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Limerick
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While TV Tropes loves its haiku,Don't limericks need their time too?In works of all kindsThey grace our learned mindsSo don't be so quick to pooh-pooh!A limerick, so it must seem,Is a poem that follows a scheme.The rhyme does not swayA-A-B-B, then AWith line lengths that match. Peachy-cream!...And that ends the Self-Demonstrating Article portion of this trope's description. If it goes any further, it's quite sure it'll drive us insane. A limerick is a poem of five lines that follows an A-A-B-B-A rhyme scheme as demonstrated above. The "A" lines usually have eight syllables, and the "B" lines five. It's a very recognizable pattern. (If we want to be technical, the pattern is an anapestic trimeter in the A lines, dimeter in the B lines. The anapest has two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable, giving the poem a bouncing sing-song feel.) The rhyming lines also often feature a double or triple rhyme, meaning multiple syllables rhyme rather than just the last one. It's common (though not mandatory) for the first line to end with the name of a geographic location such as a city or village (as in the classic "There once was a man from Nantucket"). Compare Haiku, Purple Prose, and another short comic genre, the Feghoot. Limericks are often risqué and may qualify as a Bawdy Song. Also, playful poets will frequently subvert the form by messing with the last line; sometimes this is adding extra syllables, sometimes it's Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion. Examples |
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Matilda: Matilda gets told a limerick and then writes one herself (about her teacher's face being lovely). | |
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Bassie & Adriaan: In "de Geheimzinnige Opdracht", during the episode set in Ireland, the two protagonists are kayaking and pass the town of Limerick. Naturally, they bring up a few examples of limericks. Bassie then improvises a limerick to explain why he wants to stop paddling and take a nap, leaving Adriaan to do all the work, but Adriaan counters with a limerick of his own. | |
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In Honor's Paradox by PC Hodgell, the singer Ashe performs a limerick with herself as the butt of the joke. | |
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One of the endings of The Stanley Parable has the Narrator singing a song consisting of limericks in an attempt to annoy the player into restarting the game. | |
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In Friendship is Dragons: Pinkie Pie uses a "Glib Limerick" to defeat Nightmare Moon's forest trap during the comic's version of the "Giggle at the Ghosties" song. | |
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Probe: "Computer Logic": In this episode, Austin's passcode for the warehouse he lives/works in is the final line of a limerick. The passcode is designed to be hard to guess (it doesn't even rhyme!) so that people can't get in to bother him. "Computer Logic, Part 2": Austin challenges John Blane's computer program, Crossover, to construct a limerick on the spot: "Computer Logic, Part 2": Mickey constructs a limerick about Austin while they're in the car, and gets interrupted by a car accident caused by Crossover manipulating the traffic lights. |
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The Simpsons: In "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe", Homer is mocked because he can't remember limericks: In "Deep Space Homer", Homer tries to match the now sober Barney's combination of acrobatics and tonguetwisters. He gets to "There once was a man from nantucket" before slamming into something. |
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: the quote for the Cyborg Factory is a limerick: | |
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"Go, Little Book!": Halsted shares his second book, although the other characters point out that limerick purists would consider leaving out a syllable cheating. | |
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The limerick round on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue has the team compile them a line at a time, based on a first line supplied by the chairman. (Frequently, the first line will obviously rhyme with something rude, which the teams will usually diligently ignore as being too easy — while coming up with technically-clean punchlines that somehow sound absolutely filthy). A book was published collecting some of the best. | |
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In Columbo episode "The Conspirators", the killer of the week is an Irish poet (and secret IRA terrorist). Columbo and the bad guy go on a Go-Karting with Bowser evening that ends with a limerick duel. Here's the first limerick as recited by Columbo: | |
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Eustace tries to write a limerick, beginning with: | |
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Ready Player One: The clue for where to find the copper key is in the form of a limerick, and thus appropriately called "The Limerick" among gunters. | |
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In Cetagenda by Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles composes limericks for himself during the poetry recital part of a funeral. | |
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xkcd made one about how Slashdot users keep thinking that the author's sarcastic comments are insightful. | |
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"Yankee Doodle Went To Town": Halsted shares the fifth limerick he's adapted from The Iliad. | |
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"Truth to Tell": Halsted shares the first limerick he's adapted from The Iliad. | |
