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People following instructions too literally out of ignorance, feigned or otherwise. The archetypal example is:
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'''Crowd''': I...
'''Speaker''': State your name...
'''Crowd''': State your name... }}
Contrast [[Literal Genie]] and [[Exact Words]], both of which involve a "backfire" effect, whereas
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== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[
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[[Villain of the Week|Doomsloth]]: *cough* Uncle... Doomsloth! }}
* In one ''[[Little Arsehole]]'' story by [[
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Little Arsehole / Asterix (whispers): "'A little bit pudgy, maybe', you idiot!"
"Obelix": "A little bit pudgy maybe, you idiot!" }}
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* [[Mel Brooks]] loves these:
** From ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'':
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'''Assembled [[Mooks]]''': I..
'''Hedley LaMarr''': Your name...
'''Assembled [[Mooks]]''': Your name...
'''Hedley LaMarr''': ''(muttering)'' Schmucks... }}
** From ''History of the World, Part I'':
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'''Parisian Scum''': (Cough!) (Cough!) (Hack!) (Spit!)
'''Madame Defarge''': No, no! Dumb scum. }}
** Another example from ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'' is when Maid Marian tries to make Robin promise to not go to the archery tournament:
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'''Robin''': Very well. I promise you won't go. }}
* From the Soviet comedy ''[[Ivan Vasilievich]]'' (the quote is translated from Russian):
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'''Bunsha''': Tsar and Great Prince, repeat, of all of Rus'...
'''Miloslavsky''': Don't repeat "repeat"! }}
* Variation in ''[[Airplane!]]!'':
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'''Others, all together:''' It's an entirely different kind of flying. }}
* No less than three times in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''!
** After giving Mia Wallace the adrenaline boost:
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Mia: Something. }}
** When Butch leaves for his golden watch:
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Fabienne: Blueberry pie.
Butch: Okay, maybe not that fast. But pretty fast, alright? }}
** And finally:
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Raquelle: Goodnight, Raquelle! }}
* ''What's New, Pussycat?'' - Romy Schneider plays a language instructor teaching English to a mixed nationality group. Her fiance (Peter O'Toole) storms into the classroom, and as the two have a heated shouting match, the class repeats all their lines in unison. O'Toole finally shouts "Aaagh, you bunch of ''PARROTS!''" and storms out.
* Disney's ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'':
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'''Pinocchio''': Hello to Figaro. }}
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* In the [[Discworld]] series, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch Oath takes the cake for this trope:
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** One [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Sam Vimes is when he, while stranded in his own past, recites the whole thing ''from memory''. He also implies that it's ''meant'' to be recited this way. (partially because Ankh-Morpork has been monarchless for centuries)
** If you have trouble reading it, it should be:
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* In a [[Captain Underpants]] book, everyone signed a card "your name here".
* A rare non-comedic example crops up in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', of all places, when Pippin peers into the [[Crystal Ball|Palantir]] and winds up on a direct hotline to Sauron himself:
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== Live Action TV ==
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* The ''Burns and Allen Show'' always ended with George Burns saying, "Say goodnight, Gracie." The popular myth is that Gracie Allen would respond, "Goodnight, Gracie", this is a [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] She actually simply responded, "Goodnight."
** Other shows use this gag. For instance, from [[Tiny Toon Adventures]]:
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'''Babs''': Goodnight, Babs! }}
** And from over the pond, this variation from ''[[The Two Ronnies]]''':
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'''Ronnie Barker''': ...And it's goodnight from him. Goodnight. }}
** [[Rowan and
*** ...and this is likely the example codifier, and the source of the [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]].
** British snooker quiz gameshow ''Big Break'' did similar.
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'''John Virgo:''' Goodnight J.V.! }}
** And from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
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'''Buffy''': [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Goodnight,]] [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch.]] }}
* From a ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode in which Daniel was turned invisible and only his grandfather Nick could see him:
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'''Nick''': Standing right beside me.
'''Jack''': He's lost a few pounds.
'''Daniel''': [[Something Only They Would Say|Jack, don't be an ass!]]
'''Nick''': Jack, don't be an ass.
'''Jack''': ....Daniel? }}
* In ''[[Friends]]'', Joey Tribbiani, reading from a script: "Hi, I'm Name."
* ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', from the episode "I Don't Care":
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'''Assembled Fraggles:''' I swear...
'''Gobo:''' ...to be fair.
'''Assembled Fraggles:''' ...to be fair.
'''Gobo:''' Now solemnly repeat after me.
'''[[The Ingenue|Wembley]]:''' Now solemnly repeat after me. }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWQCDT5-bE This contestant] on ''[[The Price Is Right]]''.
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'''Contestant:''' Alakazam lift up the lid! }}
* One sketch by German humorist [[Loriot]]:
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Herr Doktor Klöbner: Please.
Herr Müller-Lüdenscheid: Politely.
Herr Doktor Klöbner: Politely. }}
* A variant is commonly used in ''[[Police Squad!]]''. For example:
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'''All''': You did go to the movies.
'''Frank Drebin''': Then let's say you were nowhere near the Club Flamingo.
