ago. And I do. I remember these people. I remember meeting them very clearly because...I watched them all die."
  • - "Why are we going to Jacob?" - "So I can kill him."
  • "It's good to see you out of those chains, Richard."
  • "Always nice talking to you, Jacob."
  • "I'm sorry you had to see me like that."
  • "LaFleur."
  • "You don't have a son."
  • "How are you here?"
  • "We have to go back, Kate... we have to go back!"
  • "Are you Jack? My name's Daniel Farraday; I'm here to rescue you..."
  • "I'm here Charles to tell you that I'm going to kill your daughter."
• The Sarah Connor Chronicles: "John Connor. Never heard of him."
  • Also from the finale: "You're building Skynet". "No. I'm building something to fight it."
  • "Will you join us?"
• Farscape: Noranti whispers in Crichton's ear : "Aeryn...is...with child." Naturally this is followed seconds later by Moya being swallowed into a wormhole, and then John is unable to contact Aeryn for "some time" (long enough for him to grow an impressive beard, at least).
  • "I condemn you, John Crichton...to live! So that your lust for unfulfilled revenge...will consume you."
    • Made even worse in that this was in the middle of a procedure that temporarily removed the speech center of John's brain, during which Scorpious presumably killed the doctor, the one person on the planet (if not the galaxy) who could have repaired the damage.
  • Crichton attempts to return to Moya from Einstein's realm via wormhole fails, taking him to (1980s) Earth instead. "Whoops."
• Caprica: "Zoe?"
• Blakes Seven: "Star One", after Vila and Jenna discover that an alien invasion fleet is approaching the galaxy:

Vila: Do you think Blake knows what's happening? Why hasn't he come back yet? What are we supposed to do, Jenna? Jenna: Give the alarm. Vila: Terrific idea, who do you suggest we tell? Jenna: Servalan.

• Jericho: After Denver is nuked, a group of people are listening to an answering machine message where Dale's mother describes seeing the explosion, cut off as she's incinerated. "I didn't even know your mother was in Denver." "She was in Atlanta." Cue freakout.
  • In Black Jack, as they're looking at the map of the US. "But there are six stars up there? Where's the president?" "Which one?"
• In one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel has once again turned into his evil alter ego Angelus and helps Faith with luring the others into a trap.

Faith: What can I say, I'm the world's best actor. Angel: Second best.

• • Wham! Line meets Crowning Moment of Awesome from the end of "Two to Go": "I'd like to test that theory."
  • In the 3rd episode of Season 5, Riley: But she doesn't love me.
  • In the middle of season 5, Quentin Travers gets to supply the episode-ending Wham Line: "Glory isn't a demon. She's a god."

Buffy: ...oh. (cut to black)

• • From What's My Line, Part 1: "I am Kendra the Vampire Slayer."
  • A textbook one comes at the end of "Buffy vs. Dracula":

Joyce: "Buffy, if you're going out, why don't you take your sister?" Buffy and Dawn: "Mom!"

• • "You think you can just do that to me? You think I'd let you get away with that? Think again!" (opens fire)
    • "Your shirt."
  • "We shall give back your soul!" (To Spike)
  • "What'cha doing? ...Mom? ...Mom? ...Mommy?"
  • Two from "Earshot":

This time tomorrow, I'm going to kill you all. "I came up here to kill myself."

• • In "Who Are You" Tara is fretting that the Scoobies don't even know she exists. Willow assure her that she will introduce her to them, but for the moment she wants something that is just hers.

Tara: I am you know. Willow: What's that? Tara: Yours.

• On Angel:

Cordelia: That...you have to get. Oh, and you're welcome. Angel: (picks up phone) Hello? Yes, I know, she’s...But that’s impossible, she’s standing right...I’m sorry. Yeah. Did, um, so when did she die? Did, she, um...She never did wake up? I see. (hangs up) Thank you.

Connor: (Bursts through a portal and kills a monster with little effort before pointing a crossbow at Angel) Hi, Dad.

Cordelia: Why do you think I let him out?

Angel: You thought I was going to turn evil and kill my son. I didn't. It's important you know that. This isn't Angelus talking. It's me. Angel. You know that, right? Good. *starts smothering Wesley with a pillow* Son of a bitch, you are going to pay for what you did! You took my son, you son of a bitch! You bastard! You think I forgive you? Never! You're going to die, you hear me?! You're going to pay! You took my son! You took my son! You took my son! Never. Never. Never! I'll kill you! You're dead! You're a dead man, Pryce! You're dead! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! You're a dead man! Dead! Dead!

