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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.]]
This is most often used for comedy: generally, the rhyme set up and subverted was clearly supposed to be a profanity. (If the replacement word begins the same way as the averted word, this amounts to a deliberate [[Curse Cut Short]].) It's one of the myriad gimmicks used for [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], and when used this way is known as a "Miss Susie", after one of the most famous examples. Sometimes in this case the cut-off word will appear in a different context as a [[Midword Rhyme]] (The steamboat went to '''Hell'''/o operator.) Doing this is the only way to get the worse [[Bawdy Song
Known as a [[wikipedia:Mind Rhyme|mind rhyme]] according to [[The Other Wiki]].
A subtrope of [[Last-Second Word Swap]], with a little bit
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* From ''[[That '70s Show]]'':
{{quote|'''Michael Kelso:''' If this van's a rockin'...we're in there doing it!}}
* Colin Mochrie, of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' fame, is very good at
** On the other hand, however, many of the other stars on the show, particularly Greg Proops, do this so often and easily that subverting a profane rhyme is called "Pulling a Greg" in [[Fan-Speak|the fan community]]. Example:
{{quote|The other day my girlfriend said 'Greg, you wanna thrill'?
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I'm dead
And colorblind. }}
* In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]'', Jamjars, who teaches you moves, does so in a rhyming style. Sometimes, he ends up rhyming the button names, which, while always rhymed in the original version, often did not rhyme in the Xbox Live Arcade version. You'd have the same problem if you played the original game in the
** Also in ''Banjo-Tooie'', Gruntilda, who has spoken entirely in rhyming couplets all through Banjo-Kazooie, and up to that point in the sequel, says "Oh, very well then" in response to a demand by her sisters to stop the incessant rhyming.
* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', {{spoiler|Shantotto}} [[Rhymes on a Dime|always speaks in rhyme]] during {{spoiler|her}} cutscenes, except on one occasion:
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{{quote|That's enough; I don't feel well.
I fall down; You go to ugh...*collapses* }}
* In ''[[Tweep]]'',
* From ''[[Housepets]]'':
**
* 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"
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Mrs. Roberts didn't like him,
but that's 'cos she's a
Cont<ref>In a [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] moment they got away with this first syllable being pronounced [[Country Matters|Cunt]]</ref> aminated water,
can really make you sick,
Your bladder gets infected,
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Please bring me some food. }}
** Or it could've just been a free verse poem. The comedic effect is the poem making no sense whatsoever, not because it didn't rhyme.
* An episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain|Pinky,
{{quote|Romance,
A chance
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And stick a poker up its-
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
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