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Parrot Exposition
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Describe Parrot Exposition here. You want me to describe Parrot Exposition here, huh? A type of exposition in which one character repeats another, pressing them on something they just said. Sometimes this happens repeatedly, making one of them look pretty knowledgeable and the other pretty clueless. Or it can be simply annoying. This can easily be Truth in Television. Sometimes you just want a bit more detail, or to verify if someone's saying what you think they are. It's also worth noting that Japanese, the language that many examples are translated from, does this a lot as a mechanic of the conversational language. Often done by The Watson. Compare Repeating So the Audience Can Hear, for when we can't hear the other side of the conversation; Repeat to Confirm, when it's considered SOP to repeat a set of instructions while executing them; and Parrot Expo-WHAT?, where the exposition is so shocking, sesquipedalian, or obscure that the other party can't repeat it. |
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All the time in Star Ocean: The Second Story, at least when Claude's the main character. Although he's justified as he's pretty much a stranger to place he just landed in while Rena's lived there her whole life. In its sequel, Fayt cannot stop using this trope. Once the player reaches Elicoor II, literal hours are devoted to Fayt and Cliff answering Nel's questions with questions or back and forth rounds of "Yes?" "Yes." with other Non Player Characters. | |
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There's plenty of this in the Shadow Hearts series, but it's most common (and annoying) in Covenant. | |
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Another parody in Hiimdaisy's Let's Destroy The Shagohod. When encountering Granin who suggests his awesome idea of Metal Gear... | |
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Countless Ranma ½ stories begin this way. The first panel will have Ranma (or whoever) repeating something which was said just before the story began, usually the name of a new martial arts technique or MacGuffin which will drive the plot. The exposition character (Soun or Genma at first; in later stories it's usually Happosai) will then explain things for everyone's benefit. A lot of humor manga use this variation on the trope to get stories moving quickly, and Takahashi herself popularized it in her earlier series Urusei Yatsura (though it wasn't used nearly as much as it is in Ranma.) Even her more serious works will use it on occasion. |
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The manga version of Magic Knight Rayearth stretches a little longer than the anime in places, primarily thanks to the girls' tendency to break every sentence spoken to them down to its component nouns and then repeat them as questions ("You have to get to the Fountain of Power to create your magic weapons." "Fountain of Power?" "Magic weapons?"). It's parodied when they find the Spring of Eterna as a two-dimensional line in midair—the panel FX goes Lemony Narrator. | |
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Bleak Expectations: Used for humor in the season 2 finale recounts how he and his friends had refused to believe Mr. Benevolent's claims he's summoned a Martian invasion (since after all, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one), until one morning a visitor disabused him of this notion. | |
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In Captain Pugwash, Stinka is a Mexican who works for Cut-Throat Jake who speaks little English. He repeats everything that Jake says, annoying him greatly. | |
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Bones, dealing as it does with forensics, but it's only used when Agent Booth is in the room. If, for instance, Zach and Cam are alone in the lab dealing with X-rays, the average viewer will have no clue what they're talking about. And Bones tends to reciprocate when they're in the field, leading to her catchphrase; "I don't know what that means." It's often Played for Laughs with Booth, as it frustrates him to no end that the forensics team will use the most technical language possible to describe anything. In one episode, Zach is talking about a "small domestic container" and Booth has to clarify that yes, he's talking about a jar. |
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House, for obvious reasons, has this every time a disease or treatment is mentioned. After the other parrots him, he lampshades it. Made a little more believable by (a) the frequent occurrence of extremely rare diseases it's possible they wouldn't all be familiar with, and (b) House's general condescension and near-compulsive habit of using layman's-terms analogies, which other characters have expressed annoyance at. Lampshaded in an episode where House and his team are being dogged by a film crew making a documentary about his patient; Chase needlessly explains a simple procedure to House and Cuddy, causing House to snap at how unnecessary it is to do so. Chase motions toward the camera (of the film crew) and shyly mumbles out it was for their benefit. |
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Before the climax of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Aragorn proposes attacking Minas Tirith to draw Sauron's forces away from Frodo, who is the only person critical to defeating Sauron. Legolas remarks, "A diversion!" | |
