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The faster the required legal disclaimers are read, the happier the advertisers will be on average. No advertiser wants to waste expensive airtime on legal disclaimers. But they are required in some situations, either by regulations or to deflect litigation. So, the voice-over guy reads off the copy at speeds that could make your throat sore. In modern times, they're often assisted by a digital audio edit that removes pauses between words. Even more recently, it has become popular to hire someone with a relatively low-volume voice and have them read extremely fast, while what they're saying is being obscured beyond all hell by some form of background music, which is usually rather loud. And the rest of the ad is usually absurdly loud. The result sounds like No Punctuation Period on cocaine. Common in ads for prescription drugs, where they talk up a half to 3/4 of the actual ad, ads for new cars (specifically, the dealer financing or lease plans that come with the cars), any campaign featuring a promotional contest, and banks (which — in the US — will always end "Member FDIC"). Related to the Unreadable Disclaimer, which is more common on TV because it is effectively faster than the speed of sound. Rattling Off Legal still crops up in Radio commercials frequently in part because of the medium the commercial enforces it. Mercifully, there are broadcasting guidelines in the US and Europe to make sure the Rattling Off Legal is not too hard to listen to (i.e., going so quick as to be impossible to follow or comprehend). Sometimes radio commercials will lampshade this by having the person in the commercial say that their lawyers have to say a few things or something similar, usually addressing the lawyer in a derogatory tone. This is usually more annoying than the rattling. Even worse is the sarcastic Dumbass DJ, who is required to read their radio station's contest policy but adds a bunch of unfunny one-liners in to try to mine some humor out of the requirement when it's just faster to read the legal copy straight. Even radio station identifications have fallen victim to this trope as of late, where stations not actually licensed to the major city in their metropolitan area say the actual city of license like it's a mark of shame that their station is actually licensed to Lake Success, NY (which major New York City station WKTU is licensed to serve) rather than New York itself; Lake Success is rushed through like it's in the middle of nowhere, while NEW YORK! is emphasized much more. |
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Bleak Expectations: After Dr. Curesomebychance assures Pip Bin he will save his wife, Flora Diesearly, he then hastily adds "terms and conditions apply, the health rate of wives may go down as well as up." | |
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The Simpsons: In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Krusty tries to keep children watching his show by offering them forty-dollar checks. A voice then says the checks won't be honored. In "A Star is Torn", a commercial for Krusty's Lil' Starmaker pageant based on American Idol has a voice saying that it's not based on the show and that they've never heard of it. |
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In The Amazing Digital Circus, any human who becomes trapped inside the virtual world of the circus instantly forgets their original name. When the newest arrival discovers this, Caine offers to help her choose a new name and promises it can be anything... before rattling off a terms and agreement statement as fast as he can saying that whatever name she chooses can't have any "objectional content" like profanity, anything sexual, or inflammatory statements. | |
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Total Drama: Sierra is an ordained minister and intends to trick Cody into marrying her in "Niagara Brawls". All she has to do is say the vow and all he has to do is say "I do," so she rattles off "DoyouCodytakemeSierratobeyourlawfullyweddedwife?" and then spends the rest of the day trying to get him to say his part, even if in a totally different context. In need of an alliance, Blaineley uses the plane's intercom in "Chinese Fake-Out" to propose one to whomever will bite. She promises an alliance none will regret and continues with a quick succession of words to the tune of "Thispromiseisnotlegallybinding.Offermaybewithdrawnatanytime." |
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Occurs twice in Ratchet & Clank (2002), provided by the Qwarkbots that stand outside Captain Qwark's 'fitness and training facilities'. | |
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, radio and television personality Shadoe Stevens produced and starred in a number of off-beat and often surreal commercials for The Federated Group, a chain of electronics superstores in the western United States, often send-ups of parodies of TV shows, movies or other commercials. At the end of one Super Bowl commercial (where he parodies a fast-talking Infomercial pitchman selling "super bowls"), a disclaimer voice-over informs the audience to "Get into Federated now for a Super Bowl of savings! Operators Are Standing By! Offer not available in Squid Valley! Void where inflatable! Buy bonds!" | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In one commercial review, a Burger King Kids Club commercial shows a gorilla sitting down next to some kids. The Critic's voice comes in and reads "Actual odds of getting raped by a gorilla in a Burger King now only 1 in 5". In a review of a commercial for the Slim Suit, he treads off "Scientists also recommend these magic beans, mixed with a placebo brought to you by the tooth fairy...when you're in Oz." |
