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Tongue Twister
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Two tropers tarried to talk "tongue-twister" topic's techniques. Tropers' tongues twisted till tropers' tangled tongues tied totally taut. Talking troubles taught tropers twain to tackle tortuous tongue-twisters tentatively. In plain language, a tongue twister is a sentence or phrase that's meant to be difficult to say, generally because it incorporates rhymes, near-rhymes, alliteration, assonance or all of the above. The simultaneous excitation of so many closely-linked neurons in the brain's speech centers results in unintended Spoonerisms and Verbal Tic-like errors, mid-phrase. Sometimes these phrases are constructed so that the errors will generate unintentional swear-words. A tongue-twister is generally easier to say when speaking slowly; often, short ones will be accompanied by a challenge to say them three times fast. These sayings occur both as works in themselves, and as features of larger works. Often, when a tongue twister is employed within a broader work, it's as a comedic element focusing on just how hard it is to say the phrase properly. Both in Real Life and in fiction, they can be used to practice enunciation in speech therapy and oratory training. Interestingly, an equivalent concept exists in sign languages, in which difficult-to-sign phrases are known as "finger fumblers". A sister trope of Cannot Spit It Out. Often overlaps with Added Alliterative Appeal, but not always. If applied to a name, it'll become The Unpronounceable. |
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Nature Cat: Lampshaded when the title character proposes a trip to the grocery store to buy birdseed for "the Fabulous Feast for our Fine Feathered Friends". Daisy tries asking an actual woodchuck the solution to the "How much wood" example (see above). The woodchuck, evidently sick and tired of being asked that, refuses to come out of his burrow, instead sticking out a "No Tongue Twisters" sign. |
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BoJack Horseman is quite fond of these. It was once said that that was one of the things that drives Amy Sedaris, the voice of Princess Carolyn, insane about the series. It was evident in season four when Todd is paired with celebrity actress Courtney Portnoy. Here's a compilation of all the tongue twisters from the first four seasons. Season six finally explained that Princess Carolyn constructs these a mnemonic device, and it becomes a breakthrough with connecting to and soothing her adopted porcupine daughter. | |
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The Simpsons once featured the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service. Strangely, no one seems to have a problem with saying the name. | |
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In the Halloween special for Curious George, Bill rattles off multiple examples in a conversation about selecting suitable materials for jack-o-lanterns, boasting of how he's a "peppy expert proper pumpkin picker". | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In Chapter 109, Rentarou supplies his girlfriends with tongue twisters to garble their speech as part of his atmospheric conditions for Playing Drunk. | |
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In Arrested Development, a recurring character Bob Loblaw is a lawyer, creating various instants of tongue twister in both visual and dialogue form. | |
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Animaniacs: One episode had the Warners encountering a pirate, who tells them "You're trespassing on my private pirate property!" Wakko challenges him to say that three times fast. He fails. Another episode has the Warners in an altercation with a Jerkass news anchor who was unfairly harsh over them getting his food order wrong, and calling him a "picky pickle picker". Then they try to get the Wolf Blitzer Expy to say it three times fast. |
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Zombie-child movie Cooties points out the difficulty one can have in saying the name of those pickup trucks with double-wheels in the back: "dual-rear-wheel". | |
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In The Last Unicorn, Schmendrick tries twice and just gives up: | |
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In his review of Rogue One, Epic Voice Guy explains: "Rogue One is a sequel to the prequels of the sequels of the prequels that are the originals in which this is a prequel of, but not a sequel to the sequel of the originals." | |
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Discworld: The Pheasant Plucking Song is referenced in the City Watch novels, as Fred Colon was once in a military regiment called the Pheasant Pluckers. In reminiscing, he recalls how the regimental song was a bit difficult to sing correctly. In Feet of Clay, Vimes recites "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" to prove he's not drunk. |
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In the telethon episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, guest star Kenan Thompson recites "Rubber baby buggy bumpers" several times as a pre-show voice warm-up. | |
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In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jake and Terry turn one of these into a tool of gloating after using a mobile situation command vehicle borrowed from the Department of Homeland Security to gain the upper-hand in a bet with Amy and Charles to see who can recover the most escape fugitives from a prison bus crash: | |
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Guybrush can ask the carpenter on Scabb Island "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Trying to get an answer to this question turns into an Overly-Long Gag. Then the Updated Re-release gave audiences a fully-voiced version of the exchange. | |
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In Jetsons: The Movie, Rudy-2 uses several tongue twisters involving the phrase "sprocket locker", which comes to a head with this: | |
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Adventures in Wonderland: In the episode "Untwist of Fate", Alice gets caught in a twister. It turns out that it was a "tongue twister", so every time she tries to speak, she says a random tongue twister. | |
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In an early episode of Azumanga Daioh, child prodigy Chiyo-chan admits that tongue twisters are one of the few things she's not good at, as she demonstrates when she adorably stumbles over saying "Basu gasu bakuhatsu" ("Bus gas explosion"). | |
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The Beatles: George can't say "soothsayer to the stars" without getting his tongue twisted in "We Can Work It Out". | |
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Practically everything that comes out of V's mouth in V for Vendetta qualifies. One wonders how many takes it must've taken to produce his dialogue for the film… | |
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Steel Soul Saga: In "Steel Soul", using Added Alliterative Appeal: | |
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There are numerous tongue twisters in the Pinky and the Brain episode "You Said a Mouseful", wherein Brain attempts to put helium into hacky-sack sack-kicker shoes in a Hackensack factory. It doesn't pan out, thanks to Brain being unable to talk straight after suffering a blow to the head. | |
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In an episode of The Colbert Report, Martin Freeman discussed playing Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. He mentioned how thrilled he was that he, along with the rest of the cast, were immortalized as Lego figures. | |
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In episode 14 of Bakemonogatari, Koyomi Araragi deals with Black Hanekawa (Tsubasa Hanekawa possessed by a male bakeneko she refers to as a "meddlesome cat"), whose appearance, demeanor, and actions get a rise out of Araragi. He then asks her to repeat, "Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?" Not only does she repeat the tongue twister flawlessly, but she finds the time to throw in her cat-based Verbal Tic as well. Araragi is quite impressed. | |
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2d!Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb Across The Second Dimension: | |
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The Last Crown (sequel to The Lost Crown: A Ghosthunting Adventure) includes the phrase "powerful paranormal phenomena", which the creator's blog suggests gave voice actress Emma Harry some Real Life Tongue Twister issues. | |
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In Heinlein's short time-paradox story "By His Bootstraps", Wilson demonstrates that he is drunk by reciting "Peter Piper", and having it come out "Peter Piper pepped a pick of pippered peckles". | |
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These are used as teaching tools in My Fair Lady: "In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen." At the Ascot race, Eliza shows off her eloquence by discussing the weather in tongue twisters. | |
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On 30 Rock, Jenna starred in a film called "The Rural Juror", which no one can pronounce without it sounding like gibberish. | |
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You can play tongue twisters with Rio in Lifeline after locating the correct command. Copy her without flubbing the words and she regains some health for free. | |
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Ask That Guy with the Glasses once rattled off three tongue-twisters in sequence, without stumbling or pausing for breath. One can only imagine the amount of takes it must have taken for him to do that. | |
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On Wild Kratts, Martin names a honey guide "Sweet Tweet", which Chris finds difficult to say. | |
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Between the Lions had the song "Sven Said, 'Ted, Send Ten Tents'". The title should say it all. | |
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The third verse of Baloo's "Bare Necessities" song in The Jungle Book (1967) is one long tongue twister (this sounds better with the music): | |
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Lady in the Dark has one in "The Best Years Of His Life" (which fortunately is nowhere near as fast as the Patter Song sung by the same character immediately after): | |
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One Piece: In the Egghead Arc, there's a one-off gag where Vegapunk bites his Overly-Long Tongue trying to say the name of his Brain-Brain Fruit (in the original Japanese, it's known as the "Nomi Nomi no Mi"). | |
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In The Brady Bunch, little Cindy was attempting to get rid of her lisp: | |
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Today's Special: In the episode "Fun", tongue twisters are one of the ways the characters have fun when their work is done. Sam repeatedly fails "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers". | |
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Scooby-Doo: In one of the Harlem Globetrotters episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, the normally Comically Serious Velma challenges her friends to say, "Something's thumping," three times fast. Shaggy doesn't even want to say it once. In the telethon episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, guest star Kenan Thompson recites "Rubber baby buggy bumpers" several times as a pre-show voice warm-up. Any voice actor portraying Scooby-Doo has to be good at enunciating these, given the Great Dane's Verbal Tic of inserting R-sounds into words. |
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Garrett, P.I.: In Wicked Bronze Ambition, Garrett's sorceress companion teases him about his least favorite food, saying that if he could ban green peppers as he wished, his criminal friends would all start picking and packing pecks of peppers for the black market. Garrett himself has had trouble enunciating the phrase "saber-toothed tiger" ever since Bitter Gold Hearts. | |
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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour had "My Old Man", a song in which each verse started "My old man's an X, what do you think about that?" and X was then included multiple times in the verse (starting with "sailor", and then "anthropologist" and "refrigerator repairman"). The last verse started "My old man's a cotton-pickin, finger-lickin, chicken plucker, what do you think about that?" ("You'd better not make a mistake!" "Let's hope not.") | |
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The Spark Team on Hero Elementary have a run-in with rapidly-growing violet-colored weeds, aka "super purple pop-up plants". Saying the plants' name poses as much of a problem as suppressing their spread, for everyone but AJ (who keeps correcting the others' flubbed pronunciation). | |
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In one "Bullwinkle's Corner" episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bullwinkle interviews Peter Piper, who says he quit the pickled pepper business because even he had trouble saying the tongue twister. So now he helps his sister sell sea shells by the sea shore. ("That's better?" exclaims Bullwinkle.) | |
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In a gardening story from Alma's Way, regarding a red bell pepper that resembles Chacho the papillon, Becca announces that they'll "pick the pretty puppy pepper when it's positively ready to be picked." Alma quips a challenge to say that three times fast, and the onlooking crowd attempts (not too successfully) to recite Becca's phrase in unison. | |
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In Feet of Clay, Vimes recites "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" to prove he's not drunk. | |
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In one of the Harlem Globetrotters episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, the normally Comically Serious Velma challenges her friends to say, "Something's thumping," three times fast. Shaggy doesn't even want to say it once. | |
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The Jerk has a scene of Navin Talking in Bed with Marie in which he quotes the "sheet-slitting" tongue twister: | |
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Used in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Money Talks". | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the "Freaky Friday" Flip episode "She Talks to Angel", once Angel realises he can talk, he soon starts rattling off the tongue twisters "Rubber baby buggy bumpers" and "Toy boat", weirding out the ponies around him. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Power of the Daleks": The Second Doctor gets distracted by this trope after asking his companions "But will Lesterson listen?". Polly joins him in repeating "Lesterson listen" as fast as possible. From "The Parting of the Ways": |
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During the "Deadly Drones" build on Mythbusters, Adam stumbles over the phrase "burst of blue blood" while explaining how the simulated gel-and-dye neck he's crafted should respond to a quadcopter's rotor cutting into it. | |
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In the "Martha's Got Talent" episode of Martha Speaks, the talking dog plans to demonstrate her ability to recite tongue twisters in a talent contest that's really a set-up by some bumbling would-be dog-nappers. | |
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Sailor Moon: In Episode 168, Usagi does these in order to make Mamoru pay attention. | |
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Digimon Frontier: When the kids encounter some Pipismon who keep echoing what they say, they try to confuse them by speaking in tongue twisters. | |
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This exchange in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: | |
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Cookie Clicker: At the end of the "Taller Tellers" upgrade description: | |
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Non-alliterative example: In It, Stuttering Bill's speech therapist has him recite "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts". This awkward sentence becomes something of a confidence-building mantra for Bill. It's actually much older than the movie or the book it was based on (first recorded in print sometime in the 18th century), and often used as a warmup for theatre actors. The full version goes "Amidst the mists and fiercest frosts/With barest wrists and stoutest boasts/He thrusts his fists against the posts/And still insists he sees the ghosts." | |
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Family Guy had a Cutaway Gag mocking Tvs Bloopers And Practical Jokes, with a blooper from ''Joanie Loves Chachi", with Chachi attempting to say "She sells seashells by the seashore", and getting attacked by a bear. | |
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In the final episode of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, "The City That Dares Not Sleep", Mr. Featherly repeats "Unique New York" a few times in order to warm up for... laying an egg. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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The announcer on Tom Slick has a tough time when Tom kits the Thunderbolt Grease Slapper with rubber baby buggy bumpers. | |
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One skit on John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme had two management consultants questioning whether by the seashore is the best place to sell seashells, with the tongue twister in question getting increasingly convoluted, until Mrs Shaw (the "she" in question) explains: | |
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The Court Jester starred Danny Kaye, who could tear through tongue twisters with aplomb. The writers played to this by packing the script full of them: The instructions for the jester to avoid being poisoned are: "the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, and the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true." Later (because the chalice from the palace is broken), "the pellet with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon, and the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true." Also: "The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!" |
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In season 6 of How I Met Your Mother, when Ted confronts Victoria about her quite close friend Klaus from her class: | |
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The "Three Musketeers" sketch from The Muppets Go to the Movies involves the Scarlet Pimpernel dropping a crumpet made from pumpernickel, covered in lumps, from Humperdink's bakery, leading to the line "It's that simple wimp, Pimpernel, and his Humperdink's lumpy pumpernickel crumpets!" Link Hogthrob, playing one of the Musketeers, keeps stumbling over the line. | |
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