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Played with (of course) in The Simpsons: | |
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Harry Hill's TV Burp parodies the Emmerdale scene after watching it as he telephones other television shows and various characters and presenters just say the word "cataracts?" This is called back to later when a man accuses Val of getting worked up over a misunderstanding, she gets angry and asks if her ears have cataracts as well. |
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This exchange between the sheriff and a store clerk in the Looney Tunes cartoon "Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches)": Played for laughs in What's Opera, Doc?: |
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The Phantom Menace - the explanation of what midichlorians are was delivered by Anakin starting with a question of what they are and continues like so: In Anakin's defense, the first line sounded like an expression of disbelief, with the second line being more like asking "What is symbiont?" |
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Demonstrated again by the hero in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, except they actually talk this time (sometimes, at least). | |
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The Cat in the Hat - Making Cupcakes scene. The cook, all the way from CHE-SHIRE ENGLAND, states that the "Amazing Kupcake-Inator" can turn ANYTHING into delicious cupcakes... | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has this happen in episode 3: GATTAI DA!!! | |
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When introducing The Joker. | |
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Parodied in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Abridgerty when Ocelot shouts "STOP SAYING METAL GEAR!" at Snake and Otacon. | |
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Code MENT: The "team deathmatch!" scene. | |
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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: Soma tends to repeat what he gets told in amazed disbelief; but then again, when you think you are an Ordinary High-School Student, the chaos that is Castlevania can be difficult to digest. | |
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Amusingly, even Escape from New York has an instance of this. It can come off as pretty Hilarious in Hindsight. note The character of Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series is largely a Shout-Out to 'Snake' Plissken, the protagonist of this movie, for those of you who didn't get the joke. | |
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Samus in Metroid: Other M is a frequent offender of this, reiterating plot points in drawn-out monologues. | |
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This happens quite often when Ryo asks someone about something in Shenmue; he will often bring up the subject of the conversation, and someone will ask about it ("Did you see a black car go by?" "A black car?"). This was parodied in the Electronic Gaming Monthly review of Shenmue II, which mentioned the awkward dialogue between the characters. | |
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Harry Potter is known for doing this. The later films worked to phase it out and make Harry quicker on the uptake, but it was very much a problem in the earlier films and just about all of the books. Notably, he's most likely to do this during scenes where it is revealed he's important. Or, to put it more simply, he has a hard time believing he's special. He is, after all "Just Harry". |
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Spoofed in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. | |
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Rick and Morty: In "Meseeks and Destroy" the Meeseeks do this amongst themselves after losing their patience, and sanity, from trying to fulfill their purpose of improving Jerry's golf game. | |
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On The Dick Tracy Show, this is Stooge Viller to Mumbles, only he's simply translating Mumbles' mumbling. | |
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Asura's Wrath: Asura does a bit of this when confronting Wyzen in response to things the latter says. In this case, it's partially because he's still suffering from a bit of Laser-Guided Amnesia after spending 12,000 years in Naraka and doesn't quite remember everything yet ("Wyzen?"), and partially because he saying things that Asura legitimately doesn't know about ("Seven Deities?") | |
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Speaking of Takahashi, she modifies the above approach for Inuyasha, which likes to pick itself up from cliffhangers this way. A chapter will end with a character delivering a shock revelation ("Kikyo's alive!") Then the next chapter will start with everyone else parroting it back ("What? Kikyo's Alive?!") which handily puts the reader back in the moment and brings them up to speed. Then the character who dropped the bombshell will proceed to explain the details. Many plot-heavy manga love to use this variation, though again, Takahashi seems to be one of its biggest fans. Many times, this is used at the start of a new chapter to remind everyone what happened in the last chapter, because manga is published chapter-by-chapter weekly or monthly in serialised magazines. When it's been a month since you last read it, it's handy, but when the chapters are collected into one volume, it results in this trope, overlapping with Viewers Are Goldfish and the Department of Redundancy Department. |
