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Lame Rhyme Dodge

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Generally speaking, Lame Rhyme Dodge is the result of someone having a Did I Just Say That Out Loud? moment, but doesn't want to/is afraid or embarrassed to admit to having said what they said, or, it's a case of someone trying to dodge having heard what somebody else just said to them. It's the little sibling trope to Last-Second Word Swap.
Frequently used by guys who are tongue-tied around women, or teenagers trying to dodge teachers or other adults.
The way both parties try to dodge this situation is to come up with a word that rhymes or sounds similar to the operative word in the sentence. Unfortunately, this usually results in a sentence that makes no sense at all.
A common variant is to have someone dreaming/daydreaming about something, then they're awakened from their reverie by someone saying "What did you say?" and realize they've been saying everything out loud. They proceed with the clumsy cover-up.
Compare Freudian Slip. Not to be confused with Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion.
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Adventure Time: In "The Suitor", Finn remarks that the eponymous suitor, Braco, seems "too unheroic for Peebs". When he finally realizes Jake has been trying to alert him to the fact Braco was standing within earshot, Finn hastily changes it to "And then I smashed that peach!"
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The Clone High episode "Episode Two: Election Blu-Galoo" has Joan of Arc tell Abe Lincoln that she's so angry at him she could kiss him. When Abe asks about the last part, Joan claims that she actually said "piss glue".
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In Rockin' with Judy Jetson, Rosie sees the house being mobbed by Judy's fans and says "There's no accounting for taste." When Judy asks what she just said, Rosie covers, "They're all over the place."
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Butt-Ugly Martians often had Dr. Damage insult Emperor Bog under his breath, then covering it up by claiming to have said something that rhymes when Bog gets mad at him. For example, the first episode has him call Bog a "royal nincompoop", which he covers up by claiming to have been talking about Bog's "loyal troops".
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The Simpsons:
Played with in "Whacking Day" as Superintendent Chalmers inspects Springfield Elementary. Skinner shows off the students' intelligence by "randomly" having Lisa answer a question about the Battle of New Orleans. Ralph Wiggum then asks: "What's a battle?" Skinner attempts to use this trope to cover it up, but it takes some effort to get Chalmers to buy it:
In "Rosebud", Mr. Burns dreams about his lost teddy bear and talks in his sleep, which Smithers hears him doing. Immediately after, it cuts to Homer, who actually is shouting about Sheriff Lobo.
Done by Mr. Burns a second time in the "Treehouse of Horror III" segment "King Homer" while taking Marge to Ape Island:
The episode "Tales from the Public Domain" contains a parody of Hamlet where Bart (as Hamlet) tries to trick Moe (as Claudius) into confessing that he poisoned the King (Homer) by having Krusty reenact the moment of the King's death.
Famously done by Principal Skinner in "22 Short Films About Springfield" when he has Superintendent Chalmers over for dinner:
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iCarly:
Mr. Howard rants about how he hates Principal Franklin, calling him a "weak, spineless fool". Later, when Principal Franklin confronts him about the insult, he tries to save face by saying that he actually said "sleek, stylish, cool".
At one point, Carly blurts out that her father is serving on a submarine in Alaska. Sam questions whether Carly should say where, and Carly says, "I meant Nebraska, a submarine in Nebraska."
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In Wet Hot American Summer, camp chef Gene tends to accidentally mention his odd fetishes and then offer up a lame rhyme dodge when questioned.
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Turns up in the Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop episode "Son of Zitbag". Dr. Zitbag and Horrifido search for ingredients needed for Zitbag to create a son, but Horrifido deliberately avoids informing Zitbag that puppy dog tails are needed because he fears he'll have his own tail used to create Zitbag's son. When Horrifido remarks that he hopes the concoction will work without puppy dog tails, Zitbag overhears him and the skeletal dog covers up his statement by claiming he said he hoped the concoction would work with the nicely done snails.
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The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: Wallace tries to stop Lady Tottington from noticing Hutch when he answers the door for her.
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In Hunter: The Parenting, Big D thinks fondly upon his grandson Boy during a police interrogation, and says, "I love my grandson." Since he gave his age as twenty-seven and looks it, he backpedals and pretends he said something about Bryan Cranston. The cop thinks it's a bit off-topic, but accepts it.
