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* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'', with the Paradox Brothers.

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.

** 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.

'''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'M lisping!"

 

* 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|Catch Phrases]]:

'''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]].

* There's no doubt the you'll be ''at least'' internally saying things like 'icy' or 'bubbly-making' after reading ''[[Uglies]]''.

* In ''[[Jeeves and Wooster]]'', Bertie notes that spending time with Jeeves may result in [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. His various [[Verbal Tic|Verbal Tics]] are equally catching:

'''Jeeves:''' [[Catch Phrase|Very good, sir]].<br />

'''Bertie:''' Absolute drivel.<br />

* [[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 Head]] segment of the US version of [[The Office]], we get this gem when Jan Levinson wants to out her relationship with Michael:

* 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]].

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

* I challenge anyone who has been watching ''[[Firefly]]'' or ''Serenity'' not to start using their slang, especially "shiny" and "gorram".

** In an earlier episode, the main characters meet Elaine's macho, controlling father. George has the "Keeper of the Tavern" song from ''Les Miserables'' in his head, and periodically starts singing it. At the end of the episode, Elaine's father starts singing it to himself.

* 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.

'''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.

* Pops up [[Buffy-Speak|occasionally]] in ''[[Buffy]]'' and ''[[Angel]]''.

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

'''Buffy:''' Careful. You're starting to speak like me now. }}

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

* 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.}}

 

* One ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoon did this, with Elmer Fudd being fired from a screwdriver company:

 

== Radio ==

** In short, if someone has a [[Verbal Tic]], it won't be long until it's copied by someone else.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' has this from Sabin, shortly after he's met Cyan:

** Later [[Lampshaded]] by Gau (who apparently came to the conclusion that because Cyan used "Thou" to refer to Sabin, ''that must mean Sabin's name is "Thou"''):

'''Sabin''': Mr. Thou's ''that'' one, over there! }}

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' in Japanese features Reno's [[Verbal Tic]] "zo, to". In ''[[Advent Children]]'', Tifa recognizes Reno's voice on the phone and imitates his tic in response. (Only in the original, though.)

* 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..."

* In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' Guybrush has to put up with an exasperating bunch of singing and rhyming pirates in his crew. Towards the end of the song, he himself (much to his own horror), lauches into:

You're not pirates, you're just slackers! }}

* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Shadow Dragon'', Athena's recruitment conversation goes something like [[Hilarity Ensues|this]]:

[[Royal We|Ve]] vish to fight with you.<br />

'''Marth:''' Ah, splendid. How many of you?<br />

I, uh, I am Marth, prince of Altea. }}

I heard pirates took the village children, so I brought my army straightaway.

The vee vuns have been visked a[[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|w]]ay to a castle south of here. Come.<br />

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 [[Got Me Doing It|Diga-dumb]] enough to trespass on their lands.

* In ''[[The Bard's 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.

* Happens to Strong Bad [[Rule of Three|THREE TIMES]] in the "Outtakes" for Dangeresque 3 in episode 4 of ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', when he accidentally picks up Homestar's speech impediment.

** Take One:

'''Homestar:''' Now I've got HIM doing it! }}

* [[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.

* In [[Katawa Shoujo]], during one conversation with Misha on Shizune's route, Hisao unwittingly starts calling Shizune "Shicchan" like Misha does.

 

 

* 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]]:

'''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.

* Happened on occasion in the old "Gary Coleman" [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]], concerning the character Haggle; any time another character would start [[Rhymes on a Dime|speaking in rhyme]] like he did, they would invoke this trope.

* ''[[Freakazoid]]'' had [[Monster of the Week]] Invisibo's theme song stuck in his 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.

* In the classic ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon "Hic-cup Pup", it's established that whenever Spike's little son Tyke is forcefully awakened from a nap, he gets the hiccups. Naturally, Tom wakes Tyke up several times, attracting Spike's ire. Near the end, Spike is trying to cure his son's hiccups, only to start hiccuping himself.

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' season 4 finale had everyone join in on Fry's opera.

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

* A funny gag in many [[Hanna-Barbera]] cartoons is that a character would work undercover and talk in [[Spy Speak]], much to the annoyance of the person they're talking to. Pretty soon, that other person is talking in spy lingo, too!

* 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:

* ''[[Superfriends]]'' 1973/74 episode "The Balloon People". Dr. Noah Tall's assistant Twisty has been using [[Spoonerism|Spoonerisms]] 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]]..."