Used in the late 1970s ad for Orbit sugarfree bubblegum, with the robot going "it's a great-tasting, great-tasting, great-tasting..." until one of the kids in the commercial bonks it in the head to make it finish the line "...sugarfree bubblegum."
HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead. HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead. HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead...
Per some schools of thought, repeating something three times in a row, especially something annoying, indelibly imprints that in your mind.
A commercial from 2005, which used Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight," combined this with Left the Background Music On. "It's late in the evening/She's wondering what clothes to wear," the song begins; the husband keeps skipping it back to "Wondering what clothes to wear" as a way of saying "come on, shift!" to his wife.
Staples' "WOW! THAT'S A LOW PRICE!"
Employee 1: How many items do we have?
Employee 2: About 10,000.
Employee 1: I'll get him a cart.
Anime and Manga
The bee at the start of Mori No Ando when he's imitating the bear repeats "peropero peropero" over and over again.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Non-comedic example: the section of Asuka's dream sequence in the Director's Cut of Episode 22 that repeats six times in the English version. Almost enough to make you think your DVD is broken. *
In the original, it wasn't exactly that. The lines were indeed being repeated, but each time they were spoken by a different voice actress on the show, resulting in Asuka speaking in Rei's, Hikari's, Maya's, Misato's, etc. voices. This added more meaning to her repeated statement of "No! This isn't me!" The dub apparently missed the memo on this, though.
Asuka also seems prone to this: her last words are "I'll kill you!" about a half-dozen times.
Umineko No Naku Koro Ni - Maria Ushiromiya will repeat different lines over and over and over again. Sometimes, it's cute, sometimes it's annoying, but a lot of times, it's just plain creepy.
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni - "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry...". There's also a part where Shion screams "You're lying!" about six or seven times in a row to Mion.
In Urusei Yatsura (only in the manga version), Ataru reads the fake letter from "Kumino Otoko" out loud:
Ataru: "You make that dork Mendo look like pond-scum!" Mendo: Hmph! Ataru: "You're much more wonderful than Mendo, much more wonderful than Mendo, much more wonderful than Mendo, much more wonderful…" Mendo: Is there a scratch in your CD?!
Durarara - Saika tends to spam repetitious, monosyllabic phrases (Typically "mother mother mother mother mother..." but she later changes her tune to "Shizuo Shizuo Shizuo Shizuo Shizuo...") in chatrooms whenever a Slasher attack occurs. The chatroom users are convinced she's a troll. She's farfarworse.
Code Geass R2: When Luciano Bradley is introduced, his first line is "Let me ask you something: What do people value most? That's right, their lives!" This also makes up nearly every other line he says after this, as well.
Comedy
According to Bill Bailey in Part Troll, he becomes a broken record when high on LSD: "Isn't that interesting how it forms an N, forms an N, forms an N, forms an N, forms an N, forms a NNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNN...". Also: "That's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting..."
A literal example takes place in Another Monty Python Record where side 1 of the record ends with an argument about whether to continue the current sketch, which ends with "Oh, sorry, I've scratched the record" with the record grooves arranged to make this line repeat indefinitely.
Matching Tie And Handkerchief has the "First World War Noises" sketch, with similar results.
An old joke (to be used with a phone): "Hello? You don't say. Hello? You don't say. Hello? You don't say. Hello? You don't say." "So who was it?" "They didn't say..."
Another old joke: (usually said to a small child who hasn't heard it yet)
Q: Pete and RePete were sitting on a tree branch, Pete fell off. Who was left? A: RePete. Q: Pete and RePete were sitting on a tree branch, Pete fell off. Who was left? A: RePete. And so on...
And another joke:
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first fully automated airplane flight. Soon we will reach out cruising altitude of 36,000 feet and robot stewardesses will be bringing you dinner and drinks. We assure you nothing can go wrong. -go wrong. -go wrong. -go wrong. -go wrong...
Another joke. A family, while having guests, decided to keep their child out of their way. So, they take him to his room, put a record on, give him the headphones... After the guests leave, they come to the boy's room, and see him banging the head on the wall, repeating "I do! I do! I do!..." they put the headphones on, and hear: "Do you want me to tell you a story?... Do you want me to tell you a story?... Do you want me to tell you a story?..."
(From Unrealtime) There's a face, next muffin... There's a face, next muffin...
(From Fizzy Logic) Bummed in the face! Bummed in the face? Bummed. In. The. Face! ... Bummed in the face?
