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A Dissimile is like when you eat a banana, but instead of peeling it, you compare it to another thing that isn't entirely like it. And instead of eating it, you deconstruct the comparison. Also, it doesn't necessarily have to be a banana, or any other kind of fruit, or even anything edible. Actually, it is nothing like eating a banana. Forget the banana. Let's try again. A Dissimile is when you attempt to make a comparison between two things that can't be usefully compared, realize your problem, and then throw more words at the argument in an attempt to salvage it. This just undermines your comparison even further, to the amusement of anyone listening. This can take several different forms: "This is just like X, only without (element{s} crucial to X, sometimes a Long List)." Variation: may include at least one dissimilar addition alongside the subtractions (see Jack Handey quote above) or consist entirely of them. Optional postscript: "Come to think of it, it's not like X at all." Or, sometimes, the opposite: "But other than that it's just like X!" "This is just like X! And by 'X', I mean, 'A'." Occasionally followed up by "And by 'A' I mean 'B'." ...and so on. May involve parallel replacements, as in "This is just like W X, and by 'W', I mean, 'A', and by 'X', I mean 'B'." "You know what X is like? That's exactly what this isn't like." Alternatively, "This is just like X, except not," or, "This is just like X, only different." Inverted Trope: "Besides, Y is nothing like X", where X and Y are pretty much exactly the same. Often used as a comedy trope, but it has been known to show up in dramatic situations as well. Usually, characters will use dissimiles to make themselves look like a smartass, or because they derive amusement from raising someone else's hopes and then quickly dashing them. It may also show up as part of a pattern of Buffy Speak. Compare The Other Wiki's article on this. Except it's not always played for laughs. And the person doesn't have to realize they've made a Dissimile. But aside from that, exactly like The Other Wiki's article. On the other hand, a Dissimile often has a lot of overlap with Metaphorgotten. Also compare with Analogy Backfire and Lies to Children. See also Talks Like a Simile and I Would Say If I Could Say. |
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From The Thick of It: | |
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Watchmen: "You know that kind of cancer you eventually get better from? That's not the type of cancer I have." | |
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From Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged The Movie: | |
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In Thud! one of the minor characters is Tawnee (real name Betty), a staggeringly beautiful but rather dim exotic dancer "on whom the name Betty stuck like rocks to a ceiling". | |
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On Clone High JFK talked using these all the time. | |
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In Misfile, Heaven is like Southern California, only without the traffic… or the smog… Or the sprawl… Another one: |
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The crew of Rocketship Voyager have never seen a holodeck before; the closest thing they have being a three-dimensional theatre called an Illusionarium, so Nee'Lix tries to explain what it is. | |
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Space Ghost does one on Space Ghost Coast to Coast. | |
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One episode of TaleSpin has Molly asking Wildcat to describe snow. He picks up a bowling ball and says "You see this? Well, it's nothing like that." | |
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In Track of the Moon Beast, we get the following delightful example while watching the local law enforcement: | |
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On That '70s Show, Eric accidentally ran over Donna's cat and didn't tell her right away, on the same episode Jackie found out Kelso was cheating on her with Laurie. Donna thought Eric's deception was as bad as Kelso's, Jackie was quick to point out that it wasn't. | |
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Cheers: Sam's extended metaphor on how Carla sleeping with Hill hurts him works relatively fine up until the last hurdle. | |
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: | |
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Dexter - After having spent the evening planning a murder with his new sidekick: | |
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On The Simpsons: Attorney Lionel Hutz has: Coupled with Not Helping Your Case, in "Cape Feare", while trying to figure out who has been sending threatening letters to Bart, Grandpa suggests to call in Matlock and let him find the culprit. In the episode "Bye Bye Nerdie", when Marge drag races with Otto's school bus: When Principal Skinner presents Lisa with a key to the study hall that she can use anytime he says, "it's like you're Harry Potter without the magic and wonder." Ned Flanders has a film to show the world without any way to get it out. He says that he is just like Michael Moore, except he's skinny, his jeans are washed, and God loves him. Marge encourages Bart to have fun with his history report noting that history is like an amusement park, except instead of rides, you have dates to memorize. |
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Dominic Deegan: "It's like the Bikta sanctuary, only smaller and without the killing." | |
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Stuart Ashen uses one in his Optical Media Laceration Extravaganza. | |
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MythBusters has a couple quotes, usually done for humor: | |
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In 1/0, Barnacle describes war as "Sort of like being friends. Only, it's completely different, and with more suffering." | |
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From the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2011 list: | |
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Mars Needs Moms: "Relax, it's just like a waterslide. Without the water! Or the slide." | |
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8-Bit Theater: Sarda gives us this nugget: "I sent him to a place like the beach. Only it was the moon." King Steve invented a kind of holiday, "like Halloween but with only one costume, the cornerian soldier and instead of trick and tricks, it's rape and murder". |
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Half-Life: Full Life Consequences: "Combines were robot things that weren't robots..." | |