Fred: Who's Connor?

Fred: So what are you lyin' about? Sahjhan: I don't like to brag but... read any good prophecies lately?

• M*A*S*H: "I have a message: Lt. Col. Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in...There were no survivors."
  • None of the actors (save for Alan Alda, who was also one of the writers), knew what Radar was going to say, and were told to just keep working regardless.
• Mad Men:
  • "Hello. This is Dick. I want to talk to you."
  • "She has cancer, Don."
  • "Would you say I know something about you, Don?" with the follow up: "After all, who's really signing this contract anyway?"
  • "Well, if you want to break your contract agreement and sell insurance, go ahead." "I don't have a contract."
• From V-2009, we have: "John May is dead."
  • Also, "I believe you've just experienced your first human emotion." To cap off an already intense Wham! Episode.
• In Merlin, the young druid boy's words "My name is Mordred" ends the scene with a sinister reminder that this little boy will one day kill Arthur.
• The very last words of the Quantum Leap finale -- Dr. Beckett never returned home.
  • The end of "The Leap Home, Part 2" -- "I'm alive, and it's all thanks to you, little brother."
• Ashes to Ashes:
  • "What? You expected us to disappear? In a puff of smoke? Matter meets anti-matter, time imploding on itself, that sort of thing?" (Martin Summers, 2x07, telling the Blinovitch Limitation Effect to go eff itself.)
  • "Bolls! Bolly! Listen, I don't know if you can hear me, Bolls. The nurses are going to be back in a minute. I need you to wake up. What about if I gave you a slap? Would that help?" (Gene Hunt, on the television in 2008)
  • "I say yes." "It's a godawful small affair, to the girl with the mousey hair..." (Shaz, 3x02)
  • This bit of dialogue from the finale, though most viewers had caught on already:

Gene: He didn't deserve a shallow grave, did he? Did he, Alex? Alex: No. No you didn't.

• Victorious: In the episode "Wok Star":

Cat: Jade's dad is only coming to the play on the first night, right? Tori: Yeah. Cat: So then why don't we just do it the way Jade wrote it for that one night? Tori: 'Cause, Mrs. Li is gonna be there and she wants it done her way. Cat: But what if she's not there? Andre: I think Cat just said something pretty smart.

• There are two in the final episode of Blackadder:
  • While they're discussing Darling's arrival in their dugout. To this point in the episode, George has happily awaited the order to advance, going so far as to turn down an offer to leave with General Melchett before the battle.

George: Well, this is splendid, comradely news! Together, we'll fight for king and country, and be sucking sausages in Berlin by teatime. Edmund: Yes, I hope their cafes are well stocked; everyone seems determined to eat out the moment they arrive. George: No, really, this is brave, splendid and noble! ...Sir? Edmund: Yes, Lieutenant? George: I'm scared, sir.

• • Just before they go over the top.

Darling: I say, listen - our guns have stopped. George: You don't think... Baldrick: ...perhaps...the war's over? Perhaps it's peace. Darling: Thank God. We lived through it. The Great War, 1914 to 1917.

• • In fact, by this time in the war, the guns would still have been firing since the "Creeping Barrage" was standard practice - the artillery gradually entended the aiming point at roughly the same speed as the advancing infantry.
    • What, you expected anything in an attack organised by General Melchett to go right?!
• A number of Burn Notice episodes, including:
  • "False Flag": "I'll do whatever you want, just don't go after my son!" or, just in case you didn't get that one, "It's a great technique, as long as you're not the someone else."
  • "Breaking and Entering": "But we did meet, Michael! Tell Sam thanks for the help with the crossword."
  • "Friends and Family": "They're not coming for Rufino. They're coming for you."
  • "End Run": "What about Bel-Anna? I mean, Annabel."
  • "Friends Like These": "The only one who knows where that ledger is is her!"
  • "Enemies Closer": "I left you like three messages!"
  • "Friends and Enemies": "Mike, you just burned a guy."
• "Ivan...Did you see the sun rise this morning?"
• From Dollhouse: "There are three flowers in a vase. The third flower is green."
  • "We're ready."
  • "I remember everything."
• From Scrubs, the episode My Screw Up

Dr. Cox: Aren't you going to take some pictures? JD: Pictures of what? Dr. Cox: You know. Crying babies covered in chocolate. People singing happy birthday to my son who've never even met him before. You know, the whole routine. JD: ...Where do you think we are?

