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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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Adventure Time: There is a book titled Bestiarium Vocabulum (Beast Compendium) ((Animal Book)). | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Non-verbal version in Avengers: Age of Ultron, regarding the twins: | |
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Better Off Ted: Those Two Guys parody this Like an Old Married Couple; As well as this exchange: |
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Everyone from the Alias cast in response to Marshall: "IN ENGLISH, MARSHALL!" | |
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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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That '70s Show: The car won't start when they're trying to make a getaway after a prank. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Looney Tunes: In Duck Dodgers in the 24½th 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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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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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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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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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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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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Borderlands 2 has a sidequest where Scooter helps walk the Vault Hunters through fixing the steam pump at an abandoned truck stop to get it running again. | |
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8-Bit Theater This bit; | |
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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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RWBY: Ruby introduces Jaune to Crescent Rose: Later on, Penny analyzes Ruby's Semblance |
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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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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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Matinee. Spoofed in the Show Within a Show, where the atomic scientist keeps explaining mundane terms like 'magnified' or 'accelerated'. | |
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Elmer from the Macdonald Hall books runs into this a lot: | |
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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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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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Spoofed by King of the Hill: | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Star Wars: Republic Commando: The spider droids explanation. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Middleman: | |
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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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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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Inverted in The X-Files episode "Pusher": | |
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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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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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Fallout 2, Harold asks you to bring a hydroelectric magnetosphere regulator for Gecko's nuclear power plant. | |
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Appears in Slice of Life when Twilight Sparkle offers to teach some basic magic to Pumpkin Cake: | |
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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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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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Broken Plot Device: "Frog keep bad things trapped in closet." | |
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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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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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In Lucky Star Kagami usually asks Konata to talk in normal human language, not in geek language. | |
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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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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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In Heralds Of Rhimn, Meparik throws around words like “binding-unbinding taglock transfer,� and “Derengi’s theorem� while discussing the ritual to remove Navaeli’s Heraldry. In response, Crislie tells Meparik that she doesn’t speak “scholar.� He grumpily simplifies his revisions for her. | |
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Steven Universe: "Coach Steven" begins with Pearl giving a technobabble explanation. | |
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Completely inverted in Sandra and Woo, where management consultants from IBM only understand IT consulting technobabble. | |
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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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From the Phineas and Ferb episode "Bubble Boys", when the kids' bubble drifts down towards some public art: | |
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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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The Aquabats! Super Show!, "ManAnt!": | |
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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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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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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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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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I, Robot: | |
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Girl Genius gives us a variant, when dealing with Mad Scientists. | |
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Subverted on Sports Night: | |
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The Onion: Nation's Action Heroes Demand Hackers Say It Again In English | |
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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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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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In Duck Dodgers in the 24½th 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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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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From Lost, "Because You Left": | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
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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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The narrator of the Nintoaster Instructional Video has this to say about the NES's cartridge connector: | |
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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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Used in Wapsi Square here. | |
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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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Mulan: | |
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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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Jupiter Ascending: | |
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"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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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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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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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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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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A subtle example in The West Wing: | |
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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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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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From a cutscene in Command & Conquer: Renegade: | |
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From Portal: | |
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Also done in Portal 2. | |
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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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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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In On the Town, anthropology student Claire explains her behavior to Ozzie in the recitative verse of "Carried Away": | |
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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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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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Area 51: Scientists are asked multiple times to explain things in ways non-scientists can understand. | |
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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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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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Dino Crisis has it said in a rather condescending tone: | |
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Tenet. Inverted when the Protagonist explains to Neil what's going on. | |
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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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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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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – 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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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 – 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Often done in Criminal Minds. Anything Reid has to say will almost always be technobabble mixed with obscure literary references, to the point that the other agents sometimes stop asking him to explain. He just launches into the simpler definition right after, which in itself isn't that simple. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, just before leaving on their time-travel adventure, Donatello has this warning to give; | |
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Baccano!: | |
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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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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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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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Atlantis: The Lost Empire: | |
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In Space Jam, as Bugs Bunny tries to explain the whole situation to Michael Jordan. | |
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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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Doctor... Series: 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: 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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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: Lampshaded in this strip, contrasting Bob's view of things with Molly's technobabble. | |
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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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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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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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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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In Firefly: "Out of Gas" has: And again, in "Objects in Space"... |
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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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Inverted in the Family Guy episode "Family Goy": | |
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ReGenesis: Sandstrom's favorite method of teaching advanced virology involves a vulgar pun and expressive wiggling of his fingers. | |
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From Event Horizon: | |
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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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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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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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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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From the Histeria! episode "Histeria! Goes to the Moon": | |
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In Code Lyoko, Jérémie 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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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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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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In one Doctor Who New Adventures novel, Roz Forrester, still adjusting to the difference between being an Adjudicator and being a companion, asks Benny for a "sitrep", and then impatiently clarifies this as "situation report". Benny snarkily replies "Do you mean 'What's happening'?" | |
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