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* ''Girls 5 Eva'' has this in "Famous 5 Eva", an in-universe hit for the title girl group. The subverted rhyme plays up the irony that this song boasting about how they were always going to be famous ended up making them a OneHitWonder:
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* ''Girls 5 Eva'' ''Series/Girls5Eva'' has this in "Famous 5 Eva", an in-universe hit for the title girl group. The subverted rhyme plays up the irony that this song boasting about how they were always going to be famous ended up making them a OneHitWonder:
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* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has the novelty song,
-->Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!\\
Spooky! Scary!\\
Boys becoming men,\\
Men becoming wolves!
** Also:
--->'''Kenneth''': You made a promise to Masi Oka. "Conserve electricity. Don't be a zero, be a good guy!" ...[[LampshadeHanging Why doesn't that say "hero?" That feels like a real missed opportunity.]]
-->Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!\\
Spooky! Scary!\\
Boys becoming men,\\
Men becoming wolves!
** Also:
--->'''Kenneth''': You made a promise to Masi Oka. "Conserve electricity. Don't be a zero, be a good guy!" ...[[LampshadeHanging Why doesn't that say "hero?" That feels like a real missed opportunity.]]
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* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has the novelty song,
-->Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!\\
Spooky! Scary!\\
Boys becoming men,\\
Men becoming wolves!
** Also:
--->'''Kenneth''':''Series/ThirtyRock'':
-->'''Kenneth''': You made a promise to Masi Oka. "Conserve electricity. Don't be a zero, be a good guy!" ...[[LampshadeHanging Why doesn't that say "hero?" That feels like a real missed opportunity.]]
-->Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!\\
Spooky! Scary!\\
Boys becoming men,\\
Men becoming wolves!
** Also:
--->'''Kenneth''':
-->'''Kenneth''': You made a promise to Masi Oka. "Conserve electricity. Don't be a zero, be a good guy!" ...[[LampshadeHanging Why doesn't that say "hero?" That feels like a real missed opportunity.]]
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* In "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS2E2EdibleComplex Edible Complex]]" from ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'', a terrible smell leads the Yellowjackets to realize that someone has popped in the pee bucket. An angry Taissa reminds them that "If it's yellow, it can mellow. If it's brown, then f--ing do it outside."[[note]]"If it's yellow, it can mellow. If it's brown, flush it down. - but, of course, the Yellowjackets are stranded in the wilderness and can't exactly flush anything.[[/note]]
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* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', during the Loretta Lynn episode, Fozzie, Scooter, Annabelle, and Link Hogthrob sing what's supposedly "The Rhyming Song". As might be expected, none of the lines in the verses rhyme. (They're also disjointed, but that's another story.)
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--> Playing with our brand new flip phones
--> Talkin' with our friends
-->See the new ink on our hip-bones
-->That's how our story... begins!
--> Playing with our brand new flip phones
--> Talkin' with our friends
-->See the new ink on our hip-bones
-->That's how our story... begins!
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** On the other hand, however, many of the other stars on the show, particularly Greg Proops, do this so often and easily that subverting a profane rhyme is called "Pulling a Greg" in [[FanSpeak the fan community]]. Example:
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** On the other hand, however, many of the other stars on the show, particularly Greg Proops, Creator/GregProops, do this so often and easily that subverting a profane rhyme is called "Pulling a Greg" in [[FanSpeak the fan community]]. Example:
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "The Naked Now", Data hears an alien-virus-ridden crewman saying a limerick which started with "There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a---". Before he can finish the poem, Picard interrupts by calling security.
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* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow:'' From one of Red's campfire songs:
-->On his way down
-->He must've kicked the bucket
-->We asked the neighbors for help
-->But they just said, "Who cares?"
-->On his way down
-->He must've kicked the bucket
-->We asked the neighbors for help
-->But they just said, "Who cares?"
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* ''Series/{{QI}}'': On episode J17 "Jolly", the contestants were tasked with writing limericks. This submission by Creator/AlanDavies qualifies for the trope, assuming the last line was expected to end with "lie":
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--->There once was an old man from Limerick
--->Who was completely unaware of the short, often humorous, poems that shared the same name as his hometown.
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-->Appearing one night on QI
-->I made up three facts on the fly
-->The first was untrue
-->The second was too
-->And the third was about the size of my ****, and it was no exaggeration, Julia.
-->Appearing one night on QI
-->I made up three facts on the fly
-->The first was untrue
-->The second was too
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* ''Series/{{Galavant}}'': The first-episode song "She'll Be Mine" features this line:
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Gal would never lose his...temper!
