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A comedy scene where the proper names of persons, places, or things sound like lexical parts of speech, pronouns or exclamations, such as Hu, Watt, Mee, Yu, etc. Basically, a huge Hurricane of Puns. Usually, one character will describe a situation using these terms solely as names, while another character uses them constantly as pronouns and gets increasingly bewildered. Example: The Trope Namer is a vaudeville routine regarding baseball which, while popular at the time, is best known through its adaptation as an Abbott and Costello sketch. Abbott and Costello also used variants of the routine in much of their comedy, such as their commercial for "Hertz U-Drive":note a Beam Me Up, Scotty! to set up the joke; the company's real name was Hertz Drive-Ur-Self System or shipbuilding: or other baseball players: This could expand into a Hurricane of Puns: "to make money loafing, you have to really knead the dough." If used in the actual plot, this is usually the result of an idiot Comically Missing the Point. However, this is not necessary if the Straight Man is being intentionally ambiguous. It needs be emphasized that it is very important for the routine (as the Simpsons quote shows) that no matter how smart either side is or how exasperated it gets (or how eager is one of them to please the other), none of them will ask a question or provide an answer that will be utterly unambiguous. Occasionally, characters have this as a running joke about their name. Slightly more serious versions may use this as a form of loophole or Prophecy Twist: knowing that No Man of Woman Born may slay you is little comfort when Mr. Noman from the village of Womanborn shows up at your door looking for blood. See Chain of Corrections, Pronoun Trouble, and Sustained Misunderstanding for related tropes. Sometimes overlaps with What's a Henway?. Often includes a Real Joke Name or two. If it involves an owl and the question "Who?", see Owls Ask "Who?", or for another bird, try Duck!. Frequently, if not usually, overlaps with Overly Long Gag. |
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Dork Tower: Stell, confused by internet acronyms, asks Gilly what IYKYK means, and gets the reply "If You Know, You Know". But she doesn't. It continues, with a final Shout-Out to the Trope Namer. | |
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May the Best Friends Win (the sequel to Rainbooms and Royalty) has this exchange between Pinkie and Twilight when the former sees the latter's messed up mane. | |
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Space Tree has a character called Meelord Marone or Mee for short. This leads to me/Mee confusion, in this episode in particular. | |
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Haku/Meng's real first name is Tonga. He's from the Kingdom of Tonga. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) has this bit from Issue #8, when Sonic and Silver first meet Whisper the Wolf and names are exchanged. | |
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One early issue of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) series has Robotnik try and find the leader of the Freedom Fighter's intelligence division. After uncovering the (literal!) mole, the interrogation goes thusly... | |
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Also shows up in Get Fuzzy, when Rob has to tell Satchel to call a doctor for him. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: This strip, with the characters "Dan-Met" ("damn it") and "Killum" ("kill him"). Dan-Met's full name is later revealed to be Gahad Dan-Met. A brief one in "Stick Figures in Space", where the spaceship's captain has found out that one crew member is actually an android. The real android manages to get through an interrogation of the crew while implicating another crew member even though all the android ever says is "zero" and "one" because he sounds like he's saying the same thing as everyone else. When he says "one", that's when everyone else (except Juan) says that the most likely person to be an android is Juan. |
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"Stoogeposting" by Solid jj: In "A STOOGE AMONG US," the three get into a debate over who's "me," "you," and "him." After Moe bonks Curly and Larry's heads together, Curly figures it out: In "The Three Stooges break the 4th wall," Moe says "It is what it is," prompting a round of confusing questions from Curly on what exactly "what" and "it" are. Zig-Zagged in "Doctor Strange Multiverse of Stooges." A joke about Dr. Strange's name being strange is largely averted, but then there's a whole tangent about Wong's name (thinking that it's "Wrong") and which (Scarlet) Witch is which. In "Another Three Stooges Thanksgiving," Larry keeps hearing Moe's order to "get stuffing" (put the stuffing in the turkey) and keeps replying that he already got the stuffing and is holding it now. |
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Ernie is singing "Happy Birthday to You!" not to Bert, but to the letter U. | |
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In Legend of Mana, you meet a band of pirate penguins who ask you "What be the password?". And the password is? "What", of course! If you use that as your guess, the penguins are ready to accept you as one of their own until the captain points out that you're rather obviously not a penguin. | |
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In The Wacky Adventures of Pedro, confusion (further detailed on the Quotes page) ensues after Pedro asks an alien for the name of the planet that will play host to the Miss Galactic Nebula Beauty Contest, and he mishears the answer, "Owrplannit", as, "Our planet". | |
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The slightly obscure adventure game Inherit the Earth has your fox hero evade a checkpoint by having his companions introduce themselves as Hooryu and Yassir Iam. They keep the routine going for as long as you need to explore the next area. | |
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In Inside Out, the two guards who guard Riley's subconscious get in an argument when one thinks the other took his hat. The problem is, rather than writing their name inside their own hat, both of them wrote "my hat" instead. | |
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One episode of Hello, from the Magic Tavern had as its guests the explorer team of Lewis A. Shark and Lois, a shark (who clarified that sharks pronounce the word a as AY rather than AH). Arnie mentioned the sketch by name, but nobody else saw anything confusing. | |
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Ross O'Donnovan (From among other things, Steam Train), envisions the art tool "Animate" that replaced Shockwave Flash to have this issue. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness: "Whoa! Who's over there getting to first base with your girlfriend?" You can guess where it goes from there... | |
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8-Bit Theater has two Elder Gods named Ur and Hu. The resulting confusion is a subtle Shout-Out to the original Abbott & Costello routine. | |
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Similar to the above is this example from chapter 5 of Stargate Equestria: Connection: | |
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There's a LiveJournal icon floating around among the Sirius/Remus shippers with the following exchange between Harry and Remus: | |
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In Episode 1 of Weird school rules in Hong Kong, one of the rules deemed "weird" is that students of a school must bring their wallets to class or they'll have their names recorded down for further punishment. Cue this skit satirizing the rule, which is funnier and makes much more sense in Cantonese (but is translated into English for ease of reading): For context, the student's name, Ng Kei-tak (�記德), is pronounced virtually the same as "唔記得", lit. "can't remember" or "forgot" in Cantonese. For an English speaker's equivalent, the student would be named something along the lines of "Ivor Gott", with 'Ivor' being pronounced "EYE-vor". |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: A whole routine is done in 57 panels here, but instead of "who", "what" or anything like that, it uses the Table of Elements. (The boys kind of look similar to Abbott and Costello, too.) Parodied in comic 3051: The names aren't actually ambiguous, and it turns out Costello is only acting like he doesn't get it because he has a cerebral hemorrhage. |
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School Rumble has a series of misunderstandings based on Harima's cousin Itoko. "Itoko" also means "cousin", and whenever someone asks "What's your relationship with her?" he answers that "She's my cousin." but people read it as "She's my Itoko" and figure they're in a relationship... | |
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In Harry Potter fanfiction, this has been done numerous times with Sirius Black. "Sirius"/"serious" jokes are generally understood to be quite lame by this point. There's a LiveJournal icon floating around among the Sirius/Remus shippers with the following exchange between Harry and Remus: And then, the Memetic Mutation: "Why so Sirius?" Made all the better by the fact the actor who played him was also in The Dark Knight Trilogy. Mugglecast has a cowbell they ring when lame jokes including that one start getting abused. The author of the HP fic Who's a Hero? both uses and lampshades the trope. Lampshaded in the Dangerverse, where the Pack parents state Sirius can only make that joke once a year. In one episode of The Lazer Collection, Ron mentions that Dumbledore has had an accident. When Harry asks if it was serious, Ron replies, "No, it was Snape." Cue Fail Horn and I'mma Firin' My Lazer! This would only really work in an American accent; British people pronounce the words differently enough that the joke wouldn't work — "Sirius" / "seee-rious". See also the various Harry/hairy puns the fandom makes. |
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The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: When Victor demands that Wallace get his hairpiece out of the Bun-Vac 6000. | |
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The Family Circus features a ghostly prankster named Not Me. It's not hard to see how his antics get the children (who know of Not Me's existence) into even worse trouble when they try to explain their way out of it. And when there's too much mischief for one, Not Me is joined by his Distaff Counterpart, Ida Know. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: In an early and a little weird strip, Susie asks Calvin in class what was the capital of Poland until 1600, and gets the correct answer "Krakow", though actually Calvin is Saying Sound Effects Out Loud while imagining himself as Spaceman Spiff. (In a creative but still not very good twist on this, a Finnish translation has her ask where Krakow is and get a response translating as "in Poland" — when really Calvin is reporting he has a malfunction in a part of his spaceship, the problem being that sounds more like a sewing machine part.) | |
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In Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 tells the Spider-Force to "stop Spider-Man", meaning Miles Morales. However, since 99% of the heroes are named "Spider-Man", every Spider-Man pulls back and points at each other, asking "Me?" or "You?" in confusion as Miguel doesn't specify. | |
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In one of the Muppet Viral Videos, Sam sings "American Woman" by The Guess Who and guesses John Phillips Sousa. | |
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The SCP Foundation has SCP-SAFE-J. It's a series of three safes (a Safe safe, a Euclid safe, and a Keter safe). The Safe safe is always safe, the Euclid safe is safe except when near the Keter safe, and the Keter safe is never safe (though it is a safe). And don't get started on the researchers observing them... | |
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In All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 Carface (notably a reasonably savvy and competent villain previously) falls for the "sole"-"soul" homonym, having sided with the Devil on the assumption he would sell shoes. He promptly gets Dragged Off to Hell at the end of the movie. | |
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Sesame Street: Ernie is singing "Happy Birthday to You!" not to Bert, but to the letter U. Happens again in a Forgetful Jones skit. In one cartoon, a letter U knocks on the door of a letter P: In one segment, a baby monster asks various monsters what the word "is" is, not understanding when they say the word is "is". One live action segment about the letter W with Larry King has King asking what their favorite W word is. He thinks they are asking questions when W points out that he stands for those words. One skit with Jamie Foxx has a bit of confusion over who's being referred to, because Jamie Foxx is present, but so is a fox, and a duck named Fox. In an Alice in Wonderland parody, Abby asks for "a little tea", but gets a "t" instead. Once, Telly asks what "por favor" means, and Rosita replies, "Please". Telly thinks she's asking him to put an extra "please" into the request. In a "Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures" skit, the two are in the Stone Age, and Ernie calls, "Taxi!". Bert is confused because there were no taxis in the Stone Age, but it turns out that Ernie was calling for a caveman named Taxi. |
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Y: The Last Man: Subverted and Lamp Shaded: On another occasion, Agent 355 poses as a member of the WHO. When someone replies, "Who?" she spoils it by explaining that it's the World Health Organization, much to Yorick's disappointment. "You were just a couple of lines away from an Abbott and Costello routine." |
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Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: In the video for It (2017) involves the producer asking the screenwriter what the name of the book that inspired the movie is, and getting confused when he's told that "It" is the title of the book. The Screen Rant Pitch Meeting for Screen Rant Pitch Meetings has this: |
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World of Warcraft played this trope hilariously straight with this machinima. For the game itself, it's the WTF file format. |
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The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss had Fox in Socks and Mr Knox do a routine discussing Cindy-Lou Who. | |
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Ralph Breaks the Internet: When Knowsmore explains to Ralph and Vanellope how they can destroy the Ralph clones conjured by the Insecurity Virus, and Vanellope decides to get their friend Yesss to help them. | |
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Pokémon Sword and Shield introduces Indeedee (as in "Yes, indeedy!"), whose design is a throwback to Audino's. Its French name is Wimessir (as in "Oui, monsieur!", or "Yes, mister!"), its German name is Servol (as in "Sehr wohl", or "Yes, quite!"), and its Korean name is Yesseoreu, the closest match in the language for "Yes, sir." It's the Japanese name that's an aversion, as it's simply Yessan, a Portmanteau of "Yes, sir" and the -san honorific. | |
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Ever17 gives us Yuubiseiharukana Tanaka. She rather understandably goes by You. (Perhaps a better romanization would have been "Yuu", but that wouldn't have been as funny). Naturally she introduces herself with "I am You", which gains further significance when said to her clone. | |
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman: While visiting Marie Antoinette: Later, during an encounter with King Tut, Peabody introduces a high priest named Ai, prompting Sherman to predictably ask, "He's you?" |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: In one episode the panel played The Quiz of Quizzes, a parody of all sorts of quizzes and gameshows. A who's-on-first joke was used as a one-off gag. A Running Gag in "Word for Word" for a while was that when it was Graeme's turn to start he would say something like "Me?" or "Now?" and, when told to continue, explain "That was my word." |
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The main character of Guilty Crown is named Shu. It's a Meaningful Name for him as it's the Japanese word for "together", but many English-speaking viewers loved to make fun of the guy named "Shoe." | |
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The Muppet Show: The classic "Good grief, the comedian's a bear" routine, where Fozzie tells Kermit to say the line when he says "Hear". In the Dudley Moore episode, a Bug Band singing "She Loves You" performs the opening number. Afterwards backstage, Kermit the Frog recommends that the bug band find a name for their group. One of them mentions "The Grateful Dead" as a possibility. Kermit asks, "The who?" Alexander Beetle says, "It's been done already". In one of the Muppet Viral Videos, Sam sings "American Woman" by The Guess Who and guesses John Phillips Sousa. Also happens with Floyd and Animal. A Muppets Disney Xtreme Digital video advertising the Muppet Whatnot Workshop, had Kermit try to explain what a Whatnot was.note It's a random background Muppet. In the The Jim Henson Hour special Dog City, there are a lot of puns on gangster Bugsy Them and the hero, Ace Yu ("I'm Yu." "You're me?"). At the climax, Ace proposes to Colleen Barker, who's always dreamed of the day...When I'm Colleen Yu.... |
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In Transformers: Shattered Glass, this trope is how Goryu got his name. When Cliffjumper captured Slugfest, and the initially-unnamed Dinobot came to his rescue, the heroic Autobot tried to ask him for a name, only to get in response "Me gore you!". Later, when he and Sideswipe called for reinforcements to take the captured Dinobots away, they referred to him as "Goryu", and the name stuck. | |
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Rich Burlew, creator of The Order of the Stick, seems to like this joke. The first iteration hinges on the two definitions of level (the floor of a building vs. the experience of a D&D character). It's worth noting that this exact example is invoked in no less a book than the 1st Edition D&D Player's Handbook. Then they bring in the levels of spells, and the meaning of "spell" as a noun or verb. "Who's on the Throne?" has the strangely-named countries of Somewhere, Nowhere and Anywhere (and the democracy of Someplace Else). The confusion over the King of Somewhere with a hotel employee leads to Roy being mistaken for a king. In "Negative Feelings", Xykon and Recloak have a little trouble discussing a paladin leader named Soon. A particularly epic example comes when Thog speaks of how Nale "nailed" (got put in jail) in his own place his identical twin Elan, whom Thog calls "not-Nale". It fits the trope definition but does things a little differently than usually; while the names sound like other parts of speech, the poor guy listening to this isn't so much confused thinking a name means something else as just clueless as to what any of it means, and for that reason it doesn't go on beyond the first line. It's too bad, since Thog is actually giving really valuable information, cluelessly confessing to everything and revealing Nale's plot. Start of Darkness has an exchange between Redcloak and Right-Eye, with Redcloak talking about the werebears his goblins are fighting and Right-Eye wanting to know where the bears are. A flashback in "Right Up to the Ledge" reveals that Hinjo once tried to teach Elan to play Go... and wound up trying to explain the name (and that he wasn't telling Elan to leave) for an hour and a half. Elan seems to have actually understood that the game was called "Go" after a while, but by then, Hinjo thought that Elan was still saying it was named "That", and they got confused again. |
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A few of these on Not Always Right and sister site Not Always Working: In "Try Whoson First", the narrator/customer needed a mechanic who does body work on cars. His/her usual mechanic doesn't do such work, but suggested a shop called Wrech-a-Mended, which the caller kept mishearing as "recommended". In "Saved by the Bell", a guest needs to talk to "Anita Bellman" but the clerk thinks he's saying "I need a bellman." "You're welcome, Custer Mer": The submitter works in a doctor's office, and assures a patient that, if they have questions, they can always call the office and "ask for clarification" - the patient thinks she's saying that her name is Clara Fication and he can ask for her personally. |
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And Rin/Cure Rouge's twin siblings in Yes! Pretty Cure 5. | |
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In Jehtt's video "Who's That Pokémon", Mewtwo is absolutely unable to get the other characters to understand he's not (a) Mew, because they think he keeps saying "I'm Mew too." He also thinks they're mistaking him for other Pokémons when they say jinx ("Jynx") and ditto. | |
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In one Pickles strip, Opal found her husband Earl watching TV and asked what he was watching. He replied, "My Name Is Earl." She said that she already knew his name and repeated her question. | |
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A brief example in a Batman crossover, where a guy tells Batman about this super-hero who had accosted him: "His name's Strange." "What's strange about it?" "No, that's his name. Adam Strange." | |
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In the Crossover Wars there was confusion because of someone falsely using the name of one of the Evil Overlords◊. | |
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For a short time, the WWF had a masked wrestler named Who (played by Jim Neidhart), who existed solely so that the commentators could do this bit during his matches. It sucked. WrestleCrap made fun of it on their message boards; a Running Gag was following up an instance of the word "who" with (not Neidhart). |
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The Tiny Titans version of Owlman led to one of these. Saying Hoo to Batman. | |
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Bar'd does this with the word "Dude!" | |
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xkcd: The original Trope Namer is ultimately defied by a confused third party in "Nomenclature", but played straight in the Alt Text. A tech-savvy parent has also given their child an unusual name as to cause an SQL injection (see below) in databases whose inputs aren't sanitized. |
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A 1990s issue of MAD parodied the original "Who's On First?" routine with a bit where Abbott and Costello organize the MTV music library. Naturally, when they tell each other where to put the music, the names of these new bands and songs lead to misunderstandings. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic employed one of these during his review of The Super Mario Bros Film | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged's version of "Cooler's Revenge", Goku confronts Cooler for the first time and mistakes him for Freeza. Sauza corrects him by stating that he's Cooler. Goku, being Goku, immediately thinks that if he's "Cooler than Freeza", then he's "ice cold". Cooler gets in on it by saying that that's his fathernote King Cold. | |
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Slayers fans can use "Sore wa himitsu desu" in conversation. If someone in the conversation doesn't understand Japanese, Hilarity Ensues. For those readers who may not be familiar, it means "It's a secret" and is the Catchphrase of Xellos. |
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Ultra Fast Pony, "The Longest Episode". Due to Pinkie Pie's accent, her pronunciation of "talking" sounds a lot like "Tolkien". Confusion ensues when she tries to ask who wrote the Lord of the Rings books. Also, The Stinger for the episode featured this scene re-dubbed with a snippet from Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" sketch. | |
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In the second Pajama Sam game, he's told that he can't access the office side of the World Wide Weather company without making an appointment. Once you find the number, this conversation happens: | |
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In one episode of The Lazer Collection, Ron mentions that Dumbledore has had an accident. When Harry asks if it was serious, Ron replies, "No, it was Snape." Cue Fail Horn and I'mma Firin' My Lazer! | |
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There's a scene in The Quarry where summer camp counselors Ryan and Dylan head to their campground's radio shack to call for help after some of their friends run into what seem to be vicious unidentified creatures in the woods and the phone in the main office dies. Once Dylan gets on the radio, he puts out a clumsy, rambling message about a "swarm of bears" attacking the group. Once he finishes, he finds the aloof and serious Ryan staring flatly at him, leading to the following exchange. | |
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Songdrops has "I Got a Pea", in which a boy sings about a pea he got from his grandma, but his classmates laugh at him, because they think he's saying he needs to pee. | |
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Mugglecast has a cowbell they ring when lame jokes including that one start getting abused. | |
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Used in Tales from the Pit #214 with the Working Titles of upcoming Magic: The Gathering expansions. | |
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Used in Look to the West in a Homage to a Rudyard Kipling poem, listing the six men who masterminded the rise of the Feng Dynasty in China: | |
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The Pirates of Penzance has this exchange (which only works delivered in the right accent): | |
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Referenced in The Cartoon History of the Universe when Gonick points out that ancient Hindus composed a poem to the great god "Who". | |
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In Mass Effect 2, there is confusion over how to refer to the geth that Shepard brings onto the Normandy, before EDI offers a solution. | |
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Make a Wish: | |
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In order to avoid this trope, Yoh's name was changed to Yuu in the Spanish version of Shaman King, since "yo" means "I" in Spanish. The Mexican dub left the name, but pronounced it "I-oh" ("ee-oh")...and since there are people who mispronounce "yo" as "ió"...Adding to the hilarity, that pronunciation can also translate to "And me". | |
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: The Secret Pet Plot involving Cal starts with both he and Sol being in the barn in which he's keeping the pet when it hatches. Cal always names the pet "Socks." If it's at least Sol's second time living through the event, they can respond to finding Cal looking at an unseen item he's keeping inside a crate by asking if it's Socks. Since Socks isn't hatched quite yet at that point and it's always the first time from Cal's point of view, a bemused Cal asks why he would be keeping his socks in a barn. | |
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In the English redub of the Simple Samosa episode "Carnival Chaos", Vada meets a stranger in one of the carnival tents. When Vada asks for his name, the stranger replies "Popcorn", and Vada doesn't realize that's his name and says "no, thanks", thinking he's asking if he wants popcorn. In the first English dub, Vada simply gets confused at the stranger, who is named "Corny" instead. | |
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Paranatural adapted this trope to a middle school setting, with typical flair: | |
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When people ask about Molly’s power in Epithet Erased, she usually replies that it’s “Dumb.â€� Note the capital. Most people mistake this for self-deprecation — which considering her personality, wouldn't be out of character — until she actually demonstrates the ability (be it temporarily making someone stupid or nullifying the effects of an attack). | |
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In one Lucky Luke story, an Indian scout notices smoke at the horizon, signifying that settlers have entered his tribe's territory. So naturally he sends a smoke signal back to his village, saying "There is smoke at the horizon". This trope ensues when the Chieftain asks what the smoke signal means... | |
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Final Fantasy: Unlimited has the main characters Yuu and Ai. Their names mean "love" and "courage" in Japanese. This was lampshaded by the dub voice actresses for the two in the commentary on one of the DVDs. Ditto with the two human characters in Animal Crossing: The Movie. And Rin/Cure Rouge's twin siblings in Yes! Pretty Cure 5. |
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A Man of Iron: In the second book, A Crack of Thunder, Fury Info Dumps the Iron Pointe group about the Others, including how they "possess others", leading to brief confusion that they possess each other. It takes a minute before Fury can clarify that they possess people. | |
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Yuugo from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. His name sounds very similar to Yuugou, the Japanese word for "Fusion." This is a problem for several reasons: 1) the Fusion Dimension were the main villains of the show when he was introduced and thus a lot of people want to know whether one is associated with them or not; 2) Yuugo is so hot-headed that his general reaction to his name being gotten wrong is to flatten people: and 3) Yuugo had no idea that Fusion users were attacking people so thus he doesn't understand the context. The results of this either have enormously bad consequences or Hilarity Ensues. In the English dub, when he tries to introduce himself, he sometimes gets the response, "You go? You go where?" | |
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In the video for It (2017) involves the producer asking the screenwriter what the name of the book that inspired the movie is, and getting confused when he's told that "It" is the title of the book. | |
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League of Super Redundant Heroes: Strip #947: "Who Did It?" Flying Fox Man and his sidekick Dodo are investigating a super-crime, but FFM says the M.O. points to a supervillain they know is locked up. | |
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In The Loud House fanfic The Who's on First, Luna asks Luan to write down the names of songs, but Luan and Lola mistake them for ordinary phrases (e.g. "God Only Knows" and "What's Going On?"). | |
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In The Lion King (1994), Nala attempts to explain matters to Timon and Pumbaa: | |
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Red vs. Blue: In episode 16 of Recreation (Season 7), Church accidently turns off his short term memory while attempting to turn on his long term memory, leading to this exchange with Caboose: | |
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Pokémon Black and White brings us Audino ("I Dunno"). Its Japanese name is Tabunne (tabun ne, "maybe"), its German name "Ohrdoch" sounds like "Oh, doch!" ("Oh, yes!"), and its French name "Nanméouïe" sounds like "Non mais oui" ("No but yes"). | |
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CollegeHumor has "DROPOUT Is A Netflix", describing their streaming site as a Netflix, saying the term should be considered ubiquitous enough to be a catch-all like Kleenex, and the confusion stemming from the various names. | |
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In an Alice in Wonderland parody, Abby asks for "a little tea", but gets a "t" instead. | |
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Where We Don't Belong: Lanz and Egil have a moment of confusion when Egil talks about his "Face" (which Lanz identifies as a Levnis) and Lanz wonders why he's suddenly talking about his face. | |
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Between the Lions: An animated skit had a beaver scoutmaster recruiting campers named "Who" (a frog), "What" (a rabbit), "Where" (a duck), and "Why" (a pig). Just as he learns all of their names, a tardy camper named "When" (a mouse) shows up which leads to this reaction: | |
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In Mulan, when Li Shang is asking for the name of a disguised Mulan: | |
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In Lead Belly's "Mo' Yet" he makes a little wooden seat and everytime someone asks how many people can fit on it, he says "Mo' Yet". Turns out "Mo' Yet" is the name of a friend of his. | |
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In 3 in Three, "Dove Owls" combines this trope with Inadvertent Entrance Cue: | |
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This Sanity Not Included Sketch, playing with how "horror" and "whore" sound about the same. | |
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In Ellen Brand's Supernatural series (a set of seven Case Closed fics, with connections to some others of hers), the sixth story crosses over with The Real Ghostbusters and starts this as a callback to one of the latter series' episodes. | |
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Bear & Breakfast: When Hank presses his finger on Fin's biometric scanner, he malfunctions because he didn't recognize his fingerprint. Cue the following exchange: | |
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Audio-comedy troupe The Credibility Gap recorded a variation in which Harry Shearer played a concert promoter and David Lander played an editor trying to write an ad for the Los Angeles Times for a rock festival featuring The Who, The Guess Who, and Yes. The promoter, Dallinger, just wants the ad to list the three bands' names. However, he runs into problems immediately when he tries to communicate this to the editor, Higgenlooper. So they try moving on to the second act. Higgenlooper tries to choose his words more carefully, but to no avail: They try moving on to the third act, to similar (lack of) results: |
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Occasionally used in Archie Comics. This one took a little while: And in another strip: Other people then proceed to do the same thing to Archie... and so on. And this: |
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Matchu has this bit about a broken printer. | |
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In '80s All Over's October 1983 episode Drew can't understand why Scott won't tell him the title of the next film, only that it's Romantic Comedy. Scott bursts into tears ("I'm at the mercy of this horrible film!") as he explains that is the title of the movie: Romantic Comedy. | |
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Pokémon has Wobbuffet, whose original Japanese name is "Sonans", which sounds like sou nansu (A casual way to say "That's how it is!"). Its pre-evolution ramps it up, since not only does the Japanese name "Sonano" fit (sou na no?, "is that it?"), but its English name Wynaut is also punny ("why not?"). More explored in the anime, but still. Pokémon Black and White brings us Audino ("I Dunno"). Its Japanese name is Tabunne (tabun ne, "maybe"), its German name "Ohrdoch" sounds like "Oh, doch!" ("Oh, yes!"), and its French name "Nanméouïe" sounds like "Non mais oui" ("No but yes"). Pokémon Sword and Shield introduces Indeedee (as in "Yes, indeedy!"), whose design is a throwback to Audino's. Its French name is Wimessir (as in "Oui, monsieur!", or "Yes, mister!"), its German name is Servol (as in "Sehr wohl", or "Yes, quite!"), and its Korean name is Yesseoreu, the closest match in the language for "Yes, sir." It's the Japanese name that's an aversion, as it's simply Yessan, a Portmanteau of "Yes, sir" and the -san honorific. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: One of the three Heroes of Kitakami in the Teal Mask DLC is Okidogi, a hulking dog Pokémon whose name sounds like the phrase "Okey dokey". |
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Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge has this conversation: | |
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The Men from the Ministry episode "The Great Trouser Troubles" has a lot of fun with this with the China's ambassador Hu Flang. | |
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Cyclops is based on Odysseus and the Cyclops, and therefore the joke of Odysseus calling himself "Nobody" plays out. | |
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One of the cafeteria events in Monster Prom involves Scott sitting with Vera and asking her what the drink she brought in to have with lunch is. She informs him that it's scotch... which he mishears first as his name and then as "Scott's", prompting him to try to ply it off her and asking her if it's "an energy drink for Scotts". | |
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Noein: not present in the show itself, but it does have two main characters named "Yuu" and "Ai". Certain lines in the English dub therefore sound unintentionally hilarious ("That's the same cellphone strap Ai has!"). | |
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James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd) and Mike Matei do What's the Movie?, a variation with movie titles. "What's the name of the movie with Christopher Lee." | |
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Darths & Droids has a full homage to the Trope Namer in the second strip of the Return of the Jedi arc. (The strip has a habit of writing low-level Imperial mooks in a deliberately silly way.) | |
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Selkie: A sarnothi CIA agent is named "Then". When Agent Brown tries to mention him in conversation, an already panicking Andi fails to recognize his name as a name and gets confused. | |
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In Episode 18 of The Most Popular Girls in School, when Overland Park's Trisha and Atchison's Trisha first met: | |
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Examples from the Calvinverse: Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has the titular protagonists doing this in a Halloween Episode. From the Recursive Fanfiction The Pez Dispenser and the Reign of Terror: |
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Questionable Content does this with Islands. | |
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A track on John Zorn, Derek Bailey and George Lewis's album "Yankees" (1983) carries this title. | |
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In Marmalade Boy, when an American exchange student named Michael first arrives at the protagonists' household, he gets confused by the names "Yuu" and "Miki", mistaking them for "you" and "me". Subverted shortly afterward; he was faking it. He's also somewhat amused at the fact that Miki is a feminine name in Japan, while Mickey is a masculine name in English-speaking countries. |
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: In Japanese, "nai" is a verb suffix denoting negativity. It can be used alone to mean "nothing", or as a general denial. On her travels, Alpha meets an android named Nai. She also meets a girl named "Kokone", which can be said as "Koko, ne?" which loosely translates to "Here?" She uses this pun the first time she meets her, too. | |
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In For the Glory of Irk, the Control Brains are identified by Roman numerals, which they pronounce by stating each numeral by its letter name. Therefore, whenever Control Brain I is mentioned, people are confused as to whether the speaker is referring to said Control Brain, or is saying "I" in reference to themselves. | |
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The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show did the Seventies bands version, with Yes, The Band, The Who and Guess Who. Not to mention seeing Boston in Chicago. Eventually they concluded that "the greatest band of the Seventies was Abbott and Costello". True to their nature, this eventually got (more than usually) ridiculous. |
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Rats SMP: Despite the name, Krow is a rat, and this has lead to some brief miscommunication whenever crows, as in the actual birds, are brought up in its presence; this ranges from it being offended when the rats find a quest instruction book titled "Stupid Crows" (in which the rats have to make a scarecrow for the Gardener), to several instances of confusion when Phil and Kara, two actual crows, make a guest appearance in the series on Day 59. | |
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An old Peanuts Sunday strip has Sally working on her penmanship when Linus comes in: | |
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In FoxTrot, Jason and Marcus do one relating to How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, complete with a reference to the Trope Namer: | |
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Spider-Man: In The Spectacular Spider-Man #106: | |
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Happens in Winnie the Pooh (2011) | |
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PvP: Robbie had some minor confusion with the use of "ward" as both a noun and a name. Brent experienced some confusion about which witch doctor he was asking for. |
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In "Who Is Me?" from The Book of Pooh, Pooh receives a note that reads "Dear, Pooh. I miss you. Please come to lunch. Signed, Me." Since Pooh can't read, he ends up having Owl read the note. Owl reads it out loud verbatim, causing Pooh to think at first that it's Owl that invited him to lunch. After Owl finally gets through to Pooh that he didn't write the note, he spends the remainder of the story chasing the note through the pages of the Book of Pooh, trying to find out who did write it and confusing them, particularly Rabbit. In the end, it turns out that Kessie the bluebird wrote the note and she's forced to admit that, yeah, it would have saved Pooh a lot of trouble if she had actually signed her name. | |
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LoadingReadyRun: These Web-based video comedians created "It's Very Simple," taking "Who's on First" to its illogical and very confusing conclusion. This was referenced again at the end of "Cursing Cursing" (note, very sweary, possibly NSFW): |
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Care Bears: Big Wish Movie: When Me Bear pays a visit to Wish, we get this exchange: | |
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Judge Dredd had Kenny Who? (yes, even the question mark is part of his name), a struggling artist trying to establish himself in Mega City One. Kenny was a running gag based on artist Cam Kennedy's experiences trying to break into the industry in America. | |
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This Bites!: In the Enies Lobby arc, Cross and Soundbite weaponize the dialogue to get the drop on a government agent who got the drop on them, which Cross and Soundbite even lampshade afterward ("...We just managed to weaponize Abbott and Costello," "WE'RE AWESOME!"). Followed by Soundbite broadcasting the original sketch to the entire world (at Cross's request). Busted guts abound. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic "Sparkle's Law" demonstrates the problem of ponies being named after food when the Apple siblings look over a list of what the members of their family were bringing for the Summer Sun Celebration. | |
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In The Undesirables a combination of Lightning Dust's drunkenness and Luna's use of the Royal "We" leads to the following exchange. | |
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In Level 30 Psychiatry Trainee Nurse Audino accidentally leads Head Nurse Chansey to smack her head against the wall with this routine. Lampshaded by Gardevoir. | |
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The Labor Day issue of Li'l Gotham has a scene where the villain Hush attempts to make a phone call, which gets as far as "Who is this?" "Hush." before getting bogged down in misunderstanding. | |
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Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl: One of Yawara's teammates on her judo squad is named Nanda. This is a legit Japanese surname, but it also means roughly "what?" or "what the?" (nan da?, short form of nan desu ka?), which is used for quick laughs a couple of times. | |
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: One of the three Heroes of Kitakami in the Teal Mask DLC is Okidogi, a hulking dog Pokémon whose name sounds like the phrase "Okey dokey". | |
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Ditto with the two human characters in Animal Crossing: The Movie. | |
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Digimon Fusion: Damemon's first meeting with Yuu Amano started out this way, as a result of Damemon's love of interspersed Gratuitous English (in this case, the word "you" being homophonous to "Yuu"). | |
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Legendarily Popular: In fairness, having an electric-type Gym Leader named Wattson, with an assistant named Watt, was just begging for something like this to happen. Combine that with the number of Flat Whats produced by Ash's ridiculous team, and it was inevitable. | |
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Yakitate!! Japan seems to love these. Similar to the above, one dialogue involves some confusion regarding the type of Indian bread known as "naan". After every episode, they used to do a small "Facts about Bread" corner. In one of them, Kawachi and Tsukino asked Azuma about his favourite animal, and Azuma answered "Jaa, panda" ("Yes, the Panda!"). Of course, that sounds like "Ja-pan da" ("It's the Ja-pan") so his friends, thinking/realizing he was obsessed with bread, sighed and dropped the subject. During the Pantasia Employee Examination, the candidates are asked to bake croissants ("kurowassan"). Azuma, being Azuma, doesn't understand and instead wonders about this mysterious Mr. Kurowa ("Kurowa-san"). |
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Dubious Company's Walter invokes this often. He reminded Tiren that her "booty be mine ta use as I please". His ship is named Arr and the island is named Nowhere. |
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Pearls Before Swine: A storyline from 2009 involved Pig and his "bitter x" (a refrigerator magnet in the shape of a literal letter x), culminating in this strip from November 29. Another Pearls Before Swine storyline from October 19, 2014 follows the spirit/letter of this trope much more closely with Rat being slowly driven insane while trying to ask Goat whose band's drummer was Keith Moon (you can read their whole conversation in its full glory on the Quotes page for this article). It culminates with Rat screaming "I don't know!" and Goat saying, "Third base!" In the strip of February 28, 2021, Pig tells Rat that a friend of his and his wife were arrested for him taking a vintage record and her stealing Rap and Heat CDs. Since his wife had a criminal record and couldn't take the heat, he took the entire rap. The whole thing drives Rat nuts. |
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Sexy Losers had a guest strip by Patrick Shaugnessy about the tragic love life of the letters F, A and P. To quote: Y? | |
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Górsky & Butch includes a gag about a village of Asian monks, all of whom have names that sound exactly like various Polish pronouns and prepositions. | |
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Halo 3. The "What's the Password" Easter Egg on Legendary, featuring the Red vs. Blue cast: | |
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In The Non-Bronyverse, TD runs across a pair of diamond dogs named Huo and Watt. He can barely manage to keep a straight face as he runs through the gag. | |
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The comic included with the first Turok ended with Joshua Fireseed stumping Big Bad The Campaigner with the classic baseball version. This didn't exactly set him up as a threatening villain. | |
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Done in Atlantis: The Lost Empire with a mix-up over the names of the crew. | |
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None Piece depicts Monkey D. Luffy's middle initial standing for "Dee", when in canon, his middle initial is left ambiguous. This results in this banter between him and Zoro. | |
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PreCure in a Nutshell: Cure White gets the parody name of Cure What. When she introduces herself for the first time... | |
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In the League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions, were three lookalike ensigns named Who, What & Idontknow...it was later revealed that Who was dating ensign First. | |
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In The Darkside Detective, McQueen finds an abandoned Magic 8-Ball. Dooley asks what it says. "'Ask again later.'" "Aww, but I wanna know now!" | |
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Webwork has a brief gag when it's revealed that Jade's birth name is Yu, causing Tohru to wonder if his grasp of English isn't as good as he thinks it is. Part of what kicks off the plot hinges on the similarity between "Yu" and "You" | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has the titular protagonists doing this in a Halloween Episode. | |
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Ace Attorney: "Mr. Wrong, was it?" "Wright." The original Japanese version often played with that version of the character's name (Naruhodo, which sounds very similar to a word meaning "I understand now") in a similar way. | |
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From SOSchip: | |
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Goblins has a team in a dungeon with a summoned guide. He's summoned any time his name is spoken outside his presence, and he will answer one yes/no question truthfully each of the first three times he's summoned. On the fourth time, he will kill everyone. His name? "Noe". He's accidentally summoned twice, once from the word "no" and once from "know", before K'Seliss comes up with a plan to kill him, deliberately using up the third summon to set up for it. | |
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In Goblin Slayer, Priestess introduces herself as "Noman" when confronting a group of Sasquatches. As a result, when the survivor makes it back to the Big Bad, all he can say is that Noman killed his brothers. | |
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Fire Emblem: Awakening features a character named "Nah". Naturally, this happens when she's introduced: | |
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LazyTown: When Ziggy asks Stingy what his favorite song is, Stingy says “It’s mine.� But Ziggy wonders if the song was his. But the latter tells him that his favorite song is The Mine Song. | |
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Lampshaded in the Dangerverse, where the Pack parents state Sirius can only make that joke once a year. | |
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Empires SMP Season 2: At the start of the series, when Pirate Joe is first introduced to Gem, he mistakes her presence for her having treasures and jewels due to her name. | |
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When The Thing is in France during the Civil War he gets into an exchange like this involving the words "We" and "Oui". He mentions the trope namer. | |
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In the The Jim Henson Hour special Dog City, there are a lot of puns on gangster Bugsy Them and the hero, Ace Yu ("I'm Yu." "You're me?"). At the climax, Ace proposes to Colleen Barker, who's always dreamed of the day...When I'm Colleen Yu.... | |
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In one episode of Point vs. Point (which is meant to be a news show in-universe), Evan reads a story about a conflict between Iran and Israel, which Gareth mistakes for the phrases "is real" and "I ran", leading to a long string of misunderstandings. Evan even references "Who's On First?" by name in the middle of the bit, but Gareth of course doesn't get the reference. | |
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The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: In the sequel Picking Up the Pieces, in chapter 5, Xvital has just entered the kitchen of their hotel penthouse suite and sees a mare working on a cake. From the smell, she deduces what kind it is, and asks "Mango cake?" The chef, who is still frosting the cake and knows exactly what she means, jokingly but truthfully responds with "That's my cousin's name, actually." | |
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A brief gag in Katawa Shoujo has Hisao say "It's me" to Kenji, who is legally blind. Mentioning that he doesn't know anybody named "me", Kenji immediately jumps to the conclusion that he's being confronted by a psychic spy. Uh... | |
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Smashtasm: | |
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The Goon Show has many of these: | |
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The Foreigner: at one point Betty Meeks offers to make breakfast, just as Ellard is explaining the concept of 'a zillion' to Charlie Baker. | |
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Deadpool once found Loki's Flowery Elizabethan English a little confusing: | |
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In the Transformers fanfic "Who Runs Communications?'', Prowl decides the super-strict leadership style of Ultra Magnus is having an unacceptably deleterious effect on morale. So he gets Ultra Magnus used to the default level of insanity among the Ark crew by turning the duty roster into a Who's On First routine. And giving many of the other Autobots cryptic hints in preparation to see the gag through to completion. | |
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes invokes this with its "Who's on First" module. The defuser has to read the word on a display to the expert, then read the word on one of the buttons, and then the expert will read a list of words back so the defuser knows which button to press. Every single one of the words the game chooses from can be mistaken for something else. Just look at it — pages 9 and 10. Yes, the display can both be blank and say "BLANK", so you'd better be very clear as to which one you're talking about. One popular mod "Crazy Talk" goes further, into outright trolling. The following are all valid things that can appear on the Crazy Talk's module screen: a left arrow, "Left Arrow", "An Actual Left Arrow", "An Actual Left Arrow Literal Phrase", "After I Say Beep Find This Phrase Word For Word Beep An Actual Left Arrow", "Left", "The Word Left", "The Phrase The Word Left", "Left Arrow Symbol", a phrase which is "Left Arrow Symbol" spelt out in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, and a phrase which is "Left Arrow Symbol" spelt out in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet except that "Whiskey" is replaced with "Risky". Also valid are "The Punctuation Fullstop", "Three Words The Punctuation Fullstop", "Five Words Three Words The Punctuation Fullstop", and "Seven Words Five Words Three Words The Punctuation Fullstop". |
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Happy Heroes: A joke like this happens in Season 8 episode 1, when Big M. and Little M. meet Huo Haha for the first time. | |
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