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->''Oh, every time I hear a perfect rhyme I get all tingly

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->''Oh, every time I hear a perfect rhyme I get all tinglytingly\\
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->''Oh, every time I hear a perfect rhyme I get all tingly
Because I know that to find a perfect rhyme is not an easy thing...ly!''
-->-- '''Portia''', ''Theatre/SomethingRotten''
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->'''Daggett''': Why are you taking Norb away?
->'''The Yak in the Sack''': His very presence has disrupted, I think it's time.. he giddy-up-did.
->'''Dagett and Norbert''': "Giddy-up-did?"
->'''The Yak in the Sack''': So I was stretching, stop your kvetching.
-->--'''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers''', "The Yak in the Sack"
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''(later in the song)''
->''We'll have the last laugh/On Palpatine's ass''
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->''Cause on the surface / Where Spock and Kirk is''
-->--'''{{Music/Voltaire}}''', ''Expendable''
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-->-- '''Dob''', attempting to perform a song that Corazón wrote, ''[[WebVideo/OutsideXbox Oxventure]]: Peak Performance''

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-->-- '''Dob''', attempting to perform a song that Corazón wrote, ''[[WebVideo/OutsideXbox Oxventure]]: ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}: Peak Performance''
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Shouldn't have cut off the end of that sentence because he uses it to demonstrate his point quite well


->Every single line of dialogue is a rhyming couplet, which is a cute idea as gimmicks go, but several thousand couplets down the line, you can practically taste the blood running from the writer's eyeballs... You know when you're watching your grandad type and he's taking so fucking long, you get more and more frustrated, until you want to shoo him away and do it yourself? It was like that! Whatever the game's merits, I had to stop, because otherwise I would have bitten my controller in half and yelled ''"You can't rhyme "delicious" with "ravenous"!'' EMPHASIS IS ON THE ''[[GrammarNazi WRONG SYLLABLE]]'', YOU ''' ''[[AtomicFBomb FUCK!]]"'' '''

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->Every single line of dialogue is a rhyming couplet, which is a cute idea as gimmicks go, but several thousand couplets down the line, you can practically taste the blood running from the writer's eyeballs... eyeballs, as in the most utterly-tortured possible way / arranges the words of another sentence do they. [...] You know when you're watching your grandad type and he's taking so fucking long, you get more and more frustrated, until you want to shoo him away and do it yourself? It was like that! Whatever the game's merits, I had to stop, because otherwise I would have bitten my controller in half and yelled ''"You can't rhyme "delicious" with "ravenous"!'' EMPHASIS IS ON THE ''[[GrammarNazi WRONG SYLLABLE]]'', YOU ''' ''[[AtomicFBomb FUCK!]]"'' '''
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->''"Corazón, o Corazón / Look to the horizón"'' ...Brave rhyme.
-->-- '''Dob''', attempting to perform a song that Corazón wrote, ''[[WebVideo/OutsideXbox Oxventure]]: Peak Performance''
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->'''Yogi:''' Gonna eat this trolly that's filled with guaca-molly.\\
'''Booboo:''' Can't make it rhyme all of the time.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}''



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->''Anyhow, it's kind of sort of written in poetry, but it's not very well-written poetry and the rhymes are forced, if they're there at all. "No fun at all" doesn't rhyme with "play football". The accents are wrong. That's not poetry anymore.''
-->-- '''Cassandra Gelvin''', [[https://www.drttmk.com/books/little-t-learns-share-t-os-time-outs reviewing]] ''Literature/LittleTLearnsToShare'', ''Website/DontReadThisToMyKids''
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->"That rhyme is so tortured it would make UsefulNotes/DickCheney wince."
-->-- '''WebVideo/MothersBasement''', on the English ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' theme song
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-->--''Literature/NightWatch''

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-->--''Literature/NightWatch''-->--''Literature/NightWatchDiscworld''
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->"Look, ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' was a great Creator/{{Disney}} cartoon, and its songs won Oscars and are in the AFI lists. But: ''One step ahead of my doom. Next time I'd better use a nom de plume,'' is a cringe-inducing lyric."

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->"Look, ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' was a great Creator/{{Disney}} cartoon, and its songs won Oscars and are in the AFI lists. But: ''One step ahead of my doom. Next time I'd better use a nom de plume,'' is a cringe-inducing lyric."
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->''He could hear the jody Detritus had taught them. Somehow, you could tell it was made up by a troll:'

->''‘Now we sing dis stupid song!\\
Sing it as we run along!\\
Why we sing dis we don’t know!\\
We can’t make der words rhyme prop’ly!’''
-->--''Literature/NightWatch''


->'''Aaron:''' ''Don't talk about love\\
Or you'll have to say,\\
"Fits like a glove" or\\
"As certain as push comes to shove,\\
You will pine for the person\\
You're constantly thinking of."''
-->-- ''Theatre/{{Curtains}}'', "I Miss the Music"

->''She's electric\\
She's in a family full of eccentrics\\
She's done things I never expected\\
And I need more time\\
She's got a sister\\
And god only knows how I've missed her\\
On the palm of her hand is a blister\\
And I need more time''
-->-- '''{{Music/Oasis}}''', "She's Electric"

->''She's got a brother\\
We don't get on with one another\\
But I quite fancy her mother\\
And I think that she likes me\\
She's got a cousin\\
In fact she's got 'bout a dozen\\
She's got one in the oven\\
But it's nothing to do with me''
-->-- '''{{Music/Oasis}}''', "She's Electric"



->''When your tummy has an ache, you go, "for crying out sakes", the words you say don't even come out right. If your throat's got you down, you sound like scratchy town, who needs to talk when you can draw or write? So plan a trip even with those chapped-up lips. Go watch Website/YouTube, you're forgiven if you're rude..(later) Sorry if your tummy's kind of peeved. Imagination's really all you need. Wash your hands, make that plan, easy to take the stand, no germs go to the next man. Wash every single time, even if there's a line, no germs to the next wo-MAN.''
-->--''Music/SeansMusicFactory'', "Sick Song"

->"More growth will certainly occur. He is going to turn into a mon-STER!"
-->--'''Zecora''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "The Secret of My Excess"

->'''Arthur''': "Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Ray Bradbury."
->'''Francine''': "You can take 'em home so you don't have to read them in a hurry."
-->''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', "Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival"

->''Get your toast out with a fork, do your own electrical work.''
-->--''WebVideo/DumbWaysToDie''

->''Yes, they've had a couple of fights. Nobody's perfect you see. Still, I think I should have the right to study whatever I please.''
-->--'''Lyra Heartstrings''', "Anthropology"

->Their house is a museum when people come to see 'em, they really are a scre-am, the Addams family!
-->--Theme song to ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''
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->''We're Knights of the Round Table, our shows are for-mid-able\\
But many times, we're given rhymes that are quite un-sing-able...''
-->--''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
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