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From a section of Cortex's monologue to Crash in Crash Twinsanity: | |
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When Principal Skinner presents Lisa with a key to the study hall that she can use anytime he says, "it's like you're Harry Potter without the magic and wonder." | |
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Paradise Lost uses this a lot as a way to emphasize how utterly beyond human comprehension the events are. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), Sonic's mentor Longclaw is described as being like Obi-Wan Kenobi, "if Obi-Wan had a beak and ate mice." | |
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Half-Life: Full Life Consequences describes the evil Combines as "robot things that weren't robots." | |
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Corner Gas: When Wanda is rejected for a credit card after being told she was pre-approved, Hank attempts to console her. | |
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In one strip of Dilbert, Dogbert describes time: "It's like a donut shot out of a cannon and spinning at the speed of light, only without the donut and the cannon." | |
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Freefall, on this page: "Why, we're like Batman and Robin. Well, if Batman and Robin were poor and engaged in petty crime." | |
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Space Cases: In the Personality Swap episode, android!Suzee says, "Don't worry. Inside, I am still the same Suzee... except, extremely different." | |
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Garfield - "Life is like a bird bath. It's made of concrete and birds like to splash around in it. Boy, that was dumb. Life isn't anything like a bird bath. Life... is like a sock monkey..." | |
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The View Askewniverse comic Chasing Dogma features Jay describing Pittsburgh thus: "Except for the hockey arena, the zillion fucking bridges, all the buildings, and a couple of rivers, this looks exactly like the tri-town, doesn't it?" | |
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Common in Discworld. In Thief of Time, Lobsang describes repairing history after the Glass Clock is activated as "Imagine a thousand invisible puzzle pieces scattered all throughout time and none of them fit together right. Got that? Okay, it's nothing like that, that was just a vague analogy that might give you an inkling." "No, but it's a lie you can understand," gets used occasionally. Ponder Stibbons' version is when he describes an analogy as being very helpful in getting people to understand complicated magic while being, in every meaningful sense, wrong. This quote from The Light Fantastic: Also in The Light Fantastic, it's noted that an ancient ruler outlawed simile and metaphors, and any writer or casual speaker not careful with his phrasing would rapidly find himself a good deal shorter. About a head's worth, really (so someone describing a woman as having a face that launched a thousand ships had better have empirical evidence that the object of desire did indeed resemble a wine bottle, or appropriate documentation from shipyards). Sourcery: In the Discworld spin-off books The Science of Discworld, the phrase "Lies to Children" is used to refer to analogies or descriptions that are completely wrong, but prepare the listener for the real truth. Soul Music takes the (real) simile that a guitar is shaped like a woman, and adds that this is a woman with a very long neck, no arms or legs, and six ears. In Guards! Guards!, the description of Where the Dragons Went is "It would put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly and proud and arrogant." There's another one in Guards! Guards! where the metaphor of the city being like a woman is shot down with 'You mean that she's big and dirty and got a river running through her?' In Thud! one of the minor characters is Tawnee (real name Betty), a staggeringly beautiful but rather dim exotic dancer "on whom the name Betty stuck like rocks to a ceiling". |
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Nextwave is like Shakespeare but with lots more punchin'. It's like Goethe but with lots more crushing. It's like Titanic but the boat's still floating. No it's not! The mother____ing boat is exploding! | |
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From Crash Course, "Progressive Presidents": | |
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Clerks: The Animated Series: Jay agrees with Dante asking him if Caitlyn is running a kissing booth for charity, "only it don't cost nothin' and it's not for charity. And there's no booth. And it's more than just kissing. And you don't have to be a guy. Dude, she's cheating on you." | |
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This quote from The Light Fantastic: | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. This page. | |
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The Daily Show: When news companies were discussing the BP oil spill, one newscaster described the plan to fix it something like "it's like conducting open-heart surgery, but underwater, in the dark, with submarines". Senior British Correspondent John Oliver became quite upset with grassroots movements comparing their struggle against the government to that of the Colonial Revolutionaries against the British Empire. After all, the British had been real bastards at the time; by comparison, the modern American government were a bunch of pansies. Lewis Black compared Glenn Beck's constant comparisons of people/things he doesn't like to Hitler and Nazi Germany to the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". Except there's only one degree and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Jon Stewart, by way of explaining the Jimmy Savile/BBC scandal to American viewers, noted that he hosted Jim'll Fix It, a show where he granted children's wishes. Savile was "like Santa Claus, only real, and a pedophile. So basically, nothing like Santa Claus." |
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In New Moon: | |
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New Moon | hasFeature |
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In Homestuck, Karkat, being an alien, has very little idea of human units of time: | |
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Homestuck (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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In 'Let's Drown Out Hexen: Beyond Heretic', Yahtzee and Gabriel noticed that the teleporter was different from their previous playthrough, which they were slightly amazed on that. | |
