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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* Rowntree's "Randoms" campaign had people dropping the names of the various shapes of the sweets into otherwise normal dialogue.
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* [[Jhonen Vasquez]]'s ''Happy Noodle Boy'' [[Show Within a Show|one-shot comics]] in ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]''.
== [[Fan
* In addition to his usual [[Gross-Out Show|gross-out humour]], the infamous [[Comics Nix]] also makes heavy use of this trope. Typically, he'll use a mish-mash of completely unrelated and often obscure words to describe something or someone, occasionally hiding exactly ''one'' relevant term among them.
== [[Film]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100905071527/http://verydemotivational.com/2010/06/30/demotivational-posters-context-3/ This wonderful picture] from ''[[Godzilla's Revenge]]''.
* Many of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' musical numbers were acapella non-verbals arranged for a song-like quality. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&feature=related Especially funny when done with characters whose speech is incomprehensible.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFgtFXfnv0 Even moreso if the original is in a language the audience doesn't understand anyway.]▼
* Taken to its logical conclusion by Eric Idle in the ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'' sketch 'Gibberish', which takes a typical television interview, then simply removes the dialogue and replaces it with random silly words.▼
{{quote|"I see. Rapidly piddlepot strumming Hanover peace pudding mouse rumpling cuddly corridor cabinets?"▼
"Sick in a cup! Toejam whisper tap Sunderland shower-curtain, ice wallpaper cups grounchingly rubber king wrapped butter kissing-feathers definitely pheasantry daughter successfully douche dinner-bottom."▼
"Machine wrapped with butter?"▼
"Machine wrapped with butter." }}▼
* One of a vastly ''enormous'' number of examples from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'':▼
{{quote|'''Raymond Luxury-Yacht''': That's not my name.▼
'''Interviewer''': I'm sorry, Raymond Luxury Yach-t.▼
'''Raymond Luxury-Yacht''': No, no, no. It's spelled Raymond Luxury-Yach-t, but it's pronounced 'Throat-Warbler Mangrove'.▼
'''Interviewer''': You're a very silly man, and I'm not going to interview you. }}▼
* In ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', after Lorelai has just pointed out to Emily and Rory that both "oy" and "poodles" are very funny words▼
{{quote|'''Lorelai''': In fact, if you put oy and poodle together in the same sentence, you'd have a great new catch phrase, you know? Like, oy with the poodles already. So from now on, when the perfect circumstances arise, we will use our favorite new catch phrase.▼
'''Rory''': Oy with the poodles already. }}▼
== [[Music]] ==
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* [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama The Llama Song]. Llama llama cheesecake llama tablet brick potato llama.
* [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers Badger, badger, badger, badger. Mushroom, mushroom! Snake!]
* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/spam_poetry_compendium/ Spam poetry], composed of the randomized text which spammers use to trip up filters. The "Hello Muscle palace" message [https://web.archive.org/web/20060307034215/http://www.mugglenet.com/emails.shtml here] is an example.
▲== [[Television]] ==
▲* Many of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' musical numbers were acapella non-verbals arranged for a song-like quality. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&feature=related Especially funny when done with characters whose speech is incomprehensible.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFgtFXfnv0 Even moreso if the original is in a language the audience doesn't understand anyway.]
▲* Taken to its logical conclusion by Eric Idle in the ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'' sketch 'Gibberish', which takes a typical television interview, then simply removes the dialogue and replaces it with random silly words.
▲{{quote|"I see. Rapidly piddlepot strumming Hanover peace pudding mouse rumpling cuddly corridor cabinets?"
▲"Sick in a cup! Toejam whisper tap Sunderland shower-curtain, ice wallpaper cups grounchingly rubber king wrapped butter kissing-feathers definitely pheasantry daughter successfully douche dinner-bottom."
▲"Machine wrapped with butter?"
▲"Machine wrapped with butter." }}
* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' and ''[[Cartoon Planet]]'' just ''loved'' this trope, with segments featuring Space Ghost, Zorak, and Brak just saying a single word, such as "pants", back-and-forth to each other for no reason.▼
▲* One of a vastly ''enormous'' number of examples from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'':
▲{{quote|'''Raymond Luxury-Yacht''': That's not my name.
▲'''Interviewer''': I'm sorry, Raymond Luxury Yach-t.
▲'''Raymond Luxury-Yacht''': No, no, no. It's spelled Raymond Luxury-Yach-t, but it's pronounced 'Throat-Warbler Mangrove'.
▲'''Interviewer''': You're a very silly man, and I'm not going to interview you. }}
▲* In ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', after Lorelai has just pointed out to Emily and Rory that both "oy" and "poodles" are very funny words
▲{{quote|'''Lorelai''': In fact, if you put oy and poodle together in the same sentence, you'd have a great new catch phrase, you know? Like, oy with the poodles already. So from now on, when the perfect circumstances arise, we will use our favorite new catch phrase.
▲'''Rory''': Oy with the poodles already. }}
== [[Theatre]] ==
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* ''[[Rejected]]'': The first sketch basically consists of a man saying "Mah spoon is too big" in various inflections, then an anthropomorphic banana appears and yells "I am a banana!", followed by a vacuum cleaner noise. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It still manages to be hilarious.]]
** "Tuesday's coming. Did you bring your coat?"
▲* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' and ''[[Cartoon Planet]]'' just ''loved'' this trope, with segments featuring Space Ghost, Zorak, and Brak just saying a single word, such as "pants", back-and-forth to each other for no reason.
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