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* ''[[Transporter]] 2''
{{quote| '''Gianni:''' Perhaps I can help you! What part are you a little... how you say, "thick" on?}}
* ''[[James and Thethe Giant Peach]]''
{{quote| '''Spider:''' We are in the middle of the, how do you say, the big puddle.<br />
'''Centipede:''' Biggest puddle of 'em all, angel fangs ? the Atlantic Ocean. }}
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* ''Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion'' (1955) episode "Rodeo":
{{quote| '''Payroll Sgt. Zach Zachariades:''' A legionnaire in love is, how you say, like a starving man looking in the window of a delicatessen store. He cannot touch what he's crazy to have.}}
* ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'' episode "The A-Team Is Coming, the A-Team Is Coming":
{{quote| '''Katrina Karpov:''' How you say? Take off all your clothing?}}
* ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' episode "Barcelona, May 1917":
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* The ''[[Saturday Night Live|"How Do You Say? Ah, Yes." Show with Antonio Banderas]]''.
* Parodied on the US version of ''[[The Office]]'' where Michael thought it was necessary to say "How you say?" to a perfectly English-fluent and non-French Canadian woman under the basis of her being "foreign".
* In ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'', a staple of Hawaiian detective Harry Hou's dialogue. As Max is providing the desired word, it's of course never the correct one.
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' has the [[Borat]] [[Expy]] use the [[Sophisticated As Hell]] version to say that he is "How do you say, kind of a dick."
* Poked fun at with Amir in ''[[Hardly Working]]'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-cAoBCU8E&list=FLXn2SIdD2vmc&index=295 Airplane]:
{{quote| '''Amir:''' Don't be a, how you say, hero!<br />
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{{quote| '''Horst:''' I must have phrased that bad. My English is, how you say, inelegant.}}
** Of course, part of the hilarity is that he's actually speaking grammatically (if not phonetically) flawless English.
* ''[[Captain Planet and Thethe Planeteers]]'' episode "Isle of Solar Energy":
{{quote| '''Linka:''' See? We found the correct cave ? how do you say ? right off the bat?}}
* Used frequently in ''[[Godzilla: theThe Series]]'' with the native Frenchwoman of the team, Monique, even though her English is competent and avoids [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]. Memorably inverted once with (paraphrasing):
{{quote| '''Monique:''' We will, how you say, throw a monkey wrench in the works?<br />
'''Nick:''' In English, we call it 'sabotage'. }}
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