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In a situation where the usual tropes call for a clever rejoinder, sometimes the absence of one can have the same effect (as far as the audience is concerned). At best, the retort is ineffectually weak or too nonsensical to hurt its target. At worst, the speaker can't even string together coherent words. Related to Comeback Tomorrow, except here there is no comeback. Also see Dissimile, Metaphorgotten and Buffy Speak for different kinds of subverted verbal setups. See Your Mom, Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head, You Are Fat and No, You for sub- and related tropes. Truth in Television; you know who you are. |
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In the remake of Splatterhouse (made worse by the fact that the villain had something like 200 years to think carefully to an appropriate comeback: | |
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Desperate Housewives: In one episode, Susan (per usual) is being very snippy and self righteous towards a professor, calling him out on being divorced three times. His reply “I’m sorry, haven’t you been divorced TWICE?” Her response? “Yeah well…..two is still less that three!” | |
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Subverted in Bleach when Ichigo roars, "Shut up!" after Ginjo gave him a Break Them by Talking. Ginjo mocks him and says attempting a Shut Up, Hannibal! by simply telling the other person to shut up means you have no argument to counter the other person's words. Ichigo tells Ginjo to shut up, informs him that he'd been telling Ishida to shut up, then expertly refutes Ginjo's argument. | |
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Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Pretty much all of Space Ghost’s comebacks to Zorak and Moltar’s mockery are absolutely pathetic, but special mention has to go to his response to Zorak saying he dances like a woman; “I dance like a woman, if she were a man”. | |
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In Tommy Boy, after Tommy sets a bag of M&M's on the dashboard and they pour into an open slot: | |
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In the Better Off Ted episode "The Impertence of Communicationizing", Phil laments his lack of ability to insult people: | |
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That '70s Show: In the episode "Eric's Depression" Eric and Donna have a shouting match (it was shortly after their breakup) in which Donna calls Eric a dillhole. Eric's response is to call her a "double dillhole". As soon as Donna leaves he berates himself for saying something that stupid. In the episode "Eric's Hot Cousin": In the same episode: |
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Cheers: Carla, normally an expert at putdowns, meets her match in Lilith's even nastier, acerbic mother. The first time, Carla insists she was just rattled, but after a few more becomes convinced she's actually ill and takes the rest of the day off. | |
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In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, towards the end, when Harold confronts his two co-workers. | |
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The Simpsons: A better one comes from Sideshow Bob: From "Homer the Heretic": Practically exemplified in "Lisa's First Word'': "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" has Principal Skinner say one to Willie, yet Willie actually seems to have found it effective: |
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In The Very Secret Diary, Ginny is able to deduce Tom Riddle's past, and point blank tells him why she doesn't feel sorry for him at all. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty has a pretty triumphant example of the trope. | |
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In Return of the Primarchs, when Boreale and Azrael have a war of insults, the latter mocks the former's Space Marine chapter for being thieves. Boreale responds calling Azrael's hat stupid, which is enough to give the man a Flat "What" moment. | |
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Dave Bautista became infamous for saying to CM Punk, "Yeah, well...you're a punk!" There was also that hilarious time where Batista was to face The Great Khali for the world championship, and Khali was demonstrating his strength by crushing a basketball in his hands. Batista's response was, "Basketballs... don't hold grudges! Basketballs don't wanna knock your teeth down your throat! Basketballs don't wanna rip your head right off your shoulders! And you're not gonna be in the ring with a basketball at Summerslam for the World Heavyweight Championship!" | |
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Full House: Danny makes one in "The House Meets the Mouse", when he is chiding Michelle over her behavior towards her sisters. | |
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A classic from Street Fighter: The Animated Series: | |
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The Big Lebowski contains an example that, due to the Dude's sheer unflappable laid-backness contrasted with Jesus Quintana's over-the-top arrogance, turns this trope into an artform, to the point where Memetic Mutation has in fact made this an actual comeback that is successful. Quoted above: | |
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In Master Chief Sucks At Halo (the predecessor to Arby 'n' the Chief) Master Chief uses uses these a lot (loadsa swearing): | |
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In iCarly, Freddie isn't very good at comebacks for Sam. | |
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In the Broad City episode "Sliding Doors," a man shoots Abbi with a bubble gun and says, "Whoops! Now you're all wet! Even though I know you were already!" In the timeline where Abbi is without Ilana, she says awkwardly, "No, sir, 'cause I... I never get wet!" | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Even wisecracking Michelangelo is sometimes at a loss for the right words: | |
