History Main / FinishingEachOthersSentences

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': When Michael meets his long-lost sister, he finds he has more in common with her than his twin sister Lindsay.
-->'''Michael''': She's a little more like me. It's like we finish each other's...\\
'''Lindsay''': Sandwiches.\\
'''Michael''': Sentences. Why would I say...\\
'''Lindsay''': Sandwiches?\\
'''Michael''': That time I was gonna say sandwiches.
* ''Series/BetweenTheLions'': Neither Walter nor Clay Pigeon manage to say complete sentences without each other's help, which is their main character trait.

-->'''[[TheStoic Captain Raymond Holt]]:''' Diaz and I have that kind of easy chemistry where we finish each other's...
-->'''Detective Rosa Diaz:''' ..sentences.
-->'''Captain Raymond Holt:''' Please, don't interrupt me.

* Happens frequently on ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', when Castle and Beckett figure something out together, sometimes resulting in [[FinishDialogueInUnison finishing their dialogue in unison]]. Also sometimes ending in lampshading from one of their colleagues.
-->'''Ryan''': Do you guys practice this when we're not around?
* Subverted on an episode of ''Series/TheDailyShow'', where Lewis Black made fun of an old political ad featuring a couple who could do this:
-->'''Lewis:''' Who needs health care reform when you're so in love that you finish your partner's... (''looks to Jon'')
-->'''Jon:''' (''not paying attention'')\\
[''Beat'']\\
'''Jon:''' ...what?\\
'''Lewis:''' Sentences!!! The word was "sentences," dammit! It's like you don't even know me anymore!
* ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'': In "Girl Meets Home for the Holidays", Cory and Shawn are debating Riley and Maya about which is the closer pair of friends:
-->'''Shawn''': Cory and I finish each other's...\\
'''Cory''': ...sentences!\\
'''Maya''': Yeah? That all you do? Because Maya...\\
'''Riley''': ...and I...\\
'''Maya''': ...can read...\\
'''Riley''': ...each other's...\\
'''Maya''': ...minds!
* A ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode has Jerry annoyed that his current girlfriend keeps doing this, especially since whatever she says is NOT what he was going to say.

* Happens frequently on ''Series/{{Castle}}'', when Castle and Beckett figure something out together, sometimes resulting in [[FinishDialogueInUnison finishing their dialogue in unison]]. Also sometimes ending in lampshading from one of their colleagues.

* In ''{{Film/Bridesmaids}}'', the main character is talking to a smugly newlywed couple and asks where they went on their honeymoon. They both say, "Disney World," and then the wife adds, "Sorry, we finish each other's sentences," as if there was any way they weren't both going to say the same thing.

* ''Film/BloodOftheTribades'': The twins Darvulia and Erzsi ''always'' do this. Everything they say is alternating sentences.

* Hip and Hop Koopa from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld1991'', and they often take more than one turn in doing so.

--> '''Xamot''': Invasion is easy--\\
'''Tomax''': --but holding U.S. territory--\\
'''Both''': --is all but impossible!

* Bash and Dash from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in "Toby and Bash"; when Bash has to work with Toby for the day instead of Dash, he has so much trouble finishing any of his sentences that Toby has to figure out what Bash is trying to say.
* Huey, Dewey and Louie, particularly in the Academy Award-nominated short "Good Scouts".

'''Steak:''' --[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Ice cream beef!]] Ice cream beef makes your teeth go grey!

* ''Series/Forever2014'': [[SupernaturallyYoungParent Henry]] and [[CoolOldGuy Abe]] finish each other's sentences when making up an on-the-spot cover story of how they know each other.

%%* Deconstructed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GbpVZTgAk this]] Website/CollegeHumor video.

* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' graphic novel ''Exile from [=ShadowClan=]'', Runningnose and Cinderfur are excited enough to do this briefly while telling Nightpelt he should be the next Clan leader.

* ''Series/Forever2014'': [[SupernaturallyYoungParent Henry]] and [[CoolOldGuy Abe]] finish each other's sentences when making up an on-the-spot cover story of how they know each other.

