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In a Sitcom, often a character will say something that's just meant to be a friendly little remark, and it will come out wrong, possibly sounding creepy, crazy, or offensive; they'll try and clarify it (whether they really need to or not), but just make things worse, and dig themselves deeper and deeper into the creepy/crazy/offensive pit. This may eventually lead to the character deciding to stop talking, though not always. Exceptionally deep and/or frequent excavations are commonplace in Cringe Comedies. This is most commonly seen in comedy works, but is just as often Played for Drama - a common example is someone being caught in a situation that makes them look guilty (see The Corpse Stops Here), trying to explain that they're in fact innocent, and not only failing to convince the other party but in fact making themselves appear even more culpable. Compare That Came Out Wrong, Freudian Slippery Slope, Did I Just Say That Out Loud?, Open Mouth, Insert Foot, Verbal Backpedaling. The comedic verbal version of From Bad to Worse. Contrast Change the Uncomfortable Subject and Not Helping Your Case (although it can overlap with Digging Yourself Deeper). Subjecting a character to this too often may eventually lead to a (usually) comedic version of Then Let Me Be Evil. Not to be confused Dug Too Deep (which is about physical digging), or Digging to China (same). Nor Dig Your Own Grave, for that matter. Can go with Godwin's Law of Facial Hair, where the toothbrush mustache is associated with Hitler and evil authoritarians. |
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After Tina Turner's autobiography I, Tina revealed that ex-husband Ike Turner was physically abusive, he responded by saying "Yeah I hit her, but no more than the average guy beats his wife." Then when the book was made into the film What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), which destroyed his reputation once and for all, he responded saying "Sure, I've slapped Tina. We had fights and there have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I never beat her." | |
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In Were You Raised by Wolves? a lot of Nick's and Leah's advice focuses on how to avoid this after the fact or how to get out of whatever hole listeners have dug for themselves. | |
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Wonder Woman" The Contest'': Mala doesn't think before talking to Diana about how excieted the Amazons are for another contest to choose Wonder Woman, even though this means replacing Diana; | |
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A stunningly awkward moment for Nurse Annie in issue #421 of Uncanny X-Men, doubling as a bit of a Freudian Slippery Slope. | |
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Tommy Boy: Tommy tries to smooth-talk a client with one of his father's favorite sayings, however, he screws it up terribly. | |
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In the The Belgariad / The Malloreon by David Eddings, several characters fall for this, usually cut short by another character suggesting "Why don't you just stop talking now." or "What a fascinating observation, why don't we pursue that line of thought." or similar. | |
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Sekai no Fushigi: After a woman broke into Daisuke and Miyuki's wedding and revealed the latter had an affair with her husband, she tries to deny it to Daisuke. However, her poor choice of words when answering his questions only confirms it even further. | |
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The third Blue Beetle stumbles into this when he teams up with Batman in The Brave and the Bold (revived series issue #3). | |
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Subverted when the three of them are trying to explain Scott's idea to Tony Stark. Tony reacts to Scott's reference to "the rules of time travel" by asking if the entire idea came from watching Back to the Future. To his credit, Scott doesn't try to deny it. | |
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The Princess and the Frog: Naveen is trying to propose to Tiana in the end, and manages to make Tiana look annoyed a few times doing so. Tiana did admit that she thought the fumbling around was cute. | |
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Garfield: While talking to Liz on the phone, Jon says he lied about his past and had thousands of girlfriends. | |
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Discworld: During a talk with Vetinari in Making Money, Moist von Lipwig seems unable to put the metaphorical shovel down. The funniest point is probably that Vetinari didn't even ask about the problem, Moist just assumed that this was the reason why his boss wanted to talk to him. | |
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Happens to Cady repeatedly in Mean Girls. She refers to the phenomenon as 'word vomit'. | |
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Referenced in Incredibles 2. After Bob gets berated by the police for the additional damages caused by their attempted heroics at beginning of the movie, Agent Dicker stands up from the corner. | |
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Kat, in Love at the Christmas Table, manages somehow to go from that there are romantic prospects in her life to describing how there are guys lined up one after another, ready to land... and then she admits that she's digging herself deeper. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic's Bastila has one or two Freudian slips that result in similar conversations with a male player. One of those conversation paths contains one of the funniest lines of the whole game: when Bastila is trying to clarify what she meant by 'feelings for' the player, a possible response is "You're cute when you're embarrassed." | |
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In Melody, the protagonist's relationship with Becca can come crashing down from a badly managed conversation. When the protagonist helps Becca paint her apartment, the mood for sex hits, but they don't have a condom ready. The protagonist can then choose to say that they could just have unprotected sex. He then goes down a path with leads Becca to kick him out, not wanting to see him again. | |
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The tie-in comic for Star Trek: Elite Force involves Beissman responding enthusiastically to the assignment of watching Seven's back. She handles it in her usual manner. | |
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Rocky (from the Swedish comic, not the boxer) once gets into this when meeting his current girlfriend's father. He wants to compliment him on his house, but makes a Freudian Slip and substitutes "dick" for "house", and then it gets worse. The girlfriend's father shuts him up with the wonderful comeback: "Kid, if you've put your foot in your mouth, at least have the sense to stand still!" | |
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In My Harem Heaven is Yandere Hell, when asked what her favorite food is, Sayuri blurts out that she wants to eat Yuuya. A shocked Yuuya quickly tries to abandon the subject, but Sayuri is so desperate to..."explain"... that she doesn't let him. And then she accidentally says no (as in, 'no, I had a different reason', not 'no, I was serious') in response to Yuuya's statement/subtle suggestion that she was joking. The situation only deteriorates from there. | |
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Revenge Films: "I went to visit my girlfriend at the hospital, but she was screwing another guy...": When confronted by Jack for cheating, Jill snaps that her cheating was 'just a game to her', prompting Jack’s mother to tell her to Get Out!. And later, when Jill’s mother confronts Jill about her cheating in front of Jack and his parents, Jill then proudly proclaims that she 'already slept with ten guys already.' At that, all Jill’s mother can do is weakly apologize and drag Jill out, extremely embarrassed. "When I asked my daughter in law, when her due date was, she answered “16 months�…" [sic]: When Joshua came back home to notify his mother Jane that his wife Karen was pregnant, his older sister Olivia questioned Karen about the alleged pregnancy's due date. When she said it would be by next winter, they point out it would be 16 months later and Jane tells her the actual duration. Karen then switches gears and claims she's not pregnant anymore, only to raise more questions as she came up with even more contradictory answers. Eventually, her "baby bump" is revealed to be just fat from her visits to restaurants. "Mother-in-law kept harassing me…": When Blair faked being hit by her daughter-in-law Ali with a ladle to accuse her of mistreatment to the latter's husband, he asks her why she has a ladle in her hand. When Blair replies she took it away from Ali in their scuffle, he tells her she's in the middle of washing the dishes. Then she claims that Ali washed the dishes right after she took the ladle away from her, but the man didn't buy any of his mom's lies. |
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My Cousin Vinny: The plot is the result of Vinny's cousin Billy and his friend Stanley being charged with murder. How did they get a murder charge? They didn't even know what they were arrested for, and kept answering questions thinking they were being charged with stealing some groceries they forgot to pay for. In fact, this is Truth in Television for many people convicted of a crime because of statements made to the police, because many of the things you say, no matter how innocuous, can lead to a conviction. It's taken up to eleven when one of them says "I shot the clerk?" as a question, but it sounds like a statement. | |
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Done in Severance (2006) with a great jab at the end: | |