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Justice League: In the episode "Flash and Substance": He does come up with a better one after the battle: There was one in the episode "Brave and the Bold" when Gorilla Grodd gets snippy with Flash and he responds with: "Oh yeah? Well, you're... naked!" (he shrugs to Solovar behind him because he knew it was lame). The more hilarious part is that the comment was actually pretty funny. Flash does this a lot. |
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In Shallow Hal, after Jason Alexander brags that he is "bigger", Hal takes about 8 seconds to respond "Yeah, bigger than a mouse's". Jason calls him out on taking too long; that's why it's called a "quip", not a "slowp". | |
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The Naruto fic Son of the Sannin has this exchange between Sasori and Hinata during the Gaara Rescue arc, when Sasori announces his intention to turn Hinata into one of his puppets: | |
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The Newsroom: Charlie and Sloan on the issue of lame comebacks: |
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Napoleon Dynamite has tons of this. | |
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Scott Pilgrim: It happens a lot to the main character. Later: Even later: This also happens to some of the Evil Exes, like Matthew Patel in the first volume... ...and Todd Ingram in the third volume: |
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On Aqua Teen Hunger Force, after the Mooninites acquire the Foreigner Belt: | |
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Subverted in Star Trek: Discovery during this exchange: | |
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Community has some of these, most notably: | |
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In RWBY, The group is denied entry to the city of Atlas by the egotistical Caroline Cordovan. Nora's response is... uh... | |
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Empty Nest: After Harry overrules another doctor's treatment plan, she angrily declares, "I'm sick of you older doctors doing things like this!" As she storms off, the equally angry Harry rants: | |
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In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman feels the need to respond to Bane's taunting, rhetorical question of "Are you here to die with your city?" with the very pithy, not at all obvious "No, I'm here to stop you." And the soundtrack treats it like a monumental piece of dialogue has just been uttered. | |
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Scrubs: In "My Butterfly": In the episode "His Story IV": J.D. also claimed at one point to have a comeback for every situation. Unfortunately, this comeback was always "so's your face". Played with in that instance, though, since he considers it a perfectly legit comeback, even when used by others in a nonsensical context. Occurs twice in the same conversation here. |
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In Selfie, Bryn and Henry have a passive-aggressive exchange after Henry rejects the advances of Bryn's friend, Wren. He says thank you and she says "I meant that as a burn." "So did I." "'Thank you' was your burn?" Then, at the end of the episode, | |
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Happy Gilmore has Shooter McGavin fall afoul of this a few times, most notably... | |
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Spaced: When Tim and Daisy are arguing about Tim's desire to get back with his unfaithful, selfish and manipulative ex-girlfriend, who has made overtures to him: Tim makes another lame comeback after claiming Daisy's dog, Colin, will eventually grow up to savage the man repairing the tumble dryer: |
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In Baten Kaitos Origins, Recurring Boss Giacomo has a particularly awful one right before the final boss fight with him: | |
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In the Animaniacs episode "Morning Malaise", Yakko takes on radio personality Howie Tern in a match of Volleying Insults. Howie is quickly reduced to a series of these. Their entire match is here. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: Also lampshaded in the episode "Keeping Up With the Bigheads" when Mr. Bighead tells Rocko that he doesn't have a chance to fix his yard before it gets condemned. |
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Supernatural: And: And again with poor Dean: Although Dean is generally a quite witty character, catching him off-guard seems to result in a lot of No, You responses. |
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King of the Hill: In "Tankin' It To The Street", Kahn shows off his new gigantic SUV, but it's so big it won't fit in his garage. In "Keeping Up With Our Joneses", Luann finds out Hank, Peggy, and Bobby are all addicted to smoking, she combines this trope with Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics by saying that more people die of smoking than die of war in Vietnam on a daily basis. When Boudda Sac and Hank exchange Yo Momma So X jokes with each other, Hank doesn't make the best comebacks. |
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In the Discworld novel Pyramids, Ptaclusp IIb (a cosmic-minded architect) tells his twin brother Ptaclusp IIa (an accountant) "The trouble with you is you know the price of everything and the value of nothing". IIa retorts "And the trouble with you is... is that you don't!" | |
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Chaos War: Invoked by the Chaos King in the Fourth-Wall Mail Slot in Issue #2. | |
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From ¡Mucha Lucha!: | |
