Please Tell Me You Know Who I Am Tropes

Madeline Ashton: Bottoms up! [drinks potion]
Lisle von Rhoman: Now, a warning...
Madeline Ashton: NOW a warning?!

A comedy gag where a grapheme gets a warning to not perform a sure human activity or a heads-upward about something nasty coming his way, but but too late for it to be useful. Either disaster has already occurred or it's too tardily to have the activeness back, and the disaster is moments away. Sometimes, for extra silliness, the nature of the warning is obscured until the discouraged action is taken, such as a bulletin on the screen that warns you not to read the screen. Alternatively, the warned character might refuse to mind to the message until they're done with what they're doing... which is exactly what the warning was to be about.

Tin also be Played for Drama, frequently creating a very stinging sense of irony. It can also overlap with Remembered Too Late.

Compare Tin't You lot Read the Sign?, Cue Carte du jour Suspension and You Didn't Inquire, Poor Advice Kills.

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    Anime & Manga

• A rather non-comedic use of this trope (or perhaps a Black Comedy utilise) shows upwardly in Ranma ½. Genma Saotome doesn't read the adjacent page of the training manual detailing the Neko-ken, which says that the technique is impressive sounding, but non-functional, until subsequently he's already trained his half-dozen-year-former son Ranma in it. Oh, and it isn't just useless, it causes permanent mental harm to the trainee, afflicting them with a permanent and securely rooted phobia of cats.
• Dragon Ball Z:
  • Used when Goku asks Old Kai how long Potara fusion lasts for, the latter says it's permanent. After Supreme Kai and Kibito take already demonstrated information technology. Luckily, Dragon Ball Super reveals that the Dragon Balls can reverse information technology (and that it's only permanent if one of the people involved is a Kai).

    Kibito Kai: You mean I'm stuck this style!?

  • Later, Goku himself pulls this when he only tells Vegeta that information technology's permanent correct earlier they fuse to battle Super Buu.

    Vegeta: Imbecile, you tell me now? Don't you call back that's important information!?

• Ryuk of Death Notation does this repeatedly with Light when he uses the Death Notation.

  Low-cal: He waits until now to mention that detail? Damn Shinigami!

• In Durarara!!, a man named Shuuji Niekawa approached Shizuo Heiwajima and makes the mistake of mentioning Shizuo'southward younger brother, Kasuka/Yuuhei Hanejima, which results in him being tossed into the sky. Shuuji later on visits Izaya Orihara, asking for info near the toughest person in Ikebukuro, namely Shizuo. Being that Shizuo'southward non one of Izaya's favorite people, he gives the man information nigh a friend of his, Celty Sturluson, instead. Before Mr. Niekawa leaves, Izaya gives him a rather belatedly alert.

  Izaya: Oh, and here's one little chip of advice for ya. Whatever yous practise, don't talk to Shizu-chan about his younger blood brother.

  Shuuji: [thinking] Wish you'd told me that six months ago.

• Slayers uses this when the gang is hunting through a dungeon of some sort. Lina is reading warnings out of a volume, and Gourry keeps picking up on the first one-half of the alert instead of the whole. The starting time warning is something like "Pressing the button... is something you should not exercise." For the second, Gourry doesn't press the button, merely the warning is something like "Don't walk past without pressing the button."
• Happens a lot in Approving of the Campanella. Salsa will practice something, and Ritos will tell her about a certain hazard likewise late for her to avoid information technology. Salsa shouts the trope name, which then brings Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress into things.
• I Piece:
  • Happens from fourth dimension to time with Vivi in the Alabasta arc, as she forgets to tell the party sure things at critical moments, like non mentioning what Mr. two looks like until afterward he leaves the ship.
  • Too Eyelashes the Camel has just delivered goods to the new enemy base ... and didn't tell the Straw Hats this until they had reached the sometime one.
  • Then in that location is hilarious end to the Skypeia saga when Conis kindly warns the crew they're virtually to autumn...mere moments earlier the crew looks down and discovers cipher just 7,000 meters of sky betwixt them and the sea below.
• Happens in Kaiba'south and Joey'southward first Duel in Yu-Gi-Oh! when Joey attacks with his monster which has a college attack ability than Kaiba'southward.

  Yugi: Wait! The Boxing Ox is resistant to all Fire Type attacks!
  [Flame Swordsman is defeated]
  Joey: Now he tells me...