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Kyle Hyde of Hotel Dusk: Room 215 does this a lot. At one point, he even does this to himself. | |
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Botch did this whenever Mr. Peevly gave an order on The Hair Bear Bunch. | |
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Used in Freakazoid! in a classic exchange between Freakazoid and Roddy McStew. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic, both games: Whenever T3-M4 says anything, somebody will repeat what it said back to him so the player can understand. (Oddly, all the various incomprehensible alien languages get subtitles... but T3's subtitles are just transliterations of his beeps.) The incomprehensible alien languages were handwaved by explaining that the player character has an understanding of dozens on top of dozens of alien languages. It helps to be an extremely powerful Force-sensitive former Jedi and Sith Lord. Lampshaded in the second game, during the Exile's first conversation with the HK-50 unit on Peragus. Though this is actually a plot point, as the parts you repeat are suspiciously specifically worded. It's an indication of the HK-50s' true nature - since droids are incapable of lying, the HK-50s are specifically programmed to circumvent this by omitting crucial details, wording sentences in a way that they appear to mean the opposite of what they actually mean, abusing hypothetical clause when stating facts that are outright false, or when acting as translators, intentionally abusing semantics to get the least intended outcomes. |
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Deadwood gives this habits to sycophants. It's lampshaded by both Al and Hearst, who snap at people for simply repeating back to them in other words what they've just said. | |
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Metal Gear (Metal Gear!?) Solid has its protagonist, Solid Snake, repeating everything that whoever is telling him about something, or going "huh?" It is more or less lifted from the character he was based on, "Snake" Plissken from Escape from New York, who had a tendency to do the same. Used less in Snake Eater (although when the name "Metal Gear" is mentioned for the first and only time, of course Naked Snake has to say it), but still pretty abundant. Snake's voice actor, David Hayter, made fun of this tendency in a podcast, in which he joked that most of his dialogue was "repeating whatever everyone else says but with a question mark on the end." This happens less often in Guns of the Patriots, though it's less because Snake understands what people are saying and more because he just doesn't care. So, rather than saying "So it'll make me smarter, huh?" he'd say, "Okay, so... what now?" This was lampshaded in Metal Gear AC!D2, when an amnesiac Snake accesses a terminal and comes across data on the eponymous machine. The sheer amount of use this trope gets in the games is the reason why this page used to be titled Metal Gearing. Metal Gearing!? Parodied in the UFO: Aftermath LP with a team made up entirely of Snakes. Another parody in Hiimdaisy's Let's Destroy The Shagohod. When encountering Granin who suggests his awesome idea of Metal Gear... |
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Ever since CBS brought The Price Is Right back in 1972, every host has repeated every contestant's bid once it is made in the one-bid round. Presumably so whoever is operating the tote screens will get it right. | |
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In an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place, Alex animates the figures in various famous paintings (and apparently the Mona Lisa, Blue Boy and The Scream are all located in New Yorknote the first of those is in the Louvre in Paris, the second is in the Huntington Library near Pasadena, and there are four versions of the third, three in galleries in Oslo and one in a private collection) and can't get them to go back to their paintings. She calls her brother who repeats exactly what she's saying until she tells him "Stop repeating everything I'm saying". Which he repeats, then figures out that she's talking about magic and he's standing around a non-wizard. | |
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This classic from Labyrinth: Which is a Shout-Out to a routine that Cary Grant does in the comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. |
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Downplayed in Trauma Center: | |
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Slayers frequently uses Gourry Gabriev as a Dumb Blonde or even an outright Idiot Hero in order to use this trope to manage info dumps about mystical stuff (powerful spells, monster society, magical items, etc) that the other characters (all being powerful, well-studied magic-users) would know, but the audience doesn't. | |
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1Q84: Fuka-Eri's unique way of talking often leads Tengo to rephrasing her question-markless questions as fully fleshed out questions. These exchanges are usually some form of exposition related to Fuka-Eri and the actions she takes as the story progresses. | |
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Like the above TF2 example, Overwatch will occasionally have the announcer, Athena, announce that there is only so much time left (a minute, 30 seconds, or 10 seconds) - only to have another character say something to the same effect, but with a bit more flavor. It can also happen if the enemy team has a sniper (Widowmaker or Hanzo - Ana doesn't trigger the voicelines), turret (only Torbjorn, as Symmetra has too many turrets to be constantly announcing each one), or a shield generator or teleporter. Unfortunately, if not taken care of, it can be taken to Captain Obvious lengths. | |
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Chowder uses this a lot with Schnitzel. Occasionally lampshaded when he gives exposition and needs to tell Chowder to stop repeating everything he says. | |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc's protagonist, Makoto Naegi, tends to do this. It is at one point lampshaded by the antagonist. | |
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In the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS manga: | |
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Neil decides to copy the emergency alarm in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: | |
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Happens in the Seinfeld 2-parter "The Raincoats" as Jerry is answering a call from Jack Klompus in the presence of Helen and Morty, who react this way to a couple things Jack tells them. | |
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In the Mega Man Star Force anime, Geo does this every time Omega-Xis uses a new term. Or describes the situation. Or yawns. Particularly funny is his habit of parroting whole sentences at a time: "Cygnus is creating a dimensional portal to the Twilight Zone!" "He's creating a dimensional portal to the Twilight Zone?" | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's has this by the truckloads. A fair warning: Don't make a drinking game out of this, specially involving long duel episodes, or you'll most likely die of alcohol poisoning. | |
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Galaxy Quest lampshades this, given that Gwen's job is to repeat the computer voice - it's stupid, but it's her only job, so she's doing it anyway. Leads to a horrified realization at one point: | |
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In Emmerdale when Val is revealed to have cataracts everybody who witnesses it repeats the word (about a total of five times) and then... | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "By the Book", Marco is shocked by Ludo re-appearing, with a wand of his own, and starts repeating the things that Ludo and Star say to each other. They eventually get tired of it and tell Marco to cut it out. | |
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Played for laughs in What's Opera, Doc?: | |
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Sort of parodied in Darker than Black. When a Clueless Detective accidentally stumbles onto the edges of a case involving the masquerade, he runs into someone who wants his trenchcoat back. They have a conversation that involves a lot of repeating things back at each other- because they have no idea what the hell the other one is talking about. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Moist Vessel", Captain Freeman repeats Commander Ransom's suggestion on how to handle Mariner nearly verbatim, and he allows her to take credit for it. | |
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Xenosaga is perhaps one of the most constant users of this trope, with one of the most common things you'll hear in the cutscenes is one character expositing, and another repeating a keyword with a questioning inflection. And this happens at least once in every. Single. Cutscene. | |
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In an episode of Fraggle Rock, Mokey is going on a hike up Wonder Mountain for a solitary meditative experience: the Aurora Fragglealis, which appears only once every thousand days. Red, worried about her safety, secretly follows her, vowing to protect her. Trying to make sure that Mokey won't fall victim to the Singing Cactus' Mind-Control Music, she gets mesmerized by them herself and has to be rescued by Mokey. This trope then ensues when Red is trying to think how to answer Mokey's question of what she was doing there without giving away the real reason. | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode featuring Prince of Space, the Phantom Dictator of Krankor tells the gathered scientists that they will be leaving the planet on space capsules. However, one of the scientists replies "Huh?" and "What?", prompting an exasperated Tom Servo to reply "Oh, for crying out loud... EACH! OF! YOU! WILL! ENTER! A! SPACE! CAPSULE!" | |
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Wakfu, Season 2, Lampshaded by the true Big Bad when he offers an alliance with the local Demon King Rushu and he repeats what he just said in sheer incredulity. | |
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Bob's Burgers does this as frequently as its extreme close-up stings. With the words repeated in monotone for humorously banal effect. | |
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Used to disastrous consequences in Malcolm in the Middle. A therapist tells Lois and Hal to try repeating what their children say in their own words, which culminates in Lois parroting Malcolm ad nauseum instead of helping him through his problem. | |
