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{{quote|'''Don Pedro:''' Officers, what offence have these men done?
'''Dogberry:''' Marry, sir, [[Shaped Like Itself|they have committed false report; 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.]]|''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' V.i}}
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== Film ==
* ''[[Home Alone]]'':
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'''Buzz McCallister:''' No, for three reasons: A, I'm not that lucky. Two, we use smoke detectors and D, we live on the most boring street in the whole United States of America, where [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here|nothing even remotely dangerous will ever happen]]. Period. }}
* Col. Chamberlain in ''[[Gettysburg]]'', not so much for comedic effect, as it is also an effective [[Rousing Speech]], but to hammer home just how awkward and out of place he is.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]'', Skulduggery insists he used to be a great speaker, but the only speeches we ever hear from him either fail, or fail [[Epic Fail|epically]].
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* [[Benedict Cumberbatch]]'s introduction to the Tie-in Edition of ''[[Sherlock]]'''s ''[http://deareje.tumblr.com/post/19734459414/introduction-to-the-tie-in-edition-of-sherlock-the Hound of the Baskervilles]''
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* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Tenth Doctor does this periodically:
** In "Human Nature":
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*** Even better is the extended version when David Tennant just babbles on, managing to stay completely in character...even though he starts talking about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1x2TmIq8s&NR=1 pears.]
** In "Voyage of the Damned":
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** "Blink" gets it down to basics:
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* One of the central jokes in the Spanish Inquisition sketch on ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'':
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* Lilly on ''[[Hannah Montana]]'':
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* ''[[Sports Night]]'' played with this trope:
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'''Dana:''' Let me answer that question in four parts, with the fourth part first and the third part last. The second part has five subjects --
'''Casey:''' All right, all right. }}
* The ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Letters from Pegasus" has various characters' funny, tear-jerking and heartwarming letters intercut with Rodney McKay sleep-deprived and babbling about who knows what. Every few sentences he'll stop and tell Ford (who was editing the videos they were sending home) to cut whatever he'd just said and start over. {{spoiler|In the very end, he remembers his sister and gets his act together long enough to send a really touching message to her.}}
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* In ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'':
** During a playing of the Millionaire Show game, Greg Proops accidentally messes up when giving out the multiple choice answers:
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** Another playing of the same game has Colin listing the choices under A, C, C and D. Ryan does not let this go without comment.
* Ricky in the [[Trailer Park Boys]] episode ''Take Your Little Gun and Get Out of My Trailer Park'' gives this quick breakdown of the situation to the documentary crew:
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== Theater ==
* In [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'', Act V Scene 1, Dogberry has an extremely convoluted version of this, crossed with [[Shaped Like Itself]]:
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* In ''[[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged|The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)]]'', one of the players literally gets his outline (in this case, [[Cue Card|speech card]]s) disorganized. He starts off giving historical information about a play... and ends up giving the life story of [[Adolf Hitler]].
* Sganarelle has trouble presenting a persuasive argument several times over the course of Moliere's ''Don Juan''. One of his longer speeches comes near the end, when Don Juan has finally [[Last Straw|crossed the line]] and Sganarelle is desperate to convince him to repent (this is paraphrased from memory):
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''Don Juan looks on amusedly.''
'''Sganarelle:''' If you don't repent after all that, I don't know what I can say to convince you. }}
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== Web Original ==
* Necro Critic states three things that could've been done to fix Spider-Man 3 (paraphrased)
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B: Stop focusing on Uncle Ben.
Finally: Save Venom for the sequel. }}
:: In fact he's been doing the "1, B,..." thing in a lot of his videos.
* Spencer in the ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' episode "What Up Blogosphere!":
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== Western Animation ==
* Shows up once or twice in ''[[Cow and Chicken]]''.
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* In [[The Spectacular Spider]]-Man, [[Jerkass|Flash Thompson]] does the usual A-then-2 speech to Peter Parker when convincing him to help him get a girl to notice him.
* [[Trope Overdosed|Epic]] ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' example:
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** Note that Sokka is meant to be outlining a specific battle plan, but resorts to 'explaining from the beginning', literally, when he gets confused. His dad then 'clarifies' the plan.
** And by "explaining from the beginning", we mean he gave a (pretty succinct) recap of the first six episodes, with all signs pointing to him reciting all 49 if he hadn't been interrupted.
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