• Jekyll Wham Line Generator for a miniseries. "They've turned off the cameras...all of them. Nobody can see or hear us...suckers."
  • "I'd forgotten the room number," "You know what? HE didn't..."
  • "I don't own a black van."
• "Did...you put ecstasy in my drink?"
  • And: "He has multiple sclerosis, Leo."
  • From the first season finale: "WHO'S BEEN HIT? WHO'S BEEN HIT?"
  • "I have a dead agent on the scene."
  • "You're relieved, Mr. President."
  • And let's not forget:

Charlie: There was an accident at 18th and Potomac. Mrs. Landingham was driving her car back here and was hit by a drunk driver. Leo: Is she all right? Charlie: No. She's dead.

• Ugly Betty: "I see that ski accident has been pretty kind to you, Alexander Meade." "My name is Alexis."
• Kamen Rider Faiz: "On that day, we all died."
• Kamen Rider Decade: Wataru has just revealed that by Decade's efforts the nine Riders Decade has aided will live through their stories. When asked about Decade, his answer: "Decade... does not have a story."
  • Additionally, his line towards Decade in the finale regarding his mission: "Do you remember my words? You needed to destroy all Kamen Riders. Instead you became comrades with them. That was...a big mistake."
• Played for laughs in Whose Line Is It Anyway? - in the game called (oddly enough) Whose Line, Colin and Ryan are given slips of paper with pre-written lines to incorporate into the scene, and since the writing is usually done before the show starts, the Wham! Line aspect of taking the scene in a different direction is unavoidable...but Colin and Ryan don't even miss a beat.
  • An outright Lampshade Hanging occurs in Scenes from a Hat when the suggestion "Worst lines in a Soap Opera leading into commercials" is pulled out.
• Torchwood: Children of Earth, when the 456 reveal their interest in human children: "They release a chemical, it feels...good."
  • Also Day Four, because all of the buildup makes you think that this is going to be a Big Damn Heroes moment for the Torchwood team to save the day. It's not.

The 456: The human infant mortality rate is 29,158 deaths per day. Every three seconds, a child dies. The human response is to accept, and adapt. Jack: We’re adapting right now, and we’re making this a war. The 456: Then the fight begins. Jack: We’re waiting for your reply. The 456: Action has been taken. Alarms begin to sound. The 456: You wanted a demonstration of war. A virus has been released. It will kill everyone in the building.

• • Heck, they manage to condense the WHAM into a word at the end of Day One.

Children of Earth: We Are Coming...Back.

• Mystery Science Theater 3000: "Could you guys sign my time card?"
  • Possibly a better line: "Say Mike, what size jumpsuit do you wear?"
• Carnivale:
  • "Tipton" - "There's rules, boy. To give life, you gotta take it from someplace else." (Rebecca Donovan, to Ben Hawkins)
  • "The River" - "Privyet, Ira." (Justin to Iris, using her Russian name)
  • "Day of the Dead" - "I did it for you." (Iris to Justin, confessing to setting the ministry fire)
  • "New Canaan, CA" - "This is your house." (Omega!Sofie to Sofie)
• Taxi - "Could I say just one word? SELTZER!" (From the episode "Jim's Mario's")
• Firefly: At the end of "Heart of Gold": I'm leaving."
• Babylon 5: From the third season's penultimate episode: "Hello, I'm Anna Sheridan. John's wife."
  • "The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace... It failed."
• From the first season finale of Bones: "That...is Christine Brennan." And again in the sixth season finale. I'm pregnant. And you're the father.
• Supernatural: "I'm an angel of the Lord."
  • "You!" Mary Winchester to the Yellow-Eyed Demon
  • "You're going to have to...sweeten the pot." YED to John, before John makes the deal to save Dean's life.
  • From the Season 6 finale, "I'm not an angel anymore. I'm your new God. A better one. So you will bow down and profess your love unto me, your Lord... or I shall destroy you."-Castiel to Sam, Dean, and Bobby after he absorbs all the souls in purgatory.
    • And in the following season premiere, "Cas... is gone. He's dead."-the Leviathans, after taking over Castiel's body.
  • And, of course, the line that took Poor Communication Kills Up to Eleven: "You don't understand! Lilith is the final seal!"
• How I Met Your Mother: From "Bad News".

Lily: Something's happened. Your father had a heart attack, and...he didn't make it. Marshall: "M-my dad's dead?"

