Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Beavis and Butthead]] Do America'', Agent Flemming admonishes a fellow ATF agent for doing this. That agent then ties his sentences in knots trying to get around this.

* In ''[[Designing Women]]'' Charlene tells this old anecdote:

* There's an episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' where Martin is writing someone a letter and Niles, reading over his shoulder, corrects him for ending a sentence with a preposition. We see Martin, rather annoyed, writing something on the paper and underlining it, gesturing to Niles, to which Niles replies, "Not to be technical, but 'off' is a preposition too."

** In another episode Frasier corrects a caller who uses the word "literally" in the complete wrong way, bringing said caller to get angry about people who "nit-pick on your grammar when they come to you for help".

'''Frasier:''' ...I think what he means is, that is a thing with which he has a problem. }}

* In his column, [http://www.theatermania.com/peterfilichia/ Peter Filichia] objected to a lyric from "[[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels|Great Big Stuff]]" because he felt that the character wouldn't use a sentence that ended with a preposition. The composer later [http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/06-2005/lyrical-cure_6108.html wrote to him] and defended his lyric by saying the line [[Rule of Funny|just made him laugh]].

* In an episode of ''[[Cheers]]'', Diane dreams that Sam's boorishness has just been an [[Obfuscating Stupidity|act]] for the bar patrons; he's actually cultured and erudite. As he plays her a classical piano piece of his own composition, she embraces him and says, "Forget the piano. Let me be the instrument you play on." Sam's response: "Diane, do you realize you just ended that proposition...with a preposition?"

** This is a [[Running Gag]] between those two, first used in "The Tortelli Tort". When Ed threatens to sue the bar over Carla assaulting him, Sam tries to convince him that Carla is getting therapy for her anger problems:

'''Sam''': Don't you have customers to deal with, mullet head? }}

* This is a running gag in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', even including sentences where the word ''isn't'' being used as a preposition.

* In one of the ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' comics that appeared in ''Dragon'' magazine, Vaarsuvius rages at a pair of undead who end ''every single sentence'' with a preposition. When Durkon reproaches him for acting like an uptight English teacher, Vaarsuvius replies, "[[Translation Convention|What is this English you speak]] [[Hypocritical Humor|of?"]]

* One ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode has one of the villains wondering why O'Neill isn't doing the quips he's become famous for. Later on, O'Neill obliged.

'''O'Neill:''' You ended that sentence with a preposition. Bastard. }}

** Of course, this also serves to further shine a light on the fact that the show has [[Aliens Speaking English]].

* in ''[[30 Rock]]'' [[Cloud Cookoolander|Tracy Jordan]] tells an intern 'You shouldn't end a sentence with a proposition at'.

* ''[[Y: The Last Man]]''. Yorick, as an English major, is somewhat pedantic about language usage. Even during his final declaration of love.

* In one episode of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'', Mr. Wick threatens to fire the next employee who ends a sentence with a preposition, [[Hypocritical Humor|immediately following the threat by saying]], "Now, where has Mimi gotten to? ([[Beat]]) ...he inquired!"

* In ''[[Canadian Bacon]]'', one of the Mounties tells the heroes to "go back to where you came from." The other Mountie tells him that you can't end your sentence with a preposition, and proceed to debate this while the heroes escape.

'''Mountie #2''': Well, I guess I'd say either, "Go back from where you came", or the preferred Queen's English, "Go back, thee, from whence thou came." }}

* [[Insufferable Genius|Eugene Meltsner]] of ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' adheres to this. In one episode, consistently losing chess games to the local janitor has begun taking a toll on his sanity, and his friends are alarmed when he ends a sentence with a preposition. His reaction?

* In the movie ''With Honors'' a homeless man attending a class at Harvard (long story) gets in an argument with the Professor. So when he wants to leave, this exchange happens:

Simon Wilder: Okay. Which door do I leave from, [[Precision F-Strike|asshole?]] }}

** A similar exchange occurred in some greeting card:

Woman 1: Where's your birthday party at, ''[[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]]''? }}

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