• Pokémon:
  • In the episode "Dues and Don'ts", Ash checks Delibird in the Pokedex. Information technology says Delibird has a attack called Present. Delibird gives Ash and friends glowing brawl "presents", which a couple seconds subsequently get off every bit bombs. Dexter adds that some of Delibird's Presents explode. Ash says "at present yous tell me".
  • In "Whiscash and Ash", Ane-Shot Character Sullivan attempts to grab a Whishcash named Nero with aid of his Flaaffy. Unfortunately, its electric attack fails, prompting Max to tell Sullivan that Whiscash are part Ground types and are allowed to electric attacks, to which Sullivan yells "So now you tell me?!".
• In A Place Further than the Universe, Kimari, Shirase and Hinata head to Shinjuku, where some members of the civilian expedition to Antarctica will be meeting up, and program on seducing 1 of the male members to get a spot on the trip. Later on Kimari fails miserably, Shirase vehemently refuses to try, just Hinata and Kimari shove her out of their hiding identify, in front of the expedition members. Too late, they realize why Shirase refused- since she was the girl of an expedition member who went missing (which is why she's so determined to go to Antarctica), and had tried to get into the trek before, the expedition members recognize her.

     Comic Books

• A variant appears in the Superman'south Pal, Jimmy Olsen story "The Fastest Gun in the West". After Jimmy has spent the entire story dealing with a fake gunslinger, Superman shows upward. Supes tells Jimmy that Perry White sent him, considering he realized after sending the young reporter to cover a rodeo that he had given him the wrong town name. Jimmy facepalms and groans, "Now he thinks of it!"

    Fan Works

• This Bites!: Due to Luffy disliking spoilers to his adventures, a lot of Cross'south canon knowledge is held off unless it's really important. This ways that for near of the minor hiccups that happen in canon, Cross simply lets them play out and so tells the crew after the fact.
  • He does use his knowledge to defuse Vivi's tendency to use this trope, though.
• In My Loveless Haze Ginny is forced to marry Draco due to an ancient rite. Pansy, who'southward in unrequited love with Draco, offers Harry a Dark potion which transfers the dearest of the drinker to a specified recipient.

  [Harry and Pansy drink the potion.]
  Pansy: Merely i matter. There might be side-furnishings.
  Harry: Now you tell me?

    Films — Blitheness

• In Aladdin and the King of Thieves, a halfhearted question from Iago results in the discovery of an Oracle. Unfortunately, when Iago tries to ask where the ultimate treasure was, the Oracle replied she was bound by the 'Rule of One' and Iago had already asked his ane question, much to his frustration.
• In DuckTales the Moving picture: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Scrooge asks Launchpad, "Y'all mean you never took flying lessons?" Launchpad says, "Well, I took a crash course." Scrooge, facepalming, says, "Now he tells me."
• In Toy Story 3, when Lotso is first giving Woody and his friends a tour of Sunnyside Daycare, the tour passes through the little kids' bathroom and Lotso cautions them to "Scout out for puddles." His warning comes a split-second afterward Mr. Potato Head has already slipped and splashed.

    Films — Alive-Activity

• Death Becomes Her:

  Madeline Ashton: Bottoms up! [drinks potion]
  Lisle von Rhoman: Now, a warning...
  Madeline Ashton: Now a warning?!

• Back to the Future: Marty is diddled across the room when he tries to hook up to the giant amplifier in Physician's garage. And then the Medico calls and warns Marty not to do that because there'south a slight gamble it'll overload.
• The film version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The owl that delivered Sirius's alphabetic character bites Harry on the mitt. Then Harry reads the alphabetic character's postscript, which says "the bird bites".
• In Paranormal Activeness, Micah uses this confronting Katie in their final fight that she hasn't told him that she has been followed by a demon for near of her life.
• We Were Soldiers: Moore puts out a call to his helicopter crews that the LZ is hot. Crandall, the atomic number 82 pilot, receives the message at roughly the same time that bullets start pinging off his Huey'southward airframe.
• I, Robot: Spooner is warned virtually an attacking robot, when said robot already has him by the pharynx.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In Doctor Strange after getting the villains hoisted by their own petard Strange repeats a line he said earlier when caught trying a spell from a restricted tome.

    Stephen Strange: They actually should put the warnings before the spell.