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Shortly after you meet Liara in Mass Effect, she tells you she finds you fascinating because of your encounter with the Prothean beacon on Eden Prime. You can tease her about how clinical her interest sounds ("Sounds like you want to dissect me in a lab"), prompting her flustered response, "I only meant that you would be an interesting specimen for an in-depth study. No, that's even worse!" Tali gets similarly flustered in the sequel. Garrus has his moments, especially in the Citadel DLC with MShep or non-romanced FemShep where he tries to hit on a female turian and ended up calling her an alcoholic or implying that he's a serial killer depending on which path Shepard led him on. |
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BioShock: Initially thrilled to be invited to live in the underwater city of Rapture, the citizens quickly lose their faith in Andrew Ryan when he starts going against his own philosophies when they start becoming an obstruction to him. By the time the protagonist arrives to the city, he's a paranoid wreck refusing to believe the deep hole he's dug for himself. | |
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In one skit in Tales of Symphonia, Colette asks Lloyd if he prefers her or girls like Princess Hilda. He digs himself in by saying that he likes girls like the Princess, but jumps back out by saying that he thinks Colette is cuter. Then he hops right back in and comments on how he's surrounded by pretty girls like Sheena, and was once part of Professor Raine's Fan Club. Colette angrily leaves, commenting on how Lloyd is just like Zelos, leaving both Lloyd and Zelos to wonder what exactly that's supposed to mean. | |
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Happens in Valkyrie Profile when unscrupulous mercenary Badrach dies and Lenneth Valkyrie appears before him. He at first thinks this means that, since a valkyrie has appeared before him, he gets to go to Valhalla. Lenneth bluntly informs him that no, she's just here to literally drag him to Hel (the Norse goddess) for his crimes in life. When Lenneth gives him the chance to come up with something redeeming, he remembers robbing and killing an old man, helping to kidnap someone, and spying on his own country. It's only at the last minute, when Badrach remembers literally one good deed (and even then, he did it mostly to get back at someone else) that Lenneth relents and takes his soul for Valhalla. Nor surprisingly, of the various einherjar that Lenneth recruits, Badrach starts with the second-lowest score for suitability for entry to Valhalla. | |
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James Tobin has this happen to him in the game In the 1st Degree. He changes his story of what happened between him and Zack more than once. He admits to shooting himself in the leg because he was afraid no one would believe him when he said that Zack was shot in self-defense. If you play the game right, you get to watch as the prosecutor Granger pins Tobin on the leg-shooting thing. Granger asks if Tobin's first thought was to protect himself as his own business partner was lying there at his feet bleeding to death. Tobin responds by saying no, and that he tried to give Zack CPR. Granger says "You tried giving CPR to a man who was bleeding from the throat?" Tobin then gives a "Yes! I mean...No!" Yep, Tobin is so experiencing this trope. | |
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Chad from 'Patty's Perps' in Knights of the Dinner Table is a master of this. | |
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Defied in Red Dead Redemption. When talking to his wife about Bonnie, who saved his life, John Marston quickly notices her jealousy, and wisely stops digging and starts giving her compliments. | |
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Jim Carrey's character in Liar Liar, cursed so that he Cannot Tell a Lie, boards an elevator with a well-endowed woman. The first words out of his mouth are about her breasts. As he tries to cover himself, more and more lines about her rack spill out... Gilligan Cut to him leaving the elevator, having gotten well-slapped. | |
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From Robots, Ratchet tries to beg for mercy from his boss, Mr. Bigweld, for the way he's been running the company behind Bigweld's back: | |
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Sally in Cars: "I thought I'd say thank you for doing a great job, so I thought I'd let you stay with me. I mean not with me, but there. Not with me there, but there in your own cozy cone, and I'd be in my cone..." | |
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Kasuga and Saeko's first date goes surprisingly well, up until Kasuga suddenly proposes to her. After she hastily says good night and walks off, Kasuga relays everything he had said during that point to Nanba and Adachi. The way he describes it gives them both the impression that, save for a small miracle, their relationship may have ended before it even had a chance to begin. | |
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Wallace's conversations in The F Word almost universally fall under this trope. Fortunately, Chantry, his love interest, keeps up with him line after line, both digging themselves deeper. | |
