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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]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* A famous ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' fanart piece released just after the [[Macekre]] of the English dub does the "cut off" version:
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Kick em in the...other knee" }}
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* [[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.
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{{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.}}
== Fan Works ==
* [[Latias' Journey|Crawdaunt]] used The Assumption!
{{quote|There was an old farmer who lived on a rock
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''But honestly, she was being a big stuck-up...Meanie...'' }}
== Film ==
* In the first ''[[Shrek]]'' movie:
{{quote|Please keep well off of the grass
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* 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
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Or a discontented whor...
..rible example, like a girl who's name was Carrie... }}
* In ''[[500
{{quote|'''Tom's Boss:''' I'm a bit worried about you, Tom.
'''Tom:''' Oh? Why?
'''Tom's Boss:''' Well, your latest card reads: "[[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue|Roses are red. Violets are blue.]] [[Precision F-Strike|Fuck you,]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|whore.]] }}
== 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.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'', Detritus trains new City Watch recruits, and teaches them his [[Sound Off|jody]] (which "somehow, you could tell it was made up by a troll"):
{{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! }}
** Also, the warning in the magical equipment shop in ''[[
{{quote|Lovely to look at
Nice to hold
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* 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.
== Live-Action TV ==
* From the [[Musical Episode]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''Once More, With Feeling'':
{{quote|You're the cutest of the Scoobies
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{{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)
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Where seagulls flew over their nests
She combed the long hair that hung over her shoulders... }}
* [[Allan Sherman]] used this trope in one of the parodies in his medley ''"Shticks And Stones"'' on his 1963 album ''My Son, The Folk Singer''; in this case, he detoured around what was then a borderline obscenity in Yiddish, the word "schmuck":
{{quote|Oh, I'm Melvin Rose of Texas,
And my friends all call me Tex.
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Opens up my eager eyes.
'Cause I'mmm Mr. Brightside. }}
* The obscenity-ducking is inverted in Jonathan Coulton's ''[http://www.jonathancoulton.com.nyud.net/songdetails/First%20of%20May First of May]'':{{Dead link}}
{{quote|Grass below you, sky above,
Celebrate Spring with a crazy little thing called...Fuckin' outside. }}
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{{quote|I met a guy, who drives a truck
He can't tell time but he sure can drive }}
* Bowser and Blue's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ5kHHl9U5M "Polkadot Undies"] is entirely built on this trope, and it even lampshades it in the last verse.
{{quote|The moral of this story, like a jewel it is gleamin'.
But you'll never find it in a glass of warm...
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John Mayer or Kelly Clarkson,
they both can suck my...penis }}
* Done in [[JibJab]]'s latest{{when}} 'Year in Review' song, where the lyrics cut to the same word, only in a different context.
{{quote|Global market meltdowns,
A bailout by the Fed
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But they don't know I have a really big heart }}
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* A ''[[The Now Show]]'' example from someone other than Mitch; Marcus Brigstocke's Dr Seuss poem about the Copenhagen summit has Gordon Brown taking a stand:
{{quote|He suggested the EU should lead from the front
So the [[British Newspapers|Mail and Telegraph]] called him something very unpleasant indeed }}
** Laura Shavin:
{{quote|Twenty years ago, a man called John Gray, [[Sarcasm Mode|a genius]],
Wrote a book called ''[[Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus]]'',
All about the differences between us,
And it's not just that men have got...a Y-chromosome...it's Radio 4...not sure we can say [[Subverted Trop|penis]]. }}
* At least one [[Abbott and Costello]] radio episode featured these.
* Played straight and subverted on ''[[How Green Was My Cactus]]'' when Little Johnny Howler and John Fosters (the Cactus Island counterparts of Liberal party politicians John Howard and John Elliot) appeared as [[The Two Ronnies|The Two Johnnies]], and Fosters demonstrated that he had no understanding of what actually made the gag work:
{{quote|'''Fosters:''' A brawl broke out outside Parliment House last night, during which Seanator Ros Kelly was punched in the belly...
'''Howler:''' ...the Honorable Barry Jones broke a few bones...
'''Fosters:''' ...and Senator Steele Hall was kicked in the carpark. ''(pause)'' Shouldn't that have been 'balls'? }}
== Theatre ==
* From the play ''Saturday's Children'' by Maxwell Anderson:
{{quote|'''Florrie''': It's vain of its face
It's vain of its figger
It's just fat enough
But it mustn't get - larger
'''Willy''': Rhyme it you dancing fool, rhyme it!
'''Florrie''': Um - it never uses bad words. }}
* Used in the [[Reduced Shakespeare Company]]'s "Othello Rap":
{{quote|Now Othello loved Desi like Adonis loved Venus.
And Desi loved Othello
'Cuz he had a big...SWORD! }}
** Even before that, they've already pulled a similar trick:
{{quote|Their fate pursues them, they can't seem to duck it,
(pause) And then in Act 5, they both kick the bucket. }}
* Used by [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|Shakespeare]] [[Older Than Steam|himself]] in ''[[Hamlet]]'':
{{quote|'''Hamlet:''' (singing) For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
This realm dismantled was
Of Jove himself; and now reigns here
A very, very--pajock. }}
** "Pajock" was a synonym for "peacock," and "was" [[Get Thee to a Nunnery|would have been pronounced]] to approximately rhyme with "ass". Immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Horatio<nowiki>:</nowiki>
{{quote|'''Horatio:''' You might have rhymed.}}
* A Stanley Holloway monologue has this line:
{{quote|And was George afraid? Yes, he was and he run,
And he hid there in one of the ditches,
While the Dragon, the pig, ate his ferrets and pup,
Aye, best of his prize-winning er - she dogs. }}
=== [[Musical Theater]] ===
* "Fie on Goodness" in the musical ''[[Camelot (theatre)|Camelot]]'' contains the following lines:
{{quote|Ah, my heart is still in Scotland
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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]] ==
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''That would be funny if''
''It weren't so sad.'' }}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** [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 ==
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{{quote|I'm gonna dress myself without an ounce of class,
Gonna make the boys all drool and stare at my...glasses }}
* Used cleverly on multiple occasions in ''Commentary! The Musical'', the musical commentary to ''[[
{{quote|Ten Dollar Solo. Not bad so far
There's internal rhyme
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I'm your Nostalgia Chick,
And I speak...for [[The Lorax|underrated Dr. Seuss books from the 1970s]]. }}
== Western Animation ==
* Billy and Irwin sing a song like this in the ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
{{quote|We built this car
All by ourselves,
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and Bob was hosed
and all that he could say was
'''Actor Bob''': [[Big No|Noooo!]] }}
* ''[[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
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This little piggy had roast beef,
And this little piggy shot a big-ass hole through his foot. }}
== Miscellaneous ==
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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''."
* Yet another limerick, with an [[I Resemble That Remark]] twist:
{{quote|There once was a man from Japan
Whose poetry never would scan
When asked why it was,
He answered, "Because,
"I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can."}}
=== Electronics ===
* The voice sample for the "Boing" synthesized voice in Mac OS X uses a classic example of this:
{{quote|Spring has sprung
Fall has fell
Winter's here
And it's colder than usual. }}
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