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10->''"Nothing rhymes with that. What is he going to put there? ''Coachable?'' ''Poachable?'' No. No. He's either going to rhyme it with itself, or he's going to come up with this horrible forced rhyme that won't fit at all unless he twists the words beyond recognition."''
11-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', on rhyming "unapproachable" in Wiz Khalifa's "[[https://youtu.be/UePtoxDhJSw?t=143 Black and Yellow]]"[[note]]For the record: Khalifa [[TakeAThirdOption didn't even try to rhyme it with anything]].[[/note]]
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13A MusicTrope (or, in some cases, a {{Poetry Trope|s}}). It's when you hear a rhyme in a song, or read it in a poem, and you're compelled to cringe at how painfully it's forced in. Maybe the sentence was rearranged into grammatical nonsense to accommodate it, or the rhythm was broken, or maybe it verges on nonsensical. Maybe words had to be intentionally mispronounced to make it rhyme, or an unlikely metaphor invented. In any case, they were really better off not bothering to make it rhyme. Bonus points if it doesn't even quite rhyme, or if they're [[RhymingWithItself just repeating rather than rhyming]]. It's common for amateur poets to do this, since they often rigidly adhere to an "ABAB" rhyme scheme, [[YodaSpeak forcing them to twist their verse into grotesque contortions]]. It doesn't seem to occur to them that there may be other rhyme schemes or that poems don't have to rhyme at all.
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15This is at least partially the fault of the English language itself, as it's generally harder to find rhymes in it than other languages. Also, sometimes the difference between accents [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage may make a rhyme painful in America that isn't in Britain or Australia, and vice versa]].
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17Here is a list of technical names for rhymes that may cause this trope (They're all legitimate, mind you.):
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19* '''oblique''': a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (one/thumb)
20* '''assonance''': matching vowels. (shake/hate)
21* '''consonance''': matching consonants. (rabies/robbers)
22* '''half rhyme''': matching final consonants. (bent/ant, orange/porridge)
23* '''eye rhyme''': words that look like they should rhyme perfectly, but don't (done/bone/gone, sword/word, touch/vouch). Sometimes these are paired directly in phrases like "good food" and "Creator/SeanBean".
24* '''[[RhymingWithItself identity]]''': rhyming a sound with itself or a homophone. (foul/fowl, grace/disgrace)
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26A common source of Painful Rhymes is the {{Stock Rhyme|s}}, such as girl/world, which is painful primarily because it's overused. An extreme case is the MidWordRhyme. Often a form of LyricalShoehorn. For the acronym version, see ShoehornedAcronym. May happen during an AwkwardPoetryReading.
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28SublimeRhyme is an index of tropes with rhyming names and not the opposite of this trope, so don't get confused.
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33[[folder:Advertising]]
34* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d at the end of a Best Buy Holiday 2013 commercial, where "triumph" is "rhymed" with "pie-umph."
35--> '''Narrator''': Pie-umph? *[[{{Beat}} thinks for a moment]] then shrugs*
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38[[folder:Comic Books]]
39* Lampshaded in ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': Frau Totenkinder's spell/Takes a normal message and turns it into doggerel.
40* In the ''ComicBook/{{Animaniacs}}'' parody of ''Film/{{Evita}}'', "Brainita", Westernanimation/PinkyAndTheBrain note it twice:
41-->'''Brain''': ''If I say it's low-fatno one will care if it's ghast... -ly''\
42'''Pinky''': Oooh, that last rhyme really reeked, Brain.\
43'''Brain''': Work with me, Pinky.\
44\
45'''Two-tone''': ''Don't worry your pretty little anklesabout the people. Let them eat cake-les.''\
46'''Brain''': ''That rhymer Two-tone is a fake-le! "Ankles" doesn't rhyme with "cake-les"!''\
47'''Pinky''': ''But gee Brain, it does sound yummy - just like frosted flake-les!''
48* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW:''
49** Rough and Tumble like to try and introduce themselves with a rhyming catchphrase, but often they'll flub it. If Tails is around, he'll usually critique their attempt. One short story has the two split up when they start criticizing each other.
50** The Tails 30th anniversary special has Classic Tails do much the same with the Witchcarter when she insists on speaking in rhyme every single sentence.
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53[[folder:Fan Works]]
54* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11587512/4/Mary-Potter-2-the-Heir-of-Slytherin Mary Potter 2: the Heir of Slytherin]]'' the Sorting Hat's song rhymes "idea" with "li-brar-Y-a," making half of the Ravenclaw table wince.
55* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' is stuffed with these, and John complains about them Every. Single. Time. When told that the gods wrote them, he sneers, “Well, now we know they ain't the gods of {{poetry}}.”
56* ''[[Music/ManOnTheInternet Deltarune the (not) Musical]]'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-7h2zYZkC8 "Rouxls Kaard"]] has [[VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} Rouxls]] use the [[PerfectlyCromulentWord non-word]] "fungeon" as a rhyme for "dungeon", then scream that it's totally a valid rhyme.
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59[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
60* ''Film/{{Halloweentown}}'' invokes this when Marnie tries to magically open the gate to her Grandma Aggie's house:
61-->'''Marnie:''' Big iron lock that keeps us ''out'', open up your big iron ''mouth''!\
62'''Dylan:''' You call that a spell? [[LampshadeHanging "Out" and "mouth" don't even rhyme!]]
63* ''Film/Zombies2018'': The song "My Year" plays with this during Eliza's introduction.
64-->'''Zed:''' ''Now, let me introduce you to my friend Eliza!''\
65'''Eliza:''' ''We'll never be accepted, zombies need to rise up!''
66* ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'': Mr Beaver recites the {{prophec|iesRhymeAllTheTime}}y "When Adam's flesh and Adam's ''bone'' sits at Cair Paravel in ''throne'', the evil times will be over and ''done''". Susan points out that that doesn't really rhyme, which Mr Beaver concedes but says she's [[ComicallyMissingThePoint missing the point]]. (The poem was present in the original book, but as an eye rhyme it works better in print.)
67* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': The Knights of the Round Table's song. After previously rhyming ''impecc-able'' with ''table'' and ''able'':
68--> ''We're Knights of the Round Table,\
69Our shows are formid-able,\
70But many times we're given rhymes\
71That are quite unsing-able.
72* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': the brilliant Yip Harburg makes this part of the film's whimsical style, via RefugeInAudacity. The Cowardly Lion in particular carries many of them. From "If I Only Had The Nerve":
73-->''I could demonstrate my prowess,\
74Be a lion, not a ''mow-ess (i.e. "mouse").
