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Line 1: {{trope}} {{cleanup\|Some examples have already been moved to subpages. For consistency, the rest should follow suit.}} [[File:3 pack 4569.jpg\|frame\|[[Covers Always Lie\|In case you're not sure if it's a cat toy for iguanas or something.]]<ref>[[Rule of Three\|On the back, it says "Cat Toy" ''again'']], and below that, "This toy is not suitable for children."</ref>]] Line 12 ⟶ 13: The venerable [[Firesign Theatre]] gets credit for naming this trope on their classic 1970 album ''Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers'', [[Self-Demonstrating Article\|the album where the trope name comes from]]. Compare [[Shaped Like Itself]], [[Broken Record]], [[Repetitive Name]], [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]], [[Captain Obvious]], and [https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Department_of_Redundancy_Department Department of Redundancy Department]. '''Disclaimer:''' The '''Department''' '''Of''' '''Redundancy''' '''Department''' does not share the opinion of anything written on this page, including [[Overly Long Gag\|overly long gags]], overuse of ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' quotes, [[Pothole\|pot holes]], [[Overly Long Gag\|overly long gags]], and use of [[The Page For Redlinks Exists Now So We Put This Link Instead Of The Page For Redlinks\|redlinks]]. {{examples\|Examples and various cases that are exemplifying the trope include:}} * [[Department of Redundancy Department/Advertising\|Advertising using media to promote products to you on media]] * [[Department of Redundancy Department/Film\|Filmed Movies Using Film]] * [[Department of Redundancy Department/Literature\|Literature Stories Written In Books By Authors]] Line 24 ⟶ 26: * [[Department of Redundancy Department/Western Animation\|Western Animation Moving Pictures Made In The West]] * [[Department of Redundancy Department/Real Life\|Real Life Non-Fictional World Of 3-D]] ~~== Advertisements using TV to promote products to you on television ==~~ * Almost any asthma medication ''has'' to use the phrase "like an inhaled corticosteroid" at least 5 times within the commercial. Sheesh, we GET IT! * Nationwide Insurance's new{{when}} mascot: The World's Greatest Spokesperson In The World! * [[The Monkees]]' Kool-Aid [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFDzQZZc-4A commercial] from 1970, in which Micky Dolenz exclaims, "Hey, let's make some new sugar-sweetened Kool-Aid with the sugar already in it!" * DOMESTOS: KILLS ALL KNOWN GERMS DEAD ** Likewise, on the other side of the pond, "Raid: Kills Bugs Dead". * There's a school in south Florida called CBT College. The "C" stood for "College". The College of Business and Technology College. Way to ruin your credibility before the commercial even starts... See also UMUC - the University of Maryland University College. See also the University of California system where the college name is usually an acronym (like UCI or UCSD). You will see on the campus website statements like UCI University (university of California university) or "California's UCI" *** Or the crown jewel of them all, [http://www.criminologyprize.com/dynamaster/file_archive/071015/809e6fe2524d66f5ab5092b3dc9386c8/Symposium2007-eng-www.pdf California's UCI University]{{Dead link}} * The label on [http://www.bestplasticcleaner.com/2polish.jpg this product], a polish for acrylic, reads ''FINE SCRATCH REMOVER: Removes Fine Scratches''. You know, in case it wasn't absolutely clear. * Taco Bell once touted a new menu item in a TV commercial as a "grilled carne asada steak". Since "carne asada" translates as "grilled steak", they essentially were advertising a "grilled grilled steak steak". Delicious. ** They've also described part of their Bacon Cheesy Potato Burrito as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjB2sZ2tA0 "bacon topped with bacon".] * [[Head On]]: Apply Directly to the Forehead. [[Head On]]: Apply Directly to the Forehead. * [[Head On]]: Apply Directly to the Forehead. ** "[[Lampshade Hanging\|Advertising/HeadOn, I can't stand your commercials,]] [[Placebo Effect\|but your product is amazing!]]" * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMrg0KArRvo Ronseal Quick-Drying Woodstain] protects and is rain-proof in about thirty minutes. Which means in about thirty minutes, your wood's rain-proof and protected. So if you've got wood to stain, and you want