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== [[Comics]] ==
* An old EC ''[[Tales
* Suberverted in the "Earthquake" storyline of the [[Batman]] comics. Robin is examine the broadcasts from "Quakemaster" who claims to have caused the earthquake. When he realizes that the villain is avoiding words that contain the letter B, he deduces that the Quakemaster is actually a known bad guy who has a lisp.
* [[Richie Rich]] once told Cadbury of his distinctive difficulty pronouncing the word "ventriloquist". It later proves critical for Cadbury to realize that [[Something They Would Never Say|the Richie with him is an impostor when he says the word correctly]].
== [[Film]] ==
* From ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
* ''[[Hot Shots]]! Part Deux'' has this one: "On October 15, the President of the United States ordered a covert mission in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of rescuing soldiers taken hostage during Desert Storm. Only a handful of our highest government officials were aware of the operation, as it included an attempt to assasssan... assisss... kill a guy. "
** Bonus points because it was supposed to be an intro word crawl, in which it is completely stupid to have a misspronunciation.
* [[Finding Nemo|"You live in what kind of home?" "An an-emone-mone...an am-nem-o-nem-o-mne!"]]
* Doc from ''[[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White]]'' spoke like this occasionally.
* The second ''[[An American Tail]]'' movie has Tiger with "<s>A spy</s>- <s>A spee</s>- <s>A spididid</s>- An arachnid!"
** possibly a subversion, since 'arachnid' is arguably ''harder'' to say than what he was originally trying to say: 'spider'.
* In the 2009 ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
* Roscoe, in Tod Browning's ''[[Freaks]]''.
* A few characters in ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' have a hard time pronouncing the word "accompaniment," resulting in this trope.
{{quote| '''Everett:''' [[Blatant Lies|Well, we are negroes, sir]]. All except for our ac-c-c- our ac-c-c- uh, the man who plays the guitar.}}
* [[Colin Firth|King Albert VI]] in ''[[The King's Speech]]''.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Dave Barry]] In Cyberspace'' compares reading typewritten documents to "listening to Porky Pig try to complete a sentence" because of all the mistakes that have to be crossed out.
* In the third ''[[
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* During the end credits of ''[[Star Control]] 2'', while the game shows funny fake outtakes of conversations with the aliens, the Khor-Ah tries to give an intimidating speech but ends up failing to spell the word "Annihilate". It then gets REALLY upset and demands to speak to whomever wrote his script.
* Khalid in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
{{quote| "Here comes the calvary... The clavary... I'm a horsie!"}}
== Web Original ==
* [[
{{quote| "It's hard to believe that such a handsome man could become even handsomener-- han-- hand-- han-- ner, prettier."}}
* [[
* [http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/22797.html#cutid1 From a parody of Metal Gear Solid 2], we have a character introduce himself as "Shashalashka! I mean Shalashishka. Lashashaska. Shiska - OCELOT."
* An outtake from ''[[The Guild]]'' shows Tinkerballa having trouble with the word "women". After about five takes she finally replaces it with "girls".
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** Daffy Duck did this in one short where he had the hiccups:
{{quote| "A doc-(hic), a doc-(hic), a doc-(hic)...a physician!"}}
* ''[[The Mighty Ducks (
* The Giant in the Disney short ''[[Mickey and The Beanstalk]]'' can't pronounce "pistachio" right. He eventually settles for "green gravy".
* Ms. Li, from ''[[Daria]]'', during loooong negotiations: "Don't think you can intimiate... intermolate... don't think you can scare me with your threat to [[Full-Frontal Assault|picket naked]]!"
* In a recent episode of ''[[South Park]]'', one of the handicapped kids was molded after and spoke like Porky Pig.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* [[Rocky and Bullwinkle|Boris Badinov]] once used this:
{{quote| '''Boris (disguised in a lab coat):''': I'm a physis--physi--phy--I'm a druggist. }}
* An inversion in ''[[Back
{{quote| '''Freddy''': A gh-g-g-gh-g-gh-gh-apparition!"}}
* Coiffio does this in the first episode of ''[[Perfect Hair Forever]]''.
* Disney's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]], when the Caterpillar asks Alice "exacatically" what her problem is.
{{quote| '''Alice''': Well it's exactiticly...exacita...well, it's ''precisely'' this: I should like to be a little larger, sir.}}
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