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That Sounds Familiar

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That Sounds Familiar	comment	A corruption or misuse of a word or phrase by people who have obviously heard it used, but understand the concept very loosely and have no idea of its origins. This can be Played for Laughs, with the comedy coming from the audience understanding the original significance of the word. Alternatively, the original term might be very significant, powerful or evil but its misuse is incongruously trivial. Finally, it might be insignificant and simply used to set a scene as being related to the real world, or as a throwaway gag when the setting is clearly alien. Often used in Future Imperfect settings, where the borrowers of the term are the descendants of the originators.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_10d303a2	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei IV, the heroes hail from the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado, founded by King Aquila. The Kingdom was built atop a dome covering Tokyo to protect it from ICBMs, and Aquila was actually a man named Akira who managed to escape the dome. Several of the regions in the area are also corruptions of regions in Tokyo. In particular, Kiccigiorgi, the protagonist's home village, is a corruption of Kichijoji, a neighborhood in Tokyo.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_197eba1f	comment	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 has "anwoo" said constantly by the mutated fruit. Turns out it's part of a corrupted video of Flint Lockwood.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_22c28cbe	comment	Un Lun Dun is absolutely full of these — not surprising, since the title of the book is "Un-London".
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That Sounds Familiar / int_3144c8f	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_3144c8f	comment	Motel of the Mysteries is an archeological expedition recording the discovery, excavation and cataloguing of a motel room in a manner reminiscent of an Egyptian tomb, complete with a "curse" afflicting the discoverer.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_3b34143f	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_3b34143f	comment	In the Harry Potter series, the phrase Avada Kedavra is the incantation to possibly the most powerful curse known to the wizarding world. Muggles, on the other hand, know Abra Kadabra as a nonsense "magic word" used by stage magicians. It is implied that the sheer power of the word has allowed it to filter through The Masquerade.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_460f6c24	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_460f6c24	comment	In the Planet of the Apes (2001) remake, the holy site Calima's name was taken from a partially-covered "CAUTION LIVE ANIMALS" sign on the ship.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_51a0ec9e	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_51a0ec9e	comment	Several of the place-names in The Carpet People are obvious corruptions of the human artifacts they are based around, such as "Achairleg" and "On Epen Ny". Another Terry Pratchett example would be Inn Sewer Ants and Den Chewers.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_53a10f26	comment	In an episode of the revival The Twilight Zone (2002) a virtually crime-free future society is suddenly menaced by a mysterious creature called a Kreetor, believed to have long been extinct. The leader of the team tasked with finding and killing the Kreetor finds out that the Kreetor is actually a human, possibly the only one left on Earth, and all the other "humans" are actually cyborgs who wiped out the human race and took over their civilization. The word Kreetor came from "creator."
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That Sounds Familiar / int_549f7dd9	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_549f7dd9	comment	The Indian in the Cupboard has Little Bear thinking that he and the other Living Toys come from something called "plaz-tek".
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That Sounds Familiar / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas has Novac, named after a malfuctioning "NO VACancy" motel sign and "Freeside", located in what used to be Fremont Street. The Old World Blues DLC is centered around a scientific research facility named "Big Mountain", commonly abbreviated as "Big MT". The corruption of the name, coupled with its secluded location and the fact that people who tried exploring the crater tended to not come back led to it being known as "The Big Empty" in the Mojave Wasteland.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_5d84baa1	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_5d84baa1	comment	In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, every species in the galaxy has some drink whose name is a variation on Gin and Tonic, which has confused etymologists for centuries. The drinks are all completely different; it's just the name that is identical. Variations listed include jynnan tonnyx, jinond-o-nicks, chinanto nigs, txjin-anthonty-ks, and of course, the Terran gin and tonic.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_5e1213a8	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_5e1213a8	comment	In Neverwhere, we are the ones doing this, with the names of places in London Above being vague and often corrupted shadows describing things in London Below, such as "The Angel, Islington" really referring to an Angel called Islington.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_6c1d09b3	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 has the town of Arefu, located on top of an overpass and whose name comes from a traffic sign hanging over head reading "Careful" with the first and last letters worn out; Andale, an apparent reference to the real life town of Annandale and "The Pitt", located in the remains of Pittsburgh.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_6c1d09b4	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 shows the Maine town of Bar Harbor, now known as Far Harbor.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_723c10c9	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_723c10c9	comment	Kath & Kim has Kim describe a prenuptual agreement as a pre-nup.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_7ab10627	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_7ab10627	comment	In the first Star Trek movie, V'Ger started out as the Voyager probe.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_7f5bc680	comment	The Fallout games have several settlements whose names are apparently derived from corrupted names and degraded signage: Fallout 3 has the town of Arefu, located on top of an overpass and whose name comes from a traffic sign hanging over head reading "Careful" with the first and last letters worn out; Andale, an apparent reference to the real life town of Annandale and "The Pitt", located in the remains of Pittsburgh. Fallout: New Vegas has Novac, named after a malfuctioning "NO VACancy" motel sign and "Freeside", located in what used to be Fremont Street. The Old World Blues DLC is centered around a scientific research facility named "Big Mountain", commonly abbreviated as "Big MT". The corruption of the name, coupled with its secluded location and the fact that people who tried exploring the crater tended to not come back led to it being known as "The Big Empty" in the Mojave Wasteland. What was once Tuscon, Arizona is now known as "Two-Sun". In New Vegas, Raul (a centuries-old ghoul) expresses frustration at this corruption and refuses to refer to it by its new name. Fallout 4 shows the Maine town of Bar Harbor, now known as Far Harbor.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo sings an ancient hobbit tune that the narrator notes only survives in fragments today. The verses that are familiar to readers are clearly from the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle".
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That Sounds Familiar / int_8b957d5d	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_8b957d5d	comment	In Life, the Universe and Everything, one of the reasons for Earth being shunned by the rest of civilisation is that it took the Genetic Memory of the devastating Krikkit Wars and turned it into a rather dull spectator sport.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_9a7088bc	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Omega Glory", the inhabitants of an inexplicably Earthlike planet retain several of the founding documents of the United States of America, but mispronounce the words — for example, they read the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution as "Eee Plebnista, norcom, forcom, perfectumum..." — and blindly venerate the documents as "holy" without understanding what they mean.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_a183d57f	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama parodies the V'Ger example above with V-GINY, the result of the FCC's V-chip satellite and the US Air Force's Flying Destiny colliding with each other. The name illicits a chuckle from Fry whenever it's mentioned.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_a48c533e	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_a48c533e	comment	In Zardoz, the name of the eponymous "god" is a deliberate corruption of The WiZARD of OZ.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_aedfc20a	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_aedfc20a	comment	In The LEGO Movie, Big Bad Lord Business has a collection of "artifacts" left by the Creators, such as the Fleece-Crested Staff of Que-Teep (a Q-Tip), the Sword of Exact-Zero (a X-Acto knife blade), the Po'lish Remover of Na'il (nail polish remover), and the dreaded Kragle (a half-empty tube of Krazy Glue with some of the letters on the label worn off).
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That Sounds Familiar / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, every species in the galaxy has some drink whose name is a variation on Gin and Tonic, which has confused etymologists for centuries. The drinks are all completely different; it's just the name that is identical. Variations listed include jynnan tonnyx, jinond-o-nicks, chinanto nigs, txjin-anthonty-ks, and of course, the Terran gin and tonic. In Life, the Universe and Everything, one of the reasons for Earth being shunned by the rest of civilisation is that it took the Genetic Memory of the devastating Krikkit Wars and turned it into a rather dull spectator sport. The word Belgium is considered the most obscene profanity in the galaxy. The casual use of the word is considered a shock to most cultured beings. One of the other reasons humanity is shunned is that we use that word far too casually for the galaxy's tender sensibilities.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_c43df4d8	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who has Leela, a member of the Sevateem, which is a corruption of "Survey Team". The Sevateem were at war with the Tesh (the Technicians).
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That Sounds Familiar / int_c675b3d7	comment	The Star Trek Expanded Universe book The Sundered has this with an apparently alien race called the Neyel, who turn out to be a long-lost offshoot of humanity from the vanished O'Neill asteroid colony, who adopted Bio-Augmentation to the point that they no longer look human. Many of their terms fall into this category, such as their word for captain or leader, drech'tor, which comes from 'director'.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_cf1b7501	comment	In an Intragalactic strip, Captain Benjamin tells the story behind Joelmas, which is a corruption of the plot of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_d69208d2	type	That Sounds Familiar
That Sounds Familiar / int_d69208d2	comment	V'Ger was also parodied in Codename: Kids Next Door episode Operation S.A.T.U.R.N. with "Ramon-4", which started out as an ill-fated Rainbow Monkey project (the 4 coming from "4Ever").
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That Sounds Familiar / int_dbb68ab6	comment	In The Chronicles of Narnia, Mr. Tumnus thinking that the Pevensies came from "War Drobe" in the country of "Spare Oom".
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That Sounds Familiar / int_e8946aae	comment	Winnie the Pooh: Piglet takes an incomplete "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted" sign to be the name of his grandfather, Trespassers William.
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That Sounds Familiar / int_fbc58609	comment	The Nightmare Before Christmas has Sandy Claws.
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