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A Music Trope (or, in some cases, a Poetry Trope). It's when you hear a rhyme in a song, or read it in a poem, and you're compelled to cringe at how painfully it's forced in. Maybe the sentence was rearranged into grammatical nonsense to accommodate it, or the rhythm was broken, or maybe it verges on nonsensical. Maybe words had to be intentionally mispronounced to make it rhyme, or an unlikely metaphor invented. In any case, they were really better off not bothering to make it rhyme. Bonus points if it doesn't even quite rhyme, or if they're just repeating rather than rhyming. It's common for amateur poets to do this, since they often rigidly adhere to an "ABAB" rhyme scheme, forcing them to twist their verse into grotesque contortions. It doesn't seem to occur to them that there may be other rhyme schemes or that poems don't have to rhyme at all. This is at least partially the fault of the English language itself, as it's generally harder to find rhymes in it than other languages. Also, sometimes the difference between accents may make a rhyme painful in America that isn't in Britain or Australia, and vice versa. Here is a list of technical names for rhymes that may cause this trope (They're all legitimate, mind you.): oblique: a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (one/thumb) assonance: matching vowels. (shake/hate) consonance: matching consonants. (rabies/robbers) half rhyme: matching final consonants. (bent/ant, orange/porridge) eye rhyme: words that look like they should rhyme perfectly, but don't (done/bone/gone, sword/word, touch/vouch). Sometimes these are paired directly in phrases like "good food" and "Sean Bean". identity: rhyming a sound with itself or a homophone. (foul/fowl, grace/disgrace) A common source of Painful Rhymes is the Stock Rhyme, such as girl/world, which is painful primarily because it's overused. An extreme case is the Mid Word Rhyme. Often a form of Lyrical Shoehorn. For the acronym version, see Shoehorned Acronym. May happen during an Awkward Poetry Reading. Sublime Rhyme is an index of tropes with rhyming names and not the opposite of this trope, so don't get confused. |
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In the Unraveled panel on "The Perfect Pokérap, Brian criticizes how the original Pokérap from Pokémon: The Series'' rhymed "Horsea" with "Weepinbel," calling it "a slant rhyme so terrible even Emily Dickinson would vomit." | |
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Parodied in The Penguins of Madagascar, when an evil device forces everyone to sing. As The Unintelligible, Rico's "lyrics" are all unintelligible grunts that end in a sound that rhymes. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Rough and Tumble like to try and introduce themselves with a rhyming catchphrase, but often they'll flub it. If Tails is around, he'll usually critique their attempt. One short story has the two split up when they start criticizing each other. The Tails 30th anniversary special has Classic Tails do much the same with the Witchcarter when she insists on speaking in rhyme every single sentence. |
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An episode of Fillmore! has a character called Checkmatey who tries to rap every other sentence and creates some truly terrible rhymes in the process. Fillmore eventually gets tired of Checkmatey's grating personality and bad rapping, and as he calls out Checkmatey: | |
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The Simpsons: In "Mommie Beerest", Marge convinces Moe to renovate his bar through song. They come around to this idea of making it an old-timey British pub, and Moe likes the idea, but everyone wants him to agree in song. He starts, "My bar could be British, instead of arm-pittish, so why don't we all..." and then gives up. | |
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In The Name of the Wind, the main character mocks someone by pointing out how godawful it is. Many times. With FEELING. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: During a "Greatest Hits" game about doctors, Chip's attempt to fit a rhyme by cramming it in with a lengthy, rhythm-shattering sentence is so bad it causes Wayne to completely lose it: Wayne's Let's Make A Date competitor who was also a politician running for office and his love poem/campaign speech: This trope is taken to the logical extreme in this clip when Drew cannot think of a line quickly and splutters something out for Ryan to deal with later. At one point, Colin has to come up with a rhyme for "fire extinguisher". His response? "Ding-a ding-a dingisher!" In one game Brad sings a song about a girl called "Niroshi". His attempts to rhyme with her name include "suntan loshi", "pacific oshi" and "we're so closey". |
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River City Girls: The end credits song, "Can’t Quit the RCG", starts off with an oblique rhyme: | |
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Tocotronic have a true masterpiece on "Gesang des Tyrannen": | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In one episode, Bloo tries to mock Uncle Pockets' constant rhyming, but ends up rhyming "around" with itself, as pointed out by an unimpressed Mac. | |
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The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce sarcastically defines "kiss" as "a word invented by the poets as a rhyme for 'bliss.'" | |
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Animaniacs. A song in "King Yakko": In the "mix up the scripts" episode, the Warners have trouble finding a relevant rhyme for "brain"... |
