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Repeat After Me
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After me, after me, after me... No, no, no! That's not what I meant! This trope is about people following instructions too literally out of ignorance, feigned or otherwise. The archetypal example is: Contrast Literal Genie and Exact Words, both of which involve a "backfire" effect, whereas Repeat After Me is merely benign and silly. For a visual variation, see Walk This Way. See also Disobey This Message, Hello, [Insert Name Here], Literal-Minded, Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud, and Overly Literal Transcription. One of the easiest ways in which an Earpiece Conversation can go wrong. Repeat to Confirm is a justified example of this trope. Also contrast Stop Copying Me, when repeated words are a method of trolling. |
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In Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers, when the excited brothers believe they're being stalked by a real troll in the nightly woods, they want to banish it, and Simeoni whispers some exorcising words into Juhani's ear to shout. When Simeoni says that the troll shows no reaction, Juhani repeats that too, though stops halfway as he catches on. | |
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From the Soviet comedy Ivan Vasilievich (the quote is translated from Russian): | |
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In Blood Stain: | |
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The Transformers: Rescue Bots episode "Mayor May Not" has Mr. Alper make Chase say a mayoral oath when he's inaugurated as Griffin Rock's new mayor. Humorously, Chase misinterprets "state your name" as an instruction to repeat that exact phrase rather than to say "Chase". | |
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The Little Rascals: | |
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In an America's Funniest Home Videos clip, a scout troop instructed to repeat the scout motto all repeat after the leader: "I, and state your name". The adults present were amused. Some of them had cheeky grins on their faces, indicating it was deliberate on their part. | |
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A Night at the Roxbury actually says it flat out. | |
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Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity (Act II) — Richie and Eddie spend the whole act in a dome with no idea how they came to be there. Trying to piece it together... | |
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A Horrible Histories segment on how Victorian schools were run (by the students repeating whatever their teacher said). | |
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In Meet the Robinsons, the comically inept villain Bowler Hat Guy gains mind control of a talking frog, and this trope is played with, then subverted. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Disney's Pinocchio: | |
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Variation in Airplane!: | |
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In one episode of Winnie the Pooh that (loosely) reenacts "The Three Little Pigs" with Pooh as the narrator, Piglet asks Pooh what he should say to the Big Bad Rabbit who wants to be let in his home. | |
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In Doctor in Trouble, Satterjee copies a record to try and improve his English accent: | |
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Animaniacs: Woe betide anyone who asks the Warner siblings to "repeat after me". They'll repeat everything, including the words "repeat after me". Of course, being the Warners, they obviously just do it to mess with whoever asked. Yakko gets it done to him in "Let the Anvils Ring" when he sings to the Anvilanian crowd "I am now your king! Repeat what I just said!" and they chorus in response, "Repeat what I just said!" Yakko doesn't seem to mind much, though. |
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Supernatural: In "The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo" Charlie has to flirt her way past a security guard, but has no idea how, so Dean, talking through a bluetooth in her ear, tells her what to say. | |
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Free and Easy: A long sequence between Elmer and film director Fred Niblo, in which Niblo's desperate attempts to teach Elmer his one line of dialogue—"Listen, say it after me, The queen has swooned"—result in this trope. Elmer finally, finally gets it, only to hook his foot in a lighting cable and bring a stage light crashing down as he says the line. | |
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Sesame Street: Slight play on the formula — Commander Chiphead (played by David Hyde Pierce) has Cookie Monster recite the Cookie Connoisseurs Club oath. | |
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Discworld: The Ankh-Morpork City Watch Oath takes the cake for this trope: One Moment of Awesome for Sam Vimes is when he, while stranded in his own past, recites the whole thing from memory. He also implies that it's meant to be recited this way (partially because Ankh-Morpork has been monarchless for centuries). If you have trouble reading it, it should be: Similar to the Dinosaurs variant below, Lancre custom has it that whatever the priest says at the naming ceremony, that's your name. In addition to Princess Esmeralda Margaret Note Spelling, this has lead to James What The Hell's That Cow Doing In Here? Poorchick and King My God He's Heavy I. Which implies there's a My God He's Heavy II. |
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Forever Knight: In "Night in Question", Nick Knight is brought into the hospital with a seemingly-fatal head wound, but being a Vampire Detective recovers rapidly. His maker LaCroix hypnotizes the doctor to remember an alternate version of events, saying that the bullet ricocheted off Nick's "thick" skull causing only minor damage. The doctor repeats this, including the thick part. | |
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In Final Fantasy VII, Yuffie and Cloud did the "Say something... something" version on their Gold Saucer date. | |
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Tarzan and His Mate: Holt introduces Arlington to Tarzan as "Martin, my friend." Tarzan spends the rest of the movie addressing Arlington as "Martin Myfriend." | |
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From DuckTales (1987): | |
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Jessica Jones (2015): In "WWJD?", Kilgrave has a Compelling Voice, but has promised Jessica that his minions are actually paid employees and not people under his brainwashing. | |
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A Dialogue Option in Persona 5: | |
