History Main / TwoWordsICantCount

* ''Film/BabyDriver'': Bats does this, counting off each world and promptly [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades it:]]
-->''"[We live in a world] consisting of three things, and that's money, sex, drugs, and action. ([[DoubleTake Looks at his hand]]) Oh shit, that's four.

* Hank from ''Series/CornerGas'' counts "boycott" as two words.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'':

* [[http://garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2005&addr=050422 The April 22, 2005]] strip of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has Jon on the phone, trying to get a date with Ellen. He miscounts "restraining order" as a single word.

* When Cosmo, of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', told Timmy about "mouthwash", but counted it as two words, until Timmy corrected him, prompting him to repeat the word.

* The first season of ''Series/TheOffice'', some of Tim's papers are on Gareth's desk and he makes a ruckus about it while Tim is on a sales call. Gareth doesn't miscount the number of words he's using, but he also tries to specify the number of ''syllables'' in his word as well. Sadly, "demarcation" is four syllables, not two.

* LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys' playthrough of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' {{Lampshade|Hanging}} the effect when they encounter Miiverse posts that begin with "Two words:" and follow it with a different number of words.

* In the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' short [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail110.html "for kids"]], Strong Bad reacts to seeing Homsar's TV show for preschoolers, acknowledging after the fact that he had miscounted how many words he was going to use in the review.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' I've got two words for the children that are raised on that crap: HELD BACK. REPEATING THE THIRD GRADE. LOW STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES. [[LampshadeHanging I GUESS THIS WAS MORE THAN TWO WORDS]].

'''Goofy:''' Wait a minute, that was only two--\\
'''Sora:''' You've gotta be kidding!

* Phil from the ''Disney/{{Hercules}}''-themed world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'') [[RunningGag was always getting "two words" wrong.]]
** When he messed this up in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI,'' Goofy even ''[[LampShading counted]]'' the words and got confused when he heard four instead of two.

--->'''Danny:''' ... I'll be using three of my favourite words. "Unsubstantiated", "Libelous" and "Court Case".
--->'''Ash:''' "Court Case" is two words.
--->'''Danny:''' Oh, yeah? Well, I used a bloody hyphen!

--> Arthur: I've got two words; I'm staying right here!\\
Carrie: [[LampshadeHanging That's four words!]]\\
Arthur: Well, here's another four: screw you!\\
Carrie: Dad, that's two words.\\
Doug: Arthur, maybe you should stop saying how many words you're going to say in advance.\\
Arthur: Yeah, once you do that, you're pretty much trapped in a hole, eh?

* ''{{Series/Reba}}'': In the episode "Reba the Landlord", Van says "let it go" and "paper plates" quickly and insists on claiming each phrase as one word. Reba tries to correct Van once before [[NotSoDifferent doing it herself (using the phrase "let it go") late in the episode]].

-->'''Phil''': "My answer is ''two words''..." [[BoltOfDivineRetribution (Gets hit by lightning)]] "...o-kay."

* Paul Heyman, in a shoot-promo, fired off an often quoted version during the first ever "ECW One Night Stand" pay-per-view event, addressing members of WWE's RAW and SmackDown! brands who had crashed the show - in particular, Adam "Edge" Copeland. He counted Matt Hardy's name as two words, but inserted [[AtomicFBomb Freaking]] in the middle. Edge's response was [[SpitTake to spit out his beer]] and yell back, "That's three words, Paul!" And then used Matt Hardy's signature hand motion to indicate that it is indeed 3 words.

* The titular character of the Music/LesLuthiers play "Manuel Darío" falls to this trope twice in a row:
---> '''Manuel Darío:''' The care and compassion you have all shown to me is something I can sum up in one word: "Thank you". ''(his musicians gesture a number two to him, and Manuel Darío takes notice of that)'' "Thank you twice".

* A RunningGag in Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' (the movie, the TV series, ''and'' the Hercules-themed world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'') is that every time Philocetes attempts TwoWordsAddedEmphasis, he gets the count wrong.

* In ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', Mr. Pink gives Mr. White a long argument about why waitresses should not be tipped, before concluding with "Two words: learn to fucking type."

* In ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', Mr. Pink says the line, "Two words: learn to fucking type."

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKRNskIkLI8 Latin American advertising "Cebollas" (onions) for Iphone 6s]] has a Colombian character saying about a video: "Tres palabras: ¡Per-fec-ta!" ("Three words: per-fec-t").