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* Curly from ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', who liberally adds "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk" or "woo-woo-woo" at the end of his lines.
* [[Film/{{Tron}} TRON's]] [[MasterComputer Master Control Program]] exhibits this. End Of Line.
* Spoofed in the film ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'', in which the villain Betty constantly ended his sentences with "nngggggg!" and love interest Ling said "Weeee-ooo-weee-ooo-weee!". (Both were done by the voice actor to fill in the gaps made by the lip movements.) By the end of one scene, they were conversing entirely in these sounds.
* In ''Film/OfficeSpace'' there's Bill Lumburgh, Peter's hated boss, who litters his speech with smarmy verbal tics. He begins every conversation with a shallow, "What's happening?" He always tells workers to "go ahead" and do things, to mask the fact that he's handing down disagreeable orders. After delivering an order, he tells the person, "That'd be great," as a threadbare attempt at encouragement. He also punctuates many sentences with a drawn-out "yeeeeaahhhh" or patronizing "mmmkay?"
* The antagonists in ''Film/DarkCity,'' (Mr Book, Mr Hand et al) tend to close most of their affirmative or interrogative phrases with ''Yes?''. ''"We remember, yes?"''.
* Creator/KennethWilliams in the ''Film/{{Carry On|series}}'' movies and elsewhere: "Nnnnnnnn''oooooooooooo'', stop messin' about!"
* Fingers, in the film ''Shira: Vampire Samurai'' is practically an English-speaking version of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ending almost every sentence with a hearty "Believe that!"
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': the Knights Who Say [=NI!=].
* In ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'', one of Pistachio's disguises is Mr. Turtle, who says "turtle" at the end of his sentences.
* George III, as seen in ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'', has one of these, wot wot? This is actually true of Nigel Hawthorne in general.
* ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'': TheMaster [=woUlD noT apProVE. YoU canNot stAy. ThE MasTeR wOulD noT apProVe. NoT deAd tHe waY yOu kNoW iT. He iS wiTh uS aLwaYs=]. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment NoT deAd thE wAy yoU kNoW iT. He iS wItH uS alWayS.]]
* Mr. Deltoid, yes, from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', yes, has a tendency to insert the word yes into every sentence, sometimes at the beginning, yes, but often at the end as well, oh yes. It also begins to rub off on Alex, but more so in the book than the film.
* ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ThePhantomMenace'': Watto ends many sentences with "methinks".
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy? This expression comes from French colonists and first pirates, who added "'savez?", for "vous savez?" ("you know?", as in "get it?") at the end of sentences to make sure the natives... well, got it.
** In the sequels, Davy Jones has a tendency to punctuate sentences with an "-ah".
* In ''Film/TheSquidAndTheWhale'', the tennis instructor Ivan tacks "my brother" onto the end of every sentence. Eventually, he becomes a dubious role model for his young pupil Frank, who starts imitating the same goofy tic.
* In ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', stereotypical Minnesota verbal tics are mined for comedy. Natives frequently say things like "ya," "you betcha," and "you're darn tootin'!" Natives are so fixated on saying "aw geeze" when they're upset that [[spoiler: Wade says it when he gets shot.]]
* The uh, Joker, in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', [[SelfDemonstratingArticle can't, uh, seem to manage a sentence without using the word "uh,"]] and enunciattting everythingggg.
* ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar:''
** "And... ''theennnnn''."
** "Zoltan!"
* The Franchise/ViewAskewniverse character [[TheDanza Jay]] does this some version of this constantly in nearly every film, as well as the animated series. Variations include "Snooch!", "Snoochie boochies!", "Snooch to the Nooch!", and "Snoogans". He even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it in both ''Film/ChasingAmy'' and ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack''. According to director and longtime friend Creator/KevinSmith, Jason Mewes [[AsHimself was doing that in real life]] long before the films were made.
* Number (Johnny) Five from ''Film/ShortCircuit'' has a habit of listing synonyms for various words as he speaks. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you recall that the first serious input he got was reading an entire dictionary.
-->"Number 5... furious! Livid! ''Perturbed!''"
-->"I have questions. Queries. Posers."
* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': Joey Two-Times. "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
* In ''Film/TheRoom'', everyone greets each other by saying, "Oh, hi (name)!" often leading numerous people to say this to each other.
* In ''Film/BlondeCrazy'', Bert adds "hon-eh!" to a lot of his sentences.
* Rocky Balboa in the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' series "Ya know!"