75* In ''Film/ZeroEffect'', Zero stumbles upon a poem written by his client when he went to college, rhyming "Towards" with "Birds", which makes him rather angry.
76* In ''Film/TheSunshineBoys'', Willie Clark is reading ''Variety'' while his nephew visits, when he comes across an item about a songwriter who died.
77-->'''Willie:''' Know what kind of songs he wrote? Shit. ''Lady, lady, be my baby''? "Lady" he rhymes with "baby". No wonder he's dead.
78* Lampshaded for a laugh in ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. P.L. Travers is doing a script read of Creator/WaltDisney's [[Film/MaryPoppins adaptation of her books]], and the Sherman Brothers are performing the music they've written for the movie. She listens to them sing a line from the opening number of the film--"Constable's responstable"--and stops the song, insisting that "responstable" isn't a word. The brothers explain that they've made it up, and she sternly tells them to "''un''-make it up." Richard Sherman then sheepishly hides another piece of music with the word "Supercalifragilis..."on top.
79* Lampshaded and subverted in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'':
80-->'''Eddie Valiant:''' I'm through with taking falls\
81And bouncing off the walls\
82Without that gun, I'd have some fun\
83I'd kick you in the... (''[[CurseCutShort gets clobbered by a bottle]]'')\
84'''Roger Rabbit:''' [[LastSecondWordSwap Nose]]!\
85'''Smart Ass:''' Nose? That don't rhyme with walls!\
86'''Eddie Valiant:''' (''having recovered and gotten up'') No, but this does! (''[[GroinAttack demonstrates the word in question]]'')
87* ''Film/Cinderella1997'' (starring Music/{{Brandy}} and Music/WhitneyHouston) both featured and lampshaded this trope. When the Fairy Godmother (Houston) first appears, she sings in rhyme, and recites, "Fol-de-rol and fiddle-dee-dee, fiddley-faddley-foodle / All the dreamers in the world are...dizzy in the noodle!" Cinderella (Brandy) replies "That's horrible." The Fairy Godmother, thinking she's talking about the rhyming, defends herself, saying that it's difficult to come up with a spur-of-the-moment couplet. Cinderella was actually referring to the sentiment.
88* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', during Matthew Patel's [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext inexplicable villain song]] as he fights Scott, he includes the lyric "Fireball, girls! Take this sucker ''down!'' / Let us show him what we're all ''about!''", to which Scott [[LampshadeHanging quips to himself]] "That doesn't even ''rhyme!''"
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91[[folder:Literature]]
92* In Creator/PeterSBeagle's ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'', Lir's love poetry to "Amalthea" uses this as a form of StylisticSuck (since his poetry is ''supposed'' to be terrible):
93-->"It's certainly heartfelt", she said. "Can you really rhyme 'bloomed' with 'ruined?'"
94* ''[[Literature/WaysideSchool Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger]]'' has at least four StylisticSuck examples as Mrs. Jewels asks the kids to write poems about colors. These probably stand out the most:
95-->'''"Yellow" by Kathy'''\
96I really don't feel well, oh.\
97I don't know who to tell, oh.\
98I'm sick and I smell, oh.\
99My barf is yellow.\
100'''"Red" by Joe'''\
101The fire truck is red!\
102It hurried!\
103The siren wailed!\
104The building burned!\
105The firemen saved\
106the baby who screamed.
107* A passage from the English translation of Tove Jansson's ''[[Literature/TheMoomins Comet in Moominland]]'':
108-->Then Snufkin said: "You could write a poem about this. What about:\
109Floating on this eerie water\
110Far away from bricks and mortar."\
111"Saw a mermaid-- didn't caught her", suggested Sniff, blowing his nose.\
112"That's not true, not grammar, and it doesn't even rhyme properly", said Snufkin, and the subject dropped.
113* In Creator/PGWodehouse's ''Uncle Fred in the Springtime'' the Duke of Dunstable has a particular hatred for the song ''The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond'' because it attempts to rhyme "afore ye" with "Lomond" and plans to toss eggs at the gardener who keeps whistling it under his window.
114* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}''-trilogy when it is revealed that dolphins are masterful poets; unfortunately as advanced as Hagbard Celine's supercomputer FUCKUP is, the best it can manage in translating their language belongs to this trope.
115* In ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' Strange's attempt to become a poet was derailed when, while writing his first poem, he failed to find an appropriate rhyme for "let love suffice"; coming up with "sunk in vice", "what's the price?", and [[NonSequitur "a pair of mice"]] he went for a ride to clear his head, then never looked at the poem again.
116* In ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'', the main character mocks someone by pointing out how godawful it is. Many times. With FEELING.
117* Protagonist Stile intentionally used assonance in his fight with the White Adept in ''[[Literature/ApprenticeAdept Blue Adept]].'' Stile swapped out words in his spells ("Form a pyre/burn like fir") so that the spells would immediately fizzle out, roving what he could do to White if he really wanted to. Subverted in that full Adepts can't hurt each other, one-on-one (he didn't know this until White told him), so the full spells may have done less damage.
118* In ''Creator/DaveBarry's Book of Bad Songs'', Dave specifically calls out "Last Kiss" by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers:
119-->Oh where oh where can my baby be\
120The Lord took her away from me\
121She's gone to heaven so I got to be good\
122So I can see my baby when I leave this world
123::Dave also says that "if I were the Supreme Being, I would have a rule that you could not get into heaven if you had ever deliberately rhymed 'good' with 'world'."
124* ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary'' by Creator/AmbroseBierce sarcastically defines "kiss" as "a word invented by the poets as a rhyme for 'bliss.'"
125* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' novel ''Fallen Heroes'' features an alien race, the Lonat, who talk entirely in epic brilliant poetry ... which the Universal Translator converts into doggerel in order to retain the meaning. And for some reason, the more anxious they get, the worse the doggerel becomes.
126-->'''"Square Deal" Djonreal''': You confuse me with Ferengi tricks, the ... bottom price is [[TooManyHalves sixty-sixty]].
127* Of course discussed in the German language-game children book "Die dampfenden Hälse der Pferde im Turm von Babel" by Franz Fühmann. In a kids game round: "There is no rhyme on 'Mensch'! That's scientifically proven!" Note since this was Socialist Germany, one could see this as a subtle jab against appeal to authority, and promptly one of the protagonists rhymes it on "Ranch". Cue a hail of nonsense follow-ups with this trope, and slight bodily harm, making it a literarily Painful Rhyme.