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Halloweentown invokes this when Marnie tries to magically open the gate to her Grandma Aggie's house: | |
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Stupid Kids: The Narrator does this in Boldogat és még boldogabbat (Merry and even more). | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The Knights of the Round Table's song. After previously rhyming impecc-able with table and able: | |
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The debut episode of Freakazoid! features an alternate theme to that of Animaniacs. When it gets to the final verse: | |
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The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World is stuffed with these, and John complains about them Every. Single. Time. When told that the gods wrote them, he sneers, “Well, now we know they ain't the gods of poetry.� | |
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In his satirical epic poem Don Juan, Lord Byron often used rhymes for comedic effect, sometimes with Lampshade Hanging. At the start of the poem, he also took a swipe at his personal enemy, Robert Southey, who was the current Poet Laureate, by rhyming "Laureate" with "Iscariot". That one was so bad, he even expressed doubts about it in a footnote. | |
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Only Popeye could get away with this in his ending song tag after gifting Olive with a pearl necklace: | |
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Lampshaded and subverted in Who Framed Roger Rabbit: | |
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Deltarune the (not) Musical: "Rouxls Kaard" has Rouxls use the non-word "fungeon" as a rhyme for "dungeon", then scream that it's totally a valid rhyme. | |
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He lays into Child of Light for using this too often, as it completely disrupted any immersion he may have otherwise had. | |
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Cinderella (1997) (starring Brandy and Whitney Houston) both featured and lampshaded this trope. When the Fairy Godmother (Houston) first appears, she sings in rhyme, and recites, "Fol-de-rol and fiddle-dee-dee, fiddley-faddley-foodle / All the dreamers in the world are...dizzy in the noodle!" Cinderella (Brandy) replies "That's horrible." The Fairy Godmother, thinking she's talking about the rhyming, defends herself, saying that it's difficult to come up with a spur-of-the-moment couplet. Cinderella was actually referring to the sentiment. | |
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Red Dwarf: Played for laughs with Rimmer's Villain Song (each chorus line ends with 'Rimmer' or something which rhymes). The deleted final verse discusses how they've almost run out of rhymes to use. In another episode Lister says the problem with writing a love song to Kochanski is that there aren't many words that rhyme with her name. And he's already used "underpantski" twice. |
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In the Animaniacs parody of Evita, "Brainita", Pinky and the Brain note it twice: | |
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Intentionally in the closing credits of Murder Most Horrid: "And you wake in the night, wipe the sweat from your forrid/Murder most horrid". The final season included variants, some of which were smoother ("And you wake in the night, your face flushed and florid") and some of which were worse ("And you wake in the night, wearing something you've borrid"). | |
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"Elenore" by The Turtles is deliberately written in this style; it's all part of the joke. | |
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In Zero Effect, Zero stumbles upon a poem written by his client when he went to college, rhyming "Towards" with "Birds", which makes him rather angry. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic once berated a commercial for the Wuzzles which has a girl mispronounce "kangaroo" as "kanga-ree" just so it'll rhyme with the previous line. Critic complains that "roo" has to be one of the easiest words to rhyme, and to prove it, he sings, "I got a Wuzzle/I'm gonna snuggle/So much he can do..." After that, he lampshades this... | |
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Azure Striker Gunvolt 2's Ghauri has a knack for speaking in rhymes, to the point of even derailing his speech just to put it in a rhyme. Copen finds his speech so painful to hear that he momentarily lose his concentration while fighting him. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony. Spike writes a poem with an abundance of rhyming with “who�, then he forces “here we go� into this rhyme scheme by pronouncing it “here we goo�. He cringes slightly as he reads this part aloud. | |
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In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Strange's attempt to become a poet was derailed when, while writing his first poem, he failed to find an appropriate rhyme for "let love suffice"; coming up with "sunk in vice", "what's the price?", and "a pair of mice" he went for a ride to clear his head, then never looked at the poem again. | |
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In Baldur's Gate III, when Volo is captured by goblins and forced to entertain them his strategy appears to be rhyming couplets following this format: 1. Make up an appropriate first line. 2. Realize he can't think of a second line and certainly not one that rhymes with the first. 3. Invent nonsense words. | |
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"Super Stupor", a side feature of Randy Milholland's Something*Positive, had a brief appearance by a bottom-rung villain named Crimer Rhymer, who normally spoke in very forced rhymes. ("I don't know what you mean / My record from errors is clean.") | |
