You Do NOT Want to Know: Difference between revisions

== Fanfiction ==

* ''[[The Man qith No Name (fanfic)|The Man With No Name]]'' has this:

'''Kaylee''': He and I can–

'''Mal''': I don't want to know. Some things I really, really don't need to hear, little Kaylee.

He could tell that she was speaking the truth, and the fact that she had the power to do this, to send him away, dismayed him. "Then don't say them." }}

** Later:

Her laugh, sudden and hard, startled him. "Oh, no, you don't." }}

** In ''Starfighters of Adumar,'' a later entry in the ''[[X Wing Series]]'', Wedge's young guide falls for him and starts acting strangely.

** At one point, he actually ''was'' the replacement...turns out that singing the Witch Doctor song when you've been told never to tell anyone [[Fantastic Aesop|is a bad idea]].

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'': Lister opens a secure door and doesn't want Kryten to see how: "Trust me, you don't want to know!". Kryten doesn't look, but of course, being a robot, he correctly guesses the logical answer: Lister [[Borrowed Biometric Bypass|used a severed hand]] from one of the dead crew on the palm print reader.

'''Lister''': Where's what?

** Subverted in ''Thanks For The Memory''. A drunken Rimmer wants to tell Lister how many times he's made love, to which Lister replies: "I don't wanna know! Trust me, You ''do not'' want to tell me!"

*** Rimmer does, of course, and the answer turns out to be embarrassing.

** Similarly, in "Mr. Monk Is On The Run: Part 1", after Monk arrives back at Natalie's house with a strange overcoat, he said a homeless person gave it to him in exchange for something else in return. When questioned by Natalie about what that thing was that Monk had to do, Monk can only respond with "I'd rather not talk about it..."

* ''[[Person of Interest]]:'' in the episode "Cura Te Ipsum"

 

 

'''Guybrush:''' ''[disturbed]'' I don't want to know what that is. }}

** And in Chapter 4:

'''Judge Grindstump:''' Most definitely--

'''Guybrush:''' Great! Then I plead--

* In [[Saints Row the Third]], the player character asks Shaundi what a "Feel Boss" is. She simply responds with: "You DON'T wanna know."

 

'''Kickaha:''' Look. You don't understand. ''You were there. You told me. You don't want to know.'' }}

* In ''The [[Binder of Shame]]'', this is used occasionally.

 

 

== Webcomics ==

* [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020419 Toyed with] by fan favorite Sasha in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': "Part of me wants to say 'I don't want to know', but I ''do''! I really, ''really do''!"

** Admiral Tebbir would feel better [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-04-04 trusting Petey on this one] (see the next 3 pages).

* Used once in ''[[Penny Arcade]]'': [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/3/21/ "Wow, it's like...I want to see it? But at the same time, I don't want to see it."]

* Pops up in ''[[Questionable Content]]'', [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=802 here]. Speculations on what it could be runs rampant amongst the cast (and the fanbase) before it's finally revealed to be [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=814 more nerdy than anything else]...

** Also [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=632 this strip].

'''Dora''': Meh, it's not the first time.

'''Faye''': I... I don't want to know, do I.

* ''[[Freefall]]'' uses a [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00036.htm variation on this].

* ''[[Nodwick]]'' [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2006-10-18 theology] has this effect:

* Used in ''[[Yosh!]]'' in response to [http://yosh.katbox.net/archive/tmi/ an accidental] [[Double Entendre]].

{{quote|'''Lia:''' Don't. I know you want to explain what he means by that, but don't.}}

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* Seen in ''[[Futurama]]'', "The Sting".

'''Hermes''' (happily): And that's if you're not allergic! You don't wanna know what happens then. Oh no, no. God no!

'''Farnsworth''': Your insides will boil out of your eye sockets like a science fair volcano!

** And you really don't want to know whose behind {{spoiler|Slurm}} comes out of. Same episode, the same is said of where toothpaste comes from.

* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' when {{spoiler|Starscream finds out that [[Me's a Crowd|each of his clones represent a different part of his personality]] and he asks which part an ''[[Opposite Sex Clone]]'' represents}}, her response is "Don't ask!"

* In ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'', the episode 'Knock, Knock' has Egon look into the room that holds the door to Doomsday. When asks what he sees, he replies 'you don't want to know' in his usual calm, dull tone of voice.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'', in a scene involving a "gravy ghost" spelling words in the high-school cafeteria gravy;

'''Kim:''' Did you analyze the gravy sample?

'''Wade:''' Yup.

'''Monique:''' And?

** Another example, when "Miss Go" (Shego [[Mirror Morality Machine|temporarily turned good]]) arrives to teach one of Kim's classes:

'''Miss Go:''' Oh, that's so sweet! You took the class to the beach!

* In the ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]] Berryfest Princess Movie'', Blueberry Muffin walks in on Strawberry Shortcake [[It Makes Sense in Context|doing a bunnyhop and sorting mixed nuts]] with Plum Pudding at Orange Blossom's general store and comments, "Do I wanna know?" A little while later, after reading a map has been added to Strawberry's tasks, Orange returns, also commenting, "Do I wanna know?" "That's what I said," Blueberry tells her.

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', it turns out that the [[Kaiju|three story tall]] [[Everything's Worse with Bears|celestial bear]] that attacked Ponyville was an Ursa Minor--a baby. When asked what an Ursa Major is like, Twilight gives this response.

** Also Rainbow Dash says it after Twilight wonders what Dash meant by "At least I haven't been replaced by turnips"

* In ''The Simpsons'' episode "I Love Lisa," Ralph Wiggum has tickets to Krusty's anniversary show, and he invites Lisa. Bart really wants to go, and he suggests disguising himself as Lisa.

'''Bart:''' I'm prepared to make that sacrifice.

'''Lisa:''' What if he wants to kiss?

'''Bart:''' I'm prepared to make that sacrifice.

'''Bart:''' You don't want to know how far I'll go.

** Another episode had Bart rubbing his ear industriously and acting sick so that when Marge took his temperature (through his ear) it would come out to 103 F and he could stay home. She says the only way to be sure was to use the rectal thermometer. It still came out to 103. When Lisa asked, Bart says she doesn't want to know.

** In [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]] episode, "The Origin of The Sorceress": Teela-na, the future Sorceress, gets this line from a young town who had been watching the villain of the day and a alien race argue over things.

* These words are often the verbal equivalent of [[Schmuck Bait]]. Unless someone has been taught --''repeatedly''-- to avoid it, people will almost invariably try to find out [[Forbidden Fruit|what they shouldn't know]]. They are also a major reason [[Aesop Amnesia]] is [[Truth in Television]].

** Does anyone know this joke?

'''Bob:''' What?

'''Alice:''' *uses this trope*

'''Bob:''' No, go on, tell me.

* How 75-year-old Sally from ''America's Got Talent'' Portland discovered she could hand-whistle. She wrote a book about it, but {{spoiler|part of the book was also about her coming out}}.

** Judging by how the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|judges]] on the show reacted ('mm-hmm'-ing and nodding), they evidently didn't consider the above to be an example of the trope. It could be a bit of a [[Mood Whiplash]], though.