[Trope Name]

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Orbot: Eh, sarcastic remark.
Eggman: [sigh] Annoyed sigh.

—“Sonic Generations Plot” by AnimatedJames

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Definition of the trope, explaining that the trope occurs when specific lines of dialogue are replaced by general and generic descriptions, giving the appearance of a template.

Explanation that the trope is often used in parody and Deconstruction to highlight patterns and clichés.

Origin of Trope Name. References to other, relevant tropes. Justification of reason trope was split from older, less well-written trope.

See also related tropes. Compare some similar tropes. Contrast conflicting tropes.

Mild warning that this trope is not to be confused with similarly-named non-trope page or similarly-titled and easily confused page.

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A list of things that demonstrate the use of this trope:

Label of folder that lists Advertising examples

• There's a new brand of tampons that uses this trope to show how different they are from the competition...
• Carlton Draught's Big Ad. It's a big ad. Very big ad. This ad better sell some bloody beer.
• There's a new Anti-Drug ad by the Partnership for Drug Free America that depicts an argument between a mother and daughter that is entirely made of this trope.
• During the Dr Pepper 10 commercial: "CATCH PHRASE!"

Label of folder that lists Asian Animation examples

• There's an official Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf backpack that reads, "Product Name - Product Description"◊.

Label of folder that lists Comic Book examples

• About three pages of Paul Cornell/D'Israeli's XTNCT.
• Label of Comic from Milk! Issue 16.

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Label of folder that lists Comic Strip examples

• FoxTrot
  • This strip.
  • The comic has a collection named Some Clever Title, which along with the rest of its cover is done as a Stylistic Suck placeholder that never got replaced with a final version.
• Bizarro's March 8, 2015 strip parodies the sameness of sports news using a template.

Label of folder that lists Animated Film examples

• The VeggieTales Jonah movie contains the memorable Song Which Goes Under The Credits
  This is the song that goes under the credits
  These are the credits, so this is where it goes
  Has nothing to do with the movie, so we'll say
  Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey!

Label of folder that lists Literature examples

• The Condensation of All Game Fiction published on rpg.net.
• The "Adjective Noun" story, from Hitherby Dragons
• "This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself" by David Moser.
• The first chapters of Italo Calvino's If on a winter’s night a traveler.
• Not strictly self-referential, but Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart contains a "recipe" for an entertainment awards show, with lines like "Expression of gratitude to Supreme Being and to members of honoree's blood lineage".
• This Is a Book by Demetri Martin, by Demetri Martin. Also his album, These Are Jokes.
• Discworld:
  • In The Last Continent, Ponder Stibbons sums up the Nostalgia Filter with one of these:
  “You don’t get proper fill-in-nouns these days—remember old ‘nickname’ ancient-wizard-who-died-fifty-years-ago-who-Ponder-wouldn’t-possibly-be-able-to-remember? Now there was a chap who knew his fill-in-nouns.”
  • In the City Watch series it's a Running Gag that the watchman's oath of office is always given this way. We hear the full thing in Night Watch.
  "I comma square bracket recruit’s name square bracket comma do solemnly swear by square bracket recruit’s deity of choice square bracket to uphold the Laws and Ordinances of the city of Ankh-Morpork comma serve the public trust comma and defend the subjects of His stroke Her bracket delete whichever is inappropriate bracket Majesty bracket name of reigning monarch bracket without fear comma favour comma or thought of personal safety semi-colon to pursue evildoers and protect the innocent comma laying down my life if necessary in the cause of said duty comma so help me bracket aforesaid deity bracket full stop Gods Save the King stroke Queen bracket delete whichever is inappropriate bracket full stop."

Label of folder that lists Live-Action Film examples

• Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis contains a scene with a conversation between husband and wife that consists solely of this. "Generic greeting!" The movie plays with language a lot, including a character that speaks entirely in seemingly random phrases (like "nose army"). The conversation in genericspeak is repeated later from the woman's point of view, where the man's dialogue is dubbed in Japanese, which contrasts with her lover's dialogue, which is in Italian.
• Movie Title
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie had a trailer like this beginning with the iconical "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about...".