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Protagonist Stile intentionally used assonance in his fight with the White Adept in Blue Adept. Stile swapped out words in his spells ("Form a pyre/burn like fir") so that the spells would immediately fizzle out, roving what he could do to White if he really wanted to. Subverted in that full Adepts can't hurt each other, one-on-one (he didn't know this until White told him), so the full spells may have done less damage. | |
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In The Sunshine Boys, Willie Clark is reading Variety while his nephew visits, when he comes across an item about a songwriter who died. | |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Mr Beaver recites the prophecy "When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone sits at Cair Paravel in throne, the evil times will be over and done". Susan points out that that doesn't really rhyme, which Mr Beaver concedes but says she's missing the point. (The poem was present in the original book, but as an eye rhyme it works better in print.) | |
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This poem written by Sokka of Avatar: The Last Airbender: "My name is Sokka/ It's pronounced with an "-okka"/ Young ladies, I rock ya!" He gets thrown out of the poetry club—not because of the bad rhyming, but because it's meant to be a haiku. | |
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel Fallen Heroes features an alien race, the Lonat, who talk entirely in epic brilliant poetry ... which the Universal Translator converts into doggerel in order to retain the meaning. And for some reason, the more anxious they get, the worse the doggerel becomes. | |
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Arthur: In "Whip. Mix. Blend.", the Tough Customers protest a chicken restaurant, with the slogan "Sticky Chicken makes you sicken!" Rattles is in disbelief. | |
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Used intentionally in Heathers, while faking a suicide note. | |
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Phineas and Ferb The "Come Home Perry" song from the episode "Oh, There You Are, Perry" has deliberately cringe-worthy rhymes when Candace has trouble coming up with rhymes for "Perry": Lampshaded in the "Frenemies" song from "Lotsa Latkes", which rhymes "spats" with "ats". In the song "There's a Platypus Controlling Me," a kid randomly mentions that his teacher is a panda. When asked about the meaning of this line, creator Dan Povenmire responded, "It means we were looking for a rhyme for 'propaganda'." |
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Better Call Saul: Jimmy sings the "99 Bottles of Beer" song but about cash money. He sings "take one dollar, pass it a..." before realizing there is no suitable word that rhymes with 'dollar'. After pausing for a bit, he finishes with "yollar". | |
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Oxventure: At one point the egotistical idiot Corazón de Ballena writes a Bragging Theme Tune about himself, which includes an attempt to make the word "horizon" rhyme with his first name. | |
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Lampshaded in Fables: Frau Totenkinder's spell/Takes a normal message and turns it into doggerel. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Played for humor as the entire basis of Hugh Laurie's "Mystery": "I'm in love with Steffi Graf" has this: |
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Lampshaded for a laugh in Saving Mr. Banks. P.L. Travers is doing a script read of Walt Disney's adaptation of her books, and the Sherman Brothers are performing the music they've written for the movie. She listens to them sing a line from the opening number of the film—"Constable's responstable"—and stops the song, insisting that "responstable" isn't a word. The brothers explain that they've made it up, and she sternly tells them to "un-make it up." Richard Sherman then sheepishly hides another piece of music with the word "Supercalifragilis..."on top. | |
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In series 6 of Knightmare, Treguard's closing verse in series 6 required him to rhyme 'foul' with 'hour' every week. Earlier series also had a Previously on… delivered in verse, which usually had at least one painful forced rhyme. Lampshaded in one recap: | |
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The Wizard of Oz: the brilliant Yip Harburg makes this part of the film's whimsical style, via Refuge in Audacity. The Cowardly Lion in particular carries many of them. From "If I Only Had The Nerve": | |
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Fraggle Rock: While singing "The Ballad of Sir Blunderbrain" to Gobo, Mokey, Boober, and Wembley, the Storyteller has a bit of trouble rhyming one of the words when she gets to the part about Sir Blundebrain's journeying to rescue the Fraggles trapped in the Terrible Tunnel. | |
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The Spectacular Spiderman: Spidey's Inner Monologue from the Cold Opening to the episode "The Uncertainty Principle": | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 In "The Girl in Lover's Lane", Joel pronounces "magazines" to rhyme with "Circle Pines" during his verse of "The Train Song". Lampshaded in the "Werewolf" episode, during the song "Where Oh Werewolf": |
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Star Trek featured a Halloween Episode in which a triad of witches recited a prophecy of doom to Captain Kirk. When asked to comment on this development, Spock correctly pointed out that it was "very bad poetry." | |