* In the third ''Film/{{Austin Powers|in Goldmember}}'' movie, the eponymous Goldmember has a tendency of quoting a famous song, then whispering the copyright distractedly. "And that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it! ''(KC and the Sunshine Band...)''"
* Doyle Lonnegan in ''Film/TheSting''. Ye follow?
* Raymond from ''Film/RainMan'' often says "yeah", "definitely" and "uh-oh".
* Link Static, the communications expert from ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', often ends his sentences with radio static.
* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'''s Raoul Silva often inserts "bip" and "oof" into his speech.
* In ''Film/TheApartment'', the office workers in the film have the habit of adding -wise to words. At one point, Baxter even says "otherwise-wise."
* ''Film/MrPoppersPenguins'' has Mr Popper's assistant, [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Pippi, a person who has a perchant for words prefaced with a P]], concurrently with IAmVeryBritish.
** At the end, she falls for a man named Quint who does the same thing, but the letter Q instead of P.
* In ''Film/{{Mash}}'', Hawkeye Pierce has an odd habit of whistling during conversations. By the end of the film, Radar does the same.
* Especially so with ''Film/TheBigLebowski,'' as the [=BluRay=] comes with a bonus feature that counts every use of "Lebowski", "Dude", "Man", and "Fuck". Lebowski has the lowest count by far, though it's notably just short of 100 uses.
* ''Film/WereTheMillers'': Scotty P., y'know what I'm sayin'? It really annoys David and Rose.
* Zaneeta in ''Film/TheMusicMan'' with her classic "Ye gods," and Tommy Djilas with "Great auk!" (In the stage version, Tommy's is "Jeely cly.")
* The titular ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' tends to mispronounce words like Metrocity[[note]]He says it as if it rhymed with "atrocity"[[/note]], school (shool), and '''[[LargeHam THE SPYAIDAR!!!]]'''
* When he was playing mobsters, Creator/EdwardGRobinson had a distinctive VerbalTic, ya see? So he fits this trope, see?
* Juan in ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite'' has his own verbal tic, ah?
* The resident StrawCharacter, Max Brinker, in ''Film/HeroesForSale'', does a “tisk, tisk, tisk” noise when he disapproves. Usually for an un-communist way of thinking.
* ''{{Film/Split}}'' has Kevin's alternate personality [[CreepyChild Hedwig]], who speaks with a lisp and occasionally ends sentences with one of these, et cetera.
* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadTheWeird'', Tae-goo has a verbal tic in the English subtitles, man.
* In the ''Cisco Kid'' movies, Gordito's verbal tic is "I think".
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* Curly from ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', who liberally adds "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk" or "woo-woo-woo" at the end of his lines.
* [[Film/{{Tron}} TRON's]] [[MasterComputer Master Control Program]] exhibits this. End Of Line.
* Spoofed in the film ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'', in which the villain Betty constantly ended his sentences with "nngggggg!" and love interest Ling said "Weeee-ooo-weee-ooo-weee!". (Both were done by the voice actor to fill in the gaps made by the lip movements.) By the end of one scene, they were conversing entirely in these sounds.
* In ''Film/OfficeSpace'' there's Bill Lumburgh, Peter's hated boss, who litters his speech with smarmy verbal tics. He begins every conversation with a shallow, "What's happening?" He always tells workers to "go ahead" and do things, to mask the fact that he's handing down disagreeable orders. After delivering an order, he tells the person, "That'd be great," as a threadbare attempt at encouragement. He also punctuates many sentences with a drawn-out "yeeeeaahhhh" or patronizing "mmmkay?"
* The antagonists in ''Film/DarkCity,'' (Mr Book, Mr Hand et al) tend to close most of their affirmative or interrogative phrases with ''Yes?''. ''"We remember, yes?"''.
* Creator/KennethWilliams in the ''Film/{{Carry On|series}}'' movies and elsewhere: "Nnnnnnnn''oooooooooooo'', stop messin' about!"
* Fingers, in the film ''Shira: Vampire Samurai'' is practically an English-speaking version of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ending almost every sentence with a hearty "Believe that!"
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': the Knights Who Say [=NI!=].
* In ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'', one of Pistachio's disguises is Mr. Turtle, who says "turtle" at the end of his sentences.
* George III, as seen in ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'', has one of these, wot wot? This is actually true of Nigel Hawthorne in general.
* ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'': TheMaster [=woUlD noT apProVE. YoU canNot stAy. ThE MasTeR wOulD noT apProVe. NoT deAd tHe waY yOu kNoW iT. He iS wiTh uS aLwaYs=]. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment NoT deAd thE wAy yoU kNoW iT. He iS wItH uS alWayS.]]
* Mr. Deltoid, yes, from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', yes, has a tendency to insert the word yes into every sentence, sometimes at the beginning, yes, but often at the end as well, oh yes. It also begins to rub off on Alex, but more so in the book than the film.
* ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ThePhantomMenace'': Watto ends many sentences with "methinks".