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Let's Drown Out (Lets Play) | hasFeature |
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Tycho gets one in a Penny Arcade strip where Gabe goes catatonic. Two in the same strip, in fact. |
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Penny Arcade (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Eggman's P.A messages in Sonic Colors are full of these whenever he tells visitors to enjoy something that's complimentary. | |
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Sonic Colors (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In the prequel of The Order of the Stick, Elan explains that the paladin he follows is about to clean a city of its villainy and scum like a huge handbrush. He then goes on explaining why a paladin isn't exactly like a handbrush. | |
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Elf: Another example: |
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Elf | hasFeature |
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In UHF, George tries to convince his friend Bob to help him run the UHF station he recently became manager of. | |
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UHF | hasFeature |
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In one episode Josh claims the scene he, Sam and Toby are currently in is similar to the one in The Godfather when Michael first proposes that he kill Sollozzo and McCluskey: "It's a lot like that scene, only not really." Then a minute later he decides it is like that scene after all. Nobody else really cares. | |
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The Godfather | hasFeature |
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Anebriate's answer to people who ask him what it's like being the "greatest warrior in the universe" in Tales of the Drunken Paladin: | |
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Sans explains Undertale's blue attacks, which are dodged by remaining motionless, by telling you that when you see a stop sign you stop, and since stop signs are red, you should imagine a blue stop sign. | |
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Undertale (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Schlock Mercenary: As well as: And for the hat trick (amidst many, many others): Running Gag, essentially. Even the Lemony Narrator gets in on it in this strip. |
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Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski points out that "There are, of course, a few obvious differences between Central Park and the universe..." | |
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The Killing Star | hasFeature |
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In Midtown Madness 3, each loading screen shows the race map and a caption. One caption says "It's like a square, only it's not." | |
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Midtown Madness (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In American Dad!, Roger describes a run-down bar as something to the effect of "filled with the most pathetic, miserable people on the Earth. It's like Applebee's, but with a bar. Oh, wait, Applebee's has a bar. It's like Applebee's.". | |
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American Dad! | hasFeature |
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From his review of Army of Two: "you get to wear funky skull masks like it's Halloween every day, except that it's you giving out the candy, and the candy is bullets." | |
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Army of Two (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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InCryptid: Discussed by Sarah when she's describing Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables from Another Dimension: | |
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InCryptid | hasFeature |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In his Top 11 Nostalgic Shows countdown, he says the Ghostbusters were like firefighters, "except instead of putting out fires, you were chasing ghosts." Or in his review of Drop Dead Fred concerning the titular character's performance: |
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The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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In the Cr@psule Monsters spinoff, when the gang is exploring some ruins and has to do some climbing Joey says "It's just like playing Tomb Raider, except it's actually fun!" | |
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Tomb Raider (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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The Cinema Snob counters the description of Lady Terminator, which says the movie is 'like Kill Bill, but with oodles of sex' with this: | |
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The Cinema Snob (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist: | |
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Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist | hasFeature |
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Dwarf Fortress: "Like chess, only with short people that can catch on fire like rags soaked in tar, and lots of booze." | |
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Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Skulduggery Pleasant, Skulduggery uses one when he first meets Stephanie. | |
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Skulduggery Pleasant | hasFeature |
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Monette's Thanksgiving grace in Something*Positive: "Please watch over us the next year and let us form long-lasting friendships like the one shared between the pilgrims and the Indians. But without the smallpox and eventual betrayal." | |
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Something*Positive (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Words of Radiance (second book of The Stormlight Archive): Shallan's attempts to describe Pattern often fall flat. | |
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Words of Radiance | hasFeature |
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On the character page for Shadow of the Colossus, Malus is described as being "similar to a lighthouse. What with its seaside location, glowing bangles and probably being able to sink an entire fleet of ships." | |
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Shadow of the Colossus (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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His review of Batman: Arkham City when describing Catwoman's abilities: "Mainly she plays like Batman making use of a few pole dancing lessons in her own combat and stealth sections, although she can cling to ceilings as well, just like real cat (that's been bitten by a radioactive spider)." | |