it to dry quickly, use [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMrg0KArRvo Ronseal Quick-Drying Woodstain]. ** [[Catch Phrase\|It]] [[Trope Namer\|does]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. * A commercial for Boston Pizza has a man suffering from "turkey brain" after eating too many Christmas leftovers. He describes his symptoms as "the confusion, the sluggishness, the excessive napping, the confusion..." * An ad campaign that began in 2011 encourages you to "Take a Cheetos break With Cheetos". * A Vevo banner ad on Youtube advertising Lady Gaga's performance on "Saturday's [[Saturday Night Live\|SNL]]". * "If you don't have an iPhone, well... you don't have an iPhone." * "In Mexico we speak Spanish, mostly because it's the language we speak." * A Target commercial showed a music teacher singing about all the clothes his students will need for the new school year. Denim was on it 4 times. * A 1980s print ad for Elephant brand floppy disks promoted the need to make backups by explicitly referring to the Department of Redundancy Department, "and what goes on when it goes on!" * A magazine advertisement for a ''[[Duel Masters]]'' card-pack series (specifically, "Survivors of the Megapocalypse") states "Attack with the Billion-Degree Dragon and watch your opponent run like someone who is under attack and is frightened by that attack!" == Anime Cartoons from Japan and Manga Comics from Japan == Line 103 ⟶ 77: * ''[[Cardfight Vanguard]]'' has Aichi's {{spoiler\|Gold Paladin}} attack and the [[Invocation]] the comes with it: ** Break the limit... Limit Break! * And then there's title of the anime and light novel series ''[[Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear]]'' -- which when fully translated into English is the incredibly concise and specific "Bear Bear Bear Bear". == Comics with Pictures and Dialogue drawn by Western comic book artists == Line 133 ⟶ 108: * Parodied in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6988840/1/Bring_Me_All_Your_Elderly this] ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' fanfic called [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6988840/1/Bring_Me_All_Your_Elderly ''Bring me All Your Elderly''.] It makes fun of the movie ''The Last Airbender''{{'}}s extreme redundancy using a disease that makes Sokka, Suki, and Katara talk redundantly, like they do in the movie. {{quote\|'''Katara''': This bad movie film was ruined long before we got here and entered it! And I have no regretful feelings of remorse at all for making fun of you in a mocking way! You were supposed to portray my own character, and you did not portray me with any accuracy at all! You cry and weep and sob and cry and pout and whimper and cry all the time, every scene, non-stop! You can't fight or engage in any combat! And you're mostly just useless in a non-useful way!}} * This [http://anime-fanservice.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-567 NSFW edit] of a screencap from the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' anime. * In one of the ''Freddy the Pig'' stories, the title character makes a list of people he does not want to run into at that moment. The same name (Mr. Curry?) occupies the first three places. * In an MST of ''[[The Girl Who Lived]]'' (the link can be found on this site on the main page of TGWL) we get this wonderfully snarky line: Line 168 ⟶ 142: * In the [http://zelda-queen.livejournal.com/18688.html MST] of ''[[My Inner Life]]'', Zelda Queen makes paging the Department of Redundancy Department a [[Running Gag]]. * [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1706782/StaraptorEmpoleon StaraptorEmpoleon] uses this so often it might as well be her [[Signature Style]]: "[[Lovable Sex Maniac\|What I really wanted was sex]]. "[[That Makes Me Feel Angry\|And I want sex...]]", I shuddered and [[Captain Obvious\|fell to the ground backward because she pushed me down]]." * Deliberately invoked in ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31525-15/CaptainBoulanger+from+the+quill+of+Belle+Black.htm from the quill of Belle Black]'', a period ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic, which includes a Ministry of Magic decree which, in the course of six clauses, abolishes "The Department for the Committee for the Regulation of the Bureau for the Administration of the Department of Magical Finance and Taxation", "The Committee for the Regulation of the Bureau for the Administration of the Department of Magical Finance and Taxation", ''and'' "The Bureau for the Administration of the Department of Magical Finance and Taxation". == Music Composed of Musical Notes Performed Musically by Musicians == * [[Bob Rivers]] has created a long string of "Twisted Tunes" parodies, in which he occasionally parodies the same song twice with different lyrics. For instance, Don McLean's "The Day The Music Died" is parodied as "The Day [[The Alleged Car\|My Lemon]] Died", then parodied again as an American Pie Eulogy to complain about [[Madonna]] releasing a remake [[Deader Than Disco\|disco style]] ("she made my music die"). * [[Elton John]] issued at least two different versions of the same song, "Candle In The Wind", eulogising different people (first Marilyn Monroe, then Lady Diana Spencer Princess of Wales). == New Media which is New and is a form of Media == Line 180 ⟶ 158: * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B465yXd0cb4 Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy?] Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy? Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy? Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy? Are we there yet? How many times are you going to ask that, Missy?... * Also [[Frank Miller]], [[Signature Style\|repetition and whores]] * What Uncyclopedia [~~http~~https://uncyclopedia.~~wikia.org~~ca/wiki/Redundancy has to say about the content of this article and what this article has to say]. * Every time someone double-posts by accident because of a server hiccup, [[Memetic Mutation\|Baby Jesus cries.]] Every time someone double-posts or worse ''deliberately'', [[Memetic Mutation\|God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.]] Line 294 ⟶ 272: [[Memetic Mutation\|C-C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!]] [[Frank Miller]] [[Signature Style\|really loves repetition.]] [[Memetic Mutation\|And whores.]] ''[[Xkcd]]'' once ~~referenced~~ [http://xkcd.com/609/ usreferenced] the [[TV Tropes\|Other Tropes Wiki]]. [[EarthBound\|It hurts, Ness... It hurts...]] [[Chzo Mythos\|it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts]] [[Fate/stay night\|People die]] [[Captain Obvious\|if they are killed.]] [[Gratuitous Japanese\|Kyon-kun, denwa!]] [[The Grim Adventures of Billy ~~and~~& Mandy\|DESTROY US ALL!]] [[Suzumiya Haruhi\|We've entered an endless recursion of time.]] [[Say My Name\|Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness...]] [[Hello]]. [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]. [[You Killed My Father]]. [[Prepare to Die]]. * [[The Princess Bride (film)\|Stop saying that!]] [[Bill Nye the Science Guy\|Inertia is a property of matter.]] [[Doctor Who\|Blink]] [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel\|and you die]]. [[Snakes on a Plane\|I'm gonna get these muthafuckin' snakes off this muthafuckin' plane!]] ** [[CSI: Miami\|Looks like it's repeatedly used...]] ''[[Glasses Pull]]'' [[CSI: Miami\|...on this very wiki]]. * '''''[[The Who\|YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!]]''''' [[Zardoz\|The penis is evil!]] [[In Space]]!!! [[YMMV Trope\|These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work]]. ** ~~Department of Redundancy Department~~{{PAGENAME}} uses this trope. * The trope names for [[Tsurime Eyes]] and [[Tareme Eyes]] (the "me" in both means "eyes"). Line 397 ⟶ 375: * In her [[Gag Dub]] of [[Harry Potter]] the German [[YouTube]] comedian [[Web Original/Coldmirror\|Coldmirror]] features the "unsichtbar machenden Unsichtbarkeitsmantel, der unsichtbar macht" (Translation: invisible making invisibility cloak which makes you invisible") * "Yup. Sorry. The Lich King is going to die. Blizzard didn't have any problem killing Kael'thas, Illidan, Kael'thas, Lady Vashj, or even Kael'thas" Said in a post by Boubouille of mmo-champion.com (There is a smallish meme about Kael'thas' death(s) being merely a setback) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103190935/http://www.mugglenet.com/wallofshame.shtml A note from the unprofessional, arrogant, unprofessional, insensitive, unprofessional, immature, inconsiderate, unprofessional, irresponsible, unprofessional, juvenile, unprofessional, tactless and unprofessional Wall of Shame founder and caretaker (or more appropriately, "crap-taker"... you'll see), Emerson] * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdR9lRZ4tx4& COME HAVE SEX WITH MY