Tropes - That Sounds Familiar
What's Ray Saying?
Ray Christian
5.0 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this mini-episode of What's Ray Saying?, Ray is joined by Kory Thomas May and Tiffany Christian. He ponders the characteristics of familiar narratives and storylines and the limits of understanding and expectations that are inherent in predictable, predetermined outcomes. As a public service, Ray presents his own prime example of the ultimate trope.
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| 0:00.0 | What's Ray saying? |
| 0:05.0 | What's Ray saying? |
| 0:09.0 | You know, Beaver, a teacher once said something to me that I think you'd do well to remember. |
| 0:17.0 | I mean, I think of you as my mother, not as a person. Good. Now, get out of here |
| 0:21.8 | before I crush your skull. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. You come at the |
| 0:29.4 | cane, you best not miss. I'm in a waste management business. Everybody immediately assumes |
| 0:34.4 | you're mopped up. It is not logical, but it is often true. You spoiled the joke. It could have been your timing. My timing is digital. Think of it, Kevin. And now we can share with each other for the rest of our lives. Stifler, get off. I am getting off. Just listen to the two of you guys. I'm the one who's been taking care of everybody for the last three years. |
| 0:55.0 | Cooking, cleaning, raising that knucklehead mouths. |
| 0:58.0 | Did you ever stop to think about what the world would be like without men? |
| 1:01.0 | A bunch of fat, happy women and no crime. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm the one. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah? |
| 1:07.0 | Create of the heavens in the earth. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm God. |
| 1:10.0 | You got the first sort of mainstream African America who was articulate and bright and clean |
| 1:20.8 | and mice-looking guy. |
| 1:22.9 | To shake up the status quo, that's America. |
| 1:30.2 | Tiffany, it's something I've been thinking about it. |
| 1:32.3 | I want to know if you can help me explain something. |
| 1:35.2 | I wanted to talk about how stories can seem kind of canned |
| 1:38.6 | when you're doing personal narratives, in the writing, |
| 1:42.5 | and the telling of it, on the performance of it. |
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