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Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, explaining darts to Worf (who would commonly play poker during his time on the Enterprise). "It's like poker, with pointed tips." | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
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Quoth Mack, in The Automatic Detective, it was just like the scene in the movies: "some dumb mug finds himself sitting in a tiny room with a cop standing over him, reading him the riot act. That's pretty much what happened to me." Except, he clarifies, he was standing, the room was quite large, and the cop was sitting and smoking a cigarette. But other than that, exactly like the scene in the movies. | |
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The Automatic Detective | hasFeature |
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In Wraith Squadron, Former Child Star Face Lorran talks about how, after acting in a very successful propagandist holodrama, he was taken to meet the Emperor, but the Emperor wasn't available, so he was instead taken to meet Madame Director Ysanne Isard, who sat him in her lap and told him what a good boy he was. He said it was | |
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X-Wing Series | hasFeature |
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Band of Brothers does this in second to last episode, "Why we fight", while the men are on patrol in the woods. | |
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Band of Brothers | hasFeature |
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Rumors of War example from Chapter 3: "The simplest explanation is often the most correct, maybe she is simply the twins' sister? Her mother could be different. And her father." | |
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Rumors of War (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Mass Effect 3: in the Citadel DLC, Wrex informs us that krogan dancing involves more headbutts. And blood. And no actual dancing. So basically, it's just like every other krogan hobby. | |
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Mass Effect 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Thief of Time, Lobsang describes repairing history after the Glass Clock is activated as "Imagine a thousand invisible puzzle pieces scattered all throughout time and none of them fit together right. Got that? Okay, it's nothing like that, that was just a vague analogy that might give you an inkling." | |
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Thief of Time | hasFeature |
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Seinfeld broke up with his girlfriend of the week: | |
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Seinfeld | hasFeature |
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On The Colbert Report, curling is described to be like horseshoes, but your horse died and you're trying to get over your sorrow by playing curling. | |
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The Colbert Report | hasFeature |
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In Phineas and Ferb: Dr. Doofenshmirtz occasionally says something along the lines of, "Ah, Perry the Platypus. How un-X/not X it is to see you. And by un-X/not-X, I mean completely X!" Candace does this quite a bit in the Christmas Episode. In "That Sinking Feeling", Candace expresses a wish that Jeremy was more romantic: "Like Romeo and Juliet romantic, but without all the dying." In "Cheer Up, Candace", Doofenshmirtz introduces his army of evil robot duplicates of Perry with the following: |
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Phineas and Ferb | hasFeature |
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In Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged, Reeve unsuccessfully tries to talk President Shinra out of dropping the Sector 7 plate in an attempt to kill AVALANCHE. | |
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Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Gunnerkrigg Court. After introducing a large artificial habitat room, containing a grassy field with a large cherry tree, the author notes below the page: | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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In the first issue of Simpsons Comics, Burns contemplates becoming a giant and says, "I'll be like the Jolly Green Giant, only not green, and not jolly!� | |
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The Simpsons (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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In "That Sinking Feeling", Candace expresses a wish that Jeremy was more romantic: "Like Romeo and Juliet romantic, but without all the dying." | |
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Romeo and Juliet (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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A partial example in a 1994 Batman comic book, when three punks are confronting Batman. Their leader points his gun and brags that in just a few seconds, Batman will look "like a plate of spilled Spaghetti-O's!" And then, after an awkward pause: " - without the plate!" | |
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Batman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Book of Imaginary Beings: The goofang is described as being about the size of a sunfish, only much bigger. | |
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In The Reckoners Trilogy David has a tendency to come up with his own unique comparisons, both in conversation and internal narrative. When he says them out loud people sometimes demand he explain what on earth he's going on about, and they generally have a kind of weird logic to them (he's a "brick made of porridge" because he's putting up a front of being strong, but he's worried that when it comes to it he'll fail, like a brick that looks useable but collapses when place with other bricks, and then the porridge mixes in with the mortar), but ones he mentions internally are left to stand there as a mystery, such as "laser through a pile of sheep". | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya once commented in a Haruhi-chan short that playing tug of war with Kyon reminded her of the times when two women who claimed to have the same baby would tug on the child as a test. However, while the "winner" of that game would have to let go of the baby, instead of pulling it as hard as she can, Haruhi intended to win by holding onto Kyon. Kyon then commented that the difference Haruhi pointed out renders her speech pointless. | |