VAGINA] * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur25KP061PE This video review] of the legendary video game ''Superman 64'' ironically praises the game's features: "The fight moves!... The giant eels!... [[Stuff Blowing Up\|The explosions]]!... [[Pass Through the Rings\|The rings!... The rings!... The rings!...]]" Line 427 ⟶ 405: ** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivwS7PdDXWI Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap] the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap... * [http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/05/14/funny-pictures-of-redundancy-department/ This] [[Lolcat]]. * [~~http~~https://uncyclopedia.~~wikia.com~~ca/wiki/Redundancy This] hilarious [[Uncyclopedia]] page. * [http://www.sydlexia.com/ Syd Lexia] created a list of [http://www.sydlexia.com/top100vb.htm The Top 100 Virtual Boy Games Ever]. [[Author Appeal\|ALL of them are]] [[Virtual Boy]] ''[[Wario Land]]''. * ~~From~~ ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series~~\|Yu-Gi-Oh~~]]'' ~~the~~has ~~Abridged~~one of ~~Series~~Marik's many [[Catch Phrase]] ~~movie~~s: {{quote\|'''Anubis:''' You're going to die. And then you'll be dead. Because I killed you.}}▼ ** Also from [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series\|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]], one of Marik's many [[Catch Phrase\|catchphrases]]: {{quote\|'''Marik:''' Foolish fool!}} :* In the movie: * An impressive one from [[Code MENT\|Code]] [http://youtu.be/xgIwF77nzJM?t=2m54s MENT]: ▲{{quote\|'''Anubis:''' You're going to die. And then you'll be dead. Because I killed you.}} * [http://youtu.be/xgIwF77nzJM?t=2m54s An impressive example] from [[Code MENT\|Code MENT]]: {{quote\|'''"One":''' Haha!! [[I Have You Now, My Pretty\|You are mine and there is no escaping me!]] [[Say Your Prayers]] Cornelia, for I am going to shoot your robot, and then shoot you! After I shoot your robot, then I'm going to shoot you! After I shoot your robot I am going to shoot you. But first the robot, and then you, in that order. Not the whole thing, just the last part; that's the order that I meant. [[Overly Long Gag\|Because that would mean I would kill yo]]-yeah you know what? It don't matter. '''Cornelia:''' [[Get On With It Already\|JUST DO IT ALREADY!]] }} Line 448 ⟶ 426: * All of the articles on [[The Wiki Rule\|Bulbapedia]] about [[Pokémon]] species have page titles that appear as "(insert Pokémon name here) Pokémon". ** Justified as you could be searching for the cards of the same name, or an [[A Dog Named "Dog"\|unnicknamed]] mon owned by a particular trainer character. * [[Marz Gurl]] points this out in her ''[[Land Before Time]] XII]]'' review after this line: "Many changes had occurred on this Day of Changes.". * Happens a lot with [[The Irate Gamer]]. His quotes page has multiple examples. * According to [[wikipedia:Leather jacket\|Wikipedia]], "A leather jacket is a type of clothing, a jacket made of leather." Line 461 ⟶ 439: * From [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s "Nintendo World Championships" Review: {{quote\|'''Nerd:''' They just cut out the logo with cheap paper and they glued it on...with glue.}} * [[Wikitravel]] and [[Wikivoyage]]. A [[Broken Base]] as [[The Other Wiki\|WMF]]-hosted Wikivoyage is a community of authors who abandoned Wikitravel after the owner of the domain name sold out to Internet Brands for $1.7 million dollars.<!-- https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/once-a-profit-dream-wikitravel-now-bedevils-owner.html --> They took their content with them, but that doesn't remove it from the old site. Search engines which provide online search have been penalising and punishing this redundantly redundant content ever since, hurting and harming the site. * In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdavaK3d4Pc "The Battle of Philippi"] by ''[[Historia Civilis]]'', the Second Battle of Philippi is explained as being so-named because... it was the second battle of the conflict, and it took place ''near'' Philippi. == Western Animation Animated by Westerners and geared towards Western audiences who enjoy Animation == * ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has the following exchange between Walker and Danny: * Walker to [[Danny Phantom\|Danny]]: "I'm your judge, executioner, jury, executioner, jailer, and if necessary your executioner." When Danny pointed out Walker said "executioner" three times, Walker replied that he loved that part of the job. {{quote\|I'm your judge, executioner, jury, executioner, jailer, and if necessary your executioner.