Tv Tropes You Do Not Want to Know
"Some honcho in a cushy office on World says go look at a grid reference in the middle of nowhere, we look. They don't say why, and I don't enquire. I don't ask because information technology takes two weeks to get an answer out here and the answer'due south ever 'don't ask.'"
A Stock Phrase That comes up in several situations:
- As a response to "How was your 24-hour interval?" Used this fashion, it implies that information technology'due south been a very bad day indeed.
- Equally a response to "How did that happen?" Used this way, it implies It's a Long Story.
- Every bit a response to "How practise you know that?" Used this mode, it implies a more detailed answer would provide Besides Much Information.
- Earlier anybody could fifty-fifty ask when they see the graphic symbol in something awkward.
Sometimes the statement is made preemptively, before the other person tin even ask a question. Usually used to avoid recapping events the audience has already witnessed, or used to prepare upwardly a Noodle Incident.
Has zilch to practise with the now defunct armed forces regulation called Don't Ask Don't Tell. note This also included "Don't Harass Don't Pursue." Or the Lost Boy literally named "Don't Ask."
See also You Do NOT Desire to Know and Preemptive "Shut Upwardly".
Examples:
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Fanfic
- Missing (Sherlock Holmes): After an absence to manage the official part of a bust, Constable Randall Cummings walks in on Lestrade trying to open up the handcuffs on Watson and Holmes roughly interrogating 1 of the doc'south captors. Cummings stares bug-eyed and Lestrade can simply warn him not to inquire.
- My Dream Is Yours: Otis has this response to Olympia asking him what dreams he is having as a consequence of contracting Dream-Transfer-itis.
Otis: [face going ruby] I...don't want to talk about it.
Olympia: Simply how can we...
Otis: I said I don't want to talk well-nigh it.
Olympia: Okay, okay...
Films — Animation
- The Frozen short "Frozen Fever" ends with Kristoff telling Marshmallow this as he brings dozens of tiny snowmen created by Elsa sneezing to live with him in the ice palace.
- Madagascar: Escape two Africa
Elephant: [with trunk tied in a knot] Don't ask.
Melman: Ha, someone'south been knotty. - The Hugger-mugger of NIMH
Teresa: What are you doing hither?
Jeremy: Good question, but don't ask.
Films — Live-Action
- Arabesque:
Yasmin Azir: This is like a recurring dream I used to have.
David Pollock: How did it end?
Yasmin Azir: Don't ask! - As Good as It Gets
Carol Connelly: How are y'all?
Simon Bishop: Don't ask. - From Charlie's Angels (2000)
[later on Dylan arrives in a minor motorcycle and clothes patently besides small for her]
Dylan: [to Natalie and Alex] Don't ask. - Heat:
Nate: What happened out in that location?
Neil McCauley: Don't ask. - The Great Escape:
[materials being used for escape clothes]
Bartlett: Where in God's name did you get these?
Griffith: Hendley.
Bartlett: Well, where did he become them?
Griffith: Well, I asked him that.
Bartlett: What did he say?
Griffith: "Don't ask." - From Legally Blonde:
[Emmett staring at Elle as she stands in line to buy a estimator, wearing a Playboy bunny outfit]
Elle: Don't inquire.
Emmett: Wasn't gonna. - Murder by Death:
Milo Perrier: [bursts into the room wearing the expressionless butler'southward clothing] Don't ask me!
Dick Charleston: What are yous doing in the butler's uniform?
Milo Perrier: I said don't ask me! I don't know. Information technology all happened too quickly! - Outlander:
Wulfric: This is where your ship went down?
Kainan: That's right.
Wulfric: In a lake?
Kainan: Don't inquire. - Tomorrow Never Dies
James Bond: [while in bed with his Scandinavian language tutor, and on the phone with Moneypenny] I e'er enjoyed learning a new natural language.
Moneypenny: Yous always were a cunning linguist, James. [Hangs upward and sees M at the office doorway] Don't inquire.
M: Don't tell. - Trouble Human:
Mr. T: What's happenin', Willy?
Willy: Don't ask. Likewise don't accept daughters who marry schmuck husbands.
Literature
- In Going Postal the Post Office has a long listing of things non to ask near, Mrs. Block is featured three times. Later when a Golem that used to work in a messenger service for an ancient empire is hired it turns out that the ancients besides had a very similar listing. The Goddess C'zol appears multiple times. Naturally Moist finds himself asking, only to exist told "Practice Not Enquire!".
