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{{quote|''"Why do you keep saying [[Arc Words|that]]?" I said.''
''"Bears repeated repetition."''
|'''''[[The Subject Steve]]'''''}}
When listing things, a character will repeat an item. Might end with "Did I mention X already?" when making a list. Common ways for it to show up are a list going "A, B, C, B, D, B, E... and did I mention B?" and "[[Blazing Saddles|You said X twice]]." "[[SpongeBob SquarePants|I]] ''[[So Good We Mentioned It Twice|like]]'' [[Blazing Saddles|X]]." These occur frequently, especially when listing things. This might also cause another character to remark "But of course!" in a French accent (in a play on the French expression ''mais bien sûr'').
With some websites and occasionally in [[Real Life]], the Department of Redundancy Department is referred to as an actual organization run by [[Captain Obvious]] with a side branch called the Branch of Awkward Wording (or, for bonus points, the Branch Of Awkward Wording Branch).
The venerable [[Firesign Theatre]] gets credit for naming this trope on their classic 1970 album
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
{{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]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department/Live-Action TV|Live-Action TV Played By Live-Actors On Television]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department/Music|Musical Sounds In The Form Of Melody Which Sounds Like Music]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department/Video Games|Video Games That You Play Games With Including Visuals Played Using Electronics]]
* [[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]]
== Anime Cartoons from Japan and Manga Comics from Japan ==
* In ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', Akane Serizawa, in her "Roboko" disguise, claims to have been created by the United States Defense Department of Defense.
* ''[[
** The Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet ''Armstrong'' Cannon.
* In ''[[Strike Witches]]'', Barkhorn tries to get Hartmann out of bed in one episode. The gist of her speech is that for a soldier of Karlsland, discipline comes first. And second. And third. She gets up to ninth, at which point Hartmann sleepily asks, "What's tenth?"
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** From Remote Island Syndrome, Kyon asks Haruhi what they will be doing on their field trip and Haruhi answers by saying that they will have a field trip. Kyon's reaction: "What? Going on a field trip for the purpose of experiencing a field trip?"
* ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'': "It's called a school festival. [http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g156/silvercrescent17/shapedlikeitself.jpg It's a festival organized by the school.]" <ref>This is an artefact of translation, as Japanese has different words for "festival" and "school festival."</ref>
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' had a card called "Entry Forbidden, No Entry!!" The English dub went with "No Entry!!", which is a lot better.
** This became common practice, with cards like "Mirai Yuugou - Future Fusion" or "Tamashii no Kyouyuu - Common Soul" (which is a bit better: Soul Share - Common Soul).
** It makes a lot more sense in Japanese since one line is Japanese and the other is English/romaji. Why even bother putting the English line? Apparently, in Japan, randomly throwing in English words makes it seem cool and exotic?.
* The Singaporian English dub of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' had a line where Marik talks to Yugi through a mind controlled Pandora/Arcana, and says: "I control their mind and senses, and see and hear what they see and hear. I can see and hear you from here."
** The English dub of the show uses the same few phrases numerous times, and LittleKuriboh makes fun of that in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhdFt6gA3uE video].
* One of the most recent Synchro monsters in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
** Justified, as the Japanese name has the first Chaos Goddess written in [[Gratuitous English]].
*** Not really gratuitous if you consider that it is impossible to leave out the -u sound at the end of "Choasu" and "Goddessu" using the Japanese alphabet. "Chaos Goddess" itself is a perfectly grammatically correct English term.
* An anime series titled, ''[[The Legend of the Legendary Heroes]]'' (in Japanese, ''Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu'').
* ''[[
** The same goes for the technique "Kamehameha". Its English translation is "Turtle Destruction Wave". In [[FUNimation]]'s first English dub of ''Dragon Ball Z'', it is sometimes referred to as the "Kamehameha Wave". So the characters are saying "Turtle Destruction Wave Wave".
* The first ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' anime has this one: [[Memetic Mutation|TINY MINI SKIRTS!]] Is there any other kind?
** Yes, the "small but not so tiny" mini skirts. With the main difference being the amount of female butt you can see.
* Episode 17 of ''[[Initial D]]'': First Stage is titled "Sudden-Death Death Match".
* In an early episode of the ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' anime, Mad Sarge tells his troops that "God's Army is the army of God." This is because in the Japanese version, the "God's Army" part was said in English and therefore needed an explaination in Japanese.
* Some fansubs translate on-screen text with their own superimposed text, and if a character is reading the text, they also subtitle it, even if that means writing (and reading) the exact same thing twice. Episode titles and "Turn your lights on and watch us from afar" disclaimers are particularly prone to this.
** Similarly, ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' had a scene in which characters were speaking English and had subtitles translating their words into Japanese. The English release of the series also translated the subtitles.
* The 80s dub of ''[[Captain Harlock]]'' gave us this gem, "Their tissues are made of paper, that's why they burn...like paper."
* From the ''[[Pokémon]]'' dub: "We are a band of Diglett thieves known as the band of Diglett thieves."
* Jiji from the film ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'':
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* In one episode of ''[[Sgt Frog]]'', Keroro lists off his daily activities, and mentions "assembling Gundam models" three times.
* Miura's introduction in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[Spin Offspring|ViVid]]'', complete with [[Lampshade Hanging]].
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'''Miura:''' I will try my hardest?
'''Zafira:''' You don't have to say it twice. Just do your best. }}
* The Funimation (uncut) dub of ''[[
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* The English title for ''[[Ichiban Ushiro no
* Sky High from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' is quite fond of redundant statements. [[Word of God]] says it's because he wants to make sure he's understood.
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"I was standing by the whole time. Alone in a dark alley... It was lonely."
"Good job, Ivan! And a job well done!"
"Thank you! And thank you again!" }}
* A minor example, but from the dub of ''[[Bleach]]'':
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* ''[[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 ==
* "Doomguy" from the ''[[Doom]]'' comic has the infamous "Rip and tear! Rip and tear your guts!", among other redundant lines that he used redundantly.
** You're '''[[Hot
* In an issue of ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
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'''Ultra Boy:''' I'm late. }}
* [[Frank Miller]] [[Signature Style|repeats himself with a lot of repetition. Repeatedly. Also, whores and prostitutes.]]
* The Oracle in the ''Azrael'' Annual #2 (a Legends of the Dead Earth [[Elseworld]]):
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* [[DC Comics]]. "DC" stands for Detective Comics, ergo their name is Detective Comics Comics.
** They also publish a series called ''Detective Comics''. Which means it's Detective Comics Comics' Detective Comics.
* This exchange from a "Webelos Woody" strip in ''Boys' Life''
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'''Waiter:''' Would you like toast with that?
'''Restaurant Patron:''' '''[[Lampshade Hanging|No!]]''' }}
* In the ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' arc "Bitch", a senile and completely clueless [[Ronald Reagan]] has been kidnapped by extra-terrestrial aliens from another planet and addresses the following people when reading the ransom note from the aliens who kidnapped a senile and completely clueless [[Ronald Reagan]] and are now holding him for ransom.
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* Superboy Prime: '''''I'll kill you! I'll kill you to DEATH!'''''
* [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Deathstroke the Terminator]]. Yes thank you, we gathered that you kill people from the first bit. Unless you're also responsible for laying off employees, "the Terminator" is not needed.
** The name actually came about by an error in his introductory issue, where he was referred to first as Deathstroke, then as the Terminator, so they decided to combine them.
* In the superhero comic series ''[[Runaways]]'', the titular heroes' secret headquarters is situated under The La Brea Tar Sands, which, as a guard pointed out, means "The The Tar Tar Sands."
* In the ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' book "The Oklahoma Run", Luke encounters a traveling salesman who can sell him fresh water, whisky, fruit, whisky, (insert a lot more here) and whisky.
* The title of ''[[The Dandy (
* The Kindle version of the third [[
* If anything remotely exciting is going on in ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', it's a near-certainty that the character/s involved will take it upon themselves to [[Self-Demonstrating Article|tell you what's happening by narrating it in real time as it happens]].
== Fan
* 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''
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* 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:
{{quote|''feeling slightly relieved somewhat.''
Paging the Department of Redundancy Department. }}
* In ''[[Light and Dark
** The "blood bananas made of blood".
** "I am Dark Yagami. You look sexyed. I am Dark Yagami."
* ''[[
** Specifically, their hair.
** There's also this example in Chapter 23:
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmdcfvA0e4#t=03m28s "And then the roses turned into a huge black flame floating in the middle of the air and it was black."]
** [[Hypocrite|Despite being a]] [[Yaoi Fangirl]], Tara insults flamers by calling them "gay fags".
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** There's also a line where she says this little gem: "Then all of a suddenly, an horrible man with red eyes and no nose and everything started flying towards me on a broomstick! He didn’t have a nose (like Voldemort in the movie) and he was wearing all black but it was obvious he wasn’t gothic. It was…… Voldemort!" Enoby might dethrone Captain Obvious.
** "We went in2 a blak room. The wallz were blak."
* Occurs fairly often in ''[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences]]'', as see in this quote:
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** There's also this [[Mind Screw|confusing]] 'sentence'...
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* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6680806/1/The_Big_Room_That_Is_Big The Big Room That Is Big]'' Makes up about 90% of the entire story. If the title itself weren't enough, it has quotes such as "And then Johnny woke up and it was the morning and Johnny is a morning person and he likes to wake up in the morning it is great, singing birds are singing!"
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JPEq0Qp4Q The Mother of All Trailers!]
* ''[[Forbiden Fruit:
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1012651/Nightfoot Nightfoot], [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4497752/47/Tales_of_Cosplayers in Chapter 47 of her story ''Tales of Cosplayers''] among others lets one of the protagonists sing "The song that never ends" to annoy her captor.
* At one point in ''[[
* While rescuing the eponymous [[Mary Sue]] during ''[[Legolas By Laura
* ''[[
* ''[[
* It's common for those in the ''[[
* In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7109340/1/The_Worst_That_Could_Happen The Worst That Could Happen]'', [[Glee|Kurt]] is very surprised to learn that Dave Karofsky likes cooking.
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* ''[[Hogwarts Exposed]]'' would probably be a third as long without all the redundancy. There are entire scenes that establish points of plot and characterisation that had already been established, exposition that tells the reader things they already know and sometimes things they'd already been told ''earlier in the same scene'', and several instances of characters [[Captain Obvious|"nodding yes" and "shaking their heads no"]]. Admittedly in some areas, nodding is a no and shaking is a yes, but these characters are [[We All Live in America|supposedly]] British.
* 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 ==
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** The inverse also happens. On a page for a show, a trope with multiple names may be listed twice. For example, ever since they started calling it Hilarious in Hindsight, it's often seen on a page that also has Reverse Funny Aneurysm.
* Some examples from [[Overly Long Gag]] also definitely qualify. And anything on [[Broken Record]] invokes this by default.
* Sometimes people [[Pothole]] a link to the page the link is on,
* [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 [
* 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.]]
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* Yahoo posted a collection of Comic-Con costumes. One picture had the stunning caption: "Comic-Con attendee Brianna Corral attends Comic-Con 2010 held at the San Diego Convention Center on July 22, 2010 in San Diego, California." Thank you Yahoo News.
* In ''[[The Website Is Down]]'', a woman named Nancy Johnson has married someone who is also called Johnson and asks IT to change her username to reflect her new name of Nancy Johnson-Johnson.
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* From [[The Other Wiki]]'s article on [[Pokey the Penguin]].
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== Newspaper Comics printed in the Comics section of Newspapers ==
* ''[[Garfield]]'', during an arc when he [https://web.archive.org/web/20110809074340/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1984/12/13/ gets lost and meets his mom] in the Italian restaurant where he was born: "It's all gone! Where's the pasta? The people? The pasta? The excitement? The pasta?"
** From an early Christmas strip: "I love Christmas. The parties and the presents, the caroling, the presents, the food, the presents, the decorations, the presents, the fun and the presents."
** Other strips have Jon repeating what he's [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1993/01/27/ already]{{Dead link}} [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1993/02/02/ said]{{Dead link}}.
** In ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', a [[Top Ten List]] of "Things Garfield hates to find on the dinner table.": 10. [[Does Not Like Spam|Raisins]] (...) 6.More raisins (...) 3.Lots more raisins 2.[[Cute Kitten|Nermal]] 1. [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|Nermal with raisins]]
* The Newspaper comic ''[[Cathy]]'' does this in spades. Often the sentences or entire speech balloons will be identical except for the operative noun, and possibly an adjective. This leads to what is, for a newspaper comic, [[Walls of Text|a lot of words]].
* Dilbert once asked Wally if he wanted to join his project, the TTP project. "What does TTP stand for?" "It stands for '''T'''he '''T'''TP '''P'''roject." Wally decided he'd rather be Dilbert's [[The Rival|arch nemesis]].
** There's a lot of jokes on how the bureaucratic monstrosity that is Dilbert's company is rife with literal redundant departments of redundancy. [http://dilbert.com/2011-04-27/ This comic sums it up nicely].
* One ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' strip had Rat write a list of "Top 5 things I can't stand". (The joke was that #1 on the list was ''Pearls'' itself) "Non-alcoholic beer" was both #3 and #2.
== Professional Wrestling by Professional Wrestlers Who Wrestle Professionally ==
* The [
* [[Chris Jericho]] proves to everyone that he's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_62-8LsVFE Man of 1004 Holds], by [[The Long List|listing]] all the holds he knows.
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''(much later)'' Hold #264: Armbaaarrr! }}
** Years later, he started [[The Long List|listing]] all the wrestlers he'd beaten, including a couple of different gimmicks used by the same guys.
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* And then there's the infamous Promo of Michael McGillicutty at the end of ''WWE NXT'' Season 2
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* "Uso", is the equivalent of "bro" or "sis" to two siblings of the same gender. Thus Rikishi's twin sons going by the "Uso Brothers" name in FCW is this. Upon calling them up to the main roster, WWE suddenly averted this trope by calling them simply "the Usos".
== Radio playing Radio Music and Radio News on the Radio ==
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* One episode of ''[[Bob Dylan]]'s Theme Time Radio Hour'' had him listing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease as "memory loss, confusion, disorientation, memory loss, societal withdrawal, memory loss, and memory loss".
* A series of short radio comedy skits called The Adventures of Manman and Boyboy had as a villain in episode 42: [http://stephenpray.com/manman/042_man_who_is_redundant_man.mp3 Man who is Redundant Man].
== Standup Comedy done by Comedians while Standing Up ==
This trope probably having originated with comedy means it's quite common among stand-up comedy.
* The trope is perhaps exemplified best by Shaun Majumder in his stint as the host of the ''Just For Laughs'' TV show, where he had a number of recurring segments, including Comedy Dojo. He was already inclined to repetition in a sort of [[Ice Cream Koan]] fashion in that recurring segment, and then he did one on the subject of repetition in comedy, where he demonstrated it using the classic "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side" joke.
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* Maria Bamford, as part of a routine on how she dislikes how complicated fancy restaurants make the act of eating, thinks that all that really matters is:
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* [[Brian Regan]]'s routine about mixing up the expressions "Take care" and "Good luck":
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== Tabletop Games played by Gamers on the Top of a Table ==
* ''[[GURPS]]'' Illuminati University actually has several Department of Redundancy Departments. (Because you need at least two for them to ''really'' be redundant!)
* Naturally, Alpha Complex in ''[[Paranoia]]'' actually ''has'' a Department of Redundancy Department.
** And many other variations on the theme. "Oh, this is the Complex Supply Bureau. You want the Bureau of Complex Supply."
* An actual RPG session incident, when the GM wanted to make a particular detail very clear to the player: A female soldier with a rifle, pointed at you. She's wearing a green-camo uniform, complete with a rifle, which is pointed at you. The rifle appears to be a high-caliber automatic, and is pointed at you. The soldier is guarding this position, and is pointing her rifle at you. From a cursory study, she appears to be
** It doesn't always work though. In one recorded instance, a ''[[Shadowrun]]'' party crawling through an oil pipeline was subtly warned four times about all the oil in the oil pipeline, but that didn't stop them from lighting their blowtorch. (One character survived the explosion but was knocked out and drowned in the harbor outside.)
* The ever-troperiffic ''[[Warhammer
** The chant of the chaos marines "Blood for the Blood God" and "Skulls for the Skull throne".
* In the fantasy world Glorantha (featured in, among other things, the RPG [[
* Due to some confusion when he first introduced himself, [[Ravenloft]]'s most infamous lich is referred to as "Azalin Rex" in official court documents of his domain of Darkon. Invokes this trope, as "Azalin" is actually a mangling of his old Oerth title of "Wizard-King", thus making him Darkon's "Wizard-King King".
== Theater with Actors played by people on a Stage in a Theater ==
* [[Older Than Steam]], thanks to this bit from [[Shakespeare]]'s ''The Merchant of Venice'':
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Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!
And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;
She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats. }}
** As a matter of fact, Shylock's whole speech pattern is like this, possibly to enforce the idea that he's nightmarishly persistent (count how many times he says some variant on "[[Madness Mantra|I'll have my bond, I will not hear thee speak]]"). Launcelot Gobbo uses the trope more comedically, ''especially'' in his opening monologue.
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** Portia gets a moment as well:
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To eke it and to draw it out in length... }}
*** [[Justified]] in that she's doing exactly what she says she's
** Shakespeare uses it again in one of [[Much Ado About Nothing|Dogberry]]'s speeches:
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moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,
they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust
things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
*** Don Pedro replies: "First I ask thee what have they done? Thirdly, what's their offence? Sixth and lastly, why they are committed? and to conclude, what you lay to their charge?" }}
** ''[[A Midsummer
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** ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'':
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** Don Armado, Holofernes, and Nathaniel from ''[[
* The Australian spoof of [[B-Movie]] sci-fi and horror films, ''Attack of the Attacking Attackers!''. At the end of the play they announce the [[Cliff Hanger|To Be Continued sequel]], ''Revenge of the Revenging Revengers!''
* From ''[[Wicked (
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There's a couple of things get...lost
There are bridges you cross
You didn't know you crossed
Until you've crossed. }}
* The Seattle-based ACT Theatre. A Contemporary Theatre Theatre.
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': This trope is combined with [[Rule of Three]]: The gratuitous repetition of a question or a gesture for three or more times are shown in the play:
** [[Played for Laughs]]: At Act I Montfleury tries to say his lines four times, Cyrano orders him to disappear when Cyrano clap his hands the third time, the bore asks Cyrano three times if he has a protector. Lampshaded by Cyrano when he does not answer a three time:
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** [[Played for Drama]]: At Act II, Cyrano asks three times
* [[Seussical|"...then you think, 'I'm a thinker, and I think thinks!'"]]
== Toys that you Play with using your Imagination ==
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* On the back of the packaging for Ratchet's toy from the ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' series, Ratchet is listed as "[http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfxckTC541r0k4bco1_400.jpg Autobot Ratchet (Autobot)]". This is quite common among a certain class of Transformer names, as those Transformer names cannot be trademarked by the maker of Transformers, Hasbro, so Hasbro adds the faction designation, in this case Autobot or Decepticon, to the name of that Transformer, so it is trademarkable. Examples include Autobot Jazz, Decepticon Brawl, and Autobot Ratchet. If any of those characters show up in ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', they will likely have packaging declaring "Autobot Jazz (Autobot)", "Decepticon Brawl (Decepticon)", or "Autobot Ratchet (Autobot)".
== Troping Tropes Of Trope Wikis ==
** [[Frank Miller]] [[Signature Style|loves repetition.]]
** [[Memetic Mutation|C-C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!]]
** [[Frank Miller]] [[Signature Style|really loves repetition.]] [[Memetic Mutation|And whores.]]
** ''[[
** [[
** [[Chzo Mythos|it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts]]
** [[Fate/stay
** [[Gratuitous Japanese|Kyon-kun, denwa!]]
** [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** [[Suzumiya Haruhi|We've entered an endless recursion of time.]]
** [[Say My Name|Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness...]]
**
*** [[The Princess Bride (
** [[Bill Nye the Science Guy|Inertia is a property of matter.]]
** [[Doctor Who
** [[Snakes
** [[CSI: Miami|Looks like it's repeatedly used...]]
*** '''''[[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]].
**
* The trope names for [[Tsurime Eyes]] and [[Tareme Eyes]] (the "me" in both means "eyes").
== Warning Labels That Provide Warnings on their Labels ==
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** Amusingly, peanuts aren't actually nuts, which puts an interesting spin on the traditional 'may contain nuts' warning.
* Because of regulations or lawsuit-related ass covering, in the US a lot of food products that obviously have a product in them (Peanut M&Ms have peanuts!)have this trope in action on their packaging. Like milk or cheese labeled "Contains Dairy product."
== Web Animation Moving Pictures Uploaded to the Internet ==
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** Thnikkaman's message on Marzipan's answering machine: "I was just calling up to see if you wanted to join my Thnikkaband. I got instruments, drums, cymbals, drums..."
** "Oh! I guess I forgort to port. Oh! I guess I forgrat to prat. Oh! '''GORKA FA PORK!!''"
** "Poopsmith, you smell like a Crapsmith!"
** Somewhat [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in Where U Goin' 2:
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'''Strong Mad: THAT'S REDUNDANT!''' }}
** The theme to the ''20X6'' anime:
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We're fighting the challenge tonight!
Everyone's fighting the challenge that's ought to be fighting! }}
* [http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/05/14/funny-pictures-of-redundancy-department/ This] lolcat pic references this trope.
* ''Cat Face'', he's got a big cat face. He's got the body of a cat, and the face of a cat. He flies through the air, cause he's got a cat face. Cat Face.
* The ''[[
** O'Malley: "You foolish fools will never defeat me! You're far too busy being foolish!"
* In the first episode of ''[[Web Site/Something Awful|Furious Famicom Faggot]]'', Furious plays [[Super Mario Bros
* In ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm_iv_lUh6Y Baby Cakes Diary #2]'', Babycakes describes how his father was scared of the moon when it "got all blue, and blue-lookin'."
* ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]''. "Candy Mountain! It's a land of sweets and joy... and joyness..."
* ''[[
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"Oh boy! What flavor?"
"PIE FLAVOR." }}
== Webcomics made and Uploaded to the Internet by Webcomic Artists ==
* [http://cdc.comicgenesis.com/d/20050408.html This] ''Life on Forbez'' strip reveals that the ruling alien race, the Omnis, are very redundant about the Stray Particle Detectors used to located stolen components of machinery they designed, which are inside said machinery. If the first is stolen, they use the second, and if that's stolen, they use the third, and so on. It's never revealed just how many there are, just that if one values one's sanity, they shouldn't ask.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901194130/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=16&issue=2 This] page from ''[[
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' tried to humorously make fun of how Dark the Shadowy parts of the Fel Dark are in [[Dungeons
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/25/ Then again,] They've done this unironically and in a way that isn't supposed to mock or make fun of any game or anything else in particular that they can make fun of.
* ''[[
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
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'''Fighter:''' And he's crazy, too! }}
** "'I like swords!', 'Welcome to Corneria!', 'I like swords!', 'Welcome to Corneria!', 'I like swords!'"
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** [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/08/17/interlude-01-the-fighter-does-not-liek-the-robot/ "Human Earth man from the earth! You will be the one who is killed!!!!!11 My blasting eye blasters will blast you!"]
** [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/09/18/episode-193-altered-perceptual-states/ "And then suddenly, and without any warning either..."]
* The [[Journal Comic]] ''Planet Karen'' once commented on the word "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120416230926/http://planetkaren.girl-wonder.org/index.php?strip_id=94 Pleonasm]".
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Meek]]'':
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'''Angora:''' [[Comically Missing the Point|You said "normal" twice!]] }}
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' subverted this. Paris has a gun that shoots ionized plasma. When pointed out that plasma is by definition ionized and therefore that statement is redundant, Paris tells her crew mate that it's not ''[[Squick|that]]'' kind of plasma.
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* [[Gai-Gin]] on novelty taiyaki: "It's cakes! Shaped like penises! Man penises!" Then again, Japan is known for the production of [[Futanari]] fiction ...
* ''Final Fantasy Sonic'' had Dr. Eggman talking this way whenever he appeared.
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'''Sonic:''' GO AWAY!
'''Eggman:''' You will be squashed! And I will smoosh you! And [[Prepare to Die|you will be dead!!]]
'''Sonic:''' SHUT UP!!! }}
* [[Problem Sleuth|If your IMAGINATION was a face, you would punch it. In the face.]]
* ''[[Sequential Art (
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* According to the ''[[Girl Genius]]'' wiki, [http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Transylvania_Polygnostic_University Transylvania Polygnostic University] actually has one of these.
* ''[[Something
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"Yes."
"With a baby?!"
"... That's the way it usually works." }}
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'':
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* Cloud from ''[[
== Web Original uploaded to the Internet and consisting of Original Content which can be found on the Web ==
* Anything that fits into the "[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-y-is-x-redundant-adjectives-are-redundant X Y is X]" meme (where X is an adjective and Y is a noun), like "[http://www.obsidianfields.com/lj/ObviousTroll.jpg Obvious troll is obvious]". Spawned from "[[LOLcats|Longcat]] is long."
* In [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee's]] review of ''[[Dead Space (
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** Also from a ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' review: "[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Clive Barker's]] ''[[
** [[The Stinger]] of his [[Splinter Cell|Splinter Cell: Conviction]] review:
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* 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!...]]"
* Gavin's list of enemies in the ''[[Kate Modern]]'' episode "Deal with the Devil" consists of the names "The Watcher, Patricia Neilson, Dave, Tariq, Lee, Kate" repeated three times over, followed by "TERRENCE" ten times.
* The
* The title character from ''[http://www.amazon.com/Redundant-Man-Who-Was-ebook/dp/B004T4WVPA The Redundant Man Who Was Redundant]'' is called Steven Stevenson II. He works in the Department Of Redundant Acronyms with his secretary, Dora.
** ''"Author’s Note: Funnily enough, I agonized forever over whether to call this story 'The Redundant Man' or 'The Man Who Was Redundant'…"''
* Done several times for comic effect in [
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** For added hilarity, [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/FRRpart5 this page of the] "[[In Name Only|rebuttal]]" apparently doesn't recognise the concept of "comic effect".
* The Evil League of Evil in ''[[Web Original/Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog|Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]''.
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** Also, in the song "The Art" from ''[[Commentary!
* [[Web Original/The Nostalgia Critic|The Nostalgia Critic]] gets this gem in his review of the animated Titanic movie:
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** You can be an Italian, and not currently be in Italy...
** There's also Santa Christ's song from the Star Wars Holiday Special review. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Makes it better.]]
* [[Web Original/The Cinema Snob|The Cinema Snob]] is a fan of this trope:
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'''Cinema Snob:''' I knew [[The Seventies]] were... seventies but I didn't realise they were ''that'' seventies.
'''Cinema Snob:''' I would rather date a bipolar manic depressive... again. }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjvsogIMj1A This] ''[[I'm a Marvel And
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'''Wolverine:''' You said "Murder" twice"
'''Deadpool:''' I like Murder }}
* Sir Ron Lionheart's [[Let's Play]] of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3FPKmIF4U&feature=rec-fresh+ div-r-6-HM Mega Man X, part 1:]
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* [[Raocow]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtehRUfzWc cat planet cat planet planet] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtR_iAC1y0 cat cat planet]" LP of [[Cat Planet]].
** 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://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]] ''[[
*
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:* In the movie:
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*
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'''Cornelia:''' [[Get On With It Already|JUST DO IT ALREADY!]] }}
* [http://theodoregray.com Theodore Gray] created a "Periodic table table", which collects samples of (almost) all known elements in the ''periodic'' table in slots in an ''actual'' table. It became so popular that he decided to sell printed posters of it and announced their availability on Usenet. Promptly, it was pointed out that if he ever repeated that announcement, he might become a ''periodic periodic table table poster poster''. (This ''isn't'' actually an example of redundancy...).
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* For some reason, several pages on this very wiki have links to themselves. Occasionally the ''very first words'' on a work's page.
** There's also an annoying tendency to have a phrase like "Of course, [[Your Mileage May Vary]]" added to the end of examples on pages devoted to YMMV examples.
* [[
* [[Web Original/The Nostalgia Chick|The Nostalgia Chick]] says "gets killed to death" in her review of ''[[Dragonheart]]''.
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall]] has a [[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]] comic with the line "Obediently, Torg obeys." Linkara comments that "[[Lampshade Hanging|Redundantly, the comic is redundant]]."
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_18586_the-7-most-impossible-rock-stars-to-deal-with.html
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* 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
* Happens a lot with [[The Irate Gamer]]. His quotes page has multiple examples.
* According to [
* [[
* In episodes 18 and 19 of ''[[Warning! Readers' Advisory]]'', Derek the Bard is stranded in "THE IN-BETWEEN PLACE! THE PLACE THAT IS IN-BETWEEN!" And it is always referred to with those two statements.
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical|A Very Potter Sequel]]'': "Everything I've ever read tells me those urban legends are just old wives' tales."
** The original has Draco's rant about "traversing the galaxy for intergalactic travels..."
* Go search "recursion" on Google. Right now. This very moment.
* In a LP collaboration of [[
* In this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVWiHEDe4M&t=3m8s Poundland Special] by [[Ashens]] he reviews a hat with a label that reads "Outdoor Hat."
* The Cocaine Energy Drink website posted a message from the FDA that explained to them, in great detail, why their product is not a dietary supplement or an alternative to the illicit drug. It included the sentence "As explained in greater detail below, dietary supplements are products that e ''(sic)'' intended to supplement the diet."
* From [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s "Nintendo World Championships" Review:
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* [[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:
{{quote|I'm your judge, executioner, jury, executioner, jailer, and if necessary your executioner.}}
** He loves that part of the job.
* 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!"
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'':
** [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] once bought two pet crocodiles, each named Susan. He named them after each other.
** Professor Kevin Destructicon, to whom Doofenshmirtz was once an apprentice, 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".
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'''Isabella''': Did you just say "Old Abandoned Old Abandoned"?
'''Hippy''': Yes, the Old Abandoned Old Abandoned Amusement Park.
'''Isabella''': Old Abandoned ''twice''?
'''Hippy''': Yes.
'''Isabella''': ....alright. }}
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* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls
** [[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):
{{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".
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