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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
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Hard break; begin trope description. Oh, sorry. A script is more than just the lines of dialogue and the names of the characters. It also contains numerous on-stage cues which the actor must follow in order to progress the scene. These are part of the scene, but they are indications for the actor to, insert italics, do something. Experienced actors know how to navigate a script and can easily sift the text from the metatext. Inexperienced actors, however… That struck a nerve, do not finish that sentence. New paragraph. This trope comes into play when a character unfamiliar with script format is unaware that not everything on the page is part of the spoken text. He may well start, WikiWord, Reading The Stage Directions Out Loud. New… oh. Can be justified in some cases by nervousness or inexperience, although like most comedy tropes, the real important qualifier here is the, wik-oh, Rule of Funny. No matter how ludicrous the directions in question may sound, a character who doesn't know any better will read all of them. The inverse of Overly Literal Transcription. See also Reading Ahead in the Script, Repeat After Me, Saying Sound Effects Out Loud, as well as some examples of Hello, [Insert Name Here] for tropes which use the same basic principle of humor, open parenthesis (saying stuff that the character is not supposed to be saying, close parenthesis). A staple of Bad "Bad Acting". End of description, insert line, open list of examples. Oh, damn. Examples |
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It's one of the many things that goes wrong in The Play That Goes Wrong. When the female lead Sandra is knocked out, the stage manager Annie is shoved on to the stage with a copy of the script to take her place. Needless to say, she starts reading the stage directions out loud, and ends Act 1 by shouting "Blackout! Intermission!" | |
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The line "I need a vacation" wasn't part of the dialogue in the script for Terminator 2: Judgment Day, it was only written to describe that the T-800 in that particular scene "looks like he needs a vacation". Arnold instead decided to Throw It In! as a line, and James Cameron liked it enough to keep it. | |
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Happened in the UK game show The Generation Game, where in one episode the contestants had to put on a short pantomime of 'Cinderella'. Due to various parts of the script being hidden to the audience behind pieces of scenery (because of time constraints), not only would the contestants sometimes read out the stage directions, there were also times where they had to be directed to the next piece of script. | |
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One element of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot's So Bad, It's Good commercial in an episode of Total Drama World Tour was Owen dressed as a monster shouting (the phrase) "Monster noises!" | |
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Ditto for the Glitch (an entire race of sapient robots) in Starbound. Some of the lore implies that they aren't even aware of doing this. | |
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The kitchen crate description in Hitman: Blood Money is "Allan please add details," likely referring to artist Allan Hansen, who never did. This has become a meme in the community. | |
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In A Midsummer Night's Dream while rehearsing the Show Within a Show Francis Flute does this, leading to an angry outburst from the director, Peter Quince. | |
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Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun 33 1/3 does this with an autoprompter. Then he inadvertently starts reading parts of the script meant for the other co-host. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "Stage freeze!" in "The Nightman Cometh", immediately rebuked with "You don't say stage freeze, you just do it!" on stage. | |
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The Simpsons: An episode had Homer hosting a late-night talk show, and he finished each Cue Card with the words "Next card". When he introduced a new burger as a Krusty imitator, he said, "To audience: I now proclaim this new burger…for sale!" Also when Homer reads his script for Angry Dad. |
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Similarly, in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Trevor does this when he steps in for Jonathan. Meanwhile, Dennis is reciting his lines from a headset, including stage instructions and the director berating him for doing this. | |
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Stephanie did this on Full House. She was in a cereal commercial and read as her lines, "Stephanie takes a spoonful of cereal." | |
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Dicey Dungeons has the Baby Squid trying to work as announcer. | |
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Slings & Arrows has a variant: the actors are reading through the script for the first time, and the clueless intern is given the job of reading the stage directions. She ends up tripping up the actors by trying to read all the stage directions, including little one-word tags like "angrily". | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? has Wayne and Brad do it during a skit. | |
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iCarly: In "iBloop" (a combination of Adam Westing and blooper reel Clip Show), Reed Alexander (Nevel's actor) messes up his line by doing this. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head, working at a telemarketing office, read their script sheets verbatim: "Hello. My name is 'Your Name'." | |
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Cake Wrecks is a blog displaying unintentionally hilarious cakes made by professional bakers. Overly-literal interpretations of the customer's request are a staple, including the one that started it all. | |