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In Sideways, former soap star Jack mentions to new acquaintance Maya that he mainly does "voiceover" roles currently, and reveals this trope is his particular work. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, a Parody Commercial for a batarian fast-food ends with a quickly rattled-off disclaimer that it is not meant for consumption by beings based on dextro-amino acids (Yet the advertiser is a turian, one of the said dextro-aminoacidic humanoids. What is he doing advertising a meal that would pass through his stomach like a brick?). Another ad (this one for Tupari sports drink) ends rattling that Commander Shepard's name was used with permission from the Alliance recruitment centre. | |
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In a review of a commercial for the Slim Suit, he treads off "Scientists also recommend these magic beans, mixed with a placebo brought to you by the tooth fairy...when you're in Oz." | |
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Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time: At the end of a commercial for Dingo's Diner: Pops up again in another commercial during the game's ending, after Dingodile claims his diner is health and safety rated "D" for delicious: An overly long disclaimer for the game pops up during the credits, ending by saying the events of the game are 100% canonical, "unless you didn't like them, in that case, it was all a dream". |
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The Sketch Show: There's a sketch where Lee is selling Ronni various insurance policies before quickly rattling of all the legal stuff he doesn't want his clients to know when she's not paying attention. After he asks her out, he makes an aside in the same manner that he's a serial murderer. | |
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In Fire Emblem Heroes, one of Anna: Secret Seller's tap quotes has her offering the Summoner a special discount, along with a string of disclaimers. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Tom does this in a host segment for "Gamera Vs. Barugon" while pitching "5000 Piece Fighting Men and Monsters Set". He sprinkles the ad with hasty phrases like "not responsible for nerve damage". Tom also does this while riffing on "Design for Dreaming": |
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In Futurama: "Weresemblebutarelegallydistinctfrom THE LOLLYPOP GUILD, the lollypop guild!" | |
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In The Truth, a Dis-Organiser imp rattles off its own licencing agreement in a single breath: | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In the episode "The Puppets", Gumball and Darwin find a parody of flying toys from the 80s to 90s that carves a path of destruction when played with. After it flies out the window, Gumball recites the toy's disclaimer, which discusses An Arm and a Leg and Eye Scream situations and is Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: | |
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Good Omens (2019): Doctor Sable (actually the Horseman Famine) runs a chain of restaurants that serve CHOW: food that consists entirely of fillers and has exactly zero actual food and nutritional content. When handing over orders, the waitress has to press a button that rattles off one of these. | |
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In The LEGO Movie Videogame, after providing sound effects for an episode of "Where Are My Pants?" in the mission "Broadcast News": | |
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Parodied in a few Homestar Runner shorts: An Easter egg in "Meet Marshie" has a guy rambling "Fluffy Puff Marshmallows and Marshmallow Mayonnaise. Each sold separately. Comes with everything you see here. Batteries not included. Kids, don't eat nails." Then he asks "Is that it? Am I done?" and asks if anyone else wants to go get lunch with him. The Strong Bad Email "the bet" has an Easter egg with a brief Parody Commercial for Butter-Dah with a disclaimer read so fast it comes out as gibberish: "Butter-Dah is noh hush a bush push leopold." This is also how the disclaimer is written. |
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The Strong Bad Email "the bet" has an Easter egg with a brief Parody Commercial for Butter-Dah with a disclaimer read so fast it comes out as gibberish: "Butter-Dah is noh hush a bush push leopold." This is also how the disclaimer is written. | |
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Gravity Falls: The end of Li'l Gideon's ad in "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel" includes a series of disclaimers, and then the Motor Mouth reader adds, "Carla, I've always loved you but I've never had the guts to say it." | |
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Night Court: Played with in the episode "Day in the Life" when a defendant refuses to waive the reading of the charges at 11:59:10 pm, knowing if he is not arraigned by midnight, he will be set free. Dan proceeds to Motor Mouth his way through the description of the two counts in 30 seconds and only three breaths. While not a disclaimer, it is legal boilerplate read extremely fast. | |
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