  • Avengers: Age of Ultron: Iron Man tries to warn Captain America that in that location are some drones attacking his position... after he's already been blasted into the side of a machine.

    Fe Man: Cap, you've got Incoming!!
    Captain America: Incoming already came in!

  • Guardians of the Milky way Vol. two: Drax shouts "Mantis, look out!" nigh x seconds later on Mantis gets bashed into unconsciousness by a piece of flaming debris.
• In A View to a Kill, James Bond uses Stacey's shotgun to acceleration some mooks, who then become up right later on. When Bail asks Stacey what the shotgun was loaded with, she responds with "Rock Table salt". Cue Bond saying the trope word for discussion.
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Dr McCoy is warned that the Unsafe Forbidden Technique to put Spock's mind back into his trunk from McCoy's head is equally unsafe to him. McCoy boldly replies that he chooses this danger, then quietly mutters that it'due south a hell of a fourth dimension to ask him.

    Literature

• Chrysalis (RinoZ): Eating a new blazon of biomass for the starting time time allows Anthony to view the "basic profile" of that species, summarising their attributes and abilities. Which would have been very helpful to know earlier fighting one to the death.
• The Dresden Files has Harry go to a Cherry Court party, where Harry meets Thomas, a White Court vamp. Afterward drinks are served, Thomas speedily goes to Harry to tell him to not drink annihilation, equally information technology'south been spiked with Red Court venom. Thomas so looks at Harry'south empty glass. "Oh." Harry, showing more sense than most, finds a potted plant and throws up into information technology. He still doesn't feel well, but the lower dose allows him to get ameliorate.
• During the Hank the Cowdog story The Secret Laundry Monster Files, Eddy the Rac rescues Hank from an attempted drowning at the easily of his cousin Bubba. He then tells Hank that Bubba hates dogs and he should never tangle with him in the water.

  Hank: [with a stern glare] That'southward great advice, Eddy. Too bad you weren't around ten minutes ago when it might accept washed some skilful.

• The story "The Cold Equations" has a tragic example, when the stowaway learns that the penalty is being Thrown Out the Airlock because the ship has no safety margin to suit her extra mass.
• In a Nancy Drew Files book, Nancy and the Guy Of The Book accept been tied up and left to die on a boat rigged to explode. When they complimentary themselves, Nancy explains that they have to jump and swim for information technology, at which point he tells her, "I tin can't swim". She responds by name-dropping this trope.
• A Vocal of Ice and Fire does this to the audition twice. In that location is a murder and an attempted murder which the readers take just assumed were washed by Cersei and Jamie. However nosotros afterward learn that they were committed past other people. The attempted murder of Bran in his sickbed was actually ordered by Joffery, who intended it as a mercy-killing, in an attempt to impress the man he idea was his father. The other 1, the murder of Jon Arryn—which Eddard Stark believed was to silence him when he discovered the incestuous relationship of Cersei and Jamie—was really committed by his married woman so she could marry Littlefinger. So in fact the civil war that ripped apart the Seven Kingdoms was started by misunderstandings (which were reinforced by Littlefinger).

    Alive-Action Idiot box

• Lost Beloved in Times: Qing Chen gets Yuan Ling to drink medicine that tastes disgusting... and after he drinks it she tells him there was something to make it gustation better.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • In "Fear Itself", while the gang is attempting to stop the demon possessing a Halloween haunted house, Giles reads that "there are ii ways of stopping the demon from being fully summoned. Destroying the mark of Gachnar—". Buffy promptly tears up the floorboards that the symbol is painted on. Giles continues "—is not one of them and volition in fact bring forth the fear demon itself." Oops. Of course, the demon in question is but six inches tall.
  • In "Pangs", Affections rings Giles to warn that the Villain of the Week is going to assail. As Giles is already crouched backside the sofa dodging arrows, he says he already knows.
• Affections:
  • Variation in "Epiphany". Cordelia is snooping effectually an empty house when she has a vision of existence attacked by a big ugly demon. As she recovers from the headache, she turns around and finds herself face to face with the very same. "Real helpful!" * Concussion*
  • In "Over the Rainbow", when the gang travels through a portal to some other dimension, Wesley is glad that they made it without merging into a freakish four-man Siamese Twin. Gunn says in horror, "That was a risk!?"
• On Happy Days there was a note saying "Don't shut the garage door, information technology's broken" posted on the garage door.
• This happens four or v times throughout the run of Stargate Atlantis, thank you to the crew oftentimes having to implement plans of Rodney's without the time needed to hear the potential drawbacks. The most obvious was when the crew needs to use a Zero Bespeak Module to divert the particle stream from a Coronal Mass Ejection to keep it from humid the city, but Rodney didn't take time to tell them that it could continue for hours first.
• In M*A*S*H, while defusing a flop:

  Col. Blake: Carefully cutting the wires leading to the clockwork fuse at the head.
  Trapper: [clips the two wires]
  Col. Blake: Merely commencement, remove the fuse... [Trapper and Hawkeye stare at him in terror, Blake realizes what he just said]

• From Red Dwarf

  Holly: Hey up, I've forgotten what I was going to say now.
  Rimmer: Well, it can't exist that important, and then, tin it? (transport shakes, anybody is thrown across the room)
  Holly: That's it, yep. "Look out, a meteor is most to hitting the transport." I knew it would come up back to me.

• In the classic Star Expedition: The Original Series episode "The Problem with Tribbles", the seemingly uncontrollably reproducing Tribbles have merely eaten the entire stock of a space station's supply of genetically engineered grain, and Kirk has ended up cached in a pile of them when he goes to check on the grain. Moments later, McCoy enters and shouts "I've got it! All we have to do is quit feeding them! We quit feeding them, they end convenance!" A Tribble-covered Kirk replies "Now he tells me."
• Drake & Josh:
  • In i episode, Helen lets Josh pet her hamster, but tells him too belatedly that it bites.
  • In another one, Josh is baking smores and tells Drake not to take whatsoever, Drake says he won't while putting 1 to his mouth, while Josh adds that he just took them out of the oven at 250 degrees.
• In a Sliders episode where the main characters end upwardly in a world where magic is real. During the terminal fight, the Big Bad turns into a dragon and starts breathing fire, pinning the sliders and his reluctant banana behind a table. She point to a sword on the wall and says that this is the only weapon that tin can kill the sorcerer. Cue Rembrandt running for the sword, only to utterly fail at moving it. He runs back, and she continues that merely a Mallory can wield it. Rembrandt is visibly bellyaching at the tardily alert.
• An episode of Full House has Stephanie taking a pretend drive in Joey's car. Thinking the "R" on the gearshift turns on the radio (it actually reverses the car), she backs the motorcar through the kitchen window. Joey later admits the radio doesn't piece of work.
• A Muppet Family unit Christmas has a Running Gag about people entering Mrs. Deport's house being warned to be "Careful of the icy patch" afterwards they've already fallen.
• When Brent of Corner Gas becomes a food critic for the Ruby'southward daily specials, he gives a scathing review of a plate of macaroni and cheese while his mother is sitting behind him, becoming visibly incensed. Lacy then points out it was his mother'south food, not the Ruby-red'south.

  Brent: That would have been useful information eleven seconds ago.

• The ending of flavour one of Blackadder where Percy and Baldrick don't realize they poisoned the wine supply of the entire castle (in their plan to assassinate the Big Bad) until after nearly every other cast fellow member has drunken information technology and died.
• This line was said past Vicki of Minor Wonder all the fourth dimension. Understandable, since she was a robot girl and not always familiar with American idioms - she used to take things literally.
• From Paul Merton: The Serial -

  For three days and 3 nights we marched over open country, marching over mountains, marching under streams, from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara desert. We marched and marched and marched, until at terminal it was fourth dimension to open up our sealed orders.

  *reads* "Don't march anywhere."

• In the NCIS episode "Twenty Klicks," Ducky and Palmer find a microcard in the body of IT Kevin's uncle. Abby plugs information technology into a protected laptop, but still unleashes a computer virus on steroids. A few minutes after, Gibbs calls and tells HQ not to open annihilation on the carte du jour.
• In the episode "El cortocircuito" of El Chavo del ocho, Don Ramón invites el Chavo to scout a football friction match at his home, and and then when they effort to turn the Television set information technology doesn't work. Don Ramón spends the next minutes trying to turn the thing on, until he ends up angrily throwing information technology to the ground and stomping on it. Then la Chilindrina comes upwardly to tell him there's a power outage in the neighborhood.

    Radio

• The Goon Show episode "Dishonoured Again":

  Eccles: Land ahead!
  FX: CRASH
  Eccles: I shoulda said dat sooner, shouldn't I?