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During an episode of The Weekenders, Tish signs the group up to do a radio play. They're being forced to read the script when this trope occurs: | |
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Borderlands 2 references the Hitman: Blood Money example when Gaige suffers increasing Sanity Slippage the more stacks of Anarchy she gains, to the point of becoming a Fourth-Wall Observer. At one point she's lost it so much that her voice actress is seemingly reading notes scrawled on her script. | |
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8-Bit Theater has an even less sensible version. | |
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In Doonesbury for May 1977, an entire graduation speech at Waldon is given this way, including the speaker's thought balloons. | |
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Black Dynamite: Two of the militants do this in their first scene. Being a parody that generally keeps the fourth wall intact (save a boom mike or two), it might take a moment for a viewer to realize what just happened. | |
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Played with in Revenge of the Nerds. The jock Ogre is about to engage in a belching contest against the nerd Booger. The announcer reads off Ogre's real, upper crust, and completely nonthreatening name. Ogre leans in and whispers something in the announcer's ear. The announcer steps to the mike again. "Ogre U. Asshole." Another whisper. "Ogre." | |
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A rather laughable incident in the beginning of a Puss in Boots film starring Christopher Walken: The ogre is introduced to the audience, and the ogre then says precisely this: "Laugh! HA HA HA!" | |
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Arrested Development: George Sr.'s surrogate, Larry, in "Forget Me Now": | |
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Rick and Morty: Done in "Look Who's Purging Now" with the lighthouse owner telling Morty to give him opinions about his stage play. The problem is the owner is reading a script, forcing him to constantly read stage directions and names, boring Morty. Done once more in "Rickmancing the Stone" with Rick replacing Morty and Summer with robots trying to behave like them. Robot Morty has to say the [[quotemode]] tag to hold a normal conversation. |
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Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns has some instances of this in parentheses: | |
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Done in Rocko's Modern Life during a celebrity endorsement for a jackhammer outlet. ("Smile, point to name.") | |
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Annie does this in the radio station scene, where Warbucks accidentally reads "drop page" when going to the next page. | |
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In Pippin, Charlemagne's first line, "This part is to be portrayed by an actor of enormous power," sounds more like a casting note than dialogue. Then again, the show has No Fourth Wall. | |
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Discworld: The Watchman's Oath is taken by reading not only the directions, but each bit of punctuation. It begins "I comma square bracket recruit's name square bracket comma...". This started as Carrot's mistake, but has apparently become tradition — although, due to some fiddling with the timeline in Night Watch, Vimes said that version before Carrot ever did. Vimes has used this to his advantage, however, in the line that says, essentially: "I will hold the [King/Queen] (Delete whichever is inappropriate) above the Law" — Ankh-Morpork hasn't had a regal ruler for some time now. Incidentally, having Vimes say anything along the lines of "Delete the monarch" is hilarious considering people still hold it against him that his ancestor killed the king. Almost anything official that the Watch reads will be a combination of this and severe warping of Canis Latinicus. One other example is the "Habby-Us Corpus" procedure from Making Money, in and around which Habby is used as a verb. Written fluency is not a common trait for Watchmen. Subverted in I Shall Wear Midnight, where the use of "Happy-ass Corp-ass" on the part of the character is deliberate — the character in question is highly intelligent, but his sergeant considers that a dangerous thing, so he deliberately dumbs himself down. Likewise, in Carpe Jugulum the infant princess is named Esmeralda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre, due to the Lancre tradition that whatever the priest says at the naming ceremony is your name, said priest's nervousness, and the fact that Magrat, who owed her own name to a combination of this tradition and her mother's inability to spell "Margaret", was determined it wouldn't happen again. Still better off than the former king My God He's Heavy the First or farmer James What the Hell's That Cow Doing In Here Poorchick, though. And an earlier book mentioned the shortest reigning King of Ankh-Morpork, who was assassinated only 1.4 seconds after being crowned. Presumably at that point he was declaring his epithet, as he is recorded as King Loyala the Aargh. A literal example appears in Wyrd Sisters, when Tomjon demonstrates that, yes, he was playing the female lead in the play just ended. He does so by relating the female character's soliloquy in dulcet feminine tones, then keeps right on rattling off the stage directions and transitions into the next (male) character's lines before he's told that's enough. Similarly, the current royal falconer of Lancre castle is generally referred to as Hodgesaargh, given his tendency to get attacked by the bird he is currently handling during introductions. In The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, Hex makes several dramatic announcements to the wizards, and says the words "pause for dramatic effect" before saying the last word. Ponder eventually tells him that he doesn't need to do that. At one point in Moving Pictures, Gaspode the Wonder Dog — who gets a lot of mileage out of the fact people don't believe he can talk, and their brains short circuit when they hear him say "Woof" instead of barking — says "Woof. In tones of low menace." |
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Texts from Superheroes: A text-message variation when Jarvis mistakes Tony's instructions for dictation◊. | |
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On cycle four of America's Next Top Model the girls were supposed to read from a prompter, pretending to be a red carpet announcer. Kahlen read the stage directions "looks to the left" out loud, followed by an "oops". | |
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In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jake does this while he was reading cue cards written by the guy who's holding him hostage. In this case, however, the guy is strung out on a cocktail of meth, cocaine and various other drugs, so in Jake's defence the line between 'script' and 'stage directions' is probably not 100% clear. | |
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A real life error in the localization for Final Fantasy VII. The North American release had a typo on the save screen ("No enough memory left on Memory card."), so the European release sought to fix it. Unfortunately they ended up replacing it with the message "Please change this to 'Memory card full'". | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: The host Humphrey Lyttleton, playing into the gag that he hates his own show, occasionally leans on this in continuity bits. | |
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Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. He is known be able to bait scammers for hours at a time and one of his gags is to declare "Happy anniversary" and ask the scammers to clap for him upon an hitting an hour mark. His most epic bait to date involves two scammers from the same call center named Adam and Alex, whom he managed to string along for around 37 hours. At the 26 hour mark, he does the usual routine and Adam responds with "Clap for you. Clap clap clap clap." | |
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In an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, London gets a job at a fast food place and tries to work the drive-thru. Hilarity Ensues | |
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The first episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold has Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) do a scriptless version during a Rousing Speech; Batman tells him "Now, wrap it up", and Jaime unwittingly uses that as the closing line of his speech. Amusingly, this leads to the little amoeba-like aliens to whom he's speaking cheering "NOW WRAP IT UP!" | |
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In Family Ties Alex is roped into working a volunteer shift for a call-in crisis line. When he ends up taking an actual call from a teen who is suicidal, he goes into a panic and has no idea how to help. Frantically he searches through his written guides for something to say. When the caller demands to know if he's reading out of a book, he denies it... but then he gives himself away irretrievably. | |
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The subtitles in Ray's level in Mighty No. 9 left in the script direction [AD LIB MOANING IN PAIN] in both the demo build and final build◊ of the game. The computer versions corrected this. | |
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In Act IV, Scene 2 of As You Like It, there is a song that includes "The rest shall bear this burden." It's unclear whether this is part of the lyrics or a stage direction on the singing (i.e., "The rest of the cast on stage will sing the chorus") and professional troupes have performed it both ways. | |
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The DC Super Hero Girls (2019) episode "#DramaQueen" has Hal Jordan blow his audition for Zee's play by mistaking stage directions for lines. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has the rootin' tootin' casino guide robot Primm Slim, who appears to be programmed this way. | |
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Joueur du Grenier: One sponsorship skit for an e-commerce brand had Fred and Seb get off to a great start when Seb goes off-script by saying he prefers to buy local. Fred tells him through clenched teeth to read the prompter, and Seb dutifully complies by reading not only his lines but Fred's as well. | |
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Saints Row: The Third: The Boss in the Gangstas In Space DLC, cringing on 80% of the dialogue (and being lauded by their boot-licking director every second of it). Fortunately, they get it right on the Enforced Method Acting when the Purple-Skinned Space Babes start firing actual guns. | |
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In Schlock Mercenary, Tagon is forced to represent the Toughs in a trial, and has been given a script by the company lawyer to read. Because it's The Future, it's written on a PDA, which leads to this: | |
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In Private Benjamin, Judy Benjamin, when taking her oath of loyalty after signing up for the Army, repeats, "...do solemnly swear or affirm..." | |
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In Yellowbeard, Flunkie announces Commander Clement at Queen Anne's court by reading from the guest list: | |
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In The Nostalgia Critic's review of North, the Critic believes that Bruce Willis' narration in the film was so hurried because he just wanted to get it over with so that he could move on to his next gig, and offers a fictional scenario of Willis reading a different version of the script word-for-word: | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: In "The Best Episode Ever", the main characters put on a play. Rarity, acting the role of Princess Plutonium, recites her stage directions and her dialogue tags aloud. | |
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This tends to be Dennis's schtick in The Goes Wrong Show, especially in "A Trial To Watch". | |
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George & Mildred: While helping Mildred learn her lines for the Cinderella pantomime, George reads the following out loud (in a bored monotone): | |