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Gal would never lose his...temper!
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* ''{{Series/Probe}}'''s "[[Recap/ProbeComputerLogic Computer Logic]]": The {{Limerick}} password to Austin's warehouse doesn't rhyme at the end like limericks are supposed to. This is intentional, as he doesn't want people figuring it out, preferring to keep them away. The lack of a rhyme is foreshadowed within the poem itself, with "botched refrain".
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* In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'':
-->'''Holt:''' Meat. From the street. Sounds like a fun treat. Hah! I'm a poet, and I didn't even know I was rhyming those words. But it happened anyway.
-->'''Holt:''' Meat. From the street. Sounds like a fun treat. Hah! I'm a poet, and I didn't even know I was rhyming those words. But it happened anyway.
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{{Subverted Rhyme|EveryOccasion}}s in live-action TV.
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!!!'''Award Shows:'''
* From the 2013 UsefulNotes/{{Academy Awards|Ceremonies}} closing number, "Here's to the Losers":
-->Amy Adams, Jacki Weaver, Sally Field, and Helen ''Hunt''.\\
[[Creator/AnneHathaway Hathaway]] just took your Oscar. Don't you think that girl's a...''dorable''?
!!!'''Creators:'''
%%* One for Germans: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__pll7gNU0Q Goethe war gut]] by Dutch entertainer Rudi Carrell.
%%* Judge Dread's song "Big Five", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Wdvw9dXSY&feature=related which can be found here]], definitely fits this trope to T.
* The Victor and Barry (Creator/AlanCumming and Forbes Masson) song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t04qzYLzoc Kelvinside Men]]" includes the following ''almost'' rhyme:
-->We're known as trendy thespians,\\
Some of our best friends are less well known,\\
Than us.
!!!'''Series:'''
* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has the novelty song,
-->Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!\\
Spooky! Scary!\\
Boys becoming men,\\
Men becoming wolves!
** Also:
--->'''Kenneth''': You made a promise to Masi Oka. "Conserve electricity. Don't be a zero, be a good guy!" ...[[LampshadeHanging Why doesn't that say "hero?" That feels like a real missed opportunity.]]
* In one episode of ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland'', the White Rabbit has contracted "rhymitis", which forces him to [[RhymesOnADime only speak in rhyme]]. After he's cured, he sings a song full of these, with each followed by the chorus "And you know what the best part is? It doesn't rhyme!"
* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' had an example of this, when a boy in a classroom full of superpowered kids had the power of super rhyming.
-->'''Teacher:''' Alright, get out of class!\\
'''Student:''' Oh no, my dad's gonna kick my--\\
'''Teacher:''' '''Be quiet!'''
* Magician Mat Franco uses it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI0Gr_K15uQ his final act]] for ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'':
-->Howie couldn't walk far, so he stepped towards the bar to tell a joke to a chick.\\
But just as before he fell on the floor. She said "What a d-... despicable person!"
* The limerick version popped up again in ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'':
-->'''Cory:''' There once was a boy named Cory.\\
>'''Eric:''' Who now has an interesting story.\\
'''Cory:''' He learned about kissing.\\
'''Eric:''' And all he was missing...\\
'''Shawn:''' When he and Topanga made out!\\
'''Cory:''' Shawn, can we say "summer school"?
* From the MusicalEpisode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Once More, With Feeling":
-->You're the cutest of the Scoobies\\
with your lips as red as rubies\\
and your firm yet supple...tight embrace!
** Which is incidentally a callback to an earlier verse in which Xander dodges a crudity ''without'' breaking the rhyme:
--->She is the one, she's such wonderful fun\\
such passion and grace.\\
Warm in the night, when I'm right in her tight\\
...''embrace''. Tight ''embrace!''
** Also inverted a few times in that same musical episode: there are several instances where a song is interrupted, and then it is always the case that the interruption rhymes, while there seems no obvious way the ''intended'' line could have:
--->She's just going through the motions,\\
faking it somehow.\\
She's not even half the girl she...''ow!''
*** Another example of that:
---->'''Xander''': She clings, she's needy,\\
She's also really greedy,\\
She never--\\
'''Anya''': His eyes are beady!
*** And again:
---->'''Buffy:''' Will I stay this way forever?\\
Sleepwalk through my life's endeavors?\\
'''DistressedDude:''' How can I repay--\\
'''Buffy:''' Whatever.
** Finally, while not used for profanity, the song "Walk Through The Fire" has the first two verses end with a rhyme for "burn" that is left unsaid. The rhyme is finally completed at the very end of the song.
