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Mangled Catch Phrase
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If there's one thing that imposters, imitators, and other depictions of characters in media can never get right, it's the Catchphrase. No amount of research ever seems to counteract this; nor does the relationship between the characters involved. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })When other characters can't recognize an imposter in spite of the Mangled Catch Phrase (or other details), see Easy Impersonation. Conversely, when the characters around know the imitated well and aren't holding the Idiot Ball, this can be a convenient way to Spot the Imposter. When they get it right, see Borrowed Catch Phrase. Not to be confused with Self-Botched Catchphrase and Alternate Catchphrase Inflection, which is when the normal speaker screws up his own phrase, for various reasons. |
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In Night Watch Discworld, CMOT Dibbler manages to do this with his own catchphrase, before it's his catchphrase. At one point Vimes says "And that's cutting your own throat, eh?" to him, and he likes the sound of it. The next time he speaks to Vimes, he says "Tuppence a bowl or I'll cut my throat, eh?" and Vimes says it's close enough. | |
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In Tales of Monkey Island, Stan attempts to sell talking dolls of Guybrush that can't quite get the "That's the second-biggest monkey head I've ever seen" line down. | |
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Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld puts an interesting twist on this with the Fox News' motto "We Report, You Decide" for certain stories. For instance, a story about Matthew McConaughey during 2008 was teased with "What does Matthew McConaughey think about the Bejing Olympics? We report, he throws up all over his flip-flops." | |
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In The Simpsons episode "A Star is Burns", Burns holds auditions for an actor to play him in an upcoming movie. As you can read in the quote at the top of the page, no one can correctly render his trademark "Excellent", but Homer gets it worst of all. In another episode, Mr. Burns hires Michael Caine to impersonate Homer. Homer's usual "D'oh!" is instead said as "B'oh!" After Burns berates his actor, he tries again and this time comes up with "Dah-oh". Bart still falls for it. And when Rainier Wolfcastle attempts to play Radioactive Man, he turns the latter's "Up and atom!" into "Up and at them!" In "Goo Goo Gai Pan", a spy impersonating Bart gets his catchphrases wrong, saying "Don't have a cattle, dude!" and "Feast on my shorts stupid father man!" |
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In the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Howl Of The Fright Hound," Scooby is accused of attacks made by a robot Great Dane and is locked up in an animal asylum. Shaggy is left miserable, and Velma tries to cheer him up with a "Relma Delma Doo!" that everyone agrees was incredibly lame. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, Caboose tries to copy Tucker's catchphrase (Bow Chicka Bow Wow), but fails miserably. Later on, Carolina tries the same thing, with equally terrible results. Junior, the alien Tucker gave birth to, proves perversion is In the Blood with his own rendition; "Bow chicka honk-honk!" |
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In Power Rangers in Space, the Yellow Ranger and Astronema have switched places. Who is who is proven when the real Ashley is the one who knows the pre-morph pose (not the phrase, but it's the same principle.) | |
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In Final Fantasy VII, several main characters attempt to pre-empt Barret's catch phrase, "There ain't no getting offa this train we're on." One character renders it "The train we're on don't make no stops!" | |
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In Suburban Knights, Angry Joe cosplays as Inigo Montoya, but just never gets the four-sentence Catchphrase right. | |
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In Red Dwarf, Rimmer renders Ace's "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast" catchphrase as "Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas". | |
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You think he'd know better, but Brain of Pinky and the Brain tries to trick the Earth, recently brought to life and angry with Brain (long story), by pretending to be Pinky. He spouts several of Pinky's Verbal Tics... but accidentally slips in a word Pinky does not say ("Boink!"), which is what reveals him as an impostor. | |
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In The Flintstones, an actor playing Fred's role on a dramatization of Fred's alleged crimes gets his iconic "Yabba-dabba-doo!" completely wrong. To add insult to the injury, the avian actor playing the Dictabird does so as well. | |
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In Kamen Rider Zi-O, a running gag has main character Sougo trying to borrow the catchphrases and moves of previous Kamen Riders, only to completely mess them up every time. | |
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In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Chameleon imitates the hero during one episode, and renders one of his catchphrases as "My insect early warning sense is vibrating!" | |
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In the English Dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the copycat duelist Dimitri does this to Jaden, along with a bit of a Costume Copycat and presumably, a rip-off deck (though we never see it). In the Japanese dub, Kagurazaka mangles Judai's Gratuitous English catchphrase of "Gotcha!" (said whenever he wins a duel) as "Gotcho!", prompting Judai to angrily correct him (he also got the pose wrong, which Judai also corrects him on). |
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In one episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Buzz ends up in what he believes to be the future, complete with a statue of himself that says "To infinity and even further!" and kept up throughout the episode with varying statements like "To infinity and back again!" This was deliberate, as it was a Faked Rip Van Winkle where Zurg was invoking Future Imperfect so Buzz would give away classified security information. Averted in another episode involving an Evil Buzz from an Alternate Universe, who actually incorporates Buzz's signature catch phrase into a rather threatening statement. |
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In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness episode "Five is Enough", Shifu goes Totally Radical and, among other crimes, mangles one of Po's catchphrases: | |
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In Final Fantasy Tactics A2, pseudo-Vaan attempts to invoke Vaan's use of the phrase "the leading man" (which he, in turn, picked up from Balthier sans mangling). However, Vaan and Balthier simply passively refer to the "leading man" in the third person, generally not stating who the leading man is or what he leads. Pseudo-Vaan... | |
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In the first Ditto-centric episode of the Pokémon anime, Ash and his friends dress up as Team Rocket. To Rocket's frustration, they can't correctly recite Team Rocket's motto. | |
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The outro of StephenVlog is supposed to be "Let's meet back tomorrow, shall we?", but whenever Stephen lets someone else do it, they invariably miss a few words. "Let's meet back here tomorrow, shall we" is particularly common. There's also a Running Gag where he lets Chuggaaconroy end it off, but he's never even close. | |
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This one was probably deliberate, but the Monkeyspank virus of Captain SNES: The Game Masta came up with his own vision of retooling the comic to avoid copyright violations, ending with the catch phrase "Honeyed Kwanzaa, it's idiotically new!", twisting Alex's usual "Sweet Christmas, that's stupid fresh!" | |
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When Homestar Runner realizes he just broke up with Marzipan over a complete misunderstanding on his part alone over her answering machine, he rushes to Marzipan's house and replaces the tape with a tape of Homestar himself badly imitating several characters. He tries, and fails, to say "job" incorrectly like Coach Z does several times. Also in the 50th Strong Bad Email, when Strong Bad gets a phone call, distracting him from his goal of answering 50 emails in a row, and Homestar attempts to answer the emails like Strong Bad: Coach Z's attempt at "Deleted" in "replacement" goes about as well as might be expected: "DELORTED!" Even the computer's buzzer ends up distorted and mangled by the result. Also the Bonus Email "Comic Book Movie". |
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Also in the 50th Strong Bad Email, when Strong Bad gets a phone call, distracting him from his goal of answering 50 emails in a row, and Homestar attempts to answer the emails like Strong Bad: | |
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In an episode of Friends, Joey is training a guy to play his identical twin (long story). For some reason he believes that should imply they should dress exactly the same and have the exact same mannerisms, so he makes the guy get into Monica's apartment to get a soda from the fridge, all the while Monica and Chandler look at him flabbergasted. | |
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