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* In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Genesis is constantly quoting from a [[ShowWithinAShow play]] called Loveless. It contains lines like:

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* In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Genesis is constantly quoting from a [[ShowWithinAShow play]] called Loveless. It While it has parallels to his relationship with Angeal and Sephiroth and all their falls from grace, it frequently comes across as fitting a square peg into a round hole. Not helping matters is Genesis' unwavering admiration of the work, to the point that nearly every time he quotes it to somebody, they're annoyed at his doing so and are often confused as to what the relevancy of it is. The play contains lines like:
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* The latest buzzword du jour is "disrupt", with countless companies claiming that their products will "disrupt" the status quo and change the way people live their lives. The term is short for disruptive innovation, which has a fairly narrow definition meaning a product creates an entirely new market. Most companies don't offer much of an explanation of how their products are "disruptive" other than being new and having slight iterations or improvements over other products on the market, which is essentially the less-buzzy concept of sustaining innovation.

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* The latest buzzword du jour is "disrupt", with countless companies claiming that their products will "disrupt" the status quo and change the way people live their lives. The term is short for disruptive innovation, which has a fairly narrow definition meaning a product creates an entirely new market.market, e.g. the telephone replacing telegrams and automobiles replacing horse-drawn wagons. Most companies don't offer much of an explanation of how their products are "disruptive" other than being new and having slight iterations or improvements over other products on the market, which is essentially the less-buzzy concept of sustaining innovation.
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* The latest buzzword du jour is "disrupt", with countless companies claiming that their products will "disrupt" the status quo and change the way people live their lives. The term is short for disruptive innovation, which has a fairly narrow definition meaning a product creates an entirely new market. Most companies don't offer much of an explanation of how their products are "disruptive" other than being new and having slight iterations or improvements over other products on the market, which is essentially a less-buzzy concept of sustaining innovation.

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* The latest buzzword du jour is "disrupt", with countless companies claiming that their products will "disrupt" the status quo and change the way people live their lives. The term is short for disruptive innovation, which has a fairly narrow definition meaning a product creates an entirely new market. Most companies don't offer much of an explanation of how their products are "disruptive" other than being new and having slight iterations or improvements over other products on the market, which is essentially a the less-buzzy concept of sustaining innovation.
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* The latest buzzword du jour is "disrupt", with countless companies claiming that their products will "disrupt" the status quo and change the way people live their lives. Most don't offer much in the way of explanation beyond the fact that they are "disruptive" because they are new.

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* The latest buzzword du jour is "disrupt", with countless companies claiming that their products will "disrupt" the status quo and change the way people live their lives. The term is short for disruptive innovation, which has a fairly narrow definition meaning a product creates an entirely new market. Most companies don't offer much in the way of an explanation beyond the fact that they of how their products are "disruptive" because they are new.other than being new and having slight iterations or improvements over other products on the market, which is essentially a less-buzzy concept of sustaining innovation.
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* ''Film/BillAndTed's Bogus Journey'' parodies this twice, first when they propose to their girlfriends, then by having the title characters [[WaxingLyrical saying the lyrics to]] [[{{Music/Poison}} "Every Rose Has its Thorn"]], which could easily qualify as this trope by itself, when asked "What is the meaning of life?". It's a {{Callback}} to a scene from the original ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', where Ted blows Socrates out of his mind by quoting [[{{Music/Kansas}} "Dust in the Wind"]].

