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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
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No Stupid Questions
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I wanna say it goes back to golden age Hollywood movies where they want to hint to the audience that a character has a sinister motive or agenda that isn't immediately known to the other characters in the scene.
Recent uses of it make it a lot more obvious that the character that says it is up to no good. As you mentioned, South Park had used it quite a bit. I remember it coming up in Community too. I don't remember which episode, but I wanna say Britta uses it in a meta way that the other characters immediately recognize she's planning to sabotage the situation.
Ya its definitely a Jeff-ism, Jeff-esque
Whatever happened to that guy, he was awesome