• • And prior to that, in "Canning Randy", Zoey has got Ted's architecture class to abandon him and turn against him after he wanted the Arcadian to be blown up while they didn't. When asked if he has anything to say for himself, what's his response? "Anyone not in class tomorrow gets an F." And it works.**
  • An absolutely heartbreaking one at the end of Symphony of Illumination. The episode features Robin telling her kids how she met their father, despite the entire episode revolving around Robin finding out she can't have kids. The audience sees Robin's kids as she tells the story. At the very end...

Robin: Whatever. It's better this way. No one holding me back, no one preventing me from travelling where I want to travel, going where I want to go. That's why I'm glad you're... not... real... {the kids fade away, leaving Robin all alone) Robin: Really glad.

• Haven: Said to Audrey: "I'm Special Agent Audrey Parker. Who the hell are you?"
  • The letter Duke finds in "Business As Usual": "Duke- If you’re reading this, then I haven’t survived. You are my Son. My heir. It’s up to you to finish my work. You must kill her." Attached to the letter is a picture of Audrey.
• The Inside:
  • "Everyone is here. The ninth victim is Margaret Alvarez." - Web, "New Girl in Town"
    • And later in the episode: "You expect us to believe Alvarez did this to herself?" - Danny
  • "Him! That's the voice! Real distinctive voice." - The witness in "Thief of Hearts" fingers Web as the guy who bribed her.
• "You're wearing my shirt, Gordon."
• "And now we get to, what was all the creepy stuff that he was going to put into the screenplay and the movie. And the creepy stuff was, that I have had sex with women who work for me on this show. Now, my response to that is...yes I have."
• Frasier: "Oh, he meant Niles. He's crazy about you."
  • "No Daphne, I'm glad he told me...because I love you The reaction from the audience makes this moment even more precious
• Stargate SG-1
  • "Unending"

Thor: Very soon, we will all be dead.

• Life On Mars
  • "Series 2, Episode 8"

Sam Tyler: I can't feel anything.

• Stargate Atlantis
  • "Progeny"

Rodney McKay: They're machines. Replicators.

• Stargate Universe
  • "Common Descent"

Jason: You're the ancestors.

• • "Epilogue"

Alternate!TJ: It's ALS. Lou Gehrig's Disease.

• Numb3rs:
  • In "The Janus List", someone is reading off the eponymous master list of double agents:

"Colby Granger, FBI, also working for the Chinese."

• From the episode "Furt" of Glee:

Kurt: It's good to know that I have friends here at McKinley, as well as a true brother. Which is why it's so difficult to leave.

• • Hilariously subverted in a first season episode, however. When asked if she and Puck are dating, Santana replies "Sex is not dating." Brittany adds, "If it were, Santana and I would be dating." There's a long silence...then everyone else continues as if she never said anything, apparently not wanting to touch Brittany's contribution with a ten-foot pole. Brittany and Santana's relationship is barely even mentioned again until nearly a season later.
• From the Punky Brewster episode "Accidents Happen," Punky runs to Henry's arms the day her class watched the Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off, and she sobs "It blew up."
• In Star Trek: The Next Generation's episode, "Remember Me", the computer's definition of the universe: The universe is a spheroid region, 705 meters in diameter.
  • And, of course: "I am Locutus of Borg."
    • As well as "Mr. Worf, FIRE!" from the cliffhanger of that episode.
  • From "I, Borg":

Picard: You will assist us to assimilate this vessel. You are Borg. You will assist us. Third of Five/Hugh: I will not. Picard: What did you say? Hugh: I will not assist you. Picard: "I"? Hugh: Geordi must not be assimilated. Picard: But you are Borg. Hugh: No. I am Hugh.

• One Star Trek: Enterprise episode revisits the first contact between Zefram Cochrane and the Vulcans:

Vulcan: Live long and prosper. Cochrane: *tries to do the Vulcan salute* Cochrane: *pulls out a gun and shoots the Vulcan*

• Game of Thrones:
  • 01x04: "Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things"

Catelyn about Tyrion: "This man came into my house as a guest and there conspired to murder my son, a boy of ten. In the name of King Robert and the good lords you serve, I call upon you to seize him and help me return him to Winterfell to await the king's justice."

• • 01x07: "You Win Or You Die

Littlefinger: I did warn you not to trust me.

• • 01x09: "Baelor"

Joffrey: Ser Ilyn, bring me his head.