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* ''Film/BillAndTed's Bogus Journey'' ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'' parodies this twice, first when they propose to their girlfriends, then by having the title characters [[WaxingLyrical saying the lyrics to]] [[{{Music/Poison}} "Every Rose Has its Thorn"]], which could easily qualify as this trope by itself, when asked "What is the meaning of life?". It's a {{Callback}} to a scene from the original ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', where Ted blows Socrates out of his mind by quoting [[{{Music/Kansas}} "Dust in the Wind"]].
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** Considering the extent of his plan is to replace the nasty-creep brother on the throne with his nice-guy brother, that last statement makes absolutely no sense.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'': [[PathOfInspiration Father]] [[LightIsNotGood Balder]], the (apparent) BigBad, [[JustBetweenYouAndMe delivers]] [[CrypticConversation such a]] [[MrExposition speech]] to Bayonetta in the penultimate chapter, repeating himself [[RuleOfThree three whole times]]. TheReveal is actually easy to understand: ([[spoiler: Bayonetta is effectively half of God Herself, magically transported to the future. Only by meeting her past self could she recover from the LaserGuidedAmnesia and awaken.]]) However, Balder buries this information under so many Meaningless Meaningful Words that he is borderline incomprehensible. Interestingly, [[BadassNormal Luka]] actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this shortly after he finishes.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'': [[PathOfInspiration Father]] [[LightIsNotGood Balder]], the (apparent) BigBad, [[JustBetweenYouAndMe delivers]] [[CrypticConversation such a]] [[MrExposition speech]] to Bayonetta in the penultimate chapter, repeating himself [[RuleOfThree three whole times]]. TheReveal is actually easy to understand: ([[spoiler: Bayonetta ([[spoiler:Bayonetta is effectively half of God Herself, magically transported to the future. Only by meeting her past self could she recover from the LaserGuidedAmnesia and awaken.]]) However, Balder buries this information under so many Meaningless Meaningful Words that he is borderline incomprehensible. Interestingly, [[BadassNormal Luka]] actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this shortly after he finishes.
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* Thomas Dewey's [[AssumedWin upset loss]] to Harry S. Truman in the 1948 US presidential election was partially attributed to Dewey's platitude-filled speeches and campaign rhetoric, most infamously stating in one speech, "You know that your future is still ahead of you." His campaign was described by an editorial in the ''Louisville Courier-Journal'':
--> No presidential candidate in the future will be so inept that four of his major speeches can be boiled down to these historic four sentences: Agriculture is important. Our rivers are full of fish. You cannot have freedom without liberty. Our future lies ahead.
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', during Dumbledore's [[spoiler:funeral]], Harry listens to Elphias Doge, mentioning things like "strength of mind" or "nobility of spirit", and thinks it doesn't mean very much. He then remembers some of the first words he ever heard Dumbledore speak, at the beginning of his 1st year -- "Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak!" -- has to suppress a smile, and wonders what's the matter with him. ([[TruthInTelevision Funny memories at]] [[spoiler:[[TheFunInFuneral funerals]] [[TruthInTelevision are not at all unusual]]]].)

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* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', during Dumbledore's [[spoiler:funeral]], [[spoiler:Dumbledore's funeral]], Harry listens to Elphias Doge, mentioning things like "strength of mind" or "nobility of spirit", spirit," and thinks it doesn't mean very much. He then remembers some of the first words he ever heard Dumbledore speak, at the beginning of his 1st year -- "Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak!" -- has to suppress a smile, and wonders what's the matter with him. ([[TruthInTelevision Funny memories at]] [[spoiler:[[TheFunInFuneral funerals]] [[TruthInTelevision are not at all unusual]]]].)

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* A whole number is devoted to that in ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas''. The governor of Texas is responding to the press.
-->Fellow Texans, I am proudly standing here to humbly see. I assure you, and I mean it- Now, who says I don't speak out as plain as day? And, fellow Texans, I'm for progress and the flag- long may it fly. I'm a poor boy, come to greatness. So, it follows that I cannot tell a lie.
-->(Chorus) Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step, cut a little swathe and lead the people on.
-->Now my good friends, it behooves me to be solemn and declare, I'm for goodness and for profit and for living clean and saying daily prayer. And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I'll continue to stand tall. You can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon y'all...
-->Now, Miss Mona, I don't know her, though I've heard the name, oh yes. But, of course I've no close contact, so what she is doing I can only guess. And now, Miss Mona, she's a blemish on the face of that good town. I am taking certain steps here, someone somewhere's gonna have to close her down.

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* A whole number is devoted to that "The Sidestep" in ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas''. The governor of Texas is responding to ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas'' (see the press.
-->Fellow Texans, I am proudly standing here to humbly see. I assure you, and I mean it- Now, who says I don't speak out as plain as day? And, fellow Texans, I'm for progress and the flag- long may it fly. I'm a poor boy, come to greatness. So, it follows that I cannot tell a lie.
-->(Chorus) Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step, cut a little swathe and lead the people on.
-->Now my good friends, it behooves me to be solemn and declare, I'm for goodness and for profit and for living clean and saying daily prayer. And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I'll continue to stand tall. You can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon y'all...
-->Now, Miss Mona, I don't know her, though I've heard the name, oh yes. But, of course I've no close contact, so what she is doing I can only guess. And now, Miss Mona, she's a blemish
Theatre section on the face of that good town. I am taking certain steps here, someone somewhere's gonna have to close her down.this page).