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• The theme to It's Garry Shandling's Show:
  This is the theme to Garry's Show
  The theme to Garry's show
  Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song
  I'm almost halfway finished
  How do you like it so far?
  How do you like the theme to Garry's Show?
  
  This is the theme to Garry's Show
  The opening theme to Garry's show
  This is the music that you hear as you watch the credits
  We're almost to the part
  Of where I start to whistle
  Then we'll watch "It's Garry Shandling's Show"
  (whistles)
  This was the theme to Garry Shandling's show!
• How to Report the News
• The Power Rangers S.P.D. once shouted "Battle Cry!"
• In How I Met Your Mother, Robin has to report a Super Bowl news story without knowing which team won.
  The mayor of the losing team's city had to pay up, sending the mayor of the winning team's city fifteen pounds of a delicacy his or her city is famous for. Better fire up whatever type of grill, steamer, or fryer one might use to cook that delicacy, winning team's mayor!
• On 30 Rock when Jack tells Liz that she's getting a talk show based around a book she wrote, she says "Spit Take! Are you serious?"
• Person of Interest, If-Then-Else: as the Machine simulates one possible plan of action for Team Machine, it replaces the team's dialogue with generic descriptions of what they are saying to save resources.
  Reese: Coolly delivered sadistic warning.
  Fusco: Self-deprecating inquiry into the time necessary to infiltrate system.
  Root: Funny yet insightful retort.
  Finch: Mildly agitated declaration of mission completion.
• Community:
  • In "Communication Studies", Jeff and Abed once stayed up all night drinking. The following morning, Abed is too hungover to think clearly and is unable to make the movie references he's known for. At one point, he responds to a comment from Jeff with simply "Movie reference."
  • In "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television", the first pitch for a seventh season is Abed's in which the characters are so self-aware that they talk in abstracts.
    Jeff: Abusively cynical one liner dismissing everything you just said.
    Britta: Absurd reaction.

