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* Creator/KenPenders' run on ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog can be recognized by all characters' peculiar overuse of "I've", such as "I've only one chance!" instead of "I've got only one chance!", which sounds kind of oddly refined for an unruly blue teenage hedgehog. A small quirk, but an identifying one.

** In ''Strangers with Candy'', Stephen Colbert [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/55693/strangers-with-candy-feather-in-the-storm chastisingly tells Jerri that "you can't unfry things."]] In his interview chapter in ''Wigfield'', Dillard notes that if there's one thing he's realized, it's that you can't unfry things.

** Both the series finale and the first interview with Hoyt Gein include the phrase "Think about it- I haven't." Which was then CoveredUp when Colbert used it in his WHCA speech.

** He also loves his "Walk This Way" jokes, with them occurring roughly [[OnceAnEpisode once a movie]].

* Chuck Lorre tends to use "Nope, nothing not a damn thing" in both ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' and ''Series/BigBangTheory''.

** There's also a reason why this webcomic provides the page image for FlatWhat.

** He often has a reference to something expensive being made of something rare and endangered (e.g., the fur coat Vimes refuses to be bribed with in ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'' and the chairman's desk in ''Discworld/MakingMoney'').

* Music/TheBeatles have a thing for the sun, mentioning it in at least a dozen songs, and including as a part of song titles a few times as well. Makes a bit more sense considering that they're most often thought of as writing "happy" music. And considering the climate they grew up in.

* Roger Hodgson, in his Music/{{Supertramp}} and solo work, frequently uses "get high"/"be high", "the garden", "crazy", "let me know you", "please tell me"/"please help me"/"can you tell me" and addresses a "Mary" (either some kind of fictitous person or [as with "A Soapbox Opera" the Virgin Mary on occasion). He addresses himself as "boy" sometimes, too.

* Naoki Maeda of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' fame uses the word "Unlimited" a lot in his works:
** During his tenure as a BEMANI musician, many of his tracks would be credited to "NM SEQUENCE UNLIMITED" in soundtrack credits.

* Everything by Simon Furman. EVERYTHING. He uses certain phrases so much that they have become known as [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Furmanism "Furmanisms"]] amongst the {{Transformers}} fandom, and are something of a joke. (Even Furman knows about them and uses them consciously.) A few favorites, with the Furmanism in bold, include:

* Creator/KenPenders' run on ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog can be recognized by all characters' peculiar overuse of "I've", such as "I've only one chance!" instead of "I've got only one chance!", which sounds kind of oddly refined for an unruly blue teenage hedgehog. A small quirk, but an identifying one.

* British/Canadian author Creator/ArthurHailey uses the phrase "don't lets" in dialog by Americans who are speaking. This is either Hailey's invention, or Canadian or British usage, as Americans never say that phrase, such as in, "Don't lets fight." An American would say, "let's not" as in "Let's not fight."

Basically this is when the author of a novel reuses the same line (or a variation) in their work. This isn't as much a RunningGag, a MeaningfulEcho or a ShoutOut as it is simply recycling the line. This [[TropesAreTools isn't necessarily a bad thing]], however.

* British/Canadian author Creator/ArthurHailey uses the phrase "don't lets" in dialog by Americans who are speaking. This is either Hailey's invention, or Canadian or British usage, as Americans never say that prhase, such as in, "Don't lets fight." An American would say, "lets not" as in "Lets not fight."

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* Russel T. Davies

** A strict adherence to the belief that [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-30-1999/media-responsibility News Activism Means Better Living for All,]] or [[FunWithAcronyms NAMBLA]]

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' is full of these--mostly expressions of dismay, since Charles M. Schulz didn't swear in RealLife. Good grief.
** While a lot of the phrases used in Snoopy's mind are genuine catchphrases (most notably: "It was a dark and stormy night", which Schulz made his own), the way most of his fantasies begin with a simple "here's" ("Here's Joe Cool hanging out at the dorm", "Here's the World War I flying ace", "Here's the world-famous lawyer") is more of a verbal tic.
** One of Schulz's idiosyncrasies is that he puts nicknames (other than those that are variants of a given name) into apostrophes - thus it is not "Peppermint Patty" but "'Peppermint' Patty". This even applies to Snoopy's biplane: "Here's the World War I flying ace zooming through the air in his Sopwith 'Camel'..."
* For a time in the 1980s, characters in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' were very fond of responding to situations with the word "natch" (short for "naturally"). The word was used as a punchline on at least two occasions.
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has had an improbable number of captions that start with someone exclaiming, "For crying out loud!"
* Just about every young person in ''ForBetterOrForWorse'' says "an'." Not "an'''d'''", they always leave off the "d" on the end of the word.
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* Creator/MichaelGrant really likes "judge, jury and executioner". It shows up in [[Literature/Gone Gone]], [[Literature/MessengerOfFear Messenger of Fear]], and the [[Literature/Animorphs Animporphs]] books he ghostwrote.

* ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' often acknowledges that some of the Arthurian legends are ... [[OlderThanTheyThink somewhat derivitive of older stories]] by having someone say "Can't beat the classics."

* Music/MarilynManson has a love for the number 15, due to being born on January 5th. As such, the number appears again and again in art, lyrics, titles, and is even tattooed behind one of his ears. For a few years, his name was even stylized as "Mar1lyn Man5on", which reappeared on the cover of a single over a decade later.