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'''Para:''' ...You were supposed to say "ass," brother. I thought we rehearsed this.|''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series]]''}}

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]].

* One episode of ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'', "Hassle in the Castle", has Team Rocket doing this with their motto.

* From ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]''

* [[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]].

* ''[[Turnabout Storm (Fanfic)|Turnabout Storm]]'': [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Derpy's]] poem regarding what she saw on the trial ends with this little verse regarding the prosecutor [[Jerkass|Trixie]]:

* [[The Lion King (Disney)|And OOOOOOOH, what a shame! (He was ashamed!) Thought of changin' my name! (Oh, what's in a name?) And I got downhearted...(How did you feel!?) Every time that I...(Hey Pumbaa, not in front of the kids!) Oh. Sorry.]]

* In Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'', Genie sarcastically "cheers" Jafar: "Jafar, Jafar, he's our man, if he can't do it, GREAT!"

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

And kick you in the...([[Anvil On Head|gets hit in the head]]) <br />

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

* Done randomly in the new ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'' movie:

* In ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Film)|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'', thinking he's terminally ill, a strippergram/prostitute dressed as a [[Hello, Nurse!|nurse]] is sent to his house, and greets him (actually his sister) with the rhyme:

* In ''[[Five Hundred Days of Summer (Film)|Five Hundred Days of Summer]]'', the main character Tom writes greeting cards. After he and Summer break up...

* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/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"):

** Also, the warning in the magical equipment shop in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]'':

* 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).

** 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:

* This was a gag about [[Once an Episode]] in ''[[Up Pompeii]]'' where one of the characters, [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|an extremely virginial young man]] would compose odes to his current crush which would suggest an obviously bawdy rhyme which was invariably subverted.

* ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'' has the novelty song,

* ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth Busters]]'' had one episode where the hosts were testing myths regarding flatulence, and were attempting to keep things tasteful, generally by using the scientific term "flatus" in place of...the common term for such. [[The Narrator|Rob Lee]] also avoided using said "common term", generally via [[Unusual Euphemism]] (or else via less offensive terms), but there was one time he danced around the word using this very trope:

* In one episode of ''[[Adventures in Wonderland (TV)|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!"

* [[Invoked]] and played by [[Voltaire (Music)|Voltaire]] during the whole song: ''The Dirtiest Song That Ain't''.

* [[Tom Lehrer (Music)|Tom Lehrer]] uses this trope in a few of his songs.

* [[Tally Hall (Music)|Tally Hall]] presents a pseudo-example of this for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it gag in the song "Haiku":

* From "Backdoor Lover", the song-within-[[Fake Band|a-band-within-a-movie]] from the ''[[Josie and The Pussycats]]'' film (wherein the title is a metaphor for both secret affairs and, ah, "unorthodox" sexual relations):

* Tim Wilson did a comedy sketch called "Love Songs for Losers" in which he offered fake clips from [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|love songs for people with very un-sexy names]]. One of them had the lyric:

** Similarly in "Natalie's Rap" ([[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|featuring]] [[Natalie Portman]]):

* "Almost Easy" by [[Avenged Sevenfold (Music)|Avenged Sevenfold]]:

* The rap group [[Insane Clown Posse (Music)|Insane Clown Posse]] never blush at spewing filthy language, so they usually ''don't'' employ this trope. But, ironically, they do use it in an unexpected way in the opening verse of "The Headless Boogie":

* Inverted in "Whiskey's Gone" by the [[Zac Brown Band (Music)|Zac Brown Band]]:

* Combined with [[Rhyming With Itself]] in Cracker's "Ms. Santa Cruz County":

* Two examples from [[Eric Bogle (Music)|Eric Bogle]]:

* [[MFDOOM]] is fond of doing this. Just one of many examples:

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

* The subversion still rhymes (of course it rhymes, it's Sondheim) but ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' teeters over the edge of profanity in Mrs. Lovett's song "The Worst Pies In London":

* It's not ''exactly'' a rhyme, since it's just the same word over and over again, but from ''[[The Book of Mormon (Theatre)|The Book of Mormon]]'':

* In ''[[Wicked (Theatre)|Wicked]]'', during Elphaba's birth in "No One Mourns the Wicked":

** "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>

* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', {{spoiler|Shantotto}} [[Rhymes On a Dime|always speaks in rhyme]] during {{spoiler|her}} cutscenes, except on one occasion:

** Also happens with a [[Last-Second Word Swap]] for an amusing comment by [[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Yuffie]] when explaining the [[Randomly Drops|game's Battlegen system]]:

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

* The ''[[Pacman]]'' ghosts: Pinky, Blinky, Inky, and [[Odd Name Out|Clyde]].

* In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', there's a point where Guybrush Threepwood has to subvert the rhymes of his crew.

* In one part of ''[[Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|SBCG4AP: Baddest of the Bands]]'', the player has to help Homestar fill in the words to his song by directing him to food items. However, one of them doesn't pan out as expected:

* Fawful in ''[[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story (Video Game)|Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story]]'' delivers this gem:

* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII 2]]'' provides us with the following gem, in a poem about the sheep of Gran Pulse titled "The Melancholy of the Lambs:"

* The [[Credits Song]] at the end of ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'', called "Want You Gone," gives us what seems like a heartwarming good-bye, but then [[G La DOS]] proves to be...well, [[G La DOS]], and subverts it to make it more insulting.

** And of course there's [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=547#comic strip 547], which provides examples of both [[Sublime Rhyme]] of "There once was a man from Natucket" (if only in a forced way) and this Koan-like gem, [[Bad News in A Good Way|under the pretense that rhymes can take the edge off bad news:]]

* ''[[Freakangels]]'' [http://www.freakangels.com/?p=50&page=4 Does this] to "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" by [[Older Than They Think|Jules Léotard]]

* Lampshaded in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', in the duel against the rhyming Paradox Brothers.

'''Marik''': "SHUT UP I AM [[Lady Gaga|LADY GAGA]]!" }}

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xcMxnNzp2I&feature=channel_page this] ''[[I'm a Marvel And Im ADC]]'' episode with [[Deadpool]] singing: I'm sure that his power ring's a lot of fun/ but can it ever really be as cool as my M16 with laser sided scope oh my ''GOD'' I love this thing.

* ''[[Celebrity Bric a Brac Theater]]'' has [[John Madden]] in the boots of Santa Claus. And we hear him exclaim as he rides out of sight:

* In [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]]'s ''[[The Lorax (Film)|The Lorax]]'' episode, she speaks in rhyme several times throughout, the final verse being:

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

* ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' did this in a segment of "Dot's Poetry Corner".

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' in "30 Minutes over Tokyo":

** There once was a rapping tomato. That's right, I said rapping tomato. He rapped all day, from April to May...and also, guess what, {{spoiler|[[Tomato in The Mirror|it was me]].}}

** And from "[[The Simpsons (Animation)/Recap/S7 E4 Bart Sells His Soul|Bart Sells His Soul]],:

* In the ''[[Angry Beavers]]'' episode "Yak in the Sac", the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Yak (a [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] parody to [[Dr. Seuss]]'s ''[[The Cat in The Hat]]'') attempts to ensnare the beavers by having them speak in rhymes. Norbert is in his thrall already, but Dagget resists:

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

* From the ''[[Bagpuss (TV)|Bagpuss]]'' song "The Boney King of Nowhere":

* At the end of ''[[Dan Vs]]'' "Ye Olde Shakespeare Dinner Theatre," Dan gloats over his victory thusly: