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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

->''"[[PhraseCatcher That's not a kick!]]"''
-->-- '''Anyone hit by [[ChainsawGood Mystletainn Kick]]''', ''Literature/IsThisAZombie''

->''"I was just thinkin'. About goldfish. Even though they are called 'goldfish' they aren't gold-colored, are they? They are red, right? %do not pothole this% The 'blue light' on traffic lights too, aren't they green? Things like that make me sick..."''
-->-- '''Yuno''', ''Manga/HidamariSketch''

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[[folder:Films - Animation]]

->''"Pigs 48 cents. Pets 44. WHAT!? Guinea Pigs ain't pigs, they're pets! And I'm paying 44!"''
-->-- '''[=McMorehouse=]''', ''WesternAnimation/PigsIsPigs1954''

->''"Who are these…hip-hoppers? And why are they called 4*Town if there are five of them?"''
-->-- '''Ming Lee''', ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''

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[[folder:Films - Live Action]]

->''"If this is the Happiness Hotel, I'd hate to see what the sad one looks like."''
-->-- '''Fozzie Bear''', ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''

->'''Pintel''': Those aren't Pieces of Eight. They're just Pieces of Junk.\\
'''Gibbs''': Aye. The original plan was to use nine Pieces of Eight to bind Calypso. But when the First Court met, the Brethren were, to a one, ''skint broke''.\\
'''Pintel''': So change the name.\\
'''Gibbs''': What, to "Nine Pieces of Whatever We Happened To Have In Our Pockets At The Time?" [[SarcasmMode Oh yes, that sounds very piratey.]]
-->-- ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''

->''"Hey, why you call me 'guinea pig', anyway? I'm not Italian and I'm not pork!"''
-->-- '''Rodney the Guinea Pig''', ''Film/DrDolittle''

->'''Casey Brackett''': Why do you call it the Predator?\\
'''Traeger''': It's a nickname. You know, the data suggests that [[ProudHunterRace it tracks its prey, exploits weakness. Seems to… well, enjoy it. Like a game]].\\
'''Casey Brackett''': That's not a predator, that's a sports hunter.\\
'''Traeger''': Sorry?\\
'''Casey Brackett''': A predator kills its prey to survive. I mean, what you're describing is more like a bass fisherman.\\
'''Traeger''': Well, we took a vote. [[RuleOfCool Predator's cooler]], right? ''[the lab team agrees]'' Fuck yeah.
-->-- ''Film/ThePredator''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]

->''Whatever happened to the ''Lone'' in [[IWorkAlone Lone Swordsman]]? This is unacceptable. Do you see [[BlackKnight Black]] prancing about [[VillainInAWhiteSuit in white robes]]? It’s called a Name, not a Suggestion.''
-->-- '''[[VillainProtagonist Catherine Foundling]]''' upon finding out that the Lone Swordsman has a party of heroes, ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''

->'''Skulduggery''': The five people glaring at the necromancers call themselves "The Four Elementals."[...]\\
'''Valkyrie''': The Four Elementals?\\
'''Skulduggery''': Yes.\\
'''Valkyrie''': But there are five of them.\\
'''Skulduggery''': I know.
-->-- ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant''

->''"The reason it's called'' Grape Nuts ''is that it contains dextrose, which is also sometimes called'' grape sugar'', and also because'' Grape Nuts ''is catchier, in terms of marketing, than [[ItTastesLikeFeet A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel]], which is what it tastes like."''
-->-- '''Creator/DaveBarry''', ''Tips for Writer's''

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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

->''"If there really is an interior designer named Gay Butler, somewhere there must be a gay butler named 'Interior Designer'."''
-->-- '''Bill Maher''', ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher''

->''"The French Foreign Legion was neither French, Foreign, nor a Legion. Discuss."''
-->-- '''Linda Richards''' (Mike Myers), ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''

->'''Doug:''' Hey Klaus, why is it that Hamburg and Frankfurt have nothing to do with hamburgers or hot dogs?\\
'''Janitor, a.k.a. "Klaus":''' Vhy iz your Lake Titicaca not filled viz boobs und poop?
-->-- ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''