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The Price Is Right: This contestant during a game of Half Off: Similarly, in a 1985 show, as Bob Barker introduced the Dice Game to a player: |
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Superman: The Animated Series: In "Heavy Metal", when John Henry Irons is chased into an alley by two goons: | |
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At least once in The Animals of Farthing Wood, when taking their oath. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "A-Maze-Ing Snow," Trini gets lost in a maze made of snow. Tooey calls for Trini to say his name so he can follow her voice. She responds by yelling, "My name!" | |
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In the Stargate SG-1 episode "Crystal Skull", in which Daniel is turned invisible and only his grandfather Nick can see him: | |
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Horrortale: When Aliza forgets her alibi in front of Undyne, Drunk Bun whispers to Papyrus to tell the queen "that girl's my niece" because Aliza's disguise looks vaguely like the rabbit's family. Papyrus repeats the statement verbatim, leading Undyne to believe Sans has a daughter. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: When Pinky runs for President, Brain types stuff for him to read from special glasses during a debate. Unfortunately, the "F" button gets stuck, prompting Pinky to make the sound. One of his opponents repeats it. Also, the glasses get other signs which Pinky repeats and another adversary tries to emulate. The trope is the ruin of another plan from another episode where Pinky gains notoriety. |
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Twice in Pulp Fiction: After giving Mia Wallace the adrenaline boost: And finally: |
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A rare non-comedic example crops up in The Lord of the Rings, of all places, when Pippin peers into the Palantír and winds up on a direct hotline to Sauron himself: After being broken out of his trance by Gandalf, he explained what had happened: |
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Titans (2018): Dove beats up several drug dealers and forces the last one conscious to call the police. | |
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Yes, Minister: Soon after the new minister Jim Hacker meets his private secretary Bernard: | |
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In the episode of Being Human where George teaches English as a Foreign Language and has Hollywood Tourette's, he recounts an incident where he said "Repeat after me" directly before an involuntary Cluster F-Bomb. The students all did. | |
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M*A*S*H: Frank and Hawkeye are assigned to teach English to the Koreans working at the 4077. Enjoying the power of the Koreans repeating everything he says, Frank at one point has them parroting phrases like "We will not contaminate our drinking water with fluoridation." |
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A Tale of Two Cities: Sydney Carton's considerably less competent boss Stryker rises to question Barsad in court. Carton scribbles a note saying "No questions now. Later on if you're not too silly we'll land him." Stryver then blurts out "No questions now, later on if you're not too silly—" before catching himself. | |
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Dinosaurs: The Chief Elder has, among other responsibilities, the duty to name babies. When Earl and Fran brought Baby to be named, the Chief Elder suffered a Hollywood Heart Attack and died. Thanks to an Overly Literal Transcription, Baby Sinclair's official name was "Aaah Augh I'm Dying You Idiot Sinclair" until a new Chief Elder was elected so the Sinclairs could take Baby to be renamed. Other victims of the trope include Fran's cousin "Atchoo" and "*Burp* Excuse-Me Siegelman". | |
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Fraggle Rock, from the episode "I Don't Care": | |
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A sketch from The Sketch Show applied this trope to a backing chorus on California Dreamin'. | |
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What's New Pussycat?: Romy Schneider plays a language instructor teaching English to a mixed nationality group. Her fiancé (Peter O'Toole) storms into the classroom, and as the two have a heated shouting match, the class repeats all their lines in unison. O'Toole finally shouts "Aaagh, you bunch of PARROTS!" and storms out. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: At the end of "The Indestructible Man", Joel reads aloud an affidavit that he and the bots have agreed to sign, stating that they will never make any more cop/donut jokes. When Joel reads, "I, state your name—" the bots immediately respond with "I, state your name—", much to Joel's chagrin. Played with in "The Human Duplicators", when the hero of the movie says to his girlfriend, "Say something." Joel and the bots chime in with "Something". They're then surprised when the girlfriend also says, "Something." |
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And from over the pond, this variation from The Two Ronnies: | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, Edgeworth at one point has to confront Larry Butz about a letter he wrote. One reason that it's obvious it's written by Larry is that the line at the top said "Salutation here" instead of "Dear Iris", and Larry is the only one involved in the case who would take a letter-writing guide that literally. | |
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Seeing as Werner loves Literal-Minded jokes... Here is just about the only example out of a whole lot that still makes sense translated into English: | |
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When training other extras in episode 32 of Mimpi Metropolitan, Juna commands them to repeat everything he say and do. The next thing Juna do is greeting Melani, which all the extras repeat. To make it worse, they repeat Juna's attempts to make them stop. | |
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In The New Adventures of Lucky Luke, Joe Dalton instructs his brother, Averell with this trope in order to impress the girl the latter is smitten with, only to get it done wrong with just narrow success. | |
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A pre-recorded message in Portal 2: | |
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Another example from Robin Hood: Men in Tights is when Maid Marian tries to make Robin promise to not go to the archery tournament: | |