128* In ''[[Literature/TheWolfDenTrilogy The Wolf Den]]'', Cornelius' hymn to Flora is assumed to be parody due to its painful and tacky rhymes.
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131[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
132* PlayedForLaughs in a sketch of ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' featuring a class of teens with superpowers. Creator/JoshPeck's character, Billy, has the [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway gift of "super-rhyming"]]--"Yeah! I do it all the time...ing." As he's compelled to make a couplet out of whatever someone last said, the results are, well...
133-->'''Miss [=DeBoat=]''': Why are you all snickering?
134-->'''Billy''': At least we're not bickering!
135-->'''Lisa''': You're giving us a pop quiz?!
136-->'''Billy''': If you spill a soda, you have to...mop...fizz.
137-->'''Lisa''': Reggie's a super-burper.
138-->'''Billy''': When I kiss a girl, I slurp 'er!
139* ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'':
140** Played for humor as the entire basis of Creator/HughLaurie's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__DrJI7mTHQ Mystery]]":
141--->Estuary\
142I live in a houseboat on an estuary\
143Which is handy for my work with the Thames Water Authority\
144But I know you would have found it insa''[[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle ni]]''tary
145** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBwbJWF8_-Q I'm in love with Steffi Graf]]" has this:
146--->When she hits that topspin second serve,\
147I think I know the meaning now of lurve.
148* ConversationalTroping - In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The Macra Terror", the Doctor - being dragged off to do forced labour in a CrapsaccharineWorld mining gang - feels this way about a musical announcement that rhymes 'Colony' with 'work':
149-->Dreadful. Did you hear that rhyme? The man who wrote that ought to be sent to the Danger Gang, not us.
150* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': Jimmy sings the "99 Bottles of Beer" song but about cash money. He sings "take one dollar, pass it a..." before realizing there is no suitable word that rhymes with 'dollar'. After pausing for a bit, he finishes with "yollar".
151* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'':
152** In the episode "Big Daddy's Little Lady" has a number of examples of this in the "B" plot, which is about Rose Nylund (Creator/BettyWhite) and Dorothy Zbornak (Creator/BeaArthur) writing a song about Miami for a songwriting competition. Their first attempt turns out like this:
153--->'''Dorothy:''' ''[singing]'' Miami is nice/So I'll say it twice/Miami is nice/Miami is nice/Miami is- ''[stops singing]'' Wait a minute, wait a minute. You put in an extra "Miami is nice."\
154'''Rose:''' I had to. It hurts the music if you don't put it in.\
155'''Dorothy:''' But the lyrics don't make any sense! I mean, it goes, "Miami is nice/So I'll say it TWICE."\
156'''Rose:''' Oh, I see your point. Well, what about this? "Miami is nice/So I'll say it thrice."\
157'''Dorothy:''' "Thrice"?! Who the hell says "thrice"?!\
158'''Rose:''' It's a word!\
159'''Dorothy:''' So is "interuterine"! It does not belong in a song.\
160'''Rose:''' ''[singing]'' Miami, you're cuter than/An interuterine!
161** In their second attempt, they change "Miami" to "Miami Beach" because of the difficulty of finding a word to rhyme with "Miami," but Blanche Devereaux (Rue [=McClanahan=]) notices the addition right away and points it out.
162--->'''Rose:''' I ''told'' you not to add "Beach"!\
163'''Dorothy:''' Fine, fine! YOU find something to rhyme with "Miami," hotshot!\
164'''Rose:''' Mammy, whammy, clammy, Alabammy, hootenanny, salami... \
165'''Dorothy:''' "Hootenanny" is marginal, and I refuse to accept "salami"!
166** Earlier in the episode, Rose sings her high school's fight song to Dorothy as an example of her songwriting talents: "Onward St. Olaf, onward we go, onward and onward St. Olaf's go! Go go go, go go go..." This comes up again at the tail end of the second argument when Rose complains, "I never had this trouble when I was working ''alone''," and Dorothy retorts, "When you worked alone, the only word you could rhyme with 'go' was 'go.'"
167* Very much PlayedForLaughs on an episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy'' where, due to financial constraints, Lucy ends up writing an operetta all by herself. There are plenty of other problems such as unnecessary detail about minor characters (that bloat the runtime) and songs that only have one or so lines of repetitive lyrics ("We like to drink, drink, drink ..."), but all other songs fall victim to this, with gems such as "when other girls go walking, on their arms they have a swell beau/but whenever I go walking, on my arm is just my elbow" and "I know a girl's supposed to wait for a prince to come and get her/the only prince I ever met is a neighbor's Irish Setter." Ricky also questions who wrote the script when his character Lancelot rhymes his name with "dance a lot."
168* Also PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' when Charlie and Dee, having bonded over their love of "def poetry", attempt to recreate a "def poetry slam" for an aggravated Dennis.
169---> '''Dee:''' Speaks like Zeus...
170--->'''Charlie:''' Smells like poops...
171--->'''Dee:''' Rage all over from his head down to his shoe-s.
172--->'''Dennis:''' Zeus, poops, and shoes? Guys, you suck at def poetry.
173* A ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'' segment had the ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' cast reading a children's poem that summarized ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. When the poem tried rhyming "Groot" and "soot":
174--->Creator/DonCheadle: ''Bucky and Scarlet Witch, Falcon and Groot\
175Suddenly began to turn into soot.''\
176Creator/ScarlettJohansson: "Groot." "Soot."\
177Cheadle: You can't find something that rhymes with "to turn into soot"? "To turn into..." I... I know it's soot, but his name isn't "Groot," so I wouldn't say to "Groot" and "soot." ''[bleep]''\
178Creator/ChrisEvans: I mean, are we rhyming "Groot" and "soot"? ''[shakes head]''
179* In series 6 of ''Series/{{Knightmare}}'', Treguard's closing verse in series 6 required him to rhyme 'foul' with 'hour' every week. Earlier series also had a PreviouslyOn delivered in verse, which usually had at least one painful forced rhyme. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one recap:
180-->They perished, all: though what a pity\
181It does help rhyme this awful ditty.
182* Intentionally in the closing credits of ''Series/MurderMostHorrid'': "And you wake in the night, wipe the sweat from your forrid/Murder most horrid". The final season included variants, some of which were smoother ("And you wake in the night, your face flushed and florid") and some of which were ''worse'' ("And you wake in the night, wearing something you've borrid").
183* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
184** In "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E09TheGirlInLoversLane The Girl in Lover's Lane]]", Joel pronounces "magazines" to rhyme with "Circle Pines" during his verse of "The Train Song".