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': This jewel the episode, "Adrian Pimento":

-->'''Captain Raymond Holt:''' Please don't interrupt me.

-->'''Detective Rosa Diaz:''' Sentences.

* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', characters witnessing a shocking [[TheReveal]], or performing a CombinationAttack are prone to this. While the 198x anime had a few well-played occurrences (Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga against Poseidon) of this and in the manga it just works, but in the Hades Inferno/Elysion OVAs (which due to [[ExecutiveMeddling budget cuts and staff changes after the 2002 [=OVAs=] and the 2004 flopped movie]], use the manga directly as if it was an anime storyboard), you end up with the twelve Gold Saints all doing a very poorly executed, long-winded speech, which comes off as Narm.

-->'''Treblemakers''': ''Mickey, you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey, hey Mickey. Mickey-
-->'''Both''': ''-you’re so fine-''
-->'''Harmonics''': ''-[[Music/{{Madonna}} and you’re mine, I’ll be yours till the end of time cause you make me feel, you make me feel so shiny and new like a virgin touched for the very first time]].

-->'''Alexander''': He's a man who's so close to me, we always finish each other's...
-->[''beat'']
-->'''Richard Osman''': ...helicopters?
-->'''Alexander''': [''[[{{Corpsing}} trying to keep a straight face]]''] He's my pointless friend, he's Richard.

-->'''Jon:''' (''not paying attention'')
-->[''Beat'']
-->'''Jon:''' ...what?
-->'''Lewis:''' Sentences!!! The word was "sentences," dammit! It's like you don't even know me anymore!

-->'''Shawn''': Cory and I finish each other's...
-->'''Cory''': ...sentences!
-->'''Maya''': Yeah? That all you do? Because Maya...
-->'''Riley''': ...and I...
-->'''Maya''': ...can read...
-->'''Riley''': ...each other's...
-->'''Maya''': ...minds!

* Deconstructed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GbpVZTgAk this]] Website/CollegeHumor video.

-->'''Mackenzie''': ''(to Cameron)'' I'm sorry, does anyone else think it's a conflict of interest to have a Van Buren announcing the winners—
-->'''Brittnay''': When a Van Buren is one of the finalists?
-->'''Mackenzie''': ''(to Brittnay)'' Don't you ''ever'' fucking cut me off again, do you understand me?

-->'''Quinn''': We might be twins, but we're two different kids!
-->'''Jun''': Even if we do sometimes finish...
-->'''Quinn''': ...each other's sentences!

-->'''Huey''': We'll save you...
-->'''Dewey''': Unca...
-->'''Louie''': Donald!

-->'''Huey''': Goodnight...
-->'''Dewey''': Unca...
-->'''Louie''': Donald!

--->'''Wander:''' Who—
--->'''Peepers:''' —was—
--->'''Sylvia:''' —that—
--->'''Hater:''' ''—guy?!''

* [[CatchphraseInterruptus Lampshading]] a CatchPhrase or ArcWords

** In one episode, Daphne finishes Fred's sentence and swoons that they know each other so well, they must be soulmates. Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby all finish Fred's next sentence, causing Shaggy to observe that all five must be soulmates. Both sentences are Fred's {{Catchphrase}}s[[note]]"Well, gang, it looks like we've got another" "Mystery on our hands" and "Come on, let's" "Split up and search for clues."[[/note]], so it's more a commentary on how predictable he is.

* Hip and Hop Koopa from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'', and they often take more than one turn in doing so.

->'''Cindy''': It looks like we have a lot in ...\\
'''Tom''': Common.\\
'''Cindy''': We're already finishing each other's ...\\
'''Tom''': Dinner!\\
'''Cindy''': Sentences.

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': [[SupernaturallyYoungParent Henry]] and [[CoolOldGuy Abe]] finish each other's sentences when making up an on-the-spot cover story of how they know each other.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Free Spirit", a [[BodySurf body-hopping consciousness]] decides to demonstrate its power in front of the heroine by jumping in and out of two bodies in quick succession to make the hosts finish a single sentence in perfect concert.

* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': Carly, Cece, and Clyde, being [[SingledMindedTwins single-minded triplets]], start and finish each others' sentences.