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One of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix involves being able to resist the hypnotic gaze of Iris the magician. Iris tries to hypnotize Asterix into believing he's a boar, but keeps getting distracted by the Gaul's comments about his Glowing Eyes like "How do you do that?", "Can you make them light up one at a time?" and "They must be handy for reading in bed." Eventually Iris becomes so confused he resorts to this trope. | |
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Saturday Night Live: The very first sketch features this, albeit a physical version. Michael O'Donoghue plays a language tutor teaching an immigrant (John Belushi) how to read. ("I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines.") In the middle of a sentence, O'Donoghue has a heart attack and drops dead. Belushi looks at his dead body and slumps over the same way. A sketch parodied Natalie Cole's duet with her deceased father, Nat "King" Cole, showing Natalie (Ellen Cleghorne) singing along with other deceased singers, including Sammy Davis Jr. (Tim Meadows), Ethel Merman (Julia Sweeney), and both young (Rob Schneider) and old Elvis Presley (John Goodman), often repeating the last things they sang. However, she also sings along with Tammy Wynnette (Melanie Hutsell), who was still alive at the time. |
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A recurring gag on Beakman's World: | |
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Animal House used the "state your name" version. | |
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The IT Crowd: Roy and Moss are worried about what to say to Denholm's widow at his funeral, and Jen tells them, "Just say, 'I'm sorry for your loss,' then move on." Roy goes up and says, "I'm sorry for your loss. Move on." | |
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Happens in The Emperor's New School: | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost": Mr. Krabs does this to SpongeBob and Patrick when scolding them for playing on fish hooks in ''Hooky": |
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From Blazing Saddles: And then they throw in a Running Gag: |
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Blackadder: In "Duel and Duality" from Blackadder the Third, when Blackadder and Prince George swap clothes: | |
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In a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, Biggles tries to dictate to his secretary a letter to King Haakon, and explains that he is not dictating when he takes his antlers off, doing just that as he says so. When she repeats "I am not dictating," he says "What?" and asks her to read what she has been typing, which is: | |
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Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In is likely the example codifier, and the source of the Beam Me Up, Scotty!. "Say goodnight, Dick." "Goodnight, Dick." | |
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British snooker quiz gameshow Big Break (1991) did similar. | |
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A variant is commonly used in Police Squad!. For example: | |
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In political satire The Dark Horse, campaign manager Hal Blake is having deeply stupid gubernatorial candidate Zachary Hicks memorize an Abraham Lincoln speech (actually a slightly mangled version of this speech). Blake gets to the part where Lincoln says "the independent voters of this county" and tells Hicks "—change that to state." Hicks, naturally, repeats him word for word. | |
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Used in South Park, where a ghostly minion of Satan is manipulating the Republicans, whispering in the ear of George W. Bush during a press conference. It all goes fine until... | |
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From History of the World Part I: | |
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And from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: | |
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After Hello Cheeky's local pianist, Denis King, is pelted with tomatoes: | |
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In Empowered: | |
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From the Hey Arnold!! episode, "Suspended": | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Message in a Bottle", two Emergency Medical Holograms have seized a starship from Romulan commandos, only for three Romulan warbirds to turn up demanding to speak to them. The EMHs try to bluff their way out by claiming the viewscreen is damaged. | |
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The Court Jester: | |
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Captain Underpants: In the fifth book, Ms. Ribble writes a poem on the blackboard and finishes with "Signed, Your Name Here". She then makes all the students write the poem. But instead of writing their names, the students write "Your Name Here". | |
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Saved by the Bell: The New Class: Near the end of the Season 5 episode "Her Brother's Keeper", when Ryan decides to resort to cheating in order to win the prize of a contest he has Eric enter in his stead since he can't enter it himself, he has Eric wear a concealed ear piece while he himself whisper the correct answers on a coordinated device so Eric can hear the answers and then repeat back in the contest proper. This ends up backfiring on them when Screech, on his mall security guard shift, spots Ryan at the scheme while the contest is still ongoing, gets Eric to confess to everyone at the contest via the same means used in cheating before busting Ryan and Eric on the spot, getting Eric disqualified as the result. | |
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The Burns and Allen Show always ends with George Burns saying, "Say goodnight, Gracie." While the popular myth is that Gracie Allen would respond "Goodnight, Gracie", this is a Beam Me Up, Scotty! She actually simply responded, "Goodnight." Other shows use this gag. For instance, from Tiny Toon Adventures: And from over the pond, this variation from The Two Ronnies: Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In is likely the example codifier, and the source of the Beam Me Up, Scotty!. "Say goodnight, Dick." "Goodnight, Dick." A variation from the same show: A sketch from The Sketch Show applied this trope to a backing chorus on California Dreamin'. British snooker quiz gameshow Big Break (1991) did similar. And from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: |
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Hilariously taken to extremes in the Night Court episode "Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson". Harry is trying to swear the pregnant Quon Le and other foreigners as U.S. citizens while Mac has appendicitis. Then they try it again, but this time, they repeat Quan Le going into labor. | |
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