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* The FN'[[MTV]] 2009 New Year's special "A Miley-Sized Surprise" featured an ongoing rhyming narration with overlapping [[Painful Rhyme]] and [[Totally Radical]] in lines such as "OMG! In the house with Miley C!" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLEqaP5hZg4=http://www.oceanup.com/miley-cyrus/ The beginning] has some especially horrifying examples.

* The ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air|Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' theme -- yestheme—yes, it's a classic and a total [[Crowd Song]], but that doesn't excuse

** In ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', there is a song "When Frederick was a little lad", in which Ruth describes the troubles that resulted when she confused the similar-sounding words "pilot" and "pirate". They're never actually rhymed with each other, which would be ''really'' painful, but that doesn't mean the audience gets off lightly: instead, Ruth pronounces them with unnatural emphasis -- "pi-''lot''" and "pi-''rate''" -- with—with rhymes to match. (Not to mention the bit where she rhymes "what you people call work" with "maid-of-all-work".)

** Alan Jay Lerner committed another [[Painful Rhyme]] in "Come Back To Me", otherwise the best song in ''On A Clear Day You Can See Forever'':

** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the Thenardiers being -- wellbeing—well, ''[[Book Dumb|the Thenardiers]]'', they're basically allowed to mangle the French language as they see fit.

** Nash did object, however, to the kind of [[Painful Rhyme]] requiring the poetic pronunciation of "wind" as "wined."

** Alternately, it might not be intended to rhyme at all -- whenall—when read with the right amount of drama, it sounds ''bloody good''.

** That's right, ladies and gentlemen, not only do you get [[Painful Rhyme|Painful Rhymes]], but ear-grating grammar to boot ("''took the money and run"''? "''facts is''"? Really?!). Mr. Miller's second-grade English teacher must have been [[Sarcasm Mode|so proud]].

* Dylan mangled many a meter, though (with clever prosody) he made it work, surprisingly often. Except the times he didn't. For those not familiar with the story from "Motorpsycho Nitemare" please understand, key facts have been omitted. True, but--Ibut—I don't want to quote the entire thing--sothing—so, trust me that [[It Makes Sense in Context]], sorta:

** The chorus in "I Wanna Be Your Lover" is either a [[Painful Rhyme]] or [[Refuge in Audacity]]: ''"I don't wanna be hers/I wanna be YERRRRRS!"''

* [[Leonard Cohen]]'s "Hallelujah" rhymes the title with "fool ya". (And also "do ya", "to ya", "overthrew ya", "knew ya", and "outdrew ya", but the painfulness of these is well within the ambit of personal taste -- unlesstaste—unless the song is being sung by somebody who insists on pronouncing "do you", "to you", etc. 'properly'.)

* [[U2]]'s already been mentioned above, but they deserve another mention for this verse from "All Because of You"-- and—and yes, Bono does indeed pronounce "tortoise" to rhyme:

** Supposedly, 1 of 11 people with suicidal thoughts will actually go through with it and succeed .<ref> people often either come to their senses or have someone else intervene before going through with it. And even when they DO try it, many suicide methods aren't 100% successful</ref>. Also, according to [[The Other Wiki]], suicide is the 11th highest cause of death in the US and the ''National Strategy for Suicide Prevention'' has 11 goals aimed at preventing suicides. The last two probably don't have anything to do with the song, but it's pretty weird how often 11 shows up.

*** "How much can one ''bear''/Rejecting the needs in her ''prayers''" (Which doesn't even make it clear who the "one" is -- theis—the girl, a bystander, or God?)

* The humor in Adam Sandler's "Thanksgiving Song" comes from these being intentionally invoked -- withinvoked—with most of its couplets the first line is about Thanksgiving, but the second is usually a silly non sequitur that happens to rhyme.

* [[Rebecca Black]] doesn't bother keeping up any sort of rhyme in "Friday" -- except—except that she manages to rhyme "bowl" and "cereal". Almost. The bridge also rhymes "Friday" and "excited".

* The [[Filk Song|Filk Songs]]s found in the comments section of ''[[Narbonic]]'' and ''[[Skin Horse]]''. ("Girl/world" is a repeat offender, given that Helen Narbon is a girl who wants to rule the ... well, you know.) Frequently the bad rhymes are done for comic effect ...

** For double irony, his attempt to make a [[Painful Rhyme]] is what threw off his haiku; if he had stopped with "rock" the syllable count would have been fine.