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{{quote| [[Mushroom Samba|Drink cactus juice! It'll quench ya! Nothing's quenchier! It's the quenchiest!]]}}

* When some of the older ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' shorts were aired on TV in the 60's via The Woody Woodpecker show, apparently SOMEBODY at the studios felt that it was necessary to add extra dialogue to the shorts which read clearly visible, readable signs. (i.e. In the TV cut of the short The Loan Stranger, when we first see the Sympathy Loan Company the new Woody Woodpecker dialogue reads out the large, plainly visible words on the buildings signs.) Thankfully, the Woody Woodpecker collections use the original, uncut shorts with no unwarranted, pointless editing done to them like this.

** This was probably done to cater for children, unable to read what the signs say. It's seen occasionally in some countries that have the practice of dubbing English cartoons in the local language.

** Homer in "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie": "I can't let that happen, I won't let that happen, and I can't let that happen!"

** Some of the Stonecutters' usual activities: "Beer busts, beer blasts, keggers, stein hoists, A.A. meetings, beer nights..."

*** This is commented on by Mojo when he [[Interactive Narrator|forcibly replaces the narrator]], and [[Hypocritical Humor|complains that kind of redundancy is rather annoying.]]

** The Mayor of Townsville is named ''[[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Mayor]]''. It gets especially silly when Mayor was ousted from his position, where he used to be Mayor Mayor. He's essentially ex-Mayor Mayor. He got better though, and got his position back.

{{quote| '''Baloney:''' ''(singing)'' I is for Imagine, M is for Me, A is for the letter A, G is for Gee, I is for... Imagine, N is for Nice, E for Egad! I said Imagine twice!}}

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'':

'''Danny:''' Um, you said "executioner" three times.<br />

'''Walker:''' I like that part of the job. }}

{{quote| '''Carl the Evil Cockroach Wizard:''' I will be your judge, your jury, your executioner, executioner, and executioner!<br />

'''Yang:''' Um, you said "executioner" three times.<br />

'''Carl the Evil Cockroach Wizard:''' Well... there's three of you. }}

* An episode of ''[[The Critic]]'' had the title character interviewing for a job as a truck driver, and the interviewer repeatedly asked the question "Are you prone to having blackouts?"

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI2ZJCLmAUQ You sure like shrimp, Mr. President.]

* ''[[The Boondocks]]'': "Now that it looks like [[Barack Obama|Obama]] is going to win, as a Black African-American Negro, are you very excited, or are you ''extremely'' excited?"

{{quote| '''Lobo:''' The name's Lobo. That's "L" as in "Lacerate", "O" as in "Obliterate", "B" as in "disemBowel", and "O" as in... Eh, I guess I can use "Obliterate" twice, huh, what do you think?}}

{{quote| '''Freakazoid:''' Hey, what is this place? Palm Trees... [[Hula and Luaus|Hula girls!]]... Pineapples... Hula girls!... Surfboards... Hula girls!... Hula girls!... Hula girls!... Of course, it all adds up! [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?|I've somehow landed in Norway!]]<br />

'''Freakazoid:''' This is very used, and there's good stuff comin' on... good stuff. I'm laughing on the inside. Good stuff. }}

* Back in the day (to be more precise, the 1930s animated short ''What, No Spinach?''), Wimpy once showed [[Popeye]] a menu that said "Hamburgers, Roast Duck, Hamburgers, Soup, Hamburgers". ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2SbT12z9ho 2:07])

** "Nice selection you got there."

{{quote| '''Patrick:''' I'm so cold I'm shivering!<br />

'''SpongeBob:''' I'm so cold I can use my nose drippings as a pair of chopsticks!<br />

'''Mr. Krabs''': Well, the way I see it, you have three possibilities: one, you put the dime in me pants; two, you put the dime in me pants; or three, YOU PUT THE DIME IN ME PANTS!! }}

* The [[PBS]] show ''[[Word Girl]]'' had a short that illustrated the meaning of the word "redundant". Lady Redundant Woman was a villainess who could create copies of herself and liked to use several words that meant the same basic thing when one would do ("You're perplexed... confused..." etc. as she gloats). She came to the heroine's attention when she stole a sofa, a couch, ''and'' a futon. Also works in a copier store and when asked to make white copies, she makes them in pearl, ivory and plain ol' white.

