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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' usually has this, with a character, usually [[IdiotHero Ash]], repeating a move or Pokemon's name, in order for someone else to explain the move/Pokemon for the sake of the audience. Comes across as ViewersAreMorons and CaptainObvious sometimes, as this usually happens more than once per episode, with Pokemon and moves that we've seen many times before.

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'', dealing as it does with forensics, but it's only used when Agent Booth is in the room. If, for instance, Zach and Cam are alone in the lab dealing with X-rays, the average viewer will have no clue what they're talking about. And Bones tends to reciprocate when they're in the field, leading to her CatchPhrase; "I don't know what that means."

'''Peevly:''' (''slow burning'') Uh, Botch...if I'd wanted an echo, (''full volume'') '''''I'd have hired the Grand Canyon!!'''''

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

This can easily be TruthInTelevision. Sometimes you just want a bit more detail. Worth noting that Japanese, the language that many examples are translated from, does this a lot as a mechanic of the conversational language.

* LightNovel/{{Slayers}} frequently uses Gourry Gabriev as a DumbBlonde or even an outright IdiotHero in order to use this trope to manage info dumps about mystical stuff (powerful spells, monster society, magical items, etc) that the other characters (all being powerful, well-studied magic-users) would know, but the audience doesn't.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', in the {{Novel}}, Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya and Senjirou Kikuoka, a government worker in charge of the Virtual Division, met and this exchange occurred:

* Lord Farquaad and Gingy parodied this [[WaxingLyrical with the children's song "The Muffin Man"]] in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'':

* Lord Farquad and Gingy parodied this [[WaxingLyrical with the children's song "The Muffin Man"]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''

'''Farquad:''' The Muffin Man?\\

'''Farquad:''' Oh yes, I know the Muffin Man... Who lives on Drury Lane?\\

'''Farquad:''' The Muffin Man?!\\

'''Farquad:''' She's married to the Muffin Man...
** It's not just a song, either; the Muffin Man shows up in the sequel.

-->Why did you even rope me into this?
-->'Cause he roped me into this!
-->Well, him over there, he roped me into this!
-->Well, he roped me into this!
-->Well, what about me? He roped me into this.
-->Well, that one over there roped me into this.

** Ditto for civilian pilots. Partly because [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_disaster this]] is what happens if they don't.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', in the {{Novel}}, Kirigaya Kazuto an Kikuoka Senjirou, a government worker in charge of the Virtual Division, met and this exchange occurred:

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. Apparently, Skeptic isn’t a big fan of this trope.

* In Japanese society, this concept is known as Aizuchi, and is a special class of interjections. The idea behind it is that, when listening to someone, the listener makes small comments or repeats what was mentioned in the form of a question to show they are actively engaging with the conversation and understand what's being said. For example; if someone mentioned they were getting married, the listener would respond something to the effect of "You're getting married?". This is why various pieces of media from Japan tend to have characters repeat things they heard , as it conveys that the listener was paying attention and is often used to show the person is polite. This can, however, lead to some instances of confusion when a foreigner is the one speaking, as they may mistake these interjections as approval or agreement with what they're saying, when in reality these simply serve as assurances.

* ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow]]'': Soma tends to repeat what he gets told in amazed disbelief; but then again, when you [[spoiler:think you]] are an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, the chaos that is Castlevania can be difficult to digest.

* In the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' manga

'''Lord Victor''': A bullet? (''more loud thunder; Victor slams the shutters closed'') What ''kind'' of bullet?

*** An exception occurs when Chewie simply roars, and Han replies, "You said it, Chewie." Listening to the original tape reveals that he said "That old man's mad!" Han's next line however, is "Where ''did'' you dig up that old fossil," so Chewbacca's line can be reasonably guessed.

** Lampshaded in an episode where House and his team are being dogged by a film crew making a documentary about his patient; Chase needlessly explains a simple procedure to House and Cuddy, causing House to snap at how unnecessary it is to do so. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Chase motions toward the camera (of the film crew) and shyly mumbles out it was for their benefit. ]]
* Done often in the mytharc episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'', especially as the show progressed. (No, Mr. Carter, just because you make every last one of your poor actors stop and summarize the alien conspiracy storyline at least twice per episode doesn't mean it's actually going to make sense this time...) In the two-part episode at the beginning of the fifth season, the first half of the episode consisted of ''nothing but'' voice-overs summarizing the plot. The entire episode could have been condensed down to three and a half minutes. The name of that episode? "Redux".

* In an episode of ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Alex animates the figures in various famous paintings (and apparently the ''Mona Lisa,'' ''Blue Boy'' and ''The Scream'' are all located in New York[[note]]the first of those is in the Louvre in Paris, the second is in the Huntington Library near Pasadena, and there are four versions of the third, three in galleries in Oslo and one in a private collection[[/note]]) and can't get them to go back to their paintings. She calls her brother who repeats exactly what she's saying until she tells him 'Stop repeating everything I'm saying.' Which he repeats, ''then'' figures out that she's talking about magic and he's standing around a [[{{Muggles}} non-wizard]].

'''Hunter:''' Shut up Snake. They're transgenants, just shoot them.

In an episode of ''Series/FraggleRock'', Mokey is going on a hike up Wonder Mountain for a solitary meditative experience: the Aurora Fragglealis, which appears only once every thousand days. Red, worried about her safety, secretly follows her, vowing to protect her. Trying to make sure that Mokey won't fall under the hypnotic spell of the Singing Cactus, she gets mesmerized by them herself and has to be rescued by Mokey. This trope then ensues when Red is trying to think how to answer Mokey's question of what she was doing there without giving away the real reason.
->'''Mokey:''' Red, what were you doing out there?\\

* ''Film/PrinceOfSpace'' is riddled with this. (To the point of being an alternate {{Trope Namer|s}}: Prince of Space Sir)
-->'''Phantom of Krankor''': Prepare to leave Krankor.\\
'''Scientist''': What's that?\\
'''Phantom of Krankor''': Prepare to leave. Each of you will enter a space capsule.\\
'''Scientist''': What?\\
'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]''': For crying out loud... '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis EACH! OF! YOU! WILL! ENTER! A! SPACE! CAPSULE!]]'''

* Samus in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' is a frequent offender of this, reiterating plot points in [[UpToEleven drawn-out monologues]].

* In Japanese society, this concept is known as Aizuchi. The idea behind it is that, when listening to someone, the listener makes small comments or repeats what was mentioned in the form of a question to show they are actively engaging with the conversation. For example; if someone mentioned they were getting married, the listener would respond something to the effect of "You're getting married?". This is why various pieces of media from Japan tend to have characters repeat things they heard , as it conveys that the listener was paying attention and is often used to show the person is polite.

[[DescribeTopicHere Describe Parrot Exposition here.]]

-->[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife So TV Tropes is ruining your life,]] [[OverlyLongGag huh?]]

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

8 ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' features this trope at least once an episode involving the replacee repeating whatever amazing benefit the Fleemco Messengers have told them in question form. It's actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode: