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{{quote|''"Why do you keep saying [[Arc Words|that]]?" I said.''

When listing things, a character will repeat an item. Might end with "Did I mention X already?" when making a list. Common ways for it to show up are a list going "A, B, C, B, D, B, E... and did I mention B?" and "[[Blazing Saddles|You said X twice]]." "[[SpongeBob SquarePants|I]] ''[[So Good We Mentioned It Twice|like]]'' [[Blazing Saddles|X]]." These occur frequently, especially when listing things. This might also cause another character to remark "But of course!" in a French accent (in a play on the French expression ''mais bien sûr'').

 

 

== Advertisements using TV to promote products to you on television ==

* [[The Monkees]]' Kool-Aid [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFDzQZZc-4A commercial] from 1970, in which Micky Dolenz exclaims, "Hey, let's make some new sugar-sweetened Kool-Aid with the sugar already in it!"

* DOMESTOS: KILLS ALL KNOWN GERMS DEAD

* A 1980s print ad for Elephant brand floppy disks promoted the need to make backups by explicitly referring to the Department of Redundancy Department, "and what goes on when it goes on!"

* A magazine advertisement for a ''[[Duel Masters]]'' card-pack series (specifically, "Survivors of the Megapocalypse") states "Attack with the Billion-Degree Dragon and watch your opponent run like someone who is under attack and is frightened by that attack!"

 

== Anime Cartoons from Japan and Manga Comics from Japan ==

* In an early episode of the ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' anime, Mad Sarge tells his troops that "God's Army is the army of God." This is because in the Japanese version, the "God's Army" part was said in English and therefore needed an explaination in Japanese.

* Some fansubs translate on-screen text with their own superimposed text, and if a character is reading the text, they also subtitle it, even if that means writing (and reading) the exact same thing twice. Episode titles and "Turn your lights on and watch us from afar" disclaimers are particularly prone to this.

* The 80s dub of ''[[Captain Harlock]]'' gave us this gem, "Their tissues are made of paper, that's why they burn...like paper."

* From the ''[[Pokémon]]'' dub: "We are a band of Diglett thieves known as the band of Diglett thieves."

* ''[[Cardfight Vanguard]]'' has Aichi's {{spoiler|Gold Paladin}} attack and the [[Invocation]] the comes with it:

** Break the limit... Limit Break!

 

== Comics with Pictures and Dialogue drawn by Western comic book artists ==

* The title of ''[[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]] Special'' issue 7: ''Desperate Dan in Dan in Japan''. So Dan's in himself then? [http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz257/jakob1978/cache_500_1__a1047453_mainpicJPG.jpg\]

* The Kindle version of the third [[Simon's Cat]] book is titled both on the website and the download itself as "Simon's Cat: In Kitten Chaos: In Kitten Chaos (Simons Cat 3)"

 

{{quote|'''Katara''': This bad movie film was ruined long before we got here and entered it! And I have no regretful feelings of remorse at all for making fun of you in a mocking way! You were supposed to portray my own character, and you did not portray me with any accuracy at all! You cry and weep and sob and cry and pout and whimper and cry all the time, every scene, non-stop! You can't fight or engage in any combat! And you're mostly just useless in a non-useful way!}}

* This [http://anime-fanservice.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-567 NSFW edit] of a screencap from the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' anime.

* In an MST of ''[[The Girl Who Lived]]'' (the link can be found on this site on the main page of TGWL) we get this wonderfully snarky line:

{{quote|''feeling slightly relieved somewhat.''

Paging the Department of Redundancy Department. }}

** The "blood bananas made of blood".

** "I am Dark Yagami. You look sexyed. I am Dark Yagami."

** There's also this [[Mind Screw|confusing]] 'sentence'...

{{quote|He didn’t want nothing to happen to Henry Freeman because Henry Freeman was John Freeman saw Combines start to run like monsters to humens and Henry Freeman and saw Henry Freeman and humens run like brave to Combines.}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JPEq0Qp4Q The Mother of All Trailers!]

* While rescuing the eponymous [[Mary Sue]] during ''[[Legolas By Laura|legolas by laura]]'', Legolas explains to Laura that the orcs "bet you up and they raped you also the dark lord gave you some posion", even though Laura was there. When she wakes from her illness in Rivendell, he explains it to her ''again''.