    Video Games

• Carto: Invoked and lampshaded with the sign beside the whirlpool, which isn't working yet when you first arrive, but which yous would have had to walk through to go to the sign.

  Beware of whirlpool!
  (Apologies if y'all've seen this sign too late.)
  (We should probably motility this sign.)

• Done quite subtly in Modern Warfare ii.

  Toll: (over radio) "Ghost! Come in, this is Toll! We're nether attack past Shepherd's men at the boneyard! Soap, concord the left flank! Do not trust Shepherd! I say over again, do non trust Shepherd! Soap, go downwardly..!"

  • Of grade, you learn this after Shepherd and his men have shot Roach/y'all and Ghost, and are busy dousing you in gasoline and setting you on fire.
• Mass Effect:
  • In Mass Effect, there'due south a side quest where you scan the Keepers, mysterious insectoid creatures that maintain the space station. As it turns out, The Keepers were created by the Abusive Precursors and will let them come into Citadel infinite to destroy all organic life. If you complete the side quest, you get an email in the second game that gives y'all this info ii years after it would have been useful. But it does demonstrate that the Council is Also Impaired to Live and It's Up to You lot.
  • In Legion'southward loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2 you are given the selection to break into the heretic geth mainframe and release a high-energy signal pulse to rewrite them into accepting the beliefs of the true geth.

    Legion: Alarm: The free energy pulse will be chancy to unshielded organics. Addendum: The interior of this station is non shielded.
    Shepard: I really wish you'd told me that earlier.

  • Legion seems to savour this. In Mass Outcome 3, he doesn't tell Shepard his plans to upload all of the runtimes in the fighter base server to a platoon of Geth Primes til after he's washed it. The Geth Primes are loyal to Shepard, but Shepard is still peeved Legion didn't tell him his intent.
• In The Final of Us, subsequently fighting through an infected infested sewer, you get outside, turn around, and run into a warning "INFECTED INSIDE! Practice Non ENTER!" Ellie says the trope upon pointing this out.
• Subverted in Saints Row: The Tertiary. During the mission "Trojan Whores", Oleg calls to warn The Dominate about a raid about to occur. However, the raid has already occurred and the call comes after the last wave has been defeated. After The Boss tells Oleg about this, he replies "I should have known yous could handle a few helicopters." The helicopters haven't attacked yet.
• In Dragon Age: Origins, a random encounter has yous attacked by a pack of wolves the moment said encounter begins. At that place are also a plethora of traps you take to avoid while fighting said wolves. Subsequently dealing with both you lot get to the end of the path and reach ii signs. 1 says "Caution: wolves frequent the surface area", the other says "Caution: traps set for wolves".
• Portal ii:
  • Cave Johnson's prerecorded advice on what to practise if you get covered in Repulsion Gel is to not go covered in Repulsion Gel.

    Cave Johnson: We haven't quite nailed downward what element it is yet, merely it'due south a lively one, and information technology does not similar the human being skeleton.

  • In a unlike message, Cave tells the subjects to be warning for a chemical reaction that might buff their frontal lobes after passing through an Emancipation Grill — and also to not think nearly that reaction, because thinking about it induces it besides.
• Tsuki Risk: In the Moonlit Cavern, Tsuki can drinkable the cave water dripping from the ceiling, but to find it disgusting. Chi warns him not to, but her warning comes seconds too late.

  Tsuki: Then.. this water gives calcium?
  Chi: In theory, yes but I don't think you should..drink it..

    Spider web Animation

• Red vs. Bluish: Church building, having traveled dorsum in time, leaves a recorded message of what not to exercise and the consequences if the others do it in an alien base. All of it happens right equally he'south speaking information technology, prompting Caboose to beg "Stop proverb these things! Or at least... say them sooner." To the recording.

    Webcomics

• Homestuck has John nearly being flattened by a bathtub flight through his wall. When he recovers his PDA:

  TT: John, I'm almost to throw a bathtub through your wall.
  TT: Lookout out.

• In Commander Kitty, Fortiscue warns Ace and company to avert a particular room right after they enter it and come face-to-confront with the three-headed chimera within.
• In The Order of the Stick, Roy's Outer Planar girlfriend Celia gives him a talisman that would let him summon her by breaking information technology. When Roy was falling to his doom, he tried to break it so Celia would save him, simply was unable to do and so, resulting in him splatting on the ground. Subsequently on, the talisman accidentally breaks when it ends upward getting zapped past lightning, with Celia explaining that the talisman was designed to exist broken past magical energy, which she assumed all humans were capable of generating. Needless to say, both Hayley and Roy's spirit are a bit annoyed.