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One of the satirical songs on The Now Show mocks the then-Poet Laureate Andrew Motion for claiming that nothing rhymes with "Wilkinson". As with the Lehrer examples, outrageous forced rhymes are used for comic effect: | |
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In The Wolf Den, Cornelius' hymn to Flora is assumed to be parody due to its painful and tacky rhymes. | |
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The Futurama episode "Fry and the Slurm Factory" parodies many aspects of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, including the way the Oompa-Loompas rely on nonsensical lyrics to create rhymes: | |
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At the end of The Nostalgia Chick's video about The Worst Witch film Doug Walker sings a song which is full of nonsensical forced rhymes with "Halloween", mirroring Tim Curry's musical number in the film. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In "So Totally Spaced Out", when the Gigglepies' Mind Manipulation on Cosmo and Wanda begins to falter, their ability to rhyme is affected and one of them attempts to rhyme "ridiculous" with "trick-ulous", causing Wanda to come to her senses. In "Baby Face", Peppy Happy Betty finishes a string of forced rhymes with a very painful "distracted...-wackted!" She lampshades this with "I'm running out of rhymey-whymies." |
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The VeggieTales video King George and the Ducky has King George sing a rant that rhymes "longer," "stronger," and "wronger." King George's page tries to remind him to say "more wrong," instead. The king insists, "It had to rhyme! Don't question a king's grammar!" | |
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During a Keiki story in which the title character is officially proclaimed the smartest person in Hawaiʻi, Beefer challenges her to come up with a rhyme for "orange." She answers, "The rock guy screamed, 'more grunge!' as he ate an or-ange." | |
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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018): The song "My Year" plays with this during Eliza's introduction. | |
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Sister, Sister: Played for laughs in the Season 4 episode “Sis-Boom-Bah�, with both rhyming mishaps being delivered by Lisa: The first occurs when Lisa improvises a slogan to promote the sale of popcorn at her mall cart to bring in customers (a gimmick that later backfires when she spills hot oil over the popcorn machine, setting her cart ablaze): Later in the episode, Lisa improvises a cheer while trying to advise Tia and Tamera, whose “twin gimmick� fails to make up for the girls’ lack of coordination when they audition for Roosevelt High’s cheerleading squad and end up on the school’s “C-Squad�note An alternate cheerleading team for students not good enough to make the varsity squad instead: |
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Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak often criticizes the show's "Rhyme Time" category for this when it leads to bizarre puzzles such as BEES FLEAS AND MANATEES, often citing them as being worse than made-up examples of his such as DOGS FROGS AND WARTHOGS. | |
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Danger Mouse reads a scroll with instructions on how to utilize the Mystic Inkwell of Merlin ("Where There's a Well, There's a Way") when he comes across a painful rhyme that Penfold lampshades: | |
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Her review of He-Man & She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword started with her critiquing the opening theme. | |
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Yahtzee decided that the reboot of Wolfenstein was such a boring game any normal review of it would also be boring, and so performed most of his review of the game in limerick form. Since it's played for laughs, the ridiculous rhymes come off as more hilarious than painful. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Intentionally invoked in the episode "The Show Stoppers." Scootaloo attempts to write a song for the upcoming talent show, but is only able to come up with lyrics like: | |
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Todd in the Shadows had the Running Gag "Not a Rhyme" to denote those. And for a song-specific case, he said that the first verse of Flo Rida's "Club Can't Handle Me" features "the worst succession of non-rhymes I've heard since the second verse of Steve Miller's 'Take the Money and Run'": | |
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Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger has at least four Stylistic Suck examples as Mrs. Jewels asks the kids to write poems about colors. These probably stand out the most: | |
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In The Curse of Monkey Island, Guybrush purposely derails an overly-long-song by pitching the word orange into the rhymes. The singers are unable to come up with anything fitting besides "door-hinge". | |
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Night in the Woods: One of Fisherman Joe's poems has him awkwardly try to rhyme "storm" and "home". Mae mocks this by drawing a picture in her journal of a fish with a hat and briefcase saying "Honey, I'm horm." | |
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In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, during Matthew Patel's inexplicable villain song as he fights Scott, he includes the lyric "Fireball, girls! Take this sucker down! / Let us show him what we're all about!", to which Scott quips to himself "That doesn't even rhyme!" | |