* This turns out to be a key plot point in ''Film/GlassOnion''. [[spoiler: [[Fiction500 Miles Braun]], the tech bro/guru who is hosting his annual meeting of his circle of friends known as the Disruptors, is quite fond of waxing philosophical about the nature of the world and how it's only people like them who can truly make change. But Miles is ultimately revealed to be a [[KnowNothingKnowItAll complete moron]] who doesn't know a goddamn thing about what he's saying, and furthermore steals the ideas and work of other people to push himself up while using his endless cash flow to keep the other Disruptors loyal. Viewers can [[{{Foreshadowing}} spot this early on]] by listening carefully to Miles's speeches and noticing all of the factual errors and mispronunciations in them. As Benoit Blanc sums it up, the key to the whole mystery is quite simple: "Miles Braun is an ''idiot.''"]]

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* This turns out to be a key plot point in ''Film/GlassOnion''. [[spoiler: [[Fiction500 Miles Braun]], Bron]], the tech bro/guru who is hosting his annual meeting of his circle of friends known as the Disruptors, is quite fond of waxing philosophical about the nature of the world and how it's only people like them who can truly make change. But Miles is ultimately revealed to be a [[KnowNothingKnowItAll complete moron]] who doesn't know a goddamn thing about what he's saying, and furthermore steals the ideas and work of other people to push himself up while using his endless cash flow to keep the other Disruptors loyal. Viewers can [[{{Foreshadowing}} spot this early on]] by listening carefully to Miles's speeches and noticing all of the factual errors and mispronunciations in them. As Benoit Blanc sums it up, the key to the whole mystery is quite simple: "Miles Braun Bron is an ''idiot.''"]]





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* In ''Theatre/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas'', the governor has a number called "The Sidestep" about his using this type of language to avoid answering questions or dealing with issues:
-->Fellow Texans, I am proudly standing here to humbly see. I assure you, and I mean it- Now, who says I don't speak out as plain as day? And, fellow Texans, I'm for progress and the flag- long may it fly. I'm a poor boy, come to greatness. So, it follows that I cannot tell a lie...
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* The page image comes from ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'', which lampoons the ''Franchise/MetalGear's'' love for this trope. Note that the dialogue used for the comic is actual game dialogue.

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* The page image comes from ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'', which lampoons the ''Franchise/MetalGear's'' ''VideoGame/MetalGear'''s love for this trope. Note that the dialogue used for the comic is actual game dialogue.
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* ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresDoubleActs:'' In "The Rebel Alliance", the meek mother of the bride has been excluded by her daughter's mother in-law, with her only permitted contribution to the reception being a small, brief poem about apples that has nothing to do with anything. The other bride's ex figures this was part of the mother-in-law's revenge, searching the internet for the most meaningless guff she could find.
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* The 2008 ''Literature/LyttleLyttonContest'' featured this gem from ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan #544'' (the first part of ComicBook/OneMoreDay):

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* The 2008 ''Literature/LyttleLyttonContest'' featured this gem from ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan #544'' ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1999'' #544 (the first part of ComicBook/OneMoreDay):
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* This turns out to be a key plot point in ''Film/GlassOnion''. [[spoiler: [[Fiction500 Miles Braun]], the tech bro/guru who is hosting his annual meeting of his circle of friends known as the Disruptors, is quite fond of waxing philosophical about the nature of the world and how it's only people like them who can truly make change. But Miles is ultimately revealed to be a [[KnowNothingKnowItAll complete moron]] who doesn't know a goddamn thing about what he's saying, and furthermore steals the ideas and work of other people to push himself up while using his endless cash flow to keep the other Disruptors loyal. Viewers can [[{{Foreshadowing}} spot this early on]] by listening carefully to Miles's speeches and noticing all of the factual errors and mispronunciations in them. As Benoit Blanc sums it up, the key to the whole mystery is quite simple: "Miles Braun is an ''idiot.''"]]


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* In the Main/CommediaDellArte, this is one of the character traits of Il Dottore. As a KnowNothingKnowItAll, he often peppers his speeches with words from different languages and, depending on what kind of doctor he is, legal and medical nonsense that makes him sound intelligent but doesn't actually mean anything. In some cases Il Dottore even randomly conjugates words using their Latin roots--for example, "I went inside then went ''ex''side"--as a sign of his supposed learnedness.