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This happened regularly in 'Allo 'Allo!, mostly by Rene, and out of disbelief of the next "bird-brain" plan they were going to do. Usually it helps set up the jokes. The Christmas episode gives us this conversation. |
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Lampshaded in Planescape: Torment, in a dialogue with Nordom. | |
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Ky�ji K�riyama from Noein practically defines this trope. It seems like over half his dialogue is just repeating back what his partner Ry�ko Uchida says to him. | |
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Zero does this quite often in Mega Man Zero, along with gratuitous use of ellipses. In his defense, after a Cryonics Failure before the first game and a year in exile after that, he probably is very out of it. | |
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Naturally, this can carry over into Metal Gear Solid fanfiction, although certainly not as often. One memorable example from a tongue-in-cheek Snake/Otacon Slash Fic, in which Otacon, more from being a nerd than a pervert, films the 'action' using the Metal Gear MkII and its new "accessory." | |
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Lampshaded in the second game, during the Exile's first conversation with the HK-50 unit on Peragus. | |
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Done indirectly with the narrator in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town: | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog is fond of the trope, including, from Sonic Heroes, preceding the boss fight with Humongous Mecha Metal Gear Overlord, the following. | |
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Scooby-Doo also does this a lot. "Reah, a rot!" |
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Bad Lip Reading uses this in More Twilight. | |
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My World… and Welcome to It: In "The Wooing of Mr. Monroe," John repeats what Ellen says incredulously when she accuses him of being attracted to fellow writer Dorothy Carter (though Ellen does so to John first). | |
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If we had a leg of meat for every time this happened in later episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, we'd be able to feed most of the hungry children in this world. The eponymous sponge even managed to do this with the long and rather clumsy S.D.E.A.S.E. ("Snail Disease Expert and Snail Expert") - no fumbling over it or anything, he just did it. | |
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LoadingReadyRun's CSI: CSI, internal investigations lampshades this. | |
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In Team Fortress 2's "Meet the Spy'': Occasionally happens in-game, too, since given the frantic action it's sometimes necessary to repeat over voice chat what's going on around you. |
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Final Fantasy V Advance (this version is noted for its very tongue in cheek translation) lampshaded this tendency when the sage Ghido described the twelve legendary weapons. | |
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Doctor Who episode Midnight had this where an alien possessed one of the passengers and repeated everything the others and the Doctor said. It lasted the entire episode. The trope is lampshaded in "The Invisible Enemy" with the Fourth Doctor and Nubile Savage Leela. |
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SSgt. Griggs falls into this during a chase scene in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, though admittedly he has reasons for it (as under Real Life this is standard procedure in the Army, plus it's a pretty hectic chase with a target that they absolutely cannot afford to lose track of). | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: "They were stolen from me by the Rare Hunters." "Rare Hunters?!" "CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!" "Card games on motorbikes?" |
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Deus Ex: Not even JC Denton is immune: | |
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This is how most memes are used. The majority of comments on YouTube simply repeat whatever was said in the video. | |
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Done several times by Phoenix in Turnabout Storm, mostly out of sheer disbelief at the stuff he gets told in Equestria. For example, when he asks where he is and who he's talking to after recovering a little from the shock of being greeted by a talking purple unicorn: | |
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This is called back to later when a man accuses Val of getting worked up over a misunderstanding, she gets angry and asks if her ears have cataracts as well. | |
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videogamedunkey will always lampshade this trope in games with the same Metal Gear Solid clip. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: Ed does this a lot. | |
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Ultima IX. Repeatedly. Keep in the mind that with all of these and more, the Avatar really ought to know who any and all of these things are beforehand. After all, he encountered all of them in the previous games, in some cases several times. Some of them were critical to the plots of past games, and the Avatar's best friend and loyal companion through most of them was a Paladin. You can even choose Paladin as your character class right at the start of the game! |
