History Main / RhymingList

-->'''Hedley Lamarr:''' I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, {{bounty hunter}}s, desperados, [[DumbMuscle mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits]], vipers, [[ColdSniper snipers]], [[ConArtist con men]], Indian agents, [[{{bandito}} Mexican bandits]], muggers, [[DepravedHomosexual buggerers]], bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, [[ButchLesbian bull dykes]], [[TrainJob train robbers]], [[BankRobbery bank robbers]], [[BadAss ass-kickers]], shit-kickers, and ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Methodists]]!''

* Music/{{REM}}'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It(and I Feel Fine)";

* A BobMonkhouse sketch uses this trope extensively. Detective Inspector Hector Vector (Monkhouse) investigates a crime scene where the witnesses include the Honourable Rector Doctor Victor Propter ("Mister?" "Doctor") and Master Foster Gloucester, studying law, sir, and [[Creator/GeoffreyChaucer Chaucer]]. "Law's a bore, sir, but Chaucer's coarser!"
** At the end, Vector gives TheSummation, all in rhyme, and concludes with "That's the list, nothing's missed, now I'm off to get...[[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion plastered!]]"

* A BobMonkhouse sketch uses this trope extensively. Detective Inspector Hector Vector (Monkhouse) investigates a crime scene where the witnesses include the Honourable Rector Doctor Victor Propter ("Mister?" "Doctor") and Master Foster Gloucester, studying law, sir, and [[GeoffreyChaucer Chaucer]]. "Law's a bore, sir, but Chaucer's coarser!"

* Fairly common among [[ListSong List Songs]], such as BillyJoel's "We Didn't Start the Fire", which features such lines as "JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?"
* {{REM}}'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It(and I Feel Fine)";

* "I've Been Everywhere", written by Geoff Mack and performed by everyone from Asleep At the Wheel to JohnnyCash, is this trope personified:

* In the AdventureGame ''MonkeyIsland2'', when the Voodoo Lady tells Guybrush the ingredients he needs to find, so she can make a voodoo doll:

* Fairly common among ListSongs, such as BillyJoel's "We Didn't Start the Fire", which features such lines as "JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?"

-->''The other night I dreamt of knives\\

-->''The other night I dreamt of knives,\\

Continental drift divide. \\
Mountains sit in a line \\

* "The Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick maker" are mentioned in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Guards! Guards!''

#Anything Missed?

If it is poorly done, it could be with the world's [[PainfulRhyme painful rhymin]]-est, adjective contrivin-est, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome least sublimin]]-est descriptors.

* In ''HowIMetYourMother'', Barney's list of the professions of the women who have slept with him: "A butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker. Yes — [[LampshadeHanging we're to the rhyming section, now]]. A math professor, a tax assessor, a weight guesser..."

* The "Bottom of the Sea" song. It is listed here for now as it was parodied in ''{{Futurama}}'', which defines the levels at which the conditions could rhyme.

* "The Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick maker" are mentioned in the {{Discworld}} novel ''Guards! Guards!''

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VX8Cjok1w This]] ''LooneyTunes'' short uses a rhyming list each floor for an ElevatorFloorAnnouncement.

* ''CarTalk'' would often have one of these OnceAnEpisode as the diet for one of its producers, [[http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/bugsy-lines/index.html Bugsy]].

* JohnCena did this during the "Mr. McMahon was murdered" story arc, when discussing the different people who could hate VinceMcMahon enough to want to kill him:

* In ''BlazingSaddles'', this is integrated into a list of an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores:

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Hardware Store" has a {{Crowning Moment Of Awesome}}/{{Motor Mouth}} moment once Al gets to the section with the huge [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7SldTq8CY#t=2m31s list of stuff the titular store has in stock]].

* {{Weird Al Yankovic}}'s "Hardware Store" has a {{Crowning Moment Of Awesome}}/{{Motor Mouth}} moment once Al gets to the section with the huge [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7SldTq8CY#t=2m31s list of stuff the titular store has in stock]].

-->'''Cena:''' "We could be talking hikers, bikers, drivers, divers, preachers, teachers, that drunk in the bleachers."

* Yosemite Sam, master of the PainfulRhyme, is the "meanest, tougest, rip-roarin'-est, Edward Everett Horton-est hombre what ever packed a six-shooter!"
** He's also "the roughest, toughest he-man stuffest hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande", "the roughest, toughest, rootinest, shootinest claim-jumper that ever jumped a claim", "the blood-thirstiest, shoot 'em first-iest, doggone worst-iest buccaneer that's ever sailed the Spanish main", and "tha' hootin'-est, tootin'-est, shootin'-est bob-tailed wildcat in the West!" And "the rootinest, tootinest, fastest-shootinest, highest-salutinest" general in their parody of {{Casablanca}}.

* [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] would often use this in promos, occasionally combining two word endings to become the "[[{{Jobber}} Jabroni]]-Beatin', [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Pie]]-Eatin', [[FollowTheLeader Trail]]blazin', [[FascinatingEyebrow Eyebrow]] Raisin', Step off the brake, Foot on the Gas, Always Ready to whup some Ass People's Champ!"

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VX8Cjok1w This]] ''LooneyTunes'' short uses a rhyming list each floor for DingSportswearPantyhoseAndTropes.

** He's also "the roughest, toughest he-man stuffest hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande", "the roughest, toughest, rootinest, shootinest claim-jumper that ever jumped a claim", "the blood-thirstiest, shoot 'em first-iest, doggone worst-iest buccaneer that's ever sailed the Spanish main", and "tha' hootin'-est, tootin'-est, shootin'-est bob-tailed wildcat in the West!"