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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Why is everyone speaking like her now, zam?"''
|'''Rozalin''', ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]''}}
Sometimes one character's [[Verbal Tic]] or character trait ([[Rhymes on a Dime|rhyming habit]], etc.) can go viral. (This is how
'''Got Me Doing It''' refers to effects on other characters in the work in question. Some readers/viewers may find certain speech mannerisms infectious enough to pop up in their [[Real Life]] mouths; this effect is much more [[Ear Worm]] country. Of course, if your latest bout of [[Stephen King]] reading has resulted in you saying ''thankee-sai'' to the teller at the bank or the checkout girl, please consider what the Universe may be trying to tell you.
When a speech pattern makes the leap from a work to its fandom, it will probably become a [[Fandom Tic]].
{{See also|Borrowed Catchphrase}}▼
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* In one episode of the original ''[[Di Gi Charat]]'' anime, [[Upper Class Wit|Takurou Kimura]] goes to Gamers to investigate the rumors of language being corrupted, and is sent into despair by all the various [[Verbal Tic]]s being used by Dejiko, Gema, and Puchiko, especially hearing the customers in the store using them, too.
* In ''[[Rave Master]]'' even ''Seig'' catches onto Ruby's poyo, poyo.
* Episode 46 of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' has Deramon, who's de aru is so infectious it has the cast repeating it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaT8YdRsuEo within a minute.]
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* In an issue of ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'', [[Crazy Awesome|Impulse]] adopts the extreme Brooklyn accent of Doiby Dickles, sidekick of the golden age [[Green Lantern]]. It drives Superboy insane, but Bart doesn't even realize he's doing it.
** Speaking of Superboy, he has an encounter with a Bizarro clone of himself in his Year One annual who speaks in a form of the Bizarro language. During their tussle, Superboy ends up saying, "me am not invulnerable to fire!"
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'''Mr.Weatherbee''': There's no way of telling, once it's begun.
'''Ms.Grundy''': It's all my fault, I taught Jughead that rhyming was fun! }}
* A [[Looney Tunes]] comic book had [[Bugs Bunny]] accidentally copy [[Daffy Duck]]'s [[Speech Impediment]] after hanging out with him: "Now ''I'
== [[Fan
** During Yugi and Joey's duel with the Paradox Brothers:
{{quote|'''Bakura:''' Everyone seems to have gone all rhymey!▼
'''Tristan:''' Shut the hell up you stupid limey! }}▼
* By the third ''[[Back to The Future]]'' movie, Marty and Doc have spent enough time together that they say ''[[Borrowed Catchphrase|each other's]]'' [[Catch Phrase]]s:
{{quote|'''Marty''': Great Scott!
'''Doc''': I know, this is heavy. }}
* At a rally in ''[[An American Tail]]'', the crowd all shouts out "fweedom!", in imitation of [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome|Ms. Mouseheimer's accent]].
* In-story in ''[[Undercover Brother]]'' where white supremacist [[The Dragon|Mr.Feather]] just couldn't keep himself from giving in to black culture.
* In 2006 [[The Remake]] of ''[[The Pink Panther]]'', at one point, Chief Inspector Dreyfus unintentionally mimics Inspector Clouseau's French accent. He quickly catches himself, and starts his sentence over, visibly frustrated and annoyed.
* In the live
* In ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' short "Hoi Polloi", a rich guy subscribes to the theory that environment and not heredity dictates social behavior, and bets another rich guy $10,000 that he can train three common folk into acting like refined gentlemen. Unfortunately, his test subjects are the Stooges, and at the formal gathering where he is to present the results of his experiment, it backfires completely. Not only do the Stooges act as they always do, but at the end of the short, all the ''other'' guests are acting like ''them''. Moe says it best when he says it serves them right for "associating with [[Title Drop| the hoi polloi]]".
