Why Can't You Say Good Night?

Parting words, coming after drugging someone but before the victim hits the ground. May take the form of a Preemptive Apology. A kind of Pre-Mortem One-Liner without the actual, y'know, death. The last words from the guy they drugged are Parting From Consciousness Words.

Trope name comes from Tony Basil's "Mickey".

Examples of Why Can't You Say Good Night? include:

Film

Hudson Hawk: Hey, this doesn't taste like cappuccino.
Anna: Oh. I guess I put too much ethyl chloride in it.
Hudson Hawk: [collapses]

Mystery Men: Right after Captain Amazing asks whether what he just picked up is not evidence, it shoots out a cloud of pink smoke:

Casanova Frankenstein: "It's a chloroform-deploying portable enticement snare."
Captain Amazing: "... - Ah, dang!"

Irene: I told you to let it breathe.

Dexter: Debra's new fiancee explains how ashamed he was at accidentally leaving one piece of evidence as the Ice Truck Killer.
- And, of course, Dexter himself often whispers a one-liner to his victims right after he slips them the needle.
Played with on Lost. Juliet was handed what was told to her to be a glass full of tranquilizers.

Ethan: "You... probably shouldn't have drank that so fast..."

Mohinder: "I already have you, Mr. Sylar."

The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells: Drugged! By God!
Blackadder: By Baldrick, actually, but the effect is much the same.

Maverick: Good night, Barnaby.

"Nothing personal. Can't risk you going berserk and getting Lisa killed."

Anton: T-tut mir leid. ("I'm sorry.")

Lucrezia: Not poison, silly. I'm one of the good guys now, remember?

"You'd be surprised at the amount of chemicals the average cigarette contains."

"Logan, buddy! It's me, Deadpool! I shot you."

"Tell me, Batman... What question can you never answer "yes" to? Are you asleep?"

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