* ''[[Deserving]]'' does this a lot, often giving the same piece of exposition three or four times (sometimes in the same scene) or tagging dialogue with a [[Said Bookism]] that reiterates what the dialogue has already made clear.

* It's common for those in the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' fandom to use "star" as a name prefix for their [[OCs]]. This is never done in the actual series, because it would create the inevitable [[Fridge Logic]] of the character being called "Starstar" if he or she ever became Clan leader.

{{quote|'''Kurt:''' You ''cook''. In a kitchen, with an apron and a spatula and ''cooking''.}}

* ''[[Hogwarts Exposed]]'' would probably be a third as long without all the redundancy. There are entire scenes that establish points of plot and characterisation that had already been established, exposition that tells the reader things they already know and sometimes things they'd already been told ''earlier in the same scene'', and several instances of characters [[Captain Obvious|"nodding yes" and "shaking their heads no"]]. Admittedly in some areas, nodding is a no and shaking is a yes, but these characters are [[We All Live in America|supposedly]] British.

* In the [http://zelda-queen.livejournal.com/18688.html MST] of ''[[My Inner Life]]'', Zelda Queen makes paging the Department of Redundancy Department a [[Running Gag]].

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1706782/StaraptorEmpoleon StaraptorEmpoleon] uses this so often it might as well be her [[Signature Style]]: "[[Lovable Sex Maniac|What I really wanted was sex]]. "[[That Makes Me Feel Angry|And I want sex...]]", I shuddered and [[Captain Obvious|fell to the ground backward because she pushed me down]]."

 

== New Media which is New and is a form of Media ==

* From [[The Other Wiki]]'s article on [[Pokey the Penguin]].

{{quote|"whom Pokey suspects of intending to steal his Arctic Circle-Candy (which grows in the Arctic)."}}

 

== Newspaper Comics printed in the Comics section of Newspapers ==

** There's a lot of jokes on how the bureaucratic monstrosity that is Dilbert's company is rife with literal redundant departments of redundancy. [http://dilbert.com/2011-04-27/ This comic sums it up nicely].

* One ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' strip had Rat write a list of "Top 5 things I can't stand". (The joke was that #1 on the list was ''Pearls'' itself) "Non-alcoholic beer" was both #3 and #2.

 

== Professional Wrestling by Professional Wrestlers Who Wrestle Professionally ==

{{quote|'''McGillicutty:''' And starting this moment... from now... from this moment on... this will be the moment... starting now... of the Genesis... of McGillicutty.}}

* "Uso", is the equivalent of "bro" or "sis" to two siblings of the same gender. Thus Rikishi's twin sons going by the "Uso Brothers" name in FCW is this. Upon calling them up to the main roster, WWE suddenly averted this trope by calling them simply "the Usos".

 

== Radio playing Radio Music and Radio News on the Radio ==

* One episode of ''[[Bob Dylan]]'s Theme Time Radio Hour'' had him listing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease as "memory loss, confusion, disorientation, memory loss, societal withdrawal, memory loss, and memory loss".

* A series of short radio comedy skits called The Adventures of Manman and Boyboy had as a villain in episode 42: [http://stephenpray.com/manman/042_man_who_is_redundant_man.mp3 Man who is Redundant Man].

 

== Standup Comedy done by Comedians while Standing Up ==

* [[Brian Regan]]'s routine about mixing up the expressions "Take care" and "Good luck":

{{quote|Take...luck! Take luck and care. Take...care of the luck! Good luck taking care of the, the luck that you might have, if you have luck, take it, and care for it. Take-care-of-luck--when you take all care of luck...you just might get it.}}

 

== Tabletop Games played by Gamers on the Top of a Table ==

* Naturally, Alpha Complex in ''[[Paranoia]]'' actually ''has'' a Department of Redundancy Department.

** And many other variations on the theme. "Oh, this is the Complex Supply Bureau. You want the Bureau of Complex Supply."

* In the fantasy world Glorantha (featured in, among other things, the RPG [[RuneQuest]]) the [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|local equivalent of China]] is bordered by the Shan Shan Mountains. In one Chinese language - I have forgotten which - "shan" means mountain. So they are the Mountain-Mountain Mountains. Did we mention that they are ''really high and impassable''?