    Web Videos

• Noob: La Quête Légendaire: In the middle of a questline, the master grouping's Blood Knight offset losing it because there has been virtually zero to fight and so far and she'southward getting bored. She pretty much breaks down when the next quest turns out to exist playing the guide to a Non-Player Character, and then the grouping's leader gives her get out to go the frontlines of an ongoing war against the adversary faction. Right after she leaves, the rest of the group accepts the quest and finds out it'south actually an Escort Mission.

    Western Blitheness

• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • In the episode, "Citizen Max", which is a Whole Plot Reference to Citizen Kane, except instead of "Rosebud", Hamton spends the whole show trying to find out why Montana Max said "Acme". At the very end, Monty himself calls out to them from his mansion and informs them that they misheard him. He was actually saying "acne" because he had adult a really bad breakout.

    Hamton: [facepalm] Now, he tells me!

  • In the episode "No Toon Is an Island", the gang's boat collides with the shore and Plucky falls out onto the embankment. Then Babs calls out, "Land ho!" leading Plucky to grumble, "At present she tells me."
• In Futurama, Fry is sent to deliver a parcel to the Emperor of a desert planet. He drinks from the start canteen he sees when he arrives in the throne room, which turns out to be their emperor (the aliens are liquids). Thus, according to the culture's laws, he is appointed the new Emperor for having killed the previous one. The package he originally came to deliver is at present for him and then he opens it and finds a sign reading "don't drink the emperor", which he hangs next to dozens of the same sign in various conflicting languages.
• In The New Batman Adventures episode "Joker's Millions", Harley delivers this slap-up line:
• Batman Beyond, when Terry is fighting Mad Stan:

  Bruce: Be conscientious, McGinnis. One time he'southward on a rant he's unstoppable.
  Terry: Thanks for telling me now.

• Jackie Chan Adventures: During the Season 4 finale, the J-Team discovers that a part of the tablet they found at the beginning of the season that detailed about the Oni Generals and their masks was flipped over. Information technology turns out to be a warning to not reunite the masks in i place, as doing then would suspension the masks and free all the Oni Generals. Naturally, they only learn about this later they did just that.
• Looney Tunes:
  • The drawing "Tick Tock Drained" has Porky and Daffy efforting to not exist late for work with the threat of termination looming over their heads. They arrive to their workplace on time, only to find a sign that says that information technology's closed considering information technology'due south Sat. (Daffy: "Mmmm... now he tells me!") Similarly washed in the brusque'southward original edition, "Porky's Badtime Story" (with Porky and Gabby Goat, where they just shrug).
  • Daffy gets some other in the Merrie Melodies short "Don't Axe Me". He's about to get cooked for dinner past Elmer and his wife, but for their guest to denote he's a vegetarian. Daffy, who at this bespeak got all his feathers ripped off, says this and leaves in disgust.
  • In "Tortoise Wins by a Hare", a agglomeration of gangster rabbits cease Bugs from crossing the end line considering of his turtle disguise and become Cecil to win considering of his rabbit disguise. When Bugs takes off his disguise in forepart of them, the rabbits say "Mmmm...at present he tells us" and go on to shoot themselves.
  • Also, in a Speedy Gonzales short, two cats decide to capture Speedy's cousin Slowpoke Rodriquez. One true cat tries to warn him of something, but the other cat ignores information technology and tries to eat Slowpoke, only for the mouse to shoot him in the face up. When the true cat says he meant to tell him that Slowpoke's a fast shooter, the other true cat says this to the camera.
  • The Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner cartoon "Hopalong Casualty" sees Wile Eastward. Coyote feeding the Road Runner a agglomeration of Acme Convulsion Pills. When this doesn't do anything to the Route Runner, Coyote swallows the rest of the pills in disgust. Just so does he notice the small print on the canteen: "Circumspection: Non Effective On Road Runners". At which signal the Earthquake Pills get-go to take outcome on Coyote with (of course) hilariously disastrous consequences.
• In the House of Mouse curt "How to Haunt a Firm", Goofy puts a bedsheet over his head to scare Donald, but to mess up from not being able to see through the sheet. The narrator then tells Goofy to put eyeholes in the sail, prompting him to say this.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • In 1 episode, Dr. Doofenshmirtz yells this when he uses the ejector seat on a robotic dragon vehicle and its computer tells him that information technology doesn't come with a parachute.
  • In another episode, Candace has the boys build 1 of their inventions to find out where it disappears to whenever she tries to bust them. At the cease of the episode, she says this after Ferb tells her even doing zip tin can have an effect.
• Danger Mouse:
  • "The Great Bone Idol" has Count Duckula in the Himalayas looking for the swell Gnuru. When he shouts "IS THERE ANYBODY At that place?!", he has an avalanche of snowfall topple on top of him.