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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Mr. Green Runs," local butcher Mr. Green gets fed up with Councilman [[MeaningfulName Gladhand]], the elected representative for the neighborhood, and decides to run against him for the seat. Gladhand uses important-sounding but hollow words in his speeches, and at first, Mr. Green thinks he needs to do the same. However, after a pep talk from Arnold, Green realizes that he should play to his own strengths and begins communicating with clear langauge and easy to understand metaphors instead. The strategy works, leading to Gladhand's defeat.
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* The page image comes from ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'', which lampoons the ''Franchise/MetalGear's'' love for this trope. Note that the dialogue used for the comic is actual game dialogue.
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* ''R.E.M.'''s song 'Pop Song 89' is about the banality of pop music. Almost all its lyrics, as a result, embody this trope to demonstrate the point.

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* ''R.E.M.'''s ''Music/{{REM}}'''s song 'Pop Song 89' is about the banality of pop music. Almost all its lyrics, as a result, embody this trope to demonstrate the point.
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* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', Bella uses very melodramatic words to describe things. This was to make her sound smart, especially in contrast to the mediocre slang her classmates use.

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* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', Bella uses very melodramatic words to describe things. This was to make her sound smart, especially in contrast to the mediocre slang her classmates use.
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': At one point a city councilman looking for re-election enters the bar, hoping to drum up support. An irate Frasier tries to point out he's just spouting off meaningless gabble no matter what he's asked, but since Fras is the smartest person in Cheers, he's got no luck.

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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': At one point a city councilman looking for re-election enters the bar, hoping to drum up support. An irate Frasier tries to point out he's just spouting off meaningless gabble no matter what he's asked, but since Fras Frasier is the smartest person in Cheers, he's got no luck.
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* ''Series/TheOffice'': In the 8th season episode Gettysburg, Robert California thinks that Kevin is talking about something profound when he talks about the best cookie in the vending machine. It takes until the end of the episode to realize he's talking about cookies.

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* ''Series/TheOffice'': ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': In the 8th season episode Gettysburg, Robert California thinks that Kevin is talking about something profound when he talks about the best cookie in the vending machine. It takes until the end of the episode to realize he's talking about cookies.
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* ''Series/TheOffice'': In the 8th season episode Gettysburg, Robert California thinks that Kevin is talking about something profound when he talks about the best cookie in the vending machine. It takes until the end of the episode to realize he's talking about cookies.
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** Incidentally, when most Jedi speak this way, it comes across as this. Typically it's actually a JediTruth or a CassandraTruth that's been very cunningly disguised, apparently for no reason except that the Jedi are pretentious assholes.

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** Incidentally, when most Jedi speak this way, it comes across as this. Typically it's actually a JediTruth MetaphoricallyTrue or a CassandraTruth that's been very cunningly disguised, apparently for no reason except that the Jedi are pretentious assholes.
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* Justified in Creator/GlenCook's ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'' series. In the Books of the South, an overly melodramatic description of a stone plain is used repeatedly. Later on, the characters go to the Plain and find that the crucified demon, the glowing runes in the stones, and the freaky weather that are shown through the PurpleProse are not bad metaphors, they're simply accurate descriptions.

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* Justified Subverted in Creator/GlenCook's ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'' series. In the Books of the South, an overly melodramatic description of a stone plain is used repeatedly. Later on, the characters go to the Plain and find that the crucified demon, the glowing runes in the stones, and the freaky weather that are shown through the PurpleProse are not bad metaphors, they're simply accurate descriptions.
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* Thomas Wolfe's novels are made of this; when he isn't putting his MartyStu heroes through the wringer, he has an unfortunate tendency to start going on and on about "O lost" and the "stone" and the "web" and the "river" whenever he wants to make the reader feel vaguely soulful. It worked on some people: Creator/FlanneryOConnor quoted a remark by Creator/JamesJones to the effect that when Jones read Wolfe's novels, he (Jones) realised that he'd been a writer all his life even though he'd never tried to write anything, and O'Connor went on to [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] that Wolfe's fiction did a lot of damage of this kind but that Jones was a particularly egregious example.

