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{{quote|''"Come on guys, build...build...build...build...OhCrap! '''WHAAAAT?! WHAAAT?! WHAAAAAAT?!''' [[Big No|NO! NO! NO! NO!]] ARE YOU KIDDING! THEY ALL RESPONDED TO MY WHISTLE!"''
|'''[[Chuggaaconroy]]''' from his famous ''[[Pikmin]]'' freakout.}}
[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|As the title should tell you]] (WHAT?!), this trope is about yelling (WHAT!?) a ridiculously long, loud "WHAAAAAT!?" ([[Overly Long Gag|WHAT!?]]) Usually uttered when the character is confused (WHAT!?), annoyed (WHAT!?) or just plain ol' shocked (WHAT!?). May be used in the form of (WHAT!?): "You WHAT?", or when used in anime, NANNIIIII!?!?!?! ([[Flat What|What]]) -- often translated as "Say what?" or [[Curse Cut Short|"What the-"]] to match the two-syllable motion.
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Compare [[Flat What]], [[Defensive "What?"]], [[Big No]].
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== Anime
* Something of a [[Catch Phrase]] of [[Unfazed Everyman|Kawachi]] from ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'' is that he'd yell, "What'd you say?" in situations like this (The record was about 30 times in a single chapter of the manga).
* In the first anime for ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', upon being told that Negi had just [[Brought Down to Normal|depowered]] [[Willfully Weak|himself intentionally]], thus becoming [[The Load]], one female character bellowed a loud "Naaaaniiii!!?"
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* In the famous [[Monty Python]] sketch about a [[Blind Idiot Translation|horribly translated and sexually-charged English-to-Hungarian book]], the responding constable to the Hungarian's "you have beautiful thighs" is to look at his own thighs and scream '''WHAT?'''
* An episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' had this when Londo and Lennier are involved in a brawl in the Zocalo. Sheridan hears about the fight and goes to his office. As the door closes, he hears who took ultimate responsibility for the fight (Lennier, to help Londo save face). Considering that Lennier is a [[Warrior Poet]], his reaction is understandable.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
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*** And when Thirteen regenerates back into Ten at the end of her tenure, Ten's reaction when he realizes he's (involuntarily) returned to a previous regeneration is yet another repeat of the [[Rule of Three|three increasingly bigger Whats]].
** And the other way around. See ''Voyage of the Damned.''
** From ''The Five Doctors'':
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* In ''[[True Jackson, VP]]'' the title charcter is prone to say "YOU SAY WHAT NOW?!"
* The "Say What?" [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]] of ''[[Hannah Montana]].'' It was always said very specifically, "[General Description] say whaat?"
* An episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' uses a different word, but has the same effect. The ladies are listening to a woman give a eulogy at a funeral. The woman's mentioning all the wonderful things the deceased has done (which shocks them, because they all knew the woman as a total witch.) Then they realize she went into the wrong funeral: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ocZ57tgWr4 Bea Arthur's delivery] is what made it a
{{quote|'''Woman''': Yes. Celia Rubenstein loved all mankind. She was--
'''Dorothy''': '''WHO!?''' }}
* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Eric lets out an epically huge "what" after he learns that Mr. Feeny is retiring.
== Music ==
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'''Homer''': Nothing. I'm just a bit edgy since your mother became a cop. }}
** Frequently played straight with Moe, who says it in a way similar to Chris of ''[[Family Guy]]''.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'' this seems to be Chris's catch phrase: "UH-WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?"
** Also, Meg in the episode "Dial Meg for Murder", when Joe [http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxBroadcasting#p/search/35/nC0KGHzW8BM arrests her fugitive boyfriend]:
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