Verbal Tic/Theatre

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Examples of Verbal Tics in Theatre include:

• Angels in America: "I I I I Am the CONTINENTAL PRINCIPALITY OF AMERICA"
• Ye Gods Zaneeta and Tommy from The Music Man, jeely cly!
• Twelve Angry Men, you know what I mean *sniff*?
• Czes'nik, one of the characters in the Polish play Zemsta ("The Revenge"), has a Verbal Tic of "mocium panie" (approx. translated as "my dear Sir"). In one of the most famous scenes, he dictates a letter to his servant, who ends up putting the Verbal Tic all over the letter.
• Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler features a primary character who ends most of his sentences with "What?" but, for the life of me, I can't seem to remember his name, even.
• Garry from Noises Off frequently ends sentences in "...Do you know what I mean?" or "You know." This is only when he isn't actually saying his lines.

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