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Beyond simple language structure are the aspects of figurative language: idioms, metaphors, similes, and other things that go beyond exact word meanings in a sentence. This trope is when a character will screw up such terms. This can range from using the wrong word in a term, to getting the whole meaning wrong. The three most common causes are when a character is a non-native speaker of a language (if not an outright Funny Foreigner), is very Literal-Minded, or came from Cloudcuckooland. This is usually Played for Laughs. A Threat Backfire is a possible result of this. This can even happen when the non-native speaker tries to use idioms from that character's language, and it loses its meaning in the translation. In reality, it is not unusual for this to be caused by literal translation from a known language, such as "having one's ass circled in noodles" (though, simple misunderstandings are also a frequent cause of this trope). But in TV Land, it's more often done by taking an existing expression from a language/culture different from the character's and replacing its words with synonyms from the same language, something highly improbable in real life, but is excused due to Rule of Funny. The misspeaker isn't always the sole butt of the joke, though; often, such gags highlight how ridiculous and/or arbitrary the idioms are in the first place. Why can something be "a piece of cake" or "as easy as pie", but vice versa sounds utterly ridiculous? A Sister Trope to Literal Metaphor (where an unlikely event sounds like a mangled metaphor). Compare Mixed Metaphor, Metaphorgotten, Buffy Speak, Malaproper, Expospeak Gag, Sidetracked by the Analogy, [Popular Saying], But..., and Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas. Not to be confused with Weapons-Grade Vocabulary, though both may seem to be physically painful at times. |
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In Rihannsu: The Empty Chair the Enterprise crew is working closely with a renegade Romulan crew. The other side has been provided with universal translators but at one point one of the Enterprise crew uses an idiom that the UT apparently translated literally, which confuses the Romulan. Uhura complains that she's going to have to adjust the UT's idiom filter again. | |
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Zoë in Sluggy Freelance does not usually use certain kind of language, and she's not very good at it when she does. An obvious example is when she was annoyed at always being the one who was cautious and reluctant to go into danger and was so determined to be otherwise that she agreed to go on a beer rescue through time: "Let's bus heads! Let's pinch ass!" | |
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Even Death himself runs into this trope. In Reaper Man, upon being told that "diamonds are a girl's best friend", he sets off to rob a particularly large one from the Lost Temple of Doom of Offler the Crocodile God. It leads to some shenanigans with the High Priest, the other priest who was not high, and Indiana Jones jokes. | |
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In season 2 of BoJack Horseman, after the original director is fired, a very bland yet obedient and uncontroversial director named Abe is hired to direct the Secretariat biopic BoJack is starring in. After BoJack expresses concerns over the quality of the production, Abe reassures him that they "ain't making Casablanca". Naturally, BoJack thinks he meant the film is not intended to be good, but Abe meant it literally (as in, they are not making the actual movie Casablanca), for whatever reason. When BoJack criticizes the film, Abe becomes livid. | |
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Temperance "Bones" Brennan, when she gets over her "I don't know what that means" phase and starts guessing at what's right: | |
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In the book 2010: Odyssey Two, one of the American astronauts makes a joke about how the tiny quarters are more like sixteenths. Naturally, it has to be explained. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Lemon of Troy", Bart, before leaving to take revenge on Shelbyville kids who stole Springfield's lemon tree, tells Marge he's going to "teach some kids a lesson". She thinks he's going to become a tutor. | |
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Horrible Histories: "Easy peasy, squeeze the lemon." | |
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The Newcomers did this on Alien Nation. For example: Mathew Sykes's last name translated in the Newcomer language to a contraction of 'excrement' and 'cranium', so every time he introduced himself to a Newcomer they laughed when he gave his name as 'Detective Sykes'. |
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Nia in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Sure, she rejected Simon when he asked her for marriage, because he wanted to become "one with her" and two people can't be physically merged… Which is funny considering that her English VA (pre-time skip) is the same as Starfire mentioned below. | |
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The depiction of The Sorrow in The Cobra Days is a good example of this trope before he sits down with a dictionary. "How are you?" "I'm a peach." "'I'm peachy.'" | |
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Lemmy from To Heart is constantly messing up Japanese phrases. | |
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Star Trek: The Lost Era: The Buried Age has Data, before character development. In their first conversation, Picard could swear some of what little hair he has left is going from the sheer exasperation, and he has to ask how if Data is supposedly programmed with all this knowledge, simple idioms are beyond him. Data answers that it requires understanding of social context, which he often lacks. | |
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Airplane!: In the Flashback scene where Ted Stryker relives his first meeting Elaine and asks a sailor seated next to him in the bar to pinch him. The sailor becomes visibly uncomfortable and slides away. | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: This exchange between Dr. McNinja and his dad. | |
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Love O2O: Yu Ban Shan mangles almost every idiom he tries to use. | |
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Dragonback: Draycos' response to metaphors is practically a running gag. You'd think Draycos would catch on a little quicker, being a poet and all. |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers Despite all of the main cast inexplicably speaking English, Wheeler frequently had to correct Linka for this type of mistake in the earlier episodes, while the other characters seem to get them fine, despite not growing up in the US either. Luckily, being smitten with her, he finds it to be more cute and amusing than annoying. In "The Big Clam-Up", Ma-Ti got into Sam Spade type detective novels and tried to use 1940's slang, only to get it all mixed up. One moment, in which he phrased "take the case" as "take the cake", even caused Gaia to engage in a very human moment of sighing. |
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Later in the movie, Quill mentions a city full of people with "sticks up their butts" to Gamora. Gamora then asks him who did such a thing as she believes it's unnecessary cruelty. | |
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The alien character Eve in the Blaster Master book by F.X. Nine often mangles popular catch phrases. Jason usually figures them out quickly, though, and corrects her. | |
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Omi in Xiaolin Showdown (and later Xiaolin Chronicles) has this as a Running Gag, flubbing an idiom nearly every episode. The page quote is one time that Raimundo used how badly he mangles phrases into a pre-asskicking threat. Everyone, friends and enemies alike, sometimes need a moment to decode what the actual idiom he was trying to say is. In one episode the villain Jack Spicer had to translate some of Omi's double-jointed dialogue for everyone else. Raimundo (who normally corrects Omi) is seen fainting in the background with a headache. Also from Xiaolin Showdown. And this gem (although the mangle in this case is, in the real world, a perfectly valid version of the phrase): In this one: This gem too: And this gem: And after enough times: |
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Our Miss Brooks: Stretch Snodgrass is prone to this, along with his generally mangled grammar. For example, he once says "let's put all of our heads together". Another time ("Two Way Stretch Snodgrass") he mentions having a "king in his lingament". | |
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Don Quixote: Subverted with the Biscayan, who is another of the many Victimized Bystanders Don Quixote will find in his adventures. He talks exclusively in this fashion when he engages with Don Quixote in a duel to the death. Even with that, Don Quixote understands him perfectly: | |
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The Dresden Files: The Fae are prone to this. Asking one to "watch my back" will probably have them ask you to lean forward in your chair so they can see it. Particularly old wizards have been known to do it too, as a result of age-inflicted cultural disassociation. When "Drinking the Kool-Aid" is used, Arthur Langtry needs to be reminded of the Jonestown mass suicide, which happened in his lifetime. | |
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Castiel from Supernatural. But then again, Angels of the Lord can probably get a pass for being a bit too literal minded. (He learns to do a great deadpan eventually.) Oddly enough, Castiel seems to be the only angel to suffer from this problem. The other angels - especially Zachariah - seem to enjoy using metaphors and pop culture references. Even Lucifer, who has been trapped in the pits of Hell for thousands of years, uses references he probably shouldn't be familiar with. It may have to do with how much mining of the vessel's mind they do. Zachariah and Lucifer are both completely willing to rip through whoever-that-is and Nick, while Cas appears to have put Jimmy to sleep for pretty much the whole time he was wearing him. Although he does have a lot of his mannerisms, we could put that down to muscle memory...or, you know, Misha Collins not being a godlike actor. Demons just out of Hell appear to rely on this regularly—for example, the seven deadly sins in the start of season three pull things like "Here's Johnny!" while smashing down a door, when they haven't been out since the sixteenth century. And there isn't much to choose between, say, Zachariah and Crowley, so we can infer similar technique. That Uriel is the 'funniest angel in the garrison' when there was Balthazar, and above them the kind of mind that makes of fake identities for two guys named Winchester and surnames them Smith & Wesson, really does say something weird about angel mentality. I'm not even sure what. |