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In the Gaunt's Ghosts novel Blood Pact, Gaunt tricks Ayatani Zweil into going for his medical by making the latter condemn the person who hadn't gone for medicals until he realises that he's talking about himself. | |
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Avengers: Endgame has several examples: After Tony Stark's daughter Morgan accidentally learns the word "shit" from him, he tells her not to swear, and then says "'Cause I got shit to do!". Cue her continuing to repeat the word... When Scott Lang is trying to explain his idea for undoing the Snap to Steve Rogers and Natasha, he tries hard to avoid using the words "time travel" or "time machine," but slowly realizes how absurd that sounds and admits that yeah, he's talking about a time machine. Subverted when the three of them are trying to explain Scott's idea to Tony Stark. Tony reacts to Scott's reference to "the rules of time travel" by asking if the entire idea came from watching Back to the Future. To his credit, Scott doesn't try to deny it. |
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In Portal 2, Wheatley tells Chell that he hates having to look after all the 'smelly humans' and then blusters about it. | |
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Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night: After being framed for the theft of the church's riches, Christine tries to prove her innocence by bringing a police officer a piece of the stolen goods. All she ends up doing is confirming her guilt in his eyes. | |
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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge: Alan Partridge often backtracked with "Not literally; that would be hideous." | |
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The Sound of Music: The Von Trapp children when trying to lie to their father about why they were late for dinner. Georg is clearly aware that they're fibbing, but is more amused than angry at their attempts and so pokes holes in their story in such a way that they either have to come clean or engage in this trope. | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: When Kitten starts to tell the Emperor about the Inquisition, the Emperor is furious. Kitten tries to bring up all the good things about the organization but somehow ends up telling his lord only about the most horrid things it has done. While trying to hide the existence of the Fallen from Angels not in the know, Azrael, Asmodai, and Watcher manage to blabber everything between the three of them. |
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Bean: Subverted when Mr. Bean is forced to give an improvised speech on the Whistler's Mother painting. After fumbling for a bit, he handles the speech quite well, although it lacks any meaningful content. General Newton and much of the audience just appreciate Bean's straightforward remarks on The Power of Family. The characters who might have been offended take it as dryly comical ribbing at their earlier request not to have a boring lecture of art history, and maybe insert a joke or two into the speech, since they assumed Bean to be a stereotypical British academic. | |
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In one series of Zits strips, when Jeremy inquires Sarah about how she's gotten a tan, he ends up telling her "Your freckles help camouflage your zits," with the comment literally hanging in the air afterwards. Jeremy desperately begs to change the subject, only to then ask Sarah "What's it like having divorced parents?" Needless to say, Sarah is not amused, and Jeremy is left smacking himself in the face with a Nerf bat. | |
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Used as a visual metaphor in the furry comic ISO, when Cody has to swiftly make up lies about his supposed girlfriend to keep his parents from finding out about Doug, as well as the fact he's on the outs with Todd and has a roommate he can't stand. | |
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A Movie Fights question, which asks "What's is the best year for movies?" have reached a stalemate because all the gladiators have presented a well-argued case for their chosen year (Spencer for 1984, Dan for 1999, Mike for 1982), and while Andy was stuck in deciding the winner, Spencer tried to nudge him to his favour by asking him which movies would he rather watch, and which is his personal best year. Both times, all he managed to do was push the argument to Dan's, giving him the win. | |