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• "Title of the Song," by Da Vinci's Notebook, which is all about cramming in as many love song cliches in as possible into one song, in a parody of 90's Boy Bands.
  Title of the song
  Naive expression of love
  Reluctance to accept that you are gone
  Request to turn back time
  And rectify my wrongs
  Repetition of... the title of the song.
• "Songwriting Workshop" by Tom Smith is a self-referential song about writing a song.
  This is the verse that sets up the premise
  Of why you have written a song.
  Say what you want, it's your song after all,
  But do try not to make each individual lyric line too long.
  Because it might not scan.
  Properly.
• "This Is The Chorus" by Morris Minor and the Majors.
  And this is the chorus,
  This is the chorus.
  It goes around and around and gets into your brain.
  This is the chorus,
  Our fabulous chorus,
  And thirty seconds from now you're going to hear it again.
• "Hook" by Blues Traveler is a song about generic songs. Read just the first verse:
  It doesn't matter what I say
  So long as I sing with inflection
  That makes you feel that I'll convey
  Some inner truth of vast reflection
  But I've said nothing so far
  And I can keep it up for as long as it takes
  And it don't matter who you are
  If I'm doing my job then its your resolve that breaks
• The Heeby Jeebies, parodying The Beatles:
  ''And now we come to the second verse.
  Which I'm singing right now.
  I dont know what I'll say in it.
  Ah well it's over anyhow.
• The cover◊ art of Flipper's Album - Generic Flipper.
• "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
  Couldn't think of any lyrics
  No, I never wrote the lyrics
  So I'll just sing any old lyrics
  That come to mind, child
• And similarly, King Crimson's "Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With."
  Then I'm gonna have to write a chorus
  We're gonna need to have a chorus
  And this seems to be just as good as any other place to sing it 'til I'm blue in the face
• "Coin Operated Boy" by The Dresden Dolls
  "This bridge was written
  To make you feel smitten-er
  With my sad picture
  Of girl getting bitterer"
• "The Grunge Song" by Radio Free Vestibule (NOT Weezer)
  "This is the part of the song that's really quiet
  we play very soft, it sounds like a ballad
  AND THIS IS PART WHERE WE PLAY REAL HARD
  IT'S MUCH LOUDER THAN AT THE BEGINNING
  and we go back to the quiet part. Again."
• "Punk Rock 101" by Bowling for Soup
  "Don't forget the delay...lay...lay
  On the very last word...word...word..."
• From "Arica" by Tv's Kyle:
  Arica, this is totally the bridge
  To this musical pep-talk
  It really sounds romantic and self-important....
• Brandon Muller's Linkin Park Parody is a mix of this and very pointed satire.
• Psychostick's #1 Radio $ingle.
  "Well this is the part of the song where I talk about emotions
  And this is the part of the song where I sing about how I feel so cold inside.
  And this is where my producer told me to say "yeah.""
• Jon Lajoie's parody of typical pop songs, called "Pop Song":
  "And now the token rap verse
  That doesn't make any sense
  But helps to get a small percentage of the urban music market"
  • Many of his works include elements of this.
• Orange Goblin's Tosh Lines:
  This is the first line of my song
  Second line didn't take me all that long
  Third line and I'm about to lose control
  Fourth line is a lesson in rock and roll
  Fifth line is very much like the third
  Line six is the best you've ever heard
  Seventh line and we're getting near the end
  Eight line and that's your lot, my friend
• This is an album by The Black Keys. The name of this album is Brothers.
• The Swirling Eddies: "This is the Title"
• An awful lot of Mitch Benn songs use this as a form of satire, mixed with Hypocritical Humour.
• deadmau5' albums Random Album Title, and possibly invoked with For Lack of a Better Name (the first album released after Random Album Title) and its title track, "Lack of a Better Name". From "This is the Hook":
  This is the hook. It's catchy. You like it.
• MC Lars' "Generic Crunk Rap":
  Phrase about my car, rhyme about my crew (Volvo!)
  Rap about how much more crunk I am than you
  Rhyme about my rims, rhyme about my bling
  Chorus where I scream cause I don't know how to sing!
• Von Dooley's "Shitty Pop Song":
  And now the next verse, you might think it's shit
  so I'll throw in a harmony to change it up a bit.
  This took me an hour and a half to make
  and honestly that's even pushing it a bit (pointless whisper)
• Filter's Title of Record.
• "Song" by Smog.
• "How to Write a Love Song" by Axis of Awesome.
• "Your State's Name Here", by Lou and Peter Berryman, is a song meant to be about any state in the US. Lou sings the regular parts of the song, while Peter sings the blanks Mad Libs Dialogue-style — without actually filling them in.
  Oh [Your state's name here], oh [Again], what a state.
  I have not been back since [A reasonable date].
  Where the asphalt grows soft in July every year.
  In the warm summer mornings of [Your state's name here].
• Meghan Trainor's breakthrough album was titled Title.
• Joan Jett had an album of mostly cover songs titled Album.
• Blonde Redhead's official music video for "Silently" is just a series of text cards describing the events of a music video. (For extra weirdness, it's describing the plot of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" music video, rather than anything to do with the song itself.)
• "Tosi Tarttuva Täytebiisi" ("Really Catchy Filler Song") by the Finnish band Allekirjoittanut.

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• "The Song That Goes Like This," from Spamalot.
  Once in every show
  There comes a song like this
  It starts off soft and low
  And ends up with a kiss
  Oh where is the song that goes like this?
• [title of show] follows the spirit, if not the letter, of the trope. It's a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical.
• In musicals, an eleven o'clock song is a show-stopping number which comes late in the second act, shortly before the show's finale. Ankles Aweigh has one titled "An Eleven O'Clock Song."
• The Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies have the traditional "Welcome, Welcome" and "Goodbye, Goodbye" speeches. Each is two words long.

Label of folder that lists Print Media examples

• When the Scottish newspaper The National wasn't allowed into Theresa May's press event during her November 2018 visit to Scotland, their front page had a blacked out silhouette of May overprinted with an explanation that the were therefore not going to cover the story at all. Below it was the headline "HEADLINE IN HERE HEADLINE IN HERE" and three subheaders saying "This is a subheading in here".