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Occurs often in the Discworld. Pratchett, as a rule, is very, very fond of overanalysing idioms and taking things literally. Ankh-Morporkians, in particular, are infamous for their literal-mindedness when it comes to metaphors, and former ruler Olaf Quimby II even wrote a law requiring all metaphors to be able to be made literal. The law still exists, and the current ruler enforces it in order to keep that sort of people occupied. In Quimby's memory, the Morporkians still say "the pen is mightier than a sword" with the addition, "but only if the pen is very sharp and sword very small". Apparently, the king had demanded an unusually smart poet to prove the phrase on himself. Archchancellor Ridcully. From Lords and Ladies: Captain Carrot is a six-foot-tall dwarf who has inherited his (adopted) race's understanding of such things as irony ("sort of like iron"). Upon first arriving in Ankh-Morpork in Guards! Guards!, when instructed to "charge these men" he rushes at them wielding an axe in each hand and screaming the ancient Dwarf battlecry "NEE-NAW-NEE-NAW". In the same book, he's told to "throw the book at him" and the thrown book smacks the target on the head, knocking him over a ledge to his Disney Villain Death. He seems to have mostly gotten over this in later appearances. Also the rogue Auditor Myria LeJean (a.k.a. Unity). The Auditors. For instance, when asked "Can I offer you a drink?" an Auditor will respond that yes, it does believe you are capable of making that request. From Thief of Time, an exchange between Wen the Eternally Surprised and not-too-bright apprentice Clodpool. Even Death himself runs into this trope. In Reaper Man, upon being told that "diamonds are a girl's best friend", he sets off to rob a particularly large one from the Lost Temple of Doom of Offler the Crocodile God. It leads to some shenanigans with the High Priest, the other priest who was not high, and Indiana Jones jokes. |
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Sky-Scraper has this problem in Sentinels of the Multiverse due to having only reached Earth fairly recently. | |
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Sheldon of The Big Bang Theory tends to zigzag between this and Literal-Minded due to being such a analytically Insufferable Genius. Most of the time Leonard and the others had to translate for Penny and other people in the beginning. Also Raj, who's native to India, sometimes gets the phrase wrong: |
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Professor Abraham Van Helsing in Dracula: | |
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The Flight Engineer: The Independent Command uses a similar gag with an English-to-Fibian computerized translator (it's the first time the Commonwealth and the Fibians have had peaceful interactions with each other). One of the humans asks the Fibians to "cut us some slack" in the event of any social faux pas, which mightily confuses the Fibian ("How does one cut looseness?"). Peter Raeder calls it like it is: one of those expressions that has long been divorced from what it originally referred to. | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Drax the Destroyer has trouble understanding metaphors. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Roy is very drunk and excited to get back on the airship | |
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Uh-Oh, It’s a Dinosaur: Kyra has a bad case of this. Understandable, as she's a two-year-old lizard who was raised in a lab. | |
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General Sargas Ruk from Warframe is so focused on making his threats gory that he can't seem to decide if he's talking metaphorically or not. | |
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xkcd's jive is summarily grokked. | |
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Stargate: Stargate SG-1: Teal'c is the most prone to this: O'Neill lampshades this during an argument about whether or not to help an alien race in the middle of a war by trading heavy water for alien technology. Teal'c eventually starts making jokes about this himself: The Asgard fit, too. Vala too. Specifically lampshaded and avoided by Vala in "The Pegasus Project": And later in the same episode. And Bra'tac Double Subversion later when Bra'tac uses the same metaphor ... in the wrong context. Fun example from Stargate Atlantis, which ventures into leader drama territory (though this is technically Blunt Simile Trauma). |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, Mantis says that the guardians "kick names and take ass." | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Drax the Destroyer has trouble understanding metaphors. Drax also doesn't understand the 'finger slicing throat' gesture. Later, he uses this as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner by saying "Finger across throat means death" before killing someone. Later in the movie, Quill mentions a city full of people with "sticks up their butts" to Gamora. Gamora then asks him who did such a thing as she believes it's unnecessary cruelty. In Avengers: Infinity War, Mantis says that the guardians "kick names and take ass." Averted in The Avengers (2012) when Captain America is delighted to hear a cultural reference he does understand (having presumably run into this trope fairly often because of his unfamiliarity with the modern world). |
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The eponymous main character of the children's series Amelia Bedelia is very literal minded. If you ask her to dress the chicken, you will receive a fowl wearing a very cute dress. If you ask her to watch for the fork in the road, she will quite diligently keep an eye out for said utensil lying in the roadway. And so on. | |
