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Expospeak Gag
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A joke based on describing something mundane using such technical language that it takes the audience a while to work out what's being talked about (though a Translator Buddy usually catches it right away). Mostly limited to Speculative Fiction, where it can be seamlessly slotted into the standard Expospeak, but occasionally turns up in other genres, especially when the characters are meant to be especially intelligent or academic, such as scientists or doctors. Sometimes used as a form of Unusual Euphemism (see Technical Euphemism) or to facilitate an Oops... I Did It Again plot where someone assumes the technical explanation refers to something much more serious than it really does. Can be used to implement a Tomato Surprise, ("Their only weakness is dihydrogen monoxide!") or serve as a MacGuffin as the hero engages in an Evidence Scavenger Hunt to work out what the Expospeak really means. (For example, the hero is told that the Monster of the Week is a "lycanthrope", and then has to spend the next few scenes doing research to discover that "lycanthrope" is another word for "werewolf.") This second variety is dangerous, as you often run the risk of making the hero look like a complete moron if the Expospeak isn't impenetrable enough. The number one all-time most common Expospeak Gag is, "He suggested that you perform an anatomically impossible act." Compare with Description Porn and Non-Poetic Mauve Text Reflective Of Electromagnetic Waves Measuring Between Three Hundred Eighty And Four Hundred Twenty Nanometers. See also Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, Sophisticated as Hell, Layman's Terms, Blunt Metaphors Trauma, Narrative Profanity Filter, Spock Speak, Techno Babble, Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp", Antidisestablishmentarianism, Scary Science Words. Buffy Speak is the opposite. If a character forces someone else to expospeak, that's Insistent Terminology. A subtrope of Bathos. |
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Kowalski from The Penguins of Madagascar does this constantly, usually followed by Skipper saying "In English Please?" | |
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An episode of Now and Again has the protagonist's widow (It Makes Sense in Context) try to get a job. As she's working on her resume, her daughter points out that listing part-time jobs like "waitress" doesn't look good. Instead, she uses fancy terms that make the position seem more important. However, when she goes to her first interview, the employer, a wizened middle-aged woman, sees right through the flowery language. She doesn't hire her, but she explains her own life story and how she started her now-successful business. | |
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Blasto, the first hanar Spectre, does not have time for your solid waste excretions. He also has forgotten whether his heat sink is over capacity, and wonders if the criminal scum considers itself fortunate. | |
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At the beginning of episode 16a of Jewelpet Sunshine, everyone is in class feeling hot because of the summer weather. Sapphie, the smart girl of the otherwise delinquent-filled Plum Class, says this: | |
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The Colour of Magic, the Earth counterpart of one of the characters is described as "a specialist in the breakaway oxidation phenomena of certain nuclear reactors" (i.e. uncontrolled fires in nuclear reactors). Terry Pratchett worked in a nuclear plant before he became a Famous Author. | |
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In Reaper Man, the head of the Guild of Alchemists insists that they're not behind the mysterious poltergeist activity plaguing Ankh-Morpork; anything that goes flying when they're around is due to "unforeseen exothermic reactions", or in Layman's Terms "things keep blowing up". | |
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The Youtube Poop trend sometimes called the "Verbose Meme" is heavily based on this. Essentially, a popular video clip is "translated" into Expospeak, Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness and dashed with Antiquated Linguistics and passed off as the "posh," "upper-class" or "old-time" version. Needless to say, it often takes ludicrous levels. One notable example: Translation: Oh, man! |
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MS Paint Adventures is chock full of exotic terms for usually mundane things. And in Homestuck, the trolls are particularly loquacious about it. In fact, using these for everyday objects is what differs low-caste speech from high-caste speech. Perhaps the most beloved example: Kanaya refers to exclamation marks, question marks, and periods as "shout poles", "surprise noodles", and "finish crumbs" respectively. Karkat later calls quotation marks "enclosure talons". |
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In Avengers: Age of Ultron, after Maria Hill confusingly describes the Twins' abilities as 'increased metabolism and improved thermal homeostasis' and 'neuro-electric interfacing, telekinesis and mental manipulation' to Steve, she simplifies her brief drastically. | |
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Better Off Ted: Veronica is late for a meeting because she was working on the "dough-based projectile ventilation targeting system". Translation: she was competing against Linda to see who could throw more bagels into the air vent. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: In the episode "In a Mirror, Darkly", Hoshi translates a Tholian's protests as "Something about your maternal ancestor." | |
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The medically alarming term "idiopathic" just means "We have no idea what caused this." As House puts it: | |
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Howard the Duck features a pizza being described as "It's a circular Italian food object." | |
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In the lonelygirl15 episode "Mission Alpha", Spencer explains why he has never exercised before: "I actually can't because I have a condition called nociception, which can be exacerbated by a build-up of lactic acid." Nociception is the ability to feel pain, while lactic acid is generated in normal exercise and simply causes mild discomfort. | |
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The Simpsons: "Homer's Triple Bypass" 1: "Homer's Triple Bypass" 2: In "Old Money", Grampa doesn't realize he does it (he means it figuratively but the literal interpretation is also true): The title of a Professor Frink-centric Valentines Day episode is one of these. "Love Is in the Nâ‚‚-Oâ‚‚-Ar-COâ‚‚-Ne-He-CHâ‚„". There's an even more extended version regarding episode titles. Homer's "D'oh!" is written in the scripts as "Annoyed Grunt", hence four episodes with "D'oh"-related Pun-Based Title have that fully spelled out: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt), "I, (Annoyed Grunt)bot" and "G.I.(Annoyed Grunt)". |
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In John R. Erickson's Hank the Cowdog series, the titular canine narrator is given to describing his sensory organs as though they were sophisticated machinery: | |
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Eureka does this a lot, but one of the funniest examples comes not from the scientists, but from Vincent, the Cafe Diem owner/chef, at Holly's wake: | |
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The same joke was later used in a Doctor Who spoof on Extras, where the Tenth Doctor defeats a ridiculous slug-like creature by throwing "sodium chloride" at it after spouting off lines of obvious expospeak. | |
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On an episode of MythBusters where they were going to light one million match heads at once, they brought in a bomb technician. When they asked him what they should do if it goes off early, he says to "De-ass the area with the quickness." They would use that phrase again in future episodes. |
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, Signum, an artificial Human Alien, does this in the third Sound Stage when she finds some of the cast trying to get Fate to sing on "that music terminal and microphone connected Device". | |
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In the Scottish sketch show Chewin' the Fat, there's a famous sketch where a surgeon is describing with eloquent Expo Speak what happened to a patient who was shot. Each time, he's called out on it by the nurses who go "Ooooh!" patronisingly and make a certain hand gesture (which has undergone Memetic Mutation in Scotland) to show their disdain for pretentious wank. When his last sentence describes how the bullet ended up in the patient's "tummy", they're a bit disappointed. | |
