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[[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.

== Anime and Manga ==

{{quote| Bakura: Everyone seems to have gone all rhymey!<br />

Tristan: Shut the hell up you stupid limey! }}

== Comic Books ==

** 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!"

* Done to a quasi-supernatural extent in an old issue of ''[[Archie Comics|Jughead]]'' comics. Just for the heck of it, Jughead would respond to everything the people around him say in rhymes. It would immediately catch on, and before the end of the school-day everybody in Riverdale High cannot help but respond to each other in rhymes, eventually driving themselves crazy. This will only stop if Jughead gets hit on the head.

* 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.

== Literature ==

== Live Action TV ==

* 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.

'''Tony''': Cwying,<br />

'''Raquel''': Cwy - Crying, }}

* 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|George is gettin' upset!]]

{{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? <br />

'''Sheldon''': Patience, patience, Barry. The whaffle- *ahem* The raffle is the grand finale to an evening-long festival of fun and folly. }}

* 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.

* 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, "sorry. It's catching."

** When Buffy fills the new principal in on how Sunnydale High works...

{{quote| '''Buffy:''' It's like all the hellmouth's energy is trying to escape in that one little spot, and it's getting all...<br />

** ...and when Angel has to spend an entire meeting with [[Ascended Fanboy|Andrew]].

{{quote| '''Angel:''' She's a slayer. She has every reason to hate us, and she's unstable. In her mind, there probably aren't any good vampyres. ([[Beat]]) ''Vampires.''}}

== Real Life ==

** 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.

== Theatre ==

== Video Games ==

** The Prinny in town even says "Of course we can talk, zam, dood." using both tics at once.

** Note that this is the samurai [[Keigo]] speech, most notably [[Honorifics|"de gozaru",]] in the original Japanese. It's still just as contagious.

* In the ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' games, all the non-player villagers have their own unique verbal tic. From time to time, one animal's tic will be copied by other villagers; it's possible to get whole towns adding a "zip zoom" or suchlike to the ends of sentences.

* One of the [[Apocalyptic Log|tapes left behind]] by Dr. Alistair Grout from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' is an observation on the Camarilla by a recently introduced outsider (him), noting "the dressing of language used by the vampires"; namely their usage of overly dramatic and floral speech mannerisms being such a pervasive theme in this "society of darkest night... Damn it all, now I'm doing it too..."

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' You say you're nasty pirates,<br />

Scheming, thieving, bad bushwhackers?<br />

* In ''[[The Bards Tale]]'', upon killing Fnarf (a [[Our Goblins Are Different|Kunal Trow]] [[Strange Syntax Speaker|with a penchant for]] [[Added Alliterative Appeal|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!}}

** Take One:

{{quote| '''Strong Bad:''' Oh, how did those get there? I thought sure I returned those pwiceless... (background laughter)... pwiceless? Geez!<br />

'''Krosp:''' [[Gentleman Adventurer|Gentleman adven-]] WHAT AM I DOING!? }}

** 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.

* 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.

** 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 (Webcomic)|"Hu's a jerk."]] [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/09/02/episode-738-completely-original/ "BLACK MAGE!"]

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[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!]]}}

{{quote| '''Spike''' "Now he's got me doin' it! *hic* I'll moider that *hic* cat!"}}

{{quote| '''Prof. Farnsworth''' "I can't believe the Devil is so unforgiving!"<br />

'''Zoidberg''' "I can't believe everybody's just ad-libbing!" }}

* In the ''[[Doug]]'' episode "Doug Flies a Kite", Doug's father constantly rhymed throughout the episode about kite philosophy. In the last line of the episode, Doug said:

{{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!"}}

* 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]]..."

* ''[[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]].

** In the '70s TV special "[[Bugs Bunny]] in King Arthur's Court", Bugs hangs out with Porky for a while and soon finds himself [[Porky Pig Pronunciation|stammering over a word]]. ''Porky'' has to tell him how to pronounce it.

* 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?!"