->''"This is called Ninety Mile Beach because it's exactly fifty five miles long. I don't understand it either."''
-->-- '''Jeremy Clarkson''', ''Series/TopGearUK''

->'''Veronica Mars''': Easygoing Veronica Mars, that's what they call me.\\
'''Keith Mars''': You know how fat men are sometimes called "Tiny"?
-->-- ''Series/VeronicaMars''

->'''Bunk''': You know those little corner joints in the ghetto that sell subs, fried chicken, lake trout?\\
'''[=McNulty=]''': Lake trout...\\
'''Bunk''': Like egg creams in New York.\\
'''[=McNulty=]''': No eggs, no cream.\\
'''Bunk''': Exactly--no lake, no trout.
-->-- ''Series/TheWire''

->'''Courtney:''' ''(looking at a picture of the ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory''): There were eight of you, Pat.\\
'''Pat:''' Yeah, we always argued about the name.
-->-- ''Series/Stargirl2020''

->'''Todd:''' What's going on?\\
'''Dirk:''' The Rowdy Three!\\
'''Todd:''' There are ''four'' of them.\\
'''Dirk:''' I'm ''wildly'' aware!
-->-- ''Series/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency''

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[[folder:Music]]

->''"I'm not black like Music/BarryWhite, but I'm white like [[Music/ThePixies Frank Black]] is."''
-->-- '''Music/BloodhoundGang''', "Fire Water Burn"

->''The coconut nut is a giant nut,\\
If you eat too much, you'll get very fat.\\
Now, the coconut nut is a big, big nut\\
But this delicious nut is not a nut!''
--> -- '''Music/SmokeyMountain''', ''Da Coconut Nut''

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[[folder:Video Games]]
->''"We've degenerated into a department that destroys and manipulates information as ordered, yet somehow we're still called the "Information Team.""''
-->-- '''Yesod''', ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation''

->''"THE WIND FISH IN NAME ONLY, FOR IT IS NEITHER."''
-->-- '''Owl statue''', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' ([[spoiler:It's a winged whale]].)

->'''Yan:''' Here we are... Blind Man's Volcano! Named five hundred years ago by the famed BlindSeer, Hexus!\\
''{{beat}}''\\
'''Delphi:''' ...But there is no volcano.\\
'''Yan:''' Well, what did you expect? The poor man was blind.
-->-- ''VideoGame/GiantsCitizenKabuto''

->''"This [[FiendishFish rare fish]] is named after the dark waters it prefers to lay its eggs in. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Black Water Dragons]] are actually [[WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver albino]]. They are prized by our great [[TheDragon Governors]] for its part in [[ColdBloodedTorture extracting useful information from terrorists]]."''
-->-- '''King Min's Kyrat''', ''VideoGame/FarCry4''

->''"I dunno. It's like everyone just decides what it means and passes their judgement and expects me to behave in a certain way. I mean, first of all, it's my name, like my actual, this-is-what-my-birth-certificate-says NAME. It doesn't reflect me as a person. And hey, words can mean more than one thing, you know? Just because the first thing YOU think of is some happy-go-lucky sap doesn't mean..."''
-->-- '''Mr. Upbeat''', ''[[VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven Fever]]''

->'''[[VideoGame/GoldenAxe Ax Battler]]:''' I am Ax Battler.\\
'''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Amy Rose]]:''' Ax Battler? But you have a sword.
-->-- ''VideoGame/SegaHeroes''

->'''Johnny Cage:''' How is ''Shao Kahn'' not a ''[[MultiArmedAndDangerous Shokan]]?!''
->'''Shao Kahn:''' It's irrelevant, imbecile.
->'''Johnny Cage:''' ''Dude, I lose sleep over shit like this!''
-->-- ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''

->''Ah, thank you. And welcome to the [[ShiftingSandLand Scorching Sandpaper Desert]], where it's always scorching hot!...Except [[TheNightThatNeverEnds right now]], I guess. C'mon, desert! Scorch! You're making me look bad!''
-->--'''Red Toad''', ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing''

