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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"You just used 'obviate' and 'ain't' in the same sentence."
|'''[[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]]''', ''Ghost Story''}}
Language is linear. Use and context establish tone, with an expectation for its continuation. When one suddenly uses a register, dialect, or vocabulary at a significant distance from that previously employed, the effect is [[Self-Demonstrating Article|fuckin' weird]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* There was a series of commercials for a classic-rock radio station which included unlikely people (a very old man, a nun, a school teacher) reading rock lyrics deadpan. Hilarious. This happens quite often. A local radio station had people reading out the lyrics of pop songs, sometimes ironic to the situation, other times just not what you expect. (i.e. An elderly gentleman saying, "With a rebel yell, she cried 'More! More! More!' ")
* T-Mobile had a commercial in which a couple calls up a librarian when they have a dispute about the lyrics to "Pour Some Sugar On Me." Cue librarian, in an absolutely deadpan voice, reciting, "Pour some sugar on me. I'm hot, sticky sweet."
* Similarly, a Canadian commercial for Nortel had, while the music for the song played in the background and was apparently not heard by the characters, a Nortel executive calling a press conference...and his speech being the lyrics of "Come Together". Mixing up the funkiest lines from every verse, even.
* A Schick commercial pairs this with [[Totally Radical]] (and you can see it from there), where an old scientist is officially testing the razor to see if it really is "off the heezy".
** "Off the heezy, indeed!"
* A little old lady in a hot sauce ad: "Frank's Red Hot. I put that shit on everything!"
* Rock radio stations seem to get this a lot. The UK digital radio station Planet Rock has a charmer: "If music be the food of love.... stand by for a good rogering"
* The Blaxploitation spoof ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'' had a TV ad playing it up like a Merchant-Ivory motion picture - an upper-class-British-accented narrator reads it as "I Am Going To Get You, Sucker".
== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Sister Eda of the [[Corrupt Church|Church of Violence]] has a habit of quoting Scripture rather colourfully, especially prior to the [[Bloodstained-Glass Windows]] shootout in the Greenback Jane arc when an unwanted visitor tries to get sanctuary in the church.
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** Revy also discusses topics that fall under the heading [[Genius Bonus]]...in her usual [[Cluster F-Bomb|manner of speaking.]]
* In the English dub of the ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' anime:
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* Part of what makes the anime version of Chiyo-Dad from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' funny, which unfortunately [[Lost in Translation|doesn't translate very well]], is that they have [[Norio Wakamoto]] saying bizarre lines in [[Large Ham|an over-the-top voice]] in [[Keigo|antiquated, very polite Japanese]].
* In the first episode of ''[[Full Metal Panic
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' features a lot of this, usually from the mouth of its [[Anti-Hero]], Spider Jerusalem. An example:
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** Naturally, since Spider is Hunter Thompson [[Recycled in Space|IN THE FUTURE]]!
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' has done this at least once. Bill Watterson commented that he liked Calvin's ability to precisely articulate stupid ideas using smart language.
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'''Calvin''': Looking for frogs.
'''Hobbes''': How come?
'''Calvin''': I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.
'''Hobbes''': Ah, but of course.
'''Calvin''': My mandate also includes weird bugs. }}
** Calvin's eloquent poem about a spider's web which abruptly ends in "Eew, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!"
*** [[Rhymes on a Dime|But it does rhyme with "produces."]]
** Another one when Moe attempts to demand money:
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'''Moe:''' What?
'''Calvin''' (''hands over quarter''): Here you go. (''[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|To reader]]'') That was worth 25 cents. }}
** The poem "A Nauseous Nocturne" does this throughout without breaking style somehow:
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''Suddenly the monster knows I'm not alone!
''There's an animal in bed with me! An awful beast he did not see!
''The monster never would've come if he had known!
''The monster, in his consternation, demonstrates defenestration
''And runs and runs and runs and runs away. }}
* In the ''[[Hellblazer]]'' comic "Regeneration," we get this little line in a flashback:
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* Oyuki-chan from ''[[
* In ''[[
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* A majority of ''[[The Incredible Hercules]]'''s recaps were written in [[Ye Olde
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* The British adult-humour comic ''[[Viz]]'' does this on occasion.
* During the ''[[Fear Itself (Comic Book)|Fear Itself]]'' storyline, [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] (who, as an Asgardian, makes prevalent use of [[Antiquated Linguistics]], remember) delivers one to the [[Incredible Hulk|Hulk]], who is possessed by one of the Serpent's hammers and has become Nul, Breaker of Worlds, while fighting him and
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* An ultimatum from [[The Hulk|Bruce Banner]] in an alternate universe where he took over Australia:
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* Jesse Custer,
* In ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]: True Story'', the villain Nightmare is attacking the concept of fiction, sending his demons into fictional realms to destroy the principal characters in famous literary works. At one point the FF fight off a horde of demons who are attacking [[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|the Dashwood sisters]]. The Thing combines this trope with his customary [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] (but getting his [[Jane Austen]] books confused), announcing, "[[Pride and Prejudice|It is a truth universally acknowledged]] that IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!"
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The opening paragraphs of John Biles' late-2008 ''[[My-HiME]]'' fic ''The Sword of the Lord'' start off sounding like a work by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]—until the [[Narrator]] (Nao) relaxes into her normal pattern of speech:
{{quote|In the dark corners of the world, things are breeding, ancient things, which ruled this world before man. There are things within only a few miles of some major cities that, if set free, would turn the blood of men to ice and fire, which would shatter the thin veneer which is all that holds mankind separate from its savage ancestors.
Their power is rising, and the stars moving into place. Their prophecies speak of their inevitable victory, that the time comes when mankind shall be as the Great Old Ones, 'free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy'.
I have felt it myself, the call of the darkness that seeps into your soul when it seems there is only pain and death in the world, the temptation to cast all rules aside and live only for your own pleasure, your own vengeance. Power without responsibility inevitably leads to the abuse of power, a spiral down into the darkness.
That's why, these days, I kill these motherfuckers and take their stuff. }}
* From ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
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* "When [[Axis Powers Hetalia|UK]] jolted awake in the middle of the night, it took a couple of seconds for the incessant [[
* Happens unintentionally in bad fanfic quite a lot. See ''[[Forbiden Fruit:
** Common in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfics, as teenage [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls|girls]] try to imitate the speech pattern of a hundred-year-old man.
** It's also quite common in [[
* [[The Shoebox Project
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'''Remus:''' What in the name of all that is holy are you talking about? }}
* A wonderful, very deliberate example can be found in [http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-10410-4/SusanAnthony+If+Wishes+Were+Thestrals+We+d+All+Run+Screaming.htm chapter 4] of Susan Anthony's ''[[Harry Potter]]
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* From the ''[[Warhammer
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I SHALL FEAR NO EVIL, I SHALL FEAR NO FOE!
FOR I HAVE [[More Dakka|MOAR DAKKA]] THAN YOU, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|BITCHES]]!" }}
* ''[[
* ''[[
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"All in favor of repressing that statement with inexplicable kazoo music?"
"According to what I learned in Psych, inexplicable crying means that something's been [[Precision F-Strike|fucked over]]!" }}
* This is the first and only language of ''[[
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* In a more innocent example, Harry Potter in ''[[Harry Potter and
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"Well met on this fairest of evenings, Miss Granger. I present to you my father, Professor Michael Verres-Evans, and my mother, Mrs. Petunia Evans-Verres."
"Mum, Dad, this is Hermione!
"I'm afraid, Miss Granger, that you and I have been exiled to the labyrinthine recesses of the basement. Let us leave them to their adult conversations, which would no doubt soar far above our own childish intellects, and resume our ongoing discussion of the implications of Humean projectivism for Transfiguration." }}
* The ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' fic ''[http://archiveofourown.org/works/221461 We're All Mad Here]'' has this little gem:
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'''Session Objectives:'''
Explore feelings of resistance towards disclosure about the subordination incident of October 6. Encourage seeking help from outside sources (comrades, unit commander, base chaplain, grandmother)
'''Session Synopsis:'''
Attempted to demonstrate the social supports mind-map building exercise. Exercise prevented when client initiated self-disclosure about childhood incidents and resisted redirection. When he mentioned his aunt as a possible source of support, he affected a show of extreme grief and began a long story from when he was three, about losing a tricycle he loved and his aunt's dog running away. Client attempted to apply psychodynamic principles to this incident, saying, "I think my Oedipus complex is for dogs." Eventually agreed he should call his grandmother on the weekend.
'''
Client is fucking with me. }}
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130813213433/http://www.fimfiction.net/story/16112/whispers Whispers]'', a ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic, gives us this:
{{quote|"If thou art the unknighted son of two servants while Sir Arcanus here is the first-in-line heir to a landowner, wouldst thou be able to... enlighten me on something thou hast forgotten? A form of address, perhaps? Maybe befitting conduct? ... Or how about knowing thy [[Precision F-Strike|bucking]] place?"}}
* Yet another ''Harry Potter'' example, from chapter 14 of the ''Potter''/''[[Fate/stay night]]'' crossover ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12149998/1/Ex-Umbra-in-Solem Ex Umbra in Solem]'': Saber asks Harry to come back with her to Camelot. Harry agrees and sweeps her up in a hug:
{{quote|She stiffened beneath his grasp, before remarking wryly, "If you do come with me, then you will have to forego this familiarity."
"Verily, I say unto thee, fuck that," Harry said.}}
* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'':
** "Wow, such power from every living being on the planet. I can feel it all surging inside of me... every man woman and child. This is planet Earth's very essence!]]'' "[[Dragon Ball Abridged|...Boo-yah, mother-fu*ker!]]"
** Gohan has occasionally displayed this trope when angry:
{{quote|''Take that, you insufferable f*cking simpleton! ''}}
*** Or even better...
{{quote|'''Gohan''': ''I'm going to eviscerate you and use your gastro-intestinal tract as a condom while I '''fornicate with your skull!'''''
'''Nappa''': ...What?
'''Gohan''': '''''[[Don't Explain the Joke|I'm gonna skull-f*ck you!]]''''' }}
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'':
{{quote|'''Brother Maynard:''' "And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayst blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.'"... "Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch toward thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.'"}}
** Every other [[Monty Python]] film, too, for that matter, or indeed, almost everything that Monty Python ever produced contains at least one instance of this, to the point where's it's become not only expected of them, but of British comedy in general.
** And culminating in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHk9WC7fnQ John Cleese's eulogy] at [[The Fun in Funeral|Graham Chapman's funeral]]. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|And manly tears]].
* In ''[[Star Trek]]''
** In ''[[Star Trek IV: The
*** "They are not the hell ''your'' whales!"
*** He does it again at the end of ''[[Star Trek VI: The
** ''[[Star Trek:
*** Additionally, in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'' Data does this after getting an emotion chip installed.
* Used in ''[[Batman Forever]]'', where Dr. Chase Meridian, based on two of the riddles the Riddler left for Bruce Wayne, diagnoses Nygma as "A total whacko."
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'''Meridian:''' " 'Subject suffers from acute obsession with possible homicidal tendencies'. Does that work better for you?"
'''Bruce:''' "So... what you're saying is, this guy's a total whacko." }}
* In ''[[Snatch]],'' Brick Top defines nemesis as "a righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt. Me." He also has a version of the first variant. "In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?"
* ''[[Terminator]]'' has this exchange:
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'''Silverman''': In technical terminology... he's a loon. }}
* Steve Martin in ''[[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels]]'': "I've got culture coming out of my ass." It's also a [[Genius Bonus|science pun]]. The line is carried over to the [[All Musicals Are Adaptations|musical version]].
* ''[[Talladega Nights
** Then later, Ricky Bobby quotes the "late, great Colonel Sanders" with "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken." Which has no bearing on the conversation at hand (and is lampshaded by his rival).
* A great example of this occurs in the movie ''[[Constantine]]'', in particular the conversation between the angel Gabriel and the title character. Pretty crass language for an angel, half-breed or not:
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* ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'': "The internet is a communications tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another."
* Michele's formula for the glue on Post-its from ''[[Romy and Michele's High School Reunion]]''. Given Michele's character and unsophisticated language she uses throughout the rest of the film, the last thing we expect from her is a plausible, highly detailed answer. We later find out [[All Just a Dream|this was only her dream]] of what happened. At the real reunion they get humiliated for claiming to have invented Post-its:
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'''Christie:''' Oh, really? Well, then I'm sure you wouldn't mind giving us a detailed account of exactly how you concocted this miracle glue, would you?
'''Michele:''' No... Um -- Well, ordinarily when you make glue, first you need to thermoset your resin... and then after it cools, you mix in a, um, epoxide. Which is really just a fancy-schmancy name for any simple oxygenated adhesive, right? Then I thought: maybe -- just maybe -- you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process. And it turns out, I was right. [chuckles]
'''Girl:''' Huh? I don't believe it! You must be the most successful person in our graduating class!
'''Michele:''' Uh-huh... and you're not. Bye. }}
** Lisa Kudrow herself certainly qualifies; who would seriously have thought that the portrayer of two of the greatest [[The Ditz|ditzes]] of our time, Michele Weinberger and [[Friends|Phoebe Buffay]], would have a chemistry degree?
* ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'' gives an inverted example: "Nihilists? Well, fuck ''me''. I mean, say what you will of the tenets of [[Nazi Germany|National Socialism]], but at ''least'' it's an ''ethos''."
* A dialogue from ''[[The Toxic Avenger]] Part 2'':
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'''Homeless Woman''': "Fuck You". [[David Mamet]]. }}
* ''[[Real Genius]]'': "I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, '...
* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' has a narrative song provided by the god-fearing citizens of Rock Ridge at their church. It ends thus:
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''Are we to stay, or up and quit?
''There's no avoiding this conclusion...
''Our town is turning into shiiiiiiiiiit.... }}
* In ''[[
* Hollywood in general is very fond of mixing Bible and
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* Versions of the "walk through the valley of death" verse appear in many films about the American military, including ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', ''[[Casualties Of War]]'' and ''[[Jarhead]]''.
* Billy Connolly's character gets a moment of this in ''[[The Last Samurai]]'':
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* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'':
** An exchange in the first film:
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'''Barbossa:''' There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
'''Elizabeth:''' I want you to leave and never come back.
'''Barbossa:''' I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
'''Elizabeth:''' *confused stare*
'''Barbossa:''' Means "no". }}
** Jack Sparrow also loves this trope, mixing pirate slang like 'mate' 'onesies' and 'savvy' with vocabulary like 'miscreants' 'superfluous' and 'ecumenically.'
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* Dustin Hoffman's character in ''[[Outbreak]]'' indicates that he is disinclined to acquiesce to a military officer's request not to interfere in the bombing of a small town:
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* In ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', Rhett
* ''[[Kill Bill]]'': "As your leader, I encourage you, from time to time and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you're unconvinced a particular plan of action I've decided is the wisest, tell me so! But allow me to convince you. And I promise you, right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo ... except, of course, the subject that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is - I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now...''if any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say, '''now's the fucking time!'''''"
* In [[Mel Brooks]]' ''[[High Anxiety]]'', a discussion on penis envy in a psychological conference is, due to one psychologist [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|bringing his children]], conducted using such technical terms as the peepee, balloons, and hoo-hoo.
* In ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'', Nigel plays a quiet classical piece on the piano, then reveals that it's called "Lick My Love Pump
* ''[[Rush Hour]]''
** It degrades into this whenever Detective Carter tries to be official.
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''[[Beat]]''
'''Det. Carter''': Din't you hear what I jus' said?! Get yo' shit an' get out the door! }}
** Or his lovely farewell to the villainess from the sequel
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* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'': "Sir, what we have here is what we call a non-repeating phantasm, or a class-5 free roaming vapor. Real nasty one, too."
* ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', when Eliza visits the Ascot Racecourse and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uozGujfdS0&feature=related tries to have sophisticated conversation] without having yet learnt what kind of vocabulary, grammar and topics are appropriate in the context.
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Come'on, [[Verbal Tic|Dovah!]] Move your bloomin' arse! }}
* The exchange from ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]''
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'''Centipede''': Say it in English!
'''Grasshopper''': [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|
* In ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'', Flynn tries to charm Rapunzel into letting him go with this line, effortlessly switching between dramatic [[Antiquated Linguistics]] and [[Handsome Lech|a cheesy pick-up line]]:
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* This example from
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* An inverted example from ''[[Scary Movie]] 3'': "How in the hell do you wake up dead? 'Cause you're alive when you go to sleep. You're telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive? You can't go to bed dead. That shit would be redundant!"
* Most of the jokes from ''[[Your Highness]]'' involve the characters speaking in pseudo-English fantasy-speak peppered with modern swear words.
* ''[[Ernest Scared Stupid]]'' has [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold|Old Lady Hackmore]] indulging in this upon her first appearance:
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* Ron Pearlman's character Johner in ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien: Resurrection]]'':
* Common in ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'', especially with Everett. "I'm the goddamn paterfamilias!"
* In ''[[How the West Was Won]]: The Rivers'', the settlers (including mountain man Linus Rawlings) triumph over a gang of Indian rustlers that nearly robbed them, or worse than merely robbed them. As the survivors burn the casualties in a massive funeral pyre, Zebulon and his party offer this humble prayer to the Most High:
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* In ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', Nick Fury eloquently and politely responds to the [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|World Security Council's]] [[Nuke'Em|plans for stopping the invasion of Manhattan:]]
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Although not that really dirty example, Book three in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series has a very good one when Snape tries to read the
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"Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git."
"Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor."
"Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball." }}
** In the immortal words of Professor Minerva McGonagall...
{{quote|''Professor Snape has, to use the common phrase, done a bunk.''}}
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]''' Harry Dresden often does it:
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''"I ooze class from my every orifice."'' }}
** After being called a smartass, Harry responds "The wisdom of my ass has never been in question."
** One of his allies, essentially the modern version of [[The Paladin]]:
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** Even funnier when you realize the guy saying it has a thick Russian accent, and is black.
** Harry has one favor he can call in, and he's using it to get a pursuer off him long enough to escape:
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''"Nay, prithee, but with sprinkles 'pon it, and frosting of white."'' }}
* Much of [[Douglas Adams]]'s work plays off this, often using overly formal tones to describe something mundane. ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', however, often sounds more chummy than an encyclopaedia should. (This is said in the series to be part of its appeal.)
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** ''"The policeman [[Narrative Profanity Filter|told Arthur exactly where he could put it]], but Arthur could only assume he was speaking metaphorically."''
* The ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''First and Only'' has this from Commissar Vay to Major Brochuss, who is about to have Vay, Gaunt and Milo beaten to death in an abandoned area of the city they're in:
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** More amusing is that Vay had seconds before said that Gaunt "was never a diplomat, and that insulting them is not going to help their mood." During their escape Gaunt replies, "You're right, Vay, I never could've been that diplomatic."
* The [[First-Person Smartass]] narration of ''The [[Chronicles of Amber]]'' tends to veer from the modern colloquial to the formal and slightly archaic and
** Steven Brust's ''[[Dragaera]]'' series was influenced by the above, and also uses this a lot. Vlad and the other Jhereg sometimes alternate between somewhat courtly language and typical "wiseguy" talk, probably because they are simultaneously aristocrats and members of that world's equivalent of [[The Mafia]].
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''And do the things I do
''And if you do not like me so
''To hell, my love, with you! }}
** Her poem "Comment":
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''A medley of extemporanea.
''And Love is a thing that can never go wrong,
''And I am Marie of Roumania. }}
** "Theory":
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''Thus I went and thus I go.
''Spare your voice, and hold your pen:
''Well and bitterly I know
''All the songs were ever sung,
''All the words were ever said;
''Could it be, when I was young,
''Someone dropped me on my head? }}
** "Coda":
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''There's little in water or wine:
''This living, this living, this living,
''Was never a project of mine.
''Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
''The gain of the one at the top,
''For art is a form of catharsis,
''And love is a permanent flop,
''And work is the province of cattle,
''And rest's for a clam in a shell,
''So I'm thinking of throwing the battle --
''Would you kindly direct me to hell? }}
** and "Love Song":
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''And he makes no friends of sorrows.
''He'll tread his galloping rigadoon
''In the pathway or the morrows.
''He'll live his days where the sunbeams start
''Nor could storm or wind uproot him.
''My own dear love, he is all my heart --
''And I wish somebody'd shoot him. }}
* [[T. S. Eliot]] wrote
* The Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus did a few similar ones.
** Latin has an ''astonishing'' variety of dirty words, and being a highly inflected tongue, this makes it uniquely suited for this kind of poetry, at which Catullus was ''legendary''. ''[[wikipedia:Catullus 16|Catullus 16]]'' is so explicit that it wasn't fully translated into English until relatively recently; the opening line loosely translates as "I'll jam it up your ass and down your throat", but any translation loses the true flavor of the original. (Though one interpretation, "I'll sodomize and Clintonize you", does rise to the level of a decent [[Woolseyism]].)
* [[Thomas Pynchon]] has a lot of fun with this in ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]''. "Otherwise he will, with great reluctance, hand his ass to him."
** Pynchon does this all the time, really. It's part of his whole "mixing high culture with low culture" schtick.
* In ''[[Only You Can Save Mankind]]'', the normally eloquent Captain of the Scree Wee fleet pulls this while explaining why she wanted Johnny to bring them a crapload of fast food and breakfast cereal.
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'''Johnny''': Then why-
'''Captain''': But, as you would put it, it tastes like poo. }}
* [[Neal Stephenson]] does this a lot. Take for example, the first paragraph of the first chapter of ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'':
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* W.E.B. Griffin's ''[[Brotherhood of War]]'' series includes the motto for the 73rd Heavy Tank Battalion commanded by one of the main characters. It eventually showed up ("translated" into polite military jargon) as ''Your participation is encouraged and expected. Our disappointment will be made manifest by the violent insertion of sporting equipment into the rectal cavity." The original wording? " {{spoiler|You will play ball with the 73rd, or we'll stick the bat up your ass.}}"
* The Poet Martin Silenus in ''[[Hyperion]]'' is both the most eloquent and sophisticated narrator in the book, and ''by far'' the one who cusses most. Best exemplified here:
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* Francisco d'Anconia in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is described as speaking precise and cultured English, deliberately mixed with slang. It makes him feel like the most sophisticated character in the novel, which he is.
* [[Ciaphas Cain]]'s mighty reputation as a galaxy-bestriding warrior, a liberator of worlds and a Hero Of The Imperium led to a cult
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|Alem Mahat, The Book of Cain, Chapter IV, Verse XXI}}
* From ''[[Good Omens]]'': '"Your fate will be whispered by mothers in dark places to frighten their young," said Hastur, and then felt that the language of Hell wasn't up to the job. "You're going to get taken to the bloody cleaners, pal," he added.'
* This is the entirety of every [[Robert Rankin]] book ever written. His style consists of nothing but the juxtaposition of childish or coarse words with grand-sounding, Biblical phraseology.
* Similarly happens in ''[[John Dies at the End]]'', especially with the sequel (which is/was only half finished, and found on the website) which has a the opening chapter musing upon the nature of the universe then finishes with something along the lines of "...so, the 5 words that have made people break down and run screaming at their very mention..." and starts the next chapter with "So there I was, naked."
* In one of the ''[[Spellsinger]]'' books: "I'll have you know, me elephantine kitten, that my language is as [[I Resemble That Remark|fucking]] refined as anyone's!"
* One of the [[Expanded Universe]] ''[[Star Trek: The
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** Geordi and Wesley, who had been growing steadily more furious on Data's behalf, are caught up short with surprise.
* One [[Dave Barry]] column, trying to provide exceptions to the common belief that [[All Men Are Perverts]], suggested that U.S. Supreme Court Judges "think about important constitutional issues" rather than sex. This was illustrated by an alleged court transcript that had Chief Justice Rehnquist saying, "Whoa! Get a load of the torts on ''that'' plaintiff!"
* Isaac Babel's character Benya Krik, a (sort of) [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters|Neighbourhood Friendly Gangster]] comes across this way, on account of speaking the Odessian
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* Any book by [[Mary Janice]] Davidson. A very proper-spoken Merfolk King started using "motherfucker" every other word after watching ''[[Deadwood]]''. It was the first time he'd ever seen surface entertainment and he assumed that's how people are supposed to talk on land...
* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Under the Dome]]'' has Phil "Chef" Bushey, a drug addict who believes himself to be a prophet and does this with every other sentence:
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** Leland Gaunt also does this a lot in ''[[Needful Things]]''.
* The ''[[Quantum Gravity]]'' series: Glinda has been explaining the story of Zal's life previous to his coming to her realm, and her description included a major point, which was hearing a particular song on the radio. It "confirmed everything [he] hated about [his] own people." After a fair amount of persuasion, Zal manages to convince her to sing it.
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** Later, after showing Zal something that is described poetically and absolutely ''terrifying'' to the point that he is actively working to hide his fear.
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* ''[[The Laundry Series|The Concrete Jungle]]'' by [[Charles Stross]]. A memo regarding a politically-sensitive plan to turn every networked CCTV camera into a [[Death Ray]] to cope with an expected takeover by [[Eldritch Abomination
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* Abundant in ''[[The Subject Steve]]''. "One could argue that fuckedness is a vague concept, indefinable, and thus a meaningless point of departure for any sort of cogent analysis." is one example.
* In ''The Sacred Book of the Werewolf'', the protagonist ghostwrites a letter to an English aristocrat from her extremely abrasive lover:
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* In ''[[Night Watch (novel)|New Watch]]'' the protagonist describes a humongous fireball thrown at them: "It was a premium-class fireball, in terms of commercial managers. It was a Tzar-fireball, poetically speaking. A biologist would call it an Alpha-fireball. A very composed mathematician would note that it is a three meter-wide fireball. It was a "shit-your-pants-it's-so-scary" fireball!
* [[P. G.
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* From ''[[How Not to Write A Novel]]'':
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* In ''[[Spin|Vortex]]'', after Oscar insinuates to Treya that she's not worthy of Isaac's attention: "That was insulting, so I used an expression Oscar might not have encountered in his formal training: "Fuck you," I said".
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Designing Women]],'' Julia is enraged at a college professor who's dating her son. When she talks about their first meeting, Julia, still as polite as she always was, simply says, "I think you're full of crap."
* Jack Handey had a tendency to do this in his "Deep Thought" segments on ''[[Saturday Night Live]].'' Speaking with a deeply philosophical tone, accompanied by contemplative music in the background, he would deliver the strangest thoughts imaginable (because hey, free dummy). It was even released in book form. Well you see, I've got these sacks...
* The Ladies' Man segments from ''SNL'' also used this trope. Leon Phelps was notorious for mixing sexual slang with romantic euphemism in an occasionally idiotic manner.
** Or as the movie put it: "What is love? What is this longing in our heart for togetherness? Is it not the sweetest flower? Does not this flower of love have the fragrant aroma of fine fine diamond? Does not the wind love the dirt? Is not love not unlike the unlikely knot it is enlikened to? Are you with someone tonight? Do not question your love. Take your lover by the hand. Release the power within yourself. You heard me, release the power. Tame the wild cosmos with a whisper. Conquer heaven with one intimate caress. That's right, don't be shy. Whip out everything you got, and do it in the butt."
* Comedian Dylan Moran embodies on this trope to begin with, and his character Bernard Black on ''[[Black Books]]'' uses this trope every time he opens his mouth. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7IToccZqKc Here] is a particularly awesome example. Here's a partial transcript:
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* ''[[Deadwood]]'' uses this a lot, mixing philosophic descriptions and complex compound sentences with the [[Cluster F-Bomb]]. One fan, posting to ''[[Television Without Pity]]'', gave a lengthy and dead-on imitation of the show's style, ending with, "On a personal note, having immersed myself in the world of ''Deadwood'', I have found my own manner of speech and written communication (though perhaps not in this instance) improving and, what is more, proving to be most intellectually refreshing, as I now spend a little longer searching for the right word or the right turn of phrase instead of just spitting up the first fucking thing that springs to mind."
** "My bicycle masters boardwalk and quagmire with aplomb. Those that doubt me... suck cock by choice."
* ''[[Glee]]'' pulled this with Bryan Ryan. "I've grown weary of your insults, Will. They sting. And they make me want to punch your face."
** Also, Becky's [[Inner Monologue]] is delivered in upperclass accent which often clashes with what she uses it for: "I, Becky Faye Jackson, am the hottest bitch in McKinley High School. Not only am I co-captain of the Cheerios, I'm also president of the Perfect Attendance Club and have a participation award in rhythm gymnastics. If you are wondering why I sound like the Queen of England, it's because it's my mind and I can sound like whoever I want, so lay off haters!"
** Also with Ken Tanaka: "As most of you statistically minded people know,
* ''[[Law
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** A later episode has Jack
* ''[[Dead Ringers (TV series)|Dead Ringers]]'' spoofed the "hip" BBC remake of ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' by making all the characters speak in this manner: "Robin of Sherwood, I do fear that the Sheriff wishes to pop a cap in your ass".
** The radio version did it with announcer Charlotte Green's refined accent applied to pop songs: "BBC Radio Four, I'm Charlotte Green. My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, it's better than yours, Damn right, it's better than yours. [[Film At Eleven|More on that story later]]."
* ''[[Friends]]'', "The One Where No One's Ready":
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* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'': "Let the record show: Dammit."
* ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' does this sort of thing quite frequently.
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** Also, Simon ''maintains'' his lack of swearing when confronted with Jayne having torn apart his entire infirmary (looking for duct tape) and all he can manage is to call Jayne a trained ape ([[Metaphorgotten|without the training]]). Closest to a [[Precision F-Strike|Precision "B" Strike]], if only for the specific character.
* ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'' gets one of these.
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* Used various times in ''[[The Wire]].'' For example:
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'''Proposition Joe:''' I do carry some ''burdensome'' niggers...;
'''Cheese:''' This one ho was pullin' guns [[Trouser Space|out her pussy]]! Shit was unseemly, yo;
'''Bodie:''' Man, better go on before I lose my composure out this bitch!
'''Proposition Joe:''' It ain't easy, civilizin' this motherfucker.
'''Mouzone:''' Let me be emphatic. You need to take your black ass across Charles Street where it belongs.
'''Carv:''' Did you just use word 'habitat' in a sentence?
'''Bubbles:''' Y'all the one's supposed to be constabulatin'. }}
** The infamous gangster board meeting scenes in the 3rd season. Conducted according to Robert's Rules of Order no less.
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'''Stringer:''' Adjourn your asses. }}
* British impressionist Rory Bremner does a great bit with newsreaders reciting music lyrics in the same manner they read the news.
* ''[[Mad Men]]'':
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* On Demetri Martin's [[Comedy Central]] special, one of his bits went, "I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'"
** His special "If I..." centers around a Socrates quote: "The unexamined life is not worth living," to which Demetri ammends "...man."
* The marines in ''[[Generation Kill]]'' get quite a few moments like this, with "Poke" Espera being the most frequent user.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN2pV8S63rw this line]:
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** Which is doubly funny when you realize that it's in response to an insult hurled by Foreman at Chase about a minute earlier, and Chase is ''just now'' [[Comeback Tomorrow|coming up with an insult to throw back]].
*** And funnier still when you see Foreman's expression.
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*** And later on:
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* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'':
** In one sketch, [[Michael Palin]] plays an anchor giving the News for Parrots, reading every word in the same stentorian tone:
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** In another sketch, a play titled "Gay Boys in Bondage" was apocryphally attributed to [[William Shakespeare]].
* This exchange from the ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode, "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''", after relating the story of Rocky the mechanic encountering Lord Kinboat, inhabitant of inner Earth.
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'''Jose Chung:''' Oh, Agent Scully, you're so kind. He's a ''nut!'' I don't know what I found more disturbing about his "manifesto" -- his description of the inner earth alien sex orgy, or the fact the whole thing was written in screenplay format! }}
** "Please explain the scientific definition of 'the whammy'."
* Among the most beautiful examples of all time is ''[[Blackadder]]'' -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk37TD_08eA How the War started].
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* [[Russell Brand]]. After Rob Brydon insulted his outfit on the ''[[Big Fat Quiz of the Year]]'':
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** The ''[[Big Fat Quiz of the Year]]'' also frequently features this by having high-brow presenters reading from or describing something low-brow, such as Dr David Starkey describing [[The X Factor|Jedward]] as if they were a medieval legend, Sir [[Ian McKellen]] reading nonsensical passages from the
* Alastair Cookie of ''[[Sesame Street|Monsterpiece Theatre]]'' does this a lot, saying things like "Anyway, me digress."
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': "I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom!" And countless, countless other examples.
* Dr. Sweets from ''[[Bones]]'' talks exclusively in this manner.
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'''Sweets:''' I assure you I will be totally, awesomely mature on the stand. }}
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' used to have a segment entitled "Great Moments in Punditry as Read by Children," which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: little kids reading transcripts from [[Rush Limbaugh]], Bill O'Reilly, [[Countdown with Keith Olbermann|Keith Olbermann]], and their ilk. Sadly, the segment hasn't been seen in years. And then, during one of the show's greatest highlights (namely, the "Go Fuck Yourself, Bernie Goldberg" piece), a man named Toppington von Monocle (with top hat, tails, teacup and monocle) comes on to refute the claim that their audience is unsophisticated... by quoting the Catullus quote above. Particularly funny because it comes off as fake but is in fact ''exactly what it says.''
* ''[[The Young Ones]]'' scene in which Neil's flatmates help him write a letter to his bank manager asking for a loan. Alternating between subservient pleading and resentment for [[The Man]], it's a strong contender for the show's funniest moment.
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Give me some more money, you bastard.
May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman,
Neil }}
* Alex Trebek is prone to this on ''[[Jeopardy!]]'', seamlessly shifting from his highly sophisticated tone to dry, [[Self-Deprecation|self-deprecating]] humor and swift pop culture references.
** Even funnier, any time there's a "Guess the Song by the Lyrics" category. With the rise of hip hop and pop music, there have been a few howlers when he would read rap lines in his completely dignified voice.
* Sam from ''[[The West Wing]]'' has this wonderful line about The Declaration of Independence:
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* Shortly after [[Sarah Palin]] retired as Alaska's governor, Conan O'Brian introduced a segment on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' featuring Palin's farewell speech read as beat poetry by "Emmy Award winner and master thespian [[William Shatner]]."
* ''[[The Armstrong and Miller Show|Armstrong and Miller]]'' have a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNQf08Kxsw recurring pair of characters] who are [[WW 2]] pilots. Their accent and diction is old style, slightly upperclass English, but their actual words are all, like, utterly modern slang and shit, isn't it, though? Stand''ard''.
* In a flashback in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', after Lister [[Intoxication Ensues|fed Rimmer hallucinogenic mushrooms]] as a prank and was sentenced to two weeks of painting the ship's hull as punishment:
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'''Captain Hollister:''' (fixes him with a look) That's enough.
'''Rimmer:''' Two smegging weeks?
'''Captain Hollister:''' I ''said'' that is enough!
'''Rimmer:''' (''[[Strange Salute|salutes]]'') [[With Due Respect|With respect, sir]], you've got your head right up your big fat arse. }}
** From ''Back in the Red'':
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** From ''Holoship'', Lister's priceless dialogue with the officer from the holoship who comes to investigate ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. The conversation takes the form of relaying technical messages back to their respective ships and includes such gems as:
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'''Lister''': Lister to Red Dwarf. We have in our midst a complete smeg pot. Brains in the anal region. Chin absent -- presumed missing. Genitalia: small and inoffensive. Of no value or interest.
'''Binks''': Binks to Enlightenment. Evidence of primitive humour. The human has knowledge of irony, satire, and imitation. With patient tuition could, maybe, master simple tasks.
'''Lister''': Lister to Red Dwarf. Displays evidence of spoiling for a rumble. Seems unable to grasp simple threats. With careful
'''Binks''': Binks to Enlightenment. The human seems to be under the delusion that he is somehow capable of bestowing physical violence to a hologram.
'''Lister''': Lister to Red Dwarf. The intruder seems blissfully unaware that we have a fairly sturdy holowhip in the Munitions cabinet, and unless he wants his derriere minced like burger meat, he'd better be history in two seconds flat! }}
** In another episode, Rimmer is trying to convince Kryten to help him with a dangerous and immoral intelligence-enhancement procedure.
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'''Kryten''': Well if he did, sir, it was strictly off the record. }}
* The ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode
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'''Crow:''' ''[imitating Yuri's thick accent]'' Theh cheessball'ss got no frriggin' cless! }}
* ''[[Yes, Minister]]'', "Open Government",
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* A similar one from ''[[Father Ted]]'':
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** (Though the Sex Pistols trial established that "bollocks" was an archaic term for young priest - hence both funny and accurate.)
* Sheldon on ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' often delivers insults in [[Expospeak]]. To wit:
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"I am given to understand that your mother is overweight... Now of course, if that is a result of a glandular condition and not sloth and gluttony, I withdraw my comment." }}
** Also from Sheldon: "Oh, gravity, [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress|thou art a heartless bitch!]]"
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** From Leonard: "The Homo habilis man discovering the opposable thumb says what?"
** This exchange from season 2.
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'''Leonard:''' You changed the address on the building? What about mail?
'''Sheldon:''' No worries, I explained our predicament to our letter carrier. He was sympathetic. His exact words were "Got your back, Jack. Bitches be crazy." }}
** Leonard's mother has one shining moment of this during her second appearance.
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'''Beverly:''' Well, initially, I did feel something akin to grief and perhaps anger, but that's the natural reaction of the limbic system to being betrayed by a loathsome son of a bitch. }}
** In the quoting variant, Sheldon responds to Zack's evaluation of their laser in "The Lunar Excitation":
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'''Sheldon''': Yes. In 1917, when Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundation for the laser in his paper ''Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung'', his fondest hope was that the resultant device be bitchin’. }}
* Not exactly this, but whenever Reid on ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' breaks out of his customary [[Spock Speak]], people notice, and comment.
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'''Prentiss:''' Few, if any? You don't know the statistics on that?
'''Reid:''' 23%. I'm trying to be more conversational.
'''Prentiss:''' Oh. It's not working. }}
* ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' always did these with the "A Moment in the Life of Lil' Jon" sketches:
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Lil' Jon: '''OKAAAAAAAAAY!''' ...Pardon me, madam, will this be reflected upon my frequent flier miles?
Receptionist: Did you book your flight online?
Lil' Jon: ...'''[[Big Yes|YEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHH!]]''' }}
* ''[[QI]]'' is simply bulging at the very seams with such occurrences. Examples are too numerous and high in quality to relist from memory, so read the <ref>fucking</ref> page.
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** Castiel also counts. He usually speaks quite formally (but not as formally as portrayed in fanfiction), and then, after an elaborate Enochian chant, he delivers this line: "Come and get me, you little bastard."
*** That time he called Raphael his "little bitch" and Michael an "ass-butt".
* ''[[The Mitchell and Webb Situation]]'' had a sketch revolving around this. There are some posh people in a bar, one of them has just brought the drinks.
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'''Posh woman:''' Oh, you should have done, darling. You should have cut her face.
'''Posh man:''' I know, but I get so embarassed. }}
* ''[[Breaking Bad]]'': Jesse recycles his rehab counselor's [[Title Drop|earlier comment]]:
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''Skinny Pete and Badger exchange confused glances.''
'''Skinny Pete:''' ...church.
'''Badger:''' ...right. }}
* ''[[Castle]]'' used the quoting variant:
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'''Castle''': Then it must have been Ernest Hemingway who said, 'Man, I sure could [[I Need a Freaking Drink|use a drink]] right about now.' }}
* The [[Carol Burnett]] skit
* Deliberately invoked by a rap producer on ''[[CSI]]'', who segued smoothly from business-school formality to street smack and back again in the same paragraph, showing off how he can operate in both worlds.
* Quoth [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Deputy Andy]], on a recent{{when}} episode of ''[[Eureka]]'': "My software dictates that I should verbally acknowledge my physical damage: Ow!."
* ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' used this in the serial "Hampton Wick": "Make love elsewhere!"
* Done in ''[[The Fast Show]]'' with the "Cockney couple" who spoke in outdated Cockney slang with upper-class accents. On one occasion they go to Newcastle and pick a fight with a pair of "Geordies", only to be challenged by a "Yardie", all equally as upper-class as them.
* In an HBO special, [[Bill Maher]] gave [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUJ_6uxSM0 this public service moment] in which he provided hard-core rap lyrics "translated faithfully into White".
* An unusually serious example occurs in the documentary ''[[Forensic Files]]'' when a prosecutor has difficulty using words to describe the level of derangement of the defendant.<ref>The criminal in question had raped his three-month-old daughter, so he killed a stranger because he wanted to go to prison for murder, not rape.</ref>
{{quote|'''Gowdy:''' He is the most sexually deviant - forgive my lack of psychiatric finesse - maladjusted, screwed-up-in-the-head defendant that I have prosecuted in my fifteen years as a prosecutor.}}
* Lloyd Lowry in ''[[Breakout Kings]]'': "You have a psychosexual disorder that manifests itself in deviant behaviour, so in short you are...disgusting."
== [[Music]] ==
* The spoken segment in [[Pink Floyd]]'s "Sheep":
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* Colin Meloy of ''[[The Decemberists]]'' is fond of this.
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''Sallow-cheeked and sure;
''[[I See London|I can see your undies]] }}
* [[The Capitol Steps]] do this with a single word in a faux-[[Shakespeare
* And then there's [[Nine Inch Nails]] with their ode to existential crisis in the form of loneliness, "Closer", whose chorus starts: "I wanna fuck you like an animal!" Charming.
* This is arguably the amusing part of [[The Cover Changes the Meaning|covers which drastically change the genre of the original song]]. There's something bizarre about hearing Alanis Morissette's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqG_7tXlE04 "My Humps"] with a soft piano backing, Jonathan Coulton's [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Baby%20Got%20Back "Baby Got Back"]{{Dead link}} on acoustic guitar, and everything by [http://www.richardcheese.com/ Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine], who take songs like the aforementioned "Closer
** For a specific example of Richard Cheese, it's hard to get more
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** In a similar vein, Ben Folds' piano ballad cover of "Bitches
** And Dynamite Hack's acoustic cover of "Boyz-n-the-Hood"
** Or for something a little more obscure, Emm Gryner's vaguely Tori Amos-esque piano-ballad versions of songs such as "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
** For that matter, [[Tori Amos]]' cover of Slayer's "Raining Blood". Even [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Slayer were weirded out by it]]. (Also, her cover of [[Eminem]]'s "'97 Bonnie & Clyde".)
** [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s polka
** ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]'' once featured a "lounge version" of [[Cannibal Corpse]]'s "Rancid Amputation." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-V3NYckOI&feature=related Hearing is believing.]
** Honest Bob and the Factory-To-Dealer Incentives covered "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails, complete with a talkdown in the middle.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGT_Frr5TRI Max Raabe and Palast Orchester] cover modern pop songs in 1920s band style.
** The Gourds' bluegrass version of [[Snoop Dogg]]'s "Gin 'n Juice", and in a similar vein, an album of bluegrass covers of [[Metallica]], yclept ''Fade to Bluegrass''.
** This, combined with [[Lyrical Dissonance]], is what makes up most of the humor in the ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' game ''One Song To The Tune Of Another''. The moody, low opening to
* Cole Porter fit this in quite nicely with his penchant for name-dropping. The verse of "Just One Of Those Things" attributes slangy break-up lines to legendary lovers, after inverting the trope by quoting Dorothy Parker (see above) as having said "fare thee well" to her boyfriend. In "Hey, Good Lookin'," the line "as [[Sonnets from the Portugese|Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] once said" immediately precedes the refrain (and [[Title Drop]]).
* [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/icet/firstimpression.html "First Impression"] by Ice-T.
* The Offspring's song "When You're In Prison" is in the style of a 1930's radio crooner (complete with crackles and static), and features lyrics such as:
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''It's bad for you
''Oh don't be no one's bitch, be no one's bitch
''They won't help you make it through. }}
* [[Tim Minchin]]'s beat poem "Storm" does this with a
** And in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0 "The Pope Song"], he inverts this, with a lyric that is mostly obscenity but occasionally bursts out with far more sophisticated language:
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''Means you unthinkingly brand me an unthinking apostate.
''This has naught to do with other fucking godly motherfuckers
''I'm not interested right now in fucking scriptural debate. }}
* [[Tom Lehrer]]:
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* The Coup, "We Are The ones"
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''To inhaling coke via mouth or the nose
''But economically, I would propose
''That you go eat a dick as employment froze"}}
* [[Garfunkel and Oates]] have "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDCPK4MiolQ This Party Took a Turn For the Douche]":
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''And I'm assessin' the damage like a claims adjuster
''I ain't your Daddy but I'll call you son
''Yeah I get metaphysical like fuckin' John Donne }}
* The pseudoquote variant occurs in the opening lines of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0zKqiClt1k&feature=related "If You Knew Susie"], a song popularized by Eddie cantor in 1925: "I have got a sweetie known as Susie/ In the words of Shakespeare, she's a wow!"