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In an episode of Foyle's War, The Mole, an Englishman posing as a French refugee with a thick accent, seems not to know the expression "throw your cap into the ring"; Foyle has already seen him finish an English cryptic crossword puzzle, so what he's giving away is that he wants people to think he's less fluent than he is. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Antoine is pretty good at this. He even messes up ones from his own language. |
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Farscape, particularly Aeryn saying "She gives me a woody" when she meant willies. This is also an instance of the series overall playing with the trope; the characters carry Translator Microbes and so most of the time the alien characters use perfect idioms, as they're really just speaking in their own language and the microbes cause the hearer (and audience) to hear an expression with the intended meaning. Aeryn doesn't start mangling metaphors until she begins to fall in love with John Crichton, a lost human astronaut—causing John (and the audience) to realize that she's actually trying to learn English (and to fervently wish she'd stop.) | |
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Stargate SG-1: Teal'c is the most prone to this: O'Neill lampshades this during an argument about whether or not to help an alien race in the middle of a war by trading heavy water for alien technology. Teal'c eventually starts making jokes about this himself: The Asgard fit, too. Vala too. Specifically lampshaded and avoided by Vala in "The Pegasus Project": And later in the same episode. And Bra'tac Double Subversion later when Bra'tac uses the same metaphor ... in the wrong context. |
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Archer does this often. The translator in "Heart of Archness" in particular cites the problem with translating idioms. Also: "Phrasing!" | |
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Yuki Nagato from Haruhi Suzumiya is prone to this, due to being a Humanoid Interface who doesn't understand human figures of speech. | |
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Mister Kitzel on The Jack Benny Program did this along with being a Malaproper. | |
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It's not just turians who have a problem. It's actually a major problem with humans in the galactic society: because they talk in a lot of slang, shorthand, and metaphors, other species are utterly perplexed by this manner of speech. For example, an asari socialite in the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC: | |
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From Thief of Time, an exchange between Wen the Eternally Surprised and not-too-bright apprentice Clodpool. | |
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A turian in Mass Effect makes this mistake with human language. Turians in general have a difficult time with human slang; their own language and culture is centered around clear and precise communication, so metaphors and slang tend to trip them up. It's not just turians who have a problem. It's actually a major problem with humans in the galactic society: because they talk in a lot of slang, shorthand, and metaphors, other species are utterly perplexed by this manner of speech. For example, an asari socialite in the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC: Mass Effect: Andromeda: Angaran teammate Jaal often finds himself frustrated by idiomatic speech, as the auto-translators between Milky Way languages and the angaran language Selesh are not as up-to-date just yet. |
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Karl Pilkington on The Ricky Gervais Show is often quizzed on metaphors, which he either doesn't understand or misinterprets completely. For instance, he believes "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" means "Don't chuck stuff about." | |
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From a Batman comic: | |
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Star Trek: Spock is famous for taking metaphors literally: For example, asking "Why would I wish to aim at [the broad side of a barn]?" It's funnier in context. (After hearing the song Row, Row, Row Your Boat) "Life is not a dream." Incorrectly, the hell, using swear words in Star Trek IV. He was trying the hell to communicate. He also the hell doesn't understand that "The hell I will" means the opposite of "I will." "We are chasing... not wild aquatic fowl." "Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?" Star Trek IV: It's not just Spock, either, especially when the crew time travels (figuratively or literally): Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation: This is lampshaded in the pilot, as Picard asks "Data, how can you be programmed as a virtual encyclopedia of human information without knowing a simple word like 'snoop'?" A good case occurs in the finale, a Time Trouble episode back to the beginning (among others...), where Data overhears another character discuss "burning the midnight oil." He not only suggests it's a bad idea — it would set off fire-suppression systems — but, once he learns what it means, he then suggests to Picard that to fix a certain system, he would need to "ignite the midnight petroleum." In the episode "Data's Day" he mentions that he "may be pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause." It takes Dr. Crusher a few seconds to realize he's talking about a wild goose chase. In the Star Fleet Academy younger-readers books, it's revealed that Data wasn't at the Academy an hour before a fellow cadet suggested he "pull up a chair" and he proceeded to do just that — pull the chair off the floor — much to the amusement of his fellow cadets. Despite the chair in question being bolted to the floor at the time. In one of the later EU novels, Data admits to Wesley that he'd been doing this on purpose from the very beginning, in an effort to understand human psychology better. |
