Skip to main content

I know you are, you said you are, so what am I? 

Blatantly useless retort which younger primary school students use.
Playground Bully: Ha ha! Ernie's Crap!
Ernie: I know you are, you said you are, so what am I?
Playground Bully: I just said that you were crap, though!
Ernie: I know you are, you said you are, so what am I?

I know you are, but what am I? 

A retort with profound implications. Pee Wee's greatest contribution to youth culture.
Person A: You smell bad.

Person B: There's this thing about a small squirrel and how nobody loves you. Hi-ya! Now that's what I call a verbal bitch-slap.

Person A: I know you are, but what am I?

Person B: Haha what a complete fail of a a comeback. It's like, your face is all red, and you can't come up with a comeback.

Person A: It made no sense, but therein lies the point. The notion that one needs to respond with a rehearsed "comeback" is inane. Your squirrel-centric comeback was also inane; it failed to address your abhorrent smell, it seemed to mistake randomness for wit (really a squirrel?), and the mere fact that you would use it as an example of a verbal bitch-slap is laughable, as it lacks slap. It is quite slap-less. I respond to inanity with inanity.

Person B: Well, "your" still a faggot. And now I'm going to win this by blowing your mind with an ounce of inverse-Descartian drivel.

Person A: Nooooooooooooooo

I know you are, but what am I? 

An amateur insult comeback. It is often regarded as one of the worst possible insult comebacks, being criticized for its lack of creativity, low versatility, and manipulation of English grammar in the word "you."

The comeback was popularized by a scene from the 1985 film 'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure,' in which Pee-Wee Herman repeatedly says the comeback after being told a string of insults by someone else.
Mark: You should have let me copy your test answers in class today.
Jim: No, it's against the rules. Stop relying on me to bail you out all the time. You're such a blowhard sometimes...
Mark: Oh, yeah? Well, you're a coffee whore whose father is on crack!
Jim: I know you are, but what am I?
Mark: You're a loser who doesn't let me copy your test answers in class!
Jim: I know you are, but what am I?
Mark: -_- seriously dude

I know you are but what am I 

Basically you can't come back from it unless you use an Uno reverse card. An op roast for kids 7-10
Gay1:your mum gay lol
Gay2:no u

Gay1:uno reverse card

Gay2:I know you are but what am I

Gay1:fuck

I know you are but what am I? 

A complete fail of a comeback... basicaly... you would use it when you get verbally bitch slapped your face is all red... and you cannot come up with a comeback.
Faggot: You smell bad

Me: Wow... because you said that dis you went from nobody loving you... to having a small squirl start to love you... oh wait... that squirl just got ran over by a car... your back to nobody loving you...

Faggot: I know you are but what am I?

what planet are you from 

Popular saying, suggesting that the person questioned, by action, saying or appearance is odd too the point of otherworldliness.
Brenda: How great is the next Brittney Spears album going to be? Robert: She has bombed the last two times around. She sucks!
Jason: I think people like to see a healthy woman dance about the stage in tight fitting cloths...
Robert: Man... What planet are you from? She is gianormous!