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{{quote|Magic schmagic. Boooo!|Rainbow Dash, from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]. Viewable [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8whn597qTY here.]}}
A [[Stock Phrase]], or rather, a [[Stock Phrase]] Template. A character scornfully dismisses a warning or advice for restraint by repeating the word that represents the advice, then the same word with its beginning replaced with "schm-". "Safety, schmafety!" "Rules, schmules!"
[[The Other Wiki]] tells us the actual name for this is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schm Shm-reduplication] and it's, unsurprisingly, of [[Yiddish As a Second Language|Yiddish]] origin.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
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* [[Convection Schmonvection]]
* [[Strategy Schmategy]]
* [[Self
== [[Web Original]] ==
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*** And later the same episode, "facts schmacts".
* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Rainforest Schmainforest".
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] does this every once in a while, especially Rainbow Dash seems to be fond of it. The page quote is even from Rainbow Dash.
** [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E9 Bridle Gossip|Bridle Gossip]]
{{quote| '''Twilight Sparkle''': Curses, Schmurses}}
** [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E2 The Return of Harmony Part 2|The Return of Harmony Part 2]]
{{quote| '''Rainbow Dash''': Loyalty, Schmoyalty. Have you guys seen Ponyville? It's a DISASTER! }}
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E13 Fall Weather Friends|Fall Weather Friends]]
{{quote| '''Rainbow Dash''': Easy Schmeasy!}}
* When ''[[Cat Dog]]'' becomes cowboys in the rodeo, [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|Rancid Rabbit]] tells them to take the fall for a huge bull because the audience favors him according to a phone survey. Dog replies with "Phone survey, schmone schmurvey!".
== [[Real Life]] ==
* During a staff meeting of the Israeli government in 1955, Prime Minister [[David Ben Gurion]] responded to a comment about Israel owing its existence to the UN with the words "Um shmum",<ref>Or [[Spell My Name With an "S"|um schmum, or oum shmoom, or oum shmoum, or...]]</ref>), UM being the acronym for the United Nations in Hebrew.<ref>The full name is roughly "haUmot haMaochadot".</ref>
* In Portland, Oregon, there's a pizza chain called Pizza Schmizza. It got its name when the founder's father told him, "Pizza schmizza — get a real job."
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