->''"Deadpool"? I’m not dead, and I don’t have a pool!''
-->--'''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''', ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes''

->'''Yuna''': That was the Jecht Shot, wasn't it?
->'''Tidus''': How do you know that?
->'''Yuna''': Sir Jecht showed it to me when I was a child. He called it the "Sublimely Magnificent Jecht Shot Mark III."
->'''Tidus''': Stupid name, huh? You know what? There is no Mark I or Mark II, you know? My old man said the name Mark III was just something to hook the crowd. He said they'd come back every night expecting to see Mark I and Mark II. And, they really did come back. I used to get... so mad.
-->--''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''
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[[folder:Web Animation]]

->Chill Touch. It sounds like a touch spell that does cold damage, and I like to think that the first time a character with Chill Touch uses it, thinking that it'll be a ''[[FullContactMagic sub-zero PUNCH!]]'' and instead, it creates a scary-ass skeletal hand that tries to '''strangle a motherfucker''' up to 120 feet away [...] If it hits, the hand grabs the target creature in question, and does not cold damage, but [[MakeThemRot necrotic damage]]! Surprise again!
-->-- ''WebAnimation/AnimatedSpellbook''

->'''Wiz:''' This man would emerge as the feared {{bounty hunter}}, [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Sol Badguy]].\\
'''Boomstick:''' So he's ''clearly'' the bad guy.\\
'''Wiz:''' Actually, he's [[AntiHero the main character of the story]].\\
'''Boomstick:''' ''[blubbering]'' But then why would the--!? ''[Wiz continues]''
-->-- ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]

->''"You call it a goblin punch. Even though it was very clearly a kick. And there isn't a goblin in within a thousand mile radius."''
-->-- '''Thief''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->'''Ennesby:''' From [[DeusEstMachina the Fleetmind]], there is a single ship, the ''Plaited Daisies''.\\
'''Tagon:''' Oh, there's a nice peaceful name... I assume it's one of Petey's ''Devastator''-class warships?\\
'''Ennesby:''' Actually, he's dubbed this class ''[[WeaponForIntimidation Extortionators]]''.
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]

->''There is no prophecy mentioned at any point in this book.''
-->-- '''Blog/CinnamonBunzuh''', on ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' Book #34: The Prophecy

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Video]]

->''"Alright... So South City is to the north, North City is to the west, and East City is... also to the north. ''({{Beat}})'' Where the f[[SoundEffectBleep **]]k am I!?"''
-->-- '''Imperfect Cell''', ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

->'''Rin''': You don't get the point of Murder-Death-Kill, Kirei!\\
'''Kirei''': And you need to stop calling it that.\\
'''Rin''': Well let's break this down. "Holy Grail War"... "Holy" doesn't work because the artifact is natively magic in origin. [[InNameOnly "Holy Grail" is BS]]. And you ''know'' it's BS.\\
'''Kirei''': It ''is'' BS.\\
'''Rin''': And "war" isn't true because it's seven people and their afterlife tag-a-long.\\
'''Kirei''': The definition of war is loose, Rin. It could mean "to represent the conflict between representatives of various cultures acting as surrogates for their nations."\\
'''Rin''': ''Could'', sure... but it doesn't. The point is, I'll start calling it "Holy Grail War" when the name isn't just a cool stand-in!
-->-- ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged''

->''"Seeing as the game is called ''"VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1"'', you have to do this a total of seven times."''
-->-- '''Thafnine''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frj3UgRLAiA How Five Nights at Freddy's Changed Horror]]"

->''[[VideoGame/MegaMan3 Top Man]]. I'll give you a guess about what he does. Did you guess "explore other planets"? Because yeah, that's what he was designed for. Why the '''fuck''' is he a top?!''
-->-- '''Brian David Gilbert''', WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zum81Rwa2fw Ranking all 200+ Mega Man robots]].

