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1	Sometimes, to make their audience's excitement tingle, a work makes their cast speak in jingles.
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3	Or: A work has a chapter or episode where the characters speak in rhymes. This is sometimes justified by the characters being involved in an in-universe [[MusicalEpisode musical]] or some other sort {{poetry}} event. Other times, the cast have a (mis)-adventure to a QuirkyTown (or planet, or dimension) where this sort of speech pattern is the norm, or has a run-in with a character who somehow only speaks in rhymes. Often done in reference to other works that heavily features RhymesOnADime (such as Creator/DrSeuss) and, depending on the episode's length and the writer's poetic capabilities, may contain a heavy dose of PainfulRhyme. The episode is also likely to have a RhymingTitle to match.
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7	!!Examples:
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10	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': The comics has several, almost all of them triggered by Jughead.
11	** One story involved Jughead rhyming all of Archie's sentences, causing a chain reaction that rapidly has all of Riverdale High compulsively rhyming each other's sentences non-stop. Everyone is miserable until Betty and Veronica recall that the last time Jughead did this, it finally stopped when he suffered a blow to the head. They then trick him into making an insulting rhyme with [[HairTriggerTemper Big Moose's]] name in his hearing...POW.
12	--> '''Betty:''' Hurt?\
13	'''Jughead:''' It smarts.\
14	'''Veronica:''' Betty! That doesn't rhyme.\
15	'''Betty:''' Are you kidding? That's sheer poetry.
16	** Another story has Jughead participate in a poetry contest and starts speaking entirely in rhymes to "train" himself. His rhyming kick ends up infecting his friends, who starts speaking in rhymes as well. Then Veronica gets an idea to send him to an isolated inn her family owns for the weekend, and manages to cure themselves of Jughead's rhyming influence. That is, until Veronica decides to call the inn's keeper to check up on Jughead, and realized too late that Jug had started the rhyming kick ''there'', and Veronica brought back the fad by relaying the keeper's rhyming message back to her friends.
17	* ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel\|MarvelComics}}'': In ''ComicBook/CaptainMarvel2014'' #9, Carol, Tic, and mutant rock star Lila Cheney end up on a planet where it is customary to speak only in rhyme. Highlights include Carol chiding her opponent in a death match for trying to rhyme [[PainfulRhyme tale with fell]], and later knocking out said opponent with a ''[[WrittenSoundEffect BOP]]'' while telling her to [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall stop]].
18	* ''ComicBook/TheDefenders'': In issue #115, the Beast, Gargoyle, Sub-Mariner and Valkyrie are accidentally sidetracked while attempting to return to Earth, and wind up in a dimension called 'The Land of Here and There': based on the works of Creator/DrSeuss. The local inhabitants all speak in rhyme, and Beast soon finds himself getting into the swing of things and joining in. The ComicallySerious Sub-Mariner most assuredly does not.
19	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'': Happens in the story “It’s Raining Bananas" simply because it’s that ridiculous.
20	* ''ComicBook/SuperDiaperBaby'': The second book briefly starts rhyming in the middle, in a parody of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.
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24	* "Rhyme Time", an episode of ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', is centered upon Calvin accidentally making everyone rhyme, including himself. [[spoiler:The MTM defuses it with a LeastRhymableWord - ''orange''.]]
25	* Episode 65 of WebVideo/{{Ultra Fast Pony}} ([[AlliterativeTitle "The Hip Hop Happening"]]) invokes this. The Mane 6 are rapping throughout most of the episode...with predictable results.
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29	* In 'Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', Atreyu reaches Uyulala, the Southern Oracle. He soon discovers that it only ever speaks in rhymes and cannot comprehend human speech unless it's also rhymed, resulting in a rhymed conversation.
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33	* The ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' episode "Atomic Shakespeare" was done in costume as if the cast were in Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew''. At one point, the leads break the fourth wall to tell the audience, "We hate iambic pentameter!"
34	* ''Series/{{How I Met Your Mother}}'' has the episode "Bedtime Stories" entirely in nursery rhymes.
35	* The ''Series/FaerieTaleTheatre'' adaptation of "Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin" is a straight-up retelling of the Robert Browning poem, so after a FramingDevice prologue that presents it as a bedtime story Browning is telling a young boy, all the dialogue and narration is in rhyming couplets. This is also a rare rhyming episode that is primarily PlayedForDrama.
