Is there a medical/crime/caper/drama show where this line- or a variation, always using an emphatic NOW- doesn’t show up at least once a week?
“I need you in my office- NOW!”
“We’re ending this- NOW!”
“You’ll tell me everything you know about the murder/theft/scam/drug- NOW!”
Geez, Louise, people, stomping your foot and shouting “NOW!” makes me feel like digging in my heels and going out for coffee.
Are you going out for coffee now?
This reminds me, I’m going to need to have a talk with my supervisor about her using CAPITAL letters for some words in her emails when she’s giving us shit for being morons.
I’ve been putting it off, but it’s really starting to get on my nerves.
Isn’t the point of TV, comedy included, to create drama? In 30 or 60 minutes? Ergo: tell me or do it NOW?
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It also sort of dilutes your point when you make an ultimatum that you can’t follow through on - “I will END you!” and then they don’t manage to end them.
Moving from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Terrorists have taken hostages, issued demands and are threatening to blow up the building. Tough guy hero shoulders his automatic weapon and declares: “This stops…WITHIN 30 TO 60 MINUTES!”
On your average medical show, of course, it’s going to be “STAT” instead of “NOW.” Totally different.
I worked at a Juvenile Prison about a decade ago - calling for help with an unruly prisoner was an everyday occurence. Asking for help “NOW,” was the code word for ‘This is serious. Drop everything, if you can, and come running.’ I only had to use it once, and it was VERY effective.
This makes sense to me. In your sitch “now” really meant “now.” It didn’t mean “I’m tired of your crap and I’m going to throw my weight, shout, and scowl dramatically around because I can before we cut to commercial.”
As for drama, I’d like writers to come up with an original way to create drama. The Now Thing is officially worn out/overused. Did Shakespeare ever say “This ends NOW!”? Or Dickens?
Lovelovelove tvtropes.com. Makes me LOL. 
Heard a couple more variations yesterday:
“We leave NOW!”
“Get out of here NOW!”
A similar one that really jumps out at you when you watch an L&O marathon is when the defense attorney puts an end to an interrogation with the immortal words:
“We’re done here!”
Sometimes it’s varied to:
“Are we done here?” or “I think we’re done here.”
These could be combined into:
“We’re done here NOW!” Hehe.
I think the link should be .org, not .com. Like this.
“We want a national organization for women NOW!”
“I demand that you stop procrastinating SOMETIME!”
I haven’t got time for this NOW!