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In the Big Hero 6: The Series episode "The Revenge of Von Steamer", Baron von Steamer does this in his ultimatum to Boss Awesome: | |
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Ron Burgundy in Anchorman will read out whatever is put on a teleprompter and so does this multiple times. | |
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Referenced in The Kane Chronicles when Sadie attempts to cast a spell. She's so nervous that she almost says "I, insert your name here!" | |
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In The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, Flynn the bard is reading a lore dump of their campaign world from a 3x5 card around the campfire and has to be reminded by the GMPC paladin to turn the card over so he doesn't end on a Double Entendre. | |
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The English dub of Castle Shikigami 2 made this kind of mistake for real, in a cutscene from two-player mode with Roger and Kim. Yes, he actually says "changed voice" out loud. | |
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An episode of Big Mouth has Connie Monstress appearing in a science fiction-ish skit where she reads her "lines" as "Chewbacca sound" (including one case where she actually makes the requested noise, but still also says "Chewbacca sound"). | |
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Tony Blair in Dead Ringers, as a satire of how media-savvy and "produced" he was seen to be. "PEOPLE... of Britain — insincere smile, sweaty forehead — I speak to you today on the matter of an abject cabinet betrayal — angry eyebrows, pointy finger! — ..." | |
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Happens in Bewitched when Nicole Kidman's character tries out for the Samantha role and reads the scene descriptions and character names. | |
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Gazpacho does this at the beginning of the Chowder Christmas Knishmas special. | |
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The Warp Zone: In "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)", the judge mutters "Pause for dramatic effect" twice before delivering his verdict. | |
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Victorious: In the episode "April Fool's Blank", both Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillies did it during a parody of The Wizard of Oz. Later... |
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Steven Universe: In "Gemcation", Garnet demonstrates that the proposal for the trip was rehearsed as she speaks the physical directions out loud when helping Greg convince Steven to go on vacation. And that Greg told her to say it with more enthusiasm. | |
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A common example of the shoddy writing encountered on the stories riffed in Bad Creepypasta are the writers neglecting to place a second set of speech marks to mark where a character stops speaking and the narration resumes; naturally, this just means the hosts continue to read as if the character were saying the narration out loud. | |
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"Hey, teleprompter! Stop telling me what to do! Pause, then yell: This is The Colbert Report!" | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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The elcor, an alien race from Mass Effect, actually do this normally. Their native language depends on pheromones and other things utterly unlike human speech, but lacks tone and inflection, so they speak in a dull monotone prefaced by the tone of whatever they're going to say: "With barely concealed terror" or "Insincere endorsement: You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have heard him in the voice of elcor." If you pay attention to those Shakespeare advertisements, notice that the elcor reading the play don't use their usual prefixes, a Call-Back to the first game where a random elevator announcement details the director's goals of not only bringing Shakespeare to an elcor audience, but also producing a production seemingly devoid of emotion to humans in order to "give audiences a chance to judge Hamlet by his actions, not his emotions". Ditto for HK-47 and its HK-50 "clones" in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games. The only difference is the fact that the droids would be understood perfectly fine without it but, for some reason, are programmed to do this. Ditto for the Glitch (an entire race of sapient robots) in Starbound. Some of the lore implies that they aren't even aware of doing this. |
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A couple of omakes for Implacable has Taylor Hebert do this to show her utter disdain for the PRT after being forcefully recruited. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_79f4a7ad | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: "He says his name is -delay- Shadow." | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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In the beginning of Jungle Cruise, MacGregor is shown reading a speech that Lily wrote for him off cue cards, and being so nervous that he reads '(pause for dramatic effect)' out loud to the room. | |
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Everybody does this in Epithet Erased. Due to the Limited Animation the characters will often loudly announce what they are doing, referring to themselves in the third person. One of the more notable ones is Giovanni's repeated "Teleports behind you..." | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_7d985ff1 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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A literal example appears in Wyrd Sisters, when Tomjon demonstrates that, yes, he was playing the female lead in the play just ended. He does so by relating the female character's soliloquy in dulcet feminine tones, then keeps right on rattling off the stage directions and transitions into the next (male) character's lines before he's told that's enough. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_7de1376e | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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In the spirit, but not quite the letter, of this trope, Comrade Vasquez of Tropico 4 will, when asking you to arrest the Capitalist faction's leader, read the entire text box, including the in-game effect, instead of just the first paragraph. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_812165e3 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Star Trek: Seven of Nine does this on an episode of Star Trek: Voyager while reading a sample conversation the Doctor gave her to improve her interaction skills. Also happens in The Next Generation when the crew are stuck in the past and Picard is trying to distract the Landlady who wants to kick them out for not paying the rent. He gets her to read the part of Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream — she reads the stage directions along with the part. |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_81692f99 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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An episode of The Office had Michael trying to train Deangelo Vickers to be better at Witty Banter by having him read off idiot boards. "Now, I hear he's going to be my right-hand man, ad-lib masturbation joke... Mr. Dwight Shrute!". | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_82439e64 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Claireparker does this when she is rehearsing for her cut scene in Pixelface. At the end of the episode, she still does it when recording the actual scene. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_8546b09c | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_86772227 | comment |
In Knights of the Dinner Table, Dave has done the RPG equivalent while trying to GM (namely reading the GM-only information out of the pre-written adventure). | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_86772227 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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30 Rock: Something similar to this happened in an episode in which Jack Donaghy was put in a sketch. In rehearsal, he read Josh's line after walking on stage, even though that line was "What's up, Mr. Donaghy?" Also used in the Christmas Episode where they are putting on a last-minute live special. Tracy reads "cross to piano" aloud while introducing Jenna. And when Tracy is reciting a script to impress a member of Congress with NBC's rich diversity, he reads all the directions, including "Don't read this part, Tracy." Kenneth reads a memo from Jack: "Due to the Obama worldwide recession, there will be no Leap Day bonuses this year. Mean laughter, sound of a drink being poured, what are you writing now, you slack-jawed donkey." |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_89bf8ce | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Likewise, in Carpe Jugulum the infant princess is named Esmeralda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre, due to the Lancre tradition that whatever the priest says at the naming ceremony is your name, said priest's nervousness, and the fact that Magrat, who owed her own name to a combination of this tradition and her mother's inability to spell "Margaret", was determined it wouldn't happen again. Still better off than the former king My God He's Heavy the First or farmer James What the Hell's That Cow Doing In Here Poorchick, though. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Done for laughs in the fan VGA remake of Space Quest 2. The same line was used in the original, but voice acting was absent. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_8aef1fcf | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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On a Taxi episode, Jim Ignatowski is moonlighting as a vacuum cleaner salesman: | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_8d84ebc5 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Red vs. Blue: In the PSA "Planning to Fail", Caboose, acting as a zombie, reads the script as "Moaning... mooooooaaaaaaning..." In the season 3 episode "Make Your Time", Caboose reads out his stage directions when acting in Donut's play attempting to explain the Time Travel going on. In the "RTX 2018" PSA, Carolina imitates an echo effect and then reads the direction noting that the line should be echoed. When the director tries to call her out, she notes it's his fault as the script had that as regular text instead of in parentheses. |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9068877a | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_90b916ba | comment |
The Creeper in Batman: The Animated Series speaks like this even though he has no script. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_90b916ba | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Dinosaurs: In the episode "What Sexual Harris Meant", Earl reads a prepared statement on the witness stand. "And let me conclude by saying Foreman Harris is a great guy. Monica's been a troublemaker as long as I've known her and I'm pretty sure she cheats on her taxes. Stop here, look up, smile." | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_92844ddb | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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From All Grown Up!, Angelica has Harold publicly beg her to go to the dance with him so she can make another boy jealous, complete with cue cards. The cherry is Harold dramatically saying "get down on bended knee!". | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_946f58c1 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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RedLetterMedia: After the highly publicized Twitter spat between Mike Stoklasa and William Shatner (or more likely his publicist), Rich ordered a Cameo message from Jonathon Frakes to cheer Mike up. At the end, Rich's script requests that Frakes say a bunch of Star Trek stock phrases, but Frakes just reads the instructions as part of his message. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_971e8e24 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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In An Eagle Among Lions, Edelgard has a Divine Pulse-induced vision of her alternate-universe self "Ellie" practicing a New Era Speech written for her by her world's Ferdinand and Hubert. Dorothea has to remind Ellie not to say "pause for effect" when giving the actual speech. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_976a9581 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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In Mystery Science Theater 3000, toward the end of "Indestructible Man", when Joel, Servo and Crow agreed to sign an affidavit stating they would no longer make any jokes about cops eating donuts, Crow and Servo do the "I, state your name" joke, much to Joel's chagrin. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_976efc02 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9989595b | comment |
