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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Riley comments that, after falling in with the main characters, he suddenly finds himself needing to know the plural of "apocalypse". |
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Riley comments that, after falling in with the main characters, he suddenly finds himself needing to know the plural of "apocalypse". |
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** In another episode the Trio kept stumbling over the plural of "nemesis." Became a [[Brick Joke]] when a vampire the next season said it was "nemeses," which Buffy noted. |
** In another episode the Trio kept stumbling over the plural of "nemesis." Became a [[Brick Joke]] when a vampire the next season said it was "nemeses," which Buffy noted. |
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* The girls of ''[[ |
* The girls of ''[[iCarly]]'' spend a fairly large amount of "iGo to Japan" arguing of the current plural of the word "possum". |
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* There is a variant of this in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' (subverted maybe?). GOB is dense enough that he think he can avoid using an "S" by switching to a different plural noun. GOB has just chipped a tooth and is now whistling his S's: |
* There is a variant of this in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' (subverted maybe?). GOB is dense enough that he think he can avoid using an "S" by switching to a different plural noun. GOB has just chipped a tooth and is now whistling his S's: |
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{{quote| GOB: I have a few terms(whistle)... I mean conditions(whistle)... I have one term and one condition.}} |
{{quote| GOB: I have a few terms(whistle)... I mean conditions(whistle)... I have one term and one condition.}} |