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Ignore the Disability
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The cast is about to meet an important person with a peculiarity or disability, such as a wooden leg or an extraordinarily large nose. One of the cast who is in a position of authority exhorts the others not to comment on the guest's unusual feature, lest the guest take it as an insult. When the guest arrives, some member or members of the cast—usually children or ditzes—come close to commenting, but to the relief of the exhorting character, they say nothing. But as soon as they are out of sight, the character then turns to the guest and blurts a Freudian Slip that delivers the very insult he was afraid the others would give. This is merely the television version of a much older joke; Louis Untermeyer's 1946 humor anthology A Treasury of Laughter includes a version dating to the 1930s (if not earlier) casting 19th-century financier J.P. Morgan (and his prominent nose) as the guest, a young Anne Morrow (the future Mrs. Charles Lindbergh) as the exhorted child, and Morrow's mother as the authority figure who embarrasses herself. Compare Forgot the Disability, Freudian Slippery Slope and Thought-Aversion Failure. May overlap with Thinks of Something Smart, Says Something Stupid if the character is mentally reminding themself to not mention some awkward topic, only to blurt it out as soon as they open their mouth. |
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Torg from Sluggy Freelance is famous for this, as exemplified in this strip (Zoë is wearing a wig, but she hadn't been a few minutes before, when Torg saw her without). | |
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Averted in The Defenders (2017) with Stick, who cuts off his right hand to free himself from his shackles and escape from Alexandra and Elektra. When he approaches the heroes at the Royal Dragon, no one says anything about it other than Jessica asking him about what happened, to which Stick shrugs it off with an "I cut it off to free myself." Matt is blind and too annoyed by his old mentor coming back to care, while Luke and Danny are more interested in the information Stick is giving them about the Chaste and their ties to K'un-L'un. | |
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In one episode of Wings, Fay helps a passenger named Tupperman with a very bad toupee. Although she's distracted by it, she manages to get through the conversation without mentioning it...until the end, when she accidentally calls him "Mr. Toupee-man." | |
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In the The Simpsons and Futurama crossover, "Simpsorama", the first thing that happens when Marge sees Leela is her mentally reprimanding herself not to mention the fact Leela's a mutant cyclops, whilst Leela does the same thing about Marge's ridiculous beehive hairdo. | |
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In Dominic Deegan, Gregory manages to blow Luna's first impression of him by mentioning her tusks this way. Though really, that's just the fact that Gregory's a master of the Pun and pops them off constantly. In this particular case, it was just the wrong subject to pick. | |
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Emily from Emily of New Moon: "Hello, Mr. Cup. Would you like your Johnson filled?" | |
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From The Meaning of Liff: The UK edition claims that the word has its origins in an ITV newsreader with a Dodgy Toupee, who kept getting stories about the town of Wigan or the politician Lord Wigg. |
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Defied in an episode of Community. During a party at a wealthy law firm the head of the law firm makes an impromptu ‘thanks for coming’ speech and continues to say... | |
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Spoofed in Jack of All Trades, Jack is warned urgently by Croque, not to comment on Napoleon's height. The audience is led to believe that it will lead to this trope, but Jack's tell-it-like-it-is nature turns it, and he comes right out and calls Napoleon shorty. | |
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Discussed in one episode of The IT Crowd when talking about Roy's Temporary Love Interest, Julia the orphan. | |
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Dilbert An old strip featured a short engineer named Les, who was defensive about his height. This led to the following conversation. One strip from Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless discussed when it is acceptable to ask someone about their disability. Disabilities you should not ask about are awareness-impairment and attractiveness-impairment. |
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Sticking with Mike Myers movies, the whole thing with Number Three's mole in Austin Powers in Goldmember, which is an absolutely massive mole on his upper lip that is nearly impossible not to gawk at. | |
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In Freefall, just after admonishing Tangent about dog references to Florence (a sentient wolf), Niomi promptly sticks her foot solidly in her mouth. | |
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Missing Stars: Erik has this issue when he first enrolls at his new school, which is aimed at students with mental health problems. Erik can't help but wonder "what's wrong" with Ela, the first student he meets. Even ignoring mental problems, Erik has a hard time ignoring the fact that Katja has an eye patch on her right eye and that Lena wears a metal mask. Lena, being a blunt individual, doesn't do this. She's gotten in trouble for asking others why they're at the school. Katja has a roundabout way of figuring out how to deal with her fellow students without outright questioning them, She makes small talk that helps her figure out how to talk to them, or even if it's advisable to talk with them. |
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Ralph Breaks the Internet: At one point, Ralph journeys into "the Dark Net" to buy a virus from Double Dan, a virus dealer. JP Spamley, who takes him there, warns him to not look at Double Dan's "little brother", a malformed face on the guy's neck. When Ralph explains what he came to do, he really doesn't give Double Dan a good first impression. | |
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Making Money: The bank's private chef has an allergy to anyone mentioning the word garlic, going catatonic for four seconds, throwing whatever's in his hand straight ahead, then babbling in fluent Quirmian. Moist is warned (in writing) not to say it, but of course it ends up slipping out a few minutes later. | |
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Luke Cage (2016) season 2 sees Misty Knight dealing with hostility from her coworkers who are uncomfortable about seeing her with her missing right arm to the point of making very poor taste jokes about it, although are also doing so to project their hatred for Misty's late partner Scarfe, who turned out to be corrupt. | |
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Before Jillian Hall become a Hollywood Tone-Deaf singer she was MNM's publicist. In her first appearance Melina told M and N that Jillian had a mole on her face and not to mention it. Jillian comes in and we see her only from profile, and we see MNM stare at the mole - but they successfully refrain from saying anything. It is revealed later in the episode that the mole covers most of the left side of her face. Later the Boogeyman ate it off her face. | |
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Not a disability exactly, but Hanyuu from Higurashi: When They Cry was born with horns. When she's a human no one mentions her horns (except for Takano in a plot-relevant scene) due to this. People either thinks they're hair accessories, like them, or try to avoid commenting on them. | |
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SOON: Atlas' wheelchair only became an issue when trying to sneak into the lab that created the robots. When a clerk appears to help, Atlas takes advantage of his goodwill to borrow his security pass and plans on using it on a reseted timeline. | |
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One episode of Adventures in Wonderland invokes this trope for its weekly Aesop. The Mad Hatter's cousin, Hedda, comes to town; as it happens, she's physically handicapped and uses a wheelchair to get around. Before she arrives, the Hatter tries to tell everyone to treat her normally, and that the only thing she doesn't like is stairs, as she can't use her chair to scale them. Unfortunately, his friends misinterpret his words and think that he means that she doesn't like stares—as in, people looking at her or her wheelchair. The resulting confusion nearly drives her out of Wonderland, until the Queen of Hearts steps in and tells everyone to treat Hedda like they would anyone else. A surprising inversion of the trope happens when the March Hare's cousin April (yes, everyone in the Hare family is named for a month) visits after the Queen bans all talking from Wonderland. April is deaf, and teaches the gang about sign language—but neither the White Rabbit nor the Queen of Hearts realizes she's deaf, and after she doesn't respond to them talking, she's actually banished from the kingdom. Thankfully, the rest of the group clears up the confusion, and they all welcome April back with open arms. It makes for an interesting balance of the Aesop—while you should treat people as equal regardless of impairments, you should still acknowledge that they might have different needs. |
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Sherman's Lagoon: Megan tells Sherman not to mention the string of bad luck a friend has been going through. | |
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Grrl Power: When Sydney finds out Peggy has a prosthetic leg, she can't stop referencing it. No matter how much she wants to. (At least she did better than the doctor that- jokingly- told Peggy to "walk it off.") | |
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To continue with Mike Myers films, there's another good example in View from the Top. His character, John Whitney, has a lazy eye and when one of the flight attendants is being interviewed by him, she has a hard time not mentioning the eye at all. Finally, she slips up at the end and as a result does not get the job. | |
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In one episode of Top Gear (UK), the guys buy cars at an auction and enter them in a Spanish road rally. Jeremy gets an Austin-Healey Sprite from the generation where it was based on the same platform as the MG Midget. Richard makes a number of jokes about this...until he winds up paired with a little person as his rally partner. Cue Richard constantly fumbling over what he called the car and words like "short" to describe their time. | |
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Hilarious variant in Money Talks. Before walking into his rehearsal dinner, Russell tells Hatchett not to mention his fiancee's weight. The instant the (incredibly hot) fiancee comes to the door, Hatchett immediately says "You're fat" to her chagrin. He then clarifies that he meant "P-H-A-T: pretty, hot, and tempting." | |
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On Gilligan's Island, Gilligan becomes bald for one episode. Everyone decides not to talk about it, but Mrs. Howell then says she'll have a "hard bald egg". | |
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On The Odd Couple (1970) when Felix photographs a family of little people, he develops a complex etiquette for his friends for fear they might offend them. However, when the time comes to take the picture he shouts: "Everybody say 'midget'!" | |
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Mass Effect 2: Though it doesn't turn out as badly as one would think. While it's clear he's annoyed by it to some degree, Koris takes no offense at the name, and even states that though he has thought of requesting a transfer to another ship, he would never leave the Qwib Qwib. He also notes that, due to the massive bureaucratic red tape associated with ship registries, they can't "just change the name". | |
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Happens in one episode of The Adventures of Lano and Woodley , with neighbour Susannah's lithp. I mean, lisp. Truth in Television - Thpeech Impedimentth can be extremely and embarrassingly contagioth... |
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Kramer on Seinfeld always manages to avert this trope. For example, when Jerry is dating a woman with a very large nose, nobody says anything about it until Kramer walks in and comments on it nonchalantly. The woman's actually fine with this. In one episode, they try to use this to their advantage. One of Elaine's friends has a ridiculous hairdo, but none of them have the nerve to tell her to change it, so they decided to introduce her to Kramer, reasoning that he won't be afraid to say what they're all thinking. It backfires when it turns out that Kramer likes her hair. In fact, she had been considering changing it, but Kramer convinces her not to. |
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The fifth season of The Office (US) brings us a variation: After Michael is fired from Dunder-Mifflin, Dwight uses his notes on his sales clients, which have detailed notes about their families and personal lives on different colored stickers. Dwight tries to chat up a client using something in green ink — "1 son, gay" — and turns out that all of Michael's client notes are about the things he shouldn't say to their faces, in an attempt to avoid this trope! This was a rather sneaky Batman Gambit of Michael to trip up Dwight who had been using Michael's stolen client notes. By going after Dwight's biggest client whom he remembered he had some colored notes info and taunting Dwight about it, he was certain Dwight would try and use that information, invoking the trope full force and making him lose the account. |
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Monk: In "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink," Dr. Kroger temporarily quits his practice after his cleaning lady is murdered in his office. In the interim, he refers Monk to a colleague, Dr. Jonah Sorenson, who lost his right arm in a boating accident (though Dr. Kroger seems not to have known about it). During the one session Monk has with Dr. Sorenson, he very conspicuously holds up a coaster in front of his face deliberately to hide Dr. Sorenson's stump, something Dr. Sorenson is quick to catch on. | |
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Kim Possible: Kim falls prey to this the first time she meets Felix, using a wheelchair. Except her behavior has her acting in a very protective (yet condescending) way. Ron snaps her out of it. | |
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Pixie and Brutus: Brutus the retired military service dog has the heavily scarred Face of a Thug, which the neighbours' pets try gamely to ignore. | |
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In Safe Havens, Luis got annoyed at meddlesome Samantha always trying to do things for him. In fact, the whole reason Luis fell for Jenny of all people is that she alone ignored his wheelchair, even forgoing designated parking spaces. | |
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In the live-action adaptation of 101 Dalmatians (1996), Jasper and Horace are meeting with the skinner who has a large animal attack scar on his neck and can't speak. Jasper tries to emphasize to Horace not to comment about Mr. Skinner's huge scar on his throat. First words out of his mouth when Skinner opens the door? | |