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Early on in Cassette Beasts, Kayleigh says transforming for the first time is like learning to ride a bike, except instead of a bike there's a monster, and you're the bike. | |
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In Monsters vs. Aliens, General W.R. Monger tries to calm Ginormica by comparing her cell with a hotel... that she can't leave because the doors are locked. So... not a hotel then. | |
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Flaky Pastry: In the Alt Text for this page, after Mona cuts off Zintiel's hair, which, being animate, then turns on her: | |
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¡Three Amigos! has Lucky's speech to the villagers of Santo Poco: | |
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Van, in Reba is excited about he and his now-wife Cheyenne getting to go out with their old high school gang on Friday night. | |
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Reba | hasFeature |
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Red vs. Blue: Everyone other than Caboose does this. | |
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Kim Possible: When a pair of movie stars hang out with Kim and Ron, Kim's parents have this classic exchange: |
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As Pokey the Penguin once said, chess "IS LIKE BALLET ONLY WITH MORE EXPLOSIONS!" | |
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Philomena Cunk delivers on in Cunk On Britain which actually comes full circle back to the original item: | |
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Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is riddled with them. | |
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Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography | hasFeature |
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This notice from Tlf Travel Alerts: | |
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Tlf Travel Alerts (Website) | hasFeature |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 is also fond of these, usually something to the effect of: "Many people compare this scene to the chariot race in Ben-Hur. They'll say, 'Ben Hur was a great film. This film totally sucks.'" In Track of the Moon Beast, we get the following delightful example while watching the local law enforcement: When one movie shows the hero being tailed by a private helicopter. |
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In Cars, Mater talks about an old girlfriend called Doreen, who "looked just like a Jaguar, 'cept she was a truck." (A bit of Actor Allusion, as Larry the Cable Guy would make similar comparisons on his stand-up. See Stand-Up Comedy below.) | |
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Cars | hasFeature |
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He describes "Wall E and EVE having to fight the big, bad ship" as "kind of like Titanic, except it has nothing to do with it." | |
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WALL•E | hasFeature |
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The Boondocks does this when Riley is attempting to cheer up Thugnificent by complimenting his music. | |
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Inverted by David Quantick on The Now Show, when he has to admit the simile is closer than he initially indicated: | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: "This is just like what the Greeks done at Troy,... only they was in a horse instead of dresses." | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | hasFeature |
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From I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC, "Wolverine & The Comedian": | |
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I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Jeeves and Wooster: Elsewhere in P. G. Wodehouse: |
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Jeeves and Wooster | hasFeature |
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In Tintin: Explorers on the Moon, when Captain Haddock is explained by Prof. Calculus how the Moon Rocket will turn around before landing, he ends up concluding that "It is exactly like during take off, except that it is the complete opposite". | |
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Tintin (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Half-used, half-subverted on The West Wing when Donna opines that "a dry wit, like a fine martini, is best enjoyed..." and then realizes she's got nothing. Another time Josh asked therapist Stanley Keyworth why his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder worked the way it did (music, inexplicably, made him relive getting shot). In one episode Josh claims the scene he, Sam and Toby are currently in is similar to the one in The Godfather when Michael first proposes that he kill Sollozzo and McCluskey: "It's a lot like that scene, only not really." Then a minute later he decides it is like that scene after all. Nobody else really cares. |
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The West Wing | hasFeature |
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Bum Reviews: Chester A. Bum has a few. He describes "Wall E and EVE having to fight the big, bad ship" as "kind of like Titanic, except it has nothing to do with it." Also done in his review on Twilight |
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Bum Reviews (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Gex 3: "This city's a jungle, but a square one with no plants!" | |
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Gex (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Kerbal Space Program, the description for Eve (a planet similar to Venus) goes like this: | |
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Thirty Hs: "Harry slammed his book shut. It wasn't really a book, because the pages were made of lasers and the words were made of headless women making godless love to dragons made of motorcycles, but it was still reading." | |
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In his Top 11 Nostalgic Shows countdown, he says the Ghostbusters were like firefighters, "except instead of putting out fires, you were chasing ghosts." | |
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Ghostbusters (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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This gem from Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen: "Jasper Cullen was tall with blond curly hair like straw only soft and nice and not dry." | |
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Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