* In the final episode of ''Series/CanadasWorstDriver Ever'' host Andrew has a sort of twisted version of this. He does complete a rhyme, but instead of the rhyme being the end of it, he just sort of meanders off. This happens after Michael recites the oath of the Blue Lantern, which he had been using as a SurvivalMantra, though not with much success.
-->'''Andrew''': (''speaking in hushed voice with gravity'') Here at the rehab center, in the dark of night, I think we'll finish this challenge, but not without a fight. They're trying their hardest... come with me. But it will freak you out. I don't know... (''normal voice'') if he's driving with a gout or if he's got a bad elbow or if he can't see properly, but... jeez he drives like a monkey.
* A meaningful example occurs in ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': in both "West Covina" and "West Covina (Second Reprise)" Rebecca and Josh get a line that seems like it will end with them declaring their love for the other, only to swap at the last second to praise the titular town instead. In Rebecca's case, this represents her denial, claiming to have moved because she wanted to live here and not to follow Josh; in Josh's case, it represents him being MasterOfTheMixedMessage towards Rebecca.
-->'''Rebecca:''' My life's about to change - oh my gosh! / 'Cause I'm hopelessly, desperately in love with... West Covina!\\
'''Josh:''' It's Nirvana, it's Heaven, it's Mecca! / Yeah, I'm hopelessly, desperately in love with... West Covina!
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had a non-singing one in an early episode that centered on a hockey player.
-->'''Catherine''': This guy was about pucks, bucks and...chicks.
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' used to have a segment called "News You Can Utilize".
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], the Dream Lord keeps pulling these. The Doctor could really have done without the limerick.
-->"Two worlds: Here, in the time machine, and there, in the village that time forgot. One is real, the other's... fake."
* From ''Series/TheGilliesReport'' musical sketch "Maralinga, or Wise After the Event":
-->But will we act\\
Upon this fact?\\
This whole inquiry was a stunt!\\
I've never seen a bigger...miscarriage of justice!
* ''Series/HappyEndings'': Played with in the episode "The Marry Prankster", Brad is singing a song about himself, but his name doesn't quite fit.
-->Who's got a job? \\
Bob's got a job\\
Bob rhymes with job much better than Brad\\
So I switched the name, but you know what I mean\\
I got a job, job, a j-o-b!
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
-->For while the date side of the line's the one we all might guess he's in,\\
there'll be no joy in Tedville if our Lisa is a... Yes! We win![[note]]It was supposed to be "lesbian"[[/note]]
* ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' had a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQRmHgExV0&feature=related Daves I Know]], where the final line of almost every verse breaks the rhyme AND meter.
-->''Some of them are David\\
But most of them are Dave\\
They all have their own hands\\
And they come from different Moms''
* On the last episode of ''Series/LateNight with Creator/JimmyFallon'', Fallon says that Tariq has made 130 bad rhymes. Tariq responds with
-->That's right Jimmy you've got a pretty good point\\
Now what do you say we rock this... place?
* Used dramatically in the "Spooky Song" on ''Series/LazyTown''. "Close your eyes. Rest your head. Time to go to... boo!"
* In a sketch on ''The Creator/LennyHenry Show'', various pop stars (played by Lenny Henry) criticise his impersonations of them. "Music/{{Prince}}", sings the following (to a SuspiciouslySimilarSong of "When Doves Cry"):
-->I was walking in the park with my baby,\\
And just as we were starting to kiss,\\
Along the road came bloody Lenny Henry,\\
And he began, he began to take the...\\
This is when I told him to shut it
* In a skit called "Lady ''[=MADtv=]'' (a spoof of "Lady Marmalade") on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'': "I'm the reason ''MAD'''s back for season seven / Disagree, well boo-hoo and tough luck / 'Cause to tell you the truth, I don't give a… huh…"
** Another sketch presented a musical number about supposed outhouse-cleaning folk hero Honeydipper Dan, where the backing chorus would interrupt every time narrator was about to mention a synonym for feces. For example:
--->A mountain of a man, strong and fit\\
And he wasn't a-feared of handlin'- \\
''Honeydipper Dan''!
* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', during the Loretta Lynn episode, Fozzie, Scooter, Annabelle, and Link Hogthrob sing what's supposedly "The Rhyming Song". As might be expected, none of the lines in the verses rhyme. (They're also disjointed, but that's another story.)
* ''Series/MythBusters'' had one episode where the hosts were testing myths regarding flatulence, and were attempting to keep things tasteful, generally by using the scientific term "flatus" in place of... the common term for such. [[{{Narrator}} Rob Lee]] also avoided using said "common term", generally via UnusualEuphemism (or else via less offensive terms), but there was one time he danced around the word using this very trope:
-->'''Rob Lee:''' We've all heard it: "Beans, beans, good for your heart, the more you eat, the more you" ...er, produce flatus.
* ''Series/TheNanny'' when Niles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDGNocwdgKo wrote a play based on his own life]]:
-->But it doesn't matter what I'm paid,\\
Because I'm finally getting--\\
Six bucks an hour!\\
Includes a room and shower!
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Jean-Ralphio's rapping skills seem stuck on this:
-->It's K to the N to the O-P-E,\\
She's the dopest little shortee in all Pawnee... Indiana.\\
R to the O to the N,\\
Swanson got swagger the size of Big Ben... clock.\\
Yo B to the O to the double S,\\
Do what he say and you'll be success...ful.
* ''Series/ThePaulHoganShow'' did a parody of ''The Prophecies of Nostradamus'' where Hoges revealed the prophecies of his ancestor which, like Nostradamus', were also in verse. One of them ran:
-->The boy stood on the burning deck,\\
His pockets full of crackers.\\
A flame shot up his trouser leg\\
And blew off both his...sandshoes.
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' did a parody of the movie ''Melvin And Howard'', where blue-collar Melvin Dumar picks up scraggly Howard Hughes hitching a ride. They sing "The Name Game", a pop song by Shirley Ellis.
-->'''Howard:''' Let's do "Chuck"! ''[singing]'' Chuck, Chuck, Bo-buck, Banana-Fana-Fo-f-- ''[Melvin swats him in the mouth]''\\
'''Melvin:''' Hey! I'm wise to that.
* The second verse of "One of These Things Is Not Like The Others" on ''Series/SesameStreet'' (not always used)
Did you guess which thing is not like the others?\\
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?\\
If you guessed this one is not like the others,\\
Then you're absolutely... right.
* One episode of ''Series/TheSlammer'' opens with Mr Burgess composing a text in which says this week's show contained "wit, grit and sh... surely the best act we've ever had in the history of the show".
* The second season theme song for ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'', where it's TheScottishTrope instead of an obscenity that's being obscured:
-->Every soul that plays this role risks injury or death,\\
I'd rather sweep the bloody stage than ever do [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} MacYouKnowWho]].
* From ''Series/That70sShow'':
-->'''Michael Kelso:''' If this van's a rockin'... we're in there doing it!
* The UK consumer show ''That's Life'' once did a major story on fake diet pills made from guar gum, which apart from not working caused illness and flatulence. After the company had recalled the product, the show ended its final report with a [[SuddenMusicalEnding big musical number]], in which an actress who had appeared in advertisements for the tablets sang "I'm so sorry that I took part, / Guar gum just made me sick!"
* ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'' had far too many to list them all.
** Particularly memorable is one of their Jehosophat and Jones songs:
--->Up in the loft where the lamp-light flickers\\
I lost my heart and she lost her... parasol.
** Another one from the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f76hEC9gD0w Anti-Shoddy Goods Committee]]" monologue, about a man sold substandard food in a restaurant:
--->He was looking very peaky and was feeling very grotty,\\
And he spent all day on Sunday sitting sadly on the potty.\\
So he came along to us, the Anti-Shoddy Goods Committee,\\
And we told him very plainly why he felt so ruddy sh-- shocking.
* This was a gag about OncePerEpisode in ''Series/UpPompeii'' where one of the characters, an extremely virginal young man would compose odes to his current crush which would suggest an obviously bawdy rhyme which was invariably subverted.
* Colin Mochrie, of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' fame, is very good at improv--but his talents do not lie in music. Inexplicably, during the American run of the show, Drew Carey's favorite game was Hoedown (his excitement at it visibly irritated Ryan Stiles at times), meaning it was performed very often. Mochrie didn't even try to sing most of the time, rhyming in a sort of chant. However, he gleefully subverted the format several times--in one about the lottery, saying he didn't care anymore, speaking briefly in tongues, running around the studio, and hugging an attractive audience member; another time, in a callback to an earlier gaffe with his microphone's battery, mouthing words but saying nothing, ending in "my battery pack!"; and once ending a hoedown verse about a traumatic event in "I lost the ability to rhyme" (which did not, obviously, rhyme with the previous line).
** On the other hand, however, many of the other stars on the show, particularly Greg Proops, do this so often and easily that subverting a profane rhyme is called "Pulling a Greg" in [[FanSpeak the fan community]]. Example:
--->The other day my girlfriend said 'Greg, you wanna thrill'?\\
She took me to a bridge at the bottom of a hill.\\
She tied the rope to my leg and I ran out of luck.\\
For when she pushed me off that bridge, I just yelled out 'wow'."
*** Drew did it at least once: "I hope soon that I get out all my stitches / 'Cause let me tell you, brother, they hurt like sons of guns."
*** Drew also inverted it in the "Children" Hoedown:
---->I don't pay alimony, I don't pay child support,\\
I don't pay nothing of no kind of that sort,\\
I get to keep all the money that I'm paid,\\
How can you have any children if you never ever get l[[SoundEffectBleep (BEEP)]]--hey!"
*** No less a performer than Robin Williams once used the above cheer in a game of Props.
*** Used by Ryan in an Irish Drinking Song:
---->And there I'll open a business,\\
And I will get real rich,\\
I am so happy\\
I'll leave that old...Oh, hidey hidey...
*** Wayne Brady pretends to read a poem from an imaginary book:
---->My teacher was beautiful, a beautiful lass.\\
But I was embarrassed in front of the class.\\
I would sit in the back because I was quite a loner.\\
And then I - ''oh!''
** During an Irish Drinking Song, Colin is set up to say a line that rhymes with trucker, but instead he just smiles and says nothing. Both he and the audience know what he ''could'' have said.
!!!'''Specials:'''
* From the opening of ''UsefulNotes/ComicRelief V'':
-->'''Creator/RobinWilliams''': ''(rapping)'' We wanna raise some money\\
we'll work around the clock\\
If you don't send enough\\
I'm gonna have to show my... Comic Relief T-shirt!
** For added effect, [[TrouserSpace he pulls said T-shirt out of his pants.]]
* The ''{{Eurovision}}'' 2015 semi-finals featured a song about the history and legacy of the show, which starts with the following tongue-in-cheek lines:
-->It's an international competition\\
With a collaborative mission,\\
Much like the Olympics in a '''way''' --\\
Though slightly less athletic,\\
But just as energetic,\\
More colorful, and -- what's the word? -- more... '''theatrical.'''
* Creator/CharlieBrooker's 2014 Wipe closed with a song, "Reasons to be Fearful 2014", with lyrics including:
-->Telly actors mumbling\\
No marks tumbling\\
And our social order crumbling -- while people snigger\\
Sony facing hacking\\
MPs backing fracking\\
And Clarkson facing sacking for saying n...aughty words
** As well as:
--->Brookes Newmark with a hard-on\\
Boko Haram\\
Her continued stardom. Jeremy Hunt\\
Russell's Revolution\\
Contains no solution\\
He's untouched by evolution –- the ape-like... chap
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{{Subverted Rhyme|EveryOccasion}}s in live-action TV.
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!!!'''Award Shows:'''
* From the 2013 UsefulNotes/{{Academy Awards|Ceremonies}} closing number, "Here's to the Losers":
-->Amy Adams, Jacki Weaver, Sally Field, and Helen ''Hunt''.\\
[[Creator/AnneHathaway Hathaway]] just took your Oscar. Don't you think that girl's a...''dorable''?
!!!'''Creators:'''
%%* One for Germans: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__pll7gNU0Q Goethe war gut]] by Dutch entertainer Rudi Carrell.
%%* Judge Dread's song "Big Five", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Wdvw9dXSY&feature=related which can be found here]], definitely fits this trope to T.
* The Victor and Barry (Creator/AlanCumming and Forbes Masson) song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t04qzYLzoc Kelvinside Men]]" includes the following ''almost'' rhyme:
-->We're known as trendy thespians,\\
Some of our best friends are less well known,\\
Than us.
!!!'''Series:'''
* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has the novelty song,
-->Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!\\
Spooky! Scary!\\
Boys becoming men,\\
Men becoming wolves!
** Also:
--->'''Kenneth''': You made a promise to Masi Oka. "Conserve electricity. Don't be a zero, be a good guy!" ...[[LampshadeHanging Why doesn't that say "hero?" That feels like a real missed opportunity.]]
* In one episode of ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland'', the White Rabbit has contracted "rhymitis", which forces him to [[RhymesOnADime only speak in rhyme]]. After he's cured, he sings a song full of these, with each followed by the chorus "And you know what the best part is? It doesn't rhyme!"
* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' had an example of this, when a boy in a classroom full of superpowered kids had the power of super rhyming.
-->'''Teacher:''' Alright, get out of class!\\
'''Student:''' Oh no, my dad's gonna kick my--\\
'''Teacher:''' '''Be quiet!'''
* Magician Mat Franco uses it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI0Gr_K15uQ his final act]] for ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'':
-->Howie couldn't walk far, so he stepped towards the bar to tell a joke to a chick.\\
But just as before he fell on the floor. She said "What a d-... despicable person!"
* The limerick version popped up again in ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'':
-->'''Cory:''' There once was a boy named Cory.\\
>'''Eric:''' Who now has an interesting story.\\
'''Cory:''' He learned about kissing.\\
'''Eric:''' And all he was missing...\\
'''Shawn:''' When he and Topanga made out!\\
'''Cory:''' Shawn, can we say "summer school"?
* From the MusicalEpisode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Once More, With Feeling":
-->You're the cutest of the Scoobies\\
with your lips as red as rubies\\
and your firm yet supple...tight embrace!
** Which is incidentally a callback to an earlier verse in which Xander dodges a crudity ''without'' breaking the rhyme:
--->She is the one, she's such wonderful fun\\
such passion and grace.\\
Warm in the night, when I'm right in her tight\\
...''embrace''. Tight ''embrace!''
** Also inverted a few times in that same musical episode: there are several instances where a song is interrupted, and then it is always the case that the interruption rhymes, while there seems no obvious way the ''intended'' line could have:
--->She's just going through the motions,\\
faking it somehow.\\
She's not even half the girl she...''ow!''
*** Another example of that:
---->'''Xander''': She clings, she's needy,\\
She's also really greedy,\\
She never--\\
'''Anya''': His eyes are beady!
*** And again:
---->'''Buffy:''' Will I stay this way forever?\\
Sleepwalk through my life's endeavors?\\
'''DistressedDude:''' How can I repay--\\
'''Buffy:''' Whatever.
** Finally, while not used for profanity, the song "Walk Through The Fire" has the first two verses end with a rhyme for "burn" that is left unsaid. The rhyme is finally completed at the very end of the song.
* In the final episode of ''Series/CanadasWorstDriver Ever'' host Andrew has a sort of twisted version of this. He does complete a rhyme, but instead of the rhyme being the end of it, he just sort of meanders off. This happens after Michael recites the oath of the Blue Lantern, which he had been using as a SurvivalMantra, though not with much success.
-->'''Andrew''': (''speaking in hushed voice with gravity'') Here at the rehab center, in the dark of night, I think we'll finish this challenge, but not without a fight. They're trying their hardest... come with me. But it will freak you out. I don't know... (''normal voice'') if he's driving with a gout or if he's got a bad elbow or if he can't see properly, but... jeez he drives like a monkey.
* A meaningful example occurs in ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': in both "West Covina" and "West Covina (Second Reprise)" Rebecca and Josh get a line that seems like it will end with them declaring their love for the other, only to swap at the last second to praise the titular town instead. In Rebecca's case, this represents her denial, claiming to have moved because she wanted to live here and not to follow Josh; in Josh's case, it represents him being MasterOfTheMixedMessage towards Rebecca.
-->'''Rebecca:''' My life's about to change - oh my gosh! / 'Cause I'm hopelessly, desperately in love with... West Covina!\\
'''Josh:''' It's Nirvana, it's Heaven, it's Mecca! / Yeah, I'm hopelessly, desperately in love with... West Covina!
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had a non-singing one in an early episode that centered on a hockey player.
-->'''Catherine''': This guy was about pucks, bucks and...chicks.
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' used to have a segment called "News You Can Utilize".
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], the Dream Lord keeps pulling these. The Doctor could really have done without the limerick.
-->"Two worlds: Here, in the time machine, and there, in the village that time forgot. One is real, the other's... fake."
* From ''Series/TheGilliesReport'' musical sketch "Maralinga, or Wise After the Event":
-->But will we act\\
Upon this fact?\\
This whole inquiry was a stunt!\\
I've never seen a bigger...miscarriage of justice!
* ''Series/HappyEndings'': Played with in the episode "The Marry Prankster", Brad is singing a song about himself, but his name doesn't quite fit.
-->Who's got a job? \\
Bob's got a job\\
Bob rhymes with job much better than Brad\\
So I switched the name, but you know what I mean\\
I got a job, job, a j-o-b!
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
-->For while the date side of the line's the one we all might guess he's in,\\
there'll be no joy in Tedville if our Lisa is a... Yes! We win![[note]]It was supposed to be "lesbian"[[/note]]
* ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' had a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQRmHgExV0&feature=related Daves I Know]], where the final line of almost every verse breaks the rhyme AND meter.