• • 02x07

Dany: There is no king of Qarth. Xaro: There is now. That was the other part of the arrangement.

• • 02x10: "Valar Morghulis

Grenn: Three blasts.

• In Chuck vs The Ring. A combination of Wham! Line, Wham! Episode given how it completely changes the dynamic for the characters.

Chuck: That's completely insane, who told you this? Daniel Shaw: I did.

• • "Okay. I got this." Spoken by Sarah, as she's given no other option than to upload the Intersect to her head, in order to save a kidnapped Chuck at the end of Chuck Versus Bo".
    • Almost every season 5 episode ended with a wham for example, in episode 7, Sarah visits Shaw in prison.

Shaw: Does Chuck know about you, and the baby?

• Happens about Once a Season in Survivor, usually coinciding with a Shocking Elimination. Examples are:
  • Borneo: "The Merger" - this line at Tribal Council is considered by a few long-time fans as the line that changed the entire course of the series itself:

Gretchen: "Oh my god... it's me."

• • The Australian Outback: "Trial By Fire:

Nick: "He's burned. He's burned real bad."

• • Marquesas: "Jury's Out" - With Boston Rob eliminated from the game, it looks like nothing can stop John Caroll and the Rotu 4 from cruising all the way to the end of the game. The next immunity challenge is the coconut chop challenge, and the Rotu 4 gang up and eliminate their main target, Sean Rector, first. It looks like Sean is doomed at the next tribal council. The Rotu 4 then proceed to eliminate Vecepia ... then Kathy ... then Neleh. Sean then observes aloud:

Sean: "This is the order, how it's gonna go?"

• • • With that, Kathy, Neleh and Paschal realize that Rotu is showing their planned order of voting, and that they are at the bottom of the former Rotu hierarchy. They proceed to join forces with Sean and Vecepia, blindside the arrogant John at the next Tribal Council, and wipe out the rest of the Rotu 4 at the next 3 votes.
  • Pearl Islands: "Mutiny" - Jonny Fairplay appears to have the game in hand - he and Burton are one tribal council away from the final four for both of them. To make sure that they're both a lock for the endgame, he approaches Sandra to make sure that she's going to vote along with him. She appears to agree, but just so Jon is sure that Sandra's going along with his plans, he makes her swear on her two kids, which she does. Satisfied, he walks away, and we cut to a Sandra confessional...

Sandra: "And in my head, and mumbling under my breath, I was like 'I swear on my two kids that I'm gonna screw you [Jon] and Burton.'"

• • • What follows is Jon and Burton's game completely collapsing on itself.
  • Heroes vs. Villains: "Banana Etiquette" - The majority alliance is planning to take out Russell or Parvati at the tribal council that night, and decide to split their votes between the two, while Parvati, Russell, and Danielle vote for Tyson. At the tribal council, Russell plays the hidden immunity idol for Parvati, and...:

Jeff Probst: (revealing the third vote for Parvati) Parvati, does not count. We're still at two votes Russell. (reveals next vote) Parvati, does not count.

• • Redemption Island: "This Game Respects Big Moves" - The minority alliance is planning to weaken Rob and his majority alliance by convincing Matt (who had returned from the titular island after being blindsided) to go along with them and taking out Grant. Rob gets wind of this and immediately starts taking countermeasures by talking Matt back onto his side, secretly planning to have his alliance cut him loose immediately. The minority alliance anticipates the majority outvoting them, so at the tribal council, the immunity idol is played on Mike, the most obvious target. All of the votes from the minority come up Grant, and then...

Jeff Probst: (pulls out the sixth vote) Steve (Steve goes Oh Crap, Julie Face Palms, Matt nods smugly) That's five votes Grant, one vote Steve. (reveals next vote) Matt.

• • South Pacific: "Double Agent" - Ozzy's bold gambit to get himself voted to Redemption Island in order to take out Christine, betting that they were about to merge and his play would bring his tribe into the merge even with the other tribe, actually works when he defeats Christine in the challenge and they do in fact merge, bringing him back into the game. The second part of his plan involves Ozzy acting at the Redemption Island challenge like Cochran betrayed the whole tribe by playing the immunity idol. This would allow Cochran to infiltrate the other tribe as a double agent. Later, Cochran is playing up being on the outs with his tribe to Coach to try to get more information. It seems to be going well, until:

Coach: “I’m gonna tell you right now, our tribe isn’t budging ... and I feel like you guys are trying to play us.”