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In an episode of Fawlty Towers "Gourmet Night,": There was also a notably short lady in the episode about whom Basil and Sybil had to struggle to avoid referencing the height of. Also, her husband Colonel Hall has a facial twitch making it hard for Basil to introduce Mr. Twitchen. |
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An episode of Boston Legal had this with a witness who had a glass eye. | |
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In the first The Thin Man, it becomes increasingly obvious that the family Nick and Nora are serving dinner (for a Summation Gathering) are all a little... eccentric. Nora says one of the funniest lines in film: "Waiter, will you please serve the nuts? I mean, will you please serve the guests the nuts?" | |
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Men in Black 3: When Boris the Animal meets his past self through Time Travel, the two get along very poorly in part because Young Boris keeps trying to ignore Old Boris's missing arm... and fails catastrophically: | |
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In Maya & Miguel, the titular characters meet Andy, who only has one arm. They try to make him feel welcome, but Maya overzealously hides anything that requires two hands to operate (like silverware, replacing them with chopsticks). | |
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The Golden Girls: On an episode of The Golden Girls. Rose brings her date home and he turns out to be a little person. Blanche and Dorothy are both extremely uncomfortable about this, but decide to conceal that fact out of friendship. Blanche comes out of the kitchen and offers Rose's date a plate of hors d'oeuvres by saying "Shrimp?" then turns tail and walks rapidly right back into the kitchen. It doesn't stop there: Shortly thereafter Dorothy announces — very reluctantly — that she is serving "short ribs" for dinner. In another episode, when Rose needs to be hospitalized, the doctor introduces himself. Upon hearing his last name, Blanche brightens up and exclaims, "Dorothy, Rose is going to be all right! Her doctor is a Jew!" Dorothy rebukes Blanche for the comment, and then immediately asks, "How is she, Dr. Jew?" When Blanche goes on a date with a man in a wheelchair, she tries to speak normally, but randomly blurts out the word "wheelchair". |
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In South Park the school's Nurse Gollum, who has a dead fetus hanging off the side of her head, is invited to a dinner party at the Brofloskis' where this memorable exchange takes place; | |
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Thelma of Good Times covered her mouth in horrified embarrassment after blurting out the slang expression, "outta sight!" in the presence of a blind guest. | |
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General consensus among the townsfolk in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! seems to be that Molly the Monster is a deformed human. Ms. Hatbrim even addresses her as, "Hi, Bob's Friendly Deformed Niece!" When it's pointed out that she has "claws, fangs, and a tail," the stock response is a polite, "Well we all try not to stare..." | |
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On The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary is worried that Rhoda might make a mean comment about her date's height. Rhoda responds by asking "You really think I'd make a derogatory remark about a person just because he's a shrimp?" Mary is annoyed by her insensitivity only to finally introduce them with: "Eric, I'd like you to meet my friend, Rhoda Morgenstern; Rhoda, this is Eric Shrimp." | |
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Edward from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues is in a wheelchair, and multiple other characters get themselves in knots while trying to avoid acknowledging it. When Ivy casually refers to him as 'the guy in the wheelchair', Luna is horrified at her supposed faux pas, which in turn causes Ivy to have a miniature crisis. Ed himself doesn't actually mind if people point it out. | |
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In Star Guys, when Neptune's parents come over to visit, he asks Earth not to comment on his mother's appearance. Turns out she has a moustache (she's a Sealeo)...and Earth ends up exploding from keeping comments about it in his system. | |
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Family Guy: In one episode, Brian warns Stewie not to say anything about Tom Tucker's son's facial deformity (it's upside down). While they are talking, Brian inadvertently says "This whole thing has really just turned Chris' life upside-down face.", to which Stewie sloooowly turns to glare at a mortified Brian. Subverted when Tom Tucker doesn't take offense at the comment, or even seem to notice. "It's no problem of mine if it's turned his life upside-down face." Played with in another episode. Brian is staying with Quagmire, who goes on and on about how his girlfriend with a gimpy leg is visiting, and repeatedly tells Brian not to mention it. It's basically one painfully obvious setup for this joke. Then Quagmire leaves and Stewie shows up. After a minute of conversation between Brian and Stewie, the girl shows up and it's Stewie who says "Oh my God, what happened to your leg?" The girl runs out crying, and Quagmire follows her shouting "Dammit, Brian!" And again when Peter is talking to a man with one leg: "Alright, well, if you like movie trivia, I got one that will stump ya...aaaaah....of course you're probably not into tibia-Trivia!...aaaah...Boy, that global warming, hm? They say we lost a foot of snow last wint-aaaaah...Hey! How about another beer? I bet you like the taste of hops..aaaaah.....You only have one leg, sir." |
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Housepets!: Peanut puts his foot firmly in his mouth when accidentally using a bunch of awful puns about hands and arms when talking with "Four Finger Discount" Jack, who is missing an arm. Jack looks angrily at Peanut over it but then lets up in the last panel, saying he was just messing with Peanut. | |
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Happens in Steve Martin's Cyrano de Bergerac remake Roxanne: "Would you like a little wine with your nose?" He tolerates this from Roxanne, but with other people... watch out. It helps that he's an expert martial artist and beats up several hooligans over the course of the film for it. | |
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Katawa Shoujo: Hisao finds himself struggling with this a bit when he comes to Yamaku Academy, a school for the physically disabled, often wondering whether it's polite or not to even mention another person's disability. For their part, most of the characters at the school are perfectly comfortable with themselves and think Hisao is worrying over much. Lilly in particular seems to find it funny when people try to avoid words like "see" in her presence (she's blind). | |
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Frasier plays with this spectacularly in the episode "Roz and the Schnoz." Roz is pregnant, and Frasier plays host to the birth father's parents, who, unknown to anyone (including themselves), have extremely large noses. It doesn't help matters that they keep unwittingly setting up nose-related puns, such as mentioning that they have two Giant Schnauzers when the topic of dogs is raised. | |
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The first episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch has her completely wrecking her day and thus going to the Witchs' Council to ask them to reverse the time back to the previous one. The leader of the council is Drell, and her aunt, his ex-girlfriend, warns Sabrina not to stare at his mole. It's a literal one. | |
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Used in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with a twist. Wraith warns Logan not to mention Dukes' extreme weight gain, as he is sensitive about it. The very first thing that Logan says is "Hey, Fat- uh, Fred!" It's clearly accidental, but as Dukes doesn't seem to care, Logan continues doing it on purpose, calling him "Slim" and the like. Logan doesn't hit the Berserk Button until he uses the word Bub, which Dukes mishears as Blob. The joke here is that Fred Dukes is a long-standing Marvel Comics villain, who uses the identity "The Blob". | |
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Happens in Uncle Buck, where John Candy, playing the titular uncle, goes to see the principal of his niece's school, who has a large mole: Then subverted when the principal makes the mistake of insulting his niece. He drops all pretense of ignoring her mole. "Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face. Good day to you, madam." |
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: A Nosferatu player character's Looks Like Orlok appearance provokes a lot of horrified reactions, but one convenience store clerk tries gamely not to mention it. It doesn't work. | |
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One of the bullies on Pepper Ann has a prominent mole on his face that he does not like anyone talking about. Unfortunately, he tends to hear any word rhyming with "-ole" as "mole", leading him to threaten to beat up people who are merely mentioning "control", "roll", or "bowls". | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Hollow Pursuits", Captain Picard orders the crew to stop referring to the unpopular Lieutenant Barclay as "Broccoli", and further orders Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge to work with Barclay and help raise his self-esteem. Later, after Barclay makes a breakthrough in determining the cause of various shipboard malfunctions, Picard is pleased with his progress and tells him, "I'll look forward to your report, Mr. Broccoli." After Picard realizes what he's said, Jonathan Frakes as Riker does one of his trademark grins, but the look on Patrick Stewart's face is classic. It can't truly be described; you have to see it for yourself. He makes a D: face. Then Data tries to help by pointing out it was a simple pronunciation transposition error - "Barc":"Brac" - and for once realizes it wasn't helping at all and that it might be a good time to find a control panel to be unusually interesting. |
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