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In Yuyushiki, when Ditzy Genius Yuzuko found out water can be called "oxidane," she made up lines like "pour oxidane on dumplings, then cover," in which both Yui and Yukari found to be scarier than it should be. | |
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Adventures in Odyssey- There's extra humor here because normally Eugene is causing this trope with even more complicated language (with such gems as "Greetings and felicitations." ["Hello."] and "Attention! Our quarry is on the approach! I believe it would behoove us to seclude ourselves posthaste!" ["Hey! Here they come! Hide!"]); he's only confused here because normally people don't come out of the Imagination Station. |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Donatello distracts a Kraang with one of these. It works because not only is it an insult, but because he's also speaking the same way the Kraang normally do. | |
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In Back to the Future, Dr. Emmett Brown sees a poster for the school dance and tells Marty there's a "rhythmic ceremonial ritual" coming up. | |
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In Justice League: | |
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Lyrical Nanoha In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, Signum, an artificial Human Alien, does this in the third Sound Stage when she finds some of the cast trying to get Fate to sing on "that music terminal and microphone connected Device". Also, in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS supplementary manga, Cinque calls bathing "sanitary maintenance". |
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The Coneheads from Coneheads This exchange: Reversed the gag in this example: |
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Wondermark strip #826; In which Power is fleeting, with extra Serious Business on top. | |
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In an episode of Roseanne, when Nancy introduces her new girlfriend, the following exchange occurs. | |
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As in other series which blur the line between fantasy and science fiction, Steven Brust includes coded references to modern things in the seemingly Renaissance-y Dragaera universe. In one memorable instance, there is a reference to characters eating "the house bread" with some kind of fish spread. In modern terms, this is bagels and lox cream cheese. | |
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Batman Begins. After Lucius Fox finishes explaining exactly how he derived the antidote for Crane's fear toxin: | |
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Used occasionally by Frylock in Aqua Teen Hunger Force when describing his latest invention or plan: | |
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Humanx Commonwealth: Alan Dean Foster's early work in this series is noted for Purple Prose, including characters who speak in elaborately technical terms as a kind of Verbal Tic. Sometimes it's also a one-off gag, as in Bloodhype, when Mal Hammurabi describes the well-deserved spanking he's about to give to Kitten Kai-Sung as "eleemosynary chastisement", by way of demonstrating to her that he is not as dumb as his size and looks would indicate. | |
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The Shadow movie, set in the 1930s: | |
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In Step by Step, Spock tells McCoy that "[the ship] needed to be unable to receive any further communications" from the admiralty before he could get Kirk off the bridge. Kirk asks him if he means that "You and Scotty sabotaged the comm system so [the admiral] won't realize [he's] not up there." | |
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Things I Am Not Allowed to Do at the PPC: Sweeping one's partner into "a passionate osculation"note i.e. a kiss if they don't want you to do that isn't allowed. Trawling through the dictionary just to find obscure words to confuse people with is allowed, but people won't like you for doing so. | |
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In Dilbert, Wally always does that. For example, transferring hundred of thousands of bytes to an auxiliary support (he copied a file on a floppy disk). He even suggested to assign him the task of testing the internet connection using high-requested servers (he intended to make watching porn his job!). Scott Adams actually advises managers lacking inspiration to do so in The Dilbert Principle. |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin using "educated language" for a book report. The 10th Anniversary book had Watterson openly comment on how he hates this type of thing when used seriously. |
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Although not the smartest of characters, Bloo pulls it off in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Adoptcalypse Now": | |
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The Dresden Files has Harry describing a plant monster in narration as a "chlorofiend" because he feels silly saying "plant monster". It doesn't work, as he eventually has to use "plant monster" when everyone else wonders what a "chlorofiend" is. | |
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Many of the SCP Foundation's joke articles run on this trope, since the entire point of the wiki is to make up supernatural anomalies and attempt to describe them in a clinical sense. To avoid Don't Explain the Joke (the trope of which coincidentally has its own article on the SCP wiki), the examples here will be blotted out save for their links: SCP-089 uses this in a serious manner. You have to read through paragraphs of dry scientific jargon before you get to the part about how containment requires a mother to willingly burn her young child on an altar. SCP-328 is a strange data storage device that contains a document which when decoded appears to be a description of a human-manufactured laptop computer seen from the perspective of aliens with very alien biology, such that some of them were killed by just the light given of by the laptop's screen. SCP-2700-EX, breast cancer, albeit slightly exaggerated in order to be classified as anomalous. Played for Drama. SCP-001-EX-J, which is breaking the rule a bit since it was supposedly written by cavemen. It's fire. SCP-042-J, the optical illusion when you close one eye and what you see moves slightly to the left or right. The phenomenon is blamed on pillows. It Makes Sense in Context. SCP-078-J. Namely, cooties. SCP-123-J, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!-brand butter substitute. SCP-666½-J, A crab-stuffed mushroom entrée that gave everybody that ate it the worst diarrhea you could imagine. The exact sequence of symptoms that it causes are described in hilariously over-the-top expo speak as multiple localized apocalypses happening in the victim's digestive system. SCP-727-J, the sun. SCP-1960-J, the moon. (No relation.) SCP-800-J, any sport that is not American football. SCP-885-J, titled Researcher Jacobs' Inability To Clean Up After Himself. SCP-1040-J, terrible everyday driving habits that lead to accidents. SCP-1344-J, the Kool-Aid man. SCP-1938-J, a Foundation researcher that always clicks spam emails. SCP-2008-J, a sports mascot. SCP-2412-J, Santa Claus, his sack of presents, and all nine of his reindeer, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. SCP-3467-J, a six-foot-tall janitor that likes chicken served in a bucket. Thus, it is referred to as a Man-Eating-Chicken. SCP-4055-J, opossoms. SCP-5200-J, mild rebellious behavior within kids. SCP-5280-J, non-metric measuring systems. SCP-DEALS-J, an ad campaign for a used car dealership. |
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty features a one-off Protoss character named Karass. One of his Stop Poking Me! quotes is this little gem... | |
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King of the Hill: In "De-Kahnstructing Henry", after Kahn gets fired from his job, he tells Hank he's gotten a new job in the "reprographics imaging industry". We then cut to Kahn working at a photocopying store. | |
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A popular phrase in Britain (it's used by Fred Colon in the Discworld novel Men at Arms) is "extracting the urine"; a way of saying "taking the piss" without, well, actually saying "taking the piss". Another British example: as an expression of surprise, "seduce my antique footware!" instead of "fuck my old boots!" Similarly, "are you taking the clear golden liquid?/making off with the Michael?", (which may make more sense to non-Britons if you know that "taking the mickey" is a more polite of saying "taking the piss" *"micturation" being itself an example of this trope, meaning piss) and "Robert's the avuncular figure in your life!" (or individual variants of it) are fairly common ways of expressing surprise or satisfaction in a deliberately over the top and camp way. Yes, the nights get long and boring in Britain. | |