== Literature ==▼
* There's no better way to describe the impact of Caalador's bad fake accent on the main characters in ''[[The Tamuli]]''. It seems that Sparhawk is one of the few who's immune - even [[Lady of War|Mirtai]] begins a-doin' it.
** This happens to a lesser extent in ''[[The Malloreon]]'' with an old prospector (and the same country hick accent).
* In Herman Melville's ''[[Bartleby The Scrivener]]'', Bartleby's "I would prefer not to" causes the other clerks in the office to start using the word "prefer" unconsciously.
* A number of characters in the ''[[Discworld]]'' series start to emulate the [[The Igor|Igors']] characteristic lithp after talking to them thuffithiently.
* ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' might have you slipping out "thankee-sai" or "tell ya true" after you've put the book down.
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* In ''[[Jeeves and Wooster]]'', Bertie notes that spending time with Jeeves may result in [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. His various [[Verbal Tic]]s are equally catching:
{{quote|'''Bertie:''' Jeeves, you're talking rot.
'''Jeeves:''' [[Catch Phrase|Very good, sir]].
'''Bertie:''' Absolute drivel.
'''Jeeves:''' Very good, sir.
'''Bertie:''' Pure mashed potatoes.
'''Jeeves:''' Very good, sir.
'''Bertie:''' Very good, sir--I mean very good Jeeves, that will be all. }}
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Hollow Pursuits". Crewman Barclay is given the nickname "Broccoli" and many in the crew start using it. Captain Picard finds out and orders that the crew stop using the phrase, as it's insulting and unFederationlike. Later on Picard [[Freudian Slip|unthinkingly]] calls Barclay "Broccoli" to his face and is extremely embarrassed when he realizes what he's done. He doesn't say this trope's catch phrase, but it's clear he's thinking it.
* Used for a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] in ''[[Kings]]''. [[Lampshading]] a whole season of dialogue more fit for the stage than the small screen, William declares that everyone has "suffered enough peacock speeches". After laying down the law, he warns Rose, "Neither you, nor he, nor any vagrant opinion will interrupt what--now you've got me doing it!"
* A minor plot point in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' involved Lily adopting a rather unimpressive English accent, apparently after watching all the James Bond films in one weekend.
* [[Shaun Micallef]] on ''[[Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-seaeBZBmA accidentally slipped into] a speech pattern more characteristic of the [[What the Hell Is That Accent?|bizarrely-accented]] Josh Thomas on at least one occasion.
* During a [[Talking
{{quote|'''Jan:''' Why is this so hard? ...
* The ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' episode "Stage Fright" had Raquel singing a duet of "Crying" with Tony Angelino The Singing Dustman ... who turned out to have [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]].
{{quote|'''Tony''': You weave me cwying,
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'''Tony''': Cwying,
'''Raquel''': Cwy - Crying, }}
* I challenge anyone who has been watching ''[[Firefly]]'' or ''[[Serenity]]'' not to start using their slang, especially "shiny" and "gorram".
* Similar to the above, if you watch enough ''[[Farscape]]'' you'll find "frell", "dren", "hezmana", "microt", etc. popping up in your speech.
* In the ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode "Play It Again, Seymour", Sam leaps into a private detective in the 1950s and is caught up in a [[Film Noir]]-style narrative with a pulp-novel-reading kid who uses all kinds of ridiculous hardboiled slang. About halfway through, Sam catches himself using the same kind of slang in his narration. ([[Fridge Logic|His past-tense narration]]...)
* ''[[Seinfeld
** In an earlier episode, the main characters meet Elaine's macho, controlling father. George has the "Keeper of the Tavern" song from ''[[Les
* In an episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Sheldon finds new friends when he wants to be the center of the group. Barry Kripke is one of them.
{{quote|'''[[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome|Kripke]]''': I'm Bawwy Kwipke and I'm here because you told me there was gonna be a whaffle. When is the whaffle?
'''Sheldon''': Patience, patience, Barry. The whaffle- *ahem* The raffle is the grand finale to an evening-long festival of fun and folly. }}
* In earlier episodes of ''[[The Nanny]]'', Fran would regularly [[Yiddish as a Second Language|pepper her speech with Yiddish]], while the rest of the cast didn't know a word of Yiddish and would have to ask for an explanation. Several seasons later, the entire Sheffield family had caught the habit.
* In ''[[Lost]]'', Desmond's been called "Brother" at least once. Also, at Comic-Con 2009, Michael Emerson called Jorge Garcia "dude".
* In an early episode of ''[[Corner Gas]]'' Lacey complains about the others habit of spitting on the floor when the neighboring town of Woolerton is mentioned. By the end of the scene, she's doing it and realises she's become one of them.
* On an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'', Col. Potter was arguing with a Korean who was insisting in pidgin English that the unit would have to move to get out of the way of a North Korean advance. Finally, Potter found himself saying "We no move! We no move!" before stopping himself, saying, "Now I'm talking like you."
* An old ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch has [[Christopher Lee]] as Henry Higgins attempting to cure the [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome|speech impediment]] of Gilda Radner's Baba Wawa. It not only doesn't take, but he develops the impediment himself.
** Happens in the sketch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtJRJVdUFx4 "Paint"].
* In ''[[Sliders]],'' there's a dimension that resembles the [[Wild West]]... again. One by one the cast starts to let stereotypical cowboy-speak enter their vocabulary, occasionally saying "sorry, it's catching." Finally, the villain of the episode, someone they'd met before on another world, announces to them, ''"You guys are making me ornerier than a one-legged man at a butt kicking contest!"'' The Sliders look at him, and he sheepishly says, "
* Pops up [[Buffy-Speak|occasionally]] in ''[[Buffy]]'' and ''[[Angel]]''.
** When Buffy fills the new principal in on how Sunnydale High works...
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* In one episode of ''[[The A-Team]]'' B.A. and Murdock are stuck together for most of the episode, with Murdock constantly rhyming his sentences. By the end of it, B.A. started unconsciously doing it as well.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode, "Midnight", {{spoiler|an evil invisible alien paralyzes the Doctor, possesses a woman and starts imitating his speaking patterns.}}
* There was an episode of ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' where Norton was helping Ralph and Alice rehearse lines from a play; Norton kept messing up, and eventually pronounces "poloponies" as "polop-onies". Of course, Ralph gets angry and kicks him out; then he and Alice start again, only for Ralph to mispronounce it too, and get angry again because "now he's got me doing it!"
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
* One ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoon did this, with Elmer Fudd being fired from a screwdriver company:
{{quote|You're an excellent worker, Mr. Fudd, but there is a problem. You've been having a subliminal effect on the staff here. You know no one else makes a finer [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome|skwoo dwivuh]]... dang! now you have me doing it!}}
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* Happens frequently in ''[[The Navy Lark]]'' with Captain Ignatius Aloysius Atchinson whose chronic hayfever meant he was unable to speak a work without sheezing, if he appeared then soon the entire cast would be at it. Several of the other character traits would prove contagious over the course of the series whenever it was [[Rule of Funny|funny to do so]].
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* According to Robert Llewellyn's account of playing Kryten in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', during season 4, Craig Charles ended every sentence with "la". By season 5 everyone was doing it, but Charles had stopped. "Obviously, saying 'la' had become passe".▼
** Interestingly, ''lah'' is appended to a sentence in Singaporean English for emphasis or reassurance.▼
* Accoring to Don Adams, this would happen to guest stars who were on the show ''Get Smart.'' Don Adams voice proved very infectious.▼
* Ahem.... ''[[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]]!!!!!'' That is all.▼
▲== Theatre ==
* The classic Swedish sketch ''Guben i låddan'': Two travelers, played by Hasse Alfredson and Martin Ljung share a sleeping compartment on a train. Ljung asks Alfredson to read him a bedtime story; then, after they agree that Ljung should read it aloud instead, keeps mispronouncing the words. Alfredson eventually storms out after a furious, mispronounced rant (''"Herr Larsson, ni är inte riktigt klokk i skalen!"'') and it turns out to be a [[Batman Gambit]] on Ljung's part - he wanted the compartment to himself.
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* In ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' Yukimaru's "Zam" catches unto a lot of characters.
** The Prinny in town even says "Of course we can talk, zam, dood." using both tics at once.
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* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Shadow Dragon'', Athena's recruitment conversation goes something like [[Hilarity Ensues|this]]:
{{quote|'''Athena:''' Vell, vell... You must be the help.
[[Royal We|Ve]] vish to fight with you.
'''Marth:''' Ah, splendid. How many of you?
Gather your men, and we'll be on our way at once.
'''Athena:''' Men? Ve are a voman. Vun voman!
Are you blind, stupid manchild?
'''Marth:''' Vat? ...Ahem, what?
Oh. Right, pardon me.
I, uh, I am Marth, prince of Altea. }}
I heard pirates took the village children, so I brought my army straightaway.
{{quote|'''Athena:''' ...If you say so. Ve are called Athena.
The vee vuns have been visked a[[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|w]]ay to a castle south of here. Come.
Ve have a fair bit of skill vith a sword; hopefully the same can be said of you, Marth of Altea. }}
* It's literally a curse the natives can cast in [[Fossil Fighters]], where their verbal tic can be imposed on anybody Diga-dumb enough to trespass on their lands.
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* In ''[[The Bard's Tale]]'', upon killing Fnarf (a [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|Kunal Trow]] [[Strange Syntax Speaker|with a penchant for]] [[Alliteration|speaking with alliteration]]), the eponymous Bard starts speaking like him for a bit.
{{quote|'''The Bard:''' I've had just about enough of these atrocious alliterative announcements... Now I'm doing it!}}
* Happens to Strong Bad [[Rule of Three|
** Take One:
{{quote|'''Strong Bad:''' Oh, how did those get there? I thought sure I returned those pwiceless... (background laughter)... pwiceless? Geez!
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* [[The Smart Guy|Dex]] of ''[[Saints Row]]'' constantly has to correct his fellow gang members when they say "The Los Carnales"([[Don't Explain the Joke|"Los" is Spanish for "The" so they're basically saying "The the Carnales".]]) During a later Carnales mission, he starts saying it too.
{{quote|'''Dex:''' So what are we gonna do about The Los Carnales? ...Damn it, now you got me saying it.}}
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', during one conversation with Misha on Shizune's route, Hisao unwittingly starts calling Shizune "Shicchan" like Misha does.
== Web Comics ==▼
* In one of the ''[[Girl Genius]]'' [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070924 side comics], Krosp finds himself unconsciously supplementing Othar's [[Insistent Terminology]]:
{{quote|'''Villager:''' You know we sent for the great Othar Tryggvassen?
'''Krosp:''' [[Gentleman Adventurer|Gentleman adven-]]
** Also something of a property of Sparks in general. When a Spark gets into the madness place, they have a tendency to [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder|drag other people along with their fervor]], with people who are particularly conditioned to it becoming permanent [[The Igor|Minions]]. Whether this is merely psychological, a result of [[Compelling Voice]], or something deeper is ambiguous.
* Several times in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', characters start speaking with Durkon's accent, only to catch and correct themselves.
* ''[[Life and Death]]'': It seems that anyone who spends any time with
* In ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', anyone and everyone who spends time around the Deegans will end up making lots of ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun]]''s. Also, Spark's alliterration habit seems to be contagious as well.
* The ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' fan community has a habit of talking like the comic's characters, even when the topic is something else entirely. This has carried over to some other comic communities as well, since the official forum is shared with several fandoms.