{{quote| '''Car Salesman:''' Oh, that's just an old tank I use for those commercials where I declare war on high prices! Now, about that sedan...<br />

'''Peter Griffin:''' Na-nnnya na dub yeh... hang on there slick, now I see your game! We come in here wanting a practical car but then you dangle this tank in front of me and expect me to walk away. Well I may be an idiot but there is one thing I am not sir... and that, sir, is an idiot. Now I demand you tell me more about this tank!<br />

** ''Mysterious Mysteries (Of Strange Mystery)''.

** "There's waffle in 'em!" (Stated, of course, with regard to waffles. That is what they were.)

{{quote| '''Cheese:''' "Gottagogottagogottagogottagogottago!"<br />

'''Frankie:''' "Please, listen to me and listen carefully. I have had a crazy day. I can forget all about the sandwiches, dentists, courthouses, the brain-sucking aliens from the outer who-knows-where..."<br />

{{quote| "We need to make our wishes now, quickly, A.S.A.P."<br />

"I am here! I have arrived! I have reached my destination." }}

** Another episode has Twilight telling Spike to fetch the "Astronomical Astronomer's Almanac to All Things Astronomy".

** Twilight's recursive checklists in "Lesson Zero".

* This is the [[Verbal Tic]] of [[Angela Anaconda]], who has this as her [[Verbal Tic]]

** A better question is why the hell do they have ''guns'' in medieval...Persia-lookalike?

** In one episode, Genie introduces himself as being with the Federal Bureau of Bureaucratic Bureaucracy.

{{quote| '''Robotnik:''' Nincombots! Metal morons! Idiots! Robotic rejects! Seditious slabs of insalubrious circuitry! You... you... you nincombots!<br />

'''Scratch:''' Excuse me, Your Viciousness, you already said that.<br />

'''Robotnik:''' Then allow me to repeat myself yet again! ''You are '''nincombots!''''' }}

{{quote| '''Candace:''' Stay away from me, and my friends, and my gelatin that I don't want ruined with your ruiny ruinness.}}

** After Doofenshmirtz puts out a campfire.

{{quote| '''Doofenshmirtz:''' You know, fire is the leading cause of fire.}}

** "Space Adventure! It's an adventure in space!"

{{quote| Phineas: ...you sat there and let us help an ''evil'' scientist open an ''evil'' portal into an ''evil'' dimension!}}

** Or this [[Running Gag]] from "Isabella and the Temple of Sap".

* Anyone remember ''[[The Angry Beavers]]''?

** "Spooty spoothead."

{{quote| '''Cleveland Jr.:''' Rallo, are you done with the Internet? Because I need to find some data about building a rocket for the school science fair, because they're having a science fair at school, and I want to build a rocket for it.}}

* The [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]] of the ''Pith Possum'' segments of ''[[The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show]]''. "The Phantom Mask Of The Dark Black Darkness Of Black", anyone?

* In ''[[Life With Louie]]'', after Louie has a bad experience with a tornado and his school principal devises a complex (and expensive) 11-step program to cure him of his agoraphobia, the following exchange occurs:

'''Andy:''' Well, you're still here, aren't you? }}

* Alejo's catchphrase in ''Alejo And Valentina'': "How about we go eat food?"

{{quote| '''Zoidberg:''' My first clue came at 4:15, when the clock stopped. My second clue came two hours later, ''at 4:15'', when I found the murdered body of Amy's dead, deceased corpse.}}

** The New Justice Team theme song embodies this trope. The first verse:

{{quote| '''Ribgy:''' It's supposed to say Rigby but they misspelled my name wrong.}}

* [[Megas XLR|The R.E.G.I.S Mk5]] is invincible. Your pathetic weapons cannot harm the R.E.G.I.S Mk5, which is invincible.

* The [[So Bad It's Good|classic]] ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Transformers]]'' episode "City of Steel" brings us this memorable line as Mirage, Ratchet and Hound wrestle a robotic alligator.

{{quote| '''Mirage:''' This alligator is big and heavy!<br />

* Occasionally shows up in ''[[Megas XLR]]''

{{quote| '''REGIS''': The REGIS Mk.5 is invincible. No weapon forged by such a primitive species can defeat REGIS, which is invincible.}}

* ''[[Transformers Prime]]'''s Starscream combines this with [[Blind Idiot Translation]] in the Hungarian dubbing, with the following line: "Who was the student of my former master, just like me."<ref>Original line: "One who can be student to my master."</ref>