Now I Know How an X Feels

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    Boy, oh boy, working at All the Tropes has been really getting me into a rut. I feel like I deserve a good break after all of this. Now I know how a troper feels.

    Wait a minute! I just created a new trope! This is basically a Stock Phrase that a character uses to describe the mood that he's in.

    Examples of Now I Know How an X Feels include:

    Anime and Manga

    .Lupin III: Now I know how Jack Lemmon felt...

    Film

    Danny: Now I know how an ant feels.

    • Meet the People (1944)

    Julie Hampton: [after kissing hundreds of shipyard workers] Now I know how a trumpeter feels!

    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. Michaelangelo has been spun in circles, been thrown through the air and hit a wall.

    Michaelangelo: Now I know what a postal package feels like.

    • How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

    Peter McGowan: [after a prostate exam] Now I know what a Muppet feels like.

    • Patterns (1956)

    Nancy Staples: [dropping Fred off at work] Now I know what a mother feels when her child goes to school for the first time.

    • Citizen Cohn

    Roy Cohn: [after being paid a compliment by an opponent] Now I know what a pancake feels like after it's had syrup poured all over it.

    Literature

    • The classic children's book Bread and Jam for Frances after she goes through the Radish Cure.

    Jam for breakfast
    Jam for meals
    Now I know how a jam jar feels
    Full. Of. Jam.

    Live Action TV

    Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: March!
    Marty Deeks: Now I know how Cinderella felt with her evil stepmother.

    Peggy: Al, how am I supposed to do my job and yours? I tell ya, now I know how Hillary [Clinton] feels.

      • "Valentine's Day Massacre"

    Bud: [after being raped by a very large older woman] Now I know how Tom Arnold feels.

    Philip Banks: Now I know how Captain Ahab felt when he was chasing Moby Dick.

    • Star Trek: Voyager episode "Parallax". The Doctor is activated to provide hydroponics supplies.

    The Doctor: Now I know how Hippocrates felt when the king needed him to trim a hangnail.

    Bonnie Barstow: Now I know how Michael felt when K.I.T.T. was destroyed. Like half of me is missing.

    Jaime Sommers: Boy, now I know how Bambi felt on the first day of deer season.

    • Half and Half

    Big Dee Dee Thorne: Well, since no one has offered to buy me a drink, I guess I'll buy my own. Now I know how Phyllis feels.

    Indiana Jones: [about the rugby match] Too bad I got pounded by British artillery. Now I know how the Turks feel.

    • The New 3 Stooges. Moe hits Curly Joe in the nose with a broom.

    Curly-Joe: Now I know how Pinocchio felt.

    Michael Scott: Now I know what the founders of Philip Morris felt like. You just want to give people a smooth, fun way to relax and suddenly you're just some terrible monster.

    • Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Spiders: Part Five"

    The Doctor: [being held in a giant cobweb] Now I know what a fly feels like.

    Johnny Knoxville: [being doused with red wine] Now I know what it feels like to be my liver!

    • Electra Woman And Dyna Girl episode "Glitter Rock: Part 1"

    Glitter Rock: Those walls are gonna keep moving in, and hit with a big bang!
    Dyna Girl: Now I know what a sardine feels like!

    Puppet Shows

    Jody Silver: [after being caught by the vine] Now I know what a tossed salad feels like.

    Video Games

    Chowder: Now I know how taco meat feels.

    • The Dig: After the first time he uses the planet's tram system, Commander Lowe comments, "Now I know what my pet hamster felt like."

    Web Comics

    • In Gunnerkrigg Court, Annie, falling into a canyon, remembers dropping and breaking a glass, and thinks:

    "Now I know how the glass felt."

    Western Animation

    Mario: Now I know how a meatball feels!

    • A Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade announcer does this on The Simpsons, to the perplexity of his colleagues.

    Bill: Ha ha. Wait, what did... Did what I say make sense?
    Marty: Well, no, not really, Bill.
    Bill: Boy, now I know how the Pilgrims felt.
    Marty: What are you talking about, Bill?

      • The episode "Mypods and Boomsticks":

    Bart Simpson: Stupid angry mob chasing me for shining a harsh light on modern society. Now I know how Dane Cook feels.

      • During the episode "Missionary Impossible", after Homer introduces gambling to the natives:

    Homer: Now I know how Bob Stupak feels.

    • Family Guy, "Emission Impossible" - Peter and Lois are trying for another baby, and Stewie doesn't fancy the competition:

    Stewie Griffin: My God, they're at it again! All this time keeping people from having sex...now I know how the [Roman] Catholic Church feels. BA-ZING!

      • "Wasted Talent"

    Peter Griffin: Oh man, this is the happiest day of my life. Now I know how Barbra Streisand must've felt the day she married James Brolin.

    Bobby Hill: Everybody's got a deer and I don't. Everything looks so Christmasy. Now I know how the Jewish kids feel.

    Beast Boy: Now I know how George Washington felt when Napoleon beat him at Pearl Harbor.

    Kwame: [While imprisoned in a net] Now I know how fish feel!

    • G.I. Joe: The Cobra troops are surrounded.

    Major Bludd: Now I know how Custer felt!

    Clover: Now I know what sushi feels like.

    Clyde: Now I know what a statue feels like.

    Wanda: Now I know how a tossed salad feels.

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