}} * In [[The Fairly OddParents]] episode "That Old Black Magic", Timmy told an Anti-Fairy to "Stop hurting my mom and ruining my day... and hurting my mom!"▼ ** He loves that part of the job. * [[Mad Scientist\|Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' once bought two pet crocodiles, each named Susan. He named them after each other.▼ ▲* In ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' episode "That Old Black Magic", Timmy told an Anti-Fairy to "Stop hurting my mom and ruining my day... and hurting my mom!" ** Professor Kevin Destructicon, to whom Doofenshmirtz was once apprentice to, intended to set the sun on fire. Even Doof understood the redundancy of this redundant idea.▼ * ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': ▲ [[Mad Scientist\|Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] ~~of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''~~ once bought two pet crocodiles, each named Susan. He named them after each other. ▲ Professor Kevin Destructicon, to whom Doofenshmirtz was once ~~apprentice~~an toapprentice, intended to set the sun on fire. Even Doof understood the redundancy of this redundant idea. When Doofenshmirtz made [[Evil Knockoff\|evil clones]] of Perry to [[Start X to Stop X\|fight fire with fire]], he explained that, by fire, he meant [[Captain Obvious\|Perry the Platypus]] and that the other fire also meant Perry the Platypus.<ref>He got the idea while HE was on fire.</ref> In "Doof Dynasty", there is a Redundant Scribe of Redundantness, who names things redundantly. Those things include, but are not necessarily restrained to, the Unclimbable Mountain of Unclimbableness and the Uncrossable River of Uncrossableness. Also, this exchange from "Isabella and the Temple of Sap". {{quote\|'''Hippy'': Its over at the Old Abandoned Old Abandoned Amusement park over on the next hill. Line 476 ⟶ 459: '''Hippy''': Yes. '''Isabella''': ....alright. }} ::* And then, later; {{quote\|'''Isabella''': Oh, I get it! It was actually called the "Old Abandoned Amusement Park", and now ~~its~~it's old and abandoned.}} * ''[[The Powerpuff Girls~~\|Mojo Jojo~~]]'' isMojo ~~so repetitive he shows~~Jojo's itstyle ~~even~~of ~~when~~speech ~~trying~~involves todoing ~~deny~~this itfrequently. ** [[Amnesiac Hero\|The amnesiac Bubbles]] nails his speech patterns perfectly when she believes herself to be him in "Los Dos Mojos" ([http://www.rowdyruff.net/transcript_ldm.shtml slightly-edited transcript] courtesy of [[RowdyRuff.net]]'s Alan Back): * Pinkie Pie of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' lapses into this pretty often. [[Cloudcuckoolander\|Likely because her usual train of thought is best described as a crumpled Mobius strip.]]▼ {{quote\|'''Bubbles:''' I am not Bubbles! Bubbles is not who I am! I am the one, the only, single solitary doer of dastardly deeds! Purveyor of pestilence! Interloper of lawlessness! Menace to mankind! I am bad! I am evil! I am Mojo Jojo! ([[Evil Laugh]]) '''Mojo (irritated):''' [[I Resemble That Remark\|I do not talk like that! The way I communicate is much different.]] [[Hypocritical Humor\|I do not reiterate, repeat, reinstate the same thing over and over again. I am clear, concise, to the point!]] I—}} ▲* Pinkie Pie of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' lapses into this pretty often. [[Cloudcuckoolander\|Likely because her usual train of thought is best described as a crumpled Mobius strip.]]. {{quote\|"Maybe Gilda isn't a big, mean, grumpy, mean meanie-pants. Maybe I'm just a big, jealous, judgmental, jealous jealousy-pants."}} * ''[[Invader Zim]]'': "They've locked down their fortress. With locks!" * ''[[Futurama]]'' season 2 episode 3 starts with the title "Futurama" and the caption "From the makers of Futurama". Line 488 ⟶ 474: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ ~~{{related\|Broken Record}}~~ ~~{{related\|Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs}}~~ ~~{{related\|Captain Obvious}}~~ ~~{{related\|Repetitive Name}}~~ ~~{{related\|Shaped Like Itself}}~~ ~~{{related\|Department of Redundancy Department}}~~ [[Category:Tropes of Legend]] [[Category:Dialogue]] Line 501 ⟶ 482: [[Category:The Fifties]] [[Category:Self-Demonstrating Article]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]