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* In the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]], there's a race called the Lonat who speak in rhyme, and it's ''explicitly'' made [[Translation Convention]]. Skilled poetic speaking akin to Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter is mutilated into nursery rhyme style verse by the [[Universal Translator]] doing the best it can to keep up. We don't know what the Lonat trader Square-Deal Djonreel is hearing when the [[DS 9]] crew talk to him, but he is pleased when they respond to him in rhyme just for fun. Kira tries to get them to cut it out, but [[Got Me Doing It|accidentally ends her order with a word that rhymes with what O'Brien had just said]].

* Oompa-Loompas in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' and every adaptation. According to Willy Wonka, they can make up songs on the fly, a claim that is quickly proven is true. Indeed, the only dialogue one of them has that isn't a song occurs in a flashback where Wonka is talking to their chief.

** The prequel movie ''[[Wonka]]'' (due out December 2023) has an Oopa-Loompa (portrayed by [[Hugh ~~Jackman~~]]!), prove that they can talk normally if they have to, but once one of them ''starts'' singing it's hard for them to stop.

** The prequel movie ''[[Wonka]]'' (due out December 2023) has an Oopa-Loompa (portrayed by [[Hugh Grant]]!), prove that they can talk normally if they have to, but once one of them ''starts'' singing it's hard for them to stop.

== [[Live Action TV]], worth just a Fraction of Thee ==

== [[Live-Action TV]], worth just a Fraction of Thee ==

* Eulabelle the black maidservant, from Horror Of Party Beach (''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''), uses occasional but ubiquitously pointless rhymes as homilies:

** "You don't see me sittin' around moanin' and groanin' all day."