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As Told by Ginger: In "Season of Caprice", when Darren is telling everyone about the miserable time he had at military camp, particularly eating mystery stew, Ginger starts talking in her sleep about a boy she met at camp.
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The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants:
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Blinky Bill did this a lot; in one case it set the plot of an episode by having Blinky change "Have you ever seen such a silly face?" to "We're practicing for a heavy race". Blinky then proceeds to (unintentionally) give Mayor Pelican the idea for a cross-country race to raise money for a new hospital.
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In the second season of the series Misfits, Shaun the probation worker walks in on the Misfits plotting to rob a bank so they can ransom Kelly who has been kidnapped by Tim and asks them what they're doing. Nathan informs him that they're going to have a wank and starts extolling the benefits of communal masturbation. Shaun, as always, decides that he doesn't want to know.
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Mannequin has Switcher quickly substitute "Nice hall" when Felix overhears him calling him an asshole.
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In A Fish Called Wanda, Archie cries out "Wanda!" while she is on the stand, drawing suspicion of why he is being so familiar with her. He tries to turn it into "I wonder..." but is so fazed that he has a lot of difficulty getting there.
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In the Goosebumps book Bad Hare Day, the protagonist's sister tells their parents that she and her brother have a secret. When their parents ask what it is, the protagonist says that his sister was saying that she wanted a "wee pet", claiming that she was practicing her Scottish accent.
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The Nanny: Throughout the season Maxwell and Fran refer to the incident in which he told her he loved her and then took it back as "the Thing", their constant vagueness about it driving Niles up a wall. In the episode "Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will?", Maxwell accidentally lets slip to Niles what happened after Fran quits. Niles, naturally, is furious at this and makes it known.
In another episode, a potential investor reveals that C.C. referred to herself as the brains of their company and Maxwell was "just a pretty face in a blazer," which Max and C.C. happened to overhear since they were hiding in his closet at the time. At Maxwell's Death Glare, C.C. tries to cover by claiming she actually said he was "pretty great and a trail-blazer," and blames bad phone reception for the mistake.
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When Alex is standing up for Miranda in Raising the Wind:
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Thundercats 1985: In one early episode, Slithe decides Castle Plun-Darr needs "a woman's touch" and orders Monkian to go and capture some female Third Earthlings for the Mutants to use as slaves. Monkian mutters "chauvinist reptile" under his breath and, when Slithe challenges him, claims that what he said was: "You're right, Slithe."
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Phineas and Ferb: Done twice by Dr. Doofenshmirtz in "Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown"; played with in that both times he manages to have evidence to back up his back-spacing:
First, Doof explains his plan to control people with his Music Video Mind-Control-Inator. When he realizes that all of what he just said was on-camera, he quickly says, "I meant, 'Mimes control my gator!'" Cut to two mimes wrangling an alligator.
Later, when Dr. Doofenshmirtz brings up his plan to enslave the Tri-State Area, he claims he meant to say "Engrave my pie-plate carrier!"
In "Spa Day", Candace doesn't seem to understand that, no matter how quietly she speaks, if the person is standing right next to her they can still hear what she's saying. Jeremy even goes on to point this out, leading to the truly horrible rhyme dodge while talking to Stacy:
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Drake & Josh uses it in a way that's WORSE than what it was before. Drake agreed to pay for Josh's speeding ticket so their father wouldn't find out.
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In The Legend of Vox Machina with Grog secretly talking to the Hungry Weapon Craven Edge, while fighting some fire demons that only have lava inside of them.
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In Are You Being Served?, Mr. Grainger insults a rude German, who hears him, and Mr. Humphries has to try and cover up what he has said:
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Transformers: Prime: In the episode "Project Predacon", Smokescreen laments having to do grunt work
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An unusual version of this happens in Hot Rod when the main character changes his sentence into something worse instead of something innocuous when he suddenly backtracks on his brief moment of having enough nerve to compliment the girl he likes.
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In the Third Inuyasha movie, Kagome delivers her 'sit' command Osuwari on Inuyasha in the present time near her school, and some of her friends overhear. She attempts to cover it up by claiming that she said O su wa ii (vinegar is good), then went on to elaborate that her grandfather was always telling her how good it was for her. They are a bit weirded out but don't question it.
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The Loud House: In "No Spoilers", when Lincoln has Leni make new clothes for him as part of a plan to keep the notorious blabbermouth from spoiling a surprise party.
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The Lion King: When Banzai grumbles about Mufasa, earning an enraged "What did you say?!" from Scar, he nervously replies "I said, uh... que pasa?" Since "mostaza", "mustard" in Spanish, rhymes with "Mufasa", the Mexican dub renders it as "I said, uh... with mustard!" Which is funny, because they could have just continued to use "¿que pasa?" since it was already in Spanish.
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American Dragon: Jake Long
Jake normally avoids such verbal dodges, but he is self-conscious about molting at this time.
Spud, disguised as a member of the Huntsclan sees Jake get knocked down and apparently killed by the Huntsgirl. He calls out "Jake!" and then realising that he's surrounded by Huntsclan trainees, changes it to "Cake! Which is what we'll have to celebrate the death of the dragon."
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In Grosse Pointe Blank, Martin Blank, a hitman going through a crisis, is reluctantly going to his 10 year high school reunion with Debi, his high school girlfriend (whom he abandoned on prom night but whom he's still in love with). As they walk in:
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In Soultaker, there's a needlessly long slow-motion scene where the female lead gets undressed while a soultaker, disguised as her mother, spies on her from the doorway. Crow gets something in his eye at a critical moment and has to leave the theater and look for some eye drops, Missing the Good Stuff.
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A sketch on The Two Ronnies features Ronnie Corbett's character doing this with every sentence, ie: "Tickle your botty with a feather tonight" is changed to "Particularly grotty weather tonight." Eventually the people around him figure it out and he admits that he's doing it to try and to drum up his trade; he sells deaf aids.
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OverSimplified: In "The Emu War", Minister of Defense George Pearce incites an outrage among the parliament when he expresses his desire to turn the emus into feather hats. He tries to use several rhyme dodges to tell them that he's not actually trying to turn the birds into feather hats, but always ends up saying that he's going to turn them into feather hats again.
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Big City Greens: In "Papaganda" when Cricket rebels against Bill's "Live, Laugh, Love" philosophy, he complains, "How can anyone think this is fun?!" Bill hears, and he quickly rephrases his statement as, "So great to work in the sun." Then he complains, "If he hugs me again, I'm gonna lose it!", only to change it to "Gramma's gonna teach me how to knit," when Bill comes again.
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A Clash of Kings: When Arya Stark gets into a fight while travelling undercover with recruits for the Night's Watch, she loses her head in the heat of battle and screams "Winterfell!", the name of her home castle, as a battle cry. When another boy mentions this to her friend Gendry, he claims all she was "Go to Hell!" and later warns Arya to say the same thing if asked.
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Muppet Babies:
In the episode "Good Clean Fun", Kermit remarks that Piggy weighs more than he thought when she stands on him to reach the sink. When Piggy gets angry, Kermit hastily claims that he said "Those are the nicest shoes you've bought".
During the imagination sequence of "The Pig Who Would Be Queen", Skeeter tells Piggy that she has to complete some tasks in order to prove herself worthy of being queen, to which Piggy responds by complaining that by the time she'd be finished with the tasks, she'd be a grandmother. When Skeeter asks what she said, Piggy claims that she said "You look just like your brother".
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The Emperor in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device makes a rhyme dodge one time. Kitten is not entirely convinced — perhaps because the text-to-speech device has no whisper function.
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The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire:
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Judge John Deed: George Channing does this.
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Danny Phantom:
In "Maternal Instinct", Vlad accidentally said in front of Maddie how he wanted to kill Jack. How he fixed it? 'Flapjacks'.
Done again in "Secret Weapons" after Danny's parents tell him Jazz ran away from home, and he quickly realizes that she left to catch a ghost after telling her she was a lousy ghost hunternote He assumes it's Skulker, but she's really planning to pull one over Danny's nemesis Vlad Plasmius. He then has to come up with a reason to leave and find her after blurting out why she left in front of his parents.
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Big Top Flop", Mr. Krabs wants to get rid of the new circus in town that's stealing his business away. He tells SpongeBob and Squidward that they're going to the circus to destroy it. SpongeBob cheers, then momentarily pauses and questions it. Krabs covers it up by saying that they're going to enjoy the circus.
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Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole, given to muttering to himself, uses this constantly on his wife and in court and always gets away with it.
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A two-person version in Princess Jellyfish. Whenever Kuranosuke, who is Disguised in Drag among the man-hating Nuns, slips up on his pronouns and uses the male pronoun ore to refer to himself, Tsukimi loudly starts singing "olé" to cover it up and keep the ruse.
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Hercules: The Animated Series: In the middle of a forest, Phil sees a Sexy Silhouette of a woman behind a waterfall and mistakes her for a nymph introducing himself as a "brave mighty boar hunter", though it turns out to be Artemis, Goddess of the Wilds and she does not like hunters in her forest. Phil tries to backpedal by claiming he said that he was "bored with hunting" but she doesn't buy it.
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Torin's Passage: The Queen of the Escarpa, Di, often quips sarcastically and harshly to her husband Rupert. Each time, the king assumes he has misheard his wife and asks her to speak up, this time with his full attention on her, to which she almost always replies in a softer and more supportive manner that rhymes with her previous quip. He instantly believes her each time.
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That's So Raven: Raven calls Alana a "sneaky boyfriend stealer", but when Alana asks what she said, she gives the pseudo-German phrase, "shneaky shnoyland shneiler".
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From Lolita, there is this exchange between Humbert Humbert and another pedophile. Which is sort of a subversion since Humbert clearly knows what he's being accused of.
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The title character of The Deputy Dawg Show had a bad time from a bird visitor that does imitations. Mimicking Deputy Dawg's voice, he yells out "Hey, sheriff! How'd you like a lumpy lip?" The sheriff zips back angrily to D.D. with his fist balled up and yells "WHAT DID YOU SAY??!" Deputy Dawg sheepishly says "Er...I said, don't have a bumpy trip!"
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In Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, the yard teacher Louis intends to give a bouquet to Ms. Nogard (a substitute teacher he's smitten with), but he gets cold feet and ends up instead giving it to the surly principal, Mr. Kidswatter. Under his breath, Louis calls Kidswatter a "maggot-infested string bean", then when asked to clarify, changes it to "a magnificent human being".
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In Return To Never Land Captain Hook orders his reluctant pirates to search the shore for Peter Pan.
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Inverted in the remake of Ocean's Eleven, Rusty is talking to a bartender, only it's too loud in the bar for them to hear each other. Rusty begins the conversation with something like, "Longest night of my life" When the bartender looks up, wondering what Rusty said, he says, "I'm running away with your wife," and the bartender just nods and smiles.
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Pokémon: The Series: In one of the episodes from the Orange Islands arc, Tracey makes a comment about Misty being "a chicken" when it comes to Bug Pokemon, which along with carrots and peppers are among Misty's three least favourite things. When Misty takes exception to this, Tracey claims that what he said was that "it's a good thing we have you checking for bugs."
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On Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson once remarked that newsreader Fiona Bruce had "a nice bottom." When she was a guest on a later episode, he claimed to have said "Oxford-educated newsreaders wear cotton."
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In Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child's take on "Thumbelina", the mole is played by a fruit bat, who shows Thumbelina his collection of pinned butterflies. Seeing one she recognizes, she exclaims, "Mario!" which she tries to pass off "Marry you, I can't wait to marry you."
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In Gadget Boy & Heather, it was a Running Gag for Spydra's pet vulture Boris to insult her and then make up a phrase that vaguely sounded like his insult when she got angry. Boris himself is given one by Spydra's henchman Mulch in "Boris for President".
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander doesn't take it well when Buffy admits to being in love with Angel.
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While Henry is at his wit's end trying to explain Chess to George in Twice Round the Daffodils:
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Family Guy:
In "The Tan Aquatic With Steve Zissou", Stewie believes he is dying of cancer and asks Brian to help him fulfill his last requests, one of which is ballroom dancing, which Stewie gets a little too into.
From the episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea" after Stewie's attempts to turn the new bar owner's daughter into a proper lady fail.
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In the Gravity Falls episode "Gideon Rises," at one point Dipper is alarmed when Wendy says that she may have to leave town. Soos tells Wendy that would be terrible for Dipper, "because of his giant crush on you," but then seeing Dipper's anxious reaction, he amends it with a lame rhyme: "you . . . calyptus trees! The kid loves eucalyptus trees!" And then he declares, aloud, "Ha! Saved it!"
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