- Harry Potter:
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Luna: [regarding her begetter] He's ever proverb he'd believe anything of Fudge; I mean, the number of goblins Fudge has had assassinated! And of course, he uses the Department of Mysteries to develop terrible poisons, which he secretly feeds to anybody who disagrees with him. And then there's his Umgubular Slashkilter—
Harry: [to Cho Chang] Don't inquire. - Madam Pomfrey seems to know not to inquire. In all her years at Hogwarts, she probably has seen a fair share of students with injuries that are the outcome of things students shouldn't be doing. Just looks at Ron's dragon bite, and there's no fashion that she bought Ron's story that a dog bit him. Also, given her status every bit a healer, information technology'southward very likely she knew Hermione had a mishap with Polyjuice Potion. At that place might be a proficient reason for this: if these students were reluctant to become to Madam Pomfrey for fright that their dominion-breaking would exist establish out, they would be probable to exit their injuries untreated; existent world patient privacy laws exist for precisely this reason. Could also be a instance of I Don't Want to Know. (Or, seeing plenty students that she could approximate without needing to ask. It'south a school for teaching teens about magic, accidents happen.)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- In the outset Warrior Cats book, Firepaw jumps into a cold stream to wash mouse bile off his paws after using it to help clear the elders' ticks. Graypaw and Ravenpaw show up and stare at him like he's crazy, so he says, "Mouse bile. Don't enquire."
Alive-Action TV
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
- "Daredevils of the Desert"
Indiana Jones: What happened? How did you get away from those Arabs?
Maya: Don't ask. - "Palestine, Oct 1917"
Indiana Jones: Where accept you been?
Rashid: Don't inquire. Next fourth dimension, yous play the dead homo!
- "Daredevils of the Desert"
- Breaking Bad, episode "Bug":
[Mike and Jesse show up at the superlab with the body of a Gus Fring henchman who got sniped to death by Gaff, the cartel'southward buttonman]
Walter White: Should I fifty-fifty inquire?
Mike Ehrmantraut: I wouldn't.
Walter White: And then, what? Is this going to be a regular affair now? Meth cooking and corpse disposal? Jesus...
Mike Ehrmantraut: Just take hold of us a spare butt, Walter.
Walter White: What was it this time? What did this poor bastard exercise to piss off Gus? Or did Gus simply need to send another bulletin?
Mike Ehrmantraut: Close your mouth. You shut your mouth or I'll close it for you. I don't want you lot talking to me or Jesse. Simply go the butt. And if yous ever plan on calling the cops on one of my guys again, yous go alee and get 2 barrels. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Wrecked":
Willow: Magic wasn't all great. I won't miss the nosebleeds and the headaches and stuff.
Buffy: At that place you become.
Willow: Or keeping stinky yak cheese in my bra. Don't ask. - Castle episode "Home Is Where the Heart Stops":
Kate Beckett: [shows her badge while wearing a slinky dress at the fancy clemency brawl]
Richard Castle: Where was the badge?
Kate Beckett: Don't ask. - Farscape episode "I Shrink Therefore I Am":
Rygel: There'due south a wrinkled erstwhile woman floating exterior the forward portal.
John Crichton: Whoa. Gigantic oops. [to D'Argo] Can yous exercise me a favor? Pop exterior the tier 3 treblin side hatch and booty Granny in.
D'Argo: Noranti is outside?
John Crichton: Aye. Don't inquire. - In The Goodies, Graeme has fallen into a pigsty where he decides to do some archaeology. He deduces that when he calls upwardly to the surface to Bill and Tim there is a seven 2d delay, causing this exchange:
Graeme: [to himself] Permit's come across, I could do with my archaeology kit and... oh, a seize with teeth to eat. [to higher up, loudly] Yeah, chuck us down my old tweed suit. Oh, uh... a couple of doughnuts.
Bill: [into the hole] Practice yous want anything to eat?
Graeme: [delayed] Aye, chuck united states down my onetime tweed arrange.
Tim: Anything to wear?
Graeme: [delayed] Oh, uh... a couple of doughnuts.
Bill: [to Tim] Where'due south... where's he gonna wear them?