185** Lampshaded in the "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf Werewolf]]" episode, during the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvhn122ygc "Where Oh Werewolf"]]:
186--->'''Mike:''' My mother and pop, they disapprove\
187But no one can stop us, 'cause it's true loove.\
188'''Bots:''' Huh? "Loove"?\
189'''Mike:''' Well, I had to rhyme the two words.
190* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
191** Played for laughs with Rimmer's VillainSong (each chorus line ends with 'Rimmer' or something which rhymes). The deleted final verse discusses how they've almost run out of rhymes to use.
192** In another episode Lister says the problem with writing a love song to Kochanski is that there aren't many words that rhyme with her name. And he's already used "underpantski" twice.
193* ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' featured a HalloweenEpisode in which a triad of witches [[PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime recited a prophecy of doom to Captain Kirk.]] When asked to comment on this development, Spock correctly pointed out that it was "very bad poetry."
194* ''Series/SisterSister'': Played for laughs in the Season 4 episode “Sis-Boom-Bah”, with both rhyming mishaps being delivered by Lisa:
195** The first occurs when Lisa improvises a slogan to promote the sale of popcorn at her mall cart to bring in customers (a gimmick that later backfires when she spills hot oil over the popcorn machine, setting her cart ablaze):
196-->'''Lisa:''' “Fashions by Lisa/Free snacks to please-a. I gotta work on that.”
197** Later in the episode, Lisa improvises a cheer while trying to advise Tia and Tamera, whose “twin gimmick” fails to make up for the girls’ lack of coordination when they audition for Roosevelt High’s cheerleading squad and end up on the school’s “C-Squad”[[note]]An alternate cheerleading team for students not good enough to make the varsity squad[[/note]] instead:
198-->'''Lisa:''' “Tamera and Tia/We’re really glad to see ya/If you give us a second chance/You’ll have money in your… pants.” ''(gives look of realization how her cheer [[ThatCameOutWrong came out]])''
199* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has Lore point out that Noonien Soong's nickname, [[EmbarrassingNickname Often Wrong]], is meant to rhyme, but 'Soong' and 'Wrong' really don't.
200* On ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', the rhyming "tree-mails" announcing challenges are always chock full of forced rhymes and awful meter. You'd think after [[LongRunners twenty seasons]], the mail-writers would get pretty good at it, but apparently not.
201* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' host Pat Sajak often criticizes the show's "Rhyme Time" category for this when it leads to bizarre puzzles such as BEES FLEAS AND MANATEES, often citing them as being worse than made-up examples of his such as DOGS FROGS AND WARTHOGS.
202* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'':
203** During a "Greatest Hits" game about doctors, Chip's attempt to fit a rhyme by cramming it in with a lengthy, rhythm-shattering sentence is so bad it causes Wayne to completely lose it:
204---> Your headache's as big as the nation,\
205That's why I'm writing this prescription.\
206And I am just gonna give you these pills\
207So you won't have a predilection to take another one!
208** Wayne's ''Let's Make A Date'' competitor who was also a politician running for office and his love poem/campaign speech:
209---> A woman like you is so first-rate\
210That's how I acquaint you to this beautiful state\
211I'd love to run my hands through your rich, lush foliage\
212And to be your man, it would be my priv-o-ledge.
213** This trope is taken to the logical extreme in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAS2W4r_UmE this clip]] when Drew cannot think of a line quickly and splutters something out for Ryan to deal with later.
214** At one point, Colin has to come up with a rhyme for "fire extinguisher". His response? "Ding-a ding-a dingisher!"
215** In one game Brad sings a song about a girl called "Niroshi". His attempts to rhyme with her name include "suntan loshi", "pacific oshi" and "we're so closey".
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218[[folder:Music]]
219* Creator/DaveBarry, in a column which would lead to a massive amount of hate mail from Music/NeilDiamond fans ''and'' provide the seed for the famous Bad Songs Survey via readers who agreed with him, complained about the lameness of this line:
220-->Is Neil telling us he's ''surprised'' that the chair didn't hear him? Maybe he expected the chair to say, "Whoa, I heard THAT." My guess is that Neil was really desperate to come up with something to rhyme with "there", and he had already rejected "So I ate a pear", "Like Smokey the Bear", and "There were nits in my hair."
221* According to Martin Pearson, Neil Diamond's "Play Me" contains the worst rhyme in the history of modern music:
222-->The line comes later in the song; it goes "Songs she ''sang'' to me, songs she ''BRANG'' to me.'" ''Ugh''! It's "''brought''", you horrible little American!
223* WordOfGod says LFO's "Summer Girls" was a joke song, not meant for public consumption, written to help the late singer Rich Cronin [[CreatorBreakdown get over his disappointment with the music industry and think about his youth]], and filled with inside humor. He said that if he knew it would be a commercial single, then the "[[{{Narm}} Chinese food always makes me sick]]" part would not have been used.
224-->Fell deep in love, but now we ain't speakin'\
225Creator/MichaelJFox was Alex P. Keaton.
226* Music/MitchBenn:
227** One of the satirical songs on ''Radio/TheNowShow'' mocks the then-Poet Laureate Andrew Motion for claiming that nothing rhymes with "Wilkinson". As with the Lehrer examples, outrageous forced rhymes are used for comic effect:
228--->Andrew Motion's changed his mind\
229He's far too busy milkin' son-\
230orous words and syllables to find\
231A rhyme for Jonny Wilkinson.
232** Another one from the first series of ''Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music'':
233--->Everybody knows ain't nothing rhymes with orange,\
234Doesn't matter how much imagination or inj-\
235-inuity you use even words thar are foreign, j-\
236-ust let it go, ain't nothing rhymes with orange.
237* Lampshaded in Wu Tang Clan's "Shame On A Nigga":
238-->''...I'm better\
239Than my compedah\
240You mean competitor?\
241Whatever!''
242* Dethklok does this intentionally on "Birthday Dethday":
243-->Now you're old and full of hatred\
244Take a pill to MASTURBATRED\
245Children point at you and scream
246* "Fennario", a folk song about an army captain who falls "in love with a lady like a dove" sticks "-o" at the end of lines to make them scan right. Lampshaded by Music/BobDylan in his recording of the song.
247-->''I've been around this whole country, but I never yet found "Fennario".''
248* Some of Adam Sandler's songs boil down to a succession of painful rhymes intentionally invoked for humor. A good example is "The Thanksgiving Song": In most of its couplets the first line is about Thanksgiving, but the second is usually a silly non sequitir that happens to rhyme.
