Tiger Tanaka’s dispatch of Bond and Aki’s pursuers in You Only Live Twice is very satisfying. Instead of sending backup in the form of another car, he instead sends a helicopter to magnetically pick up the pursuers’ car and fantastically drop them into the ocean.
Bond notes this, with a play on words of an answer for Tiger that doesn’t make too much sense: “Just a drop in the ocean.” I mean I get that the “drop” can refer to dropping the car into the ocean, but at its face, the response doesn’t make sense without the action. Japanese efficiency is just a drop in the ocean? Huh? This is an example of a James Bond Forced Quip.