Label of folder that lists Video Game examples

• Duty Calls, a parody FPS game, also an elaborate advertisement for Bulletstorm, uses these for pretty much every line of dialogue.
• Sentinel in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 does this.
  "UNDERMINE TARGET CONFIDENCE."
  • In the updated Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, taunting as Deadpool results in him saying "TAUNT BUTTON!" In the original, he says "This is my taunt!"
• The Rubikon from Planescape: Torment uses this trope to deconstruct the concept of a dungeon.
• Sam & Max Save the World: Episode Six: Bright Side Of The Moon:
  Sam: Random, but innocuous, comment.
  Max: Irreverent reply hinting at mental instability!
  Sam: You crack me up, little buddy.
• The Facebook version of You Don't Know Jack has a Parody Commercial for "Glug Light Beer", which features Trivially Obvious statements like "Glug Light is a beer that you can buy and that you can also drink" mixed with a list of generic "things that guys do".
• One of Salvador's catchphrases when Gunzerkering in Borderlands 2 is just "ONE-LINER!"
• One of the guards that you kill in Asha's rescue mission in Saints Row IV shouts "Famous movie quote!" as he's dying.
• In City of Heroes you wind up fighting a robot clone of local wise cracking Trick Arrow expert Manticore. The robot's text files are incomplete, so he winds up throwing error messages during his taunts.
  Oh yeah? Aren't you the MISSING FILE BELITTING_INSULT.TXT
  (after defeating someone) That sure was MISSING FILE ONE_LINER.TXT
• On the third installment of Wipeout, The Designers Republic decided to go all out with their brand minimalistic approach (think of their cover art for Tri Repetae but with text), which is why a lot of menu screens contain tons of "explanatory info" despite being fairly simplistic in their design. It has gotten so out of hand that the title screen literally says "WIPEOUT THREE TITLE SCREEN".
  • And if you wait a bit on it, you will see the obligatory DR credits, preceeded by "WIPEOUT THREE LOGO" and "TEXT READS LEFT TO RIGHT".
• SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium has "Victory pose!" as a subtitle to Yuri Sakazaki's... duh.
• In Overwatch, one of Reinhardt's taunts is "Catchphrase!"

Label of folder that lists Web Animation examples

• Homestar Runner:
  • The Show's ending chant from this short: "Chant! Words! Together!"
  • In "Marzipan's Answering Machine 4", Homestar's tries to tell a "TV joke" he heard.
    Homestar: Okay, okay. So I was watching TV, right? And there was this show with this guy and he was on TV, right? Okay. And so he makes this TV joke, and it, and it was so hilarious. Okay, it was like... okay, I can't remember what it was like, but it was a TV joke, and you know how those are.
  • In the Strong Bad Email "dullard", at one point Homestar tries to talk about an episode of "Popular Reality Show".
  • The "prank call" Strong Bad leaves in the SBEmail "personal favorites" is just him shouting "PRANK CALL!"
  • To a lesser extent, the SBEmail "the process," a Faux-To Guide for answering emails "like a true Strong Bad."
  • During the "Biz Cas Fri" segment in the SBEmail "other days," Homestar brags about his frag count in "Online Gaming".
  • In "Marzipan's Answering Machine 11.2", Strong Bad prank calls Marzipan posing as Bob Statesman, who's running for "Elected Official".
  • Homestar's grocery list in "love poems."
    "Amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing!"
  • This list.
• Arfenhouse 2 starts off with a parody of badly-made Flash-animated versions of 8-Bit Theater that flooded Newgrounds at the time of its release:
  Fighter: Blatant ripoffs!
  Black Mage: Terrible echo effect!
  Thief: (garbled) Really bad voice-acting!
• Metal Gear Awesome has this.
  "Cryptic metaphor!"
• In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, the Kai Abridged episode has Nappa giving a line like this:
  Nappa: Hilariously derailing one-liner!
• Several examples from Ultra Fast Pony.
  • In "Copywrong", several characters describe what Aesops they learned from the episode. Photo Finish just says "And I learned... lesson."
  • In "Pinkie's Day In":
    Applejack: Yeah, but that's just a front. I mean, that's just a... Go away! Something about apples!
  • In "Faith to Faith", Applejack gives a succinct but scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech to an annoying side character. Which is then followed by:
    Pinkie Pie: Yeah, you sound just like—
    INSERT OWN JOKE HERE
    Caption: I should do that more often. Saves me a lot of time.
• Harry Partridge's Skyrim video has him wearing a blue shirt with the text "POP CULTURE REFERENCE".