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From the flavor text on the Magic: The Gathering card Tin-Street Hooligan: "Rauck-Chauv's like a holiday! Only it isn't on the calendars, and instead of dancing you knock people flat, and instead of giving gifts you break stuff." "Razorfoot Griffin's" flavor text reads: "Like a meteor, it strikes from above without warning. Unlike a meteor, it then carries you off and eats you." |
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Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, HK-47 tries to elucidate his consternation at the existence of his evil(er) knock-offs by comparing his situation to that of the Exile. The result is a cross between this and Metaphorgotten, and, as might be expected, it's hilarious. He draws a number of other comparisons between his vocation of assassination and the practices of various factions in the game; whether you find these similarities convincing will depend largely on whether you share the game's own cynicism about the Star Wars universe and its heroes. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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VG Cats: "It's like a free sub! Only it's buttsex!" | |
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VG Cats (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Or in his review of Drop Dead Fred concerning the titular character's performance: | |
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Drop Dead Fred | hasFeature |
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During an arc in FoxTrot where Roger tries to write a spy novel, his main character is described as doing something with "the cat-like agility his name would imply, if foxes were cats"; the narrator then goes on a tangent about how said main character naturally knows the difference, given his Ph.D. in zoology (and six dozen other disciplines). | |
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FoxTrot (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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In a Robot Chicken parody of Care Bears "Bedtime Bear" delivers the line, "You all know what time it is, it's bed-time; and by bed, I mean 'ethnic', and by time, I mean 'cleansing'." | |
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Robot Chicken | hasFeature |
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The Muppets Take Manhattan: | |
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The Muppets Take Manhattan | hasFeature |
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Zits: Pierce says his family life "is like a symphony. But there aren't any musical instruments, and the musicians just yell at each other." In another, he (white) compares his black girlfriend D'ijon's skin to brushed mahogany. "But not hard like mahogany. Like that skin that forms on caramel pudding when you leave it out for a week." She's not amused. |
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This conversation from Le cœur a ses raisons : | |
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Le cœur a ses raisons | hasFeature |
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The instructions for Crystal Crazy describe black holes as: "Rifts in the space-time continuum that instantly transport you from one place to another. Actually the time bit isn't really correct. Neither is the continuum bit. Or the rift. But it sounded good." | |
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Crystal Quest (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In The Jerk, Navin describes his girlfriend in a letter to his mom. "She looks just like you, Mom, only she's thin and white." | |
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The Jerk | hasFeature |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has quite a few of these. Perhaps the most famous is: "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." Another contender is the description of the Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer's output as "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea". This might be one of the few rare cases where the dissimile is understandable, since Arthur had asked for tea. Another example would be Ford Prefect's explanation of the origin of the universe, describing a situation where one would fill a conical ebony bathtub with sand, pull the plug and film the sand falling down the drain, then watching this film in reverse... which, he then states, has nothing at all to do with the origin of the universe, but is really fun to watch. Of course, he was blind-drunk during the telling of this. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | hasFeature |
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In Basic Instructions: "So it's like American Chopper except that it's different in every way." | |
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Basic Instructions (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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From Down Periscope: | |
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Down Periscope | hasFeature |
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Whiplash, a game featuring you playing as a weasel chained to a rabbit whom you use as a mace despite his pained protests occasionally has the rabbit moan "Hey, this is just like water skiing. Except it's on concrete, I'm flat on my back and it's REALLY PAINFUL". | |
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Whiplash (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Shatterheart: When Syaoran looks at the mannequins in the clothing store. | |
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Shatterheart / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
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Doctor Who: This happens to the Doctor a lot, usually when trying to convey concepts far beyond their companions' understanding. The BBC's original introduction to "The Next Doctor" asked viewers to think of the perfect Victorian Christmas... but with Cybermen. "The End of Time": When the Doctor attempts to explain the nature of a Time Lock: The Eleventh Doctor, in particular, is prone to this, along with sister trope Metaphorgotten: "The Time of Angels": "The Vampires of Venice": In "The Pandorica Opens" while explaining what the Cybermen do to people. "It's just like being an organ donor, except you're alive and sort of...screaming." In "A Christmas Carol", when trying to convince Young Kazran that he's an appropriate "babysitter": And again in the 2011 Comic Relief short "Space". Twice in "The Curse of the Black Spot": While trying to describe the monster of the week, and explaining how the spaceship and the pirate ship can be in the same place. By "The Doctor's Wife", he's stopped even feeling bad about it. He actually manages to exploit the trope in "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS". Let's face it, it's Eleven's new catchphrase. In the Eleventh Doctor novel Touched by an Angel, the Doctor says the Weeping Angels are attracted to Mark like a moth to a flame, and is then shocked to realise that this makes sense. "My analogies never make sense! I must write it down. Rory, write it down for me!" "The Woman Who Fell to Earth": The Doctor describes the sonic screwdriver: |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series episode 4: And also, "Ever since your voice changed, you've been like a totally different person! Well, actually, you've been like the same person, just with a totally different voice, but you know what I mean!" "That's Kaiba's Duel Dome! You know, in my day, we didn't have Duel Domes. We had to play our card games out on the street. And our cards weren't even real cards! They were just rocks that we picked up off the ground. And then we threw them at each other! Come to think of it, it wasn't really card games at all. We just liked to throw rocks at each other—mostly at me. That's probably why I have so much self-loathing. (beat) Anyway, we should probably go over there." "Just remember: you treat a Duel Disk just like a woman. You fasten it to your arm, and place trading cards inside it at regular intervals." In the Cr@psule Monsters spinoff, when the gang is exploring some ruins and has to do some climbing Joey says "It's just like playing Tomb Raider, except it's actually fun!" |
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Pratchett is very fond of this one. Nation has one man describing a horse thusly: | |
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In Face/Off, Sean Archer while wearing Castor Troy's face is in a prison when in comes Castor Troy wearing Archer's face and suit, and he quips "It's like looking in a mirror, only... not." | |
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In Criminal Minds episode "Neon Terror", the team looks into a suspect and Garcia confirms he isn't their UnSub: | |
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Sourcery: | |
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Dumbing of Age here: | |
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From The Comics Curmudgeon, here: | |
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From String Theory (2009), a talking cat compares his new owner to his prior one: | |
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A minor running gag in QI: sometimes when Stephen Fry goes off on a tangent, he'll end the tangent by using a word to describe something. | |
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His review of Rise of the Triad actually had a dissimile which, in a bit of a Mind Screw fashion, still managed to serve as a perfectly cogent simile: "Like a man with both hands trapped in a gumball machine, (the game) was absolutely fuck-all to do with triads". | |
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In Lost Pig, Grunk the orc describes an underground chamber lit by "mossfuressence": | |
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In The Other Guys, Allen tells Terry how he met his wife and adds that it's like that Meg Ryan movie. Terry can't think of any movies where Meg Ryan met a guy with poison ivy on his rectum. Later, Allen and his wife remember the movie: You've Got Mail, and both are certain that Tom Hanks had poison ivy in it. | |
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Jeremy Clarkson has been known to use them on Top Gear. | |
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In Deadpool (2016), Wade's explanation of his relationship with Al. | |
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In the Discworld spin-off books The Science of Discworld, the phrase "Lies to Children" is used to refer to analogies or descriptions that are completely wrong, but prepare the listener for the real truth. | |
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From Adam Schwartze's Mega Man 8 playthrough, with guest star warriorxero: | |
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Tales of MU narrator Mackenzie Blaise has strayed into these. | |
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Soul Music takes the (real) simile that a guitar is shaped like a woman, and adds that this is a woman with a very long neck, no arms or legs, and six ears. | |
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Misha from Mercenaries 2 has this to say about dropping guided bombs: | |
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In Rugrats Go Wild! when a wave of water crashes onto the boat, Phil says "This is just like bath time..except there's no duckie, and I'm not nakie." Then an actual duck shows up and the babies proceed to "get nakie" by removing their diapers. | |
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From the Freelance Astronauts' SimCity LP. | |
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In the Strawberry Shortcake Berryfest Princess Movie, Orange Blossom's campaign speech includes, "And if you vote for me for Berryfest Princess, you'll be voting for yourself! Well, actually not yourself, but me. But you know what I mean." | |
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The following conversation in Dragon Age II: Merrill's good at these. She comments that Anders's coat (with its odd fur pauldron) is "cheerful, like a crow in anting." He replies "Thank you...?" and the player is just as puzzled as he is about whether she meant it sarcastically or as a genuine compliment. |
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Lampshaded in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: | |
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Bubs from Homestar Runner email virus, after shooting Strong Bad's computer with a shotgun: "It's in a better place, Strong Bad. Or rather, it's in the same place, but now it's got a big hole through it." | |
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In Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Xander talks tacks about selling chocolate to support for the school's band, but loses focus as Willow's foot creeps up his shin. | |
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Used once in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, when Yue gives Negi "hot cola". | |
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From Firefly: | |