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Melvins' Mangled Demos from 1983 includes a track called "Bibulous Confabulation During Rehearsal". "confabulation" meaning "chatter" and "bibulous" meaning fond of drink - it's five minutes of Studio Chatter. | |
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In Skin Horse, Chris has gone from working in the Department of Irradiation to working in a sandwich shop. He offers two options: "radiant energy, via resistive heat, with which we hope to evoke the Maillard reaction" ( toasting) or "EM emissions, to rotate the polar molecules and induce dielectric heat" ( microwaving). | |
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In Final Fantasy XII, when Balthier, Fran, and Vaan get their equipment back in the Nalbina Dungeons, combining it with Added Alliterative Appeal: | |
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Anything pertaining to gnomes in World of Warcraft "I enjoy large posteriors and I can't prevaricate!" |
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The author of Professor Mmaa's Lecture enjoys making the termite scientists speak in highly elaborate terms, such as calling all species that aren't termites with their Latin names. | |
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In one episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Chairman Jack explains the connection between the words "ugly", "manhole", "lazy" and "stupid", saying that they're all things with politically correct equivalents. | |
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Link Hogthrob, in one episode of The Muppet Show's Pigs in Space, charges Miss Piggy with the important duty of utilizing the "independent heating-slash-unifying element" and the "horizontal equalizing plane". This wording is paramount in getting her to agree to ironing the laundry without her realizing it. | |
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In an Overly Sarcastic Productions video on the Norse myth of Utgard Loki the title character riffs on the "Weird flex but ok" meme with "Unorthodox display of hubris but very well." | |
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This quote from Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory: "I'm polymerized tree sap and you're an organic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you." For those getting a headache from that, it's the old "I'm rubber and you're glue" retort. Another favorite, when he tries to trash-talk his opponent in a robot competition: "I'm given to understand that your mother is overweight. Now of course if that is the result of a glandular condition and not sloth and gluttony, I withdraw the comment. There are boundaries." Also, in the episode when Howard accidentally drives the Mars Lander into a ditch, Sheldon remarks, "I believe the appropriate metaphor here involves a river of excrement and a Native American water vessel without any means of propulsion", which was his way of saying "up shit creek without a paddle". Leonard explains Sheldon's relationship problems: "What would you be if you were attached to another object by an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis?". The answer is, of course, screwed. "Howard told me my allegiance should be to male companions before women who sell their bodies on the street". In other words, "bros before hos". Often used in the show, of course, with Sheldon in particular. What's interesting is you often get two sets of canned laughter — one after the Expo Speak and another a few seconds later after the Layman's Terms translation. It's anyone's guess how much is due to different parts of the studio audience responding to different terms, and how much is the editors using a laugh track to simulate this effect. |
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In Star Wars: Republic Commando when you tell one of your squad mates to plant a demolition charge, two of the random lines you can say are "Initiate radical restructuring, commando!" or "Let's rearrange some architecture, Delta." | |
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And in Homestuck, the trolls are particularly loquacious about it. In fact, using these for everyday objects is what differs low-caste speech from high-caste speech. | |
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Star Trek (2009) gives us this inversion when raw recruit Sulu can't get the ship to move: | |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home has Dr. McCoy bully his way past hospital guards by shouting that his patient had, "acute post-prandial upper-abdominal distension," which is to say, "cramps". | |
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Irregular Podcast! annotations explain Australian Slang: | |
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Madam & Eve: Eight-year-old Thandi tries it in this comic.◊ | |
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In Suburban Knights: | |
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Poison Ivy Gulch: A laywer uses the term "acetylsalicylic acid". When the judge clarifies that as being aspirin, the laywer says he can never remember that word. | |
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Vaarsuvius of The Order of the Stick tends to do this as part of their general Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Roy returned the favor once; it's how V came to respect him enough to work for him. |
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Ratchet & Clank (2002) has The Plumber explain his inability to escape a planet now under attack as the result of "socioeconomic disparities," meaning "I don't have enough money." (Much of the joke with the guy is being Smarter Than You Look, hence the high-minded language and clear class-consciousness.) | |
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In Jingo, Willkins warns Sam Vimes, "Lady Sybil has vouchsafed to me that if you are not there she will utilize your intestines for hosiery accessories, sir." In other words (and probably the ones Sybil used), she'll have his guts for garters. | |
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The Temps story "Pitbull Brittan" by Jack Yeovil opens with Brittan's papers regarding his transfer from One Para to the Department of Paranormal Resources. The DPR official is suspicious, believing "this is an oblatory equine situation, and we should acquire the services of a veterinarian dentist". (They should look the gift horse in the mouth.) | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, after being sold into slavery by the player character: From Fallout 3: Liberty Prime's take on "Better dead than red": |
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Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi from Digimon Adventure is notorious for this trope, though it is far more common in the English dub than in the original Japanese. | |
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Red Dwarf plays this for laughs several times, most notably in "Stasis Leak". Also Kryten, when he becomes human for an episode, describes his first breakfast as "boiled chicken ovulations". Also to Kryten, a pub is a "Meeting place where people attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence through repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks". |
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Turnabout Storm has one by Twilight combined with Comically Missing the Point after Sonata testifies, without breaking her glare, that she cried. | |
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Com'c: In the form of a 16-line sentence.TranslationThe cake is not a lie. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged What Gohan does when he goes berserk. Later, Gohan again: |
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A minor example shows up in Paragon (2016) with Lt. Belica's ultimate ability, Neural Distruptor, which involves her casually drawing out her sidearm and shooting her target in the head. | |
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In Foundation's Edge, a customs official refers to his superior as a 'sanguinary person born of an irregular union'. In other words, he calls him a bloody bastard. | |
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Foundation's Edge | hasFeature |
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Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6b3cfe38 | comment |
In Bob and George, Doctor Light has said things such as "Fornicating Feces" when annoyed. | |
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Bob and George (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6bafb84d | comment |