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* Thomas Wolfe's novels are made of this; when he isn't putting his MartyStu heroes through the wringer, he has an unfortunate tendency to start going on and on about "O lost" and the "stone" and the "web" and the "river" whenever he wants to make the reader feel vaguely soulful. It worked on some people: Creator/FlanneryOConnor quoted a remark by Creator/JamesJones to the effect that when Jones read Wolfe's novels, he (Jones) realised that he'd been a writer all his life even though he'd never tried to write anything, and O'Connor went on to [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] that Wolfe's fiction did a lot of damage of this kind but that Jones was a particularly egregious example.
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The ancient mantra of the Knuckles Clan became this in the comic: "The servers are the seven chaos. Chaos is power, enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the chaos". It came from the games, where it actually made sense, as it was saying (albeit in a somewhat cryptic way, mainly due to the wording chosen by the translators[[note]]a more direct translation of the third sentence would be "The one who masters that also controls the chaos"[[/note]]) that the [[MineralMacguffin Chaos Emeralds]] can transform wishes into power, so one needs have control over their will and emotions to be able to master their powers. But in the Archie Sonic universe, [[OrphanedReference Chaos Emeralds were far more numerous and disposable]] [[AdaptationInducedPlothole and had never been shown to react to will or emotions.]] The writers seemed to realize this (or perhaps they just didn't [[CriticalResearchFailure know the actual meaning...]]), as they tried to HandWave it by taking the first sentence a tad bit too literally and saying that it referred to seven [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Chao]] ''who were called the Seven Servers'' and had been transformed into seven Super Emeralds long ago. Too bad that this still left most of the mantra unexplained and only resulted in it [[VoodooShark becoming even more confusing and nonsensical]]...

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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The ancient mantra of the Knuckles Clan became this in the comic: "The servers are the seven chaos. Chaos is power, enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the chaos". It came from the games, where it actually made sense, as it was saying (albeit in a somewhat cryptic way, mainly due to the wording chosen by the translators[[note]]a more direct translation of the third sentence would be "The one who masters that also controls the chaos"[[/note]]) that the [[MineralMacguffin Chaos Emeralds]] can transform wishes into power, so one needs have control over their will and emotions to be able to master their powers. But in the Archie Sonic universe, [[OrphanedReference Chaos Emeralds were far more numerous and disposable]] [[AdaptationInducedPlothole and had never been shown to react to will or emotions.]] The writers seemed to realize this (or perhaps they just didn't [[CriticalResearchFailure know the actual meaning...]]), ), as they tried to HandWave it by taking the first sentence a tad bit too literally and saying that it referred to seven [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Chao]] ''who were called the Seven Servers'' and had been transformed into seven Super Emeralds long ago. Too bad that this still left most of the mantra unexplained and only resulted in it [[VoodooShark becoming even more confusing and nonsensical]]...
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The ancient mantra of the Knuckles Clan became this in the comic: "The servers are the seven chaos. Chaos is power, enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the chaos". It came from the games, where it actually made sense, as it was saying (albeit in a somewhat cryptic way, mainly due to the wording chosen by the translators[[note]]a more direct translation of the third sentence would be "The one who masters that also controls the chaos"[[/note]]) that the [[MineralMacguffin Chaos Emeralds]] can transform wishes into power, so one needs have control over their will and emotions to be able to master their powers. But in the Archie Sonic universe, [[OrphanedReference Chaos Emeralds were far more numerous and disposable]] [[AdaptationInducedPlothole and had never been shown to react to will or emotions.]] The writers seemed to realize this (or perhaps they just didn't [[CriticalResearchFailure know the actual meaning...]]), as they tried to HandWave it by taking the first sentence a tad bit too literally and saying that it referred to seven [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Chao]] ''who were called the Seven Servers'' and had been transformed into seven Super Emeralds long ago. Too bad that this still left most of mantra unexplained and only resulted in it [[VoodooShark becoming even more confusing and nonsensical]]...

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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The ancient mantra of the Knuckles Clan became this in the comic: "The servers are the seven chaos. Chaos is power, enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the chaos". It came from the games, where it actually made sense, as it was saying (albeit in a somewhat cryptic way, mainly due to the wording chosen by the translators[[note]]a more direct translation of the third sentence would be "The one who masters that also controls the chaos"[[/note]]) that the [[MineralMacguffin Chaos Emeralds]] can transform wishes into power, so one needs have control over their will and emotions to be able to master their powers. But in the Archie Sonic universe, [[OrphanedReference Chaos Emeralds were far more numerous and disposable]] [[AdaptationInducedPlothole and had never been shown to react to will or emotions.]] The writers seemed to realize this (or perhaps they just didn't [[CriticalResearchFailure know the actual meaning...]]), as they tried to HandWave it by taking the first sentence a tad bit too literally and saying that it referred to seven [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Chao]] ''who were called the Seven Servers'' and had been transformed into seven Super Emeralds long ago. Too bad that this still left most of the mantra unexplained and only resulted in it [[VoodooShark becoming even more confusing and nonsensical]]...