249-->Turkey for me, turkey for you\
250Let's eat the turkey in my big brown shoe\
251Love to eat turkey all night long\
252Fifty million Elvis fans can't be wrong\
253(''later'') Thanksgiving is a special night\
254Jimmie Walker used to say "Dy-no-mite!"\
255That's right!
256* "Elenore" by Music/TheTurtles is deliberately written in this style; it's all part of the joke.
257* Lampshaded in Ane Brun's "Where Friend Rhymes With End"
258-->My friend, you left me in the end\
259... I can't believe I'm writing a song where "friend" rhymes with "end"
260* PlayedForLaughs in "Stonehenge" by Music/{{Ylvis}}:
261--> How did they raise the stones so high\
262Completely without [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle THE]] technolo-gye\
263We have to-dye?
264* Lampshaded in Music/{{Alice Cooper}}'s School's Out.
265-->Well, we got no class\
266And we got no principals\
267And we got no innocence\
268We can't even think of a word that rhymes!
269* Done intentionally and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d ''twice'' by John Gorka in "Wisheries":
270-->Though I may not seem glamorous,\
271I have often been amorous,\
272Though I am an ignno''ran''amous.\
273Ignoranamous, that's the word.\
274Through a window, she kissed my face,\
275She pushed me down, put me in my place,\
276The French would call that the coop de grace.\
277No, that's not my native tongue.
278* Zladko "ZLAD!" Vladcik in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGBHfXPqbgI I Am the Anti-Pope]]" does unholy things to the English language to get "unanimous" and "instantaneous" to rhyme. Honorable mentions also go to "Jesus Christ" being matched with "cheeses sliced", and "crucifixed" with "six-six-sixth". This is all part of the song's ''very'' deliberate StylisticSuck.
279* While Music/TomLehrer makes a habit of painful rhymes in his in his songs, in "The Folk Song Army" on ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas'' he actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it and offers an (insincere) apology:
280-->''The tune don't have to be clever,\
281And it don't matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line.\
282It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English\
283And it don't even gotta rhyme... excuse me: rhyne!''
284* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: Lampshaded in [[Music/EvenWorse "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long"]], a parody of Music/GeorgeHarrison's rendition of "Got My Mind Set on You":
285-->...I know if I put my mind to it\
286I know I can find a good rhyme here\
287Oh, you gotta have '''a music'''\
288You need really catchy music...
289* Rodgers and Hart's "Manhattan" rhymes "spoil" with "girl" by pronouncing the latter as "goil."
290* Music/{{Tocotronic}} have a true masterpiece on "Gesang des Tyrannen":
291-->Ich bin [[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo Graf von Monte Schizo]]\
292und ich singe diesen Hit so
293* A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has a stanza in his hit "Look Back At It" in which he pronounces "chain" as "cheen" in order to rhyme "cheen" with "rings". He then goes on to "rhyme" them both with "me".
294-->''Let me tell you something 'bout my life, And every single cheen, And my diamond rings, The way you walkin', the way you talkin' it's all because of me''
295* "If I Die Young" by Music/TheBandPerry attempts to rhyme "dollar" with "goner":
296-->A penny for my thoughts\
297Oh no, I'll sell them for a dollar\
298They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
299* Music/{{Eminem}} loves using this as part of his humorous style. Here's an example from "Kill You":
300-->Know why I say these things?\
301'Cause ladies' screams keep creepin' in Shady's dreams.\
302The way things seem, I shouldn't have to pay these shrinks\
303these 80Gs a week to say the same things tweece - \
304- twice, whatever, I hate these things
305* Music/TylerTheCreator's "Lone" rhymes "week" with "strength" by mispronouncing the latter as "streath".
306* Music/BobDylan's "Quinn the Eskimo", which was covered by Music/ManfredMann as "The Mighty Quinn":
307-->I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet\
308But guarding fumes and making haste\
309It ain’t my cup of meat
310* Sometimes introduced or exacerbated by a cover version that pedantically "corrects" the original singer's pronunciation, which may have been slurred or the like to create a rhyme or improve a dubious one. For example, some covers of Music/JoniMitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" fully articulate the words "[just to] see them," which are supposed to rhyme with "tree museum." For another, in Music/RufusWainwright's cover of Music/LeonardCohen's "Hallelujah," he inadvisably pronounced "you don't really care for music, do ya?" as "...do you?" (and analogously in the other verses), ruining the rhyme with "hallelujah."
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312
313[[folder:Poetry]]
314* This was Creator/OgdenNash's stock in trade in a great many of his comic poems. And then he [[HypocriticalHumor turned around and objected]] to the poetic pronunciation of "wind" as "wined."
315* In his satirical epic poem ''Literature/DonJuan'', Creator/LordByron often used rhymes for comedic effect, sometimes with LampshadeHanging. At the start of the poem, he also took a swipe at his personal enemy, Robert Southey, who was the current Poet Laureate, by rhyming "Laureate" with "[[Literature/TheFourGospels Iscariot]]". That one was so bad, he even expressed doubts about it in a footnote.
316* Creator/ShelSilverstein's poem ''[[http://poemsbyshelsilverstein.blogspot.com/2009/01/poem-by-shel-silverstein-pgs-46-47.html Pinocchio]]'' does this intentionally with nearly every rhyme in it, by constantly appending "-io" to the ends of words. Such as:
317-->Pinocchio, Pinocchio,\
318That little wooden bloke-io,\
319His nose, it grew an inch or two,\
320With every lie he spoke-io.
321* Laura Elizabeth Richards also did this intentionally in several comic poems.
322** "Antonio":
323-->Antonio, Antonio\
324Was tired of living alonio.\
325He thought he would woo\
326Miss Lissamy Lu,\
327Miss Lissamy Lucy Molonio.
328** "Eletelephony":
329-->Once there was an elephant,\
330Who tried to use the telephant-\
331No! No! I mean an elephone\
332Who tried to use the telephone-
333* Creator/DorothyParker was rumoured to have written a poem in the guestbook of William Randolph Hearst's mistress's house: "Upon my honor/I saw a Madonna/standing in the niche/above the door/of the prominent whore/Of a prominent son of a bitch." Parker objected indignantly, saying [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne she would never rhyme "honor" with "Madonna."]]
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335
336[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
337* ''Series/FraggleRock'': While singing "The Ballad of Sir Blunderbrain" to Gobo, Mokey, Boober, and Wembley, the Storyteller has a bit of trouble rhyming one of the words when she gets to the part about Sir Blundebrain's journeying to rescue the Fraggles trapped in the Terrible Tunnel.
