Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Difference between revisions

'''Para:''' You may think it's rather crass...

'''Dox:''' But you can stick your cards right up your nose.

 

So...you're listening to a song, or are on one of those [[Planet of Hats|crazy planets]] where [[Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter|everyone speaks in verse]]. A rhyming couplet is set up, but rather than using a rhyme the speaker takes it in a different, non-euphonic [[Brick Joke|direction,]] either by speaking a different word, having it bleeped out, or cutting off an offending secti-[[Self-Demonstrating Article|part.]]

 

A subtrope of [[Last-Second Word Swap]], with a little bit of—Diet Coke. Compare with [[Painful Rhyme]], [[Rhyming with Itself]] and [[Midword Rhyme]]. Not to be confused with [[Lame Rhyme Dodge]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* A famous ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' fanart piece released just after the [[Macekre]] of the English dub does the "cut off" version:

Kick em in the...other knee" }}

 

* [[The DCU|Etrigan]] is a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Rhyming Demon]] who will occasionally [[Rule of Funny|break his station for comedic effect]].

{{quote|'''Etrigan''': Our heroes ,quite noble, have fallen to hell; may they curse their eternal foul luck. And while these champions may triumph o'er street crime quite well, down here with the demons they're totally doomed.

{{quote|'''The Maxx''': It is different somehow, this land isn't mine! And my brain has been freed! I'm not thinking in ...poetry stuff.}}

 

* [[Latias' Journey|Crawdaunt]] used The Assumption!

{{quote|There was an old farmer who lived on a rock

''But honestly, she was being a big stuck-up...Meanie...'' }}

 

* In the first ''[[Shrek]]'' movie:

{{quote|Please keep well off of the grass

* In ''[[The Rugrats Movie]]'' the moms are discussing the gender of Didi's then unborn baby and Charlotte says:

{{quote|You know the saying, born under Venus, look for a...(cell phone rings cutting her off) hello?}}

* During the Weasel fight in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'':

{{quote|'''Eddie''': I'm through with taking falls

Or a discontented whor...

..rible example, like a girl who's name was Carrie... }}

{{quote|'''Tom's Boss:''' I'm a bit worried about you, Tom.

'''Tom:''' Oh? Why?

 

== Literature ==

* Non-profane use: In the novel ''The Fairy's Return'', one character is constantly making up poems, but he always ends his couplets with a non-rhyming word, even when the word has an obvious synonym that does rhyme.

{{quote|"Now we sing this stupid song

Sing it as we march along

Why we sing this we don't know

We can't make the words rhyme prop'ly! }}

{{quote|Lovely to look at

Nice to hold

* The title of ''Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room'', by James Carville and Paul Begala.

 

* From the [[Musical Episode]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''Once More, With Feeling'':

{{quote|You're the cutest of the Scoobies

* [[CSI]] had a non-singing one in an early episode that centered on a hockey player.

{{quote|'''Catherine''':This guy was about pucks,bucks and...chicks.}}

{{quote|'''[[The Narrator|Rob Lee]]:''' We've all heard it: "Beans, beans, good for your heart, the more you eat, the more you"...er, produce flatus.}}

* In one episode of ''[[Adventures in Wonderland]]'', the White Rabbit has contracted "rhymitis", which forces him to [[Rhymes on a Dime|only speak in rhyme]]. After he's cured, he sings a song full of these, with each followed by the chorus "And you know what the best part is? It doesn't rhyme!"

{{quote|"Sitting in Class

Is a pain in the neck'' }}

{{quote|Well we got no class

And we got no principals

And we got no innocence

We can't even think of a word that rhymes! }}

{{quote|Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes (got big lanes, got big lanes)

Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same (look the same, look the same)

Where seagulls flew over their nests

She combed the long hair that hung over her shoulders... }}

{{quote|Oh, I'm Melvin Rose of Texas,

And my friends all call me Tex.

Opens up my eager eyes.

'Cause I'mmm Mr. Brightside. }}

{{quote|Grass below you, sky above,

Celebrate Spring with a crazy little thing called...Fuckin' outside. }}

{{quote|I pulled my groin, I pulled my groin

It hurts me when I skate, but not when I master...hills }}

** In the same vein is a supposed "Old English Folk Song", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os_mCU8uRiA sung here] by Bob Saget.

* [[Bat for Lashes]]' version of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire":

Instead of going to heaven

They all went to bed. }}

{{quote|His name was Nobby Hall, Nobby Hall

His name was Nobby Hall, Nobby Hall

{{quote|I met a guy, who drives a truck

He can't tell time but he sure can drive }}

{{quote|The moral of this story, like a jewel it is gleamin'.