-->Now my good friends, it behooves me to be solemn and declare, I'm for goodness and for profit and for living clean and saying daily prayer. And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I'll continue to stand tall. You can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon ya'll...

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-->Now my good friends, it behooves me to be solemn and declare, I'm for goodness and for profit and for living clean and saying daily prayer. And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I'll continue to stand tall. You can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon ya'll...y'all...



* The filmic adaptation of ''Film/WintersTale'' opens with this fairly nonsensical voiceover:

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** The pass phrases in ''Literature/GuardsGuards'': "The significant owl hoots in the night. The caged whale knows nothing of the mighty deeps." This is parody of SpySpeak (it had to be so outrageously complex because SpySpeak is ridiculous in its own right).
** In ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind finds the enthusiastically shouted slogans of the Red Army to be this. After a while he joins in with lines like "Tuppence A Bucket, Well Stamped Down" and "How's Your Granny Off For Soap?" The fact no-one seems to notice he's making fun of them confirms his suspicions.

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** The pass phrases in ''Literature/GuardsGuards'': "The significant owl hoots in the night. The caged whale knows nothing of the mighty deeps." This is a parody of SpySpeak (it had to be so outrageously complex because SpySpeak is ridiculous in its own right).
** In ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind finds the enthusiastically shouted slogans of the Red Army to be this. After a while while, he joins in with lines like "Tuppence A Bucket, Well Stamped Down" and "How's Your Granny Off For Soap?" The fact no-one no one seems to notice he's making fun of them confirms his suspicions.



* An InUniverse instance occurs in Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheEncyclopedists": the planet Terminus is under the threat of annexation by more than one aggressive neighbor. The [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] sends an envoy who gives them what sounds like assurances that the Empire will not let this happen. However, when the Mayor of Terminus subjects the man's words to symbolic logic, striping away all the meaningless political babble, he's left with... absolutely nothing. The man, in several days of talk, said nothing of any actual substance and none of his audience noticed.

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* An InUniverse instance occurs in Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheEncyclopedists": the planet Terminus is under the threat of annexation by more than one aggressive neighbor. The [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] sends an envoy who gives them what sounds like assurances that the Empire will not let this happen. However, when the Mayor of Terminus subjects the man's words to symbolic logic, striping stripping away all the meaningless political babble, he's left with... absolutely nothing. The man, in several days of talk, said nothing of any actual substance and none of his audience noticed.



* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', during Dumbledore's [[spoiler:funeral,]] Harry listens to Elphias Doge, mentioning things like "strength of mind" or "nobility of spirit", and thinks it doesn't mean very much. He then remembers some of the first words he ever heard Dumbledore speak, at the beginning of his 1st year -- "Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak!" -- has to suppress a smile, and wonders what's the matter with him. ([[TruthInTelevision Funny memories at]] [[spoiler:[[TheFunInFuneral funerals]] [[TruthInTelevision are not at all unusual]]]].)

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* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', during Dumbledore's [[spoiler:funeral,]] [[spoiler:funeral]], Harry listens to Elphias Doge, mentioning things like "strength of mind" or "nobility of spirit", and thinks it doesn't mean very much. He then remembers some of the first words he ever heard Dumbledore speak, at the beginning of his 1st year -- "Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak!" -- has to suppress a smile, and wonders what's the matter with him. ([[TruthInTelevision Funny memories at]] [[spoiler:[[TheFunInFuneral funerals]] [[TruthInTelevision are not at all unusual]]]].)



** Out of universe, of course, book-Daenerys never says this phrase or anything like it, it's an invention of the showrunners. Book-fansites like the owners of semi-official Westeros.org mocked when the TV show started using it in Season 4, accusing that the showrunners just thought it was a cool line that sounded important but had no real higher meaning planned out.

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** Out of universe, of course, book-Daenerys never says this phrase or anything like it, it's an invention of the showrunners. Book-fansites Book fansites like the owners of semi-official Westeros.org mocked when the TV show started using it in Season 4, accusing that the showrunners of just thought thinking it was a cool line that sounded important but had no real higher meaning planned out.



* The various tech companies seen on ''Series/SiliconValley'' love to spout out buzzword filled videos and literature to try and seem as if they're doing something to help the world when it's really just an ego trip for everyone involved or desperate attempts at gaining funding. By contrast, it's the socially awkward Richard's plain and somewhat stilted presentation that makes the most impact (helped greatly by the fact that Pied Piper is a revolutionary compression algorithm).

