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{{quote| '''Wayne''': Hey, where'd you learn to speak English?<br />
{{quote| '''Wayne''': Hey, where'd you learn to speak English?<br />
'''Cassandra''': College... and the ''[[Police Academy]]'' movies. }}
'''Cassandra''': College... and the ''[[Police Academy]]'' movies. }}
* [[ET the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]] learned some basic words (y'know:"phone" and "home") from ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' in a fairly [[Justified Trope|well justified way]]: the show had basic words sounded out next to a picture of what it was talking about. It is a show directed at preschoolers, after all.
* [[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]] learned some basic words (y'know:"phone" and "home") from ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' in a fairly [[Justified Trope|well justified way]]: the show had basic words sounded out next to a picture of what it was talking about. It is a show directed at preschoolers, after all.
* In the live action ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]'' film, Optimus Prime tells Sam and Mikaela that they learned English from the Internet, with the exception of Bumblebee, who uses the radio to speak Junkion-style (and one of the soundbites he plays is the alien from ''[[Explorers (Film)|Explorers]]'').
* In the live action ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]'' film, Optimus Prime tells Sam and Mikaela that they learned English from the Internet, with the exception of Bumblebee, who uses the radio to speak Junkion-style (and one of the soundbites he plays is the alien from ''[[Explorers (Film)|Explorers]]'').


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