* Poet Saul William's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerpGwbLSM8 "Coded Language"] (set to music by DJ Krust) is full of
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''Whereas, the quantized drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the ever-changing distance between rock and stardom.
''Whereas, the velocity of the spinning vinyl -- cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history, yet at a different moment ''in time's continuum -- has allowed history to catch up with the present.
''We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue. }}
* This trope is common in [[Nerd Core]], naturally.
* The title of [[PDQ Bach]]'s "Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion".
** Also: ''The Short-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues in all the major and minor keys (except for the really hard ones)''.
* [[OutKast]] had a skit called "Good Day, Good Sir" that included this. One gentleman is listening to a string performance, and remarks, "Ah such sweet sound: ''The Fiddler on the '''Fucking''' Roof''"
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** Sort of like listening to self-motivation verbal exercises of the [[Ax Crazy]]. No offense.
* Michael Flanders, of [[Flanders and Swann]] fame:
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* Robert Christgau's tone shifts quickly in his reviews. While it is generally consistent within a review, he sometimes does exhibit this trope, as in his review of [[Iggy Pop]]'s [[Loudness War|remaster]] of ''Raw Power'': "Strict constructionists and lo-fi snobs charge indignantly that by remixing his own album Iggy has made a mockery of history and done irreparable damage to a priceless work of art. This is really stupid."
* [[Brental Floss]]'s [http://brentalfloss.bandcamp.com/track/good-example Good Example]:
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''Teaches integral and critical decision making, sucka!
''He's a good example (He's a good example, bitch!)
''And he'd ''never'' say something like, "Fuck you, mothafucka!" }}
* D'Mite's infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8 "Read A Book"]: Practical advice on education, hygiene, parenting, and economic success heavily interlaced with snarled profanity.
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''Not a sports page, not a magazine
''But a book, nigga!
''A fuckin' book, nigga! }}
* [[Eric Bogle]]'s "Introduction Song":
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''So there's a touch of class in every line of every stanza.
''When I'm not writing songs, I hang around doing bugger all }}
* This is the whole point of [[Falco]]'s
* [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] wrote two canons whose titles can be loosely translated as "kiss my ass." Believe it or not, this is actually a quote from [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] in his drama about the storied German mercenary [[
* [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]] Beethoven's the ''Signor Abate'' canon. The first two lines are a prayer in Italian from a sick man asking the
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* The Dog in ''[[Footrot Flats]]'' mixes [[Large Ham]] poetic language with New Zealand slang all the time. He's like a G-rated Hunter Thompson.
* A lot of the narration in ''[[Krazy Kat]]''.
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* The protagonist in ''W;t''[sic], an English professor struggling with terminal cancer, notes that her vocabulary has "taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon" after a violent spell of vomiting. "God, I'm going to barf my brains out... If I actually did barf my brains out, it would be a great loss to my discipline."
* In Bob Carlton's ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' musical adaptation, ''Return to the Forbidden Planet,'' the robot Ariel consults Miranda as to her attempts to win over the Captain by saying, "Ah, Mistress, that will never work, for in that dress you'll miss. He'll not be swayed by haute couture." "Honestly?" "No shit!"
* In the stage musical version of ''[[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels]]'', the first verse of Freddy's song "Great Big Stuff" runs:
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''I thought I knew the score.
''But coming here, I've found a world
''I'd never seen before.
''Now I know where I belong --
''A life of taste and class
''With culture and sophistication
''Pouring out my ass. }}
* Eliza in [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''Pygmalion'', after learning how to speak with [[I Am Very British|perfectly correct English diction]], still occasionally shifts into slang (Higgins has to explain her use of "done her in" as an example of "the new small talk") and profanity ("Walk! Not bloody likely").
* The
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''And "How charming?"
''Now, every son of a bitch
''Is a snake in the grass
''Whatever happened to class? }}
* [[The Reduced Shakespeare Company]]'s ''[[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)|The Complete Works of William Shakespeare]]'' runs with this trope frequently. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy. So piss off!"
* In
* ''[http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/913 LOLPERA]'' describes itself as "an epik clash between low-brow humor and high art; a 'gesamtkunstwerk' that asks important questions about this our modern world: Can we find meaning in the meaningless? Will what we create ultimately destroy us? Can we really [[LOLcats|has Cheezburger]]?"
* "Nelson" from ''[[A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine]]'' (a song about early film star [[Nelson Eddy]] sung from the point of view of his frequent co-star [[Jeannette McDonald]]) is (mostly) very [[Golden Age of Hollywood]] in style and language, but emphasizes her ... dissatisfaction with him with the occasional touch of this trope:
{{quote|''A symbol of virtue and class --
''America's sweethearts, my ass.''}}
== Textbooks ==
* ''American History'' by Alan Brinkley describes a list of grievances passed by the first continental congress in a fashion that he could have taken from this page (pg. 122):
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A certain mission in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' includes a scene where a group of [[Steampunk]] villains attempt to ally with a group of [[Cyberpunk]] villains.
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** Also, a Circle of Thorns mage sums up his exile from Oranbega for not trusting the Circle's defenses: "I must use your vulgar modern vernacular to properly compound insult upon indignity and state: This blows."
* ''[[Metal Wolf Chaos]]'' has otherwise fairly normal newscaster call the hero "meaner than Satan."
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcJyCdbC08c This commercial] for ''[[Mercenaries]] 2'', in which a gangsta-style song of vengeance is sung, show tune-style, with appropriate piano music. And there's a full, three-minute v [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKnY7oizpuM version of the song], which ups the ante with a gospel-style chorus.
* The title character of ''[[American McGee's Grimm]]'' is something like this. Grimm's voice-overs combine erudite sarcasm and [[Lampshade Hanging]] of tired fairy tales with a gleeful delight in bathroom humor and [[Bloody Hilarious]] [[Amusing Injuries]] [[Laser-Guided Karma|inflicted on those who deserve it]] (and [[Butt Monkey|a few who don't]]).
* ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]'' has this:
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* Coffin Guy from the ''[[Baroque (video game)|Baroque]]'' [[Roguelike]] RPG often uses the words "please" and "goddammit" in the same sentence.
* ''[[
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** The default answer is "No, I'm afraid murdering him ''kindly'' would be impossible." There is [[Subtext]] here: {{spoiler|the use of "Would you kindly" is [[Justified Trope|justified]] a short time later in plot. The use of "son of a bitch" is justified in that the speaker is [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|royally poshed.]]}} [[Fridge Logic|Although it would be possible to]] [[Ambiguous Syntax|kindly get to Ryan's office and then unkindly kill him.]] No matter his lineage.
*** Also, from the tone of voice used, it's pretty clear he's being sardonic. {{spoiler|Or, you know, considering the [[Subtext]], he wants you to think that's what he's doing.}}
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* Kain from ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'', voiced extremely well by the ''very'' British Simon Templeman, spends the whole series speaking in pseudo-Shakespearean dialogue. At the very end, when presented with {{spoiler|the Elder God in all his squiddy glory}}, he is so taken aback he can only blurt out "What in the ''hell?''"
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts|Kingdom Hearts II]]'' has an odd example:
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* In ''[[Fallout]]'', when the [[Player Character|Vault Dweller]] manages to sneak into the Thieves' Guild hideout, he's greated by their well-spoken leader, Loxley. After some pleasant introductions...
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* The ''[[Heretic]]'' manual does this, possibly by design but also rather jarringly, as it alternatingly and simultaneously tries to sound appropriate for a high fantasy setting ("They stood solemnly, surrounding seven candles, each flame tied irrevocably to the flow of Earth's breath") and to assure people this is a game for those who want to see blood and guts ("Watch 'em scream and burn -- it's great!") Sometimes the styles blend together so that you can't draw a line between them, but it still sounds odd. "These hideous abominations of the dark world move bloody fast and possess deadly sharp blades for appendages."
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', one assignment has a reporter asking Shepard probing questions, and one of the possible answers to her questions makes Shepard say "I have had enough of your snide
** She's back in ''Mass Effect 2''. This time you tell her "I've had enough of your disingenuous assertions" and punch her again.
** Say [[Ass in Ambassador|what you will about him]], but Udina does a nice job of borrowing Kevin Rudd's "political shitstorm" line in the second game if you picked Anderson over him for the council seat in the first.
** Only when talking to Matriarch Aethyta can a person hear "anthropocentric" and "bag of dicks" in the same sentence.
* In ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'', the usually sophisticated Miles Edgeworth informs an opponent that:
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** Edgey does this occasionally in the main series too, and since he's [[The Comically Serious|otherwise serious]], it generally results in a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]. Most memorably: "What the hell was that wriggling piece of plywood?!" That line can be heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJuR7AtroMA here.]
*** It doesn't help that he has a british accent, as evidenced by his objections and take thats.
** Lang has a moment of this. Usually he shares his wisdom by quoting Lang Zi. And then we got this, after he lost a battle of wits to Edgeworth:
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* A number of the Spy's domination taunts in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' count. "I'm looking at your X-ray, and I'm afraid YOU SUCK!"
** How about the "Meet the Engineer" video?
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* The titular character of ''[[Bayonetta]]'' is quite fond of this trope. Her English accent only adds to the fanciness.
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* One of the party member conversations in ''[[Baldur's Gate]] II: Throne of Bhaal'' has [[The Berserker|Korgan]] trying to woo [[Lady of War|Mazzy]] with some of the poetry he's (supposedly) written in the past. Then he brings out this particular [[Sarcasm Mode|gem]] that he [[Bathroom Stall Graffiti|scratched into the wall of a latrine]]:
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* [[Brutal Legend]] has this epic insult:
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* ''[[
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* ''[[Street Fighter Alpha]]'''s Gen has this victory quote: ''Ancient words of wisdom... "you suck".''
* Quoth [[Kingdom of Loathing]]'s King Ralph, when you defeat the naughty sorceress and free him from imprismment: "Well done, adventurer! You laid the smack down on that skank with admirable derring-do and panache."
* ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''s Cheshire Cat sometimes does it.
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'''Cheshire Cat''': "You are properly fortified to kick some ass." }}
* ''[[Saints Row|Saints Row: The Third]]'' does that in it's [[Star Wars]]-esque text crawl in the intro.
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A Saints movie is in development. Johnny Gat and Shaundi are pop-culture icons. And Pierce... Well, who gives a fuck about Pierce? }}
* While sneaking around a base in ''[[Deus Ex:
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In other words, stop breaking shit with your fat asses.
xoxo
The Management }}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* T-Rex From ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' does this a lot, such as describing literary or logical techniques in textbook levels of detail then describing them as "awesome". When discussing logic:
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* The authors of ''[[Holy Bibble]]'' do the same thing in [[The Rant]] occasionally. For example, [[The Ditz|Cannan]] explains ''Correlation does not imply causation'' using his [[Leet Lingo|skillz with teh ladiez]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100306141152/http://holybibble.net/latest.php?id=211 here.] The resulting effect is like if [[Irregular Webcomic|David Morgan-Marr]] had spent his formative years perusing internet forums.
* This is the default method of speech for any instalment of ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]''; ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' loved to intersperse its fluid and verbose narration with abrupt switches to badass one-liners. ''[[Homestuck]]'' then took this trope and refined it into something of a high art form.
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** In terms of individual characters, though, special mention must go to {{spoiler|Alpha timeline}} Bro {{spoiler|and his auto-responder}}.