338-->'''Storyteller:''' ''[singing]'' Sir Blunderbrain went bravely to the entrance of the tunnel.\
339The wind was low and lonesome, and it wasn't any, uh, funnel.
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341
342[[folder:Theater]]
343* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Theatre/EducatingRita''. Frank gives an example of assonance, with Yates rhyming "swan" with "stone".
344-->'''Rita:''' It means getting the rhyme wrong.
345* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "Camelot Song (Knights of the Round Table)" from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' and its theatrical version ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'':
346-->We're Knights of the Round Table\
347Our shows are for-mi-dable\
348But many times\
349We're given rhymes\
350That are quite un-sing-able.
351* In the song "Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You?" from ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Anna mispronounces "employee" to rhyme with "pay" and "libertine" to rhyme with "concubine"... [[LampshadeHanging and then corrects herself]].
352* Used intentionally in ''{{Theatre/Heathers}}'', while faking a suicide note.
353-->'''J.D.:''' Just make it sound deep, like this. ''I had pain in my path... [[Literature/TheBellJar Sylvia Plath]]... my problems were myriad''--\
354'''Veronica:''' *imitating Heather* ''I was having my period.''\
355''({{beat}})''\
356'''Veronica:''' [[SignatureLaugh Hahahahahahahahahaha.]] Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ahahahahaha. Haha. Ha. Heh.\
357''({{beat}})''\
358'''Veronica:''' *glances down at Heather's dead body* '''''OH MY GOD!'''''
359* ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' features this dialogue. Also comes with a case of RhymingWithItself:
360-->'''Raoul''': Isn't this the letter you wrote?
361-->'''Firmin''': And what is it that we're meant to have wrote? *Beat* Written!
362* Orlando’s StylisticSuck poetry for Rosalind in ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''. His rhymes with Rosalind's name alternately demand that the last syllable be pronounced with a long and a short "i." [[DeadpanSnarker Touchstone]] declares that he could come up with rhymes of the same caliber for "eight years" if necessary and proceeds to provide examples off the top of his head until Rosalind shuts him up.
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365[[folder:Video Games]]
366* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt2's'' Ghauri has a knack for speaking in rhymes, to the point of even derailing his speech just to put it in a rhyme. Copen finds his speech so painful to hear that ''he'' momentarily lose his concentration while fighting him.
367* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', when Volo is captured by goblins and forced to entertain them his strategy appears to be rhyming couplets following this format: 1. Make up an appropriate first line. 2. Realize he can't think of a second line and certainly not one that rhymes with the first. 3. Invent nonsense words.
368* In ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', Guybrush purposely derails an [[OverlyLongGag overly-long-song]] by pitching [[LeastRhymableWord the word orange]] into the rhymes. The singers are unable to come up with anything fitting besides "door-hinge".
369* The first room in ''Eunice'' contains a note which begins:
370-->Eunice is a shadow of its former glory,\
371Hope is lost, just a faint mem-ORY
372* ''Videogame/FallenLondon'' uses the concept for humor in the flavor text which indicates progress in writing a commissioned poem. It's an epic - four hundred stanzas. And it's about mushrooms. "The work advances. Are you actually going to rhyme 'mushroom' with 'room'? I mean ''actually?''"
373* ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'': One of Fisherman Joe's poems has him awkwardly try to rhyme "storm" and "home". Mae mocks this by drawing a picture in her journal of a fish with a hat and briefcase saying "Honey, I'm horm."
374* In-universe; in ''VideoGame/{{Violet}}'', if the protagonist tries to work to MC Dingo's music, they're distracted by his rhymes of 'casino'/'albino' and 'zebra'/'Deborah'.
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376
377[[folder:Web Animation]]
378* ''Webanimation/StupidKids'': TheNarrator does this in ''Boldogat és még boldogabbat'' (''Merry and even more'').
379->'''Narrator''': The workings can be heard of the animated people. And, I dunno apple.
380->'''Boti''': [[InteractiveNarrator Oh come on, Narrator! You can do better.]]
381* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'':
382** Yahtzee decided that the reboot of ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein|2009}}'' was such a boring game any normal review of it would also be boring, and so performed most of his review of the game in limerick form. Since it's played for laughs, the ridiculous rhymes come off as more hilarious than painful.
383--->"I know what you're gonna say: "Yahtzee!\
384You sleek internet paparazzi!\
385Surely it's always fun\
386To stick the butt of a gun\
387Up the arse of a goose-stepping Nazi!"
388** He lays into ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight'' for using this too often, as it completely disrupted any immersion he may have otherwise had.
389* WebAnimation/HomestarRunner:
390** On ''Music/StrongBadSingsAndOtherTypeHits'', Strong Bad comments on this during Marzipan's song "Sensitive to Bees", where she rhymes "fruit" with "cute". Then [[RhymingWithItself "cute", "cute", and "cute"]].
391--->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh, "fruit" and "cute". [[SarcasmMode Good rhyme!]]
392--->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh, cute, CUTE ''and'' cute. You're like the poet laureate of...
393** Many of Coach Z's attempts at freestyling wind up this way, some just because he's a poor rapper (example: "Coach Z" with "mostly"), but others due to his strange accent (for example, he refers to The Cheat as "The Chort", which he has rhymed with "sport" and "cohort" on different occasions. Or, at one point, he rhymes "that" with "abrat" - meaning "about".)
394* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': The end credits song, "Can’t Quit the RCG", starts off with an oblique rhyme:
395--> Some girls are sweeties who will fill your life with joy\
396Some girls will break your heart, leave you crying on the street destroyed
397* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony''. Spike writes a poem with an abundance of rhyming with “who”, then he forces “here we go” into this rhyme scheme by pronouncing it “here we ''goo''”. He cringes slightly as he reads this part aloud.
398* In Mondo's video "Back of the Line," we have Tim Cook trying to rap at the beginning, even though everyone wants the ghost of Steve Jobs to do it (who later shows up after this epic fail).
399-->'''Tim Cook:''' Hey there Apple fans, it's your main man, Cook\
400Uh, saying rhymes, on... on time... uh... oh ho, books.
401* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb-H6gIJk4c ''I'm your best friend'']] - a song from the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' soundtrack - is an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of this trope if there ever was one. It contains barely any rhymes, even when there is an obvious way to introduce them. Instead of "friend - end" or "game - same" you get "friend - the part when it's over" and "game - the identical way". It's obviously PlayedForLaughs and perfectly fits a [[TheDitz certain]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} character]] in the show.
