Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Difference between revisions

== Film: Animated ==

{{quote|Please keep well off of the grass

Shine your shoes, wipe your...face. }}

== Film: Live Action ==

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

And bouncing off the walls

Without that gun

I'd have some fun

'''Eddie''': No, but ''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|this does!]]'' ([[Groin Attack|kicks Smarty in the junk]]) }}

{{quote|So 'till then, I'll have to master...my own fate.}}

* ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian|Always Look On The Bright Side of Life]]'':

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|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

== Live Action TV ==

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

with your lips as red as rubies

'''[[Dude in Distress]]:''' How can I repay--

'''Buffy:''' Whatever. }}

{{quote|Every soul that plays this role risks injury or death,

I'd rather sweep the bloody stage than ever do [[Macbeth|MacYouKnowWho]]. }}

{{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 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).

Boys becoming men,

Men becoming wolves! }}

{{quote|'''Kenneth''': You made a promise to Masi Oka. "Conserve electricity. Don't be a zero, be a good guy!" ...[[Lampshade Hanging|Why doesn't that say 'hero?' That feels like a real missed opportunity.]]}}

* On ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', during the Loretta Lynn episode, Fozzie, Scooter, Annabelle, and Link Hogthrob sing what's supposedly "The Rhyming Song". As might be expected, none of the lines in the verses rhyme. (They're also disjointed, but that's another story.)

The rich get rich and the poor get -- children. }}

** The second time 'round, the poor get "laid off."

** From 'Pimlico':

{{quote|Sometimes London don't seem too appealing

{{quote|This song doesn't make it's own luck

'cause this song doesn't give a flying family planning clinic. }}

* [[OK Go]]'s Let It Rain:

{{quote|Did you come here to dance?

I know if I put my mind to it

I know I could find a good rhyme here }}

{{quote|"Sitting in Class

Is a pain in the neck'' }}

{{quote|Well we got no class

And we got no principals

She has ovaries and I have a...light saber }}

* Stephen Lynch loves doing this in his songs.

{{quote|"And if I were gay

We would tear down the walls

He'd whittle something new, and he'd whittle something old

He'd whittle something hot, and he'd whittle something ''rather chilly''... }}

{{quote|Our baby fell out of the window

You'd think that her head would be split.

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.

I was born in old Shamokin,

Which is why they call me Melvin Rose. }}

{{quote|Now they're going to bed,

And my stomach is sick,

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. }}

*** Alternatively, you can think of "speak" rhyming with the first syllable of "'''week'''ends."

* [[Paul and Storm]], who often tour with [[Jonathan Coulton]], have one of their own in "Cruel, Cruel Moon." You keep waiting for them to sing "...and then rip me apart." but they never do.

{{quote|And the night followed day

And the storytellers say

We'd play all day with Sally J.

The girl from number '''four''' }}

{{quote|Ra! Ra! Rhee! Kick 'em in the knee!

Ra! Ra! Rhass! Kick 'em in the other knee! }}

Outra realidade menos morta

Tanta mentira, tanta força bruta }}

{{quote|What's the worth of being son of the saint

Would be better being son of the other

It's a long way back to Germany

It's a long way back to Germany }}

* There's this bit from Ludo's Rotten Town:

{{quote|Heigh, heigh, yo-ho

Fast!

He's comin' for my ass with a shovel (instead of "pick")! }}

{{quote|I am the fire

You use me to light the gas.

{{quote|There's a a face in every window of the Songwriters' Neighborhood

Everybody's your best friend when you're doing well...I mean good }}

{{quote|Socks are thin and socks are thick

You can even wear one on your...hand. }}

== [[Video Games]] ==

{{quote|Roses are grey

Violets are grey

* The trope title itself is an example. If you don't get it...we can wait.

* [[Cake Wrecks]] does it twice in the description of a [http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2011/6/30/my-new-favorite-wedding-cake.html wedding cake that appears to have sperm on it] First "Roses are red,/Butterflies are blue,/Um.../Pardon me, but are those sperm on your wedding cake?" and then in Poem Option #3: Roses are red/And cake can be pretty./How sad for you,'Cuz yours looks all.../[eyeing children]/...unpleasant.

{{quote|'''Para''': We are villains who like to rhyme...

'''Dox''': In fact, we do it all the time.

** There's also this classic gem.

{{quote|Sassy Cat, Sassy Cat, full of sass, full of sass, if you don't like it you can kiss her '''BUTT'''!}}

{{quote|'''Dot''': Beans, beans, the musical fruit.

The more you eat, the more you get kicked off the air for finishing this poem. }}

'''Jake:''' Oh. That's okay, then. }}

** 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.

* An episode of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this, with Timmy being sent to the planet Yugopotamia, which has been conquered by the Gigglepies, an alien species that wear cuteness and rhyming [[Planet of Hats|as a hat]]. When Timmy inquires to their overlord about what they will do to their planet:

{{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?]]

(Lisa gets hit by a spitball)

'''Lisa''': "Ow! Spitballs!" }}

{{quote|'''Sherri and Terri''': Bart sold his soul, and that's just swell,

Now he's going straight to...

And blew it all to...pieces }}

* An alliterative example: [[Textbook Humor|A number of popular science writers]] are fond of describing the basic drives of all animals (including humans) as involving the "Four F's: Feeding, Fighting, Fleeing, and Reproducing."

** ''Roses are red'' ''Violets are blue'' ''I've got Multiple Personality Disorder''''And so do we!''

*** ''Roses are red'' ''Violets are blue'' ''I've got Dissociative Identity Disorder''''For goodness' sake settle on a bloody name for what we've got already!''

*** ''Violets aren't blue'' ''These poems are lazy'' ''Political correctness''''Is driving us mad.''

* A piece of bathroom graffiti, riffing on a classic piece of bathroom graffiti.

How many women did he...HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH? }}

* An older jump rope rhyme:

Lincoln Beachey thought it was a dream..." }}

* There is a Dutch poem which for the whole of the poem actually changes words to rhyme with the previous line. It's about a knight going to rescue a damsel from a dragon. The dragon agrees to let her go if the knight composes a verse on them - he doesn't get her: he can't rhyme.