(From The Randomist) It was very moving and touching... and moving.. and touching... and moving... and touching... and moving and touching and moving... and touching... and moving... and touching... and moving...
Film
A very nasty example in the movie Spun, where the protagonist leaves a girl tied to his bed, blindfolded, for a full day, with a stereo at full volume playing the first two seconds of her favorite song as a broken record.
Half the dialogue in Manos The Hands Of Fate is this. It's a bad movie. We all think so. It's a bad movie. It will be dark soon...
One of the manifestations of Howard Hughes' mental illness in The Aviator is a tendency to repeat a sentence over and over, in an uncontrolled fashion. It's quite chilling to see Hughes sitting in a car with his hands clapped over his mouth, eyes squeezed shut as he fights with himself to stop.
In the 1975 film, The Stepford Wives tended to do this when something went wrong.
In Joe Versus The Volcano, Joe's Bad Boss is first encountered in an interminable phone call repeating the same few phrases: "He can get the job, but can he do the job? ... I am not arguing that with you!"
This was the cover copy for the published script for Westworld: "Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... "
Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital ends with the villainous Professor Millar unveiling his vision of humanity's future; a brain housed in a plastic pyramid. As a demonstration of its intellect, Millar has the brain recite Hamlet's "What a piece of work is a man" speech, but it gets hung up on the final words, repeating "how like a God!" until the film ends.
The little known 1978 British/Polish film The Water Babies: "Stop thief! Stop thief! Stop thief! Stop thief! Stop thief!..."
In Hannah Montana The Movie, during the filming of the video for "The Best of Both Worlds", the CD that they're lip-syncing to keeps repeating, "Best of both, best of both, best of both..." until the CD player gets smacked, and it finally ends, "Best of both worlds."
This is used very chillingly in The Strangers with a looped segment of "My First Lover" by Gillian Welch. The very same loop was used in the horror short No Through Road.
The 1996 Doctor Who movie has a record player skipping, repeating one line over and over again until the Doctor (then Sylvester McCoy) got up to fix it.
Comes back at the end of the movie when the same record skips in the same place. The Doctor (Paul McGann) lampshades it by saying "Not again." To be fair though, after the first time the record skipped, The Master's "remains" were breaking free of it's jar to set the movie into motion.
The Ray Bradbury short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" ends with an example of this one. "Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026..." The entire story is the the last cycle of a years long Broken Record.
Isaac Asimov, that master of robots, used this trope for horror in one of his short stories, "Someday." Most of the story is taken up by the interactions between two boys and a story-telling robot, with the former mocking how crude and out-of-date the latter is compared to newer designs. They try loading data about modern history, technology, and so forth to get it to tell more interesting stories, but to no avail. When the boys leave, the robot tells itself a story, with a strange amount of feeling, about a robot owned by "cruel step-people," and about how one day that robot learned that robot designs were getting better and better, smarter and smarter, and that someday—and then the Broken Record kicks in. "Someday . . ." "Someday . . ." "Someday . . ."
In The Naked Sun, a robot was found at the scene of the murder. It was completely broken due to the First Law being violated, and constantly repeating the victim's last words.
In Frank Bonham's Mystery of the Fat Cat, Buddy's brother Ralph is autistic and very concerned about accuracy in written or printed material. When the boys view the crucial picture, Ralph becomes agitated and begins repeating "That is doof God dena tack." Even Buddy thinks Ralph is just raving at random...
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. Used in-universe as block against mind-reading telepaths.
Jimmy: Not to sound like a broken record, but it is Davis Bloome.
From the Angel episode "Smile Time": "I wrote a song about courage and pluck. It's called Courage and Pluck. It goes like this: courage and pluck, courage and pluck..."
An episode of Farscape featured Crichton becoming Unstuck In Time, an experience that began with D'Argo saying, "Crichton! There's no one else aboard! There's no one else aboard! There's no one else aboard! There's no one else aboard! There's no one else aboard!"
Spitting Image - "The Chicken Song (12 Hour Version)" uses this deliberately, the end of the record was made as a locked grove, meaning that (due to the way the song as laid out for maximum annoyance) the first bar repeated forever until you stopped it.
Eddie: Oh, I see your point... Richie: Why, have my trousers fallen down? No, they haven't, they're up, I can see they're up — oh, I see your point! Eddie: Why, have my trousers fallen down? No, they haven't, they're up, I can see they're up — oh, I see your point! Richie: Why, have my trousers fallen down? No, they haven't, they're up, I can see they're up — oh, I see your point! Eddie: Why... have my trousers fallen down... Help! Help! Rich, we're caught in some sort of knob-gag Bermuda Triangle! Richie: Quickly, change routine! Change routine!
