You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!: Difference between revisions

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It may also be a reaction to something bad happening, making it somewhere between [[Oh Crap]] and [[This Is Gonna Suck]]. Conversely, it may be a reaction to the characters being challenged by a ridiculously weak opponent... possibly leading to a reveal that the opponent [[Took a Level In Badass|isn't so weak after all]].

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* [[Meta Guy|Chisame Hasegawa]] tends to utter this in some form or other in [[Mahou Sensei Negima]].

* Kyon from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', at least in the dub.

* Anytime you hear the phrase "Joudan ja nai wa yo!" screamed (in [[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]], particularly by Akane) is basically this, as it literally translates into you "You've got to be kidding (or joking with) me!"

 

== [[Comics]] ==

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Adventures in Babysitting]]''

* ''[[Megamind]]''

** And before it, ''Child's Play 3'', when Chucky scares a man who he was just about to stab into having a heart attack. "You have ''got'' to be fucking ''kidding'' me."

* ''[[Enchanted]]''

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: Prince Caspian''

* ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]''

{{quote| "You have got to be [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] kidding!"}}

** Made even funnier when you realise later that Palmer, the man who uttered the line {{spoiler|is also a thing!}}

* ''[[Bon Cop, Bad Cop]]'' uses it as {{spoiler|the villain's [[Famous Last Words]].}}

* In [[The Lion King]] 1-1/2, Banzai mutters this in response to Timon and Pumbaa juggling and breakdancing while attempting to buy time.

* ''[[The Bold And The Beautiful]]'' (soap opera)

* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' episode "Seventeen Candles"

* ''[[The United States of Tara]]'' episode "Aftermath"

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in a couple episodes, one by Donna, another by {{spoiler|the part-Donna Doctor clone}}.

** It's actually Donna's [[Catch Phrase]].

** Also, when the Ninth Doctor ends up on a futuristic version of ''[[Big Brother]]'', "You have ''got'' to be kidding."

* The protagonist of the US remake of ''[[Life On Mars]]'' gives a quiet "No way" upon waking up in the 70's and seeing the World Trade Center still standing.

* On ''[[Monster Garage]]'', a variation ("You've gotta be kidding me!") was used almost [[Once an Episode]] by The Big Schwag during the final challenge.

* ''[[Wire in The Blood]]'' (TV special): Dr. Tony Hill literally says this when set up and busted for possession of cocaine in his car (after he has pried around too much for the Texas locals). Unusually, ''everyone else'', including the cops, also acknowledges how ridiculous the charge is, but they go through with the drop-charges-if-you-buzz-off-now spiel nevertheless.

* ''[[Burn Notice]]'', 5x10, when a duped bad guy sees Michael, out of cover and alive.

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* This ended being the response at any [[Royal Rumble]] matches since knowing what order the wrestler would come or any surprise entrant is pretty much the guess of anyone.

{{quote| '''Tazz:''' Holy [[Precision F-Strike| (bleep)]]}}.

* When someone steals a finisher of another wrestler, this ends up being the response from watching including the wrestler whose move is done by another.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Blood]] 2: The Chosen'':

'''Caleb:''' You've gotta be kidding. }}

** Caleb utters the line again at the beginning of the second chapter, when Gideon once again crashes the subway train Caleb was riding on into another one.

*** "{{spoiler|Core Transfer}}? Oh, you are kidding me."

* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'': Lightning summoning Odin for the first time cues the following quote just before he tries to bisect [[Tagalong Kid|Hope]]. Bonus points for snarking her sudden role as the [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]] after they were separated from Sazh and Vanille prior to the summoning.

{{quote| ''This cannot be happening.''}}

* Variations happen twice in ''[[Modern Warfare]]''. First, when Gaz hears that [[The Squad]]'s extraction point has just become compromised and they have to fight through a virtual army downhill to the secondary one ''before the chopper leaves without them'', he lets out the anguished: "Oh, he's gotta be taking the piss!" A few levels later, Price, Soap, and Griggs fight their way to the final bunker door [[Race Against the Clock|under extreme time pressure]] and the door begins to open veeeeerryyyy slooowlyyy. Griggs: "Oh, you gotta be shittin' me!" Cue [[Deadpan Snarker|snarks]] from Price and Gaz on the comms. In ''Black Ops'' Hudson says the quote verbatim when told the only way to escape a pursing Spetznaz hit-squad that wants him, his partner and their prisoner dead is to jump off the roof of the building they're all standing on.

* Shepard utters this exact line in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'''s Overlord DLC when the huge satellite dish they just disabled starts collapsing. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|While they're still standing on it]].

** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', the Reapers are going to ground, whiping the floor with their [[Wave Motion Guns|giant laser beams]].

* The ''[[Uncharted]]'' series uses this at least once per scene. Often said by rogueish protagonist Nathan Drake as he suddenly finds himself face-to-face with a tank, or a helicopter, or a slimy zombie-like thing, or a dude with a humongous gun. Or even just another wall that must be scaled.

* Zidane of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' says this almost word-for-word when the Armodullahan appears out of nowhere in an enclosed space. To his credit, he does start running ''before'' saying the line.

* Travis Touchdown in ''[[No More Heroes]]'': "Ya gotta be shittin' me!"

* In [[Killzone]] 3, after blowing up an oil rig and jumping to safety, the resulting wave towers over him, and he simply quips "...really?".

{{quote| '''Marcus''': ARE YOU KIDDING ME? <br />}}

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The phrase is stated by Charlie in [[Charlie the Unicorn]] 2, when he finds out the journey to save the world from 1000 years of darkness was actually a trap to steal his television.

{{quote| '''Iron Man:''' Tank missile!<br />

'''Moriarty:''' You've got to be kidding me.<br />

''[[Stuff Blowing Up|*Balcony explodes*]]''. }}

** Not to mention when Yugi realizes that Jaden challenged him to a rap battle, and he accepted it.

** Or Yami's reaction in the pilot when he sees Kaiba's holographic duel arena. "Okay, seriously, you've got to be [BEEP]ing kidding me. Who wastes all that money on something like that?"

* Everyone's reaction in [[Suburban Knights]] when it was revealed that Malachite's Hand is {{spoiler|in the same field that they started in at the beginning of the special.}}

* In ''[[The Mercury Men]]'', words to this effect are said by Edward on several occasions.

 

* ''[[King of the Hill]]''

* This is Tak's verbatim reaction in ''[[Invader Zim]]'' when Zim, instead of figuring out that she's a rival Irken who's out to prove herself a better invader than him, concludes that her mistreatment of him over the past several days meant they were ''dating'', and so triumphantly "breaks up" with her.

** This isn't the only moment he drops this - he says it quite often when he runs into trouble. For example, he even dropped it at least once in the Fast Forward episode "Home Invasion" when a machine that brushes his teeth and puts shaving cream on his face came to life where he thought he could get the privacy to read a newspaper.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

{{quote| "...the [[Oh Crap|natural]] [[This Is Gonna Suck|response]] of an educated man, a veteran [[Guy in Back|EWO]] on B-52s and the like, upon learning that he was to fly back seat to a [[The Ace|self-absorbed fighter pilot]] while acting as flypaper for enemy SAMs."}}

** This is, by the way, ''still'' US Air Force doctrine when they cannot locate the SAM or AAA site through other means. It's called SEAD duty (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense), and pilots are typically ''not'' happy to draw the short straw on it.

* Pretty much the reaction anyone has when they hear disturbing news, especially if it [[It's Personal| involves a love one]].