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* The various tech companies seen on ''Series/SiliconValley'' love to spout out buzzword filled buzzword-filled videos and literature to try and seem as if they're doing something to help the world when it's really just an ego trip for everyone involved or desperate attempts at gaining funding. By contrast, it's the socially awkward Richard's plain and somewhat stilted presentation that makes the most impact (helped greatly by the fact that Pied Piper is a revolutionary compression algorithm).



-->'''Will''': "...prove that self-determination is the watchword of all mankind."
-->'''Toby''': "The watchword of all mankind"? I don't know what that means.
-->'''Will''': Don't worry, neither will anyone else.

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-->'''Will''': --->'''Will''': "...prove that self-determination is the watchword of all mankind."
-->'''Toby''': --->'''Toby''': "The watchword of all mankind"? I don't know what that means.
-->'''Will''': --->'''Will''': Don't worry, neither will anyone else.



* Music/WeirdAlYankovic absolutely skewers the trope, as it applies to big business (see Real Life below), in his song "Mission Statement". The best part is that he's using the buzz words and jargon correctly and coherently, it just boils down to an incredibly CaptainObvious set of mission statements like "We'll make the most money by selling things we have to sell".

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* Music/WeirdAlYankovic absolutely skewers the trope, as it applies to big business (see Real Life below), in his song "Mission Statement". The best part is that he's using the buzz words buzzwords and jargon correctly and coherently, it just boils down to an incredibly CaptainObvious set of mission statements like "We'll make the most money by selling things we have to sell".



* Jeff Williams' songs for ''Webanimation/{{RWBY}}'' are somehow more coherent than expected from something that emerges from readthroughs of the script - at times whole lines of dialogue are made into lyrics - but volume 1's "This Will Be The Day" ("I don't wanna hear your absolution\Hope you're ready for a revolution\Welcome to a world of new solutions\Welcome to a world of bloody evolution") is guilty of this.

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* Jeff Williams' songs for ''Webanimation/{{RWBY}}'' ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' are somehow more coherent than expected from something that emerges from readthroughs of the script - at times whole lines of dialogue are made into lyrics - but volume 1's "This Will Be The Day" ("I don't wanna hear your absolution\Hope you're ready for a revolution\Welcome to a world of new solutions\Welcome to a world of bloody evolution") is guilty of this.



* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' features a unique gun whose flavor text is "Bison bison had had had had had bison bison bison shi shi shi". It looks like a word salad, but in reality, it's a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo how repeating eight times "buffalo" results in a gramatically correct English sentence]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher an English grammar puzzle where inserting the right punctuation on a sentence that repeats "had" 11 times makes it actually readable and meaningful]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den a Chinese poem that, when read out loud, sounds like "shi shi shi shi shi shi"]].

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* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' features a unique gun whose flavor text is "Bison bison had had had had had bison bison bison shi shi shi". It looks like a word salad, but in reality, it's a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo how repeating eight times "buffalo" results in a gramatically grammatically correct English sentence]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher an English grammar puzzle where inserting the right punctuation on a sentence that repeats "had" 11 times makes it actually readable and meaningful]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den a Chinese poem that, when read out loud, sounds like "shi shi shi shi shi shi"]].



--> "Huge Spaceship is not a spaceship; it is a broken thought on a petal wing."

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--> "Huge -->"Huge Spaceship is not a spaceship; it is a broken thought on a petal wing."



'''Sam: '''What?\\
'''Dr. Bright: '''Exactly.

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'''Sam: '''What?\\
'''Sam:''' What?\\
'''Dr. Bright: '''Exactly.Bright:''' Exactly.



* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Brian write a typical meaningless book full of these on a dare. Even the title (''Wish It. Want It. Get It.'') fits. The book is an instant bestseller, and the success goes to Brian's head. He's eventually invited to ''The Real Time with Bill Maher'', where Maher thoroughly hands him his tail. First, he analyzes the title of the book, pointing out that "wish" and "want" are, pretty much, synonyms. And neither the title nor the book explain how to get from "wish"/"want" to "get", invoking the MissingStepsPlan trope. Further, when Brian tries to bullshit his way through it by claiming he's only tapping into the people's zeitgeist, another panel member asks Brian if he even knows what "zeitgeist" means (for the record, it's "the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time"). Unable to answer, Brian blurts out that he wrote it in a few days and, when Maher tells him everything he thinks about him, ends up peeing on the floor, causing Maher to shoo him out.