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In The Magician King, Quentin is outraged at the primitive learning conditions in the safe house for hedge-wizards and insists that his friend Julia doesn't belong there, insisting that she can't have learned magic from "unlicensed losers"... only for Julia to take offence, for - as Quentin full knows - she's a hedge-witch who had to learn unofficially after Brakebills turned her down and Quentin refused to help her get in. Flustered, Quentin tries to point out that it's a wonder that nobody's burned down the safe house, but Julia simply points out that he's not angry about the safety standards but about how the hedge-witches aren't good enough by his standards. In a desperate attempt to mollify Julia, Quentin changes tack and points out that he earned the right to perform magic in his years at Brakebills, claiming that the residents of the safe house picked it up at the 7-11; Julia, who had to endure several painful years of depression and obsessive study just to succeed as a hedge-witch, even going so far as to trade sex for magic knowledge, is not amused. | |
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Chloe William's comment to her husband Buck when he tries to explain the reason he calls a car by a girl's name in the Left Behind book The Mark. | |
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Random Assault: Mitch's attempts to save failed jokes. | |
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Spock finds himself in this position in Star Trek Beyond when he explains to Kirk and McCoy how they can locate the rest of the crew by homing in on a rare radioactive isotope. Specifically, the necklace that had belonged to Spock's mother, and that he later gave to Uhura as a gift. | |
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Todd in the Shadows lands in this in his review of "Bang Bang" specifically talking about Ariana Grande's part, struggling to talk about the sexual nature of it without sounding like a creep. Lampshaded heavily through various screen pop-ups like "Breaking News: Todd in big trouble." and "Todd digging hole even deeper." | |
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NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me lampshades this with a bit of Self-Deprecation in a clip-show where host Peter Sagal quips, "When we find ourselves in a hole, we break out the steam-shovel and set course for the center of the earth." | |
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In an episode of The News Quiz a discussion of the Channel Tunnel (sponsored by Scottish Widows Insurance) moved on to the woman in the Scottish Widows adverts, who Bob Mills thought was Sean Connery's daughter. | |
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Ravirn: Ravirn has a tendency towards this, which Melchior lampshades in WebMage: | |
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More minor, yet still socially awkward occasions happen to Mr. Bingley in Pride & Prejudice (2005). | |
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Mumble in Happy Feet Two does this while trying to comfort his son, Erik. Gloria even lampshades it: | |
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In Kurugaya's route in Little Busters!, Kyousuke declares that the name of their mission is 'Love Love Hunters', and when Riki complains, changes it to 'Loli Loli Hunters'. Naturally, the others are a little...unnerved by this, but all of Kyousuke's hasty attempts to insist that he isn't actually a Lolicon only end up making him look worse. Finally, he gives up and declares that he'll be going on with Loli Loli Hunters on his own...right as Rin walks into the room. She proceeds to spend the entire rest of the scene glaring at him from across the room. Kyousuke is silent. | |
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In The Book of Life, Joaquin does this when trying to woo Maria, which annoys her, thus making her leave the dinner table and go to her room to talk to her pet pig, whom she regards as more civilized than Joaquin. | |
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Bioware must love these, because Merrill does this all the time in Dragon Age II, and she knows it. | |
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Dracula in Hotel Transylvania, after getting rid of the human Jonathan (whom he has disguised, for the monsters' benefit, as a third cousin of Frankenstein's right hand), is relaxing with his monster friends in a sauna. He mentions that he really wouldn't want his Cute Monster Girl daughter to end up with Jonathan's "kind". Cue Frank getting upset. Dracula tries to explain himself and points to Jonathan's red, curly hair. Cue Griffin The Invisible Man getting annoyed, only for Dracula to lampshade that he couldn't have possibly known what Griffin's hair looks like. After a cut, we see other monsters getting annoyed. | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Act IV, Scene IV gives us this gem: After De Guiche informs the cadets the Last Stand, Cyrano offers Christian the goodbye letter he has prepared for Roxane, whom Cyrano has implied he does not love. Christian sees a spot in the letter and asks Cyrano why he has wept a tear on the letter: | |
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In Frozen II, Kristoff's fumbling attempts to propose to Anna repeatedly result in him saying things that upset her more and more. | |
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