Move Along, Nothing to See Here - TV Tropes

"Ok folks, show's over, nothing to see here, show's... OH MY GOD! A horrible plane crash! Hey everybody, get a load of this flaming wreckage! Come on, crowd around, crowd around, don't be shy, crowd around..."

• In the second episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Duo Maxwell uses a flare to keep Relena from seeing his support crew salvaging Heero's Gundam Wing mobile suit.

  Duo: Don't look! Lady, I'm sure you have your reasons for being here, but you'd better just leave. Do yourself a favor.

• My Monster Secret: When Akari summons a giant demonic castle on school grounds for the last event of the festival, the festival announcer can be heard saying "This is just a demonstration, please do not worry..."

• The Filth: While giant spermatozoa are flying through the skies of Los Angeles and fertilizing women to death, a Hand agent shouts to the panicked crowd: "Everybody out! There's nothing to see here! You're imagining this and you need immediate psychiatric help!"
• Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra: A fire caused by two vandals destroy Stavros' shop. Matt gets some evidence around, and then the firemen tell him to get away, that the place is still dangerous.

• Done in a Far Side cartoon by a zebra trying to get its herd away from a lion's kill of another zebra.
• During a small story segment, Dilbert has this. Dilbert is assigned to a "fun and valuable" project, and takes Dogbert's advice to crush the opposition. He was one of the guys.

• Naru-Hina Chronicles: Naruto has another unwanted encounter with Nanami, which ends with the latter's brother once again literally dragging her away. The blond ninja then notices all the people who witnessed what just happened and he nervously tells them to disperse as there's nothing to see there. However, he makes an Oh, Crap! face when he notices Hinata's presence, who just saw what happened with Nanami and isn't too pleased about it.

• Invoked in Finding Nemo by Mr. Ray to keep the fish away from a fight brewing between Nemo and his dad Marlin.

  "Theeeeeeeeeere's nothing to see. GATHER! Uh, over there!"

• Children of Men. Works more effectively when the police officer has an Angry Guard Dog snapping at your heels.
• The Dark Tower (2017). The line is used by The Man in Black when he uses his Compelling Voice to make two incompetent minions kill each other, then to stop the shocked bystanders from interfering. He then adds that they ain't seen nothing yet.
• Iron Man: One way to look at Tony Stark's reaction to when Pepper Potts first sees him with the Iron Man suit.

  Tony: Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
  Pepper: Are those bullet holes?

• At the end of The Killer That Stalked New York (a 1950 film Very Loosely Based on the 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak), when Dr. Wood has managed to talk Patient Zero Sheila Bennet down from The Precarious Ledge, a policeman tells the crowd of onlookers to go home and "Read about it in the papers tomorrow."
• Used by the Men in Black to uphold their Masquerade. Thanks to the neuralyzer, the people believe it.
• Parodied in The Naked Gun:
  • Frank Drebin tries to do this after a car chase in which he is involved ends with a ballistic missile crashing into a fireworks factory. Drebin repeatedly tells the gawking crowd that there's nothing to see while standing directly in front of the stream of smouldering survivors staggering away from the fiery, still-exploding wreckage of the factory.
  • A police officer tries to direct a tiny (read: two people) crowd away from a pier like this. It's not working. Made all the funnier because he says "There's nothing to see here. Move along. Keep moving." all the time.
• Star Wars Obi-Wan uses a Jedi Mind Trick on a Stormtrooper to convince him to believe "These are not the droids you're looking for". The weak-minded storm trooper is then "convinced" to tell them to "Move along".
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Uttered by Porky Pig at the end of the movie, as the original form of his catch phrase, "M-m-m-move along, now. N-n-nothin' else to see here. Th-that's all, folks. Hmmm. I like the s-s-sound of that! Th-th-th-th-That's All, Folks!"

• Guards! Guards!: Used by Sergeant Colon when a dragon is attacking the city. He follows it up with "Haven't you got homes to go to?", which even he realises isn't as rhetorical as he'd like.
• In Death: Peabody says this in Vengeance In Death, and then says to Eve, "I Always Wanted to Say That".

• One of the catch phrases of the MST3K guys, often with a put-on Irish accent. Subverted in one episode where they did "Alright, gather 'round, folks, show's just startin'...", and in another, "Alright, folks, there's a two-drink minimum now..."
• Used in The 10th Kingdom when the rich elf dies. Made more amusing by the exact wording used:

  Sheriff: Move along, nothing to see here... just a dead elf, wings ain't flapping anymore...

• Used by the Judoon in The Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Prisoner of the Judoon". A rhino-man with a Death Ray has arrested a Grand-Theft-Me-expert reptile-man, while Grey Goo swarms the building. Nobody's fooled.
• Used in Community by Security Guard Chang as he ropes off a "crime" scene (a yam was squashed). Jeff comments that it's the first time that sentence has actually been true.
• In the Top Gear India Special, Jeremy says "Nothing to see here" as he and Richard try to sabotage the air-conditioning in James' Rolls-Royce.