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Starfire in Teen Titans (2003). Poor girl doesn't know when "People are NOT talking about shovels". | |
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Journey to Chaos: Annala is such a bookworm that she can use the metaphors from many and diverse cultures correctly. She understands the cultural underpinnings for them and uses them in the proper context. This comes in handy during the global politicking of Mana Mutation Menace. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "School Spirit", Marco tells Star that the Silver Hill Warriors "slaughters" the Echo Creek Possums every year, but she ends up believing their football game is to be a bloody battle. It is only after she booby traps the football field to strike the Warriors that Star discovers it's the name of a team and that "slaughter" meant "badly defeat". | |
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Ziva in NCIS, very, very frequently. This conversation from "Hiatus (Part II)": Later subverted: Ziva's actress Cote de Pablo, a native Spanish speaker, falls prey to this on occasion as well, notably during an interview with co-star Michael Weatherly. |
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In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy," Randy is so awestruck when the team enters Dexter Larsen's bedroom while questioning Larsen about the murder of his publisher that he asks Stottlemeyer to pinch him. Stottlemeyer naturally says "no". | |
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Taxi. Elaine tries to tutor Latka in small talk for a dinner party. | |
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In the first season of Violetta, Francesca, who is Italian, replaces words in figurative expressions with similarly sounding ones as a Once an Episode Running Gag. When her friends correct her, she doesn't understand it. | |
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In 2010: The Year We Make Contact, a Russian cosmonaut says, "It's a piece of pie," whereupon an American astronaut corrects him: "Cake." Later, the same cosmonaut says, "It's as easy as cake," only to be corrected once again: "Pie." | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles X: Almost everything L'cirufe says in, mainly because he's self-taught to speak other species' languages and not relying on Mira's universal translation magic. He even has a tendency to "correct" other people's metaphors: |
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In the Back to the Future trilogy, Biff does this about once in each movie. An example that he uses just once is "Make like a tree and get outta here." And in the second film, he uses "That's as funny as a screen door on a battleship," to which Marty quips from out of earshot, "Screen door on a submarine, you dork." English isn't his second language though, he's just a dumb side of beef. Even his older self gets fed up with his butcherings of idioms: | |
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Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill of Animorphs: Being an alien, metaphors don't really work well with him. He has a tendency to take instructions literally, which, combined with him being in public in human morph, makes for some very funny situations. (He also has a notable fascination with pronouncing things, as in his original form he has no mouth and communicates telepathically. Hence the repeated syllables.) Another personal favorite with Ax, when he attends a school dance: Perhaps "she wants your body" was not the best phrase to use in a series where the villains are literal body-snatchers in the first place. |
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In one episode of Round the Twist, Mr Gribble assures a group of Arab property investors that Nell's foreclosure is "all sewn up", "in the bag", "wrapped up" and "a shoo-in". Later, one of the investors smugly tells Tony, "She's sewn up in a bag, wrapped up in a shoe." | |
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Fraggle Rock: In the episode "A Brush with Jealousy", Wembley keeps mixing up figures of speech. | |
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Archchancellor Ridcully. From Lords and Ladies: | |
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In Sliders, after Quinn finds his brother Colin, who's been living in a technologically-backward world, Colin starts learning about modern culture and slang words. So, when he first learns the slang meaning of "cool", he immediately starts extrapolating and assumes that "hot" means "bad". Rembrandt then further confuses him by explaining that both "hot" and "bad" also mean "good". | |
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The posh Tahani runs into this when she tries to use slang on The Good Place: | |
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The toddlers in Rugrats do this a lot. For instance, Tommy says "back to Norman" instead of "back to normal", and Angelica interprets "break a leg" as "break some eggs." | |