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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Brian write a typical meaningless book full of these on a dare. Even the title (''Wish It. Want It. Get It.'') fits. The book is an instant bestseller, and the success goes to Brian's head. He's eventually invited to ''The Real Time with Bill Maher'', where Maher thoroughly hands him his tail. First, he analyzes the title of the book, pointing out that "wish" and "want" are, pretty much, synonyms. And neither the title nor the book explain explains how to get from "wish"/"want" to "get", invoking the MissingStepsPlan trope. Further, when Brian tries to bullshit his way through it by claiming he's only tapping into the people's zeitgeist, another panel member asks Brian if he even knows what "zeitgeist" means (for the record, it's "the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time"). Unable to answer, Brian blurts out that he wrote it in a few days and, when Maher tells him everything he thinks about him, ends up peeing on the floor, causing Maher to shoo him out.



* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Hank's father in law is a Montana rancher who speaks exclusively in these. Naturally, Hank eats it up.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Hank's father in law father-in-law is a Montana rancher who speaks exclusively in these. Naturally, Hank eats it up.



** One might argue that that it is the inherent characteristic of buzzwords that almost always are scientific terms used in improper context. E.g. synergy.
*** Speaking of which, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgeLY7CL5IE this IBM commercial]] is a TakeThat to that concept. The employees devise a "corporate meeting" version of BINGO, because they're bored to tears with such meaningless meetings that are clogged full of those annoying buzzwords.

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** One might argue that that it is the inherent characteristic of buzzwords that almost always are scientific terms used in improper context. E.g. synergy.
*** Speaking of which, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgeLY7CL5IE this IBM commercial]] is a TakeThat to that concept. The employees devise a "corporate meeting" version of BINGO, BINGO because they're bored to tears with such meaningless meetings that are clogged full of those annoying buzzwords.



* A favorite of network slogan/mottos, which are generally designed to try and create a vague sense of camaraderie and connection, without actually making any promises or going over an easy soundbite. "Now, more than ever" is an excellent example of this, leading to many asking "''What'' now more than ever?!"

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* A favorite of network slogan/mottos, slogans/mottos, which are generally designed to try and create a vague sense of camaraderie and connection, without actually making any promises or going over an easy soundbite. "Now, more than ever" is an excellent example of this, leading to many asking "''What'' now more than ever?!"



* According to some, postmodernism. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair Exhibit 1.]] Or indeed, any use of "post-" as a prefix (postironic, postfeminism etc). The problem is how the writer has reached the conclusion that we're all "post" a certain movement, and "when" exactly that leaves us now. Some well-educated people use postmodernism as synonym of 'deconstruction' even though the latter [[OlderThanTheyThink has been used since ancient times]], sometimes to the point of DeconstructorFleet. It makes you wonder if some 'experts' ever heard of Aristophanes, Villon, Cervantes or Rabelais.
** This can be worked around by applying theory retroactively to older works. If you see anything called proto-feminist, proto-postmodern or what have you, then it is basically this.

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* According to some, postmodernism. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair Exhibit 1.]] Or indeed, any use of "post-" as a prefix (postironic, postfeminism postfeminism, etc). The problem is how the writer has reached the conclusion that we're all "post" a certain movement, and "when" exactly that leaves us now. Some well-educated people use postmodernism as a synonym of for 'deconstruction' even though the latter [[OlderThanTheyThink has been used since ancient times]], sometimes to the point of DeconstructorFleet. It makes you wonder if some 'experts' ever heard of Aristophanes, Villon, Cervantes Cervantes, or Rabelais.
** This can be worked around by applying theory retroactively to older works. If you see anything called proto-feminist, proto-postmodern proto-postmodern, or what have you, then it is basically this.



* Website/TVTropes itself contains an high percentage of articles where the word "said" is used before a noun, when a perfectly ordinary "the" would have communicated the point just fine, and been less awkward. The "said (noun)" construction appears to be gaining ground on the Internet in general, in an apparent attempt to make a statement sound either educated or sardonic, with varying results.

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* Website/TVTropes itself contains an a high percentage of articles where the word "said" is used before a noun, noun when a perfectly ordinary "the" would have communicated the point just fine, and been less awkward. The "said (noun)" construction appears to be gaining ground on the Internet in general, in an apparent attempt to make a statement sound either educated or sardonic, with varying results.
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