In the Bond movie Never Say Never Again, an aging 007 is sent to a health spa for a strict health regimen. When Moneypenny asks what his "mission" is, he says "I'm to eliminate all free radicals." Moneypenny looks concerned. "Oh, do be careful, James." | |
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Never Say Never Again | hasFeature |
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Expospeak Gag / int_6c1d09b3 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6c1d09b3 | comment |
From Fallout 3: Liberty Prime's take on "Better dead than red": | |
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Fallout 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_6c1d09b3 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6c9193a1 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6c9193a1 | comment |
Dr. Orpheus from The Venture Brothers often talks this way, as when he makes reference to his daughter attending an "electronic music recital" (she went to a rave). | |
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TheVentureBrothers | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_6c9193a1 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6d564c8 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6d564c8 | comment |
Freedom Force Vs. The Third Reich | |
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Freedom Force (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_6d564c8 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6d56dbee | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6d56dbee | comment |
In LARP Trek, O'Brien threatens to have his character go on strike unless Geordi (the GM) gives him something to do. Data comments that this could "fracture the quaternary membrane". | |
Expospeak Gag / int_6d56dbee | featureApplicability |
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Larp Trek (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Expospeak Gag / int_70814599 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_70814599 | comment |
Stargate SG-1 uses this pretty frequently, most notably whenever an alien talks about guns (because they're unique to Earth; everyone else uses energy weapons). "Small Victories": "Undomesticated equines could not keep me away." No matter how many times someone corrects Teal'c on this, he seems to persist in it. Upon hearing him say this, Jack accused Teal'c of trying to make a joke. Teal'c remained silent on the matter, though he did look a bit self-satisfied. Then there was the one where Teal'c told Hathor she should attempt procreation with herself. And when Teal'c is having trouble meditating: Used for an in-joke and Genius Bonus in one episode featuring the Re'tu, aliens who are completely invisible. Carter comes up with a way to make them visible: expose them to electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength between 400 and 700 nanometers. This is a super-sciency way to say "shine a light on them" (EM radiation between 400 and 700 nanometers is otherwise known as "visible light"). |
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Expospeak Gag / int_75149ccd | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_75149ccd | comment |
In The Bacta War, Rogue Squadron has discovered that their old X-Wings are being surplussed out. Tycho notes to Wedge that the fighters are missing a critical part, the PL-1. Wedge asks him what a PL-1 is. Turns out that's bean-counter-ese for "pilot". | |
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X-Wing Series | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_75149ccd | |
Expospeak Gag / int_76e539c2 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_76e539c2 | comment |
Also, in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS supplementary manga, Cinque calls bathing "sanitary maintenance". | |
Expospeak Gag / int_76e539c2 | featureApplicability |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_76e539c2 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_77e22425 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_77e22425 | comment |
In Pinky and the Brain, when Brain becomes a ski instructor: | |
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Pinky and the Brain | hasFeature |
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Expospeak Gag / int_7832b74c | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7832b74c | comment |
Steven Universe: Peridot is prone to describing simple Earth objects with unneccessarily complex language. She does a whole string of them that greatly amuses Amethyst in "Too Far", like calling a screwdriver a "leverage optimizer" and a nose a "scent sponge", which all builds up to the punchline of her calling a butt a "butt." | |
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Steven Universe | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_7832b74c | |
Expospeak Gag / int_792239e5 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_792239e5 | comment |
Presea from Tales of Symphonia does this occasionally. | |
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Tales of Symphonia (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_792239e5 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7988cb68 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7988cb68 | comment |
The Mass Effect series loves this trope. Blasto, the first hanar Spectre, does not have time for your solid waste excretions. He also has forgotten whether his heat sink is over capacity, and wonders if the criminal scum considers itself fortunate. Mordin's dossier has a lot of these. In the third game, Tali will, at one point, get utterly smashed by introducing turian brandy into her environment suit via an "Emergency Induction Port" ("That's a straw, Tali" "emeeeergency... induction... port"). |
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Mass Effect (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_7988cb68 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7ab7da61 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7ab7da61 | comment |
On Three's Company, Jack cuts his finger on his first day as head chef at Angelino's. At the E.R.: | |
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Three's Company | hasFeature |
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Expospeak Gag / int_7bf6a74c | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7bf6a74c | comment |
The Beverly Hillbillies: Miss Hathaway is prone to this in earlier seasons. In "Jed, Incorporated" she goes on a long soliliquey describing the tax benefits of Jed Clampett having a corporation. The Clampetts admit not knowing what she said. Mr. Drysdale pretends not to know either. | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7bf6a74c | featureApplicability |
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The Beverly Hillbillies | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_7bf6a74c | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7c038c18 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7c038c18 | comment |
Phineas and Ferb: This exchange from the episode "Day of the Living Gelatin", after the gang finishes making their pool of gelatin: Spliced with It's Been Done in "Interview With a Platypus," in which Doofenshmirtz invents the Buoyancy Operated Aquatic Transport, or "BO-AT" (pronounced with two syllables). |
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Phineas and Ferb | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_7c038c18 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7c4f1adb | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_7c4f1adb | comment |
Our Miss Brooks: Teenage Walter Denton is sometimes very fond of Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. It's on these occasions that Denton engages in expospeak. The following example is a petition he writes for the episode "Cafeteria Boycott", remade for television as "The Cafeteria Strike". Note the oddball combination of 50's slang, extensive "borrowing" from the Declaration of Independence, and assorted legalese (the petition omitted for time in the newest syndication cut of the show). Walter Denton is simply asking for Mr. Conklin to fire the incompetent new school chef. | |
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Our Miss Brooks (Radio) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_7c4f1adb | |
Expospeak Gag / int_81692f99 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_81692f99 | comment |
In one of the Star Trek novels, there is this line: "The Tellerite nobleman's cries of rage were indicative of his species' porcine evolutionary antecedents; or, to put it more vulgarly, he squealed like a stuck pig." | |
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Star Trek (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_81692f99 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8197ebd8 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8197ebd8 | comment |