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This becomes a plot point in an episode of The West Wing. In preparation for a meeting between Bartlet and President Chigorin of Russia, Sam has a meeting with two aides of Chigorin's who are reasonably fluent in English, but keep needing idioms and other curveballs explained to them. At the end of the meeting, one of them produces a statement for a joint press conference between the presidents, saying that both nations want to "stem the tide" of nuclear proliferation and should start with themselves. The aide claims that the statement was his idea and that he wrote it himself. Sam realizes that he wouldn't know the expression "stem the tide," and correctly concludes that Chigorin wrote it and sent it along to the meeting as a message to Bartlet. | |
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In Ebott's Wake, monsters often cite incorrect or grotesquely hybridized versions of various idioms. | |
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Hermes, a talking motorcycle from Kino's Journey, seems to have this problem a lot (examples include "Vanity is not for the sake of Mothers" and "When in Rome do as tigers do"). | |
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Perfect Strangers's Balki, due to being a Literal-Minded Funny Foreigner. It's even in one of his catchphrases, "Get out of the city!" (as opposed to "Get out of town!") | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device has Rogal Dorn, one of the Emperor's sons. In Warhammer 40,000, he's extremely blunt and to the point, seeing no point in metaphor, or even lies, when getting the point across with the truth is so much faster. This series treats him as if he literally cannot comprehend the concept of metaphor. | |
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Sailor Moon Abridged, the Episode 46/47 double-whammy: | |
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Pixie and Brutus: In one crossover with Lola and Mr. Wrinkles, Brutus asks Pixie about Hugo's problems with being bullied. Pixie says Randall messes with him a lot and Lola thinks it's because Hugo is a "marshmallow", which she interprets as referring to his brown-and-white coat. Brutus tries to explain the real meaning of the metaphor to Pixie, only for her to misinterpret every attempt to rephrase it. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Grace frequently has these problems, although she's progressing. | |
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Team Fortress 2 : The Heavy in does this a bit. "Oh, that slaps me on the knee!" Also, he once covered for the Soldier's job of posting on the official blog. He mentions something he calls a "button board"... Heavy, do you mean "keyboard"? In the Blood in the Water comic, his sister Zhanna thinks assaulting a base "with extreme prejudice" means "be racist at them". Then again, Soldier seemingly made that mistake before. |
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Baldrick (from season 2 onward) and George (from seasons 3 & 4) of Blackadder. Particularly notable since they are native English speakers, albeit stupid ones. | |
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One of the quips in Duke Nukem Forever goes as this: | |
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Doctor Who: The 7th Doctor was prone to doing this immediately following his regeneration, although it was dropped after a couple of stories. his first episode alone gave us: Gets a Call-Back in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio play Bang-Bang-a-Boom!: Happens frequently with Sontarans, who being a Proud Warrior Race don't really get most metaphors. Case in point, in one episode a human working with some Sontarans enthuses that what they're doing is cool. Cue blank looks from the Sontarans ("Is the temperature significant?"). Though the Master is usually more socially discerning, the Eric Roberts incarnation in ''The TV Movie'' runs into this when his human companion Chang Lee tries to start some small talk with a reluctant Master. |
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Nick Nack in Fossil Fighters has a tendency to mutilate not only English idioms ("I can have my socks and feet them too!"), but sayings from other languages. How does he thank you from the bottom of his heart? "Airy cat oh! Grassy us! Donkey shines!" | |
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Trance in Andromeda: | |
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Gets a Call-Back in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio play Bang-Bang-a-Boom!: | |
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Officer Lenina Huxley of Demolition Man commits an idiomatic screwup practically every minute, most of them having to do with her love of 20th Century American culture. Even considering the mass sanitation of culture inflicted upon the future Los— ahem, San Angelinos by their Moral Guardian mayor, many of her malapropisms simply defy belief. This: And earlier in the film, this classic: And later: |
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In Police Squad!, Drebin mentions in his narration that at such a moment he asked the guy next to him to pinch him. Said guy, a big ugly bruiser, gives him an odd look and very carefully backs away. | |
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Exile from Road Rovers is constantly defined by his mangling of the English language. | |