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[[folder:Western Animation]]

->''"RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue."\\
That's what they say, but it just isn't true.\\
Roses ''are'' red, and apples are too,\\
But violets are ''violet''. Violets aren't blue.\\
An orange is orange, but Greenland's not green\\
And a pinky's not pink. So what does it mean?\\
To call something blue when it's not, we defile it.\\
But ah, what the heck: [[LeastRhymableWord it's hard to rhyme "violet."]]''
-->-- '''Dot Warner''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''

->'''Superintendent Chalmers:''' You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger.\\
'''Principal Skinner:''' Oh ho ho ho no! Patented Skinner Burgers! Old family recipe.\\
'''Chalmers:''' For "steamed hams"?\\
'''Skinner:''' Yes.\\
'''Chalmers:''' Yes, and you call them "steamed hams" despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "22 Short Films About Springfield"

->''"Man, that is flagrant false advertising.''"
-->-- '''Otto''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "A Milhouse Divided" right after walking out of "Stoner's Pot Palace"

->'''Eggman''': The road ends here, old friend. [[PrepareToDie Prepare to be destroyed]] by Burnbot! ''[cue robot with pincher claws]''\\
'''Sonic''': So, what, is he gonna [[KillItWithFire burn me with flamethrowers]] or something?\\
'''Eggman''': F-Flamethrowers? Well, no--\\
'''Sonic''': Oh, uh, acid? [[StuffBlowingUp Incendiary grenades!]]\\
'''Eggman''': What? NO! ''Claws!'' His ''claws''! Very painful claws! ''[robot pinches claws together]''\\
'''Sonic''': Well, then, you shoulda called him 'Clawbot' or 'The Lacerator' or 'Pinchitron 9000'! But 'Burnbot'? I mean, [[LampshadeHanging that's just false advertising!]]\\
'''Eggman''': [[RageBreakingPoint I name the robots, Sonic!]] Burnbot, ATTACK!!
-->--- ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', "[[Recap/SonicBoomS1E1TheSidekick The Sidekick]]"

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[[folder:Real Life]]

->''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Football]] is certainly a misnomer, for the game is played not with the feet but with the hands, and the ball is not a ball but an egg. I propose that the game be played with the feet and with a ball, or else that it be called "hand-egg".''
-->-- '''Anonymous letter to the editor of the New York Times, Nov. 7, 1909'''

-> ''"''[The Anarchist Cookbook ''was''] ''not composed or released by anarchists, not derived from anarchist practice, not intended to promote freedom and autonomy or challenge repressive power – and was barely a cookbook, as most of the recipes in it are notoriously unreliable."''
-->-- '''[=CrimethInc.=]'''

->''"The Lord Privy Seal is neither a lord, a privy nor a seal."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/EdwardHeath''' (attributed)

->''"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters what do freedom fighters fight]]?"''
-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeCarlin'''

->''"Every single word in this title is a lie. There are no teenagers, no mutants, no ninjas, and no turtles."''
-->-- '''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150928181125/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge07.htm Hardcore Gaming 101]]''', on a (long since removed) [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg iPhone app]] bearing the title of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''

-> ''"A walleye is a freshwater perch so named because its eyes resemble a wall, provided that wall is covered with detailed pictures of fish eyes. Otherwise there is no resemblance at all and the name simply confuses and annoys."''
-->-- '''Creator/MikeNelson''', ''Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters''

->''"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire was [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords neither Holy]], [[VestigialEmpire nor Roman]], [[TheFederation nor an Empire]]."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Voltaire}}'''

->''"The course is called Animation Arts. I don’t think it’s too far-fetched to assume that this course would then be about the art of animating; I was wrong. The professor spent most of our time talking about modelling and it wasn’t until the last four weeks that he even mentioned animation. Did he even know what course he was supposed to be teaching?"''
-->-- '''Colin Sanders''', on what prompted him to create Colin's Bear Animation, ''[[https://waxy.org/2008/01/colins_bear_ani/ Waxy]]'' interview

->''ADHD is the most poorly-named affliction ever. like hi do you have a profound physical inability to accomplish your goals specifically because they're your goals and also the thought of your friends not liking you makes you want to die? you may have Trouble Sitting Still Disorder''
-->--'''Ada Powers''' [[https://twitter.com/mspowahs/status/1093267522969694208 on Twitter]]

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