The climax of the Doctor Who episode "Silence in the Library" has Hey! Who turned out the lights? Donna Noble has left the library. Donna Noble has been saved. Hey! Who turned out the lights? Donna Noble has left the library. Donna Noble has been saved...
Also, from that same episode... Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream.
Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat: Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat: Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat...
In "Journey's End", the first sign that something's wrong with Donna (or the Doctor-Donna) is when she starts to talk like this during her Doctor-like babble.
There is nothing in the world worse than a Flanderized Dalek. "EX-TER-MI-NATE! EX-TER-MI-NATE! EX-TER-MI-NATE! EX-TER-MI-NATE!"
Kamen Rider Double "Trigger. Maximum drive. Heat. Maximum drive. Maximum drive. Maximum drive. Maximum drive. Maximum drive. Maximum drive. Maximum drive."
A more positive version shortly thereafter: "Cyclone, Maximum Drive! Heat, Maximum Drive! Luna, Maximum Drive! Joker! Maximum Drive!"
Power Rangers RPM: Hilariously subverted when Doctor K contacts the Rangers via hologram when Colonel Truman is out for her blood. She fakes doing this until he leaves, which takes longer than she would've liked. "After what I've seen - good, I thought he would never leave!"
In The Little Rascals short "The Pinch Singer" the gang auditions for a talent show and during Buckwheat's act he pretends to whistle to a prerecorded tune on a record but it gets stuck at one point and he has to pretend to go along with it for a long time until Porky finally hits the record allowing him to finish the song.
iCarly: "Nora! This is supposed to be a party. A birthday party. That will go on forever...and ever. And ever...and ever...and ever...and ever...and ever..."
Played for humor in How I Met Your Mother when Ted's girl of the week assumed Robin and Barney were a couple, to which Robin swiftly answered with "no, no, no, no" repeatedly. Made even more funnier because Robin and Barney dates later on.
The Dollyrots's "Rock Control" goes on for a while. "Oh just try to scream along / This is not rock & roll / It's rock control / Oh just try to scream along / This is not rock & roll / It's rock control / Oh just try to scream along / This is not rock & roll / It's rock control..."
Imma Be, Imma Be, Imma Imma Imma Be / Imma Be, Imma Be, Imma Imma Imma Be / Imma Be, Imma Be, Imma Imma Imma Be ... (repeat ad nauseum; Todd in the Shadowspointed out the Title Drop happens 106 times, and that by the time he finished his review he would have listened to the phrase "Infinity times five times")
Brazilian band Los Pirata has the song "Nada". The lyrics are roughly:
Nada,nada,nada,nada,nada,nada,nada,nada,nada,nada,nada... en mi corazón! ("nothing in my heart")
In Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine": "I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know..."
That was a Throw It In, oddly enough: Withers couldn't think of a way to transition between the verse and chorus, so he went for repetition.
We all know, yeah we all know, we all know, we all know, we all know we all know we all know we all know we all know, we all know, we all know, we all know. (Genesis)
The last three minutes and eleven seconds of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is the same six-note guitar riff. Over and over again. Until of course, the riff cuts out half-way th...
"Number nine, number nine, number nine..."
"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" because of short looping lyrics. Fortunately, it's also an Ear Worm.
"Blue Jay Way" has a lot of "Please don't be long" and "don't be long" in it!
The secret "Inner Groove" track, if played as originally intended, will be this. Good thing auto-return was invented...
They Might Be Giants's "Ana Ng": "Everything sticks like a broken record, everything sticks like a broken record, everything sticks..." Lampshade, anyone?
The MK remix of Nightcrawlers - "Push The Feeling On" chops up the vocals from the original and reassembles them into a Scatting loop. "Ir, their lives again ir, their lives to pull us" ad nauseam. It's a wonder this version was more popular.
There's actually an entire song that was built on this very trope: "This is the song that doesn't end/Yes it goes on and on my friend/Some people started singing it not knowing what it was/And they'll continue singing it forever just because/This is the song that doesn't end..."
And the Animaniacs version: "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves. Everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves. And this is how it go-o-oes."