'''All''': You were nowhere near the Club Flamingo. }}
* In a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch, Biggles tries to dictate to his secretary a letter to King Haakon, and explains that he is not dictating when he takes his antlers off, doing just that as he says so. When she repeats "I am not dictating," he says "What?" and asks her to read what she has been typing, which is:
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* The very first ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch features this, albeit a physical version. Buck Henry plays a language tutor teaching an immigrant ([[John Belushi]]) how to read. ("I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines.") In the middle of a sentence, Henry has a heart attack and drops dead. Belushi looks at his dead body and slumps over the same way.
* Hilariously taken to extremes in the ''[[Night Court]]'' episode "Here's To You, Mrs. Robinson". Harry is trying to swear the pregnant Quon Le and other foreigners as U.S. citizens while Mac has appendicitis.
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'''Mac''': (bawls in pain)
'''Crowd''': (imitates Mac bawling in pain)
'''Harry''': Mac, are you all right?
'''Crowd''': Mac, are you all right?
'''Harry''': (making "stop" motion) No, no!
'''Crowd''': (imitating Harry) No, no! }}
** Then they try it again, but this time, they repeat Quan Le going into labor.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' played with this trope. In "The Human Duplicators", when the hero says to his girlfriend, "Say something." Joel and the bots chime in with "Something". They're then surprised when the girlfriend also says, "Something."
** At the end of "The Indestructible Man", Joel reads aloud an affidavit that he and the bots have agreed to sign, stating that they will never make any more [[Donut Mess
* A variation from ''[[Rowan and
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'''Goldie Hawn''': After me, after me, after me... }}
* A recurring gag on ''[[
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'''Rizzo and Josie''': This wall represents a magnified section of human skin.
'''Beakman''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Hello.]] }}
* After ''[[Hello Cheeky]]'''s local pianist, Denis King, is pelted with tomatoes:
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbReaC4iIPE This] [[Horrible Histories]] segment on how Victorian schools were run (by the students repeating whatever their teacher said).
== Music ==
* [[Stan Freberg
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* [[McDonald's]] once held a promotion where they gave out little vinyl records, and you could win [[Briefcase Full of Money|a million dollars]] if the choir on the record was able to successfully finish the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvhDw5bQbd8 The McDonald's Menu Song]. The choir slavishly repeats everything Ronald McDonald says:
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'''Choir''': Repeat after me!
etc. }}
== Video Games ==
* A pre-recorded message in ''[[
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'''Caroline''': Goodbye, Caroline!
'''Cave Johnson''': She's a gem. }}
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* [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1112.html This] ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' strip.
* Sam deliberately exploits this tendency in [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01780.htm this] ''[[
* One of the (player) characters in ''[[The Noob]]'' is known as Your Name Here.
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* In one episode of ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' that (loosely) reenacts "The Three Little Pigs" with Pooh as the narrator, Piglet [[No Fourth Wall|asks]] Pooh what he should say to the Big Bad Rabbit who wants to be let in his home.
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'''Piglet''': (firmly) No, Piglet. }}
* From ''[[
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'''Launchpad''': You'll do it.
'''Guy''': No, say ''you'll'' do it.
'''Launchpad''': You'll do it.
'''Guy''': No, say "I'll do it," you idiot!
'''Launchpad''': I'll do it, you idiot. }}
* At least once in ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood]]'', when taking their oath.
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'''Toad''': I, name of animal... }}
* ''[[
* Used in ''[[South Park]]'', where a ghostly minion of [[Satan]] is manipulating the Republicans, whispering in the ear of [[George W. Bush]] during a press conference. It all goes fine until...
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'''Bush''': It is God's will that he live!
'''Kevin''': [[Evil Laugh|Haaghaghaghaghaghagha]]...
'''Bush''': [[Literal
'''Kevin''': No no, you don't say that part, Haaghaghaghaghaghagha.
'''Bush''': No no, you don't say that part, Haaghaghaghaghaghagha. }}
* In ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'', the comically inept villain Bowler Hat Guy [[It Makes Sense in Context|gains mind control of a talking frog]], and this trope is played with, then subverted. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[
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'''SpongeBob:''' Patrick, say that again.
'''Patrick:''' That again.
'''SpongeBob:''' No, the other thing.
'''Patrick:''' No, the other thing.
'''SpongeBob:''' No, what you said before when you...
'''Patrick:''' No, what you said before when you...
'''SpongeBob:''' Never mind. I've got an idea.
'''Patrick:''' Never mind. I've got an idea. }}
* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' get jobs as telemarketers - Butt-Head reads from his script: "Hello. My name is your name..."
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'':
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'''Babs''': Good night, Babs. }}
* During one episode of ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', all the boys join the "Secret Snake Club''' in order to get out of gym class, and have to respond to an oath... but when the senior members get into an argument, everyone else keeps repeating what they are saying.
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* In the late, lamented [[Adventurers Club]], this was a routine occurrence in the "New Member Induction Ceremony" segment. For instance:
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'''Audience:''' *clears throats*
'''Character:''' No, not that!
'''Audience:''' No, not that!
'''Character:''' Not that either!
'''Audience:''' Not that either!
''(Cycle would continue until either the character involved got fed up or another character prompted them to continue.)'' }}
* In [[Blink
* In an ''[[
** Some of them had cheeky grins on their faces, indicating it was deliberate on their part.
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