During the mutiny in General Protection Fault, Planck says they can't just "sit on our gluteal clefts and twiddle our metacarpal digits". | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8197ebd8 | featureApplicability |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_8197ebd8 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_83264fb1 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_83264fb1 | comment |
The Bastard Operator from Hell sometimes uses this one or another way. For example, "Total Component Fatigue". | |
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Bastard Operator from Hell | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_83264fb1 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_84f7c268 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_84f7c268 | comment |
Quinton Reviews: At the end of "The Transformers' Corporate Origins", Quinton refers to the franchise as being "a greater quantity than was introduced to the cornea". In other words, it's more than meets the eye. | |
Expospeak Gag / int_84f7c268 | featureApplicability |
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Quinton Reviews (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_84f7c268 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_863b7825 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_863b7825 | comment |
A large majority of the dialogue between Hacker and Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister consists of barely comprehensible expospeak, satirising the impenetrable workings of government. Most famously: Also when Humphrey has been promoted and won't be working with Hacker anymore: Which Hacker misinterprets as meaning Humphrey is dying. Sir Humphrey even manages to weaponize it at one point. When a cache of British-made weapons start showing up in the hands of terrorists, Sir Humphrey has to start up an investigation into how they got them. However, Sir Humphrey has no interest in doing so, since that would inevitably lead to an investigation into how the British Government lost them in the first place, which in turn would make him look bad. So he puts out a memo which technically would kick off the investigation, but couches it in bureaucrat-ese so dense anyone who reads it's eyes will have glazed over before they understand what it's about. |
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Yes, Minister | hasFeature |
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Expospeak Gag / int_86b52b7b | type |
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Expospeak Gag / int_86b52b7b | comment |
I, Robot: | |
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I, Robot | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_86b52b7b | |
Expospeak Gag / int_86c3beca | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_86c3beca | comment |
Girl Genius got "Stay back! He's Fructivorous!" "Fructivorous," of course, means "an animal that eats fruit" but the latter doesn't sound nearly as alarming. | |
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Girl Genius (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_86c3beca | |
Expospeak Gag / int_880cfa15 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_880cfa15 | comment |
Inverted in Hogan's Heroes: | |
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Hogan's Heroes | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_880cfa15 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8832bf9a | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8832bf9a | comment |
In Commander Kitty, Mittens requests funds for commuter clearance transaction. | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8832bf9a | featureApplicability |
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Commander Kitty / Web Comic | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_8832bf9a | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d7f29ec | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d7f29ec | comment |
Glee | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d7f29ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d7f29ec | featureConfidence |
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Glee | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d7f29ec | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d817ccb | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d817ccb | comment |
Lost: Sawyer is afraid his headaches indicate a brain tumor. Jack informs him he has hyperopia, letting him believe for a moment that this is a dreadful disease when it really means he's farsighted. | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d817ccb | featureApplicability |
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Lost | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_8d817ccb | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8f46e5b1 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_8f46e5b1 | comment |
Strange Times Are Upon Us: | |
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Strange Times Are Upon Us (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_8f46e5b1 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_94478e2d | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_94478e2d | comment |
They also use sciency-sounding acronyms or phrases that indicate the end user is the problem. Famously, PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) and ID-Ten-T (ID10T), but also "Chair-to-Keyboard Interface Malfunction", "Carbon-Based Error", "ESO error" (Equipment Superior to Operator), "wetware problem", "UBNC error" (User's Brain Not Connected), "Loose nut on keyboard", and "BIOS problem" (Blind Idiot Operating the System), although that one actually does refer to an actual piece of critical computer infrastructure so it isn't used nearly as often. | |
Expospeak Gag / int_94478e2d | featureApplicability |
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Stealth Insult | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_94478e2d | |
Expospeak Gag / int_976efc02 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_976efc02 | comment |
Mystery Science Theater 3000 often had Dr. Forrester use made-up technical names for cruel but simple devices, such as "Hypno-Helio-Static-Stasis" for "Padding". | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_976efc02 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_986e857e | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_986e857e | comment |
In Episode 5 of Ben 10, Tetrax tells Ben that he can't leave Earth without his hoverboard. At the end of the episode, he lets Ben keep the hoverboard. | |
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Ben 10 | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_986e857e | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9899e944 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9899e944 | comment |
3 Idiots: Invoked as an indirect form of Ironic Echo. During the "What is a machine?" scene, Chantur recites the textbook definition of a machine in response to Virus telling Rancho to define a machine (which he does, but in "simple language"), and Rancho is told to Get Out! for questioning Virus' teaching methods. Cue this conversation: | |
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3 Idiots | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_9899e944 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9a67b688 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9a67b688 | comment |
In Case Closed File 131 or so, Yukiko, Shinichi's mother, manages to cover for Shinichi in front of Ran by saying Conan (her secretly de-aged son) is really her distant relative — in fact, he's the nephew of the grandfather of the cousin of the daughter of the brother of her uncle. Or for short, her grandfather's nephew (thus, her first cousin removed once, also known as her uncle removed once). | |
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Case Closed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_9a67b688 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9a7088bc | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9a7088bc | comment |
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine": | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_9a7088bc | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9c1d0ac8 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9c1d0ac8 | comment |
Concerned has "the latest development in occupant-propelled open-air semi-buoyant watercraft," and its "client-enabled moisture-resistant watercraft-propulsion device." They are, respectively, a leaky old rowboat and a shovel used as an oar. | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9c1d0ac8 | featureApplicability |
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Concerned (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_9c1d0ac8 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9dab421d | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9dab421d | comment |
From Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_9dab421d | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9e2d11c3 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9e2d11c3 | comment |
In chapter 22 of Earth and Sky, when Twilight asks Doctor Insanity what exactly he has a doctorate in, he responds with "osculate-my-rump-onomy". "Osculate my rump" means "kiss my ass". | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9e2d11c3 | featureApplicability |
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Earth and Sky (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_9e2d11c3 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9e876c22 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_9e876c22 | comment |
Good Omens mocks this: | |
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Expospeak Gag / int_9e876c22 | featureConfidence |
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Good Omens | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_9e876c22 | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a0ae46e | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a0ae46e | comment |
In Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear uses quite a few of these: He refers to tape as "unidirectional bonding strip", pizza delivery as "jettisoning food supply", and seatbelts as "restraining harnesses". | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a0ae46e | featureApplicability |
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Toy Story | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_a0ae46e | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a183d57f | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a183d57f | comment |
Used in Futurama's "Anthology of Interest I": | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
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Expospeak Gag / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_a183d57f | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a2c9fa2d | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a2c9fa2d | comment |
The Man Show used the same trick to try and put an end to women's suffrage. As in, the ability for women to vote - but since people heard "women sufferage" instead, they eagerly signed. | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a2c9fa2d | featureApplicability |
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The Man Show | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_a2c9fa2d | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a2dcc2fa | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a2dcc2fa | comment |
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget: When Ginger approaches the rats for help infiltrating Fun-Land Farms after her daughter is kidnapped, Nick refuses, saying that the place is impenetrable. Fetcher, who's slightly ditzier, unwittingly translates it by adding that they can't get in, either. | |
Expospeak Gag / int_a2dcc2fa | featureApplicability |
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | hasFeature |
Expospeak Gag / int_a2dcc2fa | |
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Characters on The West Wing often use an Expospeak Gag to avoid mentioning politically unpopular things (like taxes). | |
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The West Wing | hasFeature |
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In The Final Reflection, after a Human diplomat makes a proposal that Krenn finds horribly insulting, he relieves his feelings by using an alien language the Humans don't know "to curse the Humans and their riding animals".note "—and the horse you rode in on!" | |
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Scooby-Doo: Being the token genius of the group, Velma does this pretty regularly. One example would be Dick Van Dyke asking for volunteers for his magic show: | |
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In the Touhou Project spinoff Touhou Kourindou ~ Curiosities of Lotus Asia, one chapter deals with Rinnosuke finding a device he describes as "a grey box, small enough to be held in the hands, made of... plastic, I believe it was called? [...] On top of that, this one has several differently-shaped buttons and switches on it." He's worried it's an Artifact of Doom because his Name Dar says it can "control just about anything. For example, manipulating people, making them fight, starting wars and, depending on the circumstances, even destroying the world." After spending most of the chapter trying to keep it from falling into the wrong hands, it gets stolen by Yukari, the last person he wanted to have it. She explains that the device is harmless — it's a Game Boy. | |
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"Death Note But Really Really Slow" has Kira describe the Death Note in this way. | |
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But Really Really Fast (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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From The Aristocats' Island: | |
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The Aristocats' Island (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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When an attack by Boris and Natasha lands Rocky the Flying Squirrel in the hospital, the doctor diagnoses him with a contusion of the cranium. Bullwinkle launches into an anguished revenge campaign upon hearing the severity of the diagnosis, not realizing that in layman's terms, Rocky has a bump on the head. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle | hasFeature |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball | hasFeature |
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Danger Mouse and Penfold are in a tea crate trying to solve the mystery of the world's tea being stolen and the crate they're in is jettisoned into space: | |
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Danger Mouse | hasFeature |
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Chicken Run features this after Rocky wakes up with a bandaged wing: | |
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Chicken Run | hasFeature |
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Pretty much the entire point behind the Coneheads sketches on Saturday Night Live. | |
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Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Magnus the Red occasionally does this: | |
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In Alien the gadget used to track the Alien detects "micro changes in air density". In other words, it's a microphone. | |
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Alien | hasFeature |
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In one chapter of Superman & Batman: Generations, Lex Luthor says he created a Time Travel field "generated when acetylsalicylic acid is irradiated at a 108 megahertz frequency"...or in plain English, he irradiated aspirin with an FM radio. He's done similar feats before. | |
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Superman & Batman: Generations (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Used in an 1841 issue of Punch! as part of a series purporting to give useful instructions on daily life, in this case, the lighting of a fire, which begins: | |
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Punch! (Magazine) | hasFeature |
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Expospeak Gag / int_bbe481c5 | comment |
In Yuugai Shitei Doukyuusei, used for innuendo. Disappointed that Miyako didn't use the electric toothbrush she got her for masturbation, Reika muses on how "Miyako is taking my present, turning on its vibration, inserting it into one of her mucous membranes, and shoving it around until she's good and satisfied." | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "I Had an Accident", where SpongeBob shatters his butt, we have this following conversation when SpongeBob's butt gets fixed. The Krusty Krab Training Video features Mr. Krabs showing off a bunch of common fast-food implements but giving them fancy names to make them sound more high-tech: A spatula is an "advanced patty-control mechanism." The cash register is their "automated money-handling system."*Don't touch! Ice cubes are "high-quality beverage temperature devices. Imported." A straw is a "prototype liquid transfer machine." Ketchup packets are "state-of-the-art condiment-dispersal units." |
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SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
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In Living Color! based a series of skits on this premise. Prisoners with big words can be dangerous. | |
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In Living Color! | hasFeature |
