History Main / TooManyHalves

* {{WWE}}: Montel Vontavius Porter: "I am half-man, half-amazing, half-tag-team-champion... I'm so great, I'm the only man on Earth with three halves!"

* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "[=ManBearPig=]", Al Gore describes the eponymous monster as being "half man, half bear, half pig." When we actually see [=ManBearPig=] exactly as Gore imagines him in the Imaginationland episodes, it does in fact look part man, part bear, and part pig in some proportion.

* Bender from ''{{Futurama}}'' has claimed at various points to be 30% Iron, 40% Zinc, 40% Titanium, 40% Lead, and 40% Dolemite (that last one having at least some demonstrable truth to it because he survived swimming in molten lava). According to the professor he's mostly made up of a Titanium-Osmium alloy with a .3% nickle impurity.

* A recurring bit in the classic LooneyTunes shorts is a dog who describes himself as being 50% of about a dozen different dog breeds, before settling on being mostly 100% Labrador Retriever.

Sometimes this is used to suggest that the described thing is paradoxically larger (or smaller) than itself. It is almost always PlayedForLaughs, unless it's a really bad example of WritersCannotDoMath.

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!!Examples:

[[AC:Film -- Live Action]]
* In ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', Willy says "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple." Someone points out that that adds up to 105%.
* ''{{Caddyshack}} II'':
-->Jack Hartounian: My father was Armenian. My mother was half Jewish, half English, half Spanish.
-->Chandler Young: That's three halves.
-->Jack Hartounian: Oh, she was a big woman.

[[AC:Literature]]
* The {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/{{Eric}}'' has the Aztec-flavoured god Quezovercoatl, who is described as "half-man, half-chicken, half-jaguar, half-serpent, half-scorpion and half-mad", making him three homicidal maniacs.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]

[[AC:Music]]
* The Non-Prophets song "Xaul Zhan's Heart" has the line:
-->"Half shark-alligator, half man, half amazing."

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* {{WWE}}: Montel Vontavius Porter: "I am half-man, half-amazing, half-tag-team-champion... I'm so great, I'm the only man on Earth with three halves!"

[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* This can happen in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' 3rd edition due to abuse of the various "half-x" templates.

[[AC:WebComics]]
* In [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0509.html this]] ''DarthsAndDroids'' strip, Jim improvisationally describes Wookiees as being "kind of half-ape, half-dog, half-yeti hybrids." Pete [[LampshadeHanging notes]] that this makes them one-and-a-half times as big as you'd expect.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]

* The Charlie Dog character from ''LooneyTunes'' had jokes about this as one of his main schticks. He would claim to be 50% of about half a dozen different breeds.

[[AC:Other]]
* One standard email forward of student errors contains:
-->Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large.
* The "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule ninety-ninety rule]]" of computer programming, which is due to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs:
-->"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."
* This quote from [[{{Baseball}} Yogi Berra]]:

* A non-comedic example; an old post on ''FundiesSayTheDarndestThings'' had a poster who claimed BarackObama was 50% white, 44% Muslim, and 12% black.

-->--'''[[AustralianPolitics Kevin Rudd]]''', via Twitter

* In one episode of ''{{Farscape}}'', Crichton (while posing as a bounty hunter) suggests splitting a bounty 70/30; the other bounty hunter demands it be split "70/''40!''" Crichton, who clearly knows he's dealing with an idiot, ups the bid to 70/50 to calm him down.

* From ''{{Farscape}}'', a case of Characters Cannot Do Math (or maybe Aliens Don't Use Percent). Crichton suggests splitting a bounty 70/30, and the bounty hunter responds with "70... 40!"

* Bender from ''{{Futurama}}'' has claimed at various points to be 30% Iron, 40% Zinc, 40% Titanium, 40% Lead, and 40% Dolemite (that last one having at least some demonstrable truth to it because he survived swimming in molten lava). According to the professor he's mostly made up of a Titanium-Osmium alloy.

* An epigram by AlexanderPushkin describes one of his contemporaries as a "half-milord, half-merchant, half-fool, half-ignoramus, half-scoundrel, but there's a hope he'll finally be full".

* When Grace, Nanase and Ellen return from fighting Damian in ''ElGoonishShive'', Mr Verres's reaction is "half-overjoyed that nobody he cared about was seriously injured, half-enraged over their recklessness, half-exhausted after a long night, and half-relieved that the Damian threat was over".

A person or object is described in some way that involves fractions. Oddly, those fractions don't add up to one. The most common form this description takes is "half [one thing], half [another thing], and half [something else]" or extended versions thereof -- hence the name -- but it can also involve more complicated addition problems.

* Played with in ''{{Game/Munchkin}}.'' Despite being built from the ground up to parody various role playing game clichés (and the entire concept of role playing games in general), the "Half-Breed" card only lets you play two Race cards at once, as the name implies. To play three Race cards, you'll need a "1/3-Breed" card. (But then, the rules encourage cheating...)

* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "[=ManBearPig=]", Al Gore describes the eponymous monster as being "half man, half bear, half pig." When we actually see [=ManBearPig=] exactly as Gore imagines him in the Imaginationland episodes, it turns out he's not that far off -- it's half man, half bear-pig
** More like half bear, half man-pig.

* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "[=ManBearPig=]", Al Gore describes the eponymous monster as being "half man, half bear, half pig."

-->'''Charlie:''' I'm 50% Pointer (There it is! There it is! There it is!), 50% Boxer, 50% Setter (''Irish'' Setter), 50% Watch Dog, 50% Spitz, 50% Doberman Pincher. But, mostly, I'm all Labrador Retriever!

* In one of his many boasts in ''RatchetAndClank: A Crack in Time'', [[MilesGloriosus Qwark]] explains to Ratchet that "being a hero is 45% strength, 60% bravery and 10% raw intelligence". Ratchet doesn't fail to lampshade that something doesn't add up.

* At the end of the ''{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Sniffing Accountant", Jerry describes his shirt as "half silk, half cotton, half linen". [I haven't actually seen the episode, I just found this example through a google search, so more details would be appreciated.]

-->"Half shark-alligator, half man, half amazing"