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| 10 | ->''"Celestia might banish you from Equestria! Or throw you in a dungeon! Or banish you, and then throw you in a dungeon ''in'' the place that she banishes you to!"'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''Twilight Sparkle''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]" |
| 12 | |
| 13 | [[TheThreeCertaintiesInLife Three things are certain in life]]: Death, taxes and ''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle death taxes]]''. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | A subdepartment of the DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment that produces lists. While listing anything, the last item ([[TheTriple typically the third]], as per RuleOfThree, but it can be longer) on the list will be a combination of two or more previous items. Sometimes, this makes sense. Sometimes, it's just confusing, outright impossible, [[SelfDemonstratingArticle impossibly confusing, or confusingly impossible]]. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Sometimes this happens as a consequence of StereoFibbing. If it's incorporated into ThePlan, it may result in being CrazyPrepared. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | This is almost always played for laughs, and prone to creating {{Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot}}s. ("Zombies? Werewolves? Ghosts? Haunted werezombies?" etc.) Compare ShapedLikeItself, and BillBillJunkBill. Not to be confused with BreadEggsMilkSquick. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Not related to ''actual'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_egg breaded eggs]] (although they do count as an example). |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | !!Example Subpages: |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[index]] |
| 26 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs/FanWorks |
| 27 | * [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]] |
| 28 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs/{{Literature}} |
| 29 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs/LiveActionTV |
| 30 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs/VideoGames |
| 31 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs/WebComics |
| 32 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs/WebVideos |
| 33 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs/WesternAnimation |
| 34 | [[/index]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | !!Other Examples: |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 41 | * It's a pillow... it's a pet... It's a Pillowpet! |
| 42 | * Chunky's a soup! It's a meal! It's the soup that eats like a meal! |
| 43 | * Cinnamon Toast Crunch: Cinnamon. Milk. Cinnamilk! |
| 44 | * Miller Lite's TV ad campaign was this trope and touts "Great Taste, Less Filling". Some examples, Sumo High Dive, Lawyer Rodeo, Weiner Dog Drag Racing, Luge Bowling, the list goes on... |
| 45 | ** Another memorable Miller Lite commercial stars Creator/BobOdenkirk as a fictional "President of Beers" candidate, who decries a debate between him and the Budweiser Clydesdale as a "travesty, a sham, and a mockery...a traveshamockery". |
| 46 | * Commercial for candymania.com: "Do you like [[Franchise/DespicableMe the Minions?]] Do you like candy? Do you like awesome video games with the Minions ''and'' candy?" |
| 47 | * Parodied in one commercial for Jack-in-the-Box, which had their board of directors struggling to come up with a name for their new sandwich, a double cheeseburger with bacon on a sourdough roll. Jack himself had the solution: "Why don't you call it... the Sourdough Bacon Double?" |
| 48 | * In one of Anthony Sullivan's commercial for some cleaning product, as he was cleaning the carpet, he said the stuff he was using was good, "if you have kids, if you have animals, if you have kids that act like animals." |
| 49 | * Verizon's ''hum'' for cars was advertised by saying it was compatible with a whole list of different car types, among those were red cars, white cars, blue cars, & red white & blue cars (as in painted with an American flag design). |
| 50 | * Reese's: |
| 51 | ** Pieces or Cups? Pieces or Cups? Pieces or Cups? ....Pieces IN Cups! |
| 52 | ** Another commercial shows off a fictional product that grinds up Reese's Peanut Butter Cups so they can be used for toppings on food, such as ice cream, cake, and ice cream cake. |
| 53 | * In a Colgate Optic White Renewal commercial, in a flashback to [[TheNewTens 2010]]: It's jeans, it's leggings...it's jeggings! |
| 54 | * A [=DirecTV=] ad for its ability to simultaneously stream different content shows a couple flipping back and forth between a tennis game and ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' ("Tennis, ''Wonder Woman'', Tennis, ''Wonder Woman''...") so rapidly that the two programs combine and suddenly Serena Williams is dressed like Franchise/WonderWoman herself and trashing hostile tennis ball shooters in a mall with a super-powered tennis racket, much to the puzzled fascination of the couple watching... and the chagrin of Creator/JohnMcEnroe. A second ad is similar, but instead putting Serena in ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'', playing tennis under the eyes of Agent Smith-ified spectators. |
| 55 | * In the 2001 Israeli elections for Prime Minister, candidate Ariel Sharon had several campaigns against then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak (who was running for re-election) in the form of a multiple-choice question followed by the answer. One of these questions: |
| 56 | -->Who does Ehud Barak consult with? |
| 57 | 1. Ehud. |
| 58 | 2. Barak. |
| 59 | 3. Ehud Barak. |
| 60 | 4. All the answers are correct. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 64 | * In Season 7 episode 6 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Careful S. is being offered some medicine by Ambassador Miao. Careful S. rejects it, saying that he doesn't take Chinese medicine. Then he states that he doesn't take Western medicine either after Miao explains it's not Chinese medicine - as he goes on, he reveals it's actually a mixture of Chinese ''and'' Western medicine. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 68 | * One ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' story revolves around Nobita being unsure how to spend his huge allowance; whether to buy a brand-new model kit, or blow it on ten packs of different-flavored ramen. He chose the latter option, only to become increasingly sick of ramen by the fourth pack and wishing he ''didn't'' make that choice, so Doraemon uses a gadget to send Nobita's message to his past self. Nobita then buys the model kit instead, only to accidentally screw up the process and destroying his new toy, effectively rendering his efforts moot. In the end, Doraemon uses a different gadget to combine both ideas - cue Nobita buying a ''ramen model kit''. |
| 69 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheCastleOfTheUnderseaDevil'' has the gang undecided on where they'll spend their summer vacation. Nobita and Shizuka wants to go hiking in the mountains, while Gian and Suneo wants swimming under the sea. Eventually, Doraemon decides to bring them hiking on an undersea mountain (via the Adaptive Light which allows them to survive underwater). |
| 70 | * In one episode of ''Manga/SoulEater'', Death the Kid realizes that a person he assumed was a tourist is actually a witch, then wonders if she wasn't a witch tourist. |
| 71 | * In Episode 2 of ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', the entire crowd of players accuse Kirito of withholding information from everyone on the boss they all had just recently defeated. Some were accusing him of being a beta tester and others that he's a cheater, and after a moment someone labels him as a "beater". Kirito willingly takes the title to differentiate himself from the other beta testers [[spoiler:in order to protect them from discrimination]]. |
| 72 | -->"You're a beta-tester ''and'' a cheater! A 'beater!'" |
| 73 | * Maiko from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' after stealing Senketsu from Ryuko and trying it on: "It's flowing into me! The strength! The power! The strength-power!" |
| 74 | * In "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak" episode of ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Ash and company have to fight a very powerful Gastly. Ash sends out his Squirtle and Bulbasaur to fight, and Gastly (an illusionist) sends out their evolved forms Blastoise and Venusaur, respectively. Gastly would later ''combine'' his two illusions into a single monster named "Venustoise". |
| 75 | * In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' Kira pilots the Strike Gundam and later the Freedom Gundam. In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' he then gains the Strike Freedom Gundam. |
| 76 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' has Gaelio Bauduin piloting the Gundam Kimaris. In Season 2, [[spoiler: under the alias "Vidar"]], [[spoiler: he upgrades to the Gundam Vidar, and finally into the Gundam Kimaris Vidar]]. |
| 77 | * In episode 8 of ''Literature/BeyondTheBoundary'', when Mirai lets her imagination go off over who could be over at Akihito's home… |
| 78 | --> '''Mirai''': How obscene! How unpleasant! How unpleasantly obscene! |
| 79 | * ''Manga/{{Yuyushiki}}'' reveals the favorite dishes of the main characters in chspter 26. Yuzuko's are curry, croquettes, and curry croquettes. |
| 80 | * In an episode of ''Anime/GhostStories'', [[SealedEvilInACan Amonojaku]] interrupts Satsuki doing a ritual that would have erased her from existance. When she tells him that she was told the ritual was for something else, he muses that whoever told her that "was either a ghost or a bitch". Later on, when they discover the identity of the MonsterOfTheWeek... |
| 81 | --> '''Amonojaku''': Run! She's a ghost ''and'' a bitch! |
| 82 | * In ''Anime/TheNightIsShortWalkOnGirl'', the main character's mother tells her that most people are "rotten scoundrels, idiots, or completely idiotic rotten scoundrels." |
| 83 | * In ''Manga/NewGame'', [[ElegantGothicLolita Yun]] asks a visitor from the outsourcing company they're using for [=NPCs=] which she (Yun) is more like, an elf or a thief. The visitor starts saying thief, chickens out, then starts saying elf, chickens out again, then just goes with elf thief. Aoba, Yun, and Hajime quickly agree and come up with an explanation for why a Fairy Story elf would become a thief. |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 87 | * ''AudioPlay/WizardPeopleDearReader'': |
| 88 | ** Describing Hogwarts' Halloween feast, the narrator of lists off "Apples, candied apples, appled candies, candied whiskey, apple fritters, anything you could ever want!" |
| 89 | ** Hagar the Horrible speculates that Valmart may be "dead, or hiding, or hiding as someone dead". |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Blogs]] |
| 93 | * ''Blog/DeadcodersReviews'': Talking about Yumi being a positive example. He pointed out that if the reader is ever a victim of an attempted rape, approached by a French mental healthcare provider, or a victim of attempted rape by a French mental healthcare provider, that the reader should follow Yumi's example: Kick them in the chest and run. |
| 94 | * In [[http://www.scifiwright.com/2014/06/on-the-sexual-nature-of-man/ this essay]] where Creator/JohnCWright discusses his views on sexual morality, he says at one point: |
| 95 | -->A partisan of the Sexual Revolution who, if any exist, sincerely maintaining that sex acts with children, dogs, corpses, other men’s wives and the children, or, for that matter, the [[CrossesTheLineTwice corpses of dogs of other men’s wive’s children]], in violation both of common prudence and simple justice, must have their argument fail merely on the terms of the absence of consent and the presence of harm. |
| 96 | * Creator/NathanRabin's [[https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2021/5/3/the-travoltacage-project-60-battlefield-earth-2000 analysis]] of ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' describes the Psychlos' character designs as "a glaringly ugly hodge lodge of styles borrowed from Nazis, bikers, Nazi biker gangs and Rastafarians." |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Card Games]] |
| 100 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': |
| 101 | ** A number of cards use this in the mechanics, but don't play it for comedy. [[https://scryfall.com/card/c13/193/hull-breach Hull Breach,]] for instance, allows you to destroy an artifact, destroy an enchantment or destroy an artifact ''and'' an enchantment. |
| 102 | ** A storyline example happens in the story "Skies Over Ghirapur". The pirate captain Kari Zev tells the crew of her ship, the ''Dragon's Smile,'' that they are the sharp, fearsome teeth of that dragon. A few paragraphs later, she tells them to swarm their enemies like bees. |
| 103 | --->'''Pirate:''' Bees? A moment ago we were teeth. Sharp teeth. If I may be so bold, which is it, Captain? \ |
| 104 | '''Kari:''' What about bees ''with'' teeth? How does that sound?\ |
| 105 | '''Pirate:''' [[BeeAfraid Absolutely terrifying.]] |
| 106 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'': A type of monster has a bonus against Elves, a bonus against Wizards, and a (twice as big) bonus against Elf Wizards. Several others have similar bonuses that can stack. |
| 107 | * ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': |
| 108 | ** A Fusion of [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Humanoid_Slime Humanoid Slime]] and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Worm_Drake Worm Drake]] is a [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Humanoid_Worm_Drake Humanoid Worm Drake.]] |
| 109 | ** In the original Japanese, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_Ox Minoraur]] can fuse with [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mystic_Horseman Centaur]] to form [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Rabid_Horseman Minocentaur.]] |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 113 | * On his album ''A Place for My Stuff'', Creator/GeorgeCarlin gives us this in his "Ice Box Man" routine: |
| 114 | --> Perhaps the worst thing that can happen is to reach into the refrigerator and come out with something that you cannot identify at all. You literally ''do not know what it is!'' Could be meat....could be cake! Usually at a time like that, I'll bluff. "Honey? Is this good?" "Well, what is it?" "I don't know! I've never seen anything like it! It looks like....MEATCAKE!" |
| 115 | * BBC New Comedy Award 2016 winner Jethro Bradley: |
| 116 | --> I noticed there seemed to be three basic types of kids at school. You had the cool kids, with real friends. Then you had the kids with imaginary friends. And ''then'' you had the children who hung around with the dinner lady. I was the only kid at my school who hung around with an imaginary dinner lady. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 120 | * ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'': |
| 121 | ** Darkwing encounters, at various points in a storyline, guard dogs, guard flamingos, and guard dogs ''riding'' guard flamingos. |
| 122 | ** In another instance, Negaduck recites a shopping list consisting of "chainsaws, flamethrowers, flaming chainsaw-throwers..." |
| 123 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In comic book story "An Ed for an Ed", Edd says "This is a mockery! A sham! A mockery of a sham!" |
| 124 | * ''ComicBook/{{Gear}}'': The cats are dismayed to discover that Gear is not very smart. |
| 125 | -->'''Cat soldier 1:''' He's not a hero... he's dumb! \ |
| 126 | '''Cat soldier 2:''' He's retarded.\ |
| 127 | '''Cat Elder:''' No, worse... He's dumb-tarded. |
| 128 | * In an issue of ''ComicBook/IronMan'' Tony Stark mentions how, if you don't write a secret down, mind-readers can still learn what you're hiding.. |
| 129 | -->'''Tony:''' There are psychic spies, psychic industrial spies, and psychic mutants. And psychic mutant industrial spies. Don't keep it in there unprotected. |
| 130 | * A pair of hazmat guys/drug dealers in ''ComicBook/KingCity'' discussing what to have for lunch come up with a list of options including Chinese, pizza, and [[VulgarHumor hookers.]] They settle on Chinese hookers. |
| 131 | * In the ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' comic, Jill's dad tells her to not talk to "boys, or strangers, or strange boys". |