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In Ed, Edd n Eddy when Eddy recites a slogan for their home repair business. | |
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The Golden Girls: In the episode "Big Daddy's Little Lady" has a number of examples of this in the "B" plot, which is about Rose Nylund (Betty White) and Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur) writing a song about Miami for a songwriting competition. Their first attempt turns out like this: In their second attempt, they change "Miami" to "Miami Beach" because of the difficulty of finding a word to rhyme with "Miami," but Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan) notices the addition right away and points it out. Earlier in the episode, Rose sings her high school's fight song to Dorothy as an example of her songwriting talents: "Onward St. Olaf, onward we go, onward and onward St. Olaf's go! Go go go, go go go..." This comes up again at the tail end of the second argument when Rose complains, "I never had this trouble when I was working alone," and Dorothy retorts, "When you worked alone, the only word you could rhyme with 'go' was 'go.'" |
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On Survivor, the rhyming "tree-mails" announcing challenges are always chock full of forced rhymes and awful meter. You'd think after twenty seasons, the mail-writers would get pretty good at it, but apparently not. | |
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On Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits, Strong Bad comments on this during Marzipan's song "Sensitive to Bees", where she rhymes "fruit" with "cute". Then "cute", "cute", and "cute". | |
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In one of Smosh Games' Game Bang episodes, Joven and Sohinki must face each other in a rap battle after getting the worst scores in the Def Jam Rap Stars. In the second round, Joven tries to rhyme "Army" with "Barbies", which is a borderline non-sequitur that flows poorly with his previous lines, but doesn't even rhyme that well. | |
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Homestar Runner: On Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits, Strong Bad comments on this during Marzipan's song "Sensitive to Bees", where she rhymes "fruit" with "cute". Then "cute", "cute", and "cute". Many of Coach Z's attempts at freestyling wind up this way, some just because he's a poor rapper (example: "Coach Z" with "mostly"), but others due to his strange accent (for example, he refers to The Cheat as "The Chort", which he has rhymed with "sport" and "cohort" on different occasions. Or, at one point, he rhymes "that" with "abrat" - meaning "about".) |
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Least I Could Do: Rayne often does "beat" poetry at the local coffeehouse. Also, this strip. | |
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In-universe; in Violet, if the protagonist tries to work to MC Dingo's music, they're distracted by his rhymes of 'casino'/'albino' and 'zebra'/'Deborah'. | |
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Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee decided that the reboot of Wolfenstein was such a boring game any normal review of it would also be boring, and so performed most of his review of the game in limerick form. Since it's played for laughs, the ridiculous rhymes come off as more hilarious than painful. He lays into Child of Light for using this too often, as it completely disrupted any immersion he may have otherwise had. |
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Fallen London uses the concept for humor in the flavor text which indicates progress in writing a commissioned poem. It's an epic - four hundred stanzas. And it's about mushrooms. "The work advances. Are you actually going to rhyme 'mushroom' with 'room'? I mean actually?" | |
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A passage from the English translation of Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland: | |
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Tyler, the Creator's "Lone" rhymes "week" with "strength" by mispronouncing the latter as "streath". | |
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In the second episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, the singing teacher of the day (Tony the Talking Clock, who tries to teach the characters about time) is pretty lousy at rhyming, eventually resorting to rambling repeatedly about time. As the series goes on, successive teachers begin to become steadily worse and worse, foreshadowing the fact that the reality-manipulating machine generating them isn't working optimally. | |
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The Phantom of the Opera features this dialogue. Also comes with a case of Rhyming with Itself: | |
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The infamous Dexter's Laboratory Christmas Episode "Dexter vs. Santa's Claws" had Dexter perform a rap number on how their dad dresses up as Santa Claus on Christmas Eve to give the kids their presents, and being not such a great rapper he comes up with some fairly lousy attempts at rhyming lyrics... | |
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In the song "Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You?" from The King and I, Anna mispronounces "employee" to rhyme with "pay" and "libertine" to rhyme with "concubine"... and then corrects herself. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation has Lore point out that Noonien Soong's nickname, Often Wrong, is meant to rhyme, but 'Soong' and 'Wrong' really don't. | |
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