Some artists do/did this intentionally on vinyl editions of their album by ending their albums with a locked groove, which causes a part of a song to repeat indefinitely until the listener stops the record. As a couple of examples, Pink Floyd did this on Atom Heart Mother, looping the end of "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" with the sound of dripping tap water. The infinity symbol of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's first album F♯A♯∞, comes from the infinite loop at the end of the second side of the disc.
Beck's "A Western Harvest By Moonlight" has an infinite runout groove entitled "Styrofoam Chicken (Quality Time" that is only about a second long, but is looped forever. The only way to stop is to literally lift the needle off the record.
Vocaloid Miku's song "Wide Knowledge of the Late, Madness". Watashi watashi watashi watashi watashi...
Nirvana's most glorious example is "Sliver" (49 repetitions of "Grandma take me Home! Grandma take me home!"). But many of their songs feature repeated phrases - most times, increasing the shrieking on each one.
Kurt Cobain seemed to love this trope. He used it regularly from his early work right up until his last song "You Know You're Right".
What else can the judges do? Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free
The intro track of Orbital's second album:
There is the theory of the Moebius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop...
"Are we not men?" "We are Devo!" "Are we not men?" "We are Devo!" "Are we not men?" "We are Devo!" "Are we not men?" "We are Devo!" "We must repeat!" "D-E-V-O!" "We must repeat!" "D-E-V-O!" "We must repeat!" "D-E-V-O!" "We must..."
Best part? They once managed to keep this one going for about a half hour at a live show. But that point the whole audience was just about ready to storm the scene and beat them senseless.
Zac Brown Band - "No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money..."
These New Puritans. In practically every song they have written, at least one lyric is repeated at least four times.
Michael W. Smith's "Let It Rain" from his Worship album almost falls into this trope with the single repeated line "let it rain, let it rain, open the floodgates of heaven", with the exception of a spoken interlude taken from Psalm 97:1-6.
"Barack Obama" by Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles was the first verse of "LSF" by Kasabian scored for strings and percussion with the lyrics replaced with the words "Barack Obama" repeated over and over. He would challenge both guests and the people that worked on the show to sing along to this. When he released his album The Parody Album, this song was included, except it had been re-scored for full orchestra. Oh, and the album version isn't just the first verse. It's the full track. That's three minutes singing nothing but "Barack Obama".
My Chemical Romance's aptly-titled "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" opens by repeating the syllable "na" forty-three times.
The Police do this all the time. I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing, I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing...
I'll send an SOS to the world, I'll send an SOS to the world, I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, message in a bottle...
In "Whip My Hair", Willow Smith repeats the phrase "I whip my hair back and forth" 70 times.
Radiohead's "Sit Down, Stand Up" ends with Thom Yorke singing the phrase "The raindrops" 46 times in a row.
"WHEN IT'S TIME TO PARTY WE WILL ALWAYS PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD!"
Electric Six's "Nuclear War (On The Dance Floor)" features the line "You're a pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty girl!". That part of the song actually goes by quicker than you'd think, but still approaches Overly Long Gag territory.
The Buzzcocks' "I Believe" spends its final three minutes on Pete Shelley repeatedly singing "There is no love in this world anymore!" in an increasingly agitated manner.
Parry Gripp does this a lot. Often his songs contain no other lyrics than one word or phrase repeated again and again.
"You breathe in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out..."
"The love that loves to love to love that loves to love that loves to love..."
"Dry your eyes your eyes your eyes your eyes..."
The John Hartford song "Don't Leave Your Records In The Sun" mimics the result perfectly: "They just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play..."
The Avalanches took this Up to Eleven with their song, "Etoh". The titular vocal sample is repeated through much of the song in different pitches. Despite that, it still manages to be a pretty good song.
Billy Joel uses some of this on the last line before each chorus in "Movin' Out". Thankfully the song only has three verses.
Yeah, but workin' too hard can give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack. You oughta know by know, you oughta know by now.
"Feliz Navidad". Dear god, "Feliz Navidad". The entire song is composed of sixteen words repeated ad nauseam.
The Shudder To Think song "X-French Tee Shirt" ends with the sentence "Hold back the road that goes so that the others may too that you let me in just to pour me down their mouths" repeated nine times before it fades.
John Mayer: "Say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say..." One gets the feeling that the reason the girl he's singing it to isn't saying whatever it is she needs to say is that he won't shut up long enough to let her.
Ronnie Rodgers does this when he sings "Take A Little Trip.
"Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip, with me... take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip, with me."
The outro of Music/Blur's song "Peach" is meant to replicate the effect of a broken record. "Da daaa, da daaa, da daaa..."
