You Can't Handle the Parody: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''[[Tom Cruise|Kaffee]]''': I want the '''truth!'''

'''[[Jack Nicholson|Jessep]]''': You can't '''handle''' the truth!~~|''[[A Few Good Men]]''}}~~

'''[[Jack Nicholson|Jessep]]''': You can't '''handle''' the truth!

|''[[A Few Good Men]]''}}

You want this trope's definition? You can't ''handle'' this trope's definition!

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See also ''[[A Few Good Men]]''.

== [[Advertising]] ==

* Burger King's Rodeo Burger (a cheeseburger with BBQ sauce and 2-3 fried onion rings on it) was introduced in a full-on ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' parody, with a lawyer questioning Chip from ''[[Small Soldiers]]'', who eventually shouts, "You can't handle the Rodeo Burger!"

* "You can't handle the tooth!" was used as a marketing slogan for the film ''[[Tooth Fairy]]''.

* There's a brand of hot sauce called [http://www.hotsauceworld.com/youcanhanthi.html "You Can't Handle This Hot Sauce"] that features a Devil making this challenge on the label.

== [[Film]] (Animated) ==

* ''[[Rugrats|Rugrats in Paris: The Movie]]'':

{{quote|'''Lil De Ville''': You want the button, Phillip? You can't handle the button!}}

== [[Film]] (Live Action) ==

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'''Crunch''': You can't handle the truth! }}

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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'':

{{quote|'''Dick Solomon''': You want the truth? You want the truth!? Well, I can't handle the truth!}}

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* ''Farscape,'' in episode "Thanks for Sharing," while being questioned, Crichton responds to "I want the truth" with "You can't handle..." but doesn't finish.

* ''[[Community]]'': One of Pierce's suggestions for ending verbal marketing presentations is by quoting Nicholson films. His is "You can't handle a moist towelette!".

== Music ==

* One of Tooth & Nail Records' compilation albums was titled ''You Can't Handle the Tooth''.

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* During [[WWE]]'s "WrestleMania Goes Hollywood" campaign for ''[[Wrestlemania]] 21'', John Cena and JBL did a commercial themed on ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' based on this scene, with Jonathan Coachman playing the judge.

== [[Video Games]] ==

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{{quote|'''Zinn''': You imbeciles are [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|deficient in the cognitive faculties requisite to fully comprehend the truth]]!}}

== Web Comics ==

== Webcomics ==

* Ethan from ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' tells Zeke "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!". Zeke immediately replies "This conversation is over until you decide to stop imitating Jack Nicholson on me."

* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'':

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{{quote|'''Florence''': Do you want the truth? [about a hurricane about to destroy the building she's in]

'''[[Kicked Upstairs|Mr. Kornada]]''': I CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!! }}

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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'''Kronk''': I can't ''handle'' the truth! }}

* There was that one episode of ''[[The Critic]]'', concerning a remake of ''A Few Good Men'', starring Jack Nicholson, Christian Slater, and William Devane. One shared voice, naturally. [[Don't Explain the Joke|That's the joke]].

* ''[[~~Re Boot~~]]'' had an episode where the main characters were in a game that required beating the user to a tooth (the goal of the game). The user breaks in at the 11th hour to announce that he he wants the tooth. One of the temporary characters responds with [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"You can't handle the tooth!"]]

* ''[[ReBoot]]'' had an episode where the main characters were in a game that required beating the user to a tooth (the goal of the game). The user breaks in at the 11th hour to announce that he he wants the tooth. One of the temporary characters responds with [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"You can't handle the tooth!"]]

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar]] Deleted Scenes 3 ([[YouTube]] video):

{{quote|'''Katara''': Tell me the truth, how's my hair?

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