But you'll never find it in a glass of warm...

John Mayer or Kelly Clarkson,

they both can suck my...penis }}

{{quote|Global market meltdowns,

A bailout by the Fed

Another reality, less dead

So many lies, so much brute force }}

{{quote|I know a girl called Dorothea,

She is very sick, she's got...a cold }}

He turns big men into whimpering cowards.

He's so strong and...how I adore him. }}

{{quote|Miss Lucy had some leeches

Her leeches liked to suck

But they don't know I have a really big heart }}

 

* "Fie on Goodness" in the musical ''[[Camelot (theatre)|Camelot]]'' contains the following lines:

{{quote|Ah, my heart is still in Scotland

And Mr. Stage Manager thinks I got too much sass

And the costumer don't know what to do with my big old...black...head, oh! }}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

You suck }}

* [[Destroy All Humans!|I'm a poet and I know it not!]] Oh, Arkvoodle....

{{quote|'''Korvak''': Magic makes me happy, magic makes me glad, magic makes the voices quiet, and nothing rhymes with purple.}}

** There's also Bard Roberts' shanty, recapping the "Great Brain Robbery" quest: "Mi-Gor tried to stop your heart's pace / Your foe's arm part anchor, part mace / Struck without delay / But him ye did slay / made him look a total...[beat]...moron."

''Without a man coming to pull''

''a tuft from my...side.'' }}

{{quote|''Goodbye, my only friend.''

''Oh, did you think I meant you?''

''That would be funny if''

''It weren't so sad.'' }}

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

{{quote|The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

Except for Reginald's,

** [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/02/13/cut-on-the-dotty-line/ ''Roses are red'' ''Violets are blue'' ''And so is this card''''Red, I mean'']]

* From the alt text of [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2213 this] ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'': "it happens to me randomly / though when i force it you can see / it gets bad pretty quickly / and that's why rhyming is... difficult"

 

== Web Original ==

{{quote|I'm gonna dress myself without an ounce of class,

Gonna make the boys all drool and stare at my...glasses }}

{{quote|Ten Dollar Solo. Not bad so far

There's internal rhyme

{{quote|Nose jobs, tummy tucks

These are the girls I like to...hang out with. }}

{{quote|Nachos, lemon head, my dad's boat

You won't go down 'cause my dick can {{spoiler|'''[[Running Gag|EFFORT!!]]'''}} }}

{{quote|I'm five foot eleven of sex

From the tip of my head to my gorgeous...knees. }}

{{quote|'''Baby Year 2008:''' [[Barack Obama|Barrack]] ''[sic]'' defeated Johnny

So long to the far-right.

I'm your Nostalgia Chick,

And I speak...for [[The Lorax|underrated Dr. Seuss books from the 1970s]]. }}

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|We built this car

All by ourselves,

** The painful thing about this is that the show can't go thirty seconds without a butt joke. Censoring it in the theme song is rather misleading.

** Let's not forget Animal School Musical...in this one song Jake was singing, he subverted every single rhyme. And the song was about his incapability to rhyme.

{{quote|'''Overlord:''' We'll do what we always do, blow the planet up and move on to the next one! [[Evil Sounds Deep|ISN'T THAT CUTE?]]

'''Timmy:''' That's horrible! And it didn't rhyme!

** In "Homer Loves Flanders", there's a football player named Stan "The Boy" Taylor.

{{quote|'''Crowd:''' STAN! STAN! HE'S OUR BOY! IF HE CAN'T DO IT, NO ONE...([[Beat]]) WILL!}}

{{quote|'''Actor Dot''': But Megabyte betrayed Bob and

He threw him deep inside the pit

and Bob was hosed

and all that he could say was

* ''[[The Maxx]]'' does this after becoming [[Trapped in TV Land|trapped in a cartoon.]] He speaks in rhyme throughout the entire sequence, until:

{{quote|To be first in the soil which erupts in a coil

This little piggy had roast beef,

And this little piggy shot a big-ass hole through his foot. }}

 

== Miscellaneous ==

Holy Nellie (etc.) }}

* At a certain public university in a certain eastern state, the men's glee club there maintained a deep repertoire of old and creatively dirty songs, one of which—called "High Above a Coopie's Garter"—employed an unusual version of this trope. The eight-line first verse, which the rhyme scheme clearly indicates should build toward the final word "...ass," instead ends with "...hmmmm." The second verse is then eight lines of humming, until the final word -- "...''ass''."

 

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