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TT: Let's bear down on these dire as shit needs you've got. }}
** From DS's auto-responder
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** Equius inverts this trope by being a rough-n-tumble kind of guy, yet insists on saying "shoot" or "fiddlesticks" rather than actually cursing.
* [http://raccooncitizen.deviantart.com/art/Unwelcome-Guests-Comic-185042597 This strip alone.] [[Tomb Raider|Also, the most probable]] [[Moment of Awesome]] [[All Blue Entry|invoked by this trope:]]
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* Beserker from 8 bit theater when not beserking he wears a monocle and speaks with a British accent when beserking he...is considerably less eloquent. "Beserker the greatest conversationalist of our age, also everything he says is scary.
* In ''[[Something
* [http://www.superstupor.com/sust06132008.shtml This] [[Super Stupor]] strip.
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* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/12 This] ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' strip
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/6/ Another] from ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', about ''[[Dragon Age]]'':
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'''[[Player Character|Player]]:''' Word. I'm always abiding by shit. }}
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/2/24/ This] [[The Rant|rant]].
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* ''[[Xkcd]]''
** [http://xkcd.com/36/ These] [http://xkcd.com/75/ two] early ''xkcd'' strips.
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** xkcd [http://xkcd.com/857/ strikes again]. Actually twice more, if you read the rollover text.
* ''[[Achewood]]'' uses this to an extremely refined form as the primary source of its humor.
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' gives us an instance where experimental [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|"fire monkeys"]] are running around. It later turns out the monkeys were not only [[Large Ham|hamming up their actions]], but speak in a very refined, charming fashion. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140921125948/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2007-03-18 Lookie] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140921102448/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2007-03-20 here.]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130520112132/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-03-08 "Lo and beware this prophecy of doom ... Fire, destruction and death shall descend upon this village if YOU MORONS DON'T GET THE HELL OFF MY PROPERTY!"]
** Later on, Dominic and Luna come face to face with a dragon (an extremely rare creature in this world). The two are left awe-struck, and once it leaves they "reacted the way any pair of intellectuals would have."
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*** Shortly thereafter, they visit Olde Tucklebruck Island and Luna tastes some of the native halflings' famous beer. After impressing the innkeeper with her connoisseurship and eloquent commentary on the beer, he lets her try his finest, most prized brew: "The Orion." Her response?
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** I think special mention should go to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121024115145/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-07-14 Wild Edge's slimes] who seem brainlessto those who can't speak their language, but...
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'''Slime 2:''' Quite so. }}
* [[Questionable Content|"Then we must endeavour to find some common ground.]] [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1425 For instance, I posit that ladies' bosoms are rad. Do you agree?"]
** "It's a complex and nuanced story,
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' has Molly, a furry bipedal creature who essentially sprang from an experimental genetic serum spilled into a jar of peanut butter. She has a supergenius level IQ, yet is chronologically less than two years
* Though ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' mixes characters with modern day speech patterns with [[High Fantasy]] tropes, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0174.html it only rarely indulges in this.]
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'''Weasel''': ''Awesome.'' }}
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0800.html Vaarsuvius]: I may be in error, but I believe the appropriate proclamation is, "Sneak Attack, bitch."
* ''[[Aetheria Epics]]'' inverts it with the black mage gang at Eastveil Academy:
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'''Vol:''' "Sure, bro. Ahem...'Twas not 3 midmornings ago that the momentous encounter took place that would forever change our most illustrious organization..." }}
* [[Bob the Angry Flower]]'s Rothgar saga, beginning [http://angryflower.com/rothga.html here].
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You Rothgar and your men will over there cower like cowards and the children of cowards. Here I wait with my laser ray. Grendel will enter and I'll, y'know...I'll zap him. }}
** Later,
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* Butler in ''[[PvP]]'' delivers a memorable one to Brent. After Robbie sends Butler to do his work at the magazine, the staff begin abusing the priveliges, especially Brent. When Robbie eventually asks Butler to come back, Butler says he will as soon as he does one last thing. He promptly walks into Brent's office and says quite calmly, "You, good sir, may go to hell."
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court
* ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'': "[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=259 So old. Old as] '''[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=259 balls]'''."
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[5-Second Films|"Let's retire to my chambers]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JT7tcKfOw where we can smoke cigars and have a civilized ''fucking'' discussion!"]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121111181130/http://bash.org/?179132 This discussion on bash.org].
* [[Warning! Readers' Advisory|Derek the Bard]], professional librarian, often veers between educated literary analysis and history lessons and joking about Farscape.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz_K1Gjrx8c The Posh Mothershuckling Dangle Donger Hour], a [[Gag Dub]] of the cutscenes from [[Hotel Mario]] made using a text-to-speech program that puts in the mouths of Mario, Luigi, and the Princess dialogue that alternates between [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]], vulgar, and just plain weird.
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* ''Drunk History'', a series of videos in which inebriated history professors attempt to relate a historical anecdote they find profound or important, which is then enacted, according to the drunk lecture, by comedy actors. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* The typical ''Pube Muppet'' Flash animation starts with Pube Muppet greeting a store clerk with "Hello, my good man. I am the Pube Muppet." He then lists [[Long List|numerous things he wishes to purchase]] [[Depraved Homosexual|and what he intends to do with them]] before storming off saying "What the fuck! What kind of piece of shit establishment is this?! Fuck off and let me be!" [[Rant-Inducing Slight|when the clerk says one of the things he wanted is something they don't have in stock]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511010219/http://sharpindian.in/random?submit=Roll+the+Roulette
* [[Cleolinda Jones]] tends to use this trope, especially in her ''[[Varney the Vampire]]'' recaps, when she makes fun of the old-fashioned language used.
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* [http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6772454/25-things-you-hate-yourself-for-saying?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+collegehumor%2Farticles+%28CollegeHumor+Articles%29 This] [[College Humor]] article.
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* From [[Tumblr]] in 2016:
{{quote|:::can you use the term "i shit you not" in an English essay or is that unprofessional?
::nonononono, never use "I" statements in formal essays.
::One shits you not.
:Also acceptable: This author shits you not
It's best to avoid the "general you." "One would not be considered shitted," is probably the best way I could think to word it formally.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', after the defeat of the Headmaster, who usually talks in l33t/gamer speak, the usually scientific Professor Sumdac comments, "I believe the phrase is 'total 0wnage, n00b'."
** [[Transformers Generation 1]] has Computron, after defeating the Decepticon Terrorcons, say "Estimated probability of Terrorcon victory over Computron: 4.1 percent. ''Scoot!''" The Decepticons make a break for it, as do the ''other'' bad guys, the Quintessons.
* This exchange in the ''[[Simpsons]]'':
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'''Bart:''' Cool!
'''Socialite:''' Welcome to my etiquette class, The Proper Young Man.
'''Bart:''' But the black man said ...
'''Socialite:''' Are you accusing my husband of misleading you? Good gracious, I should bust a cap in your ass. }}
** The socialite woman's reaction to Homer pushing her aside to catch an elevator: "How dreadfully rude! I do hope someone stabs him in the eye."
** Then there's Lisa's description of Mr Burns as a "monopolistic, self-aggrandising... umm... stinky-pants!"
** A tamer version shows up in a Treehouse of Horror episode. Homer finds himself in a mysterious 3D realm (or as he says "has anyone seen Tron?") this happens:
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'''Homer:''' (Out loud) "HOLY MACARONI!!!" }}
** In an episode where Homer and Marge have to choose between vacationing in Florida, or attending an elderly relative's birthday:
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** When Bart and Lisa are confronted with the task of overloading the power grid in 'Scuse Me While I Miss The Sky...
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'''Bart:''' Gandhi also said "less talk, more rock"! (throws the lever) }}
* Forced on Brain in an episode of ''[[Animaniacs]]''. As "Noodle Noggin", he'd talk in the way [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|he usually speaks]]... on a kids' show. So an established character on the show would bop him on the head mid-sentence and he'd switch over to speaking like [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinky]]. Apparently, the fake [[Show Within a Show]] made a [[Running Gag]] of this.
* From the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Nerdy Dancin'":
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''Jeremy walks up to Phineas and Ferb''
'''Phineas''': Hey, Jeremy. What's the haps, big guy? }}
* From the 1949 Droopy short "Outfoxed":
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(Very) '''English Fox''': Ah, as they say in America... ''(Brooklyn accent)'' Are you kiddin'? }}
** This is followed up by a visual version of this trope, where the prospect of a steak dinner causes the fox to launch into a series of [[Wild Take|wild takes]] before returning to his usual deadpan expression.
** [[Truth in Television]]: The most esteemed British actors, both then and now, tend to be quite familiar with the idioms of American speech.
* One episode of ''[[Mission Hill]]'' had Kevin get in trouble for using an inappropriate word at school, and his brother Andy was called to discuss the situation. The prim and proper principal wouldn't say the word out loud, instead writing it on a piece of paper. Unfortunately, the principal's elegant, cursive
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' had a series of back-up shorts called "The Justice Friends" where three superheroes (based on [[Captain America (comics)]], the Hulk, and Thor) lived together as roommates. The one based on Thor was called "Val Hallan" and he spoke in a mixture of
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEgjgR4j2Mw Dapper Crackhead] in ''[[Boondocks]]''. (Starts about a minute in.)
* In one [[Looney Tunes|Foghorn Leghorn]] cartoon, after Leghorn plays a practical joke on the farm dog, the dog answers, "There is but one course for me to follow. I'LL MOIDER DA BUM!"
* In one episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', Bender joins the Robot Mafia and finds himself ordered to take part in a heist that involves robbing the Planet Express ship of its cargo. To keep Fry and Leela from finding out that he was one of the robbers, Bender doesn't enter the room until they're blindfolded. He then switches a dial that makes him go from a "robot" voice to "king", essentially giving him an English accent while talking the same way.
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'''Fry:''' That guy sounds familiar... }}
== Other ==
* As said above, [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] has a tendency to do this. When asked whether he thinks video games contribute to violent activities in youth, the screen flashes, "No, and I consider your argument misinformed," but he ''says'', "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131213003755/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6-Manhunt No, and go fuck yourselves, you ignorant scaremongering cockbags.]"
** ... and later in the same video:
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* The [[YouTube]] video "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgDcC2LOJhQ How to Write a Fugue]" by Danny Pi.
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* Steve Allen's dramatic readings of insipid pop lyrics during his time as host of ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.
*
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** [http://www.cracked.com/article_16301_6-most-badass-stunts-ever-pulled-in-name-science.html He spent the rest of the day in a state scientifically categorized as "high off his tits."]
** Another one: [http://www.cracked.com/video_18163_if-juggalos-got-their-own-news-channel.html If Juggalos got their own News Channel].
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** [http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions_p2.html Again we must refer to the scientific phenomenon called People Making Up Bullshit.]
** [http://www.cracked.com/article_18459_the-5-creepiest-unsolved-crimes-nobody-can-explain.html So the cops must have been half expecting it when the coroner returned with the cause of death: "Sudden, acute onset of damned if I know."]
* Two more words: [[Dave Barry]].
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* This is one of many tropes that ''[[FATAL]]'' provides an example of how not to use. The [[Did Not Do the Research|historically and mythologically accurate scholarship]] is interspersed with [[Refuge in Vulgarity|vulgarity that would make a drunken frat-boy wince]], with a note that this was added [[Dude, Not Funny|for humorous effect]]. "Experience an accumulation of gas in their rectum" indeed.
