Well I used to try and quit this game, then I took a sword to the chest.

Congrat! you have just got a promotion.
... then I took an arrow to the knee.

I used to lollygag, but then I took an arrow to the knee...

Hey! You! I use to worship Sithis, till I took an arrow to the knee.

It's funny for me because of the nonsenseness. "Then I took an arrow in the knee" can be fit in any prhase you say and it will still have an arrow in the knee.. I mean.. fun.

You see?

I used to be an arrow, then I took an adventurer in the knee.

I used to be a knee, then I took an arrow in the adventurer.

That kind of stuff is funny.

Of course I will not laugh of loud of this, but It's funny.

I got muted and banned from a minecraft server due to technical arrow in the knee jokes. Alright, I can make my own server.

Maybe it's only funny for people that play the game wayyyyy too much, like me. I just hear it all the time in the game. All the time. After you hear something said a certain amount of times, it just becomes annoying, but then after that it becomes something you end up saying to other people to annoy them, or just because you hear it so much, also, more commas, comma comma, comma. Mkay.

PS:
I WORK FOR BELETHOR, AT THE GENERAL GOODS STORE.

You know, if you have the aptitude, you should join the mages college in winterhold.

"some of the other guards say... that you're in the Dark Brotherhood" (nervously)
2 seconds later... "psst, i know who you are. Hail Sithis"

Someone stole my sweetroll, then I took an arrow in the knee.

stop there you criminal scum! Return my sweetroll or get shot with an arrow to the knee!!!

BYAAAAAAAAAGH. Ffffffffffffarrengar! The worst was Nazeem.


The worst part about killing Nazeem is that I don't get to kill Nazeem anymore.

You know whats wrong with Skyrim these days? Everyones obsessed with arrows to the knee.

ok, I admit I had to laugh hard

as for farrengar, I have to kill him and reload every second time I go there to enchant something, just to be able to bear with: you know, if you got...

I HAD YOU FIGURED FOR A MAGE!!!

The way you walk around at home is your own business. When you're at home...

After I took an arrow to the knee, I started wearing kneepads.

I prefer "I'm watching you, sneakpeak."

Everytime what's-his-face says "DOooooooooooooOOOOooo come agaaaaaaaaain." I have to stop myself from murdering him.

Belethor! He's so sarcastic! And it's sneakthief, not sneakpeek

Thats my favourite! Love this guy. He is 90% of the time greeting me when I get in or out home.

LMAO I may have had a minor stroke while typing that.

The thing about the arrow to the knee sound bite is that so many guards say it, and with apparent sincerity.

All the other stuff the guards (and NPCs generally) say makes sense. It might be repetitive for every guard to say, "Yo, don't break the law", but it's understandable. Even them being sarcastic about stolen sweet rolls makes sense; clearly that has become an in-joke among guardsmen all over Skyrim. Cool!

But when you hear about the 3rd or 4th guard who took an arrow to the knee, it crosses over from merely obnoxious pvssyr into the realm of the weird. By the time you've heard 20 guards tell this same story, it's well into the surreal. Why always the knee? Why always an arrow? Just how many guards used to be adventurers, exactly? It no longer comes close to making sense and jars us out of our immersion.

Such blatant damage to the fourth wall is obviously good material to make fun of; thus, the joke among we the players.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now it's in my sig. /memedead

I used to take arrows out of people's knees, then I became an adventurer like you.

A guide to the guards of the Elder Scrolls series:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v44/Maccabeus/elderscrolls/tesguardguide.jpg

Let me guess...

Someone stole the arrow from your knee?