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{{trope}}{{Cleanup|The examples in the "In Tales" section below need sorting by medium.}}[[Category:Examples Need Sorting]]
Two tropers tarried to talk "tongue-twister" topic's techniques. Tropers' tongues twisted till tropers' tangled tongues tied totally taut. Talking troubles taught tropers twain to tackle tortuous tongue-twisters tentatively.
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A sister trope of [[Cannot Spit It Out]].
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== Typical tongue twisters ==
* William Poundstone declared this to be the most challenging tongue-twister in the English language:
{{quote|The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.}}
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** A Proper Copper Coffee Pot.
*** This one inspired a tongue-tangling song by the folk band Trout Fishing In America.
** Betty Bopper's battering
** Cecily thought Sicily less thistly than Thessaly.
** Irish wristwatch.
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== Tongue-tangling in tales ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLY_bkeqwac| This commercial] for Butterfinger from the 90s.
* [[Dr. Seuss]]' ''Fox In Socks'' is made up of examples of this trope.
* Practically everything that comes out of V's mouth in ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' qualifies. One wonders how many takes it must've taken to produce his dialogue for the film...
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'''Marcia:''' Cindy, would you mind practicing somewhere else? Arithmetic is kind of hard.
'''Cindy:''' So are S's. }}
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' had a [[Manatee Gag]] mocking ''[[
* 2d!Doofenshmirtz in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]] Across The Second Dimension'':
{{quote|''2D!Doof:'' Boy borg. Try saying that five times fast. Boyborg, Boyborg, Boyborg, Boyborg, Boyborg...I guess maybe [[Subverted Trope|it's not that hard to say]].}}
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* In an early episode of ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'', the normally [[Comically Serious]] Velma challenges her friends to say, "Something's thumping," three times fast. Shaggy doesn't even want to say it once.
* The game's not out yet as of this post, but ''The Last Crown'' (sequel to ''[[The Lost Crown]]: A Ghosthunting Adventure'') will apparently include the phrase "powerful paranormal phenomena", which the creator's blog suggests gave voice actress Emma Harry some [[Real Life]] Tongue-Twister issues.
* ''[[The Cat & Birdy Warneroonie Pinky-Brainy Big Cartoonie Show]]''; the title is a Tongue-Twister, as is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq9q1pYC8cc the opening theme.]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDBxO2EzwyI&t=21s This commercial for Squarespace from 2022], a modern take on the girl who sells sea shells.
* In one "Bullwinkle's Corner" short from ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' Bullwinkle interviews Peter Piper, who says he quit the pickled pepper business because ''even he'' had trouble saying the tongue twister. So now he helps his sister sell sea shells by the sea shore.
* From the first season epsiode of [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]], "Some Enchanted Evening", Marge and Homer hires a babysitter from the at Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Babysitting Service.
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