History Main / ShapedLikeItSelf

More generally related, are RecursiveAcronym for acronyms that use themselves in themselves, CaptainObvious, ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino, EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and TheTropeWithoutATitle, which are some articles to which this one is related. Can often overlap and sound the same as BuffySpeak. Contrast CircularReasoning, which can resemble this but is logically fallacious.

-->Ya forced me to use force!

* And of course, Yosemite Sam's ultimatum to Bugs:

* November 22, 1963: when President Kennedy was shot, the fifth estate was waiting with bated breath about his fate. Around 2:30 PM EST, Edwin Newman on NBC radio reported that the priest who had administered last rites to Kennedy said he was not dead, "in other words the priest said he believed the President was still alive."

* November 22, 1963: when President Kennedy was shot, the fifth estate was waiting with bated breath about his fate. Around 2:30 PM EST, Edwin Newman on NBC radio reported that the two priests who had administered last rites to Kennedy said he was not dead, "in other words the priests said he was still alive."

-->I once heard someone say that behind the fake tinsel and glitter of Hollywood you'll find the ''real'' fake tinsel and glitter of Hollywood!

* Buffalo Springfield's " For What It's Worth" tells us that "nobody's right if everybody's wrong."

* ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon'''s film adaptation ''Charly'' had Charlie Gordon give Ms. Kinnean a phrase from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable to punctuate: "That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is."

* Buffalo Springfield's " For What It's Worth" tells us that "nobody's right if everybody's wrong."

* Music/TheBeatles' "All You Need Is Love"]]

-->'''Tweety:''' That puddy tat is going thwough an awful lot of twouble to get into twouble!

* ''Movie Movie'': [colonel to pilot] "If you won't go up, then by God, sir... you'll stay down."

* Mary Hopkins' "Goodbye" has a line where she must "leave to go away."

* "She's Always a Woman" by Music/Billy Joel has the line "She steals like a thief."

* Ask yourself, what does the DC in Creator/DCComics stand for? It stands for Detective Comics, the name of their first and once bestselling series. Now think about that for a moment. Detective Comics Comics. A letters column once explained the logic behind the company still being DC Comics, stating that news of a new "DC launch" might upset some of our foreign friends. While the company is officially DC Entertainment now... one of its subsidiaries is DC Comics.
* ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}''

-->" Are you sure? " [[[Literature/HarryPotter Draco]]] asked, making sure [[UsefulNotes/HowDoIUsedTense this is what she wanted.]]

* Used for dramatic effect by Lord Beckett in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': "This is no longer your world, Jones. The immaterial has become...[[TheMagicGoesAway immaterial."]]

--> '''Ford:''' I won't disturb you with the details because they would...\\

* ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'' (first book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): Quoth Syl: "They'll be fine. You worry like a worrier."

* Wrestling/KenPatera faced Wrestling/BobbyHeenan in a debate over his prison sentence and remarked, "[[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/classic-induction-the-ken-patera-story-can-you-blame-him-dude-was-hungry/ I had a lot of time to think about the Bobby Heenan types of this world. Types like yourself!]]"

* [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/66fd38f0c5/aziz-ansari-craigslist-ad?rel=player Aziz Ansari]]: "Could you imagine blowing a guy (for a half hour!) for sold-out concert tickets and then finding out they're selling them at the door? That'd be like blowing a guy for a half hour for sold-out concert tickets and then finding out they're selling them at the door. There's no other way to complete that analogy 'cause that's the shittiest thing that could ever happen to you."

* Creator/EddieIzzard in "Dressed to Kill" comments, "I'm very positive on the French. My family way back was French. I go with it but they are kind of fucking French at times."

* In the theatre adaptation of ''Theatre/MeanGirls'', the chorus of the song "Revenge Party" does this twice:

** Invoked by Comicbook/TheQuestion in episode "Question Authority", to prove the whole conspiracy behind Comicbook/LexLuthor's presidential campaign (harkening back to the parallel universe from "A Better World", in which Luthor had become President and killed Flash as part of his plans):

* In ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', Kyon [[LampshadeHanging finds himself]] slipping into this:

* ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect'': The gang is being harassed by an alien who uses mind-control to make them do embarrassing things. In Iori's case, nobody notices a difference.

* [[http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g156/silvercrescent17/shapedlikeitself.jpg This]] example from ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'':

* November 22, 1963: when President Kennedy was shot, the fifth estate was waiting with bated breath about his fate. Around 1:30 PM EST, Edwin Newman on NBC radio reported that the two priests who had administered last rites to Kennedy said he was not dead, "in other words the priests said he was still alive."

* ''Fanfic/DarkSecrets'' has the following {{Narm}}ful line before CoitusEnsues:

* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessNatasha'': In "The Play's the Thing", there's a SchoolPlay titled "The Beautiful Princess and the Handsome Prince" and Natasha auditions for the Princess' role. The director rejects her, claiming a [[{{Irony}} real]] Princess to be "more Princess-like".