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403
404[[folder:Webcomics]]
405* In [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1505 this]] ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'', T-Rex tries to rap but his rhymes turn out painfully terrible.
406* Elan's song in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0238.html this]] ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' strip is [[StylisticSuck hilariously bad]], even more so than usual. The worst rhymes are untilled/killed, wooden/pudding, and ''grass'n/assassin''. It's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the title, "[[LetsSeeYOUDoBetter You Try Rhyming 'Assassin']]"
407* "Super Stupor", a side feature of Randy Milholland's ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', had a brief appearance by a bottom-rung villain named Crimer Rhymer, who normally spoke in very forced rhymes. ("I don't know what you mean / My record from errors is clean.")
408* ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'': Rayne often does [[http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20060503 "beat" poetry]] at the local coffeehouse. Also, [[http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20060914 this strip.]]
409* During a ''Webcomic/{{Keiki}}'' story in which the title character is officially proclaimed the smartest person in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, Beefer challenges her to come up with a rhyme for "[[LeastRhymableWord orange]]." She answers, "The rock guy screamed, 'more grunge!' as he ate an or-ange."
410* [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2261#comic There was once a man from a ruggery.]] He engaged in consensual heterosexual sex that was well within the confines of acceptable marital bedroom conduct... '''ery.'''
411%%* From ''Webcomic/PlusEV'': [[http://plusev.keenspot.com/d/20061127.html The Princess Amazia theme song.]]
412[[/folder]]
413
414[[folder:Web Original]]
415* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick:
416** Her review of ''[[WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower He-Man & She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword]]'' started with her critiquing the opening theme.
417--->'''Singer''': Somewhere out there someone needs me / I don't know how or where but believe me
418--->'''Chick''': That doesn't rhyme.
419--->'''Singer''': I walk the universe to find her / For better or for worse beside her
420--->'''Chick''': No.
421--->'''Singer''': A stranger walked into my world / And when he talked I really heard
422--->'''Chick''': ...?
423** At the end of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's video about ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'' film [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Doug Walker]] sings a song which is full of nonsensical forced rhymes with "Halloween", mirroring Creator/TimCurry's musical number in the film.
424--->My favorite Ben & Jerry's is Cookies and Cream\
425If I had another name it'd probably be Dean
426* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic once berated a commercial for the Wuzzles which has a girl mispronounce "kangaroo" as "kanga-ree" just so it'll rhyme with the previous line. Critic complains that "roo" has to be one of the easiest words to rhyme, and to prove it, he sings, "I got a Wuzzle/I'm gonna snuggle/So much he can do..." After that, he {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this...
427--->"I got a Wuzzle\
428"I'm gonna snuggle\
429"We don't care about rhyming\
430''({{Beat}})''\
431"Buy our shit!"
432* In one of ''WebVideo/SmoshGames''' Game Bang episodes, Joven and Sohinki must face each other in a rap battle after getting the worst scores in the ''{{VideoGame/Def Jam|Series}} Rap Stars''. In the second round, Joven tries to rhyme "Army" with "Barbies", which is a borderline non-sequitur that flows poorly with his previous lines, but doesn't even rhyme that well.
433-->'''Ian:''' "I don't know how that made sense."
434* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows had the RunningGag "Not a Rhyme" to denote those. And for a song-specific case, he said that the first verse of Music/FloRida's "Club Can't Handle Me" features "the worst succession of non-rhymes I've heard since the second verse of Music/{{Steve Miller|Band}}'s 'Take the Money and Run'":
435-->Hey, I own the light and I don't need no help\
436Gotta be the feeling that Film/{{Scarface|1983}} player\
437Stuntin' go wild can't handle this plan\
438Life of the club arrogant like yeah!
439* ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}'': At one point the [[SmallNameBigEgo egotistical idiot]] Corazón de Ballena writes a BraggingThemeTune about himself, which includes an attempt to make the word "horizon" rhyme with his first name.
440-->''Corazón, oh Corazón''\
441''Look to the horizón''\
442''There you will see''\
443''His ship on the sea''
444* In the ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'' panel on "The Perfect Pokérap'', Brian criticizes how the original Pokérap from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' rhymed "Horsea" with "Weepinbel," calling it "a slant rhyme so terrible even Creator/EmilyDickinson would vomit."
445* In the second episode of ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'', the singing teacher of the day (Tony the Talking Clock, who tries to teach the characters about time) is pretty lousy at rhyming, eventually resorting to [[RhymingWithItself rambling repeatedly about time]]. As the series goes on, successive teachers begin to become [[StylisticSuck steadily worse and worse]], foreshadowing the fact that [[spoiler:[[AGlitchInTheMatrix the reality-manipulating machine generating them isn't working optimally]].]]
446-->''"Let's go on a journey / a journey through all time / a time that's changing all the time / it's time to go to '''TI-ME!!'''"''
447[[/folder]]
448
449[[folder:Western Animation]]
450* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
451** A song in "King Yakko":
452--> '''Yakko:''' In dear old Anvilania, everyone's our friend!
453--> '''Dot:''' We want to meet you all!
454--> '''Wakko:''' And shake you by the hend! ''[the other two glare at him]'' Hend! ''Hend!'' It rhymes!
455** In the "mix up the scripts" episode, the Warners have trouble finding a relevant rhyme for "brain"...
456--> They're Mindy and The Brain
457--> They're Mindy and The Brain
458--> One's a small child
459--> The other's...
460--> (long pause)
461--> The Brain!
462* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "Whip. Mix. Blend.", the Tough Customers protest a chicken restaurant, with the slogan "Sticky Chicken makes you sicken!" Rattles is in disbelief.
463-->'''Rattles''': That's the best you could do? It's not even grammatically correct!
464* This poem written by Sokka of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "''My name is Sokka/ It's pronounced with an "-okka"/ Young ladies, I rock ya!''" He gets thrown out of the poetry club--not because of the bad rhyming, but because it's meant to be a haiku.
465* The infamous ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' ChristmasEpisode "Dexter vs. Santa's Claws" had Dexter perform a rap number on how their dad dresses up as SantaClaus on Christmas Eve to give the kids their presents, and being not such a great rapper he comes up with some fairly lousy attempts at rhyming lyrics...
466--> Dad dresses up in a Santa getup,\
467And puts the car up on the rooftop\
468He makes the car look like a sleigh, here,\
469And mom dresses up just like a reindeer\
470She greases up Dad so he'll slide down the chimney\
471And put all our presents around the tree\
472Then Mom pulls him up, and by and by,\
473They drive down the roof and into the sky!
474* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' when Eddy recites a slogan for their home repair business.
475--> '''Eddy''': No joke when it's broke - don't be blue, Let Ed's Quick Repair Service fix it and you won't sue!
476--> '''Edd''': [[DeadpanSnarker You should have hired someone to fix that rhyme, Eddy]].
477* From the MusicalEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'':
478-->'''Kuzco''': So please now, Malina
479--> Won't you be my queen-a?
480--> [[NonSequitur I like trampoline-as]]
481-->'''Malina''': What?
482* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
483** In "So Totally Spaced Out", when the [[CuteIsEvil Gigglepies]]' MindManipulation on Cosmo and Wanda begins to falter, their ability to rhyme is affected and one of them attempts to rhyme "ridiculous" with "trick-ulous", causing Wanda to come to her senses.
484** In "Baby Face", Peppy Happy Betty finishes a string of forced rhymes with a very painful "distracted...-wackted!" She lampshades this with "I'm running out of rhymey-whymies."
485* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' has a character called Checkmatey who tries to rap every other sentence and creates some truly terrible rhymes in the process. Fillmore eventually gets tired of Checkmatey's grating personality and bad rapping, and as he calls out Checkmatey:
486-->'''Fillmore:''' You just rhymed "bomb" with "wisdom"!
487* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In one episode, Bloo tries to [[CopycatMockery mock Uncle Pockets' constant rhyming]], but ends up rhyming "around" with itself, as pointed out by an unimpressed Mac.
488* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E13FryAndTheSlurmFactory Fry and the Slurm Factory]]" parodies many aspects of ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', including the way the Oompa-Loompas rely on [[WordSaladLyrics nonsensical lyrics]] to create rhymes:
489-->'''Grunka-Lunkas:''' ''Grunka-lunka '''dunkity-dingredient''', you should not ask about the '''secret ingredient!'''''\
490'''Leela:''' I was just curious because of the armed guards.\
491'''Grunka-Lunkas:''' ''Grunka-lunka dunkity-'''darmed guards'''...''\
492'''Bender:''' [[BigShutUp SHUT THE HELL UP!]]
493* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Intentionally invoked in the episode "The Show Stoppers." Scootaloo attempts to write a song for the upcoming talent show, but is only able to come up with lyrics like:
494-->"With our cutie marks, we'll rock Equestria\
495We use our stomachs to digestia."
496* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', when an evil device forces everyone to sing. As TheUnintelligible, Rico's "lyrics" are all unintelligible grunts that end in a sound that rhymes.
497* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
498** The "Come Home Perry" song from the episode "Oh, There You Are, Perry" has deliberately cringe-worthy rhymes when Candace has trouble coming up with rhymes for "Perry":
499---> Oh Perry! I think it's kind of scary\
500I can't find you anywhere-y\
501It fills me with despair-y\
502Oh, Perry! I'm allergic to dairy,\
503I'm gonna move to the prairie,\
504And change my name to Larry!\
505...\
506'''Phineas:''' [[LampshadeHanging Larry?]]!\
507'''Candace:''' I ran out of rhymes, alright?
508** Lampshaded in the "Frenemies" song from "Lotsa Latkes", which rhymes "spats" with "ats".
509--->'''Baljeet:''' You are pluralising "at"?\
510'''Buford:''' Work with me, brain-boy!
511** In the song "There's a Platypus Controlling Me," a kid randomly mentions that his teacher is a panda. When asked about the meaning of this line, creator Dan Povenmire responded, [[BellisariosMaxim "It means we were looking for a rhyme for 'propaganda'."]]
512* The ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' video ''King George and the Ducky'' has King George sing a rant that rhymes "longer," "stronger," and "wronger." King George's page tries to remind him to [[GrammarCorrectionGag say "more wrong," instead]]. The king insists, "[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem It had to rhyme! Don't question a king's grammar!]]"
513* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse reads a scroll with instructions on how to utilize the Mystic Inkwell of Merlin ("Where There's a Well, There's a Way") when he comes across a painful rhyme that Penfold lampshades:
514-->'''DM:''' (''reading'') "Cast ye into the well a copper coin,\
515And whatever ye may wish is thoin."\
516'''Penfold:''' (''incredulously'') "Thoin"??!\
517'''DM:''' "Thoin," Penfold. That's what it says.\
518'''Penfold:''' What a terrible rhyme! "Thoin"! Hee hee hee!\
519'''DM:''' (''reading'') "And finally...[[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat just one more crack from little fatty\
520And he'll wish he was in Cincinnati!"]]
521* The debut episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' features an alternate theme to that of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. When it gets to the final verse:
522-->It's totally freaky,\
523Dexter's geeky,\
524The plots are reek-y,\
525We're up the creek-y,\
526It's sprung a leak-y,\
527Freakazoid and friends, now our song ends!
528* Only ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} could get away with this in his ending song tag after gifting Olive with a pearl necklace:
529-->There's only one poil\
530That's me goil Olive Oyl\
531Sez Popeye the sailor man! (''Toot toot'')
532* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Mommie Beerest", Marge convinces Moe to renovate his bar through song. They come around to this idea of making it an old-timey British pub, and Moe likes the idea, but everyone wants him to agree in song. He starts, "My bar could be British, instead of arm-pittish, so why don't we all..." and then gives up.
533* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman'': Spidey's InnerMonologue from the ColdOpening to the episode "The Uncertainty Principle":
534-->''Twas the night before Halloween''
535-->''And all through Manhattan''
536-->''Not a criminal was stirring''
537-->''Not even [[ComicBook/GreenGoblin Green Gob...lan]]''.
538-->Man-hatt-an. Gob-lan. They sorta rhyme.
539* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' episode "Bad Rap" has all of its dialogue performed [[RhymesOnADime in rhyme]]. Unfortunately, the title ends up being indicative of the rapping quality, given that the rhymes often include AccentUponTheWrongSyllable, bizarre pauses in the middle of lines to make the meter fit ("This Koopa dude's...got to go!"), and strange non-sequiturs for [[LeastRhymableWord tough words]] ("Wait, Mario, you forgot your spaghetti!").
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541
542[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
543* Creator/MontyPython's deliberately boring song "Traffic Lights" cuts off before finishing its last and worst rhyme:
544-->I like traffic lights,\
545I like traffic lights,\
546I like traffic lights,\
547Although my name's not Bamber.\
548I like traffic lights,\
549I like traffic lights,\
550I like traffic lights,\
551But only when they're... (Oh, God.)
552[[/folder]]
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