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Stabbity Bunny: The narration text boxes of the comic (or at least Issue #1) are framed as separate verses of limericks. | |
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Not for Broadcast: In Day 296, Robyn Sharp's interview with Gary Failsafe (a turd collector) and Emilia Jackhammer (a poet) ends on one, respectively. | |
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In the previous series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, it's mentioned that Apollo once visited the city of Limerick itself and as a result became obsessed for a short time with making Limericks. | |
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The Pale Blue Eye. Having heard that Edgar Allan Poe is a published poet, one of his fellow cadets demands to hear his work. Rather than one of his famous poems, Poe tells a dirty limerick that he knows they'll appreciate more. | |
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Letterkenny begins season 4 with limericks from each of the main characters resolving the cliffhangers from the previous season. | |
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Between the Lions: Some episodes have animated segments with limericks about problems that are created or solved by changing the letters of a word. In the first season, they were introduced by Heath the Thesaurus. | |
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The Two Ronnies: The dialogue in the "Limerick Clinic" sketch combines to form a series of limericks. | |
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RiffTrax's commentary on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, after Tom Riddle reveals his identity as Voldemort. | |
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The Crown (2016). When King George VI loses his temper while his servants are trying to dress him, his equerry Peter Townsend takes over the task and calms the King's nerves by telling a dirty limerick. The King shows he's Not So Above It All by responding with one of his own. | |
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Adam Adamant Lives!: Once per Episode, Simms would improvise a limerick on the situation at hand. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: has two from the episode "The Big Bash": | |
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"Early Sunday Morning": Halsted shares the third limerick he's adapted from The Iliad. | |
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Nightmare Ned: In the Attic/Basement level, there is an enormous dragon who tells gruesome stories in the form of limericks - and all in a very cheerful tone, as if reading bedtime stories. | |
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Match Game: Had its share of fill-in-the-blank limericks. | |
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Richard Osman's House of Games has a round called "There once was a quiz host called Richard", which features limericks that describe famous people/places etc. without directly naming them. The limericks are revealed line-by-line, and the first person to correctly identify the subject of the poem wins the point. For example: | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The episode "Sleepy Time" features this gem: | |
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Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me has The Listener Limerick Challenge as one of the call-in games. The caller has to fill in the last word of a limerick based on some current event. The rhyming makes it by far the easiest of the games. One contestant's attempt at guessing the last word of this limerick wound up funnier than the actual answer (which, of course, was supposed to be Zombies): | |
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QI: In the J season episode "Jolly", Stephen Fry challenged his panelists to come up with limericks. Alan Davies proved to be quite good at it, composing several: In the L season episode "Literature", the cast made up new final lines to old Edward Lear limericks, going against his tendency to simply repeat the first line at the end of his poems: |
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In one episode of Cabin Pressure MJN flies to Limerick. Naturally the crew passes the time by composing some. | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Both the book and the film adaptation feature this one: | |
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The Trials of Apollo: One of the two prophecies Apollo gets in "The Hidden Oracle" takes the form of a Limerick. In the previous series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, it's mentioned that Apollo once visited the city of Limerick itself and as a result became obsessed for a short time with making Limericks. |
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Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee does his review of Wolfenstein (2009) in limerick form. | |
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"The Obvious Factor": Halsted shares the fourth limerick he's adapted from The Iliad. | |
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Babylon 5 uses this in the pilot episode. Sinclair and Delenn discuss the premise of the station, and Sinclair recites a line from the "Core poem" of the series - Ulysses by Tennyson. When Delenn Wonders about this, Sinclair explains what poetry is, to which Delenn quips: "There once was a man from Nantucket" (the first line of a Limerick). Sinclair responds: "You have spoken with Mr Garibaldi again." | |
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Gravity Falls: Subverted in "Headhunters", when Mabel asks Wax Shakespeare's head if he knows any limericks: | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "The Naked Now", Data learns a dirty limerick and tries to recite it to Picard, but is fortunately interrupted partway through. | |
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