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Mercenaries: In both Playground of Destruction and World In Flames, the Swedish Mattias demonstrates that while he speaks English fairly well he still doesn't understand all the idioms. In particular, when Fiona calls him a babysitter after he's hired to protect a VIP from hostile forces, he wonders why anyone would sit on a baby. | |
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Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer often has problems understanding our human jokes and references, and takes great pleasure in pointing out that fact. In flashback we find out she was like that before she became a demon too. | |
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The Cosmere: Most worldhoppers have access to a set of Connection effects that let them speak the native language of whatever region they're in. However, if the worldhopper isn't careful, the effect can end up translating their metaphors literally. | |
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Fun example from Stargate Atlantis, which ventures into leader drama territory (though this is technically Blunt Simile Trauma). | |
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In Count to the Eschaton, Menelaus is a little careless in his speech to Oenoe, a member of a race genetically engineered to be sexually omnivorous: | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: Angaran teammate Jaal often finds himself frustrated by idiomatic speech, as the auto-translators between Milky Way languages and the angaran language Selesh are not as up-to-date just yet. | |
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Hawkman (the alien version) can have this problem, Depending on the Writer. In one story he remarks that Green Arrow looks like "death reheated", causing GA to explain the phrase is "death warmed over". | |
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Baber in Little Mosque on the Prairie is prone to these, although not oblivious: | |
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Ricky Ricardo in I Love Lucy frequently bungles English idioms, resulting in memorable lines like "Don't cross their chickens before their bridges are hatched." | |
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Angol Mois of Sgt. Frog has a habit of appending her sentences with yojijukugo (Japanese idioms composed of four kanji characters) that are almost, but not quite, appropriate for the situation. One episode has her taking tuition for this. | |
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Babylon 5: Londo Mollari, in the episode "Chrysalis", gets a common human metaphor mangled for him by Vir, who mixed up ducks for cats: Delenn also had this trouble early on, although she got better once she fell in love with John Sheridan. |
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The viewpoint character of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time has severe Asperger's Syndrome, and points out metaphors and idioms because he can't figure out what they mean. He knows the theory, if not how to apply it, but despises figurative language together with all other kinds of lies. | |
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Ahti the Finnish janitor from Control makes extensive use of Finnish metaphors translated directly to English, such as "there will be work for the axe" (something is outrageous), "there's a dog buried in this" (something's fishy), "run with your head as your third leg" (run frantically), and "burn it into a reindeer" (burn it to a crisp). | |
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In The Domino City Effect, Vivian Willow, a Japanese girl, tries to tell her arrogant and rude opponent Sam to 'break a leg' in English. However, she messed up on the translation, and instead tells Sam to "break your legs." He is understandably scared of her after that. | |
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In Transylvania 6-5000, Mayor Lepescu keeps mangling American idioms, saying things like "until the cows go home" and "having to beat them off with a rake". | |
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Short Circuit: It's surprisingly not Number Five who has this problem, but rather the wacky Indian sidekick Ben: | |
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Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation: This is lampshaded in the pilot, as Picard asks "Data, how can you be programmed as a virtual encyclopedia of human information without knowing a simple word like 'snoop'?" A good case occurs in the finale, a Time Trouble episode back to the beginning (among others...), where Data overhears another character discuss "burning the midnight oil." He not only suggests it's a bad idea — it would set off fire-suppression systems — but, once he learns what it means, he then suggests to Picard that to fix a certain system, he would need to "ignite the midnight petroleum." In the episode "Data's Day" he mentions that he "may be pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause." It takes Dr. Crusher a few seconds to realize he's talking about a wild goose chase. In the Star Fleet Academy younger-readers books, it's revealed that Data wasn't at the Academy an hour before a fellow cadet suggested he "pull up a chair" and he proceeded to do just that — pull the chair off the floor — much to the amusement of his fellow cadets. Despite the chair in question being bolted to the floor at the time. In one of the later EU novels, Data admits to Wesley that he'd been doing this on purpose from the very beginning, in an effort to understand human psychology better. |
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