* [[The Onion|The A.V. Club]] column "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081202182551/http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/imdbates_the_dark_knight IMDBates]" examines internet flamewars with the same detail and language one might use to document a trial. For instance "''Reducing [the Joker] to such a base interpretation of [[Draco in Leather Pants|"Omigod he's hawt!!!"]] robs him of his effectiveness, and reveals a shallow understanding of the film. Plus, all you ladies are sicko pervs.''"
** This trope in general is what makes ''[http://www.theonion.com The Onion]'' hilarious, with its deadpan, well-articulated descriptions of banal/vulgar/stupid things. One memorable example, from [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219113517/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31564 Elementary Schooler Clearly Just Learned to Swear]; "In the past two days, Schweder has composed a ribald song titled 'Shit Shit Boobies,' covered three sheets of notebook paper with scatological malediction, and attempted to tell a joke about 'a girl who saw a boy's pussy'."
** Of all the mastery of this trope in ''[[The Onion]]'', perhaps the most memorable is the columnist Smoove B:
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** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100314104639/http://www.theonion.com/content/video/supreme_court_rules_death_penalty "Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Totally Badass".]
** [http://www.theonion.com/articles/supreme-court-upholds-freedom-of-speech-in-obsceni,17372/ Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech in Obscenity-Filled Ruling].
* Humorist Lore Sjoberg, author of among other things [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528091106/http://www.bookofratings.com/archive.html ''The Book of Ratings''], combines [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] and formal diction (often rather more formal than his topic would seem to merit) with slang and profanity.
* [[Uncyclopedia]] does this when assigning appropriate quotations to Oscar Wilde. Well, for some definition of "appropriate".
** A [[Wiki Vandal]] created the "Fisher Price" page with nothing but the four words "go eat shit fuckers". Through [[Wiki Magic]], this has now become
* [[Badass of the Week]] ''runs'' off this trope.
* This is Lieutenant Rzhevsky's (a recurring character of Russian joke stories) preferred manner of speech.
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* [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1608 Discussing the semantics of the phrase "Shut the fuck up"]: "The main syntactic problem is to determine whether ''the fuck'' is being used as an pleonastic (semantically empty) direct object of ''shut'' or as a pre-head modifier of the preposition phrase (PP) headed by ''up''."
** There are some other instances but mostly interfixing in English occurs in very specialized circumstances. Despite that, it follows rules. For instance it always occurs on word boundaries, rather than morpheme boundaries. We all possess very clear intuitions regarding the validity of 'im-fucking-possible' and 'impossi-fucking-able'.
** Furthermore, while our minds are able to recognise the point where the bound morpheme ends and the free morpheme begins (as evidenced in the above example, considering that most interfixes in English do tend to be of a similar nature) there are cases where a word may be one lexical morpheme where a few of the letters resemble a derivational morpheme (or may be mistaken for an allomorph of a derivational morpheme), leading people to either add an interfix at that juncture or to replace a portion of the word with the interfix. For example, I could take the word ''ridiculous'' and replace the letters dic with an interfix of cock, resulting in a new
** Similarly, the [[wikipedia:Fuck|Wikipedia article for "fuck."]]
** [http://www.crosswordsolver.org/ Crossword Solver] too. It has an article for [https://web.archive.org/web/20090501213624/http://www.crosswordsolver.org/definition/Y/you+guys+suck+dick You Guys Suck Dick]. {{spoiler|Definitions. 1. "Fuck You."}}
** The wikipedia page for [[wikipedia:Fucking austria|Fucking, Austria]] is also quite hilarious because of this. Especially the quote from the mayor; "What is this big Fucking joke?"
** [[wikipedia:Catullus 16|The page]] on ''16'', considered the filthiest poem in any language, is hilarious because of this - especially the section patiently deconstructing the sexual puns in the poem.
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** Wiktionary doesn't let Wikipedia have all the fun, either, as seen in definitions of phrases like [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_shit,_Sherlock this one].
* From ''[[Have I Got News for You]]:''
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091123165019/http://www.othieves.com/philosophy.html Three Minute Philosophy] runs on this trope:
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* ''[[Commentary!
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Where he gets caught selling blow at a rest stop and serves time
And then he gets out and tries to get his shit together and teaches art to underprivileged kids at the local high school, but things take an interesting turn when an old gambling buddy comes to collect. See it's his former life coming back to haunt him. You can't outrun your past. See? Get it? That's the point, Joss. It's compelling! What's going to happen to these kids?! }}
* The always-deadpan [[Steven Wright]] rarely curses, but when he does...
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* [[Dave Barry]] recounts [[Winston Churchill]] saying to a woman at a party, "Madam, I may be drunk, but BBLURUGHUH" all over her evening gown.
* An online skit has a freestyle rap [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6H0i1RAdHk translated in the Queen's English].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEExBW7i6m4 Winston Churchill attempting to tell FDR about the German Invasion of Poland in this World War II parody video.]
* [http://twitter.com/feministhulk Feminist Hulk]'s [[Twitter]] feed.
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* "As Voltaire said: Fuck off." is said in the Swedish Youtube video "Knappnytts Guide till OS-grenarna."
* [[Margaret Cho]]:
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* '''[http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/ I'D SAY EAT SHIT, BUT THAT WOULDN'T BE HELPFUL, HOW ABOUT SOME PAN-SEARED SALMON ON BABY ARUGULA]'''
* The [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/joseph-ducreux-archaic-rap Joesph Ducreux
* Every other definition on [[Urban Dictionary]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkC7dcxZ5_Q Juggalo News.]
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] can go from properly explaining the game to cursing like a mad man without effort. The most notable example in his re-revist to the ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'' on NES when he explains that the game is symbolic and represents mankind's struggle between good and evil... before concluding that the game just fucking sucks. Another variation of this trope concluded his review of ''Godzilla'' for the [[Game Boy]]: "The best way to sum this up is to recite a very famous quote from William Shakespeare: Fuck it."
* Some articles on [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] are this way. The page on psychedelic mushrooms refers to "a gradual escalation of losing your fucking mind."
* Alamos's [http://www.wowwiki.com/Alamo guide] to playing a druid in [[WoW]] is written in language that bears strong resemblance to lolcat-speak. Once, when confronted by a heckler for his inability to write proper English, his response was several paragraphs of extremely sophisticated language defending his guide, which at the end reverted to his previous style:
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* While celebrity gossip blog Dlisted is already informal in tone, it has a category whose name, "What A Fucking Lady", [[Invoked Trope|invokes this trope]] and documents (among other things) many examples of celebrities' profane or otherwise un-ladylike language inserted into an otherwise innocuous interview for a respectable publication.
* [[The Daily Show|Wyatt Cenac]]'s comedy special has a joke about how he saw a comment on a [[YouTube]] video of a cat jumping in and out of a box that said about the cat, "That nigga is adorable". He then says the only way the cat could be considered a "nigga" was if it either jumped in and out of a Newport cigarette box ''or'' if the box represented the duality of living in a homogenized society while trying to hold on to your fragmented cultural identity, and because those worlds are constantly clashing you must jump between them...like a nigga cat.
* [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html This] parody of a physics lab report.
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* This inevitably turns up when [[Media Watchdogs]] report on swearing on TV. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131221101247/http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb133/ Example:] ''However, on this occasion there were [[Cluster F-Bomb|115 examples of the most offensive language]] i.e. “fuck” and its derivatives, in the first 40 minutes of [[Kitchen Nightmares|the programme]].''
* If I may quote from [[The Other Wiki|The Other Wiki's]] article on the "Online Disinhibitation Effect":In psychology, the online disinhibition effect, also known in popular culture as John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (GIFT), refers to the way people behave on the Internet with less restraint than in real-world situations.
* In an episode of the radio show ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue|Hamish And Dougal]]'', [[As Himself|Tim Brooke-Taylor]] attempts to flirt with Mrs. Naughtie. Her response is "Och, you and your silver-tongued bullshit."
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** There's also the phrasing that makes his intention obvious, e.g. "kicks the can down the alley" and "overwhelmingly deserve".
* There was an [http://jezebel.com/5310982/why-cursing-fcking-rules-and-when-it-doesnt article] about swearing that mentioned how forced this trope can be in reality. "At one point in college a friend of mine pointed out that we had started cursing a lot when we were having intellectual conversations, as though trying to prove we were still cool. Talking about, say, "motherfucking post-structuralists" began to seem annoying, a facile combination of high and low that now seems like it belongs on Stuff White People Like. So as not to be assholes, we were forced to cut it out."
* This [https://web.archive.org/web/20130112233013/http://static.thepiratebay.org/dreamworks_response.txt actual answer to a threatening letter from an American company to the Swedish bitTorrent site ThePirate Bay] ended with
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Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here.
For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium, will result in
a) a suit being filed for harassment
b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for sending frivolous legal threats.
It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ....... [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.]] }}
* Similarly, in the libel case of ''Arkell vs. Pressdram'' (the company that publishes ''[[Private Eye]]''), Arkell's lawyers sent ''Private Eye'' a letter informing the Eye that "Our client's attitude to damages will depend on the nature of your reply". Pressdram sent a letter back which read "We would be interested to know what your client's attitude to damages would be if the nature of our reply were as follows: Fuck off". Ever since, ''Arkell vs. Pressdram'' has become a [[Running Gag]] for ''[[Private Eye]]''; anyone who presses what Pressdram regards as a baseless law suit gets the reply, "We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram"
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060101040017/http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/2005/HCR029.html This] House Concurrent Resolution (no. 29) put forth by the Idaho State Legislature, commending Jared and Jerusha Hess for the writing and production of ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]''. The turning point comes long about page 2, line 4, though one should at least start with line 2 on the same page: "WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote 'Nay' on this concurrent resolution are 'FREAKIN' IDIOTS!' and run the risk of having the 'Worst Day of Their Lives!'" It was passed 69-0, one member absent, by a voice vote.
* In 1976, Alabama State Attorney General Bill Baxley re-opened Birmingham's 16th Street Church bombing case (the basis for Spike Lee's ''4 Little Girls'' and a turning point in the American Civil Rights movement). He received threatening letters from the state's still-powerful Ku Klux Klan chapter. Baxley's full written response, on official state letterhead:
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* The 1985 resolution in the Ohio General Assembly that made "Hang On Sloopy" the state rock song (there's a reason why you hear it at every Ohio State football game) had lines such as:
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WHEREAS, If fans of jazz, country-and-western, classical, Hawaiian and polka music think those styles also should be recognized by the state, then by golly, they can push their own resolution just like we're doing
WHEREAS, "Hang On Sloopy" is of particular relevance to members of the Baby Boom Generation, who were once dismissed as a bunch of long-haired, crazy kids, but who now are old enough and vote in sufficient numbers to be taken quite seriously
WHEREAS, Adoption of this resolution will not take too long, cost the state anything, or affect the quality of life in this state to any appreciable degree, and if we in the legislature just go ahead and pass the darn thing, we can get on with more important stuff
WHEREAS, Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town, and everybody, yeah, tries to put my Sloopy down }}
** If you're not a big fan of the song, you might disagree with that "affect the quality of life in this state" thing.
* In 1984, Joschka Fischer, then member (for the Green party) of the German Parliament, addressed the President of the Parliament with "Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch." Translation: "With respect, Mister President, you are an asshole."
* Some correspondence during the Battle of the Bulge of WWII as described in Stephen E. Ambrose's "Band of Brothers," and recounted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100314212756/http://www.thedropzone.org/europe/Bulge/Kinnard.html a later interview] with Lt. General Henry Kinnard, then a Lt. Colonel serving on the 101st Airborne Division staff at the time.