| 132 | * In Creator/DonRosa's ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' story "Cash Flow", a bank of switches on the money bin's security system allow for the release of "Big Dogs", "Mean Dogs", and "Big, Mean Dogs". |
| 133 | * ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 3'': Zombie ComicBook/{{Morbius}} gives this BadassBoast: |
| 134 | -->'''Morbius''': I am a ''vampire!'' I am a ''zombie!'' I AM A VAMBIE! I cannot be stopped! |
| 135 | * The third issue of the ''ComicBook/MuppetClassics'' miniseries ''[[Literature/SnowWhite Muppet Snow White]]'' has Doc (Dr. Teeth) ask the audience if they're ready to rock, whistle and whistle while rocking. |
| 136 | * As the ponies set off for Changeling territory at the end of issue 1 of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'', Pinkie wonders if they'll encounter ninjas, monkeys, or monkey ninjas along the way. |
| 137 | * ''ComicBook/RiversOfLondon'': In ''Body Work'', Guleed muses to herself while working her way through a list of people who were sold parts from a haunted car: |
| 138 | -->"I could have been chasing war criminals... or bankers. Or war criminal bankers..." |
| 139 | * ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': |
| 140 | ** Chase Stein's list of things to do once he turns 18: |
| 141 | --->1. Buy monkey\ |
| 142 | 2. Buy akohol [sic.]\ |
| 143 | 3. Train monkey to mix akohol |
| 144 | ** When Karolina asks Topher about his parents' superhuman origins. |
| 145 | --->'''Karolina''': Aliens? Androids? Alien androids? |
| 146 | * ''ComicBook/TheSimpsonsFuturamaCrossoverCrisis'': In order to [[spoiler:defeat the giant Homer]], Farnsworth asks what does Homer love more than anything. Lisa replies it's her mother. Bart replies it's TV. Homer himself replies it's pork chops. [[spoiler:The next panel then shows Marge appearing on a giant TV while holding a plate of pork chops in order to distract the giant Homer]]. |
| 147 | * The second issue of ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' has Static restrain Hotstreak and make him promise not to bother him, his friends, his cousins or his cousins' friends ever again. |
| 148 | * In the fourth issue of ''ComicBook/TeenTitansYearOne'', Wally West practices in the mirror on what he'll say if asked what it's like to be a Teen Titan. He answers that it's a thrill, an honor and kind of a "thronor". |
| 149 | * In the sixth issue of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', Swerve asks if the data discs Red Alert found in Rewind's quarters contained confidential information, Autobot secrets or confidential Autobot secrets. |
| 150 | [[/folder]] |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 153 | * ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': |
| 154 | ** Zero observes that Beetle appears to be crying. Killer says that he must just have the flu, because he's too tough to be crying. Beetle says that anyone would cry if they had such a bad flu as his. |
| 155 | ** Sarge visits an eating place and has this exchange: |
| 156 | ---> '''Sarge''': What-cha got? \ |
| 157 | '''Waitress''': We have pizza and beer, beer and pizza, and pizza soaked in beer. \ |
| 158 | '''Sarge''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Gee, I don't know. They all sound good.]] |
| 159 | * ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'': |
| 160 | ** A strip has a salesman from the Universally United Writer's Bunch Syndicate offering comic strips to Opus, who was working at the Bloom Beacon: |
| 161 | --->'''Al [=McMeed=]:''' I got what you want! Strips about divorce! Strips about babies! Strips about plumbers! Strips about Divorced Baby Plumbers! |
| 162 | ** During an election arc; |
| 163 | --->'''Portnoy:''' We should have gotten Jesse Jackson.\ |
| 164 | '''Hodgepodge:''' Are you kidding? We'd alienate half of America!\ |
| 165 | '''Portnoy:''' How about Jesse Helms?\ |
| 166 | '''Hodgepodge:''' We'd alienate the other half!\ |
| 167 | '''Portnoy:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' Let's alienate everyone! Jesse and Jesse for '88!\ |
| 168 | '''Hodgepodge:''' Oh, ''do'' shut up. |
| 169 | * In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin is talking about his difficulty in deciding on a hobby. He couldn't choose between collecting stamps or collecting bugs, so he decided to collect stamped bugs. |
| 170 | * Used in a ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' strip: |
| 171 | -->'''Mom:''' I'm thinking about doing something different.\ |
| 172 | '''Curtis:''' [[BigEater About baking a cake]]?\ |
| 173 | '''Mom:''' No.\ |
| 174 | '''Curtis:''' A ''pie''?\ |
| 175 | '''Mom:''' No, Curtis, I said something '''''different'''''!\ |
| 176 | '''Curtis:''' Cake-pie? Or pie-cake? |
| 177 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': |
| 178 | ** One strip featured a professional UI designer who feels a "computer interface should hurt the user". He added some sounds to their product, including "sound of puking", "[[NailsOnABlackboard fingernails on blackboard]]" and "bird hitting window". And If the user does something ''wrong'', "the sound of a puking bird hitting a blackboard." (It's "puke / screech / splat", apparently.) |
| 179 | ** Another strip involves an employee lunch. Everyone signed up to bring either salt or water. Wally offers to bring sparkling mineral water. |
| 180 | ** [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-07-24/ Another strip]] did a comparison among Prairie Dogs, Office Workers and Prairie Dog Office Workers. |
| 181 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' |
| 182 | ** In one strip: |
| 183 | --->'''Garfield:''' [[http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1991/06/11 Oh no, a wrinkle!]] Oh no, a gray hair! '''OH NO, A WRINKLED GRAY HAIR!!!''' |
| 184 | ** Another from the May 5, 2001 strip. |
| 185 | --->'''Jon:''' Good coffee... hot coffee... gooooooood hot coffee. |
| 186 | ** An example from the May 14, 2001 strip with TV channels. |
| 187 | --->'''TV:''' Drivel... Nonsense... Nonsensical Drivel.\ |
| 188 | '''Garfield:''' At last! |
| 189 | ** In the August 14, 2001 strip, Jon receives a care package from his mother. Jon hopes it's full of cookies, Garfield hopes it's a ham. It turns out to be ham-shaped cookies. |
| 190 | --->'''Garfield:''' Mom shoots, Mom scores! |
| 191 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2018/03/04 The March 4, 2018 strip]] combines this trope with TemptingFate. Garfield stands outside and finds himself braving snowfall, rainfall, and then wind, in succession. He claims: "'''Ha! Is that all you've got?!'''", only to find himself pelted by a rainy snowstorm with heavy wind blow, which leaves him looking badly battered by the time he gets indoor. |
| 192 | --->'''Garfield''': Never call March's bluff. |
| 193 | * ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'': |
| 194 | --->'''Hagar:''' No drinking, no gambling, no rats aboard ship... and ''especially'' no drinking, gambling rats! |
| 195 | * In ''ComicStrip/JudgeParker'' for 16 April 2019, Abbey says she wants to shake up her life a little. Sam reminds her that recently, said life has comprised dealing with "assassins, kidnappings, and assassins who tried to kidnap". |
| 196 | * In the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip of January 30, 1999, Snoopy encounters three signs: |
| 197 | -->NO DOGS\ |
| 198 | NO SKATEBOARDS\ |
| 199 | AND ESPECIALLY NO DOGS ON SKATEBOARDS |
| 200 | * In [[https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2020/06/10 this]] instalment of ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'', Marigold's list of omens includes Music/TheBeatles, doppelgangers, and doppelgangers ''of'' the Beatles. |
| 201 | * ''ComicStrip/ScaryGary'': |
| 202 | -->'''Leopold:''' What's your favorite food when you're a bat?\ |
| 203 | '''Gary:''' Mosquitoes.\ |
| 204 | '''Leopold:''' And when you're not?\ |
| 205 | '''Gary:''' Bacon.\ |
| 206 | '''Leopold:''' Now I'm craving bacon-flavored mosquitoes. |
| 207 | * A ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20070624 comic]] from ''Magazine/DragonMagazine'' compared sci-fi and fantasy role-playing games, and how they're [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different]]. The last panel showed a space marine and a barbarian hanging out at a tavern, drunkenly arguing whether they were looking at mutants or trolls, and concluding they were mutant trolls. (They were actually looking at their own reflections.) |
