History Main / RhymingList

** Daffy Duck's song in "Scrap Happy Daffy" ends with a rhyming list of all the junk he's collecting for the war effort.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Hardware Store" has a CrowningMomentOfAwesome / MotorMouth moment once Al gets to the section with the huge [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7SldTq8CY#t=2m31s list of stuff the titular store has in stock]].

-> I do not like them in a box\\
I do not like them with a fox \\
I will not eat them in a house\\
I do not like them with a mouse \\
I do not like them here or there \\
I do not like them ANYWHERE!

I do not like them ANYWHERE!\\

with

->''"Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?"\\
"If they are, we'll all be dead."\\
"No more rhymes now, I mean it."\\
"Anybody want a peanut?"\\
"GAH!"''
-->-- ''Literature/ThePrincessBride''

#[[LongList A List.]]

#[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Anything Missed]]?

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':

->"Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?"
->"If they are, we'll all be dead."
->"No more rhymes now, I mean it."
->"Anybody want a peanut?"
->"GAH!"

-->-- PrincessBride

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-->'''Hedley Lamarr:''' I want [[TheRustler rustlers]], cutthroats, murderers, {{bounty hunter}}s, desperadoes, [[DumbMuscle mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits]], vipers, [[ColdSniper snipers]], [[ConArtist con men]], Indian agents, [[{{bandito}} Mexican bandits]], [[BitPartBadguys muggers]], [[DepravedHomosexual buggerers]], bushwhackers, hornswagglers, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment horse thieves]], [[ButchLesbian bull dykes]], [[TrainJob train robbers]], [[BankRobbery bank robbers]], ass-kickers, shit-kickers, and ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Methodists]]!''
-->'''Taggart:''' [finding pen and paper] [[TheLongList Could you repeat that, sir]]?

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* The locations and conditions for eating GreenEggsAndHam contain this throughout the story.
* As mentioned in the LongList page, this was used in ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''.

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-->I've been to:\\

Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla, I'm a killer.

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-->'''Cena:''' "We could be talking hikers, bikers, drivers, divers, preachers, teachers, that drunk in the bleachers."

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* ''CarTalk'' would have a [[TheLongList lengthy]] one of these OnceAnEpisode as the diet for one of its producers, [[http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/bugsy-lines/index.html Bugsy]].

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-->'''Voodoo Lady:''' "Something of the Head, something of the Thread, something of the Body, and something of the Dead"
-->'''Guybrush:''' "Wow, that almost rhymes!"

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* Yosemite Sam, master of the PainfulRhyme, is the "meanest, toughest, rip-roarin'-est, Edward Everett Horton-est hombre what ever packed a six-shooter!"
** He's also "the roughest, toughest he-man stuffest hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande", "the roughest, toughest, rootinest, shootinest claim-jumper that ever jumped a claim", "the blood-thirstiest, shoot 'em first-iest, doggone worst-iest buccaneer that's ever sailed the Spanish main", and "tha' hootin'-est, tootin'-est, shootin'-est bob-tailed wildcat in the West!" And "the rootinest, tootinest, fastest-shootinest, highest-salutinest" general in their parody of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VX8Cjok1w This]] ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short uses a rhyming list each floor for an ElevatorFloorAnnouncement.
* Daffy Duck's song in "Scrap Happy Daffy" ends with a rhyming list of all the junk he's collecting for the war effort.

* Several WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts primarily focusing on {{Goofy}} often feature these.

** He's also "the roughest, toughest he-man stuffest hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande", "the roughest, toughest, rootinest, shootinest claim-jumper that ever jumped a claim", "the blood-thirstiest, shoot 'em first-iest, doggone worst-iest buccaneer that's ever sailed the Spanish main", and "tha' hootin'-est, tootin'-est, shootin'-est bob-tailed wildcat in the West!" And "the rootinest, tootinest, fastest-shootinest, highest-salutinest" general in their parody of ''{{Casablanca}}''.

* [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] would often use this in promos, occasionally combining two word endings to become the "[[{{Jobber}} Jabroni]]-Beatin', Pie-Eatin', [[FollowTheLeader Trail]]blazin', [[FascinatingEyebrow Eyebrow]] Raisin', Step off the brake, Foot on the Gas, Always Ready to whup some Ass People's Champ!"
* Wrestling/JohnCena did this during the "Mr. [=McMahon=] was murdered" story arc, when discussing the different people who could hate VinceMcMahon enough to want to kill him:

#[[TheCastShowoff a bragging gist.]]

->Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
->If they are, we'll all be dead.
->No more rhymes now, i mean it.
->Anybody want a peanut?
->GAH!

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* A common mechanic in skits by The Two Ronnies, usually delivered by Ronnie Barker, but the wordplay and punning were by no means limited to rhyming.

* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney's list of the professions of the women who have slept with him: "A butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker. Yes � [[LampshadeHanging we're to the rhyming section, now]]. A math professor, a tax assessor, a weight guesser..."

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* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney's list of the professions of the women who have slept with him: "A butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker. Yes — [[LampshadeHanging we're to the rhyming section, now]]. A math professor, a tax assessor, a weight guesser..."

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-->'''Hedley Lamarr:''' I want [[TheRustler rustlers]], cutthroats, murderers, {{bounty hunter}}s, desperadoes, [[DumbMuscle mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits]], vipers, [[ColdSniper snipers]], [[ConArtist con men]], Indian agents, [[{{bandito}} Mexican bandits]], [[BitPartBadguys muggers]], [[DepravedHomosexual buggerers]], bushwhackers, hornswagglers, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment horse thieves]], [[ButchLesbian bull dykes]], [[TrainJob train robbers]], [[BankRobbery bank robbers]], [[BadAss ass-kickers]], shit-kickers, and ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Methodists]]!''

* Several ClassicDisneyShorts primarily focusing on {{Goofy}} often feature these.

* As mentioned in the LongList page, this was used in ''CyranoDeBergerac''.

* One episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'' had Garfield telling another cat that a nearby feast was full of "hams and yams and jams and even foods that don't rhyme."

* RicFlair is a limousine-riding, jet-flying, wheelin' dealin' kiss-stealin' stylin', profilin', -- WOOOOO! -- son-of-a-gun!

* JohnCena did this during the "Mr. [=McMahon=] was murdered" story arc, when discussing the different people who could hate VinceMcMahon enough to want to kill him: