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Layman's Terms

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Layman's Terms	comment	An attempt by a specialist to make incomprehensible technobabble or other jargon comprehensible to the other characters. Usually this results in an explanation that's either insultingly vague or just as incomprehensible as the original. This often occurs as the result of another character saying something like, "In English, please?" The term originally meant someone not a member of the clergy or the bar (i.e. a "layman"), because those professions actually do use terms people outside wouldn't understand, either because they're obscure words that only exist in that context, or because even common words in legalese can have very specific meanings and connotations not found in general English. Oh, and they use a fair bit of Latin, confusing the laymen even more. In cases of Technology Marches On or an improper assumption of Viewers Are Morons, this can lead to a reasonable explanation followed by an inane, overly simplified explanation of a concept that was already understood on the first try. Depending upon the setting, it may also lead the audience to assume different things about characters that ought to know better: for example, explaining basic or advanced physics to space-faring humans like such topics wouldn't have been required reading already. Super-Trope to Fold the Page, Fold the Space. Compare Expospeak Gag, where the incomprehensible technobabble was itself an obfuscated version of something straightforward, and Sophisticated as Hell. See also Phlebotinum Analogy. The next step after this is Buffy Speak, where the character either can't think of the proper term or can't think of a good Layman's Terms explanation and resorts to referring to "things" and "stuff." Also compare Lies to Children, where a simplified or incorrect explanation is the "beginner's version." The calling card of the Translator Buddy.
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Layman's Terms / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: There is a book titled Bestiarium Vocabulum (Beast Compendium) ((Animal Book)).
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Layman's Terms / int_13652756	comment	Finding Nemo: When the fish in the tank try to formally initiate Nemo into their gang with a faux-native ceremony.
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Layman's Terms / int_1365ffcf	comment	In Spin, Tyler uses the exact Stock Phrase ("In English, please, Jase"), when Jason describes a technology as "molecular autocatalytic feedback loops, basically, with contingent programming written into their reproductive protocols".
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Layman's Terms / int_140166dd	comment	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Walter Pidgeon's character explains to a conference of the world's foremost scientists that his plan to explode a nuclear missile in the burning Van Allen radiation belt to disperse it harmlessly into space is like blowing too much air into a balloon. You'd think the last thing the scriptwriter would want is for the audience to understand how ridiculous the Hollywood Science in this movie is.
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Layman's Terms / int_187d570b	comment	Devil May Cry 5: Nico knows a lot about demon anatomy and mechanical engineering so she says very technical terms in her Enemy and Weapon Reports... and then summarizes what she just said succinctly. For example: When describing the Punch Line Devil Breaker: It's used as her introduction for the Elder Geryon Knight:
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Layman's Terms / int_18e5537e	comment	In LEGO City Undercover, Professor Kowalski mentions that Chase needs to set up a forcefield around the rocket inside Blackwell Tower.
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Layman's Terms / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance: In this strip, Dr. Schlock has to go a step beyond layman's terms when talking to Sam and Kiki. Later he has to use a puppet show to explain himself.
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Layman's Terms / int_1e945a7b	comment	In Doctor in Clover, Sir Lancelot isn't impressed with Dr. Grimsdyke's use of the word "yank" in regard to kidney stone removal surgery.
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Layman's Terms / int_1f76648	comment	In A Certain Magical Index: Touma Kamijou often gets annoyed when others speak Magi Babble or Techno Babble, but the others don't usually dumb it down for him. He is sometimes able to come up with metaphors to better understand some of their terms. During a meeting of the world leaders, the magical characters like Queen Elizard report how Othinus is having her organization GREMLIN construct the sacred spear Gungnir, and how this would be very bad if they succeed. President Roberto Katze doesn't really get their explanation, but decides to think of Gungnir like a nuclear bomb: once the enemy completes and uses it, game over.
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Layman's Terms / int_21938c93	comment	Non-verbal version in Avengers: Age of Ultron, regarding the twins:
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Layman's Terms / int_21ec74db	comment	Better Off Ted: Those Two Guys parody this Like an Old Married Couple; As well as this exchange:
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Layman's Terms / int_22119589	comment	Everyone from the Alias cast in response to Marshall: "IN ENGLISH, MARSHALL!"
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Layman's Terms / int_22211d68	comment	Done done done and done in Bones, mostly said by Booth, Cam, or Angela to the "squints" (or more scientific squints). However, since the squints all have different specialties, they normally need to explain things more simply to begin with.
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Layman's Terms / int_22d87fc9	comment	That '70s Show: The car won't start when they're trying to make a getaway after a prank.
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Layman's Terms / int_22fa3992	comment	The Expanse: In "Here There Be Dragons", Prax starts explaining the ecological collapse of the Ganymede agricultural station, but Amos cuts straight to the bottom line:
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Layman's Terms / int_23b65ea6	comment	Zone of the Enders: your helpful AI ADA informs you that by the superphysical properties of Metatron inducing a charge alters the fabric of space-time which can be compartmentalized by the insertion of reality anchors into the points of "simultaneous compression and expansion", the destruction of which will open a final pocket that is otherwise nonexistent in this universe, or as she explains it:
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Layman's Terms / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: This is frequently parodied to emphasize that Springfield's average resident is dumber than a bag of hammers by having them ask for terms to dumbed down well past any reasonable level and often failing to understand even very commonplace terms. "Homer's Triple Bypass" Parodied when Homer doesn't get Dr. Hibbert's explanation of his impending surgery no matter how much he dumbs it downnote Of course it may not be that Homer doesn't understand so much as he doesn't want to. "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": When Homer is reviewing the instructions of the jury, he asks Principal Skinner to explain not only "sequestered" and "deadlocked" but also "if". "Treehouse of Horror VI": Parodied Homer winds up in a 3-D realm. Professor Frink starts to explain what's going on, but is asked to start dumbing things down once he gets into technical terms like "square". "The Fat and the Furriest": When Homer asks what the kids got Marge for Mother's Day, Lisa replies that she picked a boquet of Erigeron elatior, a North American wildflower. Homer and Bart stare blankly. She tries again by saying she picked daisies. More staring. "Flowers?" Still staring. She eventually resorts to just gesturing with the flowers and making a worldess noise, which gets the picture across. "The Burns and the Bees": Defied by Groundskeeper Willie, who clarifies that he does, in fact, know what "apiarist" means.
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Layman's Terms / int_26541dd6	comment	In Ex Machina, Nathan often interrupts Caleb and tells him to forget about technical language, urging him to instead describe his opinions in the simplest way possible. Ironically he wants this mostly for Caleb's benefit and because of his own preference for directness. He can understand Caleb's jargon perfectly well; it just makes him impatient to have to beat around the bush.
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Layman's Terms / int_2675c915	comment	A running gag in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is Ward not understanding what Fitz and Simmons are saying and asking for it in English.
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Layman's Terms / int_27777760	comment	A common gag in Eureka, being about a town full of brilliant scientists who speak like, well, brilliant scientists... and Jack Carter. For example: Often exaggerated to the point of Flanderization when Carter needs a Layman's Terms explanation of terms that should be common knowledge to anyone with a high school education, let alone a U.S. Marshal.
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Layman's Terms / int_27831967	comment	In Parks and Recreation, a Venezuelan delegation visits Pawnee, and spends the whole trip announcing how sad and underfunded the parks are. When Leslie asks about where their funding comes from, their leader explains it in the most patronizing Layman's Terms possible.
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Layman's Terms / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe: This is Peter Bishop's actual job description: To translate Walter Bishop's scientific jargon into something everyone else can understand. Of course, since Walter is an insane genius who tends to mix his Technobabble with musings on the homemade psychedelic drugs he's currently taking, what food he's craving at the moment, and random events from Peter's childhood, the translation is a bit more necessary than usual.
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Layman's Terms / int_2a842e3a	comment	In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe webcast Scream of the Shalka, Alison does this to herself to make better sense of what the Doctor's saying, to his annoyance.
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Layman's Terms / int_2b3ba9e	comment	In Chapter 27/ Episode 8 of Asteroid in Love, Mira asks Misa to do this when the latter suggests Ao to tell her parents she doesn't want to leave with them, "armed with a specific solution about how you want to live your life".
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Layman's Terms / int_2ba1d958	comment	This is from The Matrix. Neo likely understood the words in a computing context, being a hacker, but outside that had trouble figuring out where they would apply.
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Layman's Terms / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: In Duck Dodgers in the 24Â½th Century, when Dodgers (Daffy Duck) is explaining to his eager young Space Cadet (Porky Pig) how he plans to locate Planet X... In From Hare To Heir, Bugs Bunny goes to Sam, Duke of Yosemite, to tell him that he has received one million pounds and can keep the money under one condition.
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Layman's Terms / int_2bc165fe	comment	The World Is Not Enough:
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Layman's Terms / int_2d311a08	comment	Reoccurring moment in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles whenever Donatello describes a device using scientific terms. One example when the Technodrome escaped Dimension X heading towards Earth:
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Layman's Terms / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	The Justice League episode "Eclipsed", where a bit of Applied Phlebotinum will destroy the Sun unless the League can stop it:
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Layman's Terms / int_2ee19785	comment	When the scientists are involved in Aeon Entelechy Evangelion, sooner or later someone will ask them to explain what they said again in human language. This happens almost all the time when Misato and Ritsuko talk.
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Layman's Terms / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Leeron tries to explain to the heroes how sexual reproduction facilitates adaptation and evolution, and gets nowhere. They all get "In other words, love <3 makes the world go 'round", though. A subversion from the penultimate episode: Lordgenome either doesn't know what this term means or can't explain any simpler.
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Layman's Terms / int_31c31084	comment	In an episode of The Weekenders, Tish has spent the whole weekend speaking in Flowery Elizabethan English to Lor's annoyance. When it's Sunday night and the group realizes none of them have even started on their homework, Tish starts another Shakespearian speech until Lor finally cuts her off.
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Layman's Terms / int_357ceb75	comment	At the start of Loveis All You Needto Destroy Your Enemies: When Carlos, Warden of the White Council of Wizards, explains the Laws of Magic to Dr. Kwan, a practical theoretical physicist, she interprets them with as many pop-culture references as possible.
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Layman's Terms / int_3b182a22	comment	Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: In "Memento Mori", Lieutenant Noonien-Singh gets irritated when Spock launches into a technical explanation of a natural phenomenon.
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Layman's Terms / int_3c69e536	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), Dr. Robotnik repeatedly states to Major Bennington that he is not important, and at one point asks Agent Stone to "translate" it to him.
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Layman's Terms / int_3d6b812b	comment	Matinee. Spoofed in the Show Within a Show, where the atomic scientist keeps explaining mundane terms like 'magnified' or 'accelerated'.
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Layman's Terms / int_402e8871	comment	Elmer from the Macdonald Hall books runs into this a lot:
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Layman's Terms / int_43a9c333	comment	Used during an episode of Cowboy Bebop. After telling Spike of every system that's gone down thanks to a virus, Spike requests it in terms he understands, and gets this from Ed:
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Layman's Terms / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Billy would sometimes use complicated dialogue to make his point. Trini was usually the one who translated it into plain English. There was an instance in which he translated her answer: she presented her fellow Rangers with a delicacy from her gourmet cooking class, which looked like brownies. She referred to the secret ingredient as "escargot". Which is French for "snails". Cue the disgusting spit-out. Subverted in Power Rangers RPM. Flynn's morpher malfunctions and Dr. K tells him what happened. When he asks her to say it again in Layman's Terms, she responds "That was in layman's terms".
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Layman's Terms / int_455e3038	comment	Spoofed by King of the Hill:
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Layman's Terms / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld books, this shows up on occasion. Usually it's Ponder who has to simplify things so that the older wizards will understand them. An example from Interesting Times: In later books, many of the more educated characters have tried to explain big thaumaturgical ideas to laymen; when one of those laymen offers up an analogy, the educated character notes that it's a "very useful metaphor that aids understanding while being completely inaccurate in every respect." Unseen Academicals has a double version. Ordinary guy Trevor asks his very loquacious friend Nutt to write him a really nice love letter and invitation for a girl named Juliet who has some common sense. This is because all Trevor can think of saying is "I think you are really fit, want to go out? No hanky-panky, promise." He wants it to sound a lot more fancy. When the letter is delivered to Juliet and her friend Glenda, Juliet cannot understand the words "Trevor" chose and asks Glenda for the translation. Glenda explains, in exact words, Trev is saying, "I think you are really fit, want to go out? No hanky-panky, promise."
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Layman's Terms / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man: When Dr Mann finally cracks how Yorick survived the Gendercide, he has to ask her to "dumb the Technobabble down about a thousand percent," since he once nearly blew off one of his testicles with a baking soda volcano.
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Layman's Terms / int_47dfc6f	comment	Crops up a few times in Total Drama: Subverted in the Total Drama: Revenge of the Island episode Eat, Puke and Be Wary, Cameron and Lightning are given tracking collars that give an electric shock every time they try to take them off by Chef as part of a challenge. Lightning tries to take off his collar, which predictably shocks him repeatedly. Cameron tries to explain to him why just trying to rip the collars off is a bad idea. Scarlet of Total Drama: Pahkitew Island often talks in Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness terms, which sometimes causes problems and confusion among her team. For example, in Mo Monkey Mo Problems:
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Layman's Terms / int_487e0909	comment	In The Martian Pilot Martinez asks computer programmer Johanssen whether she can override the computers on the ship, and gets a long technical explanation:
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Layman's Terms / int_48bd0a63	comment	Happens in the (fake) sixth season trailer of Raumschiff GameStar: Dr. Chris explains "This is a quantum-mechanical expansion mechanism that can revert the ship to the submolecular state." As the crew gives him blank stares, the Future!Dr. Chris adds: "A bomb."
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Layman's Terms / int_49ff762	comment	Then you have Torchwood, where Captain Jack Harkness refuses to avoid technobabble claiming it's "good for the soul". Tosh still explains things sometimes to Gwen, as her background is in law enforcement not science.
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Layman's Terms / int_4be3aedd	comment	Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Billy would sometimes use complicated dialogue to make his point. Trini was usually the one who translated it into plain English. There was an instance in which he translated her answer: she presented her fellow Rangers with a delicacy from her gourmet cooking class, which looked like brownies. She referred to the secret ingredient as "escargot". Which is French for "snails". Cue the disgusting spit-out.
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Layman's Terms / int_4e45b093	comment	Often subverted in The Big Bang Theory. Penny, who is of roughly average intelligence, often has trouble understanding the extremely confusing scientific conversations going on between Leonard and his friends. Often times, when they try to repeat it in what they call "layman's terms", it is still horribly confusing.
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Layman's Terms / int_4e5a4630	comment	Star Wars: Republic Commando: The spider droids explanation.
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Layman's Terms / int_4f01368	comment	In the Static Shock episode "Where The Rubber Meets The Road", Specs and Trapper hire Tarmac to steal the parts for a sort of sonic weapon. They try to explain what it does, but he can't understand their scientific terms, so they say, "Think of it like a boombox. That makes a very big boom."
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Layman's Terms / int_507ed4d5	comment	In Momo, a group of children play a make-believe game of being a scientific expedition on the South Seas. At one point the first mate of the expedition ship asks the chief scientist to translate what he just said in terms that "simple sea-faring folk" can understand.
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Layman's Terms / int_5178149f	comment	In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, during a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot (and judging by AQUAMAN's reaction afterward, it's still too highbrow for him):
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Layman's Terms / int_529ee66	comment	In one episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Scratch reports to Dr. Robotnik that Tails has built Sonic a "functional flying machine". Grounder, apparently ignorant of what "functional" means, adds "Yeah! It even worked, too!"
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Layman's Terms / int_5690420f	comment	The DuckTales multi-parter that introduced Gizmoduck has a Beagle Boy named Megabyte Beagle, who describes his plans in technical terms, which would confuse his cellmate and family members to the point that they would then request him to "Say it in Beagle talk!"
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Layman's Terms / int_578948	comment	In The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer the first boss in the game gives a long-winded explanation on the function of the Underminer's doomsday weapon, which is designed to use Earth's magnetic alignment to cover the surface in soil or some nonsense essentially putting everyone on the surface underground. At the end it boils it down to "The world will be turned upside down", prompting Mr. Incredible's Lame Comeback of "You're upside down!".
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Layman's Terms / int_58feb3ca	comment	In episode 12 of Maoyu, Witch Girl tries to relay the Crimson Scholar's plan to create a Smallpox vaccine, but the listeners ask her to speak plainly.
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Layman's Terms / int_5921531c	comment	Morgana of Persona 5 is Mr. Exposition, but he hits a brick wall with the rest of the Phantom Thieves who don't understand Jungian psychology terms, such as Persona and the "collective unconscious." They do start to pick up on it after a while, but Morgana generally has to explain things in very basic terms in order to get anything done.
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Layman's Terms / int_5a1e517c	comment	In Nodwick, it usually falls to Nodwick to translate things said by Arthax (or other intelligent beings) into terms Yeagar can understand. He usually does this in the most patronizing ways he can as he's not very fond of Yeagar. Arthax occasionally does this himself, with equal amounts of snark but slightly less patronizing.
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Layman's Terms / int_5c783167	comment	Spoofed to hell and back in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", when the Planet Express crew runs afoul of an energy being named Mellvar who is holding the crew of Star Trek: The Original Series hostage. Leela asks what would happen at this juncture on Star Trek, and Fry mentions that they need to come up with a complex plan which is then explained with a simple analogy (for crew members and audience members too dim to understand the smarty-speak version).
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Layman's Terms / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: The comic does it regularly, such as DoytHaban helping Kevyn here — later he manages to do it himself. Athens in this strip, except that she skips the technobabble. Para's explanation of why the male A.I. Tag got reformatted as the female A.I. Tagii. Kathryn picking apart a political conspiracy. And another explanation from Kevyn.
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Layman's Terms / int_5d354f8	comment	In Red Dwarf: Rimmer and Lister take it in turn to try to explain a stasis leak to Cat: And from "Future Echoes" (and also the first American pilot):
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Layman's Terms / int_5dec0867	comment	Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!: When the three leads are set to present what they've done so far at a club council meeting. The council nearly suspends them over some (relatively minor) offenses. Asakusa chews them out for doing so and tells them to at least see the fruits of their labors. Though her way of talking confuses President Toru (largely due to Asakusa's rant being in a heavy Shitamichi dialect), so council secretary Sakaki has to lay it out for her in a more straightforward manner.
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Layman's Terms / int_5f710a0	comment	ProZD: Parodied in "TV Detective vs. Tech Guy." The detective first asks the techie to say it in English, then French, then Morse code.
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Layman's Terms / int_6059314b	comment	xkcd once devoted a comic to explaining a diagram of the Saturn V rocket using only the thousand most common words in the English language. Author Randall Munroe eventually saw fit to do a whole book of these sorts of diagrams called Thing Explainer.
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Layman's Terms / int_61484102	comment	In A Wrinkle in Time, Mrs Whatsit uses the example of an ant crossing two corners of a folded piece of fabric to explain to the children how "tessering" through space works.
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Layman's Terms / int_63230cb	comment	In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, at the same time Trunks is using a new form to battle Perfect Cell, Goku is explaining to Gohan how this form, the bulkier "Super Saiyan Third Grade" is much stronger than normal but is slower because of its larger size, but saying so in terms that are higher than Goku's usual level of intelligence. Gohan's shocked that Goku can speak that way, but Goku thinks Gohan is confused by what he meant and explains "in a lame man's terms":
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Layman's Terms / int_636b0be6	comment	In episode 2 of Marginal #4, Atom is having trouble understanding the lyrics to the group's new song, so Rui tries to explain it to him - in complex scientific terms, about hormones and chemistry. Atom asks him this, and his second attempt is still incomprehensible. (Atom's solution? Singing this song requires his lucky underwear!)
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Layman's Terms / int_637554db	comment	The Middleman:
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Layman's Terms / int_660a8ba0	comment	Unseen Academicals has a double version. Ordinary guy Trevor asks his very loquacious friend Nutt to write him a really nice love letter and invitation for a girl named Juliet who has some common sense. This is because all Trevor can think of saying is "I think you are really fit, want to go out? No hanky-panky, promise." He wants it to sound a lot more fancy. When the letter is delivered to Juliet and her friend Glenda, Juliet cannot understand the words "Trevor" chose and asks Glenda for the translation. Glenda explains, in exact words, Trev is saying, "I think you are really fit, want to go out? No hanky-panky, promise."
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Layman's Terms / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Boogie Frights", as the Professor steps in when Buttercup scares Bubbles with a story about the Boogie Man.
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Layman's Terms / int_691be369	comment	Inverted in The X-Files episode "Pusher":
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Layman's Terms / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor Selvig refers to the Rainbow Bridge as an Einsten-Rosen Bridge. When Darcy is confused, he starts to explain only for Jane simplify it as "wormhole". The Avengers: Inverted and then played straight in the same conversation, when Tony Stark is delighted to be able to speak Techno Babble with Bruce Banner, much to the bemusement of Captain America. And, later: Non-verbal version in Avengers: Age of Ultron, regarding the twins:
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Layman's Terms / int_6ac184f1	comment	Done out of necessity by Eve in The Last Cowboy, because she's speaking to beings who have no word in their language for "space ship."
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Layman's Terms / int_6c1d09b2	comment	Fallout 2, Harold asks you to bring a hydroelectric magnetosphere regulator for Gecko's nuclear power plant.
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Layman's Terms / int_6eceb309	comment	Appears in Slice of Life when Twilight Sparkle offers to teach some basic magic to Pumpkin Cake:
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Layman's Terms / int_6f801ab6	comment	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: Clark Griswold's boss Frank Shirley asks Clark to write up an executive summary of the non-nutritive cereal varnish Clark was working on, and insists it be in layman's terms and not the industry jargon no one understands.
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Layman's Terms / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis do this all the time. If they don't do it Once per Episode, it at least feels that way. One quote shows why this might be the case. This, however, gets subverted when Samantha Carter gets command of Atlantis:
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Layman's Terms / int_7165f0a3	comment	Broken Plot Device: "Frog keep bad things trapped in closet."
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Layman's Terms / int_7260f96d	comment	In User Friendly, Greg receives a tech support call from a customer asking how to connect to the Internet—"AND NO TECHNICAL TERMS!" After successfully explaining what to do in terms of "wiggly-diggly," "thingamajig" and "doodlybum," he Head Desks in shame.
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Layman's Terms / int_727259ac	comment	Played with in The Ren & Stimpy Show, in one of the "Captain Hoek and Cadet Stimpy" segments. They've gone through a black hole into a parallel universe, and miss the bus back to reality as the place they're in starts to break up. He never manages a vocal explanation, instead going "I'll show you!" and sucking in his stomach.
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Layman's Terms / int_73d660e	comment	In Lucky Star Kagami usually asks Konata to talk in normal human language, not in geek language.
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Layman's Terms / int_740815bb	comment	Usually it's Ponder who has to simplify things so that the older wizards will understand them. An example from Interesting Times:
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Layman's Terms / int_755fadab	comment	In Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon often complains he doesn't understand what Yuki, Mikuru, or Koizumi mean with their technobabble, although they don't attempt to "dumb it down". In the Drama CD "Sound Around" however, we have two scenes in which this happens. Scene 1: Scene 2: Kozumi occasionally translates for Yuki, as her technobabble is even more obtuse than his.
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Layman's Terms / int_7745cffb	comment	In Heralds Of Rhimn, Meparik throws around words like â€œbinding-unbinding taglock transfer,â€� and â€œDerengiâ€™s theoremâ€� while discussing the ritual to remove Navaeliâ€™s Heraldry. In response, Crislie tells Meparik that she doesnâ€™t speak â€œscholar.â€� He grumpily simplifies his revisions for her.
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Layman's Terms / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: "Coach Steven" begins with Pearl giving a technobabble explanation.
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Layman's Terms / int_79620aaa	comment	Completely inverted in Sandra and Woo, where management consultants from IBM only understand IT consulting technobabble.
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Layman's Terms / int_7af252ef	comment	In For All Mankind, "Nixon's Women", a NASA scientist is describing the benefits of the water they may have found on the moon before Administrator Thomas Paine cuts him off with an "English, please." Deke explains that liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen can be used to make rocket fuel.
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Layman's Terms / int_7c038c18	comment	From the Phineas and Ferb episode "Bubble Boys", when the kids' bubble drifts down towards some public art:
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Layman's Terms / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: In "Life Can Be Bones", Mr. Boynton explains the concept of the "missing link" to Miss Brooks and Walter Denton. He uses layman's terms to describe what exactly the "missing link" between ancient man and the primates would be and how its fossilized skull would look. Mr. Boynton doesn't realize that Miss Brooks had just read his definition in a introductory book on paleontology; in fact, Mr. Boynton plagiarized the book's description word-for-word.
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Layman's Terms / int_7db679b4	comment	The Aquabats! Super Show!, "ManAnt!":
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Layman's Terms / int_7fd403f8	comment	Done heart-breakingly in Galaxy Quest, when the Big Bad forces Tim Allen's character to tell to his alien friends that he's just a washed-up actor and not a hero (the aliens have no concept of lies or deceit, and as such thought his old TV show was a "historical document").
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Layman's Terms / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: Voyager: Inverted in "Eye of the Needle". The Doctor gives Kes a series of medical texts to study, but warns her that they are very technical and "not written for the layman". In "Night", the Doctor talks of "Nihiliphobia, the fear of nothingness. Or in layman's terms, the fear of... nothingness." Averted in "Bliss", in which the Monster of the Week is a giant space creature that swallows Voyager. The solution involves making the creature vomit them up, but for some reason, this simple analogy is avoided. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: In "Memento Mori", Lieutenant Noonien-Singh gets irritated when Spock launches into a technical explanation of a natural phenomenon.
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Layman's Terms / int_81bd02f4	comment	Parodied in a sketch on The Armstrong and Miller Show where a news reporter is interviewing a prominent scientist about a discovery that "could change science forever!" The conversation goes something like this:
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Layman's Terms / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US) Oscar is trying to explain to Michael why they should use up their budget surplus. Michael asks for Oscar to explain it as he would to an eight-year-old. Oscar without missing a beat breaks it down into an analogy, comparing the budget to money given to a child for a lemonade stand. At the end of Oscar's analogy, Michael can only respond, "Explain it to me like I'm six."
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Layman's Terms / int_86b52b7b	comment	I, Robot:
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Layman's Terms / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius gives us a variant, when dealing with Mad Scientists.
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Layman's Terms / int_876c7452	comment	Subverted on Sports Night:
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Layman's Terms / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion: Nation's Action Heroes Demand Hackers Say It Again In English
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Layman's Terms / int_898bd243	comment	In Armageddon (1998), NASA uses the Hubble telescope to take long range pictures of the object speeding its way towards Earth. As one of the techs keeps referring to it as an "anomaly," the President finally says, "Enough of this 'anomaly' horse-shit. What is it?" Director Dan Truman simply says, "It's an asteroid." When asked how big it is, one of the other techs stumbles out an amount of cubic meters, so Truman, shooting the guy a look, simply says, "It's the size of Texas, sir!"
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Layman's Terms / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: Subverted when Dr. Spaceman reads off the results of a test, and then says: "Now in layman's terms... what do you think that means?" Played straighter when Tracy has Frank explain the Uncanny Valley "in Star Wars".
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Layman's Terms / int_8a6bf3f3	comment	In Duck Dodgers in the 24Â½th Century, when Dodgers (Daffy Duck) is explaining to his eager young Space Cadet (Porky Pig) how he plans to locate Planet X...
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Layman's Terms / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee: Brought up to eleven with Holly Holiday's method of teaching. She sometimes resorts to song (such as using a Joan Jett song to teach sex ed), teaching Spanish grammar with sentences about Lindsey Lohan's rehab or playing out Mary Todd Lincoln's bipolar rants in history class.
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Layman's Terms / int_8d817ccb	comment	From Lost, "Because You Left":
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Layman's Terms / int_8d81bb26	comment	Occurs with absolutely infuriating frequency in NCIS, where this happens with everyone who talks to Gibbs and reports some sort of evidence. Despite being told this roughly once per episode, his co-workers never manage to remember it in the future. Of course, Abby and Ducky are Gibbs' closest friends and knowingly enjoy teasing him like this, McGee's continually being flustered by Gibbs into retreating behind his protective wall of technobabble is his own particular running gag, and Tony and Ziva overlap in fields of expertise with Gibbs so he doesn't really need layman's terms with them. McGee's inability to stop doing this to Gibbs is Lampshaded in a season five episode when Tony bets twenty dollars that he's about to say something nobody else understands again, and McGee still does it, prompting Gibbs to say that he's starting to think McGee just can't help himself. Played with brilliantly in "Doppelganger", when Gibbs needs to talk to a bunch of techno geeks. He brings McGee along to translate their technobabble into layman's terms, and McGee also has to translate his layman's terms back into technobabble.
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Layman's Terms / int_9251841a	comment	The narrator of the Nintoaster Instructional Video has this to say about the NES's cartridge connector:
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Layman's Terms / int_93394248	comment	Stōked: Brosef, in the middle of Yet Another Christmas Carol involving sandwiches instead of Christmas, asks the Ghost of Sandwiches Past (who looks like Chester) if he's dead. Chester/TGOSP responds that he's just a metaphysical manifestation of Brosef's delusional, food-poisoned mind. Brosef doesn't get it, to which "Chester" dumbs it down to "You're seeing things cuz all the puking's giving you the crazies."
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Layman's Terms / int_945f2d42	comment	Used in Wapsi Square here.
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Layman's Terms / int_97abe183	comment	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In "Nightmare in Retroville", Jimmy helps Carl and Sheen look scary on Halloween by inventing a Monster Maker machine that changes their appearances into those of a vampire and werewolf, respectively. Later, when Carl develops a taste for blood and makes himself change into a bat, Jimmy realizes consequences of his invention.
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Layman's Terms / int_9910cc85	comment	Mulan:
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Layman's Terms / int_99c0e061	comment	Thanos and Iron Man inverted this in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Thanos explains how he will find the other infinity stones with flowery but accessible language. Tony then mocks him by using the technical terms and says "that wasn't so hard, was it?", implying he doesn't want Thanos to dumb down the explanation for him of all people. Cue Thanos flinging some technobabble into his face.
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Layman's Terms / int_9b4ea9b5	comment	Jupiter Ascending:
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Layman's Terms / int_9bb76467	comment	"Rock Star" physicist Brian Cox explains the universe this way. It's parodied on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show: "Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. And that's a bit like this packet of Smints."
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Layman's Terms / int_9f343695	comment	A running gag in Jeeves and Wooster is that Bertie has to translate what Jeeves is saying for the benefit of one of his "pals".
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Layman's Terms / int_9fa5b21e	comment	Yakky Doodle is being pursued by Alfie Gator (an alligator avatar of Alfred Hitchcock), who scales a tree in pursuit of Yakky. But Yakky is on the ground, chopping the tree down:
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Layman's Terms / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Spoofed to hell and back in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", when the Planet Express crew runs afoul of an energy being named Mellvar who is holding the crew of Star Trek: The Original Series hostage. Leela asks what would happen at this juncture on Star Trek, and Fry mentions that they need to come up with a complex plan which is then explained with a simple analogy (for crew members and audience members too dim to understand the smarty-speak version). Then when it backfires: In "The Farnsworth Parabox", Farnsworth calls the exchange of the box containing Universe-1 with the box containing Universe-A a "spacetime eversion". Leela prompts the layman's version with "So, what you think you've just explained to us is..?"
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Layman's Terms / int_a29544ab	comment	Apollo 13 has several moments where, after the astronauts and mission-controllers explain the situation to each other in their own jargon, they repeat it in simpler terms for the sake of the audience — usually in the form of an analogy. When Lovell first powered up the Lunar Module, and tried to steer it: When Mattingly started talking Swigert through the abbreviated power-up procedure for the Command Module: When Mission Control decided that the Command Module had to be shut down:
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Layman's Terms / int_a32b6a64	comment	A subtle example in The West Wing:
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Layman's Terms / int_a346e791	comment	NUMB3RS. Once an episode, Charlie or one of his colleagues references an obscure mathematical concept that can be used to help solve a case, then creates an analogy to make it understandable. A real mathematician would probably be insulted to hear these concepts and theorems dumbed down to such a level. And they're still confusing. This predictable behavior is lampshaded at one point when the agent prompts him for the analogy: "Think of it as a..." Then again, you try explaining graduate level math concepts like Floyd-Warshall algorithm or K-optimal pattern discovery in under 30 seconds. Gets a special Lampshade Hanging in the Season 6 premiere. Charlie references a technique they used on a previous case, and Don, David, and Colby each try to recall the analogy that goes with it (since that's their only real frame of reference for the technique). They're all wrong.
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Layman's Terms / int_a40b1126	comment	Independence Day: David finds the satellite system for the cable network he works for is facing a lot of static. He spends a few hours examining the problem and manages to isolate the cause and explains to his boss in technical terms that the signal is degrading and will eventually resolve itself in a few hours. He figured this out oblivious to aliens that had just deployed city-sized ships to take position around the planet. He connects the dots and then explains to his boss with a Chess Motif that they are putting their pieces in place, "Checkmate." He later rushes to meet the President and uses a notepad to visually explain how the ships still need to communicate, and the President is smart enough to comprehend the line-of-sight problem. David then explains how the aliens have hijacked their own satellites to relay communication and shows a countdown timer he created on his laptop.
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Layman's Terms / int_a5e6a399	comment	From a cutscene in Command & Conquer: Renegade:
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Layman's Terms / int_a895e9d2	comment	From Portal:
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Layman's Terms / int_a895e9d3	comment	Also done in Portal 2.
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Layman's Terms / int_a92c264a	comment	Exterminatus Now has only two technically savvy members of the main cast: one is a cyborg mercenary exclusively interested in hardware directly useable to maim-burn-kill; the other is an inquisitor knowing only about pimped out hovercraft and how to make low-grade attack robots. Thus it happens:
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Layman's Terms / int_ac67074d	comment	In the Teen Titans episode "Stranded", Cyborg's robotic body is damaged. Cyborg tries to instruct Beast Boy to repair him, but Beast Boy can't understand his Technobabble. Cyborg gets extremely frustrated because he eventually can't think of a way to dumb it down enough.
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Layman's Terms / int_aeaddadb	comment	In On the Town, anthropology student Claire explains her behavior to Ozzie in the recitative verse of "Carried Away":
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Layman's Terms / int_b0f81f82	comment	Chicken Run: During the climactic escape, Fowler orders the chickens pedaling to power "The Crate" (the chickens' flying machine) to "increase velocity".
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Layman's Terms / int_b311bb41	comment	Deconstructed in Aniara, quite darkly. When ''Aniara'''s Master Computer breaks down irreversibly, the narrator, who is the head computer tech, is called into a "heads-will-roll" court to explain himself. He tries... and fails, because he literally cannot explain the inner workings of the A.I. without resorting to the highly technical jargon only comprehensible to A.I. techs. When he tries, he only succeeds in muddling his analogies so badly, he loses track of what he was trying to say.
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Layman's Terms / int_b3484036	comment	Area 51: Scientists are asked multiple times to explain things in ways non-scientists can understand.
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Layman's Terms / int_b370ddd1	comment	Thor Selvig refers to the Rainbow Bridge as an Einsten-Rosen Bridge. When Darcy is confused, he starts to explain only for Jane simplify it as "wormhole".
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Layman's Terms / int_b3a3fa47	comment	Babylon 5: In "Racing Mars" while examining the remains of a Drakh keeper, Dr. Franklin beings to lauch into a technical explanation before one of the Mars Resistance members stops him and asks him to simplify it by saying, "English, Doc."
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Layman's Terms / int_b5c385bc	comment	Dino Crisis has it said in a rather condescending tone:
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Layman's Terms / int_baa97a52	comment	Tenet. Inverted when the Protagonist explains to Neil what's going on.
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Layman's Terms / int_bb303f45	comment	Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell: Shaun uses a clip of Finance Minister Mathias Cormann trying to explain "in plain English" what the fuel excise indexation means.
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Layman's Terms / int_be1d5042	comment	Happy Feet: When Noah, the penguin elder, accuses Mumble of causing the colony's famine after catching him leading them in a mass dance.
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Layman's Terms / int_bf6690ba	comment	In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks, Twilight figures out how to open a portal between worlds that normally only opens every thirty moons. She smugly explains how she did it, but everyone except Pinkie Pie gets confused. Pinkie explains, in her own way, that Twilight used the magical energy in a book that can communicate between the worlds to power the portal.
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Layman's Terms / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The episode "Hurricane Fluttershy" uses multiple characters to set up such a gag. Twilight explains what the anaomoeter does in the most loquacious way possible, and when she asks "Any questions?" the pegasi turn to Spike and ask, "Yeah, what exactly does this machine do?" which Spike with a much simpler "It tells you how fast you're going and how strong your wings are," which all present actually understand. In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks, Twilight figures out how to open a portal between worlds that normally only opens every thirty moons. She smugly explains how she did it, but everyone except Pinkie Pie gets confused. Pinkie explains, in her own way, that Twilight used the magical energy in a book that can communicate between the worlds to power the portal.
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Layman's Terms / int_c4285c43	comment	In From Hare To Heir, Bugs Bunny goes to Sam, Duke of Yosemite, to tell him that he has received one million pounds and can keep the money under one condition.
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Layman's Terms / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor's complete inability to explain time travel theory, despite his best efforts, including "This is my Timey-Wimey Detector. It goes ding when there's stuff." In "Day of the Daleks", when the Third Doctor "breaks" the future soldiers' portable time machine: When he discovers a Time Portal to eighteenth-century France. After trapping the Wire on a cassette tape: In "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", the Doctor actually fails at this. He tells a young Grant, "To put this in terms you can understand [Beat] Sorry, there aren't any." After rebooting the emoji bots in "Smile".
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Layman's Terms / int_c487221e	comment	In Men in Black, when J and K are facing down the (Edgar-piloted) UFO, K rattles off a string of technical requirements. When J asks him to explain, K says, "Just shoot the damn thing on the count of three!"
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Layman's Terms / int_c511c682	comment	In Asterix, this becomes a Running Gag in Obelix and Co.: whenever someone is dumbfounded by some marketing or economics jargon (or, when Obelix is the one doing the talking, his complete mangling of it), they answer with a baffled "Eh?", prompting the person talking to them to translate the sentence in a You No Take Candle pidgin (Obelix eventually comes to think this is how businessmen talk). At the end of the book, this pattern becomes used whenever someone had trouble understanding something straight away.
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Layman's Terms / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus: Mr Mousebender opens the Cheese Shop sketch doing this, right after Mr Wensleydale finally finds out he's hungry.
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Layman's Terms / int_cb4d8cb0	comment	In Doctor in Love, Dr. Hare tries to explain why Leonora and Dawn think they are drinking gin, but Leonora needs Dr. Burke has to simplify it for her to understand:
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Layman's Terms / int_cb6abef3	comment	The Avengers: Inverted and then played straight in the same conversation, when Tony Stark is delighted to be able to speak Techno Babble with Bruce Banner, much to the bemusement of Captain America. And, later:
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Layman's Terms / int_cb7e4986	comment	Saitama from One-Punch Man will occasionally invoke this to anyone who gives a long-winded speech or backstory. When Genos dumps his backstory on Saitama when they first met, he soon demands the cyborg shorten it to 20 words or less.
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Layman's Terms / int_d14c3aa1	comment	Ghostbusters: The following exchange: Later, Egon uses a Twinkie to describe how severe the paranormal activity in New York City had become.
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Layman's Terms / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI: "Explain it like you'd explain it to a small child." "But I was, dear." This can get annoying on QI; since the Clever Stuff is genuine Clever Stuff and not just Phlebotinum Technobabble, the comedic "baffled layman" reaction from Alan Davies sometimes interrupts and kills off an explanation some of us might like to have heard all of.
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Layman's Terms / int_d56cafaf	comment	Subverted in Power Rangers RPM. Flynn's morpher malfunctions and Dr. K tells him what happened. When he asks her to say it again in Layman's Terms, she responds "That was in layman's terms".
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Layman's Terms / int_d8040caa	comment	In Space Jam, as Bugs Bunny tries to explain the whole situation to Michael Jordan.
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Layman's Terms / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars: Mac the Hackette is often asked to dumb down her Technobabble to more comprehensible English for Veronica and sometimes Keith. In a season 2 episode, Weevil is so tired of Beaver's lack of ability to explain math in Layman's terms, he ironically asks Mac to tutor him, which surprisingly works out fine.
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Layman's Terms / int_e081af79	comment	The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: Lampshaded in this strip, contrasting Bob's view of things with Molly's technobabble.
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Layman's Terms / int_e3316f33	comment	In The Big Short, there are often scenes where the characters freak out about complicated-sounding financial terms. Then a celebrity appears to dumb it down; Margot Robbie explains that subprime loans = loans that are unlikely to be repaid = shit, Anthony Bourdain explains that CDOs = subprime loans that are packaged together and fraudulently marked as AAA = pile of leftovers he throws together and serves as quality food, and Richard Thaler and Selena Gomez explain that synthetic CDOs = chain of bets on the faulty loans.
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Layman's Terms / int_e60576a5	comment	In the Heaven's Lost Property movie, Ikaros, Nymph, and Astraea are fighting Hiyori when Hiyori suddenly stops and starts glowing. Nymph scans her and gives a Technobabble heavy summary of what is happening. Astraea, who is normally very dumb, understands and translates, "She's going to explode!"
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Layman's Terms / int_e75c6d45	comment	In Goblins, Minmax considers peeing on a superpowered weapon of the gods. Kin frantically tries to stop him and explain why it's such a bad idea, but whenever she's nervous or upset, she reverts to Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. When this fails, she resorts to "Penis go boom".
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Layman's Terms / int_e7a27429	comment	In The Bridge, Twilight Sparkle gives a Magi Babble-heavy presentation on why the Kaiju turned into native species when they entered Equestria and how they can change back. Destroyah manages to summarize it in one sentence.
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Layman's Terms / int_e7e37776	comment	In Firefly: "Out of Gas" has: And again, in "Objects in Space"...
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Layman's Terms / int_ea4427eb	comment	Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi During the briefing at the Watchtower, the Martian Manhunter is about to explain the effects of the mysterious bombs, taking over from Superman, because the latter didn't understand the explanation well enough to recall it. Bubbles raises her hand and points out that if Superman didn't get it, she definitely won't, and asks J'onn to dumb it down. J'onn turns into Marvin the Martian to do so.
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Layman's Terms / int_ea4f62db	comment	Inverted in the Family Guy episode "Family Goy":
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Layman's Terms / int_ee5582ae	comment	ReGenesis: Sandstrom's favorite method of teaching advanced virology involves a vulgar pun and expressive wiggling of his fingers.
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Layman's Terms / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Inverted in "Eye of the Needle". The Doctor gives Kes a series of medical texts to study, but warns her that they are very technical and "not written for the layman". In "Night", the Doctor talks of "Nihiliphobia, the fear of nothingness. Or in layman's terms, the fear of... nothingness." Averted in "Bliss", in which the Monster of the Week is a giant space creature that swallows Voyager. The solution involves making the creature vomit them up, but for some reason, this simple analogy is avoided.
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Layman's Terms / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: It's a Running Gag that the Thing will demand Reed Richards explain things again in English for the benefit of everyone else in the room.
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Layman's Terms / int_f3368832	comment	Buffyverse: This became Spike's gimmick during the gang's expository speeches (on both shows). Not that the Scoobies can't do it themselves, given that Giles is around. Later when Buffy does the same... Also, "Becoming, part 1":
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Layman's Terms / int_f3ae2950	comment	Inverted in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. In one codec conversation, when Boris explains the new functionality of the soliton radar in a simple manner, Raiden wants to hear the technical explanation, which Boris is having none of.
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Layman's Terms / int_f4b2ce93	comment	From the Histeria! episode "Histeria! Goes to the Moon":
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Layman's Terms / int_f724b70d	comment	In Code Lyoko, JÃ©rÃ©mie is frequently asked to translate his technobabble by his friends. (Note that in the original version, what they naturally ask for is: "In French, please.")
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Layman's Terms / int_fb671bf3	comment	A lot of Well There's Your Problem is based on this. The hosts, not wanting to use advanced engineering terms for 'how stuff goes wrong' to a mostly non-engineer audience, tend to simplify the language a lot. Sometimes this is Played for Laughs by having the hosts apply layman's terms to things that are already fairly graspable to everyone.
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Layman's Terms / int_fc0e7530	comment	Dexter's Laboratory: In the "Dial M For Monkey" episode, "Rasslor", Monkey and the Justice Friends are abducted by the titular alien warrior/conqueror, Rasslor, to engage in fair combat for the fate of the Earth. Though he has a hard time getting that point across.
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Tenet / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Terminator 2: Judgment Day / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Best Years of Our Lives / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Big Short / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Comedy of Terrors / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Hunt for Red October / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Martian / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Mighty Ducks / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Nutty Professor (1996) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Three Musketeers (2011) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Way He Looks / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The World Is Not Enough / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Thor / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Too Big to Fail / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Trading Places / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
WarGames / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
SnapCube (Lets Play) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Aniara / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Dust of Dreams / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Enchanted Forest Chronicles / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
James and the Giant Peach / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Maoyu / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Momo (1973) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Project Hail Mary / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Scarcity / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Affinity Bridge / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Killing Star / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Unseen Academicals / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
What If? 2 / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
GraemeAllen	seeAlso	Layman's Terms
Laymansterms	sameAs	Layman's Terms
Misuki	seeAlso	Layman's Terms
Ptitle0jmz3tvmmlub	seeAlso	Layman's Terms
SpidermanTheDarkestHours	seeAlso	Layman's Terms
TimeCube	seeAlso	Layman's Terms
WhyDidntYouJustSaySo	seeAlso	Layman's Terms
Darkness Heels -Lili- (Manga) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
My Love Story!! (Manga) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Brian Zaharias (Music) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
SAYER (Podcast) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Well There's Your Problem (Podcast) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
CDT Space Liner (Roleplay) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Black Sand Bar (Roleplay) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Alias / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
BIA / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Cosmos / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Dollhouse / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Firefly / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Henry Danger / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Langt fra Las Vegas / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Neighbours / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Only Fools and Horses / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
That's So Raven / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The 100 / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Aquabats! Super Show! / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Middleman / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The People v. O. J. Simpson / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
On the Town (Theatre) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Imaginary Invalid (Theatre) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Crusader Kings III (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Devil May Cry 5 (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Hades (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Iron Man 2 (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Kingdom Hearts III (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Lifeline (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Limbo of the Lost (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Portal (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Secret Agent Clank (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
SimEarth (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Silent Age (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Demonsteele (Video Game) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
50 Ways to Die in Minecraft (Web Animation) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Judge Granny (Web Animation) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Sonic for Hire (Web Animation) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Auralnauts Star Wars (Web Video) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Berserk Abridged (Web Video) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) (Web Video) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
history of the entire world, i guess (Web Video) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Les Dissocies (Web Video) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Nintoaster Instructional Video (Web Video) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
ProZD (Web Video) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Collar 6 (Webcomic) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Crimson Dark (Webcomic) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Go Get a Roomie! (Webcomic) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Sandra and Woo (Webcomic) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Last Cowboy (Webcomic) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Wapsi Square (Webcomic) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Atlantis: The Lost Empire / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Code Lyoko / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Duck Dodgers in the 24Â½th Century / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
DuckTales (1987) / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
From Hare To Heir / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Fun and Fancy Free / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Mickey's Christmas Carol / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Rango / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Penguins of Madagascar / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
laymansterms	sameAs	Layman's Terms
Legion of Super-Heroes / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms

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