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Family Guy: When Peter was thought to be lost at sea, Lois married Brian. After coming home and discovering the change, Chris remarked "This is like that sitcom where there's two dads, except no one's laughing. No, wait, it's the same." "It's kind of like Bang the Drum Slowly, except the drum's a chick." In the episode where Peter and Brian win a tour of the Pawtucket Brewery, Peter says, "It's like I died and went to Heaven. But then they realized that it wasn't my time, and so they sent me back to a brewery." This exchange from "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking On Air": |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: At one point when Ryder reactivates some technology, which naturally also reactivates the local trigger-happy security drones, they're informed by Suvi that everything's "lit up like Mardi Gras". Teammate Peebee angrily retorts thus: | |
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Zero Punctuation: Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw likes to litter these around every once in a while, such as in his opening phrase for his review on The Witcher: His review of Rise of the Triad actually had a dissimile which, in a bit of a Mind Screw fashion, still managed to serve as a perfectly cogent simile: "Like a man with both hands trapped in a gumball machine, (the game) was absolutely fuck-all to do with triads". From his review of Army of Two: "you get to wear funky skull masks like it's Halloween every day, except that it's you giving out the candy, and the candy is bullets." His review of Batman: Arkham City when describing Catwoman's abilities: "Mainly she plays like Batman making use of a few pole dancing lessons in her own combat and stealth sections, although she can cling to ceilings as well, just like real cat (that's been bitten by a radioactive spider)." |
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In one Interview Sketch on John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Patsy Straightwoman is interviewing Professor Craven, a scientist who has no idea how to simplify his ideas for a lay audience. When she prompts him that sometimes scientists use analogies, we get this: One end-of-episode tag has Margaret Caborn-Smith close it off by saying "John Finnemore will return, like James Bond... except in every possible way." |
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In A Dance with Dragons, the 5th book of A Song of Ice and Fire, Tyron Lannister describes his much-despised sister Queen Cersei Lannister to her enemies as being "as gentle as King Maegor" (known justifiably as "The Cruel"), "as selfless as Aegon the Unworthy" (a foolish, cruel, greedy, gluttonous, and lecherous king who was once theorised to be actively trying to be the worst ruler he possibly could), and "as wise as Mad Aerys" (the insane pyromaniac who brought about the fall of his entire dynasty). | |
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In the first episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted chickens out of dating a local news reporter. Then, when he sees her reporting on a guy who was about to jump off a building, but also chickened out, Ted gets his courage back and says: | |
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In one episode of Yam Roll, the main character starts off a story with, "It was on a day just like today...except, snowing. And...night. And a Tuesday." | |
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Kingdom of Loathing: In the description for the Queen Filthworm: And from the description of sangria: And the description for a ring setting combines this with Waxing Lyrical: And this, from the effect soul freeze: And when you consume Crystal skeleton vodka, you get this: One of the Slime's attacks is described thusly: |
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A Voice Among the Strangers: In A Stranger Among the Voices, when Twilight looks at Jessica's x-ray, she briefly compares it to a diamond dog's before deciding it looks nothing like one. | |
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Literally note Not literally everywhere throughout More Information Than You Require. | |
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From Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure: "The Mane Six – minus Twillight Sparkle who was with Doctor Whoowes and Rainbow Dash who was in a prison and Fluttershy who is useless – still fought against the guards." | |
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On I Love Lucy, the way Ethel described poker to Lucy: "It's a lot like hearts, only you bet, and there isn't any old maid." | |
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When Peter was thought to be lost at sea, Lois married Brian. After coming home and discovering the change, Chris remarked "This is like that sitcom where there's two dads, except no one's laughing. No, wait, it's the same." | |
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Fruit Incest gave us the following: | |
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In Friends: Chandler describes Joey's latest date: When Ross is talking about how messy his date's apartment was: "You know how at the end of the day, you throw your jacket on a chair? Well, instead of a chair, it's a pile of garbage. And instead of a jacket, it's a pile of garbage. And instead of the end of the day, it's the end of time itself and garbage is all that has survived." |
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According to Toothpaste For Dinner, Kids are like dogs. "A dog that says it hates macaroni four minutes after asking for macaroni." | |
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"It's kind of like Bang the Drum Slowly, except the drum's a chick." | |
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Stuart Little 2: | |
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The Last Starfighter After the alien Grig describes his home as a cave, Alex tries to describe his home. | |
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The commentary tracks for some of the Saw movies' home video releases involve a Running Gag among the crew, wherein when someone describes something that isn't true or foolishly naive, they'll remark "That's a great idea. If by 'great', you mean 'the stupidest fucking thing ever', then yeah, it's 'great'.", or some variation thereof. | |
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There's another one in Guards! Guards! where the metaphor of the city being like a woman is shot down with 'You mean that she's big and dirty and got a river running through her?' | |
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Australia You're Standing In It: Two Aussie outback-types struggle to complete a simile for "dry as a...". One suggests "glass of water". He gets a look of disbelief from his mate, and amends it to "an empty glass". | |
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