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== Literature ==

* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Lemony Narrator|narration]]. ''[[Signature Style|Always]]''. But especially in [[Discworld]].

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' is chock full of them, particularly negative similes describing exactly what something is unlike:

* [[Philip Marlowe]], [[Trope Codifier]] for the [[Private Eye Monologue]].

* ''[[The Lies of Locke Lamora]]'', mostly in the narration.

* In ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'', this is part of Sam Weller's shtick. His father, Tony, does it too.

* The narrator of Matthew F. Jones' novel ''The Cooter Farm'' includes at least one simile in almost every paragraph.

* [[Homer]] is noted for [[wikipedia:Homeric simile|long similes]] that go on for several lines.

* Also a frequent thing in ancient Celtic epics.

* Massie Block from [[The Clique]] series continually uses "Are you an X? Then why are you ?"

 

* Jeremy Clarkson of ''[[Top Gear]]'' (and also in his newspaper articles). The effect is amplified by the fact that many of them reference random subjects pulled out of nowhere apparently on the spur of the moment.

** "It's an Audi! It weighs as much as ''the moon!''"

*** "The stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun."

*** Not a sticky stick? They missed one.

 

== Music ==

* [[Nightwish]]'s song 'whoever brings the night' begins with the line "We seduce the dark with pain and rapture, like two ships that pass in the night."

** That [[Dissimile|doesn't work]].

** Of those, only the tiger, Lady Godiva, and the atom bomb are similes.

 

 

== Radio ==

* ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'''s Guy Noir, Private Eye is fond of these.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The theme song of ''[[FATAL]]'' was likened by one reviewer to the [[Sesame Street|Cookie Monster]] chasing a drum kit being pushed down a flight of stairs.

 

== Video Games ==

* Angel Starr from ''Phoenix Wright: [[Ace Attorney]]'' talks like this, and all the similes are about lunch. The metaphors are somewhat forced, though, as Phoenix [[First-Person Smartass|silently]] notes.

* The entire cast of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', who [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic|all talk exactly like]] [[Hideo Kojima]].

 

== Web Comics ==

* This trope is a staple of Dave Strider's vernacular in ''[[Homestuck]]''. Other characters also do this, but not to the same extent.

 

== Web Original ==

* [[Zero Punctuation|Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] does this quite often, his similes being outrageous and bizarre, often to [[Accentuate the Negative|illustrate the negative aspect of the video games he reviews]]. He's mentioned insults being as offensive as "being smacked in the balls with your own dead dog," voice acting as unpleasant as "being raped in the ear by a man wearing a sandpaper condom," (but that was his roommate, and "not in those exact words, obviously") and [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] as "as big a sellout as a character can get without turning tricks for a penny on the New Jersey turnpike."

* Outrageous like-simile-talking seems to be a favorite trait of comedic video game critics, seeing that [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] is also well known for his scatological similes regarding the shitty games he plays. Certainly you've heard about this business with diarrhea dumps in his ear and roadkilled skunks and the downing-with-beer thereof?

 

== Western Animation ==

* The Script Assassin from ''[[Kappa Mikey]]''.

* Cathy from ''[[Monster Buster Club]]'' (usually in Gratuitous Rhapsodian)

* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is extremely fond of these.

* [[Family Guy|This is just like that time that the writers of Family Guy referenced an eighties cultural phenomenon.]]

* Maguro of ''[[Sushi Pack]]'' has a tendency to do this.

* [[Foghorn Leghorn]]

 

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