36	* ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode "Zanzibar" is based upon Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheComedyOfErrors'' and uses iambic pentameter throughout.
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40	* The popcorn episode of ''WebVideo/YouSuckAtCooking'' is done in the style of a poem being read at a poetry slam, complete with overly pretentious dialogue about the nature of popcorn as a window into the soul.
41	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' was done completely in rhyme.
42	** Also done in WebVideo/CinemaSins's "Everything Wrong With ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''", with help from The Nostalgia Critic himself.
43	* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd Christmas special that parodied ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' rhymed throughout. He even did his reviews for bad Video Games in rhymes.
44	* [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/916-Wolfenstein One episode]] of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' had Yahtzee reviewing ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein2009'', and nearly the entire episode was done in "limerick form", since he declared it was so boring that a review of it would also be boring otherwise.
45	* The second half of [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]'s review of a ''WesternAnimation/NewKidsOnTheBlock'' comic was done in rhyme.
46	** His review of the Christmas issue of the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' comic was also done entirely in [[Creator/DrSeuss Seussian]]-rhyme. This was due to the reveal that the aliens the crew encounters [[spoiler: are a race of [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Grinch]]-like beings who are on the hunt for Santa Claus]].
47	* WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter did this for his review of ''WesternAnimation/TheCrampTwins''.
48	* The synopsis of the ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' [[Recap/PokemonS1E6ClefairyAndTheMoonStone "Clefairy and the Moon Stone"]] in the ''WebVideo/SuedesPokemonJourney'' review is entirely in rhyme, since Seymour the scientist in that episode rhymes often. The review of the Pikachu short "Stantler's Little Helpers" is also done entirely in rhyme, in the style of "A Visit from St. Nicholas".
49	* The [[WebVideo/UrinatingTree Days of Our Steelers]] episode "Lump of Coal" has Tree recount the Pittsburgh Steelers' 2019 loss to the New York Jets in the style of "'Twas The Night Before Christmas".
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53	* The ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "The Fright Before Christmas" has a villain called The Ghost Writer, who turns Danny and all of Amity Park into a Christmas poem, forcing everyone to rhyme.
54	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Twas the Day Before Christmas" was done in rhyme, as was [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat "The Kid in the Lid"]].
55	* The ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "Hickory Dickory Bonk."
56	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' episode "Bad Rap."
57	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Dream Scheme", revolving around dreams and sleeping, is written in rhyme to resemble nursery rhymes.
58	* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'':
59	** "Twas the Night" parodied the Christmas poem ''A Visit from St. Nicholas'' and was narrated by Creator/AdamWest.
60	** [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam "Cookie Crisis"]] does this, and it's constantly {{Lampshaded}}.
61	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Rhyme for Your Life" involved Binky Barnes having a dream where he was in a town called Verseburg, where everyone spoke only in rhyme.
62	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' episode "[=SpongeBob=] vs. the Patty Gadget" had the entire episode in rhyme, telling the story of how [=SpongeBob=] was about to be replaced by a machine that made as many Krabby Patties as he did.
63	* There have been several ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episodes that were in rhyme, such as "Ode to Odie" and "Fit for a King".
64	* The narrator in ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' delivers his lines in rhyme in the episode "Once Upon A Timeslip" after a microphone glitch transports the cast to the days of Robin Hood.
65	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'': The cartoon is narrated in rhymes in the German dub.
66	* WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey has the Rotten Rhymer as villain. (The episode is not rhymed throughout, but Phooey learns that it's infectious.)
67	* The ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short "Mickey's Mechanical House" has all the narration and dialogue in rhyme.
68	* Several early ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'' shorts had most of the dialogue in rhyme, probably because whey were actually written by Creator/DrSeuss himself.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The MonsterOfTheWeek "Frightningale" speaks in rhymes and forces everyone to sing, dance, and rhyme along with her lest they be turned into statues.
70	* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' had one episode where Andy has to say everything in rhyme for a whole day thanks to a bet he made with Jen.
71	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has two episodes that feature a narrator (whose voice is provided by Sir Derek Jacobi) who speaks in rhymes: "The Lie" in season 3 (about a made up Christmas-like holiday named Sluzzle Tag) and "The Night" in season 4 (about the dreams of the citizens of Elmore).
72	* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': "The Story of Flibber-o-loo" from "Are You My Neighbor?" tells the story of the Good Samaritan from the Bible, but done in the style of Creator/DrSeuss, complete with rhyming.
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