* Due to some confusion when he first introduced himself, [[Ravenloft]]'s most infamous lich is referred to as "Azalin Rex" in official court documents of his domain of Darkon. Invokes this trope, as "Azalin" is actually a mangling of his old Oerth title of "Wizard-King", thus making him Darkon's "Wizard-King King".

 

== Theater with Actors played by people on a Stage in a Theater ==

To eke it and to draw it out in length... }}

*** [[Justified]] in that she's doing exactly what she says she's doing—stalling for time.

** Shakespeare uses it again in one of [[Much Ado About Nothing|Dogberry]]'s speeches:

{{quote|Marry, sir, they have committed false report;

Until you've crossed. }}

* The Seattle-based ACT Theatre. A Contemporary Theatre Theatre.

** [[Played for Laughs]]: At Act I Montfleury tries to say his lines four times, Cyrano orders him to disappear when Cyrano clap his hands the third time, the bore asks Cyrano three times if he has a protector. Lampshaded by Cyrano when he does not answer a three time:

{{quote|'''Cyrano:''' ''(irritated)'' No, I have told you twice! Must I repeat? }}

* [[Seussical|"...then you think, 'I'm a thinker, and I think thinks!'"]]

 

== Toys that you Play with using your Imagination ==

* Le-Matoran in ''[[Bionicle]]'' often use the term "Toa-Hero", which is redundant as the word "Toa " apparently means "hero" in the Matoran language. At one point, Kongu also points out that "Vezon" is the Matoran word for "copy". This is useful to the reader, however, Kongu and his friends are all ''[[Translation Convention|speaking the Matoran language,]]'' so that statement would have seemed completely [[Captain Obvious|useless]] to the people he was speaking to.

* On the back of the packaging for Ratchet's toy from the ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' series, Ratchet is listed as "[http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfxckTC541r0k4bco1_400.jpg Autobot Ratchet (Autobot)]". This is quite common among a certain class of Transformer names, as those Transformer names cannot be trademarked by the maker of Transformers, Hasbro, so Hasbro adds the faction designation, in this case Autobot or Decepticon, to the name of that Transformer, so it is trademarkable. Examples include Autobot Jazz, Decepticon Brawl, and Autobot Ratchet. If any of those characters show up in ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', they will likely have packaging declaring "Autobot Jazz (Autobot)", "Decepticon Brawl (Decepticon)", or "Autobot Ratchet (Autobot)".

 

== Troping Tropes Of Trope Wikis ==

** Department of Redundancy Department uses this trope.

* The trope names for [[Tsurime Eyes]] and [[Tareme Eyes]] (the "me" in both means "eyes").

 

== Warning Labels That Provide Warnings on their Labels ==

** Amusingly, peanuts aren't actually nuts, which puts an interesting spin on the traditional 'may contain nuts' warning.

* Because of regulations or lawsuit-related ass covering, in the US a lot of food products that obviously have a product in them (Peanut M&Ms have peanuts!)have this trope in action on their packaging. Like milk or cheese labeled "Contains Dairy product."

 

== Web Animation Moving Pictures Uploaded to the Internet ==

"Oh boy! What flavor?"

"PIE FLAVOR." }}

 

== Webcomics made and Uploaded to the Internet by Webcomic Artists ==

{{quote|Faye:"[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic{{=}}683 Oh god. I'm going to vomit, then my vomit will vomit, and then THAT will vomit vomiting vomit of its own. We'll drown in a sea of recursive stomach juices.]"}}

* Cloud from ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'' threatens to carry out a special attack that causes surprisingly [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/06/06/0279-special-attack-i/ painful pain].

 

== Web Original uploaded to the Internet and consisting of Original Content which can be found on the Web ==

* From [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s "Nintendo World Championships" Review:

{{quote|'''Nerd:''' They just cut out the logo with cheap paper and they glued it on...with glue.}}

 

== Western Animation Animated by Westerners and geared towards Western audiences who enjoy Animation ==

* Pinkie Pie of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' lapses into this pretty often. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Likely because her usual train of thought is best described as a crumpled Mobius strip.]]

{{quote|"Maybe Gilda isn't a big, mean, grumpy, mean meanie-pants. Maybe I'm just a big, jealous, judgmental, jealous jealousy-pants."}}