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* [[Verbal Tic/Professional Wrestling|Professional Wrestling]]
* [[Verbal Tic/Video Games|Video Games]]
* [[Verbal Tic/Visual
* [[Verbal Tic/Web Comics|Web Comics]]
* [[Verbal Tic/Web Original|Web Original]]
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== Music ==
* [[Cheech and Chong]], man. They constantly use the word "Man" wherever it makes sense, man. Sometimes twice consecutively, man.
* James Taylor likes to throw in "baby" to pad out some empty space on a track, baby.
* Pitbull says "dale" no less than 15 times in any song he's in.
** Dale dale!
* [[Lil Jon|YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH]]!
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** As shown in the novel Grey Seer, they also often put words together when speaking in Queekish.(kill-slay, traitor-meat, see-smell etc.){{spoiler|Jeremias Scrivener speaks the same way when challenging Thanquol in Queekish, so this seems to be a trait of the language.}}
* In ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'', a race of rat-people known as Ratkin tend to repeat random words when speaking Rokugani. Towards the end of their regular appearances in the story, this was scaled back as the players were getting sick of it (although some of their later appearances retain the quirk).
* In ''[[Dungeons
== Theater ==
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* Ye Gods Zaneeta and Tommy from ''[[The Music Man]]'', jeely cly!
* ''[[12 Angry Men|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 ''[[Manipulative Bastard|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 [[Show Within a Show|saying his lines]].
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