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In El Goonish Shive, the self-writing spell-books are very, very verbose, so whenever we get a quote from one, it's going to turn out to be this. So far, Elliot has been seen completely baffled by what his book could possibly mean when it says his transformations naturally possess "exorbitant breadth" in the chest area. After a meeting between Tedd and the Will of Magic, this gets changed when he mentions that spell books are hard to understand, which seemed to genuinely surprise Magic. The Will of Magic rewrites the spell books so they are much more concise in their explanations, though the characters note that they are also much less fun to read now. | |
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Blackadder: "Money": Edmund is trying to sell his house: Making this even funnier, this actually convinces the man and his wife to buy Blackadder's house — they're too lazy to bother with a chamberpot or anything like that. Exaggerated when Samuel Johnson turns up. "Goodbyeee": |
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Blackadder | hasFeature |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Twilight Sparkle has an anemometer, which is for measuring how fast pegasi fly and how strong their wings are. Or as she puts it, "it measures your accelerative velocity and translates it into wing-power, thus gauging your cumulative H2O anti-gravitational potential". | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
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Doctor Who: "The Time Meddler": At the end, the First Doctor breaks the dimensional controller of the TARDIS belonging to rival Time Lord the Monk, making the inside of the Monk's TARDIS the same size as the sarcophagus it uses as its outside — tiny, but perhaps just small enough to squeeze into. When the Monk shows up again in "The Daleks' Master Plan" hell-bent on revenge, they share this exchange: A trope much beloved by Robert Holmes, the writer of more than a few classic serials, usually to illustrate pompous stupidity. In "Carnival of Monsters", for example, arrogant aristocrat Orum says of the low-ranking Functionaries "Give them a hygiene chamber and they'll store fossil fuel in it." This is an Expospeak Gag on a line from the early 20th century, reflecting conservative class attitudes "If the workers had baths, they'd use them to keep the coal." Inverted in Holmes' "The Deadly Assassin". Rather than describe the Doctor's change of body by the rather more lofty "regeneration", a fellow Time Lord refers to them as "facelifts". "Horror of Fang Rock": "Four to Doomsday": Adric displays both his scientific knowledge and personal immaturity by irritatingly asking for the "sodium chloride", when he really means the salt. The same joke was later used in a Doctor Who spoof on Extras, where the Tenth Doctor defeats a ridiculous slug-like creature by throwing "sodium chloride" at it after spouting off lines of obvious expospeak. "The Girl in the Fireplace": Sent up when the Doctor admits that he said "spatio-temporal hyperlink" because he didn't want to say "magic door". "The Idiot's Lantern": The Doctor, on how he plans to get rid of the villain: "Turn Left": Captain Magambo outfits Donna with the gear she'll need for her mission. "Let's Kill Hitler": "Miniaturisation ray?" "How do you know that?" "Well, there was a ray and then we were miniaturised..." And this time, the Doctor didn't say it. That may be a first. "The Tsuranga Conundrum": After the Doctor delivers some technobabble, Ronan asks Yaz if she's also "experiencing comprehension difficulty". |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze involves The Professor (played by David Warner) asking Michaelangelo to pass him a vial of dimethyl chlorinide. Quips Mikey, "I don't mean to criticize science, but wouldn't it be easier just to call it 'the pink one'?" | |
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Used a couple of times in Monty Python's Flying Circus by Pepperpots (Pythoners dressed up as women). In one sketch with an exploding penguin on top of a TV, one Pepperpot said: "Oh, intercourse the penguin!". In another, when one Pepperpot was proven wrong about something, she said "Coitus!" In both cases, the Pepperpot was referring to the 4-letter "F-word". Interestingly, "intercourse the penguin" wasn't in the script. John Cleese reacts with visible surprise and almost laughs. Happens again in the "Cheese Shop" sketch. |
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In Sourcery, a magic carpet would fly to the command "down" due to "laminar and spatial arrangements", or, more simply, because it was put on the floor upside-down. | |
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Sourcery | hasFeature |
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In The Legends of Ethshar series, wizards can get answers to yes-or-no questions by using the Spell of the Eighth Sphere, which makes runes appear in a black crystal globe. In other words, a Magic 8-Ball. | |
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The Legends of Ethshar | hasFeature |
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In The Bird Feeder #17, "Dinner," when Darryl asks what they'll be eating, Edna replies with the scientific names of the insects on the menu. | |
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TheBirdFeeder | hasFeature |
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After taking Amy hostage in the first episode of Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Ledo tasks Chamber with analyzing the local language and figuring out what she's shouting about. Turns out it was a Cluster F-Bomb. | |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series has a running gag of Spock doing this, and exchanges of this sort following: | |
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Happens on occasion with Edd from Ed, Edd n Eddy. A quote from the Christmas Special: | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy | hasFeature |
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Subverted in Big Trouble in Little China, where Egg Shen uses what appears to be expospeak to clarify meaning something mystically as opposed to technically: Played straight later when a visibly-annoyed Shen stands by idly while Jack Burton describes at length how a potion is making him feel positive, confident, and strong; it's implied Shen may have simply gotten Burton a little drunk. |
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Dark Future: Dr. Blakeley pulls one in Comeback Tour. | |
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Dark Future | hasFeature |
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In QI, to avoid setting the klaxon off by saying porn, Jimmy Carr said that 70% of the internet is filled with "gentlemen's special interest literature" (a common euphemism, of course). It didn't work. | |
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QI | hasFeature |
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Cabin Pressure gives us "rabbit of negative euphoria" (not a happy bunny) among others. | |
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Portal makes a Running Gag out of the Expospeak used by Aperture Laboratories to describe the company's inventions. The most obvious example is the "1500 Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super-Button", which is, in fact, a pressure plate that resembles an overly large red button. GLaDOS also likes to use Buffy Speak (the "Aperture Science Thing We Don't Know What It Does") and oblique terminology ("victory candescence") to describe the ways she isn't not going to kill you. Portal 2, on the other hand, takes this and runs with it, giving us such gems as: Excursion Funnel — a tractor beam Aerial Faith Plate — a spring-loaded platform Thermal Discouragement Beam — a laser Pneumatic Diversity Vent — a human-sized pneumatic tubenote not included in the final game Repulsion Gel — turns walls and floors into trampolines Propulsion Gel — turns floors into a run-faster area The Edgeless Safety Cube — a ball Turret Redemption Line — a conveyor belt laden with broken turrets heading into an incinerator Check out the blink-and-you'll-miss-it diagrams and labels in some of the trailers. The Turret trailer (0:20): The turret's outer shell "opens and retracts in relation to proximity of incident in need of resolution". In other words, if the turret sees you (the "incident in need of resolution"), it'll open its magazines and shoot you. Also, "Warning: Standing near turret may result in accidental empathy suppression". In other words, if the turret sees you, it'll open its magazines and shoot you. The Long Fall Boots trailer: 0:17 — "Test Subject Vitality Trial: Vertical Deceleration Chamber": It's a test to see if you'll survive ("test subject vitality") making impact with the floor after falling from a great height ("vertical deceleration"). 0:35 — In the long fall boots, the "Velocity Challenge Brace" is the spring that lessens the impact of landing on your feet. The Bot Trust trailer (0:19) — "Unilateral Force-Induced Isokinetic Breakfast Trial". It's a robot using one arm ("unilateral") to flip pancakes — or, as the case may be, to hit himself repeatedly with a frying pan ("isokinetic": "of or relating to muscular action with a constant rate of movement"). In-game, Wheatley attempting to "manually override" a wall. In other words, whacking it until it collapses. |
