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== Swordfish ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Spoofed in ''[[Naruto]]'': Sasuke gives a long, complex poem for the team's password; in dismay, Naruto suggests "swordfish" as an alternative. When a ninja impersonating Naruto gives Sasuke the correct password, Sasuke immediately attacks because Naruto would never remember something like that.▼
* The English dub of [[Lupin III/Recap/S2/E55|one episode]] of ''[[Lupin III]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this with Lupin's unlikely password of "Aye-ahh! Swordfish, open sesame, and other crap like that!"▼
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* In ''[[The Muppet Show
=== [[Fan Works]] ===
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'' has a password be "Sword fish [[Shout-Out|melon]] [[The Lord of the Rings|friend]]."▼
* ''[[Code MENT]]'': Lelouch mentions in passing that [[The Ditz|Suzaku]]'s password for everything is, indeed, "Swordfish".▼
* At least for the first few days in ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'', at Aria House:▼
{{quote|'''Brent''': The network name is "[[Aria (manga)|Pokoteng]]", and the password is 'swordfish1!', that's digit 1 and exclamation mark at the end. Don't want to make it too easy to guess, after all.}}▼
=== [[Film]] ===
* The [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[Marx Brothers|Horsefeathers]]''. See the Quotes subpage.
** Pinky (Harpo Marx) manages to get inside despite his muteness by pulling a large fish and a sword out of his coat, sticking the one into the other, and presenting it to the doorman.
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'''Baravelli:''' Oh, well what's the password now?
'''Wagstaff:''' Gee, I forgot it. I better come out there with you!}}
* Even [[Wikipedia]] recognized the prevalence of [https://web.archive.org/web/20171018133113/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_(password) "Swordfish" as a password] -- or at least it did until the page was deleted in 2018.▼
* Spoofed again in ''The Adventures of [[Sam & Max: Freelance Police]]''. In "The Thing That Wouldn't Stop It", a character demands a password before adding: "...And if you say 'swordfish,' I'll lose it!" The password ends up being {{spoiler|"[[Running Gag|haggis]]"}}.▼
** Later, in ''Sam and Max: The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball'', one of Sam's guesses for the password to the back room of Ted E. Bear's Mafia-Free Playland and Casino is "swordfish". The real password is the phrase {{spoiler|[[The Godfather|"Leave the guns, take the cannoli."]]}}▼
** And again in ''Sam and Max: Reality 2.0'', where it's one of the guesses for the password to Bosco's bank account. However, the real password is {{spoiler|Bosco}}.▼
* Guess what it is in ''[[Swordfish]]''. Go on, guess. To be fair, the [[Big Bad]] is a big movie buff as evidenced by numerous references he makes to various classics through the film, so it was probably supposed to be like that.
** The German title is "Passwort: Swordfish".
** Also, it would be a little harder to guess for a character in the movie, since [[Fridge Logic|they presumably don't know the title of the movie they are appearing in]].
* Joked about in ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]''. The password to get into the sewer entrance is "stinkfish."▼
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel, ''[[I, Q]]'' the titular character [[Jerkass Gods|Q]] was about to be attacked by a
{{quote|'''Q:''' "I don't think 'Please' is the magic word today; you'll have to try again. How about Swordfish?"}}
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', an adventure on the Poopdeck of the ship at the Obligatory Pirate's Cove has you randomly asked by a pirate "What be the password?" If you've read the appropriate quest item, you'll correctly answer that the password is "swordfish", and unlock a new area to explore.▼
** To further hammer the trope home, the adventure this happens in (which doesn't happen if you don't read your father's [[MacGuffin]] diary) is even titled "It's Always Swordfish."▼
** If you haven't read the appropriate quest item, you'll try to guess that the password is "[[Who's on First?|What]]".▼
▲* Spoofed in ''[[Naruto]]'': Sasuke gives a long, complex poem for the team's password; in dismay, Naruto suggests "swordfish" as an alternative. When a ninja impersonating Naruto gives Sasuke the correct password, Sasuke immediately attacks because Naruto would never remember something like that.
▲* [[Discworld]] :
** The novel ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]''. [[Lampshade Hanging|Vimes thinks "Swordfish? The password was ''always'' swordfish!"]]
** Also comes up in the first [[Discworld]] computer game, in which the password is "[[Blah Blah Blah]] spoons blah blah blah swordfish blah blah blah Simon says."
* "Schwertfisch" in the ''[[Quest for Glory]] 1'' VGA remake.▼
* In [[Kerry Greenwood]]'s [[Phryne Fisher]] mystery ''Queen of the Flowers'', the password to get onto the gambling boat is "swordfish" and Phryne commented that as she gave the password she [[Lampshade Hanging|"felt like an extra in a Hollywood film".]]
* This was the password Boddy used once in the book series for ''[[Clue (game)|Clue]]''.▼
* [[Infocom]]'s ''Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels''▼
* ''[[Recess]]'': "The Secret Life of Grotke". Used as the password for a magic society.▼
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* In ''[[Return to Zork]]'' the lighthouse keeper's first words to you are: "What's the password? Can't let you in without the password. And don't try swordfish, I know its not that. I tried it myself, I couldn't get in..."▼
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT2FaAMiN4U This] ''[[Mad Men]]'' episode has it as ''half'' of the password to an illegal gambling den.
