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Narration Echo

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A character repeats what was just said by the narrator, word-for-word (or very nearly) for comedic effect.
A stealth version can show up in a script by having the character repeat the stage directions word-for-word (e.g. "Character is sad and confused" Character: I'm sad and confused!).
Can be combined with a Said Bookism for serious overkill: Tom was fuming. "I'm fuming!" he fumed.
Often a sign of a Lemony Narrator or Interactive Narrator, especially if said narrator retorts "I just said that." In news broadcasts, this is a sign of a bad newswriter.
Subtrope of Department of Redundancy Department. Similar to Ironic Echo Cut, but with the Fourth Wall instead of actual cutting. Can involve That Makes Me Feel Angry.
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In Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Oscar Hoffa suspects that Angela is divorcing him because she has found another guy, and hires a private detective who turns up this lead: "Subject left Putnam's Landing on the 10:07 train this morning. Subject registered at the Plaza Hotel at 11:54, checked into Room 921. Man came to Room 921 at 12:15 p.m. and was admitted by subject. Man is tall, in mid-thirties, wearing tan topcoat and gray flannel suit, looked nervous, no distinguishing marks." One page later, the narration leaves Oscar behind and takes up with Harry Bannerman, described thusly:
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Repeatedly done in The Castle, to emphasise the down-to-earth and no-frills nature of the narrator character and his family.
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Inverted in Harry and Paul, in a Dragons' Den parody.
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In the That '70s Show episode "I Can't Quit You Baby", when Hyde tells the (false) story of how he got together with Jackie:
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Inverted in an episode of Toxic Crusaders; Toxie, in his role as the narrator, keeps repeating everything Dr. Killemoff says until he's told to shut up.
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Happens in the Merrie Melodies short, "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"; the Narrator (Daffy Duck), announces, "The Lord High Chamberlain was simply furious."
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Scarlet Spider: The last panel of issue #3:
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At the start of Act Two of Spamalot, the Historian recaps the end of Act One, ending with, "King Arthur and his knights fled for their lives and were instantly scattered and lost in a dark, and very expensive, forest." Soon after, King Arthur moans, "This is a total bloody disaster. All my knights have fled, and we're lost in a dark, and very expensive, forest."
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Arrested Development frequently uses a variation on this in which the characters and the narrator will say the same thing at the exact same time.
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The WordGirl episode "Mecha-Mouse" is narrated by the usual Interactive Narrator and his Darker and Grittier twin brother. At one point, they muse, "Will WordGirl be able to stop Dr. Two-Brain's plan to buy his own private island?" "Or will Two-Brains Island become the center of evil and villainy for all eternity?" Later on, as Dr. Two-Brains goes to buy his island, he cackles to himself, "Two-Brains Island will become the center of evil and villainy for all eternity! The narrator told me so."
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The Powerpuff Girls does this in the episode "Mr. Mojo's Rising".
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Homestuck: When Aradia's true nature is revealed, the narrator declares that "We are all completely blown away by this stunning revelation. Wow. Dead. Really? Like a ghost? Huh." And, on the chat log on the very next page...
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Giant Days: From issue #6:
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The Middleman has a tendency to invert this with its Scene Shift Captions. For example, one scene ends with Ida smugly announcing the address she's discovered they have to go to:
And the caption for the next scene is:
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In an early episode of Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts, we see a one of the animals kids put on their cell phone straps lying on the ground, and the narrator gives a quick explanation of what it is and who would have it. Yoshii picks it up and starts saying the same thing, at which point the narrator angrily points out he already said that.
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Something similar happens at the beginning of Magical Mystery Tour:
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Done in George of the Jungle:
Also:
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Lampshaded in the Phineas and Ferb episode "What'd I Miss?":
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Animorphs: In Animorphs #1: The Invasion, when Jake's narrating to the others about his plan to morph into a lizard to spy on Chapman, he says that "Marco didn't like it". Right underneath, Marco says, "I don't like it."
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Christopher Moore's A Dirty Job has a sort of delayed version: the first line of the chapter "A Fucked-Up Day" is the narrator saying "It was a fucked-up day." The first line of the following chapter is a character saying (of the day described in the previous chapter) "That was a fucked-up day."
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The Prince from Sleeping Beauty has this as his shtick in There's A Princess In The Palace. Lampshaded by a pair of mice who have been commenting on each story.
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Reversed in Plan 9 from Outer Space, where one of the characters says of the aliens, "I wonder what their next move will be?" and the narrator says "What will their next move be?"
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The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!:
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Happened a lot in Lucky Luke. Most of the time, it was Luke himself repeating the narration, but now and then, some other character would do it for him...
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From one of Ronnie Corbett's chair monologues:
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Bertie Wooster has a tendency to do this to himself:
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Bored of the Rings:
Done, then lampshaded, near the beginning of the book.
And a few chapters later, more redundantly:
And a third example:
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Rugrats: Happens during the "Passover" episode, as Boris tells the story of Passover to the babies:
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Used in the dub of Chibitalia:
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Portal 2, to the point of overlapping with Department of Redundancy Department:
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Very commonly used in Garth Marenghis Darkplace:
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Done several times in Forrest Gump, due to Forrest's thoughts being so straightforward.
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The script for the unproduced Invader Zim episode "The Trial" includes this:
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Done in-universe in the introduction to Up.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus. A milkman psychiatrist performs an odd psychological test on a doctor gynecologist.
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At one point in True Grit:
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Referenced in Drop the Dead Donkey :
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Amphibia: Happens and is lampshaded in the Film Noir parody episode “Little Frogtown�, with Hop Pop repeating his own internal monologue out loud.
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Zero Punctuation: In the review of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night we get this when Igarashi shows the game to the imps seated in the audience next to the stage:
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Often used in the Storyteller skits on John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, for example:
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The Histeria! sketch about the Boston Tea Party contains this:
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After Anton Ego's meal at Gusteau's in the third act of Ratatouille, Remy is narrating Ego's reactions. When he says that Ego got up from his chair and thanked the restaurant staff for the meal, Ego can literally be heard quietly saying, "Thank you for the meal."
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One example in Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, while discussing Gandhi:
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Sgt. Frog:
In the dub of episode 15, when the others imagine Keroro and Dark Momoka teaming up to conquer the world, the narrator warns, "But their dark union was not that simple." Cut to Dark Momoka informing the platoon, "Our dark union's not that simple."
Used again in episode 22:
And in the first beach episode.
This is obviously one of their favorite gags. In episode 3, the narrator talks about "the foulest of funks emanating from the Hinatas' basement". Natsumi complains by saying "Man, that is one foul funk."
They manage to invert it once.
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Rain Quest features an exchange like this:
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Narration Echo
 The Kingmaker Histories (Podcast) / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Bleak Expectations (Radio) / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Rain Quest (Roleplay) / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Fraggle Rock / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Harry and Paul / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 The Fast Show / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Day of the Tentacle (Video Game) / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 In Stars And Time (Video Game) / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Bobsheaux (Web Video) / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Oxventure (Web Video) / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Video Game High School (Web Video) / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo
 The Scarlet Pumpernickel / int_38bf2f22
type
Narration Echo