Label of folder that lists Webcomic examples

• The Story Title arc of Bruno the Bandit.
• The Women With Tea strip of Partially Clips.
• This illusionary halfling from The Order of the Stick. Who does not also appear here.
• How to create a Stickman and Cube comic.
• Here's Penny Arcade's take, where they follow their basic formula using only trope names.
• This Bob and George comic.
• Irregular Webcomic!:
  • The Ur-Lightbulb Joke.
  • Another joke from the same comic.
  • And also a poll question.
• Similarly, Dinosaur Comics offers a barrage of Profession Jokes.
• This Cyanide & Happiness episode.
• This strip from This Comic Sucks.
• This strip from Multiplex.
• The song titles in this Questionable Content.
• This Sluggy Freelance strip, making fun of the use of Acceptable Political Targets.
• The last panel of this strip of 8-Bit Theater.
• This 1/0.
• This Chainsawsuit, and the commentary below as well.
• Gunnerkrigg Court
  • This rousing wake-up call .
  • At the end of the storyline "Katurday!", Paz has a video game called A Video Game. (The Rant says it's actually an HD remaster of A Video Game.) The bonus page shows a magazine ad from when the original A Video Game was released, advertising such features as "Contains graphics" and "Players allowed".
• The Karnak Hates Everything Show, a sub-comic of Bob and George, had a filler comic lampooning what The Legacy Of Terra (another comic by the same author)'s updates were usually like.
• This one from Kirby vs. the Squeaks.
• xkcd:
  • The comic Self Description draws diagrams about the amount of black on the comic strip itself (including the diagrams).
  • This one — abusing this trope is how he'd hypothetically build a supermarket brand identity.
• This Square Root of Minus Garfield, of the strip's running gag of Garfield Minus Garfield puns
• Garfield Abridged.
  {Garfield lies motionless amidst a pile of food scraps and entrails.}
  Jon: CONTEXT
  {Jon points at Garfield, angrily.}
  Jon: ADMONISHMENT
  Garfield: CONTRADICTION
  Jon: DIRE IMPLICATIONS
  Garfield: WITTY RETORT
• Dead Marlo: "Scripted patter!."
• This insult from Khaos Komix.
• Rick's Pre-Asskicking One-Liner from Ratfist.
• This Dark Legacy Comics, from when the author broke his arm.
• In Schlock Mercenary, the ships of the Fleetmind are all given names with the acronym PD. One such ship is called "Polysyllabic Designation".
• The Daily Derp: "DERPY enters, something happens, Derpy Panics."
• The webcomic titled Webcomic Name that's a parody of "relatable" webcomics. Every comic ends with the exact same punchline of "oh no"
  • This strip summarizes the comic in true [Trope Name] fashion.