| 208 | * In a ''ComicStrip/WhatTheDuck'' comic, a duck attempts to find the right camera setting. In addition to several other settings, there's "Moving Water mode, Pregnant Woman mode, Pregnant Woman In Moving Water mode..." |
| 209 | * One ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' strip has Jeremy said he would rather watch grass grow, or paint dry, or paint the grass and watch it dry as it grows. |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 213 | * ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', when, as the prelude to the jellyfish forest, Dory finds a baby jellyfish: |
| 214 | -->'''Dory:''' I shall call him Squishy, and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy. |
| 215 | * Overlaps with ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'': [[DoomsdayDevice The Kragle]] is guarded with "[[EnergyWeapon lasers]], [[ThreateningShark sharks]], [[Film/AustinPowers laser]] [[WeaponizedAnimal sharks]], and overbearing assistants." |
| 216 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'': |
| 217 | ** Near the beginning: |
| 218 | --->'''Alfred:''' Master Bruce, your greatest fear is--\ |
| 219 | '''Batman:''' Snakes?\ |
| 220 | '''Alfred:''' No.\ |
| 221 | '''Batman:''' Clowns?\ |
| 222 | '''Alfred:''' No.\ |
| 223 | '''Batman:''' Snake-clowns?\ |
| 224 | '''Alfred:''' Bruce, listen. Your greatest fear is being a part of a family again.\ |
| 225 | ''[Batman looks at the portrait of his parents]''\ |
| 226 | '''Batman:''' [[BlatantLies Nope, now it's snake-clowns, because you put that idea in my head.]] |
| 227 | ** After being released from the Phantom Zone, [[Literature/HarryPotter Lord Voldemort]] turns three citizens into a fish, a frog, and a fish-frog. |
| 228 | * In ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' the suggestions Jim Dear has written down for the baby's name are Betty Lou, Betty Ann, and Betty Lou Ann. |
| 229 | * Towards the end of ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'', D.J. has this to say to [[spoiler:Mr. Nebbercracker after he and the gang have destroyed the titular house, having learned that it was possessed by the spirit of the old man's deceased wife.]] |
| 230 | -->'''D.J.:''' ''[Awkwardly.]'' [[spoiler:Sorry about your house... and your wife. Your... housewife.]] |
| 231 | * Raoul tries to do this in ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'', but can't quite manage it: |
| 232 | -->'''Raoul:''' Women like me, men want to be me, [[OverlyLongGag uh, men want to be with the women who like me, and the women, uh, want to be...]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim the men who want to be with me...]] |
| 233 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': |
| 234 | ** When the group is speculating over what events could be part of the games, Pinkie chimes in with this: |
| 235 | --->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Pie eating? ''[holds up a pie]'' Cake eating? ''[holds up a cake]'' GASP! Pie-cake eating?!? ''[smooshes both together]'' |
| 236 | ** When Sunset is lamenting the fact that she can't reach Twilight, Pinkie says that Twilight is an expert at "magic, and portals, and magical portals, and portable magics!" |
| 237 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'': Among the [[LongList list of things]] that the Cowards are frightened of are spiders, clowns, and [[Literature/{{IT}} spiders that look like clowns]]. |
| 238 | * ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'': |
| 239 | -->'''Donkey:''' I mean, I cry all the time. Just thinking about my grandma. Or thinking about [[CuteKitten baby kittens]]. Or thinking about my grandma kissing baby kittens. Or... a little baby grandma kitten. |
| 240 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': |
| 241 | -->'''Lumalee''' (singing) Life is sad, prison is sad, life in prison is very, very sad... |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 245 | * "You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your friends' noses." |
| 246 | * A common joke based on the Tenth Commandment: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor, thy neighbor's wife, the neighbor's ass, or thy neighbor's wife's ass." |
| 247 | * On a Pain Rating Scale from 1 to 100, 1 being a mosquito bite and 100 being giving birth. What's 101? [[spoiler:Getting bit by a mosquito while giving birth]]. |
| 248 | * "Pretty or ugly?" "Pretty ugly." |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Magazines]] |
| 252 | * One ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine's review on Music/KylieMinogue's ''X'' says she has "songs about sex, dancing and sexed-up dancing." |
| 253 | * One cover of Mother Jones magazine lists groups that the US Republican Party have pissed off in recent years, including "scientists", "economists", "dog lovers", "the 99%", "gays", "vets" and "gay vets". |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 257 | * The methods of manipulating a contrapuntal theme or a tone row: inversion (upside-down), retrograde (backwards), and retrograde inversion (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin). |
| 258 | * From Arlo Guthrie's "Music/AlicesRestaurant": |
| 259 | -->"Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the Army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly-looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale Father rapers!]]" |
| 260 | * The spoken middle section of The Foremen's [[http://www.royzimmerman.com/lyrics/rest_hardtime.html "Hard Time to Be a Man"]]: |
| 261 | --> "Now, this bar graph represents the thought processes of the average American male in 1957. We see, in descending order of importance: [[AllMenArePerverts sex]], sports, cars, and [[AutoErotica sex in sports cars]]." |
| 262 | * In their famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I Four Chord Song sketch,]] Music/AxisOfAwesome take a line from FiveForFighting's "Superman (It's Not Easy)" -- "I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane" -- and instead of continuing, follow up with "I'm a birdplane!" They also released a song "Birdplane" which is about the exact same situation. |
| 263 | * From [[Music/FrankZappa Zappa's]] ConceptAlbum [[Music/JoesGarage Joe's Garage]]: |
| 264 | -->''I know you want someone to show you some tits\ |
| 265 | Big ones\ |
| 266 | Wet ones\ |
| 267 | Big wet ones!'' |
| 268 | * "Somethin' 'Bout a Truck" by Kip Moore. Each verse begins "Somethin' 'bout a…" (truck in a farmer's field, beer sittin' on ice, girl in a red sundress, kiss that's gonna lead to more), and then the chorus begins, "And there's somethin' ' bout a truck in a field / And a girl in a red sundress with an ice cold beer to her lips / Begging for another kiss". |
| 269 | * Music/ThePogues' "A Pair Of Brown Eyes": "Some prayed, some cursed, some prayed, ''then'' cursed, then prayed, then bled some more." |
| 270 | * Das Racist's "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell": |
| 271 | -->''I'm at the Pizza Hut\ |
| 272 | I'm at the Taco Bell\ |
| 273 | I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell'' |
| 274 | * One reviewer commented that in their early days Music/CradleOfFilth had three kinds of songs: songs about sex, songs about vampires, and... well, [[AuthorAppeal you can guess the rest]]. |
| 275 | * The [[http://www.upthedownstair.net/2006/03/show-56-peter-gabriel-in-madtown.html press release]] Music/PeterGabriel issued announcing his leaving Music/{{Genesis|Band}} [[PlayingWithTropes plays with this trope]]. He lists non-reasons for leaving the band as "To do a [[Music/DavidBowie Bowie]]", "To do a [[Music/RoxyMusic Ferry]]", then "To do a furry boa round my neck and hang myself with it". |
| 276 | * Three consecutive songs on the Music/PaulAndStorm album ''Gumbo Pants'' are "If Music/JamesTaylor Were on Fire", "If Music/BobDylan Were Hiding at the Bottom of a Well", and "If James Taylor Were on Fire at the Bottom of a Well". |