* [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=320 This] ''[[The B-Movie Comic]]'' strip and the associated [[The Rant|rant]].▼
* In the computer game ''[[Impossible Mission (video game)|Impossible Mission]]'', the goal of the game is to collect microfilm which, when reassembled in your PDA, delivers the villain hideout door's nine letter password. One of the passwords that can be generated this way is of course 'Swordfish'.▼
* On ''[[Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman]]'', Ruff chooses this as his password to his security system. He actually has trouble remembering it.
▲* In ''[[The Muppet Show Comic Book]]'', two characters meeting have a call-and-response password. The response is "Swordfish swordfish swordfish swordfish swordfish."
* In the FPS ''[[Cold Winter]]'', guess what's the password needed to enter the Golden Narguile Club?▼
▲* This was the password Boddy used once in the book series for ''[[Clue (game)|Clue]]''.
* Used in ''[[No Reservations]]'' as the password to a private poker game.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120127073730/http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/0ac90145-3870-45c1-bb61-75ec3f11bbc4.jpg This] from ''[[I Can Haz Cheezburger]]''.▼
=== [[Video Games]] ===
▲* ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'' has a password be "Sword fish [[Shout-Out|melon]] [[The Lord of the Rings|friend]]."
▲* Spoofed again in ''The Adventures of [[Sam & Max: Freelance Police]]''. In "The Thing That Wouldn't Stop It", a character demands a password before adding: "...And if you say 'swordfish,' I'll lose it!" The password ends up being {{spoiler|"[[Running Gag|haggis]]"}}.
▲** Later, in ''Sam and Max: The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball'', one of Sam's guesses for the password to the back room of Ted E. Bear's Mafia-Free Playland and Casino is "swordfish". The real password is the phrase {{spoiler|[[The Godfather|"Leave the guns, take the cannoli."]]}}
▲** And again in ''Sam and Max: Reality 2.0'', where it's one of the guesses for the password to Bosco's bank account. However, the real password is {{spoiler|Bosco}}.
▲* Joked about in ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]''. The password to get into the sewer entrance is "stinkfish."
▲* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', an adventure on the Poopdeck of the ship at the Obligatory Pirate's Cove has you randomly asked by a pirate "What be the password?" If you've read the appropriate quest item, you'll correctly answer that the password is "swordfish", and unlock a new area to explore.
▲** To further hammer the trope home, the adventure this happens in (which doesn't happen if you don't read your father's [[MacGuffin]] diary) is even titled "It's Always Swordfish."
▲** If you haven't read the appropriate quest item, you'll try to guess that the password is "[[Who's on First?|What]]".
▲* "Schwertfisch" in the ''[[Quest for Glory]] 1'' VGA remake.
▲* [[Infocom]]'s ''Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels''{{context}}
▲* In ''[[Return to Zork]]'' the lighthouse keeper's first words to you are: "What's the password? Can't let you in without the password. And don't try swordfish, I know its not that. I tried it myself, I couldn't get in..."
▲* In the computer game ''[[Impossible Mission (video game)|Impossible Mission]]'', the goal of the game is to collect microfilm which, when reassembled in your PDA, delivers the villain hideout door's nine letter password. One of the passwords that can be generated this way is of course 'Swordfish'.
▲* In the [[FPS]] ''[[Cold Winter]]'', guess what's the password needed to enter the Golden Narguile Club?
* A variant in ''[[Brink (video game)|Brink]]'': In one of the Agents of Change missions, a member of the Security confirms that he's an ally by reciting "swordfish114" to them.▼
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
▲* [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=320 This] ''[[The B-Movie Comic]]'' strip and the associated [[The Rant|rant]].
=== [[Web Original]] ===
▲* Even [[Wikipedia]] recognized the prevalence of [https://web.archive.org/web/20171018133113/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_(password) "Swordfish" as a password] -- or at least it did until the page was deleted in 2018.
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120127073730/http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/0ac90145-3870-45c1-bb61-75ec3f11bbc4.jpg This] from ''[[I Can
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
▲* ''[[Recess]]'': "The Secret Life of Grotke". Used as the password for a magic society.
* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]'' episode 16 "The Wild Brood" Both the password and the program/console/[[MacGuffin]].
▲* ''[[Code MENT]]'': Lelouch mentions in passing that [[The Ditz|Suzaku]]'s password for everything is, indeed, "Swordfish".
▲* A variant in ''[[Brink]]'': In one of the Agents of Change missions, a member of the Security confirms that he's an ally by reciting "swordfish114" to them.
▲* The English dub of [[Lupin III/Recap/S2/E55|one episode]] of ''[[Lupin III]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this with Lupin's unlikely password of "Aye-ahh! Swordfish, open sesame, and other crap like that!"
* In the episode "Kennel Kittens Return" of the 2010 version of ''[[Pound Puppies]]'', the password for entering the gated community of the target adoptive family is "swordfish".
▲* At least for the first few days in ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'', at Aria House:
▲{{quote|'''Brent''': The network name is "[[Aria (manga)|Pokoteng]]", and the password is 'swordfish1!', that's digit 1 and exclamation mark at the end. Don't want to make it too easy to guess, after all.}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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