Perplexing Plurals: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Riley comments that, after falling in with the main characters, he suddenly finds himself needing to know the plural of "apocalypse".

** In another episode the Trio kept stumbling over the plural of "nemesis." Became a [[Brick Joke]] when a vampire the next season said it was "nemeses," which Buffy noted.

* There is a variant of this in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' (subverted maybe?). GOB is dense enough that he think he can avoid using an "S" by switching to a different plural noun. GOB has just chipped a tooth and is now whistling his S's:

{{quote| GOB: I have a few terms(whistle)... I mean conditions(whistle)... I have one term and one condition.}}