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• TV Tropes:
  • This page you're reading right now.
  • This.
  • And this.
  • And this.
  • And this.
  • Controversial statement.
  • All This Trope Name References Itself examples... including itself.
  • The template for quoting dialogue in examples in the Trope Entry Template does this for typical three-line banter. (If you don't get the difference between that page and this one by now, I give up.)
• The subreddit [1] r/SUBREDDITNAME.
• This article.
• The Existential Flame War LiveJournal community.
• This deconstruction of a typical DailyKos diary.
• This fanficrants post.
• This video, though only tangentially.
• This◊ CRFH rescript (NSFW)
• LoadingReadyRun's Quantum Documentary.
• This blog post, and the thousand plus comments following it.
• Another blog post...For Science!!
• This RPGnet thread (log-in required)
• This Magic: The Gathering article.
  • And this one!
• This self-referential story.
• This typical incendiary blog post, and its followers.
• A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever, a Cracked video based on Oscar Bait movies where every single line is this.
• This news website article about a scientific paper.
• This question on Meta Stack Overflow.
• The Manifesto Manifesto.
• This Facebook exchange.
  • And this one, about politics, in Hebrew.
• This anime blog post.
• Stupid AMV Title, based off of A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever where every single line is this.
• This Youtube Video.
• How To Make A Blockbuster Movie Trailer
• The Editing Room's scripts are full of characters who bluntly state what their role is in the movie.
• This Onion article about how little attention Americans give to...this Onion article.
• Every Presentation Ever. Presenter describes a generic presentation as they present.
• This 4chan thread◊ (SFW)
  • This 4chan post applies also (SFW as well)
• This parody of modern "contemporary", praise-band-led church services.
• SCP Foundation: SCP-1234-J, aka "An SCP". It is captured due to displaying anomalous properties, and interactions with researchers have resulted in [DATA EXPUNGED]. It is contained in a containment chamber which is to contain precautions which aid in its containment, and should it breach containment, personnel are to take necessary actions to recontain it. No fewer than a specified number of staff may enter the containment room at any time.
  • The discussion page has many comments in the same way. Including those who complain users are turning it into an Overly Long Gag.
• The koan of The Naming of Names uses this to prove a point about software development.
• This college humor article, if the nature of the pictures isn't a clue. Go read the comment section.
• In the Nostalgia Critic / Angry Video Game Nerd Crossover for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), the Title Card, which is in the style of the 1987 animated series, reads "Episode-Related Pun."
• An Honest Facebook Political Argument as presented by CollegeHumor.
• Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie by Cracked. Taken Up to Eleven with all of their spoken lines.
• This review of the Doom map "Temple" is written this way (it's essentially a normal review, but with phrases like "Side note mentioning that" tacked on the beginning of every sentence).
• This Reddit thread parodies the common type of comments seen on the site.
  • The subreddit r/SUBREDDITNAME is entirely devoted to this.
• Parodied in the Game Grumps April Fools episodes "g", which is nothing but a white screen while a monotone voice describes their usual actions.
  Fart. Start. Run. Run. Jump. Die. Start. Jump. Die....
• This Not Always Right entry, between an employee and his manager when the manager wishes to buy some liquor.
• The Daily WTF has a recurring "Error'd" feature on Fridays with reader-submitted snapshots of computing slip-ups. The "failure to replace placeholder text" is a common one.
• Urinating Tree spoofs the social awareness advertisements put out by corporations in "A Message From The Company".*
• This infamous bash quote that began with an INSULT.
• This article from The Hard Times about nerds outraged that their favorite IP is attempting to diversify the cast.
  THIS IS A TEMPLATE. DO NOT FORGET TO FILL IN THE BLANKS WHEN THE INEVITABLE NEW STORY COMES OUT. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. – Editor
• This Kotaku article.
  Videogame Article
  A minimum of 50 characters to encapsulate the article for SEO purposes

Label of folder that lists Western Animation examples

• On one Space Ghost Coast to Coast DVD commentary, the writers mention once trying to get this joke into an episode, but the network didn't get it. It would have gone something like this:
  Space Ghost: Grandiose statement!
  Zorak: Pithy comment.
  Moltar: Exasperated sigh.
• Gravity Falls
  • In "Fight Fighters", one of the adjectives in Rumble McSkirmish's ultimate combo with a very long name is the word "prefix".
  • When Soos is trapped inside a pinball machine during his story in "Bottomless Pit!", he follows up Mabel and Dipper's signs of amazement by literally saying "Hushed exclamation of wonder!"
  • The only way Grunkle Stan can think of to get out of a bad date in the episode "Dreamscaperers" is to yell "Non-specific excuse!" and run away. In the same episode, the incantation Gideon uses to summon Bill Cipher is "backwards message" repeated backwards.
• In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Storm", everyone shames Gumball for breaking up Alan and Carmen, despite agreeing with Gumball that Alan and Carmen's relationship sickens them, calling him things like "home wrecker" and "couple splitter". All Sussie can think to shout it "Names! Names! Names!"
• BoJack Horseman has the Running Gag of "Generic <insert year and genre> song", including '80s New Wave, '90s Grunge, and 2007 autotuned, all replete with Funny Background Events of intentionally outdated references.
• In Rick and Morty, after becoming the President of the Citadel, Evil Morty makes a New Era Speech where he says that this is the time to make cold, calculated speech with sinister overtones where he talks about politics, order, brotherhood and power.
• Total Drama: Amy says "loud cough of interruption" in order to make her sister, "Samey," stop talking.
• The Ridonculous Race: Geoff and Brody, in a failed attempt to rescue Sanders and Macarthur from Komodo Dragons, shout "Battle Cry!"

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• Generic branding, especially the No Name brand.

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