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The Muppet Show: Fozzie makes one in the Bruce Forsyth episode when, backstage, he tries to prepare for Statler and Waldorf's heckling by having Kermit heckle him so he can practice his comebacks. Kermit isn't impressed with Fozzie's attempts. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory: | |
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Robin (1993): Tim Drake and Spoiler catch the leader of a gang who are selling guns to kids. Robin asks him who is supplying the guns and the thug tells him the tooth fairy. Tim tells him that he is going to be giving the tooth fairy a lot of business unless he starts talking. Stephanie notes that was a good one. | |
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In Homestuck, Nepeta and Equius's first chatlog has a series of these. | |
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In Castle Hangnail, when Molly challenges the Evil Sorceress Eudaimonia, the sorceress immediately produces a snappy comeback, which Molly is unable to think of a snappy response to. The narrator notes that Evil people have an unfair advantage when it comes to snappy comebacks, which Molly doesn't share because she's merely Wicked. | |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: "Well... double dumbass on you!" Justified because it's a time-traveling James Kirk talking and proper use of 20th century slang isn't exactly part of the Starfleet Academy curriculum. | |
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From Batman: The Brave and the Bold, "The Mask of Matches Malone!": | |
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Dr Dinosaur of Atomic Robo is just a bit too scrambled to manage anything that doesn't sound infantile. | |
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Kate Daniels's banter tends to be hit-and-miss. When she's on her game, she's pretty witty. When she's off-balance, her inner monologue and the people around her are perfectly willing to point out how embarrassed she should be. | |
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The Order of the Stick: In "A Minor Glitch", Belkar berates Vaarsuvius for saving his life and thus ruining his Thanatos Gambit, pointing out that Durkon could have just cast Raise Dead on him immediately afterward. After Vaarsuvius points out a major flaw in the plan, Belkar utterly fails to come up with a comeback. It happens again in "Pop Quiz, Hotshot" when Elan and Nale have a little family reunion. |
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Not Always Right has one that's not even in response to an insult, made by someone who seems to consider everything at the store "stupid". | |
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In Saints Row: The Third, during a chase scene teenage hacker Matt Miller will taunt you about how his hacking skills make him able to do anything. | |
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In Red Dwarf, Lister lampshades this during a conversation with Rimmer: | |
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Leon Scott Kennedy in Resident Evil 4. One could pity Big Bad Saddler for being Affably Evil and having to laugh at those... | |
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In Funny People, George is verbally abusing Ira after Ira has inadvertently destroyed George's admittedly slim chances of getting back together with "The One That Got Away". Ira — having put up with all the shit he's willing to take from George by this point — proceeds to completely demolish George and basically pegs him as a pathetic, bitter, self-absorbed and self-loathing man who, even if he had everything he ever wanted, still would find some way to fuck it up and be completely miserable because he doesn't even know how to be happy himself, much less inspire it in other people. Faced with this verbal assault, George's comeback — that Ira isn't funny — is exactly as pathetic as it sounds. And unfortunately, Ira has a comeback for that also: "Well, if that means I'm less like you, then good." | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: This exchange between Vegeta and Android 19: Also this gem from episode 31: And again in Episode 38: |
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Big Hero 6: The Series: In "The Impatient Patient": In "Killer App" |
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Full Circle has this exchange between Olympia and Oona when Otis asks them what shipping is. | |
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Skulduggery Pleasant is usually the epitome of wit and snark. When Serpine uses magic to pull him into a brick wall, we get this instead: | |
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Anchorman Brick Tamland, has a few of these. Before the big reporter brawl: |
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In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, Aliph Soulstealer (a.k.a. Dark Pegasus) goes on a rant that starts on #985, continues in #986, and ends at #987 with the following exchange: | |
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Unusual example in Avatar: The Last Airbender. When her "friend" Mai betrays her and tells her she "miscalculated", Azula responds with a No, You. While this is one of the rare occasions when the No, You can be legitimately frightening (as she intended to follow it with a killing strike), the fact that the normally composed Deadpan Snarker Azula shouted this retort (thus showing the first cracks that ultimately lead to a spectacular Villainous Breakdown), means it can qualify as this trope. After Aang defeats Fire Lord Ozai, Sokka, Toph, and Suki mock him, and Suki invokes this trope. |
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Keating! The Musical has an epic one during Paul Keating and John Hewson's debate on the GST (Keating's insults are based on actual comments in Parliament): | |