• Used as part of the bridge to John Linnell's song "South Carolina":

  Move around, folks
  Push her back there
  Move along, show's over folks
  Let him breathe, step lively
  Move around, folks
  Push her back there
  Move along, show's over folks
  Let him breathe, step lively

• Used as part of the chorus to the Radiohead song "Gagging Order":

  Move along, there's nothing left to see
  Just a body, pouring down the street

  Move along, there's nothing left to see
  Just a body, nothing left to see

• Used on the Recent Changes page of This Very Wiki when the database isn't working.
• Used on slashdot when a posting's comment page hasn't been generated yet.

• A gritty version used by the Texas Rangers in the Tabletop Game Deadlands: "Show me where you didn't see Aunt Millie climb up outta her grave. I got some carvin' to do."

• The Longest Journey has an officer use it four times in a row, and April responds in a different way each time. The first three times, the player chooses the order, but the fourth gets cut off when the officer gets fed up.
• Half-Life 2: Before they start shooting on sight, this is one of the stock phrases used by City 17's metrocops to shoo away the player.
• Commonly said by members of the Onett police force in EarthBound (1994), although they tend to mix up the word order after repeating it too many times.
• The Protectrons in Fallout 3 say this ... when they aren't shooting Frickin' Laser Beams at you.
• Spore Hero:

  Corshty: What are you, a detective? Nothing to see here. Move along.

• Vega Strike has "Nothing to see here citizen, move along." as one of communication phrases from Homeland Security units.
• Knights of the Old Republic:
• Right at the beginning of Alien Hominid, as the FBI agents clear the debris of the Alien's spaceship, one runs by holding a sign that says "NOTHING TO SEE HERE".
• Sim Copter: All of the megaphone announcements under 'Disperse'.
• A Toad in Super Mario Galaxy 2 delivers this line, and then declares "I'm on CLOUD control!" Yes, it's at the start of a cloud-heavy stage.
• The special Riot Police unit in Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest will sometimes say exactly this when given a movement command. For bonus points, they also have Mind Control powers.
• Destroy All Humans!: One of the random thoughts that you get while reading the mind of a policeman is "Move along, nothing to see here! I sure like saying that!"
• Pokémon Gold and Silver: A Team Rocket hideout is disguised as a gift shop, with a sign that says something about "just an ordinary gift shop, nothing to see here...".

• In Gunnerkrigg Court, when Jack Hyland running from monitors jumps out of a window it's, "Nothing to see here, kids.. Go back to your educations!" It's just a first-floor window, but still.
• In Rascals, the moment when Reiko interrupts Lionna and Chrissy's practice on this page.
• In Spinnerette, the Werewolf of London, Ontario has his own unique version of this.

  London: Move along, nothing to see here! Well, okay, there is, but catch it on YouTube later!

• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: "Stand back everyone, nothing here to see! Just imminent danger, in the middle of it, me!"
• Homestar Runner: Used by Homestar in The Stinger of "Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon", who fails to notice the person he's address is the Poopsmith, still bound and gagged behind the fence in Strong Badia.

• The Simpsons:
  • Police Chief Clancy Wiggum as seen in the page quote.
  • Also, in "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment", a parade float honoring Irish police is escorted by several of them, all saying things along the lines of this trope.
  • In "Marge Gets a Job" Groundskeeper Willie says, "Go back to class, lad! Nothin' to see here!" to Bart while wrestling a timber wolf in the halls of Springfield Elementary.
  • Bart says this at the end of "Homer's Night Out".

    Bart: All right folks, the show's over! No more to see, folks, come on. Only sick people want to see my folks kiss!

• The entrance sign of the supernatural town Gravity Falls bears the logo "Nothing to see here!" indicating the most of the town being dimly aware of the supernatural but trying to pretend it doesn't exist.
• This was Officer Barbrady's catchphrase in the early seasons of South Park: "Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home, you looky-loos." He was even saying it during the Apocalypse in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. In the episode where a Human Popsicle was found and taken to Dr. Mephesto's laboratory, Officer Barbrady was using his catchphrase until someone asked him about said Human Popsicle. Officer Barbrady then admitted there was something to see and stepped aside for the others to look.
• Parodied in an episode of The Cleveland Show, in which the police dig up an inflatable doll belonging to one of Cleveland's friends: "It's a sex doll. I repeat, it's a sex doll. Something to see here folks, something to see here."
• Invoked by Mr. Nezzer and Mr. Lunt as police officers "Fish" and "Chips" respectively in the VeggieTales Affectionate Parody Sheerluck Holmes. It also counts as their catchphrase — It's just about all they say in the show (Mr. Nezzer says "Move along!" and Mr. Lunt adds, "Nothing to see here!"). Mr. Lunt even shouts from off screen when Mr. Nezzer says his part.
  • It's even on the cover of the DVD — Mr. Nezzer and Mr. Lunt are shown wrapped in police tape that says it.
• Parodied in American Dad! (pictured above); when the Smith family goes to a CIA fair, one of the booths has a banner invoking this trope.