Happens in W.I.T.C.H. when Taranee's Astral Drop (a form of magical clone) takes her place as narrator in a School Play, and begins, "Taranee reads dramatically." | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9989595b | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_99e0099 | comment |
In Jennings, the boys try to put on a play called "The Miser's Secret" (having rejected "The Mysterious Mystery of the Miserable Miser" on the grounds of redundancy.) The first rehearsal begins with the murderer reading out his first line: "Creeping on stealthily. I wonder if I will meet that old miser today." | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_99e0099 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Nicholas Parsons did this by accident while hosting Have I Got News for You. Made funnier/worse by the fact that Paul had been making jokes all episode about his supposed senility, so while everybody else was cracking up he just shook his head sadly. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_99f8c7fb | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9a6bf4b3 | comment |
A variant in Hail, Caesar!, where the director is trying to teach his dimwit lead actor how to say his line properly: | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9a6bf4b3 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Mock the Week, "Things you wouldn't hear at a party conference" | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9d189394 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9e5f03e3 | comment |
Professor Farnsworth does this in an episode where they're forced to remake the climax of a TV show from the year 1999. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9e5f03e3 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
A page that once was on the official Pokémon website seems to include a note and written directions by accident◊. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9f89a5f0 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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From the third season of NXT (where the commentators leaned heavily on the fourth wall), Michael Cole said out loud to his producers for feeding him a line meant for his broadcast partner. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9f92c5ed | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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In The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Operatic Society's Production of The Mikado, this is one of the types of Bad "Bad Acting" exhibited by the actress playing Ko-Ko. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9f9ab3c4 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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In an episode of Rugrats, Grandpa Lou does this to his own family while selling candy bars door to door: | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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In A Face in the Crowd, one of the many signs we get that rising star/demagogue "Lonesome" Rhodes says and does as he pleases rather than sticking to a script is his stiff reading of an advertisement on his Memphis TV show, complete with reading the punctuation marks aloud. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Futurama: Professor Farnsworth does this in an episode where they're forced to remake the climax of a TV show from the year 1999. Bender plays with this in "That's Lobstertainment!": Hermes does it in "Insane in the Mainframe" when "celebrating" Zoidberg's 10th anniversary with Planet Express by reading out of a "Minimum Obligations Manual": |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Perry from Undeclared did this. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_a1b66a3a | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_a309c5a5 | comment |
The eponymous heroine of Hannah Montana does this twice while reading off a teleprompter during an awards show. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_a309c5a5 | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_a57cf54d | comment |
Darths & Droids: The player for Kyle Katarn reading a GM note. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_a57cf54d | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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In the 1982 film version of Annie, Oliver Warbucks did this for his radio appearance, where he reads "drop page" and "Warbucks interrupts". | |
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When Alonzo Lerone reads social media messages, he reads them exactly how they're written, emphasising all of the spelling and grammar errors. | |
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Get Smart: One secret mission of Maxwell Smart's required that he pass as an actor in a stage play, and CONTROL hires a famous acting coach to teach him the basics. Much hilarity ensued as Max bungles every line and direction he is given — one of his mistakes was to read the script as "I beg your pardon, smiles and bows". | |
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Jerri Blank in Strangers with Candy does this occasionally, Breaking the Fourth Wall for no adequately explored reason. ("The two hug.") Nobody else ever notices. | |
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Saturday Night Live: Happens to Dan Aykroyd in a season 3 episode during a "Weekend Update" sketch. And unlike some examples on here, this was unintentional. The opening to a 2005 episode with Catherine Zeta-Jones featured this. President Bush tries to put a positive spin on the situation in Iraq, but the soldiers are reading the directions on their cue cards. One of the soldiers is forcibly removed when he refuses to play along. |