Toys
In BIONICLE, the Bohrok swarms keep telepathically chanting "Must clean all. Everything must be cleaned."
Video Games
In games where the characters call their attacks, the player can often cause this at will by simply using the same attack over and over again (Especially likely to happen if the attack in question is a Game Breaker).
In MOTHER 3, during your Mushroom Samba on Tanetane Island, one of your hallucinations says to you, "You haven't eaten? You haven't eaten? You haven't eaten? You haven't eaten? You haven't eaten? You haven't eaten? You haven't eaten? You haven't eaten?"
In Kirby and The Amazing Mirror, the final boss is Dark Mind. When you defeat him (rather easily), you end up in a regular level, after which you fight Dark Mind again. Then, you get another small regular-looking level, and fight Dark Mind again. This repeats for a few more times before he goes One-Winged Angel on you.
Shu in Blue Dragon has "I won't give up!" as his personal motto. And he says it at virtually every opportunity. It's into the double digits by the time you finish the first disc.
In the Sam And Max Freelance Police episode Reality 2.0, if you knock Bosco cold in real life, his internet avatar will do this.
A more literal example than most (i.e., due to something actually being broken in the game), Team Fortress 2 had the announcer endlessly repeating "Overtime! Oooverrrtiiime... Overtime! Overtime! Oooverrrtiiime..." during overtime in King of the Hill mode for about a day and a half. (Apparently the line was triggered whenever anyone got on or off the point, which was almost constantly.)
Used in the intro to Fallout, right after the camera ends its long zoom-out from a black-and-white TV to a ruined living room and surroundings with The Ink Spots song, "Maybe."
Flight sims such as Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet have the "Altitude! Altitude!" warning ad nauseum when you're flying low.
Rebel Strike's version of Rogue Leader's Battle of Endor mission seems to have a bug that causes one particular voice clip to play repeatedly:
WE GOTTA BUY MORE TIME! WE GOTTA BUY MORE TIME! WE GOTTA BUY MORE TIME! WE GOTTA BUY MORE TIME! WE GOTTA BUY MORE TIME! WE GOTTA BUY MORE TIME! WE GOTTA BUY MORE TIME!
From Tsukihime, "This chair is an eyesore. Disappear! This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair!"
Portal 2 gives us the Space Core, a personality core who is obsessed with... well, guess. Even more amusingly, it's a Foreshadowing of the ending.
One reviewer said the first skin of Lumines ("Shinin', shinin', shinin', shinin'...") "almost turned me into Jack from The Shining."
Just about any song from the Lumines series counts. An example from Electronic Symphony: Hey boys, / Hey girls, / Start DJin'... / HERE WE GO! (now keep repeating those same lyrics over and over)
The PC port of Silent Hill 2 has an annoying glitch that causes the ambient music to do this. Also intentionally done with one of the musics in the alternate hospital (3rd floor main wing).
Any given Eggman boss fight in Sonic Adventure. GET A LOAD OF THIS! GET A LOAD OF THIS! GET A LOAD OF THIS! GET A LOAD OF- GET A LOAD OF- GET A LOAD OF THIS!
Tales Of Legendia has multiple bosses who emit a Flat "What." every single time they get hit. There's also Mimi Baker, who shouts "Crummy!" every single time she blocks a hit, and shouts "Take this!" for almost every single swing she makes, even with her Bread Rain: Alpha that consists of close to a dozen hits delivered in the span of a few seconds.
Catherine gameplay in a nutshell: Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Undo. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge.note "Edge" is played when a block is caught by another block's edge causing it to be held in place. There is an "Undo" button that can be used to reverse up to nine of the player's most recent actions.
In Chapter 1 of Lollipop Chainsaw, there is a segment where you must defend a bomb cake from being detonated by zombies. During this segment, Nick will endlessly yell: "Keep those zombies away from the cake!" "Keep those zombies away from the cake!" "Keep those zombies away from the cake!" "Keep those zombies away from the cake!" "Keep those zombies away from the cake!" "Keep those zombies away from the cake!" "Keep those zombies away from the cake!" "Keep those zombies away from the cake!"
Diabetus: We should try savestating our commentary. Diabetus: We should try savestating our commentary. Slowbeef: We should try savestating our commentary, you said? Diabetus: We should try savestating our commentary -ing our commentary -ing our commentary -ing our commentary.
In Zero Punctuation, specifically in his review of S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky, he uses this twice to demonstrate how annoying the bugs are.