    Gnuru: You in area of avalanche.
    Duckula: [to united states] Now he tells me!

  • "Duckula Meets Frankenstoat" has DM and Penfold observing Dr. Frankenstoat in his laboratory. When the doctor leaves, DM hops downwardly from the balustrade ledge. Penfold does as well:

    DM: And don't forget to bend your knees... [off-screen thud; cut to Penfold, who has landed on his back]
    Penfold: Now he tells me!

• Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines: In "Zilly'due south a Dilly" (in which the coward Zilly is hypnotized into being brave), Klunk explains his lightning bolt shooting invention on the planes. Dastardly touches the antenna and gets shocked by it, in spite of Klunk's warning which was naturally a lot of weird sounds.

  Zilly: He also said not to touch on information technology! When you want to shoot a lightning bolt, button the button on the nuance!
  Dastardly: Now he tells me!

• Sonic Boom: In "Blackout", Team Sonic ready out to go a new Meroke Crystal to provide power for their village. They trek far into a frigid area of Seaside Isle and a heavy blizzard slows them downwards.

  Sonic: Perhaps it would exist easier if we used Blue Force One in snowmobile manner.
  Amy Rose: Bluish Force 1 has a snowmobile manner AND Yous Only MENTION IT At present?!

• Due south Park: In the first Halloween Episode, the town is plagued past zombies created as a result of Worcester sauce accidentally being used as embalming fluid at the morgue. Stan calls the company'south help line and the man on the other end says "The first matter, and this is very important, is not to go killing zombies left and right". Stan looks up and sees Kyle and Cartman doing exactly that, and simply says "...Okay..."
• In 1 episode of Freakazoid!, stupid alien Mo-Ron would bumble around between shorts, trying to call back an important bulletin he's supposed to deliver, but forgot. At the very terminate of the episode, he finally remembers what the message was; A comet'due south about to crash onto that very spot! Every bit everyone around flees for their lives, all Freakazoid can mumble is, "Now he tells us!"
• In Over the Garden Wall, the first few episodes have Wirt, Greg and Beatrice trying to observe a witch named Adelaide who can seemingly get the quondam 2 dorsum dwelling house and restore the latter to her human self. It ultimately turned out to be a trap, as Beatrice was just using the boys as bargaining chips to resolve her ain trouble, with the witch wanting to enslave the boys. The boys manage to beat Adelaide and terminate upwardly meeting an old woman and her niece in the post-obit episode. Afterward solving that episode's dilemma, as the 2 gear up to continue their journey, the old adult female reveals that Adelaide is her evil sis and to avert her at all costs. Wirt's expression, understandably, has this trope all over it.
• Said verbatim in The Octonauts episode "The Humuhumunukunukuapua'a" afterwards Helm Barnacles gets h2o sprayed in his confront:

  Dr. Shellington: Humuhumus can blow potent jets of h2o out of their mouths.
  Captain Barnacles: Huh... at present yous tell me.

• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • In the episode "Tea At The Treedome", Patrick didn't discover at that place wasn't any water in Sandy's treedome until he went into it himself.
  • In "Rock Bottom", earlier going off to get a bus schedule, SpongeBob tells Patrick to expect for a jitney and phone call him if one comes. Patrick does...after he'south already on it.
• At the end of Invincible (2021)'southward flavor ane finale, Allen returns to Earth with an urgent bulletin for Invincible: there's a Viltrumite on the planet that could begin their plans to conquer it any second. Different almost examples, nonetheless, the accented best case scenario of the characters learning this ahead of time probably would have been things going exactly equally bad as they already did.