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In What Tomorrow Brings, Mertil calls a kitchen sink "the water receptacle in the food preparation space." | |
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The second track on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) soundtrack is named "Adolescent Genetically Altered Shinobi Terrapins". | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) | hasFeature |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has Thunderstorm revealing Shadow's Concentrated Electrical Manipulator. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer seemed to like this. Usually, it was done by Giles, but... Faith and the Mayor had this exchange: Also done back and forth between Buffy and Riley when they confront each other over their secret identities: |
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In Titans (Rebirth) #24, Miss Martian says "The fecal matter has just intersected with the spinning blades of the cooling device". J'onn tells her she needs to work on her Earth idioms. | |
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In the Ponies of Olympus series, Shining says he didn't forget to tell Twilight he was participating in the Atlas Strongest Tournament, he just "failed to mention due to cognitive flatulence" (read: he had a brain fart). Twilight says that she's too smart for using big words to confuse the issue (though she admits she used to do the same thing to Cadence). | |
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Firefly: In the episode "Out of Gas", River tries to explain to Simon why she forgot his birthday. In "The Train Job": |
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In several Summoning Salt videos, the concept of a "frame rule" is explained using the analogy of a bus stop: just like arriving ten minutes before the bus arrives doesn't save you any time over getting there one second before it leaves, sometimes in games, getting somewhere 20 frames faster won't save you any time over getting there just 1 frame faster if an important event only happens every few frames. In "The History of Super Mario Bros. 2 World Records", he uses the same analogy, except changing the bus to a "4 Wheeled Vehicle of Transportation". | |
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Drop the Dead Donkey. Gus Hedges likes to present himself as a high-powered manager, and there's a Running Gag of his spouting nonsensical management speak instead of plain English, including one amusing scene where a blue-collar construction worker works out how to communicate with him. | |
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Starslip: | |
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In National Treasure, Ben tells Abigail that the back of the Declaration of Independence contains "an encryption" of "a cartograph" showing "the location of hidden items of historic and intrinsic value." "You mean a treasure map?" "That's where we lost the FBI." (And the Smithsonian, the NSA, etc.) | |
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In the Emergency! episode "Cook's Tour," Johnny removes a boy's handcuffs using a "stetso-hydraulic activator," aka pliers. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Episode "Fair Haven" Episode "The Voyager Conspiracy" |
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This is a constant source of friction between best friends Reed Richards and Ben Grimm. Reed is a genius and will never use four words where forty will do, whereas Ben is straight to the point and has no patience for Reed's technobabble. | |
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Pretty much everything in The Eye of Argon is (perhaps unintentionally) described in this fashion. As an example, eyes are probably more often referred to as "[colour] orbs" and "organs of sight" than just "eyes". | |
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In How I Met Your Mother, when Barney's trying to convince Robin that her relationship with Gael (from Argentina) will fail, they start to implement this. | |
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MacGyver (1985): In the episode "Last Stand", Mac is holding some piece of equipment that he's supposedly going to use to fix up a plane so the bad guys can escape. When asked by his guard what the item is, he replies "Lateral... cranial... impact... enhancer", and smacks the guard across the head with it. In another two-part episode, Mac puts together an ancient device explaining at length what it does, defining it as an "optic pump". When the Girl of the Week asks what an optic pump is, he says, "a laser". |
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In Spark's origin issue of Legends of the Legion the villain Slopp talks entirely in phrases like "Undifferentiated from pilfering confectionery from a suckling!" Amusingly, his boss, High-Brow, who prides himself on his intelligence, hasn't a clue what Slopp is saying. | |
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In one episode of The Tick, Neil, a scientist, has managed to grow some dinosaur tissue in a lab, retarding its growth by keeping it in an acetylsalicylic acid solution. He accidentally eats the dinosaur tissue and ends up turning into "Dinosaur Neil", a giant monster. Upon learning about the acetylsalicylic acid, Arthur figures out how to save the day and turn Dinosaur Neal back to normal: as he tells the audience, acetylsalicylic acid is aspirin. | |
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! used this same trick to convince attendees at an environmentalist rally to sign a petition to ban it to illustrate that as long as they mention something in scientific terminology, environmentalists will automatically assume it's bad and sign petitions to ban it. It didn't work for everyone at the rally, but the majority of the people they showed were happily signing the petition. The Man Show used the same trick to try and put an end to women's suffrage. As in, the ability for women to vote - but since people heard "women sufferage" instead, they eagerly signed. |
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In Kyon: Big Damn Hero: | |
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A variant occurs in Babylon 5: Garibaldi says nothing, but mind-reader Bester replies with "Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're welcome to try." | |
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There is a "salvage" item (AKA: enemy loot) from the MMORPG City of Heroes called a "Temporal Analyzer", which is described as a wrist-mounted " chronal device that tracks the current fourth-dimensional offset and velocity." If you give it any thought, it's obviously just a watch. | |
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Many Wikipedia pages were used by some rogue authors to transfer this to articles with risqué topics, e.g. for Baby Got Back the lyrics were summarized this way. It began with expospeaking "I like big butts and I cannot lie" as "In the opening verse, Sir Mix-a-Lot professes his affinity for large buttocks and his inability to disguise this fact from others" and only got better from there. Ditto for an old revision of C is for Cookie. The '90s rap song "Got Your Money" had a similar page: "The song is initially dedicated exclusively to the world's population of attractive females until ODB seems to have pangs of guilt for not including ladies who might be considered 'homely' or 'ugly,'" Especially prone to this treatment are usually rap songs since they usually contain quite a bit of vulgarity or general raunch that even rap fans admit is pretty extreme. Take for example, a version of the page for Lil Kim's song "How Many Licks?" However, these versions don't last long on the site since this isn't official Wikipedia policy but inserted by contributors trying to intentionally use this trope. |
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In Guards! Guards!, Sybil asks Vimes if he thinks the noble dragon is a thaumivore, and Vimes says "I just think it eats magic, that's all." | |
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From The Rescuers Down Under: A group of Australian mice are trying to fix Wilbur's hurt back. When one of the tools turns out to be rusted, the head doctor calls for another, which turns out to be a chainsaw. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Because he doesn't quite understand metaphors, Data will occasionally lapse into one of these: | |
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