History Main / ParrotExposition

* MichaelCrichton in ''Sphere'' has a character use ParrotExposition on purpose as a psychological trick (the character in question is a psychologist, and wants to get more info without putting much in). The other person catches on soon enough.

* It's OVER NINE THOUSAAAND!

* ''The Court Jester'' has the MostTriumphantExample:

TruthInTelevision, especially in the form quoted above. Sometimes you just want a bit more detail. Worth noting that in Japanese, the language that many examples are translated from, does this a lot as a mechanic of the conversational language.

* ''{{Final Fantasy V}} Advance'' lampshaded this tendency when the sage Ghido described the twelve legendary weapons.

** To be fair, all operas do this as a musical cadence. See ''WhatsOperaDoc'' ("My sword and magic helmet!")

* Every single acquired weapon in ''[[MegaMan Mega Man 7]]'' leads to an exchange between Megaman and Dr. Light: [[CaptainObvious "The Scorch Wheel shoots a flaming wheel, right?" "Yes, and it can also be used to burn things!"]]

* KnightsOfTheOldRepublic, both games: Whenever T3-M4 says anything, somebody will repeat what it said back to him so the player can understand. (Oddly, all the various incomprehensible alien languages get subtitles... but T3's subtitles are just transliterations of his beeps.)

88 Notably, he's most likely to do this during scenes where it is revealed he's important. Or, to put it more simply, he has a hard time believing he's special. He is, after all "Just Harry".

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* Amusingly, even ''EscapeFromNewYork'' has an instance of this. If this isn't HilariousInHindsight, then I don't know what is.

* {{Bowdlerized}} anime dubs seem fond of this to really pound the point home that the thing that looks a whole lot like a gun and is being held a lot like you'd hold a gun isn't actually a gun. Fore example, go watch the dub version of the duel in ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]'' between Yugi and Pandora/Arkana. Try and count how many times they repeat "If that dark duel disk touches me, it will [[NeverSayDie send my mind to the shadow realm!]]" I dare you.

* Countless {{Ranma OneHalf}} stories begin this way. The first panel will have Ranma (or whoever) repeating something which was said just before the story began, usually the name of a new martial arts technique or {{MacGuffin}} which will drive the plot. The exposition character (Soun or Genma at first; in later stories it's usually Happosai) will then explain things for everyone's benefit. Something of an aversion in that we don't hear the first part of the conversation; the story always ''starts'' with Ranma going "Martial Arts Tea Ceremony?!?" or whatever.

* Speaking of Takahashi, she modifies the above approach for {{Inuyasha}}, which likes to pick itself up from cliffhangers this way. A chapter will end with a character delivering a shock revelation ("Kikyo's alive!") Then the next chapter will start with everyone else parroting it back ("What? Kikyo's Alive?!") which handily puts the reader back in the moment and brings them up to speed. Then the character who dropped the bombshell will proceed to explain the details.

* In the MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha StrikerS manga

* {{Bowdlerized}} anime dubs seem fond of this to really pound the point home that the thing that looks a whole lot like a gun and is being held a lot like you'd hold a gun isn't actually a gun. Fore example, go watch the dub version of the duel in ''YuGiOh'' between Yugi and Pandora. Try and count how many times they repeat "If that dark duel disk touches me, it will [[NeverSayDie send my mind to the shadow realm!]]" I dare you.

Often done by TheWatson. Compare SoWhatYouAreSaying, for when we ''can't'' hear the other side of the conversation

* ''MetalGearSolid'' has its protagonist, Solid Snake, repeating everything that whoever is telling him about something, or going "huh?". Used less in ''[[MetalGearSolid3 Snake Eater]]'' (although when the name "Metal Gear" is mentioned for the first and only time, of ''course'' Naked Snake has to say it), but still pretty abundant. Snake's voice actor, David Hayter, made fun of this tendency in a podcast, in which he joked that most of his dialogue was "repeating whatever everyone else says but with a question mark on the end." This happens less often in ''MetalGearSolid4'', though it's less because Snake understands what people are saying and more because he just doesn't care. So, rather than saying "So it'll make me smarter, huh?", he'd say, "Okay, so...what now?". This was {{lampshaded}} in ''Metal Gear AC!D2'', when an amnesiac Snake accesses a terminal and comes across data on the eponymous machine.

* ''The Court Jester'' has TheMostTriumphantExample:

** You've obviously never had Mcdonald's burgers.
** Or a severe food allergy.

--->'''Hauk:''' You go in, find the President and bring him out in 24 hours, and you're a free man.
--->'''Snake:''' 24 hours, huh?

--->'''Hauk:'''You go in, find the President and bring him out in 24 hours, and you're a free man.
--->'''Snake:'''24 hours, huh?