It Was His Sled/Quotes

SNAPE KILLS TRINITY WITH ROSEBUD! (And then it turns out they're both Tyler Durden.)

—Xkcd

"Alright, film students, are you ready? IT WAS HIS SLED! HAHAHAHA! Now you don't have to sit there for three hours!"

—Craig Ferguson, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

"...and Rosebud was just a sled. Oh no, I didn't spoil it for you, did I?"

—Veronica, Veronica Mars

"What?! Gandalf comes back?! Dude, why'd you spoil it?"
"Dave, it's been in print for 50 years. It's like me telling you that Hamlet dies at the end of the play."

"Hamlet dies!?"

—Dave and Greg, Real Life Comics

Yami: I see. Then the only way to defeat you is to spoil every plot twist in existence, thereby ridding the public of any desire to see your convoluted mess of a movie series!

Arkana: You wouldn't dare!

Yami: Wanna bet? [inhales] SNAPE KILLS DU—

[many spoilers later]

Yami: ...Nicole Kidman is a ghost, and Rosebud is the sled.

Arkana: No! He's spoiling all the best plot twists!

—Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series, episode 30

"Spoiler Alert - This article contains spoilers for Harry Potter (Snape kills Dumbledore), Star Wars (Darth Vader is Luke's father), Citizen Kane (it was his sled), The Sixth Sense (Bruce Willis is a ghost) and the dictionary (zyzzyva)."

—Lego Harry Potter as Explained by Someone Who Has Never Read Harry Potter

"Kong?! You don't want me to spoil Kong, a seventy-year-old movie? There's a statute of limitations on this shit, man."

—Gabe, Penny Arcade

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