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"I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this"

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Paranoia is funnier when it picks the wrong target, and Whedon knows it. Caribou are practically the mascot of harmless nature-documentary calm: antlers, migration, wide-open tundra. By declaring them untrustworthy, the line drags suspicion into a place that’s supposed to be spiritually neutral. It’s a small act of genre sabotage, turning the pastoral into a crime scene.

The sentence builds like a micro-monologue of conspiracy thinking. “I also don’t trust…” implies a backstory of escalating distrust, as if caribou are just the latest entry on a long list of compromised institutions. “They’re out there… waiting” anthropomorphizes them into a coordinated enemy, the ellipses mimicking the speaker’s escalating certainty and self-dramatization. Then comes the clincher: “Something’s going down.” Not “might.” Not “could.” It’s the swagger of someone who wants their anxiety to count as insight.

Whedon’s broader comedic signature often hinges on exactly this: a character using banter and certainty as a shield against the terror that the world is chaotic and unreadable. The joke isn’t only that caribou are innocent; it’s that the mind under stress will recruit any symbol, even a herbivore on the tundra, to justify its narrative. “I’m right about this” lands as both punchline and confession: the speaker needs to be right, because being wrong would mean admitting there’s no plot at all - just emptiness, weather, and hoofprints.

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Whedon, Joss. (2026, January 15). I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-also-dont-trust-caribou-anymore-theyre-out-60312/

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Whedon, Joss. "I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-also-dont-trust-caribou-anymore-theyre-out-60312/.

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"I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-also-dont-trust-caribou-anymore-theyre-out-60312/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Joss Whedon (born June 23, 1964) is a Writer from USA.

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