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** Incidentally, this story was told, and later emulated, in an episode of ''[[Jericho]]''.
* There are some who feel that if they attack us, that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they're talking about. There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, "Bring 'em on."
* Lenny Bruce performed after being arrested for obscenity in Chicago and complained about testimony in his case consisting of a policeman reciting his act.
* Dennis Miller, full-stop.
* In ''An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge'', John O'Farrell discusses the effect that Norman domination of Saxon England would have hundreds of years down the line:
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* Barack Obama's speaking style is practically built on this. The man can switch from talking like the Harvard-educated master orator that he is to down-homey simplicity so fast it gives English majors whiplash. From the 2008 Alfred E. Smith charity event: "If I had to name my greatest strength, it would be my humility. My greatest weakness: it's possible that I'm a little too awesome."
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yghFBt-fXmw&feature=player_detailpage Autotune The News] has exploited this fact beautifully.
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*** For one where it's enforced, English majors. The students tend to be rather quiet and introspective (by definition, they tend to be bookworms), and usually are very sophisticated-sounding (thanks to a massive vocabulary and the knowledge of how to use it.) However, they frequently have to deal with some rather crass authors, such as Shakespeare, Chaucer (read ''The Miller's Tale'' or ''The Reeve's Tale'' sometimes, bawdy humor abounds) or Hemingway (the [[Memetic Badass]] who claimed that one valuable skill everyone should learn to do is "Develop a built-in bullshit detector.")
*** Or even law students. "It is my humble opinion that the learned trial judge's position was complete bollocks."
* Only one American publication I know of is more skillful at employing this trope than ''[[The Onion]]'': '''The Weekly World News'''. Nearly every paragraph of an average issue uses it, usually to great effect. In fact, this deeply misunderstood and underappreciated institution produces top-notch journalistic satire, not to mention a deliciously surreal view of American life that would please Charles Fort and Aleister Crowley as well as John Waters and P.T. Barnum. For decades, behind a smokescreen of anonymity, in a newsroom where awards, fame, and journalistic integrity meant nothing at all, young writers with nothing to lose, mature writers who just wanted to blow off steam, idealists who refused to play the game, burn-outs who played the game too hard, Hiassenesque [[Tough Guy
* Since we're including journalism here, Hunter S. Thompson was the undisputed king of this. He could mix in one ecstatic run-on Biblical pronouncement, scholarly analysis, down-home country expressions, and a magnificent [[Cluster F-Bomb]] in a way never surpassed.
* In ''The Unknown [[Marx Brothers]]'', a cooperative real-life example of this pops up when Dick Cavett relates an anecdote (and it definitely helps to hear him tell this in his calm, mannered delivery) about Chico Marx being a notorious womanizer, and a crude one at that. He is to meet Tallulah Bankhead, "a great aristocratic beauty", at a fancy party of some sort, and everyone's worried about Chico making an embarrassing pass at her and causing a scene. He promises he'll behave. The day comes, he meets her, they converse pleasantly, and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. Chico then tells Tallulah "You know, I'd really like to fuck you." She replies, "And so you shall, you old-fashioned boy." Cue Cavett's interviewers cracking up.
* [[That Guy With The Glasses]].com has [
* Jeffery Skilling, a former Enron executive, while applying for Harvard Business School, one of, if not the most formal schools in the country, was asked if he was smart. His answer? "I'm f***
* According to [[The Other Wiki]], even respected scholars refer to the tendency of semi-anonymous members of online communities to act more vulgarly and aggressively towards each other as the "[[GIFT|Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory]]". In addition to potentially being a misapplication of the word "Theory," the vocal dissonance is fucking
* Kevin Rudd, Australia's former PM (07-2'10), is guilty of this. Whilst explaining his reasoning behind the Government's latest actions with regards to the financial crisis, he broke his normal [[Spock Speak]] and actually said there'd be a "political shitstorm" in response to his plans. On national television, uncensored. The real kicker? The opposition parties, being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], actually accused him of employing this very trope so as to improve his polling
** Not really that remarkable. Australians swear quite a bit more than Americans, and Labor party members even more so.
* Similar to the ''[[Law
* Five Thirty Eight (a political statistics blog) had [https://web.archive.org/web/20131008214839/http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/george-f-will-takes-on-science-loses.html this beautiful sentence] when talking about denial of
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* Alex Kozinski, a Judge (currently{{when}} Chief Judge) on the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is famous for lacing his opinions with this trope. The most famous came in the 2002 case ''Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.'', arising over Mattel's accusation that [[Aqua]]'s song "Barbie Girl" turned [[Barbie]] into a sex object. Kozinski's opinion began as follows:
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::: (Kozinski found for MCA, which is why you can still find "Barbie Girl" on the market).
::: It is astounding that he didn't see fit to point out the absurdity in implying that Barbie hasn't always been a sex object. [[Sarcasm Failure|Perhaps it was too easy.]]
* Billy Connolly once recounted a conversation in which he was told that a mutual
** He did it again, when explaining that smelling of piss is not an attractive feature, stating you'd never hear Tolstoy saying the following:
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZygPpjsv1g This reporter.]
* [http://bit.ly/255QGU This academic paper,]{{Dead link}} which analyses slang terms for genitalia, is this trope incarnate. Possibly the only paper ever written to cite ''[[Viz|Roger's Profanisaurus]]'' as a reference.
** A similar example is the famous joke computer science paper [https://web.archive.org/web/20051226111159/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/arvindn/misc/knuth_song_complexity.pdf "The Complexity of Songs"] by Donald Knuth, with such lines as: "We have seen that the partridge in the pear tree gave an improvement of only 1/sqrt(log n) [...] The next big breakthrough was [...] a class of songs known as "m Bottles of Beer on the Wall" [...]"
* [http://www.badscience.net/ Ben Goldacre]; Doctor, Author, Blogger, Science Geek. He gives talks on topics like the Placebo and Nocebo effects, scientific research, bias in media reporting, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Q3jZw4FGs drops phrases like "skullfucked with his datacock" and "metric fuckton" into the middle of these important issues] with breathtakingly casual insouciance. It's not often you get to laugh out loud in a presentation about the numerous ways that shoddy science reporting is trying to kill you.
* Dwight Eisenhower wrote, in 1954:
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* George Takei has this policy when it comes to homophobia and anti-gay sentiments in the media. Remember, it ok to be Takei.
* The Irish parliament gives us this little exchange
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'''Deputy Emmet Stagg:''' The Deputy does not seem very sincere from what he has been saying.
'''Acting Chairman:''' Deputy Stagg will have his opportunity in a few minutes.
'''Deputy Paul Gogarty:''' [[With Due Respect|With all due respect]], in the most unparliamentary language, [[Precision F-Strike|fuck you]] Deputy Stagg. Fuck you. }}
* News coverage during the 2008 Hurricane Gustav, which looked like it was going to be a much bigger deal than it actually turned out to be, had a prize quote from the Mayor of New Orleans:
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=DObARq3r9MoC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=morphof-104inglogical&source=web&ots=MQ9cyQtUMi&sig=Tdi7DhdRy_I3hrRIKueV58oVTcI&hl=en#v=onepage&q=morphof-104inglogical&f=false This is an actual page] [[Textbook Humor|in a textbook]], and probably this trope in its purest form.
** In a similar vein is the classic linguistics paper "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130120214758/http://lonniechu.com/QUANG.html English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subjects]". The sentences in question include "Fuck you", "Fuck [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]", and "Fuck these seven irregular verbs."
** And "Fuck seven old ladies by midnight or I'll take away your teddy-bear."
* Tends to happen in Debating competitions, particularly at the university level. Probability of it tends to increase with the experience of the speaker and the quantity of alcohol consumed by participants. Although personal remarks about an opposing speaker are never acceptable, [[Berserk Button|ever]]. Their argument may be a load of **** ing **** but they are always your honourable friend.
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* Similarly, the BBC's "Green Book" from the 1940s on acceptable comedy material is loaded with this trope.
* [http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html This bit] from Neil Gaiman's journal:
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''George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.'' }}
* One [[YouTube]] commentator was disappointed with the level of discourse over [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npfCv3XhXjA this clip] from the [[Panel Game]] ''[[You Have Been Watching]]'', with musician Jamelia [[Absolute Cleavage|in a low-cut top]] and wrote:
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* The editor's note on [http://www.regrettheerror.com/2008/07/23/paper-misspells-its-name-on-front-page/ this] page.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f40TRJl5vvI Christopher Hitchens] has truly mastered this trope.
* A truly epic critique on the Erotic Literature page of 99chan, which can be found in its entirety [
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* According to [[The Other Wiki]], freshmen members of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets (known as fish) are required to answer any questions asked of them by upperclassmen with certain prescribed answers. If the freshman doesn't know the answer to the question, the required answer is as follows (spoken very rapidly):
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* [[Roger Ebert]] uses this from time to time in his film criticism. A famous example:
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* [[Salman Rushdie]] is a mild case, from time to time. Sometimes in interviews, sometimes in writings.
* A recent contestant on America's Got Talent juggled stun guns. Before the act, he said "It's a scientific fact that if I catch two of these on the wrong end, it will suck"
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* Houston Texans running back Arian Foster tweeted "This is an MRI of my hamstring, The white stuff surrounding the muscle is known in the medical world as [http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/6913877/arian-foster-houston-texans-tweets-mri-photo-hamstring anti-awesomeness]."
* William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal met for a debate during the DNC in 1968. What began as a debate descended into an insult-fest made of this trope. Its nadir was this exchange:
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* [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sex-toy-used-in-public-654819 This police report.] Many police reports have probably fallen under this trope.
* Rapper [[Ice Cube]] did [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRWatw_ZEQI this short film] on American Mid-Century Modern designers Ray and Charles Eames for the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art. His praise of the Eames' use of local environment and land in their house design:
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* [[Peter Cook]]. The following one-liner about a [[Sex Pistols]] concert is commonly attributed to him: "And there you have it. The first recorded instance of the fan hitting the shit."
* [[419 Scam]] e-mails often have this; the writers usually seem to have only a vague grasp of how the words they use work, even when they manage to imitate quite complex official or other language. (See also: [[Delusions of Eloquence]].) It might even sound authentic for a moderately long stretch of text, and then you'll suddenly run into an Internet shorthand like "pls", or something similar. (Of course, there's also enough [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] and [[Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma]] to go around.)
* Just because something is machine readable does not mean that its denotation is not street. This really gives a whole new meaning to the word "sophisticated". Wikidata has the following triples: Q8402 P31 Q2122. {{spoiler|Cunnilingus is an instance of oral sex.}} Q2122 P279 Q608. {{spoiler|Oral sex is a subclass of human sexual activity.}} Q5873 P279 Q608. {{spoiler|Coitus is a subclass of human sexual activity.}} Q608 P279 Q1190058. {{spoiler|Human sexual activity is a subclass of physical intimacy.}} Q608 P349 00570251. {{spoiler|Human sexual activity has NDL identifier 0570251.}} Q608 P910 Q7214518. {{spoiler|Human sexual activity is the main subject of bedroom farce.}} Also, Lojban attitudinals. For example, ki'ai .zanru. {{spoiler|"Defecately!"}}, iocu'i e'e mu'o fa'o {{spoiler|"Can it, I've got this."}} and oiuivi'oro'u {{spoiler|"Yyess, dark hellmistress."}}.
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