History Main / ShapedLikeItSelf

* November 22, 1963: when President Kennedy was shot, the fourth 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."

* Inspector Willoughby, an obscure Walter Lantz character, says "You're forcing me to use force" in trying to capture an outlaw in the short "Rough and Tunbleweed."

* In the second episode of ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'' we get a [[http://i66.tinypic.com/iqvk07.jpg visual example]] where the speaker and the article he's reading from are translated at the same time.

-->'''The Cinema Snob:''' Hi, I'm the Cinema Snob. You might remember me from... WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob. And ''[[Film/TheCinemaSnobMovie Black Angus]]''!

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Chelwb6Ja4 This]] parody of Rebecca Black's "song" Friday, mocking the repetition of the original.

-->'''Bugs:''' Or is it facing south when tracking a northbound moose? Or is it the other way in reverse?

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

-->'''Sam:''' Ya forced me to use force!

** The Mayor's re-election campaign slogan from "Impeach Fuzz" was simply "Vote for Mayor for Mayor!" repeated ad infinitum.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

* Used as {{Foreshadowing}} in a poem by Wordsworth titled "The Thorn" where he describes a mossy mound as, "like an infant's grave in size." Later, he tells you, "The little babe was buried there," making the fact that it's shaped like itself into a TwistEnding.

** According to another chapter, though Walter Mondale's campaign for President foundered, his running mate Geraldine A. Ferraro would become a footnote to history. This passage comes with a footnote: "Geraldine A. Ferraro."

-->'''Arthur:''' It's not so much an afterlife as it is an ''apres vie''...

** Also, another of his puppets, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, has been known to take his CatchPhrase [[IllKillYou "I keel you!"]] and expand it: "I keel you 'til you're ''dead!'' And that's worse."

** To be fair, what he means is that the game in question is [[WidgetSeries Japanese to a potentially offensive degree]]; it's like saying "If you like the colour red, you'll find this pleasantly red" to indicate that something is quite red indeed.

* Actual names of zaddiks in Martin Buber's ''Tales of the Hasidim'' often consist of a word in Hebrew and its equivalent in Yiddish (ex. ''Zwi-Hirsch'')

* In the 1939 cartoon "Naughty But Mice" with Sniffles, there's a product in the drug store called a repercolating percolator.

* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'': The episode "The Nadger Plague" features this opening narration: "It was in the year 1656 that the dreaded nadger plague swept across Europe like the Dreaded Nadger Plague of 1656."

* To clarify that something is [[NonIndicativeName not just a name]]: "the anteater that eats ants". You wouldn't necessarily know that just from the name, since many animal names aren't literally true descriptives (for example, "bald Eagles" aren't really bald).

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* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' [[InvertedTrope inverts this]]; the final episode's {{Suspiciously Specific|Denial}} [[ThisIsAWorkOfFiction Disclaimer]] states that any resemblance between this show and ''itself'' is purely coincidental. It's ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. [[WidgetSeries They]] [[MindScrew weren't]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs lying]].

* On ""WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', Professor Squawkencluck had a device that finds things called a Location Locating Locator.