| 277 | * Music/StarBomb: The spoken intro of ''Player Select'' has [[Music/NinjaSexParty Danny Sexbang]] claiming that between the two albums, he and Creator/{{Egoraptor}} were "partying with supermodels, robots, robot supermodel [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment robots]], and occasionally writing music". |
| 278 | * Pikotaro's "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen" is all about this. |
| 279 | -->''I have a pen, I have a apple. \ |
| 280 | ''[smashing motion]'' Ugh, apple pen! \ |
| 281 | I have a pen, I have pineapple. \ |
| 282 | ''[smashing motion]'' Ugh, pineapple pen!'' |
| 283 | ** And when he puts those two things ''together''... TitleDrop time. |
| 284 | * Creator/NeilCicierega's "Bustin" contains this line: |
| 285 | -->''Freaky ghost, baby!\ |
| 286 | Freaky ghost, man!\ |
| 287 | Freaky man baby! |
| 288 | * Creator/CorbLund has a song called "Family Reunion". |
| 289 | -->"You got the Mormons and the drinkers and the Mormons who drink." |
| 290 | * A.G. Cook of Music/PCMusic fame broke out with the singles "Beautiful" (released in 2014) and "Superstar" (in 2016). Come his second album, ''Apple'' (released in 2020), it features a song titled "Beautiful Superstar", though it's not a mashup in any way. |
| 291 | * This is how The All-American Rejects got their name. Nick Wheeler wanted to call them All-American and Tyson Ritter wanted to call them The Rejects, so they combined them and the rest is history. |
| 292 | * "The Zoology Dragon": "Cow! Cube! COWUUBE!!! Cow! Cube! COWUUBE!!!" |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 296 | * Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}: |
| 297 | ** On ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', we get |
| 298 | --->"OK, what has Draco sent them this time? A bird? An apple? A horrible bird apple that pecks your eyes out with each delicious bite?!?" |
| 299 | ** In the Podcast/RiffTrax for ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' we get this gem as Edward is reading people's minds: "Sex...cats..." "Cat sex..." |
| 300 | * ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': |
| 301 | ** From Episode 32, "Yellow Helicopters": |
| 302 | --->'''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Hiram [=McDaniels=]]]''': "And what you haven’t heard is that I care about small business owners. What you haven’t heard is that I care about the future of our children. What you haven’t heard is that I care about the future of our small children business owners." |
| 303 | ** From Episode 120, "All Smiles Day": |
| 304 | --->'''Kevin''': Sometimes the father broke things on purpose, like vases or the children's toys, or the children's toy vases...[[BreadEggsMilkSquick or birds]]. |
| 305 | * ''Podcast/WellTheresYourProblem'': While discussing the history of maths and abacuses in episode 101: |
| 306 | -->'''Abi:''' What sorts of things were people counting, back in the day?\ |
| 307 | '''Liam:''' Grain!\ |
| 308 | '''Alice:''' Taxes!\ |
| 309 | '''Justin:''' Taxes.\ |
| 310 | '''Alice:''' Taxes ''on'' grain! |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 314 | * The opening lines of Wrestling/SuperCrazy's entrance music during his Wrestling/{{WWE}} tenure: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqYmbb_8CRs "I am super! I am crazy! I am Super Crazy!"]] |
| 315 | * This is a staple of tag team names: |
| 316 | ** Wrestling/TheCorporation + Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness = Corporate Ministry |
| 317 | ** Wrestling/TheRock + Wrestling/MickFoley = The Rock and Sock Connection |
| 318 | ** Wrestling/TheMiz (whose catchphrase is "I'm awesome!") + [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] = Awesome Truth |
| 319 | ** [=The Miz=] + Wrestling/BigShow = Sho-Miz |
| 320 | ** Wrestling/ChrisJericho + Big Show = Jeri-Show |
| 321 | ** Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} (The Rated-R Superstar) + Wrestling/RandyOrton (whose FinishingMove is the RKO[[note]]For his initials: '''R'''andy '''K'''eith '''O'''rton[[/note]]) = Rated-RKO |
| 322 | ** Wrestling/KofiKingston (Boom Drop) + Wrestling/EvanBourne (Air Bourne) = Air Boom |
| 323 | ** Wrestling/SantinoMarella (Cobra) + Wrestling/ZackRyder (Broski Boot) = Team Co-Bro |
| 324 | ** Wrestling/CodyRhodes + Wrestling/DamienSandow (playing an intellectual) = Team Rhodes Scholars |
| 325 | ** Cody Rhodes (when he used the nickname "Dashing") + Drew [=McIntyre=] (The Chosen One) = The Dashing Ones |
| 326 | ** Layla + Michelle [=McCool=] = Wrestling/LayCool |
| 327 | ** Wrestling/{{Kane}} (whose ring pyro is called "hellfire") + [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] (the "No" Lock) = Team Hell No |
| 328 | ** Randy Orton + Wrestling/MattRiddle = RK-Bro |
| 329 | * After [[Wrestling/WadeBarrett Bad News Barrett]] won the 2015 Wrestling/KingOfTheRing, he wore a t-shirt that reads "King of Bad News" while nearing the end of his career. |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 333 | * Fozzie being heckled on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': |
| 334 | -->'''Leo:''' Bring on the comic!\ |
| 335 | '''Fozzie:''' I am the comic!\ |
| 336 | '''Leo:''' Bring on [[{{Burlesque}} the girls]]!\ |
| 337 | '''Fozzie:''' This is not that kind of show.\ |
| 338 | '''Leo:''' Bring on the girl comic! |
| 339 | * In the ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode "A New Leaf", Earl Sinclair berates his son for having spikes on his head, stating that they make him look like a girl, a bum, and a girl bum. |
| 340 | * In a skit from ''Series/CrankYankers'', Karl Malone calls a collector's gallery asking about Beanie Babies, which they don't have and don't want. He then inquires about Barbie dolls, which they have, but he won't go into specifics about what he supposedly wants, instead beginning a rambling story about some Barbies that his little sister once had. After a while of this, he asks again if they have Beanie Babies and when is again told no asks "What about the Beanie Barbies?" at which point the owner hangs up. |
| 341 | -->'''Karl:''' Don't hang up on [[ThirdPersonPerson Karl Malone]]! |
| 342 | * In "We're Going Camping" from ''Series/ThePajanimals'', Apollo asks the other Pajanimals to guess what their mother told him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin they're going to do that weekend.]] Sweetpea Sue guesses that they're they're riding on a firetruck, which is wrong. Cowbella guesses that they're going to the beach, which is wrong. Squacky suggests that maybe they'll be riding a firetruck to the beach.[[note]]This is also wrong.[[/note]] |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 346 | * Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 satire show ''Bremner's One Question Quiz'', in a spoof "Come to Britain!" advert that is actually trying to ''discourage'' visitors: |
| 347 | -->Whatever you're looking to experience, be it a screaming, shaven-headed man punching you in a car park, a neglected dog snarling at you in a car park, or a screaming, shaven-headed man punching a neglected dog in a pram, in a car park... |
| 348 | * ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme:'' |
| 349 | ** A woman being informed about her past lives being either peasants or slaves is momentarily excited when she's told she was a serf... until she's told that's "basically a mix between a peasant ''and'' a slave." |
| 350 | ** The ghost of a businessman laments how unlike most ghosts, he doesn't desire to find out who murdered him or to give his girlfriend his love. Then he asks the Storyteller to give his girlfriend his love, even though she ''is'' the one who murdered him. |
| 351 | * David Quantick describes ''Series/GameOfThrones'' on ''Radio/TheNowShow'': |
| 352 | -->It's got everything: sex, violence, intrigue, wit, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment sex, violence]], dragons, [[OverlyLongGag sex, violence]], [[SexIsViolence sexy violence]] and [[RapeAsDrama violent sex]]. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Possibly with dragons]]. |
| 353 | * ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'': |
| 354 | ** Citing a British study, Peter Sagal asks panelist Maz Jobrani what men talk about at a bar[[note]]their feelings, their relationships, and their kids[[/note]]: |
| 355 | --->'''Maz:''' Sex?\ |
| 356 | '''Peter:''' Not according to the study.\ |
