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* On ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'', this is Stooge Viller to [[TheUnintelligible Mumbles]], only he's simply translating Mumbles' mumbling. It becomes the focal point of "Court Jester" as the two criminals are being tried for forgery, but Stooge has escaped. The prosecution can't get a conviction from Mumbles without Stooge there to translate him.

** It's often PlayedForLaughs with Booth, as it frustrates him to no end that the forensics team will often use the most technical language possible to describe ''anything." In one episode, Zach is talking about a "small domestic container" and Booth has to clarify that yes, he's talking about a jar.

-->'''Skeptic:''' “Is something confusing you? Is this even a question you want answered? What's keeping you from answering properly like "What do you mean by footage?", do you have too much pride? If someone says "One!", do you go "One?" like a parrot? Can you think critically? Use your imagination? Are your neurons taking a vacation? You need us to spell everything out and tell you that two plus two is four? Why should we?''\\

* Before the climax of 'Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', Aragorn proposes attacking Minas Tirith to draw Sauron's forces away from Frodo, who is the only person critical to defeating Sauron. Legolas remarks, "A diversion!"

-->'''Skeptic:''' Is something confusing you? Is this even a question you want answered? What's keeping you from answering properly like "What do you mean by footage?", do you have too much pride? If someone says "One!", do you go "One?" like a parrot? Can you think critically? Use your imagination? Are your neurons taking a vacation? You need us to spell everything out and tell you that two plus two is four? Why should we?''\\

-->''Is something confusing you? Is this even a question you want answered? What's keeping you from answering properly like "What do you mean by footage?", do you have too much pride? If someone says "One!", do you go "One?" like a parrot? Can you think critically? Use your imagination? Are your neurons taking a vacation? You need us to spell everything out and tell you that two plus two is four? Why should we?"''\\

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' Skeptic from the Meta Liberation Army deconstruits this trope - wondering aloud about why anyone with a working brain cell would lack the capability of asking a proper question.

** In this Snake's case, it seems that he's planning to cheat Hauk. This is before, of course, the bomb capsules are implanted.

* All the time in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'', at least when Claude's the main character. Although he's justified as he's pretty much a stranger to place he just landed in while Rena's lived there her whole life.
** When Claude's the main character? Christ. Every other freaking line of his dialogue in the first four hours.
* In its sequel, Fayt cannot stop using this trope. Once the player reaches Elicoor II, literal hours are devoted to Fayt and Cliff answering Nel's questions with questions or back and forth rounds of "Yes?" "Yes." with other {{Non Player Character}}s.

* If we had a leg of meat for every time this happened in later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', we'd be able to feed most of the hungry children in this world. The eponymous sponge even managed to do this with the [[FunWithAcronyms long and rather clumsy]] S.D.E.A.S.E. ("Snail Disease Expert and Snail Expert") - no fumbling over it or anything, he just did it.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' in a classic exchange between Freakazoid and Roddy [=McStew=].
-->'''Roddy [=McStew=]:''' From what ya tell me, it sounds like you can only use your telekinetic powers when you're really angry!\\
'''Freakazoid:''' Then I'll only use them when I'm really angry!\\
'''Roddy [=McStew=]:''' THAT'S WHAT I JUST SAID!! CAN YOU HEAR ME OR IS THERE A WEE GOBLIN IN YOUR HEAD EATING MY WORDS!?\\
'''Freakazoid:''' I... don't think there's a goblin in there...

* Botch did this whenever Mr. Peevly gave an order on ''WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch''.
-->'''Peevly:''' That's it for morning inspection. Everyone back to their cages.\\
'''Botch:''' Yeah. Everyone back to their cages!\\
'''Peevly:''' (''slow burning'') Uh, Botch...if I'd wanted an echo, (''full volume'') '''''I'd have hired the Grand Canyon!!'''''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', Season 2, Lampshaded by the true BigBad when he offers an alliance with the local [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Demon King Rushu]] and he repeats what he just said in sheer incredulity.
-->'''[[spoiler: Quilby]]''': "Well, actually I've come to talk about that. Invasion, carnage... the works."\\
'''Rushu''': "Ivasion? Carnage? The works?"\\
'''[[spoiler: Quilby]]''' "[[DeadpanSnarker ... is there an echo here?]]"\\

* During NBC's coverage of the JFK assassination, Robert [=MacNeil=] phoned from Dallas to report that Kennedy had died. At first, [=MacNeil=] wasn't heard so Frank [=McGee=] relayed the report. Then the phone patch was put in so we heard [=MacNeil=] with [=McGee=] invoking the trope.

* [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', Act 1 Scene 2, thus fulfilling the JustForFun/ZerothLaw:

* ''Film/LordOfTheRings'': Before the climax, Aragorn proposes attacking Minas Tirith to draw Sauron's forces away from Frodo, who is the only person critical to defeating Sauron. Legolas remarks, "A diversion!"

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolalia Echolalia]], the unconscious, automatic repetition of another person's words, is a verbal tic common among young children and people suffering from various mental disorders.

* Likewise in the Cloverway dubbed ''Anime/SailorMoon'', EVERYONE'S magical ability to tell that [[strike:Haruka and Michiru]] [[DubNameChange Amara and Michelle]] and Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are cousins; even the random MonsterOfTheWeek; and comment on it.

* {{Bowdleri|se}}zed 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. For example, the duel in ''[[Anime/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' between Yugi and 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.
** Don't do it! It's a trap!

A type of exposition in which one character repeats another, pressing them on something they just said. Sometimes this happens repeatedly, making one of them look pretty knowledgeable and the other pretty clueless. [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound Or it can be simply annoying.]]

A type of exposition in which one character repeats another, pressing them on something they just said. Sometimes this happens repeatedly, making one of them look pretty knowledgeable and the other pretty clueless. [[MostAnnoyingSound Or it can be simply annoying.]]

* The verses of [[EarWorm "Zydrate Anatomy"]] in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' are based around this.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' is fond of the trope, including, from ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', preceding the boss fight with [[spoiler:HumongousMecha Metal [[strike:Gear]] Overlord]], the following.

--->'''Luke:''' Hey, sacred island, watch the language!