The general concept of the Stupid Statement Dance Mix, including such gems as "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"
Eros in Thalia's Musings when Thalia gives him a talking-to about his "relationship" with Psyche.
Thalia: Besides, it wouldn’t just be your soul’s babies she’d have. Have you two thought about that?
Eros: Babies?
Thalia: And she’s mortal. She’s going to get old and eventually die. Not only that, but your kids will be demigods. That means they can be killed. Have you thought about that, either?
Eros: Babies?
Thalia: Yes, little screaming nuisances who take a whole year to grow up. A year! Sometimes two, or even as many as five.
In The Great Mouse Detective, the heroes are strapped into a Death Trap driven by a record player. Fortunately, the record starts skipping, pausing the countdown. Unfortunately, Basil is too busy having a Heroic BSOD to take advantage of it. When Dr. Dawson shouts at Basil, the record skips across the record to near the end.
Bart, you have roots in this town and you ought to show respect for it. This town is a part of us all. A part of us all. A part of us all! Sorry to repeat myself, but it'll help you remember.
[later, Bart skateboards]
Marge: [in Bart's head] This town is a part of us all. A part of us all. A part of us all!
Bart: Wow, that does work.
"Can't sleep, clown will eat me"
"Dental Plan!" "Lisa needs braces!"
"CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD? CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD? CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD? CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD? CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD?"
Also in Lisa's dream after falling asleep in class about her enrolling in Brown County College "No not brown, brown, brown, brown" cut to Miss Hoover waking her up and asking "Are you okay? You're saying "brown" an awful lot".
Spongebob does this a number of times, usually with Spongebob being the one to repeat phrases ad nauseum.
Wakko: Well we have a very very very very very very * Dope Slap* important question to ask you.
The dragon! The dragon! The dragon! The *klang*
Igor: After Eva's failed Brainwashing, Igor laments, "It's just failure after failure." Scamper continues, "...after failure after failure after failure." When Igor shoots him a look, he just replies, "I thought we were counting off all your failures." Igor takes up the line again himself after Eva demands a bigger trailer, but stops once Scamper starts doing it, too.
Dora the Explorer is guilty of this trope, ad nauseam. The worst culprit is The Map.
Map: I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map! I'm the map!
In the old Looney Tunes movie Quack Busters, Porky and Sylvester stay for a night in a haunted hotel. Sylvester tries time and again to warn Porky that they were in danger, but is rebuffed every time by the stubborn pig. Eventually, as Porky sings 'Home on the Range,' Sylvester, out of fear, cracks him over the head with his guitar, loads him into their car, and drives off, with Porky dazedly repeating the line he was singing before he was struck.
Porky:(semi-comatose) And the deer and the antelope p-p-p-pl- And the deer and the antelope p-p-p-pl- And the deer and the antelope p-p-p-pl-...
Also in "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" the clones made by the aliens constantly repeat the character's catchphrases over and over, they also get stuck when talking in normal sentences, "I spwed sunshine and happiness whenever I can, I can, I can" and "Take some some o' these strange-looking wild cactus carrots! They're good for ya, for ya, for ya."
Bank Clerk: You're a very bad boy shame on you, I'm going to tell! (thug hits him with a club) I'm going to tell!, I'm going to tell!, I'm going to tell!.
Shrek Forever After has a kid incessantly asking: "Do the roar!"
In the Screwy Squirrel cartoon "The Screwball Squirrel" at one point when he is being chased by Meathead the dog the animation frames and music repeat over and over until Screwy moves the needle on the record.
In the Phineas And Ferb episode "Mom's Birthday", Candace goes to buy her mom a cute little sun dress that they saw in the window of a store. So, she keeps repeating, "Cute little sun dress, cute little sun dress, cute little sun dress..."
During The Stinger for the episode "It's About Time!", Lawrence (the dad) keeps rewinding the end of the audio tour tape he got from the museum so he can hear the part that goes "Fossils! Dun, dun, dun!"
The Ig Nobel award ceremonies employ a Deliberately Cute Child named Miss Sweetie Poo to cut off long speeches by repeating, "Please stop. I'm bored. Please stop. I'm bored. Please stop. I'm bored..."
A medical condition, Palilalia is the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words. It can be a symptom of Tourette syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder, or autism.
Computer programs and logic cover infinite loops. Questions such as "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Or the logic bomb where "Bob always tells the truth. Bob just said 'I lie'."
