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-->'''Gloria:''' Mada-who-ha?

Like ParrotExposition, but the expositor can't even finish the word. Even if it is easy to remember. Also used when someone says a big word, like [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Palaeo-whatisit]]. Sometimes used out of spite, and sometimes used out of disbelief. Often used in {{Advertising}}. SisterTrope to {{Gesundheit}}, where the speaker finds the word so unpronounceable he thinks it must have been a sneeze. A common silly subtrope involves the expositor successfully repeating each ''part'' of a word, but still somehow unable to say the whole thing together:

-->'''Fry:''' [[PottyEmergency Where's your bathroom?]]\\

'''Fry:''' [[PottyFailure Eh, never mind.]]

* ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'':

* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', this exchange regarding Simba and Nala's arranged marriage comes up:

'''Shaw''': Huh? Bigfoot? (''[[Main/{{Facepalm}} face palms]]'') [[HypocriticalHumor I didn't realize I was talking to a couple of whack-jobs!]] (''picks up a roasted marshmallow on a stick by the campfire and points it at their dog Mr. Weenie'') Don't trust him. Pets are double agents. The moment you turn your back, he'll shiv ya! (''eats the roasted marshmallow, then tosses the stick to the ground as he leaves'')\\

'''Shaw''': Huh? Bigfoot? (''[[Main/{{Facepalm}} face palms]]'') I didn't realize I was talking to a couple of whack-jobs! (''picks up a roasted marshmallow on a stick by the campfire and points it at their dog Mr. Weenie'') Don't trust him. Pets are double agents. The moment you turn your back, he'll shiv ya! (''eats the roasted marshmallow, then tosses the stick to the ground as he leaves'')\\

--> "He went to Liechtenstein."\\

Like ParrotExposition, but the expositor can't even finish the word. Even if it is easy to remember. Also used when someone says a big word, like [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Palaeo-whatisit]]. Sometimes used out of spite, and sometimes used out of disbelief. Often used in {{Advertising}}. SisterTrope to {{Gesundheit}}, where the speaker finds the word so unpronounceable he thinks it must have been a sneeze. A common silly subtrope involves the expositer successfully repeating each ''part'' of a word, but still somehow unable to say the whole thing together:

'''[[Creator/JohnCandy Wilbur]]:''' THE EPIDERMAL ''[[BigWhat WHAT?!]]''

-->'''Jonathan:''' We don't know anything about a scarecrow or chicken formula. Look, buddy...I'm Jonathan Winters, the famous comedian.\\

'''Paul''': You know. An Egyptian tomb.

* In ''{{Comic/Runaways}}'', when Cloak and Dagger make their first appearance, Cloak sucks Alex, Chase, Nico, and Karolina into his cape before Molly rips it off of him. After Gertrude convinces them that they aren't murderers or kidnappers (as their parents, the real criminals, spread around), the following exchange occurs:

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', "Hremail 7" is a faux-flashback episode which features Homestar trying to introduce Strong Bad to the concept of e-mails and the Internet:
-->'''Strong Bad:''' A what-mail on the Inter-what?

* In {{El Chapulin Colorado}}, the eponymous hero would listen to some complex world, make the entire routine and then ad an astonished expression. As added fun, instead of repeating the whole word, the person just repeat the last sylables that Chapulín missed.

'''Shaw''': Homo-Say-What-us?\\

* A certain E*Trade commercial that [[LindsayLohan a certain actress]] claims is [[http://omg.yahoo.com/news/lindsay-lohan-suing-e-trade-for-milkaholic-parody/37130?nc violating her rights]].

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-->'''Fry:''' Where's your bathroom?\\

'''Fry:''' Eh, never mind.

'''Shaw''': Homo-Say-What-u s?\\

* ''TheSimpsons'':

* Spoofed on ''Series/{{Futurama}}'', in the episode "I, Roommate":

'''Bobbie''': We're scientists. Well, of sorts. And we're trying to secure photographic documentation of a real live ''homo sasquatchus''.\\
'''Shaw''': Homo-Say-Whatis?\\

'''Shaw''': Huh? Bigfoot? (''[[Main/{{Facepalm}} face palms]]'') I didn't realize l was talking to a couple of whack jobs! (''picks up a roasted marshmallow on a stick by the campfire and points it at their dog Mr. Weenie'') Don't trust him. Pets are double agents. The moment you turn your back, he'll shiv ya! (''eats the roasted marshmallow, and tosses the stick to the ground as he leaves'')\\

-> '''C.G.:''' Apparently, the impact of the Avian creature must of deactivated the mocular re-organizer.\\

C.G.: Apparently, the impact of the Avian creature must of deactivated the mocular re-organizer.
Ethan: The Whatta-who-nizer?
C.G.: I don't know! Expands the moculars or something. You call ask my father after he yells at me for breaking it.

(''Mr. Wheenie whimpers'')

* ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'': The paranoid Shaw comes across the couple Bob and Bobbie camping out and tells them he sees the future of planning a rebellion to overthrow the human race and become the dominating species on Earth. The couple's response his insane claims?

'''Shaw''': Homo-say-what-is?\\

-->'''Bobbie''': Oh, We know exactly what you mean.\\

'''Bobbie''': We're scientists. Well, of sorts. And we're trying to secure photographic documentation of a real live ''homo sasquatchus''\\

'''Shaw''': Huh? Bigfoot? (''[[Main/{{Facepalm}} face palms]]'') I didn't realize l was talking to a couple of whack jobs! (''picks up a roasted marshmallow on a stick by the campfire and points it at their dog Mr. Weenie'') Don't trust him. Pets are double agents. The moment you turn your backs, he'll shiv ya! (''eats the roasted marshmallow, and tosses the stick to the ground as he leaves'')\\
'''Bobbie''' :Oh, no, he can't! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint We had him fixed.]]\\

'''C.G.: Apparently, the impact of the Avian creature must of deactivated the mocular re-organizer.
'''Ethan: The Whatta-who-nizer?
'''C.G.: I don't know! Expands the moculars or something. You call ask my father after he yells at me for breaking it.