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy? This expression comes from French colonists and first pirates, who added "'savez?", for "vous savez?" ("you know?", as in "get it?") at the end of sentences to make sure the natives... well, got it.
** In the sequels, Davy Jones has a tendency to punctuate sentences with an "-ah".
* In ''Film/TheSquidAndTheWhale'', the tennis instructor Ivan tacks "my brother" onto the end of every sentence. Eventually, he becomes a dubious role model for his young pupil Frank, who starts imitating the same goofy tic.
* In ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', stereotypical Minnesota verbal tics are mined for comedy. Natives frequently say things like "ya," "you betcha," and "you're darn tootin'!" Natives are so fixated on saying "aw geeze" when they're upset that [[spoiler: Wade says it when he gets shot.]]
* The uh, Joker, in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', [[SelfDemonstratingArticle can't, uh, seem to manage a sentence without using the word "uh,"]] and enunciattting everythingggg.
* ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar:''
** "And... ''theennnnn''."
** "Zoltan!"
* The Franchise/ViewAskewniverse character [[TheDanza Jay]] does this some version of this constantly in nearly every film, as well as the animated series. Variations include "Snooch!", "Snoochie boochies!", "Snooch to the Nooch!", and "Snoogans". He even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it in both ''Film/ChasingAmy'' and ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack''. According to director and longtime friend Creator/KevinSmith, Jason Mewes [[AsHimself was doing that in real life]] long before the films were made.
* Number (Johnny) Five from ''Film/ShortCircuit'' has a habit of listing synonyms for various words as he speaks. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you recall that the first serious input he got was reading an entire dictionary.
-->"Number 5... furious! Livid! ''Perturbed!''"
-->"I have questions. Queries. Posers."
* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': Joey Two-Times. "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
* In ''Film/TheRoom'', everyone greets each other by saying, "Oh, hi (name)!" often leading numerous people to say this to each other.
* In ''Film/BlondeCrazy'', Bert adds "hon-eh!" to a lot of his sentences.
* Rocky Balboa in the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' series "Ya know!"
* In the third ''Film/{{Austin Powers|in Goldmember}}'' movie, the eponymous Goldmember has a tendency of quoting a famous song, then whispering the copyright distractedly. "And that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it! ''(KC and the Sunshine Band...)''"
* Doyle Lonnegan in ''Film/TheSting''. Ye follow?
* Raymond from ''Film/RainMan'' often says "yeah", "definitely" and "uh-oh".
* Link Static, the communications expert from ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', often ends his sentences with radio static.
* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'''s Raoul Silva often inserts "bip" and "oof" into his speech.
* In ''Film/TheApartment'', the office workers in the film have the habit of adding -wise to words. At one point, Baxter even says "otherwise-wise."
* ''Film/MrPoppersPenguins'' has Mr Popper's assistant, [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Pippi, a person who has a perchant for words prefaced with a P]], concurrently with IAmVeryBritish.
** At the end, she falls for a man named Quint who does the same thing, but the letter Q instead of P.
* In ''Film/{{Mash}}'', Hawkeye Pierce has an odd habit of whistling during conversations. By the end of the film, Radar does the same.
* Especially so with ''Film/TheBigLebowski,'' as the [=BluRay=] comes with a bonus feature that counts every use of "Lebowski", "Dude", "Man", and "Fuck". Lebowski has the lowest count by far, though it's notably just short of 100 uses.
* ''Film/WereTheMillers'': Scotty P., y'know what I'm sayin'? It really annoys David and Rose.
* Zaneeta in ''Film/TheMusicMan'' with her classic "Ye gods," and Tommy Djilas with "Great auk!" (In the stage version, Tommy's is "Jeely cly.")
* The titular ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' tends to mispronounce words like Metrocity[[note]]He says it as if it rhymed with "atrocity"[[/note]], school (shool), and '''[[LargeHam THE SPYAIDAR!!!]]'''
* When he was playing mobsters, Creator/EdwardGRobinson had a distinctive VerbalTic, ya see? So he fits this trope, see?
* Juan in ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite'' has his own verbal tic, ah?
* The resident StrawCharacter, Max Brinker, in ''Film/HeroesForSale'', does a “tisk, tisk, tisk” noise when he disapproves. Usually for an un-communist way of thinking.
* ''{{Film/Split}}'' has Kevin's alternate personality [[CreepyChild Hedwig]], who speaks with a lisp and occasionally ends sentences with one of these, et cetera.
* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadTheWeird'', Tae-goo has a verbal tic in the English subtitles, man.
* In the ''Cisco Kid'' movies, Gordito's verbal tic is "I think".
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* ''Film/StreetsOfFire'': Billy Fish says "shit" so much that it's practically a Tic.



** Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy? This expression comes from French colonists and first pirates, who added "'savez?", for "vous savez?" ("you know?", as in "get it?") at the end of sentences to make sure the natives.. well, got it.

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** Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy? This expression comes from French colonists and first pirates, who added "'savez?", for "vous savez?" ("you know?", as in "get it?") at the end of sentences to make sure the natives..natives... well, got it.



* In ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', stereotypical Minnesota verbal tics are mined for comedy. Natives frequently say things like "ya," "you betcha," and "you're darn tootin'!" Natives are so fixated on saying "aw geeze" when they're upset that [[spoiler: Wade says when he gets shot.]]

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* In ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', stereotypical Minnesota verbal tics are mined for comedy. Natives frequently say things like "ya," "you betcha," and "you're darn tootin'!" Natives are so fixated on saying "aw geeze" when they're upset that [[spoiler: Wade says it when he gets shot.]]
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* In ''The Squid and the Whale'', the tennis instructor Ivan tacks "my brother" onto the end of every sentence. Eventually, he becomes a dubious role model for his young pupil Frank, who starts imitating the same goofy tic.

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* In ''The Squid and the Whale'', ''Film/TheSquidAndTheWhale'', the tennis instructor Ivan tacks "my brother" onto the end of every sentence. Eventually, he becomes a dubious role model for his young pupil Frank, who starts imitating the same goofy tic.
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* In the ''Cisco Kid'' movies, Gordito's verbal tic is "I think".
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* When he was playing mobsters, Edward G. Robinson had a distinctive VerbalTic, ya see? So he fits this trope, see?

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* When he was playing mobsters, Edward G. Robinson Creator/EdwardGRobinson had a distinctive VerbalTic, ya see? So he fits this trope, see?
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* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadTheWeird'', Tae-goo has a verbal tic, man.

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* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadTheWeird'', Tae-goo has a verbal tic, tic in the English subtitles, man.
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* The titular ''Film/{{Megamind}}'' tends to mispronounce words like Metrocity[[note]]He says it as if it rhymed with "atrocity"[[/note]], school (shool), and '''[[LargeHam THE SPYAIDAR!!!]]'''

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* The titular ''Film/{{Megamind}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' tends to mispronounce words like Metrocity[[note]]He says it as if it rhymed with "atrocity"[[/note]], school (shool), and '''[[LargeHam THE SPYAIDAR!!!]]'''
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* Rocky Balboa in the ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' series "Ya know!"

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* Rocky Balboa in the ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' series "Ya know!"
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* ''{{Film/Split}}'' has Kevin's alternate personality [[CreepyChild Hedwig]], who speaks with a lisp and occasionally ends sentences with one of these, et cetera.
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* The resident StrawCharacter, Max Brinker in ''Film/HeroesForSale'', does a “tisk, tisk, tisk” noise when he disapproves. Usually for an un-communist way of thinking.

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* The resident StrawCharacter, Max Brinker Brinker, in ''Film/HeroesForSale'', does a “tisk, tisk, tisk” noise when he disapproves. Usually for an un-communist way of thinking.

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