-->''Some of them are David\\
But most of them are Dave\\
They all have their own hands\\
And they come from different Moms''
* On the last episode of ''Series/LateNight with Creator/JimmyFallon'', Fallon says that Tariq has made 130 bad rhymes. Tariq responds with
-->That's right Jimmy you've got a pretty good point\\
Now what do you say we rock this... place?
* Used dramatically in the "Spooky Song" on ''Series/LazyTown''. "Close your eyes. Rest your head. Time to go to... boo!"
* In a sketch on ''The Creator/LennyHenry Show'', various pop stars (played by Lenny Henry) criticise his impersonations of them. "Music/{{Prince}}", sings the following (to a SuspiciouslySimilarSong of "When Doves Cry"):
-->I was walking in the park with my baby,\\
And just as we were starting to kiss,\\
Along the road came bloody Lenny Henry,\\
And he began, he began to take the...\\
This is when I told him to shut it
* In a skit called "Lady ''[=MADtv=]'' (a spoof of "Lady Marmalade") on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'': "I'm the reason ''MAD'''s back for season seven / Disagree, well boo-hoo and tough luck / 'Cause to tell you the truth, I don't give a… huh…"
** Another sketch presented a musical number about supposed outhouse-cleaning folk hero Honeydipper Dan, where the backing chorus would interrupt every time narrator was about to mention a synonym for feces. For example:
--->A mountain of a man, strong and fit\\
And he wasn't a-feared of handlin'- \\
''Honeydipper Dan''!
* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', during the Loretta Lynn episode, Fozzie, Scooter, Annabelle, and Link Hogthrob sing what's supposedly "The Rhyming Song". As might be expected, none of the lines in the verses rhyme. (They're also disjointed, but that's another story.)
* ''Series/MythBusters'' had one episode where the hosts were testing myths regarding flatulence, and were attempting to keep things tasteful, generally by using the scientific term "flatus" in place of... the common term for such. [[{{Narrator}} Rob Lee]] also avoided using said "common term", generally via UnusualEuphemism (or else via less offensive terms), but there was one time he danced around the word using this very trope:
-->'''Rob Lee:''' We've all heard it: "Beans, beans, good for your heart, the more you eat, the more you" ...er, produce flatus.
* ''Series/TheNanny'' when Niles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDGNocwdgKo wrote a play based on his own life]]:
-->But it doesn't matter what I'm paid,\\
Because I'm finally getting--\\
Six bucks an hour!\\
Includes a room and shower!
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Jean-Ralphio's rapping skills seem stuck on this:
-->It's K to the N to the O-P-E,\\
She's the dopest little shortee in all Pawnee... Indiana.\\
R to the O to the N,\\
Swanson got swagger the size of Big Ben... clock.\\
Yo B to the O to the double S,\\
Do what he say and you'll be success...ful.
* ''Series/ThePaulHoganShow'' did a parody of ''The Prophecies of Nostradamus'' where Hoges revealed the prophecies of his ancestor which, like Nostradamus', were also in verse. One of them ran:
-->The boy stood on the burning deck,\\
His pockets full of crackers.\\
A flame shot up his trouser leg\\
And blew off both his...sandshoes.
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' did a parody of the movie ''Melvin And Howard'', where blue-collar Melvin Dumar picks up scraggly Howard Hughes hitching a ride. They sing "The Name Game", a pop song by Shirley Ellis.
-->'''Howard:''' Let's do "Chuck"! ''[singing]'' Chuck, Chuck, Bo-buck, Banana-Fana-Fo-f-- ''[Melvin swats him in the mouth]''\\
'''Melvin:''' Hey! I'm wise to that.
* The second verse of "One of These Things Is Not Like The Others" on ''Series/SesameStreet'' (not always used)
Did you guess which thing is not like the others?\\
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?\\
If you guessed this one is not like the others,\\
Then you're absolutely... right.
* One episode of ''Series/TheSlammer'' opens with Mr Burgess composing a text in which says this week's show contained "wit, grit and sh... surely the best act we've ever had in the history of the show".
* The second season theme song for ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'', where it's TheScottishTrope instead of an obscenity that's being obscured:
-->Every soul that plays this role risks injury or death,\\
I'd rather sweep the bloody stage than ever do [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} MacYouKnowWho]].
* From ''Series/That70sShow'':
-->'''Michael Kelso:''' If this van's a rockin'... we're in there doing it!
* The UK consumer show ''That's Life'' once did a major story on fake diet pills made from guar gum, which apart from not working caused illness and flatulence. After the company had recalled the product, the show ended its final report with a [[SuddenMusicalEnding big musical number]], in which an actress who had appeared in advertisements for the tablets sang "I'm so sorry that I took part, / Guar gum just made me sick!"
* ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'' had far too many to list them all.
** Particularly memorable is one of their Jehosophat and Jones songs:
--->Up in the loft where the lamp-light flickers\\
I lost my heart and she lost her... parasol.
** Another one from the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f76hEC9gD0w Anti-Shoddy Goods Committee]]" monologue, about a man sold substandard food in a restaurant:
--->He was looking very peaky and was feeling very grotty,\\
And he spent all day on Sunday sitting sadly on the potty.\\
So he came along to us, the Anti-Shoddy Goods Committee,\\
And we told him very plainly why he felt so ruddy sh-- shocking.
* This was a gag about OncePerEpisode in ''Series/UpPompeii'' where one of the characters, an extremely virginal young man would compose odes to his current crush which would suggest an obviously bawdy rhyme which was invariably subverted.
* Colin Mochrie, of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' fame, is very good at improv--but his talents do not lie in music. Inexplicably, during the American run of the show, Drew Carey's favorite game was Hoedown (his excitement at it visibly irritated Ryan Stiles at times), meaning it was performed very often. Mochrie didn't even try to sing most of the time, rhyming in a sort of chant. However, he gleefully subverted the format several times--in one about the lottery, saying he didn't care anymore, speaking briefly in tongues, running around the studio, and hugging an attractive audience member; another time, in a callback to an earlier gaffe with his microphone's battery, mouthing words but saying nothing, ending in "my battery pack!"; and once ending a hoedown verse about a traumatic event in "I lost the ability to rhyme" (which did not, obviously, rhyme with the previous line).
** On the other hand, however, many of the other stars on the show, particularly Greg Proops, do this so often and easily that subverting a profane rhyme is called "Pulling a Greg" in [[FanSpeak the fan community]]. Example:
--->The other day my girlfriend said 'Greg, you wanna thrill'?\\
She took me to a bridge at the bottom of a hill.\\
She tied the rope to my leg and I ran out of luck.\\
For when she pushed me off that bridge, I just yelled out 'wow'."
*** Drew did it at least once: "I hope soon that I get out all my stitches / 'Cause let me tell you, brother, they hurt like sons of guns."
*** Drew also inverted it in the "Children" Hoedown:
---->I don't pay alimony, I don't pay child support,\\
I don't pay nothing of no kind of that sort,\\
I get to keep all the money that I'm paid,\\
How can you have any children if you never ever get l[[SoundEffectBleep (BEEP)]]--hey!"
*** No less a performer than Robin Williams once used the above cheer in a game of Props.
*** Used by Ryan in an Irish Drinking Song:
---->And there I'll open a business,\\
And I will get real rich,\\
I am so happy\\
I'll leave that old...Oh, hidey hidey...
*** Wayne Brady pretends to read a poem from an imaginary book:
---->My teacher was beautiful, a beautiful lass.\\
But I was embarrassed in front of the class.\\
I would sit in the back because I was quite a loner.\\
And then I - ''oh!''
** During an Irish Drinking Song, Colin is set up to say a line that rhymes with trucker, but instead he just smiles and says nothing. Both he and the audience know what he ''could'' have said.
!!!'''Specials:'''
* From the opening of ''UsefulNotes/ComicRelief V'':
-->'''Creator/RobinWilliams''': ''(rapping)'' We wanna raise some money\\
we'll work around the clock\\
If you don't send enough\\
I'm gonna have to show my... Comic Relief T-shirt!
** For added effect, [[TrouserSpace he pulls said T-shirt out of his pants.]]
* The ''{{Eurovision}}'' 2015 semi-finals featured a song about the history and legacy of the show, which starts with the following tongue-in-cheek lines:
-->It's an international competition\\
With a collaborative mission,\\
Much like the Olympics in a '''way''' --\\
Though slightly less athletic,\\
But just as energetic,\\
More colorful, and -- what's the word? -- more... '''theatrical.'''
* Creator/CharlieBrooker's 2014 Wipe closed with a song, "Reasons to be Fearful 2014", with lyrics including:
-->Telly actors mumbling\\
No marks tumbling\\
And our social order crumbling -- while people snigger\\
Sony facing hacking\\
MPs backing fracking\\
And Clarkson facing sacking for saying n...aughty words
** As well as:
--->Brookes Newmark with a hard-on\\
Boko Haram\\
Her continued stardom. Jeremy Hunt\\
Russell's Revolution\\
Contains no solution\\
He's untouched by evolution –- the ape-like... chap
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