Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Difference between revisions

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|Bawdy Songs]] on American network television -- though of course the trope is much older than that: it's used in an Elizabethan broadside ballad about seducing a maiden, thus making it at least [[Older Than Steam]].

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]].

* Colin Mochrie, of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' fame, is very good at improv--but his talents do not lie in music. Inexplicably, during the American run of the show, Drew Carey's favorite game was Hoedown (his excitement at it visibly irritated Ryan Stiles at times), meaning it was performed very often. Mochrie didn't even try to sing most of the time, rhyming in a sort of chant. However, he gleefully subverted the format several times--in one about the lottery, saying he didn't care anymore, speaking briefly in tongues, running around the studio, and hugging an attractive audience member; another time, in a callback to an earlier gaffe with his microphone's battery, mouthing words but saying nothing, ending in "my battery pack!"; and once ending a hoedown verse about a traumatic event in "I lost the ability to rhyme" (which did not, obviously, rhyme with the previous line).

* 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 US--Jamjars at one point rhymes the Z button with "red," which works in the UK--where "Z" is pronounced "Zed"--but not the US, where it's pronounced "Zee."

* In ''[[Tweep]]'', [[http://www.tweep.com/comic/?date=07-23-04 when the blender explodes

** [[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'']]

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,

* An episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain|Pinky, ]] [[Retool|Elymra]] [[Pinky and The Brain|and the Brain]]'' contained a song with these lyrics:

* 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''."