One-Liner, Name. One-Liner.

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Have you ever noticed how sometimes, a character emphasises a dramatic line by ending it with the addressee's name, and repeating the line?

I sure have, Tropey the Wonder Dog. I suuure have.

Often used as a dramatic bookend before the credits or commercial break, or a cliffhanger ending. A variant common enough to get its own trope is "I don't know, Billy... I just don't know."

Not to be confused with One-Liner Echo, where a different character repeats the line. Compare Call Back, where a line is echoed much later -- this is when the line is echoed straight away. See also The Name Is Bond, James Bond.

Examples of One-Liner, Name. One-Liner. include:

Comics, Troper, Comics

• Empowered used this for The Reveal of Ninjette's real name: "You're welcome, Kozue Kaburagi!... you're welcome."

Films, Troper, Animated Films

• Shrek references the Babe example below: "That'll do, donkey, that'll do."
• Monsters, Inc..

Roz: I'm watching you, Wazowski, always watching...

Films, Troper, Live Action Films

• Babe

Farmer Hoggett: That'll do, pig... that'll do.

• Pulp Fiction: "Zed's dead, baby... Zed's dead."
• Forrest Gump: "Run, Forrest, run!"
• Chinatown: "Forget it, Jake. Forget it."
• Star Wars did it: "Run, Luke, run!"
• Rambo: "It's over, Johnny. It's over!"
• Old School: "Y-You're crazy, man! You're crazy!" Something of a Memetic Mutation with someone's name substituted for "man".
• Little Shop of Horrors

Audrey II: Feed me, Seymour! Feed Me!

• Brand uses this in The Goonies.

Mikey: How long have you guys been standing there? Brand: Long enough, Mikey. Long enough.

• Aliens: "Game Over, man! Game Over!"
• William Petersen's "impossibly corny final line" in The Skulls, "delivered so overearnestly it would make his perpetually sunglassed CSI counterpart David Caruso blush";

"Well done, son... Well done."

• Raiders of the Lost Ark:

Indiana Jones: I hate snakes, Jock! I hate 'em!

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: "I am, George. I am."

Literature, Troper, Literature

• Gaunt's Ghosts: "Sure as sure, Tanith. Sure as sure."
• The Outsiders: "Stay gold, Ponyboy... Stay gold..."
• "The Adventure of the Lost World", a Sherlock Holmes parody in which Holmes disguises himself as a one-legged man, much to Watson's confusion:

"Ah, Watson", said Holmes in a voice of immensely pleased conceit, "you have been making the assumption all the time that I had two legs to begin with." "But Holmes", I protested. "I have seen you run, and jump!" "Have you, Watson? Have you really?"

• In one essay, David Sedaris says that in his family it was considered "queer" to do this.
• "Yet we may, Mr. Frodo. We may."

Live-Action TV, Troper, Live-Action TV

• The Wire: Final line of Season 1.

Omar: It all in the game, yo. It all in the game.

• Horatio on CSI: Miami, when he isn't declaring that this is Miami.
• Lampshaded in an episode of Modern Family.

Mitchell: You love scrapbooking. Cameron: Do I, Mitchell? Do I? (exits) Mitchell: No, stop. Don't do the double question thing to prove a point. I hate it when people do that. Cameron: (holding baby Lilly around the door, in a falsetto) Do you, Mitchell? Do you? Mitchell: Lilly!

• Grey's Anatomy, Season 6, Episode 16. Dr. Webber tells Dr. Shepherd, "I had to pee in a cup today, Derek. I had to pee in a cup."
• Star Trek: The Original Series:

McCoy: I could've saved her! Do you know what you just did? Spock: He knows, Doctor. He knows.

• Used to convey scheming on Three's Company. A friend of Jack's (who really wants to take over Jack's restaurant) has set Jack up for humiliation in front of his boss. When Jack says he can't wait for what he thinks is a party, evil friend says, "Neither can I, Jack. Neither can I."

Music, Troper, Music

• Music examples: "Burn, Baby, Burn!" and "Burn Bitch Burn".
  • Don't forget "Go, Johnny, go!"
• "Die Motherfucker Die" by Dope.
• "Gone Daddy Gone" by Violent Femmes.

Theater, Troper, Theater

• Carousel: "Give it to 'em good, Carrie, give it to 'em good!"
  • Echoed in the second act: "Tell it to her good, Julie, tell it to her good!"
• 1776: "Not well John, not at all well."

Video Games, Troper, Video Games

• A background character in a Guild Wars mission does this twice in a fairly short conversation, with a third instance only averted because he doesn't say "son" before he repeats himself.
• One of the lines added to go with the Team Fortress 2 soldier's "robot" costume (made primarily from cardboard boxes and dryer vent hose) is "Beep boop, son, beep boop."

Web Comics, Troper, Web Comics

• Ansem Retort: "That'll do, Fangirl, that'll do."
• Sluggy Freelance:

Kiki: Stay good, Character X, stay good!

Western Animation, Troper, Western Animation

• Family Guy:

Peter: (to Meg) That'll do, pig... that'll do.

• • Also in the trailer for Passion of the Christ 2, Chris Tucker: "You crazy, Jesus! You crazy!"
• The Simpsons got in on the act with Groundskeeper Willie's "That'll do, snake... that'll do."
• Drawn Together ("That will do, bitch. That will do")
• In Invader Zim: "Dumb like a moose, Dib. Dumb like a moose!"

Dib: Reign of terror, Gaz! Reign of terror!

• At the end of the American Dad episode "Dope & Faith":

Stan: Brett, you're a Satanist! I could only be friends with you if you believed in... Brett: Believed in what? [[[Beat]]] Stan: Whatever you want, pal. Whatever you want.

• • Earlier than that, at the end of the episode 'Lincoln Lovers,' where Stan hugs his son Steve:

Steve: ...This doesn't make me gay, does it, dad? Stan: Only if you get a boner, son. Only if you get a boner.

• Futurama

Fry: I'll kill you too, buddy. I'll kill you too.

• Played with in Jackie Chan Adventures: "That's crazy, Jade! You're crazy."
• Sealab 2021 might count in the early "Predator" episode (after Stormy suggests that he and [white] Debbie may have to repopulate the species together):

Debbie: That's disgusting! Stormy: Is it, Debbie? (long beat)... Is it? Debbie: YES!

• The Ren and Stimpy Show: "There, there, Ren... there, there."
• Skipper from The Penguins of Madagascar likes to do this often.
• Clone High: "Stupid, Joan. Reeeeeal stupid."
• On Archer, when Krieger remembers his pig-boy.

That'll do, Pigly . . . that'll do.

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