You're Gonna Have a Bad Time

Editor's Note: Work in progress. This entry contains spoilers for the game Undertale. Not to be confused with Super Cool Ski Instructor.

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“You’re Gonna Have a Bad Time” is a memorable quote uttered by the character Sans from the retro-stylish RPG video game Undertale, as ultimatum said to the players who had decided to take the Genocide Route (also known as No Mercy Route), a story branch of the game that can be achieved by grinding and killing every fightable monster.

The quote got popular on the internet throughout the Sans's battle theme Megalovania, various fan arts and in a joke manner, with inspiring poorly made recreations of it.

Origin

On March 13th, 2002, the episode of South Park "Asspen" aired in the United States. In the episode, a ski instructor repeats the line "you're gonna have a bad time" during his instruction (shown below).

Undertale is a RPG video game released in September 2015, where players are able to win their battles without killing their opponents. However, if the player has killed every monster that can be fought before passing all the puzzles in the frozen town of Snowdin, Sans will warn the player to not fight the next boss; his brother Papyrus, and drops his friendly appearance while saying "You're gonna have a bad time" to foreshadow story events and consequences caused by continuing to kill monsters and becoming over-leveled to the point of killing most characters in a single hit.

The quote will be repeated after the "Judge" scene near the end of the game if the player succeeds in killing every boss and random encounter monster preceding the scene, where afterwards the player must fight a boss battle against sans.

In the genocide route; the player can kill nearly every monsters effortlessly in one hit, but completely averts this in Sans' boss battle by revealing him as an extremely powerful fighter able to dodge every attack from the player, creating a high difficulty spike and an all-out battle of endurance between the player and sans in what fans dub as the "True Final Boss" of the Genocide Ending.

Spread

The quote has seen spread in the Undertale fandom from players who have complete the genocide ending of the end, using it as a catchphrase for the game's "genocide route".

Megalovania

Sans' theme is Megalovania (Shown bottom left) a revamped version of a final boss theme that Undertale's developer Toby Fox originally composed for his previous game; the Earthbound ROM hack "[Radiation's] Halloween Hack" ^[1] (Shown bottom middle). Toby Fox also composed a remix of the original song (also known as MeGaLoVania) for the soundtrack of Homestuck ^[2] (shown bottom right).

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