• Top Gear's 2010 Christmas special has one in the first 5 minutes:

Clarkson: [Reading the challenge] Oh, god. "You have landed in Iraq".

• Boy Meets World had "Cory, will you marry me?" from the episode "Graduation".
• From Breaking Bad, in the Season 2 finale "ABQ", while Walt is under anesthesia

Skyler: Walt, did you bring your cell phone? Walt: Which one?

• • In the season 3 premiere.

Skyler: You're a drug dealer.

• • Forms the name of the episode "I.F.T.":

Skyler: I fucked Ted.

• • The last line of the Season 4 episode "Cornered":

Hank: Since when do vegans eat fried chicken?

• • From Crawl Space

Gus: If you interfere, the problem becomes much simpler. I will kill you. I will kill your wife. I will kill your son. I will kill your infant daughter.

• Dexter, "Seeing Red": "Mommy loves you, Dexter."
• Ringer, 4th episode of the 1st season:

Gemma: What, Siobhan, what, because there is nothing you could possibly say to make this okay! Bridget: I am not who you think I am! I'm not Siobhan... I-I'm Bridget.

• Stargate SG-1: "From this day forth I will reclaim my real name." (removes helmet) "Apophis."
• Boardwalk Empire
  • Two from "A Return to Normalcy"

Lucy: (to Van Alden) You got me pregnant.

Eli: (after walking into the Commodore's home) You tell him about our plan?

• • From "To the Lost":

"Welcome to Cicero!"

• From the episode of Sister, Sister when the twins meet a photographer named Matt who knew their biological mother and shows them a photograph of her:

Tia: She's so beautiful. Matt: I thought you knew her. Tamera: We never met her, but she was our biological mother. Matt (shocked): This is unbelievable. If Rachelle Gavin is your mother, then I'm your father.

• Even if you knew this was coming, the last line from the first series of Downton Abbey changes everything:

Robert: I am sorry to announce that we are at war with Germany.

• Leverage
  • The Season 2 finale:

My name is Nathan Ford...and I am a thief.

• • From The Big Bang Job:

Damien Moreau: That's no way to treat an old friend.

• • "The Radio Job":

Jimmy Ford: I took this job for you, dammit!

• Power Rangers
  • "Return of an Old Friend"

Kimberly: So what do we do now? Goldar has all the power coins. Jason: Not all of them. Still have one. (holds up the weakened Dragonzord coin.) (back at the Youth Center...) Tommy: Where's everybody?

• • "A Zeo Beginning"

Billy: Tanya, I give my Zeo crystal to you.

• • Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

Justin: Guys, I'm the new Blue Ranger!! Isn't that cool or what?

• • "Chase Into Space"

TJ: Justin, we're missing someone! Justin: He... he can't go with you, there's reasons.

• • "Secret of the Locket"

Andros (to Astronema): You are my sister

• • "The Rangers' Leap of Faith"

Zordon: Andros, I've always known that you're such a fool! (reveals self as Dark Spectre)

• • "Countdown to Destruction"

Zordon: You must shatter my energy tube.

• • "Journey's End"

Maya: We've landed on Miranoi!

• • "From Deep in the Shadows"

Carter: Why, sir? Why did you stop us? Cpt. Mitchell: Because, he's my son.

• • "Things Not Said"

Mack: Good thing. Good thing. Good thing. Good thing. Good thing. Good thing. Good thing...

• • "Doctor K"

Gem: But we don't... Gemma: ...have access to Alphabet Soup's security computers. Dr. K: I don't need access, I just need to blind the servers for a few minutes, with this: (opens laptop) a wireless upload of the Venjix virus. It's a self-aware, self-generating computer virus. Meet Project Venjix.

• The last episode of season 2 of Sherlock starts with one.

John: My best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is dead.

• • And has another good one near the end.

Moriarty: Well good luck with that. (shoots himself)

• • The end of "A Scandal in Belgravia" has another fantastic one.

Irene: Oh dear God, look at the poor man. You don't actually think I was interested in you? Why? Because you're the great Sherlock Holmes, the clever detective in the funny hat? Sherlock: No...because I took your pulse.

• Desperate Housewives season 6 finale: "It's in the detonator."
• Mortal Kombat: Conquest:

Shao Khan: You're already in Outworld!

• At the very end "Ua Hala", the second-season finale of the reimagined Hawaii Five-O, McGarrett finally gets the answer to that season's Driving Question: Who is Shelburne?

McGarrett: Mom?.

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