| 357 | '''Maz:''' Uh, sports!\ |
| 358 | '''Peter:''' Not according to the study.\ |
| 359 | '''Maz:''' Um, sexual sports?\ |
| 360 | '''Peter:''' [[RuleOfThree Again, not according to the study.]] |
| 361 | ** Another one from the [[http://www.npr.org/2015/10/03/445559095/limericks 10/03/15 Listener Limerick Challenge]]: |
| 362 | --->'''Alonzo Bodden:''' So what is creepier, a hologram at your funeral or your yoga pants hugging you?\ |
| 363 | '''Peter:''' How about a hologram of you at your funeral with your hugging pants on? |
| 364 | * In the comedic Radio 4 documentary ''Girl Stuck in Basketball Hoop'', about why there had been a rash of cases of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin teenage girls getting stuck in basketball hoops]], the presenter established that teens were easily dared by their peers, but still wasn't sure why ''this'' dare specifically. |
| 365 | -->'''Ian Smith:''' Why not jumping into the river? Or [[CowTipping tipping sleeping cows over]]? Or tipping sleeping cows into the river? |
| 366 | * In ''The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry'' "The Slippery Situation", the scientists reply to a letter asking what the slipperiest substance in the world might be, suggesting "Ice, or a fish, or oil, or an ice cube in the shape of a fish, covered in oil." They eventually conclude that, as slipperiness is a function of how two materials interact, and oil and ice are both most slippery in different environments, this actually has potential. |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Sports]] |
| 370 | * During an episode of [[Creator/TheSportsGuy Bill Simmons]]' podcast previewing the 2014-15 NBA season, Jalen Rose[[note]]retired NBA player and contributor to NBA coverage on ABC/ESPN[[/note]] tells Bill that other than basketball, he wanted to learn how to speak Spanish and rollerblade. Bill then jokes about how he looks forward to the day Jalen goes "rollerblading in Spain". |
| 371 | [[/folder]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 374 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': In one of the RPG sourcebooks, a trader from the pacifistic and community-oriented Abbai race is explaining why she always checks the cargo she's hired to carry thoroughly: because there might be something "awful" in there..."Like weapons, or drugs. Or weapons ''and'' drugs!" |
| 375 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': One sourcebook contains a section on "Armor and Clothing". The first sub-section in the next page is "Armored Clothing". |
| 376 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'': In one adventure, characters can drink water that's been filtered through ghost rock. Side-effects could include delusions where a character becomes convinced that fellow posse members are "harrowed[[note]]essentially, zombies[[/note]], transvestites in drag, or perhaps harrowed transvestites in drag." |
| 377 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', the players are Troubleshooters who hunt down Commies, unregistered mutants, traitors in general, and Commie Mutant Traitors. |
| 378 | * The ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo RPG'' mentions the tried-and-tested means of accelerating play, the Big Damn Explosion, in which something explodes, like a car, a rocket-propelled grenade, or a car struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. |
| 379 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warbirds}}'': The GM advice section mentions that in a gonzo game, Azure's countless unexplored errant sky islands could well be inhabited by aliens, lizard people, or dinosaur-riding lizard aliens. |
| 380 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 381 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'': In the sourcebook ''Faces of Evil: The Fiends'', Xanxost the Slaad gives a description of the defensive abilities of demons and mentions them as being immune to poison, (nonmagical) fire, and poison that has been set on fire. |
| 382 | ** In the ''Tomb of Annihilation'' campaign for 5th edition, players will face undead, dinosaurs, and undead dinosaurs. |
| 383 | * ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': The second edition Bretonnia sourcebook describes the Forest of Châlons as being the haunt of "Undead, Beastmen and Undead Beastmen". |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 387 | * OlderThanSteam: A variation turns up in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'': |
| 388 | -->'''Polonius:''' The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral... |
| 389 | * From ''Theatre/AYearWithFrogAndToad'': |
| 390 | -->''There is a frog, a large and terrible frog\ |
| 391 | He is terribly large and largely terrible!\ |
| 392 | He's mean! And awful!\ |
| 393 | And awful mean!'' |
| 394 | * ''Theatre/EvilDeadTheMusical'': When Ash, Annie, and Jake saw the ghost of Professor Knowby, they share this exchange. |
| 395 | -->'''Jake''': It's a ghost. |
| 396 | -->'''Annie''': It's my dad. |
| 397 | -->'''Ash''': It's a ghost dad. |
| 398 | * ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'': |
| 399 | ** The traveling actors have a huge repertoire: |
| 400 | ---> "We can show you rapiers!" ''Cue a man and woman fencing'' "Or rape!" ''Cue the woman jumping on the man's crotch.'' "Or both!" ''([[BlackComedyRape Cue the woman raping the man]] while fencing another man.)'' |
| 401 | ** A variation shortly afterwards, with an odd subversion: |
| 402 | --->“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.” |
| 403 | * ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' |
| 404 | -->'''Nick:''' It's got a...a...\ |
| 405 | '''George:''' A quiet intensity?\ |
| 406 | '''Nick:''' Well, no...a...\ |
| 407 | '''George:''' Oh. Well, then, a certain noisy relaxed quality, maybe?\ |
| 408 | '''Nick:''' No, what I meant was...\ |
| 409 | '''George:''' How about...uh...a quietly noisy relaxed intensity. |
| 410 | * ''Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament'' features six knights, including the Red Knight, the Yellow Knight, and the Red & Yellow Knight. |
| 411 | * ''Theatre/{{Starmites}}'': |
| 412 | -->'''Ack Ack:''' It's the killer.\ |
| 413 | '''Dazzle:''' It's a Banshee!\ |
| 414 | '''Ack Ack:''' It's Shak Graa in disguise!\ |
| 415 | '''Herbie:''' It's Shak Graa disguised as a killer Banshee! |
| 416 | * ''Theatre/TheRockyHorrorShow''. When Frank first meets Brad and Janet, he says "Unlock a mind, unmind a lock. |
| 417 | * In the ''Theatre/LegallyBlonde'' musical they have a song about whether the witness is gay or European. At the end it turns to that he's gay ''and'' European. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 421 | * In the queuing/preshow area for ''Ride/MuppetVision3D'' at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]], there's a crate labeled "The Great Gonzo Stunt Props", with a list of contents reading: |
| 422 | -->• Mold\ |
| 423 | • Fungus\ |
| 424 | • Helmets\ |
| 425 | • Helmets covered with fungus & mold\ |
| 426 | • Helmets with fungus ∙ no mold\ |
| 427 | • Helmets with mold ∙ no fungus\ |
| 428 | • Fungus & mold ∙ no helmets |
| 429 | * The Ride/JungleCruise themed restaurant Skipper Canteen names the unseen members of Dr. Albert Falls's family by way of three memoirs on the library's shelf. |
| 430 | ** "Married into the Jungle" by Victoria Marie Falls, the wife of Dr. Albert Falls |
| 431 | ** "Born into the Jungle" by Albert Falls Jr., their son. |
| 432 | ** "Married to Someone Born in the Jungle" by Sneh Falls, the wife of Albert Falls Jr. and the mother of current Jungle Navigation Company president Alberta Falls. |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
| 434 | |
| 435 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 436 | * This exchange from ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': |
| 437 | -->'''Gumshoe:''' Any real detective would look at his bandana!\ |
| 438 | '''Judge:''' Mmm, banana.\ |
| 439 | '''Edgeworth:''' That's ''bandana'', Your Honor.\ |
| 440 | '''Judge:''' Right, his banana-scented bandana. |
| 441 | * ''VisualNovel/DreamDaddy'': When she was four, Amanda couldn't decide whether to go as a princess or a dragon for Halloween, so she went as a Princess Dragon. |
| 442 | * ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': |