* Some protagonists of ''[[Homestuck]]'' began catching each other's speech patterns after prolonged chatting with each other - for example, John is fond of repeating letters eight times (just like Vriska does), while Jade is beginning to swear like a sailor after several conversations with [[Hair-Trigger Temper|Karkat]] - which may be symbolic of a deeper relationship between them.
** Over the course of the Troll's session, all of them began copying each other's animal themed puns as a sort of inside joke among each other.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
== Web Original ==▼
* A ''[[Star Wars]]'' fan video "Sith Apprentice" had Darth Maul saying his one line over and over again. Everyone was complaining, especially Vader. When it came time for the talent competition, Vader was bragging he would show them all. "At last I will have--great! Now he's got ''me'' doing it!"
▲* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'', with the Paradox Brothers.
▲{{quote|Bakura: Everyone seems to have gone all rhymey!
▲Tristan: Shut the hell up you stupid limey! }}
▲** Joey deliberately invokes this later by imitating Bandit Keith's [[Verbal Tic]] "In America" specifically to drive Bandit Keith insane enough to throw the match.
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* Happened on occasion in the
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' had [[Monster of the Week]] Invisibo's theme song stuck in his head.
{{quote|'''Freakazoid:''' Where did he go, that Invisibo? ''[face plant on table]'' [[Ear Worm|Now I've got that song stuck in my head!]]}}
* In the ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man|Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' episode "Destructive Testing", Spidey finds himself adopting Kraven's [[Third Person Person|speech patterns]], much to his annoyance.
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{{quote|"The Funnie Five was the simplest kite there, but it's the one that did best in the air. Ah! Now he's got ''me'' doing it!"}}
* ''[[Superfriends]]'' 1973/74 episode "The Balloon People". Dr. Noah Tall's assistant Twisty has been using [[Spoonerism]]s throughout the episode, and by the end Dr. Tall is using them too.
* In the feature length animated film of ''[[Wonder Woman]]'', she and the Amazons find fighter pilot, Steve Trevor, wandering around the island after his plane is shot down and interrogate him with the lasso of truth. He's forced to reveal many embarrassing truths including the meaning behind the expletive "crap" which disgusts the warrior women. After a prolonged period of unintentional bonding while stopping the god of war, Ares, Wonder Woman utters the word herself when she's about to be smushed by the empowered god. Wonder Woman: "[[Oh Crap]]..."
* In the Disney ''[[Hercules (
* During the ''[[My Little Pony:
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'':
** In the cartoon "My Favorite Duck", [[Porky Pig]] is on a camping trip near a pond, and [[Daffy Duck]] annoys him with [[Screwy Squirrel|his usual antics]] while singing "Blues in the Night". After several gags, Porky is shown absent-mindedly singing the song, only to realize what he's doing and throw an angry glare at the [[Fourth Wall]].
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* Happens to Ariel in the tv series of [[The Little Mermaid]] where she tries to convince a magical rhyming fish to break themselves out of a prison where they were forced to mine bubbles by two other antagonistic rhyming fish. She ends up making an unintentional rhyme trying to bring the fish's spirits up and catches herself in the act.
* Done in ''[[Tuff Puppy]]'', when Kitty suddenly mimics Dudley's habit of saying "Or should I say, CHAMELEON?!"
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* According to Robert Llewellyn's account of playing Kryten in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', during season 4, Craig Charles ended every sentence with "la". By season 5 everyone was doing it, but Charles had stopped. "Obviously, saying 'la' had become passe".
▲** Interestingly, ''lah'' is appended to a sentence in Singaporean English for emphasis or reassurance.
▲*
▲* Ahem.... ''[[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]]!!!!!'' That is all.
* "[https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-makes-us-subconsciously-mimic-the-accents-of-others-in-conversation?utm_source=pocket-newtab What Makes Us Subconsciously Mimic the Accents of Others in Conversation]" by Lacey Wade describes a phenomenon that linguists call "linguistic convergence" in which people mirror each others' pronunciation, grammar, or word choice quirks.
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