Tim: Never mind! - Merely Shoot Me! episode "La Muzzle":
Elliot DiMauro: Nina, I told you I'd never work with Nikki Ellston.
Nina Van Horn: I thought you said Mickey Rooney.
Elliot DiMauro: Why would I say Mickey Rooney?
Nina Van Horn: Oh, that's right. I won't work with Mickey Rooney. Don't ask. - Police force & Club: Special Victims Unit episode "Taken":
Detective Tutuola: He lives at 1634 Broadway.
Detective Munch: Not unless he'south 1 of the nuts lobbying for notwithstanding another extension of "Cats". That's the Winter Garden Theatre. [Fin gives Munch a look] Don't enquire. - Leverage: Played for drama in "The Big Bang Chore", where Eliot reveals he used to piece of work for Damien Moreau.
Eliot: You think yous know what I've done? The worst thing I e'er did in my entire life, I did for Damien Moreau. And I—I'll never be make clean of that.
Parker: What did yous practise?
Eliot: Don't enquire me that, Parker. Considering if you inquire me, I'1000 gonna tell you lot. So please, don't ask me. - Malcolm in the Middle:
Doctor: [after Dewey's stomach is pumped] We didn't notice any candles, but we did find some marbles. And the waistband to a pair of underpants.
Dewey: Don't ask. - In Monk:
- In the episode "Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas", Monk's didactics to Natalie when she walks in to encounter Stottlemeyer singing a karaoke version of "Ain't No Sunshine".
- In "Mr. Monk and the Captain'due south Wife," Leland quietly says this to the garbagemen when they discover Monk is throwing away water in a garbage bag.
- NCIS episode "Silver War":
[Abby hugs Bert, the blimp hippo that farts]
Tony: [to Ziva] Don't ask. - The Professionals. Bodie trolls Doyle with this trope in "Hunter/Hunted"
- The Cat says this to the others in the Ruby Dwarf episode "Backwards", having just institute out what going to the loo in reverse is like.
- Skins episode "Sid":
Chris Miles: Last night, human being. Absurd. Total blast. Everything you could ever want from an evening. Songs, choir girls, colorful costumes, fellatio, rabbits...
Maxxie: Rabbits?
Chris Miles: Don't ask, man. - So Weird: In "Shelter", later defeating an evil veterinarian that's been turning people into dogs, Fi concocts an antidote to alter her victims back. In one scene, shortly later on Fi gives the formula to a dog that's already been adopted, a passing mailman stops and stares in bewilderment at the naked girl in the doghouse (unseen to us, of form) before Fi tells him, "Don't inquire".
- Star Expedition: Deep Infinite Nine:
- Episode "In the Cards":
- And in the episode "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang," after O'Brien comes back from beingness strip-searched:
Bashir: Where have you been?
O'Brien: I don't desire to talk near it.
Music
- "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" by Warren Zevon, third verse:
I met a girl at the Rainbow Bar
She asked me if I'd beat her
She took me back to the Hyatt Firm....
[spoken] I don't wanna talk about it...
Roleplay
- In Dawn of a New Historic period: Oldport Blues, Zia suffers from a Teleporter Accident that sends her into a stranger's home. She discovers a duo in the shower that aren't in there to get make clean, and beats a hasty retreat. She and so stomps over and into her bodily destination, soaking moisture, and emphatically tells everyone at that place not to ask questions.
Video Games
- Destroy All Humans! ii
Crypto: This gas is noxious. Smells like Pox's underwear. Don't enquire me how I know that.
- In Dragon Age: Inquisition, one war table mission has the Inquisition assisting the Tevinter magister Maevaris Tilani, who is the widow of Varric'south cousin Thorold. Depending on which advisor is used to consummate the mission, the magister sends various tokens of gratitude. If Cullen is the one selected, the briefing after the mission ends notes that amongst her tokens, she sent him "a scented handkerchief. Don't enquire."
Web Blitheness
- Red vs. Bluish:
- The Claret Gulch Chronicles episode "Have We Met?"
[snip description of baroque events involving fourth dimension travel and a rocket launcher]
Church: [to yellow Church building] Well, what did you practise?
Church: Dude, don't inquire. Trust me, information technology — information technology didn't piece of work. - Said again in Donut: The Musical.
