# Valley of the You're In Trouble **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984 "2021-03-29T19:06:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/1 "2021-03-29T19:06:55Z")
> [@You know you're in trouble when...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617): > > You turn around, and Angel has disappeared. > [@Lines that always spell trouble](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-that-always-spell-trouble/493383): > > “Peoples of the Earth…” “Hey you; yeh, YOU, I’m talking to YOU!” “All right, if you insist…” > [@More things that always mean trouble](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399): > > A new sun/ planet/ moon/ battlestation appears in the sky. > [@You know you're in trouble when (part III)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when-part-iii/643677): > > a really stupid character says “Hang on, I’ll save you!” “Your usefulness is at an end”. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/2 "2021-03-29T19:21:20Z")
_You see_ that glow _flashing_ in the _corner_ of _your eye_ ? That’s your career dissipation _light_ . It just went into high gear. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/3 "2021-03-29T21:33:11Z")
… Jim Caviezel starts hanging around you. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/4 "2021-03-29T21:45:43Z")
You have to sit in the passenger seat because Clemenza is already filling up the back seat. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/5 "2021-03-30T07:23:17Z")
You realize that you are the only person in the group who is wearing a red shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/6 "2021-03-30T07:27:17Z")
…Ted McGinley shows up at your party. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/7 "2021-03-30T11:25:01Z")
I’m not 100% sure this fits here, but if you’re a cop (in a TV show) and the front door of a residence or apartment is unlocked and slightly ajar, there’s always a dead body in there. ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/8 "2021-03-30T12:42:50Z")
There’s a group of detectives who always seem to have interesting cases, you’re not part of that group. Normally they do all the witness interviewing and such themselves, but today they’ve radioed and asked you to talk to a witness. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/9 "2021-03-30T15:12:17Z")
You’re an airline flight attendant and your passengers include a shifty-eyed, nervous man; an adorable child with a life-threatening disease; a young couple on their honeymoon; and a pilot with personal problems. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/10 "2021-03-30T15:16:45Z")
Why is everything so quiet all of a sudden? ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/11 "2021-03-30T15:46:52Z")
The camera focuses on your keys as you start your car (or shows you starting your car at all) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/12 "2021-03-30T18:00:32Z")
You realize you only have ten days until retirement… ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/13 "2021-03-30T18:03:06Z")
It’s quiet around here…too quiet. When George Kennedy walks onto your plane. When a villain walks into your office. Your carrying A baguette, A few oranges and a couple of cans of food. A cat appears suddenly behind you. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/14 "2021-03-30T18:19:14Z")
You’re exploring a new potential residence and your dog whines and either a) won’t follow you up the stairs, or b) won’t follow you down the basement stairs. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/15 "2021-03-30T18:22:14Z")
You’re walking through a parking structure late at night. Or jogging in the dark. You know, as people do. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/16 "2021-03-30T18:34:57Z")
You have an argument with your wife/girlfriend over how you’ve been emotionally distant lately, and then you get on a boat. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/17 "2021-03-30T18:40:08Z")
Or does follow you down the basement stairs but will NOT stop digging at that one corner. The one where the dirt floor appears to have been…disturbed. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/18 "2021-03-30T18:47:00Z")
You’re character on a whodunnit played by a guest-starring major actor who is clearly paid too much to be written into the whole episode (if you are played by guest-starring major actor and they do have enough to pay you for the whole episode then you are clearly the murderer, particularly if the actor is famous for playing nice roles). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/19 "2021-03-30T19:01:53Z")
Your boss asked if you told anything else about that weird file you found. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984/20 "2021-03-30T19:23:51Z")
You’ve figured out whodunnit. You call the investigator and tell them to meet you and you’ll explain everything. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valley-of-the-youre-in-trouble/938984.md?page=2)