| 443 | ** During the Act 1 scene "Mind Your Step", Hisao and Lily run into [[CloudCuckoolander Rin]] in the middle of town at night, and this thought occurs to Hisao: |
| 444 | --->'''Hisao:''' [Rin] looks like a zombie. Or a statue. A statue of a zombie. |
| 445 | ** Later he compares Shizune and Misha to "Prison Guards. Or Bloodhounds. Or Prison Guards bred from Bloodhounds." |
| 446 | * ''VisualNovel/MurderByNumbers2020'': When talking to Becky about the Air Vent in Case 1, the fusion of rats and spiders: |
| 447 | --> '''Becky:''' Me? Crawl into an ''air vent?'' You must be kidding! It'll be full of spiders and... and ''rats!''\ |
| 448 | '''Honor:''' Hmm. I guess you're right.\ |
| 449 | There might even be ''rat-sized spiders.'' |
| 450 | [[/folder]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 453 | * ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation'': The files in the Recycle Bin are labeled "crap", "junk", and "crappy junk". |
| 454 | * ''WebAnimation/DrHavocsDiary'': In Episode 6, when Dr. Havoc wonder where the other supervillains are. |
| 455 | -->'''Dr. Havoc:''' What about Professor Dark Heart?\ |
| 456 | '''General Plague:''' He's dead.\ |
| 457 | '''Dr. Havoc:''' Aw, ''Jesus.'' Evil Eddie?\ |
| 458 | '''Matt:''' He's in prison.\ |
| 459 | '''Dr. Havoc:''' ''Damn!'' [=BluntForce=]?\ |
| 460 | '''General Plague:''' He died...\ |
| 461 | '''Matt:''' ...While in prison. |
| 462 | * A video called What Is Love has the narrator try and identify love as fruit. Then bread. Then fruit AND bread. |
| 463 | * ''WebAnimation/NoEvil'': In the episode "Conduct", the spirits are walking to the village of Hatfield to check on it after Ichabod interpreted several random occurrences (a sneeze and a cloud, as Calamity put it) as a "bad omen." Huey proceeds to pester Icky about what it could be: |
| 464 | --->'''Huey:''' Plague?\ |
| 465 | '''Icky:''' No.\ |
| 466 | '''Huey:''' Death?\ |
| 467 | '''Icky:''' Nooo.\ |
| 468 | '''Huey:''' Black Tezcapokey? Zombies? Amaroq? ... ZOMBIE AMAROQ???\ |
| 469 | '''Icky:''' Huehuecoyotl, it's Hatfield. If anything's wrong, it's [=McCoy=]. |
| 470 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': |
| 471 | ** In "The House That Gave Sucky Treats", Strong Bad gives this insult if you give him an apple while trick-or-treating: "What are you, a dentist? Or a hippie? Or some kind of hippie dentist?" |
| 472 | ** In Coach Z's song from ''Music/StrongBadSingsAndOtherTypeHits'', "These Peoples Try to Fade Me", he closes the song out by saying "I can flow, I can freak... Uh... I can freak and flow at the same time?" |
| 473 | ** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "bedtime story", Strong Bad combines this with a {{Portmanteau}}: "I'm not your freakin' babysitter! Or your dad. Or your... dadbysitter." |
| 474 | ** In the email "time capsule," Strong Bad explains that time capsules should be capsule-shaped and not made from shoe boxes or tennis ball cans which are "different, and lame, and differently lame" |
| 475 | ** In the email "what I want", Strong Bad lists such terrible gift ideas as ornaments, [[CrappyHomemadeGift home-made gifts]], and home-made ornaments ("That thing is an anti-gift!") |
| 476 | ** In the email "web comics", Strong Bad describes most web comics as being "all about video games, gamernerds, webgeeks, dorknerds, gamewads, nerdgames, webwebs, and elves." |
| 477 | ** While critiquing fan-made Halloween costumes in "Fan Costumes '09", Strong Bad describes [[LampshadedTheObscureReference a particularly obscure one]][[note]]Based on a sketchbook drawing of a humanized version of Gunhaver from ''Cheat Commandoes''[[/note]] with "that is A, amazing; B, depressing; and C, amazingly depressing." |
| 478 | ** In "Donut Unto Others," Homestar responds to Marzipan asking if the donuts he's making are for "the 16th anniversary of our 17th break-up" with "Um, no. No way. Um, no way..." |
| 479 | ** In the email "sbemail206", Strong Bad tricks Homestar into running into a mirror, Marzipan into eating The Cheat, and the King of Town into eating a mirror. |
| 480 | *** With the video game examples from [=SBCG4AP=] and [=PNatI=], it's safe to assume the Brothers Chaps love this gag. |
| 481 | * In ''WebAnimation/PimpLando'''s CourtroomEpisode, testimonies against Bruce include, "He stole my puppy!", "He stole my baby!", and "He stole my puppy's baby!" |
| 482 | -->'''Lawyer:''' Don't you mean a puppy's puppy? |
| 483 | * In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', the Emperor's description of the Warp is "dangerous, stupid, dangerously stupid and stupidly dangerous". |
| 484 | * ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'': [[https://youtu.be/TKJBix-2fOY?t=3m35s Extra Credits: Mailbag #1 3m35s]]: "If you love games, music and game music..." |
| 485 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtY3Lto_lR4&feature=youtu.be&t=5m22s "The Warhammer License (Again)"]]: "Between the games, the books, the gamebooks, and the miniatures, Game Workshop's IP has hundreds of characters and locations and their disposal." |
| 486 | * In the first episode of ''WebAnimation/DorisAndMaryAnneAreBreakingOutOfPrison'', Doris asks Mary-Anne if she was imprisoned for murdering her boss, her "loverboy", or her "loverboy who was also [her] boss". |
| 487 | * ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': |
| 488 | ** On ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': "If I did have to criticize it, [[CausticCritic and I]] ''[[CausticCritic do]]'', I'd say there isn't much variety in the maps. You get to decide between territory control in a desert environment, territory control in an industrial environment, or, just to mix things up, capture the flag... in a desert-industrial environment." |
| 489 | ** Yahtzee also describes the subject matter of every rap song as, "guns, whores, and whores getting shot with guns." |
| 490 | ** His list of ways one can kill enemy mooks in the second video game installment of ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'': you can hit them with a lightsaber, reflect their blaster shots back at them, throw your lightsaber at them, microwave them with force lightning, force push them into walls, throw them at their mates, or "lift them up, throw your lightsaber at them, microwave them with force lightning, then throw whatever mess remains at their mates." |
| 491 | ** He also mentiones ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'''s random level selection mostly falling into three categories: a level with 10 million of something, the kind of obnoxious difficulty a Roald Dahl villain would come up with, or 10 million of something being obnoxiously difficult. |
| 492 | ** He also mentions that his favorite gameplay is ball-busting difficulty, his favorite story-based games are miserable and depressing, and [[VideoGame/DarkSouls his favorite game of all]] is both ball-busting and miserable.[[note]]Not that having one’s testicles mangled should ever give one cause for optimism, but you get the point.[[/note]] |
| 493 | * Christopher Torres, who designed the web animation ''Nyan Cat'', said that after one person requested him to draw a Pop-Tart, and another requested a cat, he created a cat with a Pop-Tart for a body. |
| 494 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': |
| 495 | ** This bit: |
| 496 | --->'''Caboose:''' Maybe she's captured. Or dead. Captured or dead. ''[beat]'' Or captured AND dead! |
| 497 | ** Or this one: |
| 498 | --->'''Caboose:''' I call it nap time. Which is right before food time. And then comes food nap time! That is my favorite time of them all. |
| 499 | ** And in an earlier season: |
| 500 | --->'''Sarge:''' I smell a trap... or a rat. Or a rat in a trap. |
| 501 | * In ''[[SupplementalMaterial/TeamFortress2 End of the Line]]'', upon receiving news about the train about to crash into their base, soldier looks around and is horrified to see an orphanage, kitten store, and kitten orphanage will be in the blast zone. |
| 502 | * ''WebAnimation/ZanyToTheMax'': The finale of the second season has Yakko come up with a survey for Coach Nurse to take. The survey combines beans and ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'' in various ways, similar to the "Beans and George Wendt survey" (as it was called in this episode) from the canon episode "Survey Ladies" (see Western Animation above). Subverted with the last two questions, one of which being "AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering". |