Donut: [singing] You are in for a surprise when y'all look into my eyes, yous won't be able to deny my ga—ze!
Sarge: Wait a infinitesimal, Donut... Your what?
Donut: Come on, Sarge! Y'all tin can't deny my deep, penetrating... heart contact! My gaze! What did y'all think I said?
Sarge: Um... Don't ask.
Donut: Don't tell!
- The Claret Gulch Chronicles episode "Have We Met?"
Webcomics
Web Original
- The Nostalgia Critic, at the end of his review of Casper It'due south exactly at the stop of the video. Equally he is exiting from the GMX expo. In a Ghostbuster suit. And he is completely soaked. Don't Ask.
Western Animation
- 101 Dalmatians: The Series: Said in the episode "You lot Say It'due south Your Birthday" afterward Spot says she's going to go pack her things.
Rolly: What things could a chicken possibly have?
Lucky: Don't ask. - In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "Tails Prevails", Sonic is on his way to rescue Tails from Dr. Robotnik (disguised equally Professor Von Schlemmer), and gets into The Professor's lair through the sewer system. When he comes out of the bathroom door, covered in green slime, he says to the viewers, "Don't fifty-fifty enquire."
- In Archer the Italian prime minister is found shot dead in Malory'southward apartment, which happened during a sexual practice play, that involved him in a full-body latex adjust and with a dildo up his ass. Only Archer and Lana gets this story, earlier the rest of the ISIS staff is chosen in to depose of the body.
Ray: Speaking of, why the hell is the Italian Prime Minister here?
Archer & Lana: Don't inquire.
[...]
Malory: Oh God, that reminds me— Kreiger!
Kreiger: Aye, I plant it.
Cyril: What?
Archer & Lana: Don't inquire!
Kreiger: Can I keep it?
Cheryl: Proceed what?
Archer & Lana: DON'T Enquire! - In the Danger Mouse episode "Turn of the Tide", D.Grand. and Penfold are on the Moon trying to find the crusade of earth's oceans flooding land masses. They come across Keith, an alien who manages a junk shop there and they find the crater of Copernicus is jammed with wrecked space vehicles:
D.M.: Information technology'due south all this mass! At that place's too much heavy metal!
Penfold: Yep, too much heavy metal is enough to make anyone go barmy. I'grand into electric boogaloo.
Keith: What's he on about, mate?
D.G.: Don't inquire. Please. Don't ask! - Dexter'southward Laboratory:
- In "Dexter's Debt", Dexter's Dad asks the mailman about his day. The mailman grumpily says "Don't enquire!", and Dad jokes "Too late, I already did!".
- In "Sister Mom", Dexter and "Mom" (a disguised Dee Dee) nourish a conference with the school principal. When the principal's secretary calls them into the office, "Mom" joyously dances around singing "Dexter is in trouble!"; Dex shoots the secretary a sideways glance and says "Don't inquire!" in a flat, annoyed tone of voice.
- Johnny Examination: In "Li'50 Johnny", Susan and Mary tell Johnny this when he sees that they've somehow become two heads on one torso.
- Recess:
T.J.: My older blood brother used to play on Old Rusty.
Spinelli: My mom used to play on Old Rusty!
Mikey: Heck, my Uncle Mary used to play on Old Rusty!
Vince: Your Uncle Mary?
Gretchen: Don't ask. - Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "Storm Over Ryloth": A bemused Obi-Wan manages to subtly go along Mace from asking what the hell Anakin did to his fleet by maxim he won't fifty-fifty ask where the rest of the fleet is or why Anakin is in an escape pod when the invasion armada Anakin was to clear the mode for drops out of hyperspace into the backwash of a boxing which Anakin won, but which price him almost his unabridged fleet.
- One of Santa's reindeer says this in The Story of Santa Claus, when a bird sees them flying and starts flapping in place with a shocked look.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady were thrown into a behemothic washing auto past two of the Turtles, Michelangelo and Raphael. Subsequently escaping, Krang asked where they were.
Krang: Where the devil take you been?
Shredder: Don't ask. - Transformers: Animated:
- In Immature Justice: Invasion, Tye Longshadow question Blue Protrude (Jaime) about he was able to talk to Asami in Japanese.
Tye: Dude, yous speak Japanese?
Jaime: Scarab translate, don't ask.
Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DontAsk
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