    Real Life

• Shrink wrap contracts, contracts that can but be read afterwards opening the packaging of their product. Of course, if y'all decide not to concord to the contract, you can't render the production, because you just opened its packaging.
  • These contracts are generally held to be unenforceable in the European union; in the US the issue is still debated. Either style, most places volition even so permit yous return the product if you disagree with the contract.
  • Of grade it contracts. If it didn't, it wouldn't exist shrink wrap, now would it? (Rimshot)
  • Some CD envelopes are sealed with a sticker that claims 'breaking this seal constitutes acceptance of the EULA,' which of course you can't read considering it's on the disc that's sealed in. Some people do not take this sitting down.
• Truth in Television or Urban Legend? A zoo allegedly had a sign on its monkey enclosure reading, "Alert: These monkeys steal glasses." Of class, this mostly happened whenever anyone wearing glasses leaned forrad to read the sign...
• Intelligence sent warning of the impending Royal Japanese surprise-assail upon the U.s.' Pacific Fleet through noncombatant channels. Past the time they got it, a 24-hour interval late, half the armada was underwater and the Nipponese were long-gone.
  • The Japanese Ambassador was supposed to deliver a proclamation that they considered the negotiations - it's complicated - to be over correct before the set on was to have identify. However, the terminal declaration was 5000 characters long; consequently the Embassy failed to meet the unrealistic deadline they had been given. Information technology did not help that the Embassy used native Japanese typists, rather than the usual locals out of fears of espionage, which dragged out the time needed to blazon and transmit the message even longer. Moreover, just when they had finally gotten it all written down and printed out on nice paper and everything, the ambassador got stuck in traffic...
    • Amusingly, the fact that the U.S. had thoroughly broken the Japanese Diplomatic Cypher (codenamed Purple) meant Signals Intelligence had the proclamation earlier the Japanese administrator.
  • This was shown in the moving picture Pearl Harbor — this being 1 of the few accurate and worthwhile bits to it. In the film, the Naval Intelligence officer reaches the conclusion that the Japanese attack is imminent, and the warning reaches the President a few hours after it already occurred.
  • An American destroyer, USS Ward, engaged and sank a Japanese midget submarine trying to follow another ship into Pearl Harbor, and radioed a report of the encounter. A request for confirmation was sent back, and due to delays in encryption, transmission, and decryption, the confirmation report wasn't read until later on the air attack had begun (bold, of course, that a confirmed report of an attempted submarine infiltration would necessarily take put them on guard for an air set on.)
• Nihon got their own one of these, entirely self-inflicted, after the Battle of Midway. This battle was such a complete adjourn-stomp of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the U.S. Navy that the IJN tied themselves in knots keeping it a surreptitious, fifty-fifty from their own ground forces and government. The Imperial Japanese Army completely believed the Navy's claims that they had won a great victory and planned for further invasions based on the thought that all the carriers had survived the battle and could provide air support. Information technology was only after months of delay and the Army request the Navy why the operations weren't proceeding as planned that they found out the truth. Then they joined with the Navy in keeping it a hole-and-corner from the authorities for even longer. Prime Minister Tojo, who had thought the war was proceeding according to plan and that the Americans were being decimated, didn't detect out the truth until months afterward the Regular army did. Witnesses say that he basically suffered a BSOD when he realized how completely fucked Japan was at that bespeak.
• Later the Canadian Football League pulled the plug on their expansion into the The states in 1995, the players on those teams were placed into a dispersal typhoon. Unknown to the league at the fourth dimension, one player (Derrell Robertson) had been killed in an auto accident a couple months earlier. The Ottawa Rough Riders drafted him, then set almost trying to reach him. When they couldn't for obvious reasons, they reported it to the league. Said Ottawa'south caput coach, "the league didn't know he was dead until we told them, and we didn't know until we couldn't observe him."
• A mutual anecdote. Your mom serves yous food and y'all take a bite, and your whole rima oris burns. Then your female parent warns y'all that it's hot.
• During the shooting of The Empire Strikes Dorsum, this was practically managing director Irv Kirschner's Catchphrase whenever one of the special effects failed spectacularly. R2-D2 is skidding all over the place? We didn't test to run into if it could run on the artificial snow of the Echo Base set. 1 of the X-Wing'south wings snapping off while Yoda is lifting it from the swamp, in full view of a horrified George Lucas? We forgot to examination if the model could withstand being underwater. "At present you tell me!" Irv would snap.

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