| 503 | * ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Giovanni bluffs that his projectiles are "lava, uh, acid, uh, [[PerfectlyCromulentWord lavacid]]." [[EdibleAmmunition They're soup.]] |
| 504 | [[/folder]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 507 | * A review of the [[Platform/PlayStation2 PS2]] game ''VideoGame/RingOfRed'' on the website [[http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/ringofred/Ring_of_Red.html RPGfan]] had the following to say about the game's troop mechanics: |
| 508 | -->Sending them out a second too early might convince the computer to spray them with shrapnel, flammable liquids, or even the dreaded shrapnel drenched in flammable liquids! |
| 509 | :: He's not kidding. Your mechs can in fact be armed with Incendiary shells (burninate a single squad), Shrapnel shells (hit both squads), or Incendiary Shrapnel (burninate both squads). |
| 510 | * [[http://memebase.com/2011/10/26/internet-memes-picture-is-unrelated-i-welcome-our-undead-otherworldly-overlords/ This]] Memebase picture (read from bottom to top). |
| 511 | * [[http://cheezburger.com/6523770624 This]] page at WebOriginal/LOLCats. |
| 512 | * In ''Website/{{Cracked}}'': |
| 513 | ** "So when a [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-superpowers-everyone-thinks-they-secretly-have/ camera, or a phone, or a camera phone]] doesn't heed our commands..." |
| 514 | ** In the real world, there is no perfect, black and white rule on when a human brain is ready to see a beheading, or a pair of boobs, or a man's balls, or a [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18819_the-4-most-important-things-to-know-as-gamer-parent.html man's balls painted to look like a pair of boobs]]. |
| 515 | ** On ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' being one of [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20538_6-games-that-put-insane-detail-into-stuff-you-didnt-notice_p2.html 6 Games That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Didn't Notice]]: "instead of just following a script like non-player characters in most video games, every NPC in ''Oblivion'' has a built-in list of needs he or she has to fulfill -- food, sleep, poon-nabbing, etc. If you and your Level 14 Orc Shaman happen to interrupt any one of those needs, say by breaking into an NPC's house and stealing all of his food, the NPC will venture out into the world to find more food for himself. He may get killed by a monster, robbed by a thief, or killed and robbed by a monster thief..." |
| 516 | ** Cities that get a lot of tourism are characterized using this in [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-stupid-travel-myths-everyone-believes/ 5 Stupid Travel Myths Everyone Believes]]. |
| 517 | ---> By simply walking around, you'll ... see the way they drive (manically), the way they urinate in the street (freely), and the way they urinate while they drive (frothily). |
| 518 | ** In [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-terrible-things-we-only-know-because-internet/ 5 Terrible Things We Only Know Because of the Internet]], Felix Clay describes the Internet as "full of hilarious gifs and cats and gifs of cats." |
| 519 | ** In [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20670_6-sneaky-ways-movies-tv-shows-outsmarted-censors.html/ 6 Sneaky Ways Movies and TV Shows Outsmarted Censors]], we have this gem: |
| 520 | --> [Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft] is known for its intense scenes of rape, chainsaw murder, and we don't need a third example because we already have rape and chainsaw murder. |
| 521 | ** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20707_7-mind-blowing-chemical-reactions-you-wont-believe-are-real_p2.html 7 Mind-Blowing Chemical Reactions You Won't Believe Are Real]] describes triboluminescence, the effect where crushing certain crystals releases light. |
| 522 | --> Back in the 18th century, when many folks still thought scientific phenomena were caused by ghosts or witches or the ghosts of witches, scientists used this effect to prank "simple people" |
| 523 | ** According to [[https://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_767_42-sci-fi-movies-if-they-were-updated-realism 42 Sci-Fi Movies (If They Were Updated for Realism)]], the Star Trek Holodeck would have options to bone Troi, bone Seven of Nine, bone Doctor Crusher, bone Troi and Seven of Nine, and bone Troi, Seven of Nine and Doctor Crusher. |
| 524 | ** According to [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-12-best-valentines-day-gifts-true-nerds The 12 Best Valentine's Day Gifts for True Nerds]], "a necktie is a gift that says 'I hate you' or 'You're my dad.' Or 'I hate you, Dad.'" |
| 525 | ** From [[http://www.cracked.com/article_21365_5-things-i-learned-defusing-bombs-movies-wont-show-you_p2.html 5 Thing I Learned Defusing Bombs Movies Won't Show You]]: "when the president has a press conference, we have to be there to make sure none of the cameras are actually bombs, or hidden guns, or hidden bomb guns, or some sort of alarming new weapon that turns guns into bombs." |
| 526 | ** [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-to-ruin-terrible-office-pranks 4 Ways to Fight Back Against Stupid Office Pranks]]: |
| 527 | --> For example, if someone's messed with your computer, you respond by setting up a bomb-making/animal-husbandry/bomb-husbandry darknet site on their computer. |
| 528 | * This semi-humorous [[https://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-personality-defect-test "Personality Defect Test"]] on Website/HelloQuizzy. The creator says the quiz "will also be filled with much of my inane ramblings, which shall help lead you through the forest of boredom and into a land of honey, and suckles, and honeysuckles, and me." |
| 529 | * On {{Website/Reddit}}: |
| 530 | ** [[https://i.redd.it/8zp70s09zav31.png This conversation]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Irony/comments/doan9g/this_subreddit_is_for_civil_discussion/ about]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz Matt Gaetz]]: |
| 531 | -->''Matt Gaetz is a douche'' |
| 532 | -->''Matt Gaetz is trash'' |
| 533 | -->''Matt Gaetz is a trash douche'' |
| 534 | * In [[https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/hey-thats-not-grammar-girl this]] April Fools' Day episode of the podcast Grammar Girl, we hear guest presenter Will [[BillBillJunkBill going through Grammar Girl's email inbox]]: "ad... [[TheInternetIsForPorn unsolicited pornography]]... ad for unsolicited pornography..." |
| 535 | * The indexing of article categories on Website/{{Wikipedia}} can be this. For example, there are "American singers", "American female singers", "American folk singers", and "American female folk singers". |
| 536 | * The [[http://www.brunching.com/geekhierarchy.html graph with the]] [[EvenNerdsHaveStandards "Geek Hierarchy"]] goes through various badly regarded fandoms, like [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkies]], fanfic writers of the SelfInsertFic and RuleThirtyFour kinds, the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, and culminates in "Writers of Star Trek erotic fanfic with furry versions of the characters and a self-insert". |
| 537 | [[/folder]] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | [[folder:Others]] |
| 540 | * The ''Series/PimpMyRide'' [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg Xzibit meme]] in general, ("Yo Dawg, I herd you like [noun X], so I put an [noun X] in your [noun Y] so you can [verb Z] while you [verb Z]) though [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/CaptHayfever/YoYoHerdYoDawg.jpg this]] may be the Most Triumphant Example. |
| 541 | * Japanese emoticons: |
| 542 | ** Flipping over a table in anger: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ |
| 543 | ** Putting the table back nicely: ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ) |
| 544 | ** Throwing the guy who put the table back nicely: (╯°Д°）╯︵/(.□ . ) |
| 545 | [[/folder]] |
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