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The Gentlemen: In Coach's first scene, he gets in an argument with some chavs and spends a good 30 seconds smack-talking them, before pausing and excitedly asking them to hit him back. The best any of them can come up with is a simple "fuck you". | |
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Tomodachi Life has the possibility of this happening in two instances. One when Miis get into a fight, which can lead them to insult each other to varying degrees of efficiency. Like answering to "You're so stubborn!" with "Sticks and stones may break my bones but YOU ARE THE STUBBORN ONE!" The other option is the rap battles, where two Miis try to respond to the other's insults with a rhyme. When they fail, they may come up with incredibly bad comebacks like "You... don't sing very well" or "You... drive a dumb car" or "I have... more cats than you". |
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Pretty much everyone on Archer, running as it does on Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic and parodies of the Bond One-Liner. | |
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Arthur: In "Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight", Arthur and D.W. begin blaming each other for their parents arguing and listing the reasons why. As they throw their accusations against each other, D.W., who runs out of decent reasons, delivers this: | |
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Seinfeld : The plot of one episode was George regretting not using a good comeback on a guy who burned him. The comeback was "The jerk store called, and they're running out of you!" (in response to 'George, the ocean called and they're running out of shrimp' because George was stuffing his face with shrimp) The others immediately point out how utterly nonsensical it is and try to give him suggestions for better comebacks, but he's so proud of this that he travels to a city he doesn't want to go to, and makes an ass of himself again, just so the guy will insult him again so he can make this comeback. After all that, the guy deflects it in two seconds with "what does it matter? You're their all-time best seller!". The best that George can come up with in response is 'Oh yeah? Well...I had sex with your wife!' to which George is told that his wife is in a coma. By the end of the episode George is racing back to the airport having come up with yet another comeback. In the episode "The Dealership", Elaine criticizes Puddy (her boyfriend) for constantly giving the high-five to people: |
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In Destroy All Humans! 2, while looking for Coyote Bongwater, Crypto is given the option to threaten a bunch of hippies at a gathering for his location, and the result is a lame comeback. | |
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From Super Mario World (1991): | |
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The Aquabats! Super Show!: In the season finale "Showtime!", while the MC Bat Commander is in Space Monster M's clutches: "Night of the Cactus!": |
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From The Mighty Boosh: | |
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Ray from Talamak is fond of these. | |
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In General Protection Fault, Ki has an argument with her father, who accuses her boyfriend Nick of disrespecting Asian culture and seeing Ki as a trophy. Ki then calls Mr. Oshiro out on his hypocrisy. | |
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The Office (US) somewhat lampshades it in this gem of a verbal throwdown: | |
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Saved by the Bell Kelly got in a couple of these. Once to Zack, who accidentally made her face maroon from acne cream in "Cream For A Day": And again in "Blind Dates" when she thought Mr. Belding's niece was dating Zack: |
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Happens in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. In the most golden way ever... | |
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Glee: Shannon Beiste. Her comebacks are actually so lame that they leave her rival Sue speechless. The Season 5 episode "Previously Unaired Christmas" has Marley make a valiant effort at countering Kitty's insult about her virginity. Unfortunately, Marley isn't very practiced at insulting people, so this is all she can come up with: |
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M*A*S*H had numerous instances where Frank Burns got insulted and the most he could come back with was, "You ... guys!" | |
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From Lost, in one of the instances where Hurley gets tired of Sawyer's nicknames: | |
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RWBY: Reckoning had Blake comment on how Yang wanted to try and help Darrel clean up after a routine at the gym. Darrel's response? | |
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In the Boy Meets World episode "Honesty Night", Cory and Topanga pretend to be mad at each other in front of Shawn, and when they trade fake insults Cory proves he's not very good at ending them: | |
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Red vs. Blue has a lot of these, despite the fact that the initial insults are hardly clever themselves. From Reconstruction: And lampshaded once or twice: |
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In Animorphs: The Android, Marco is on the receiving end of a barb from Rachel, and all he can come up with in return is, "Yeah, well... you're really tall." Marco then narrates something to the effect of: somehow this brilliant comeback did not reduce Rachel to tears. | |
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In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, Dr Neo Cortex experiences this as he confronts his past self, who thinks he's an imposter: | |
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In the Letterkenny sketch "cold open". | |
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In the finale of Dollhouse: | |
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From Dan Vs. "Canada": | |
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Daria: Kevin and Brittany get into one of their weekly arguments; before stalking off, Britney snaps at him: | |
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This appears to be a trend with Vegeta fighting Androids, as evidenced by Vegeta fighting Super 17 in Dragon Ball GT: | |
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In Three-Point Shot, during the first trial, the culprit tries to throw people off by mocking the "half-rate science-fair project" that Kaede's "boyfriend" Shuichi did to prove her innocence. When Kokichi snarkily comments that it's a nice way to change the topic, the culprit fires back, "You shut up, you little brat!" | |
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Odd Squad: In the episode "Switch Your Partner Round and Round", Oren insults Olive and Otto, starts to insult them again, and can't find anything to insult them with. Olive and Otto begrudgingly help him out. | |
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Futurama: | |
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In Dangan Ronpa Trigger Happy Havoc, Kiyotaka Ishimaru gives Mondo Owada a hard-hitting "The Reason You Suck" Speech during their argument, saying that Mondo's short temper and violent behavior is merely an attempt to hide the fact that he's a coward. Mondo can only reply "...the fuck you say? You dunno shit." | |
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The West Wing has this a couple times. One when Sam meets Mallory after she dumped him following his whole "being-photographed-with-a-callgirl" scandal: Another example: |
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Danger Girl have a moment where Sydney, one of the girls, gets confronted by Assassin X, demanding her to hand over a doomsday artifact. Sydney's response sounds like something schoolchildren would use to taunt each other (and NOT something you'd expect a world-class super-assassin to say aloud): | |
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Dark Seed: In Dark Seed II, Mike is given a lot of silly dialogue, but his flashback with Rita while under hypnosis is particularly noteworthy... Jimmy Gardner's comebacks mostly consist of third-grade caliber insults like "doofus" and "jerkface". Granted, it's still a step or two above Mike's boogeyman comment. |
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In Portal 2, during the Final Boss fight, if you let Rick the Adventure Sphere talk long enough, he will eventually ask if you have a "Cool Line" prepared for when you kill Wheatley. After some unsuccessful attempts to think one up himself, he will try to invoke one by asking Chell to get Wheatley to say "You two have been a thorn in my side for long enough!", reminding you to do so as he is plugged in. Once all three cores are plugged in and the final part of the fight starts up, Wheatley's dialogue will have now changed slightly to include Rick's setup line word-for-word. Rick then delivers his "Cool Line". It's... a little underwhelming. | |
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From The Amazing World of Gumball in "The Rerun": | |
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The CATverse story "Vacation Time". Following assault and/or battery with a notebook: | |
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In A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge asks his jubilant nephew Fred, "What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough." To which Fred responds with, "What reason have you to be dismal? You're rich enough." Scrooge's response is just to mutter his "Bah Humbug!" quote. | |
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From Serenity: | |
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In Hook, Robin Williams is a grown-up Peter Pan when he engages in the verbal duel with Rufio. He quickly develops his own successful brand of insults, though. His opponent, Rufio, is eventually reduced to calling him "You stupid... you stupid man!" | |
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Invader Zim: Zim is not very good at comebacks: "GO HOME AND SHAVE YOUR GIANT HEAD OF SMELL WITH YOUR BAD SELF!" | |
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Singin' in the Rain: "I make more money than... Calvin Coolidge... put together!" | |
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From Robot Chicken: | |
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Skylanders Academy: In the episode "Space Invaders", Kaos gets confident enough to want to prove his superiority to the Doom Raiders and begins teasing Wolfgang, and after that, this is what follows: | |
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Celebrity Deathmatch: Matt Damon vs. Ben Affleck And in the Keanu Reeves/Brad Pitt fight: |
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: | |
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The Monkees: Famous line by Micky (who often mixes up his words). | |
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The Monkees | hasFeature |
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Critical Role has Percy, normally the king of the Bond One-Liner, slip up a little trying to get the last word in on a fish-like monster screaming at him in an incomprehensible language as he stabs it. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Pressure", SpongeBob engages Sandy in a name-calling contest until all he can come up with is "not-wet person". | |
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This gem from Transformers: Animated, though in fairness, Headmaster’s indecipherable slang makes it difficult to form a good response to anything he says: | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku fails to come up with a witty insult for Mister Mxyzptlk. Its gets lampshaded, only for Izuku to come up with another terrible one. | |
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In Team Fortress 2, the Sniper has a domination quote in reference to the Spy: | |
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In Zoolander, after Hansel tells Derek to "Derelict [his] balls", Derek eventually makes his way to one of these: | |
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In American Psycho, when somebody calls the protagonist a "fucking yuppie", he responds: "Hey... You may think I'm a really disgusting yuppie but I'm not, really." | |
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Blackadder: The various incarnations of Edmund Blackadder did this a few times despite being usually quite quick with a comeback: In Blackadder II: In Blackadder The Third, George combines this with Comeback Tomorrow, because he can't even think of a lame comeback on the spur of the moment: |
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In Digimon Adventure 02, when Takeru runs into Ken (still in his Digimon Kaiser persona), the latter commends him for being so bold to storm into his fortress when he controls "the Powers of Darkness". Takeru laughs at him and delivers a little "The Reason You Suck" Speech, telling him that he doesn't know the real meaning of "the Powers of Darkness" and will pay dearly for it. Ken immediately breaks into angrily calling Takeru "Maggot!" repeatedly, prompting Takeru to ask if that's all he can say. | |
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This exchange in "How Kaiba Got His Groove Back" in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus Played straight in the "Conquistador Coffee Campaign" sketch: Subverted in the sketch about the party at Oscar Wilde's. James Whistler and George Bernard Shaw insult the Prince Of Wales and blame each other, only for each accused to soften the insult with a compliment associated with it. When Shaw comes up with "Your Majesty is like a dose of clap. Before you arrive is pleasure but after is like pain in the dong," and accuses Wilde of saying it, all Wilde can do is blow a raspberry. Everyone applauds. |
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In DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, when White mocks Steve the Pirate, Peter counters with "First of all, he is way more of a pirate than you will ever be." | |
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As mentioned above, the "insult swordfighting" in Monkey Island is based not around actual fencing ability, but about being able to come up with clever comebacks to your opponents' insults to gain advantage in the duel. There are a couple of stock lame comebacks - "I am rubber, you are glue" or "Boy are you ugly!" - which don't work on any insult. In later games, "how appropriate - you fight like a cow!" goes from being a legitimate retort to Guybrush's go-to Lame Comeback whenever somebody insults him. In Escape from Monkey Island, Guybrush is only able to respond in Lame Comebacks to Ozzie Mandrill due to the latter using incomprehensible Australian taunts that no one understands. | |
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Kurt Angle in the WWE, when he was still on his square American Hero persona. | |
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The Larry Sanders Show: Hank is guest-hosting the show and letting his ego get out of control. Phil, the head writer, isn't impressed. In another episode, Hank is trying to persuade a skeptical Artie that he can be the host at a celebrity roast planned for Larry, and to prove it, asks Artie to stage being a heckler: |
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Hercules Returns: Ursus mocks Samson, trying to provoke him into a fight to see whether or not he's faking the loss of his strength. Samson's response? | |
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Every Button Hurts the Other Guy: Russel proves that two improvised lines that don't even rhyme are no match for a rehearsed song performed by one's own personal cheering squad. Also this: |
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Lyle's inability to come up with a decent comeback is what drives his romantic interest in an episode of Kingdom (2007). | |
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All of Me: | |
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In one of The Savannah Reid Mysteries, Savannah's new brother-in-law is arguing with his wife, who tells him he "sucks". His response? "You suck worser!" | |
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Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: When Gaz points out that Zim's plan to flood the Membranes' neighborhood with sewage from the City Cesspool will affect his house too (as he lives on the other end of said neighborhood), all he can give in response is "Nuh-uh", causing her to roll her eyes. | |
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South Park: The episode "Douche and Turd": Also, Towelie: Also from "Chef Aid" when the kids visit a mansion In "Prehistoric Ice Man" as Kyle and Stan get ready for their fight. Butters comes up with this in "Raisins": |
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In the sequel series, The Legend of Korra: Korra is wandering around Republic City when she comes across an Equalist protester. She quickly gets into an argument with him, and the protester accuses Benders like Korra of oppressing Nonbenders. Korra's response? Season 4 has Varrick tell Baatar Jr. that "You wouldn't know if a wolf-bat made a nest in your butt" to compare Baatar's ability of discovering things to his. Baatar can only reply with "You're a fool. Wolfbats don't build nests" which Varrick calmly mocks him for. |
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Smosh Games: In the "Epic Smosh Rap Battle" Game Bang, Joven and Sohinki must rap battle each other for losing the game, and Joven's roasts aren't particularly good, to say the least. In the first round, he calls Sohinki "Dinky", which is captioned "???" by the editor, presumably due to how lame it is. In the second round, he mocks Sohinki for having "an army of barbies", which almost sounds like a complete non-sequitur. | |
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Another gem in Dragon Age II, in the Dalish camp: | |
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Done a number of times by Strong Bad on Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "50 emails", one of the emails asks Strong Bad to "please write a book about comeback jokes". From the Strong Bad Email "island", where Homestar and Strong Bad get stranded on a "Far Side" Island together: From "TrogdorCon '97", a short made to promote The Brothers Chaps visiting Dragoncon 2005, has this exchange between Strong Bad and Strong Sad: |
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Requisite Buffy the Vampire Slayer examples: In "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" Cordelia is giving out chocolates to drum up votes to become May Queen. And this one from "Fear Itself"... In "Superstar", reality is changed so Buffy is overshadowed by another superhero, affecting her confidence and therefore Deadpan Snarker skills. Post-spikeification, Spike managed a few of these himself. A deleted scene (though still viewable in the first pilot) has Xander shouting after Cordelia, "Check back tomorrow! I'll have that devastating comeback ready!" |
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In Hello Cheeky, John Junkin gets one of these to Barry Cryer. | |
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In Goblins, Minmax is notoriously bad at witty banter. | |
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Last Alert: Because of the game's "Blind Idiot" Translation, roughly half of Guy Kazama's dialogue consists of hilariously Narmy retorts. Just one example: | |
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In Third Rate Gamer, the eponymous character's comeback to his haters is "Well, yeah, but these haters are...dumb". Then he slaps on a photoshopped graphic saying "PWNED!" | |
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Doug: Lampshaded in the episode, "Doug's Brainy Buddy", when he and Skeeter were arguing and the latter calls the former on his behavior: And this brilliant exchange between Doug and Roger over whose pet will win a talent contest in "Doug's Pet Capades": In an episode of Disney's Doug, Doug watches recordings of a famous insult comic and becomes great at comebacks, but then he goes back to doing this at the end of the episode when he realizes that he doesn't like insulting people for laughs. |
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In the Strong Bad Email "50 emails", one of the emails asks Strong Bad to "please write a book about comeback jokes". | |
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The MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing includes a mini-game called Insult Beer Pong, in which you have to respond appropriately to various insults (e.g., if your opponent says "When I'm through with you, you'll be crying like a little girl," you say "It's an honor to learn from such an expert in the field"). But you can't just start with battle; you have to research the insults and comebacks. So you grab The Big Book of Pirate Insults, get into fights with various pirates, insult them at random from the book, and learn various witty comebacks, which are then available for you during the match.note The book insults are different from the beer pong insults, but if you learn every possible comeback, you should be able to come up with one that fits each new insult. For instance, you can learn the aforementioned comeback in combat if you use "I'll teach you the meaning of fear, you gutless coward!" If a pirate can't think of an insult, he'll stammer out something like "Yeah? Well... so's your face!" - and there are five possible Lame Comebacks for you to use during the match (if you want to lose), including "Stop waving it around like a featherduster!" - an extended reference to Monkey Island. | |
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The Last Sovereign: A true battle of the wits between the Incubus King and the Fucklord right here: | |
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The Tick: | |
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From the first Artemis Fowl book. He recognises how lame his comeback was and notes that he will have to create a list of good comebacks for future use. Note that Artemis is usually very well-spoken and intelligent. It's used to emphasize how he's breaking down as his plan falls apart. | |
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Friends: When Chandler is in a fight with his girlfriend: Chandler, despite being known for his sense of humor, has a lot of these: |
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In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Harvey's romantic rival gives Sabrina a fancy silver-wrought gift. note Silver tarnishes very easily. | |
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Brooke "Aphrodite" Lennox Rival Angels is a ditz. The following exchange is just one of many, many examples: | |
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In Dark Seed II, Mike is given a lot of silly dialogue, but his flashback with Rita while under hypnosis is particularly noteworthy... | |
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In Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, when a pair of bike-riding teens insult Mystery Inc. over the incident at the Coolsonian, Daphne tells the others, "We need to think of a comeback". The comeback she comes up with? "Hey! [Beat] Shut up!" The teens just laugh derisively and ride off. | |
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Bobwhite. Ivy and Cleo are competing in a videogame: | |
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