What Were You Thinking?: Difference between revisions

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'''Xander:''' You don't know... Maybe this time it'll be different...|''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "School Hard" {{spoiler|It isn't.}}}}

 

* ''[[Doctor Phil]]'', anyone?

* Used in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', see the page quote.

* Used in an episode of [[Everybody Hates Chris]], in which Julius is laid off and has to take care of the house, cooking, and cleaning while Rochelle tries to find a job. After being insulted by Rochelle for most of the episode, Julius makes the mistake of saying that taking care of the house, which Rochelle usually does, isn't that hard. Cue Rochelle, who is known for cursing people out, launching a positively ''horrifying'' hour-long tirade that had Julius cowering in the corner, ending with Rochelle yelling "HAVE YOU ''LOST'' YOUR MIND!??!"

* Used in ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' when a [[Too Dumb to Live|minor member of a]] [[Cannibal Tribe|gentleman's club]] of... [[MacGuffin|purveyors of Special Stuff]] (which makes even [[I'm a Humanitarian|human flesh]] seem upstanding and moral) run by [[The Butcher|Hilary Briss]] decides to bring his wife to a secret meeting:

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* [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003978 Sollux: Fling stars specibus-ward.]

 

* "What were they ''thinking''!?" is one of [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s many [[Catch Phrase|catchphrases]], used for an asinine flaw with a bad game.

* Mike Mozart of [[Jeepers Media]] uses this catchphrase when he comes across a toy with a... [[Freud Was Right|suggestive]] design flaw.

* Some editors in [[This Wiki]] tend to use this at times as a reaction... and [[Pothole]] it to this very page.

* During [[The Cinema Snob]]'s crossover with [[Phelous]]:<ref>Neither has brought anything to review, so Brad is looking at a clothes iron held by Phelan</ref>

'''Cinema Snob:''' Doesn't look to terribly b-

''He reaches out and touches the plugged in iron''

'''Phelous:''' ...did you think would happen? }}

 

'''Homer:''' You've said that so often the words have lost all meaning. }}

** Apu gets an even more spectacular one:

'''Apu:''' Oh, you have got to be kidding sir. First you think of an idea that has already been done. Then you give it [[Fail O'Suckyname|a title that nobody could possibly like]]. Didn't you think this through... (timeskip fade) ... it was on the bestseller list for eighteen months! Every magazine cover had... (timeskip fade) ... one of the most popular movies of all time, sir! ''What were you thinking?'' (pause) I mean, thank you, come again. }}

* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', "Mac Daddy": Bloo says this about Mac having apparently conjured up "Cheese". Mac's response: "Exactly, I wasn't thinking."

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