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Pokémon: The Series usually has this, with a character repeating move or Pokemon's name in confusion, in order for someone else to explain the move/Pokémon for the sake of the audience. Sometimes, the same move or Pokémon can have repeated parrot exposition later on in the series due to the fact that the show is a Long Runner with over a thousand episodes to watch. | |
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The Replacements features this trope at least once an episode involving the replacee repeating whatever amazing benefit the Fleemco Messengers have told them in question form. It's actually lampshaded in one episode: | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Protection Payment," Bobby the pigeon's dialogue often contains absent-mindedly repeated phrases his friends just said, meant to affirm their observations. | |
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Every single acquired weapon in Mega Man 7 leads to an exchange between Mega Man and Dr. Light: "The Scorch Wheel shoots a flaming wheel, right?" "Yes, and it can also be used to burn things!" At least in the Japanese version, sometimes Roll or Auto will appear instead to provide some comic relief. | |
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Eragon from the Inheritance Cycle is infamous for doing this: | |
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Happens often in Ace Attorney. It can be considered a Justified Trope during trials—the attorneys keep re-phrasing the witnesses' statements to confirm that there are no misunderstandings. | |
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This occurs often in many anime and manga. A particularly tongue-in-cheek example from an episode of Black Cat: | |
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A lot of humor manga use this variation on the trope to get stories moving quickly, and Takahashi herself popularized it in her earlier series Urusei Yatsura (though it wasn't used nearly as much as it is in Ranma.) Even her more serious works will use it on occasion. | |
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In Crichton's novel Timeline, we have Robert Doniger, an antisocial jerkass, who owns and runs the company ITC. The vice president of Doniger's company, Diane Kramer, often uses this trope to help Doniger sort out his thoughts while he's ranting towards her. | |
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In Sword Art Online, in the Novel, Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya and Senjirou Kikuoka, a government worker in charge of the Virtual Division, met and this exchange occurred: | |
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Leslie Withers of The Evil Within is a justified example, being a mentally disturbed young man who suffers from echolalia, meaning he often involuntarily repeats words or phrases he hears other people say. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: One Storyteller sketch has him explaining how he got a visit from a woman from the RSPCA, followed by said woman informing him "I am a woman from the RSPCA!" An "Accidental Archers" sketch has two of the Men Who Sound Tired recounting everything they were doing in the previous scene to one another, with the expectation that they will go on to the next scene and explain all this in excruciatingly tedious detail to whoever they find there. |
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The Court Jester: | |
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Mega Man Every single acquired weapon in Mega Man 7 leads to an exchange between Mega Man and Dr. Light: "The Scorch Wheel shoots a flaming wheel, right?" "Yes, and it can also be used to burn things!" At least in the Japanese version, sometimes Roll or Auto will appear instead to provide some comic relief. Zero does this quite often in Mega Man Zero, along with gratuitous use of ellipses. In his defense, after a Cryonics Failure before the first game and a year in exile after that, he probably is very out of it. |
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Dead Rising: Fe tends to repeat things too, usually out of disbelief. | |
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The verses of "Zydrate Anatomy" in Repo! The Genetic Opera are based around this. | |
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Transformers anime do this. A LOT. Headmasters and Masterforce are worst case offenders, where characters also feel the need to narrate whatever they do, as well. In the latter, its almost a Running Gag where one character will say something and another will repeat it in a shocked or awed tone. | |
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The main character of Sigma Star Saga descends into this when and only when he's being told what to do next. Typically, the original speaker was perfectly clear about what was going on, and he uses almost the same words when repeating back, so this is probably a tie-in with Viewers Are Goldfish. It could also be a case of military protocol. When you give someone complex instructions, you typically want to hear them recite said instructions back to you, to avoid any Poor Communication Kills. Granted, most of the instructions aren't terribly complex, but still. |
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Saint Seiya did this a lot. Saint Seiya did this a lot? One particular example the fandom absolutely adores: |
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