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Inverted in one of Peanuts's many Christmas storylines, Sally is playing the part of an angel in a Nativity play. She follows her line ("Hark!") by explaining to her brother, "Then Harold Angel sings." The viewer is made to think that her line is actually "Hark! The herald angel sings!" (as in the carol) and she's misreading this as stage direction, until the end where Harold Angel introduces himself to Chuck. | |
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In the 1975 Rollerball film, star player Jonathan E. is giving a TV interview. He reads from a prepared script, "Hello, pause, I'm Jonathan, smile." | |
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In Animal House, Otter leads the Delta House in taking the fraternity pledge: | |
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In Chapter 32 of My Immortal, a misplaced quotation mark makes it look like Ebony is doing this. | |
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Hamilton: Near the beginning of "My Shot": Lampshaded by Lin-Manuel Miranda in the book "Hamilton: The Revolution:" |
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Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell: After reading a story about robots taking over any job involving repetition, Shaun repeats the phrase "Any job involving repetition" multiple times, then looks and the auto-cue and reads "Turns to follow camera". | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Patrick does this in the episode "Nature Pants", where he and Sandy act out a conversation to get SpongeBob to come back after he decides to live out in the wild. A junior novelization book that adapted this episode took it even further, with Sandy criticizing Patrick's reading of the stage directions. In the episode "Sing a Song of Patrick", Patrick includes the stage direction "drum solo" in his song... which the singer shouts before the actual drum solo starts. |
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In Blazing Saddles, when Hedley Lamar is about to send his army of outlaws to destroy Rock Ridge, he first has them recite an oath of loyalty. Naturally, when he gets to the "your name" part of the oath, all of the men parrot and recite "your name". | |
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In The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Linda uses a cue card to get Rick to support Katie's plans, but he reads the instructions in parentheses ("Now you talk") as well. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "Under the Lake", the Doctor reads a Cue Card that had been prepared for when says something insensitive word for word. | |
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In Dink Smallwood mod Cast Awakening: Initiation Death gives a speech about Dink's name being on his list of souls to collect and how it would be nice if Dink were to die fairly soon. | |
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At one point in Moving Pictures, Gaspode the Wonder Dog — who gets a lot of mileage out of the fact people don't believe he can talk, and their brains short circuit when they hear him say "Woof" instead of barking — says "Woof. In tones of low menace." | |
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The Day My Butt Went Psycho!: In "Bring Me the Butt of Silas", the mayor is making a speech: | |
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In his Internet responses on YouTube, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like reads the punctuation. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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On Jimmy Two-Shoes, when Beezy is reading a blatant lie off a cue card, he finishes by reading "The End". | |
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Guys and Dolls: Not a stage direction but Adelaide manages something similar when singing from a medical journal in "Adelaide's Lament" (in some productions; the spoken part is ad-libbed): | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: The courtroom sketch where Graham Chapman walks in as Inspector Dim of Scotland Yard and everybody says together, "Consternation! Uproar!" Also in the "Lost World of Roiurama" sketch: |
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In Return to Planet Tad, one of Tad's classmates, Ben Irvin, manages to avoid being cast for a School Play that nobody in the school wants to be in by doing this during his audition. | |
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The Bunsen Is a Beast episode "Astro-Nots" has Commander Cone flub his script for Bunsen and Mikey's staged battle against an alien creature in this way. | |
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If you pay attention to those Shakespeare advertisements, notice that the elcor reading the play don't use their usual prefixes, a Call-Back to the first game where a random elevator announcement details the director's goals of not only bringing Shakespeare to an elcor audience, but also producing a production seemingly devoid of emotion to humans in order to "give audiences a chance to judge Hamlet by his actions, not his emotions". | |
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On a Fox Sports-era episode of TNA Impact, Trinity ended her promo by saying confidently, to the camera, "Trinity enters ring". | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: When Ed is reading from cue cards in the episode "Dear Ed". "Sit down and say 'hello, Johnny'". Also inverted, when he interprets actual lines as questions. In "Ed In the Bush", Ed says at the end of the first act "End of first sequence, and fade to black." Ed does it again in "Out with the Old, In with the Ed". |
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Apparently accidental version in Power Rangers S.P.D.. "BATTLE CRY!" | |
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In No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Doctor Shake returns and combines this trope with Robo Speak. "Wouldn't you agree, question mark." "Behold! Said dramatically." and "BATTLE CRY.", among other lines. | |
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In The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, Hex makes several dramatic announcements to the wizards, and says the words "pause for dramatic effect" before saying the last word. Ponder eventually tells him that he doesn't need to do that. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys has an example where Kevin Sorbo accidentally does exactly this. Sorbo himself claims this was NOT the case but rather was an ad-lib referencing A Fish Called Wanda. | |
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Because of supposed budget cuts, one episode of The Burkiss Way starts in "a tea lady reading out the script, only", complete with stage directions and page numbering being read out. | |
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Penny does this in Penny and Aggie when rehearsing Macbeth: "Exzoont [sic] fighting." (The word she was aiming for was exeunt, the plural of exit as a verb.) | |
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The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show: | |
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Utopia (2014): In "The Ghost of Christmas Future", the Minister is rehearsing a speech and talks about the new plan for busting traffic congestion and what it will mean for "insert city name here". | |
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Newsman Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show will do this occasionally, saying out loud "Remove glasses and look at the camera". Also inverted, when Mary hands him an urgent news bulletin and whispers "read it" — whereupon Ted reads it silently to himself until Mary blurts "OUT LOUD!" | |
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Many examples of this in Homestar Runner. The wiki has the complete list. | |
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On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow frequently did this along with Saying Sound Effects Out Loud. | |
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In one New Avengers issue we see a flashback where Jessica Drew says something in Skrull (as in, the Skrull language). If you decode the Skrull writing—which is English but in a very strange font—you'll see that the actual sentence she speaks seems to be a placeholder that the comic's writer forgot to exchange for an actual line: | |
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In one of the Good Burger sketches of All That, Ed ends up having to stand in for an actor while they are trying to film a commercial. Ed, being so clueless, ends up reading the stage directions and the other actor's lines without stopping. | |
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Timberly on Reboot (2022) isn't a trained actress and has to be reminded not to include lines like "Whitney exits" in rehearsals. | |
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Caroline in the City: When Caroline was reading Richard's memorial speech (which he had written himself) at his fake funeral | |
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In one Meta episode of Supernatural, the actors play their characters playing the actors playing the characters, and as neither Sam nor Dean actually know how to act, it doesn't turn out well. | |
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Educomix did it in this strip. | |
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Seven of Nine does this on an episode of Star Trek: Voyager while reading a sample conversation the Doctor gave her to improve her interaction skills. | |
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It's relatively common for new items in Kingdom of Loathing to have leftover design notes from the developers in their descriptions. Especially when someone gets an item sooner than they expected to be possible, and they aren't done making it yet. | |
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In the How Did This Get Made? episode on Lake Placid, this is the only logical explanation the hosts can agree on for the otherwise nonsensical Brendan Gleeson line, "Everyone's a comedian, sarcastic." | |
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In the Drawn Together episode "Little Orphan Hero", Foxxy Love runs a suicide hotline and greets a caller by reading directly from a script. "Suicide hotline. My name is 'line'. How can I help you? Remember to sound like you care." | |
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I Love Lucy: Lucy does it in the episode when she and Ricky sue the Mertzes for breaking their TV set — Ricky writes her testimony for her and includes directions such as "snarls at Mertzes" and "lifts skirt a little higher," which Lucy reads out loud when they're practicing. Ethel also does it in another episode when rehearsing a play that Lucy wrote, although it wasn't technically a stage direction that she read out loud. Her character was giving Lucy's character compliments about her appearance, which ended with "and your nose is continued on the next page." |
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As seen in the above page quote, Joey Tribbiani of Friends has done this on some of the (very few) occasions that we actually get to see him do some acting. Another example was the time he got to read a news report: "Good evening, I'm Name!" | |
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The Goon Show: Bluebottle does this. One of them became his catchphrase: "Enter Bluebottle stage left. Pause for audience applause... not a sausage." Except when he got plenty of applause and said things like "Yay! Sausinges!" |
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Sunday in the Park with George: | |
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Also happens in The Next Generation when the crew are stuck in the past and Picard is trying to distract the Landlady who wants to kick them out for not paying the rent. He gets her to read the part of Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream — she reads the stage directions along with the part. | |
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