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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Bleach]]'': Uryu is asking Orihime who their master will be. Orihime says that the master was standing there the whole time. Yoruichi speaks up to tell Uryu that it is "he" who will be training them. Uryu predictably freaks out at the notion of a talking cat. After regaining his composure over the issue, Uryu calmly states he can't believe that there is such a thing as a talking cat. {{spoiler|Later, when Yoruichi [[The Reveal|reveals her true, human form to Ichigo]], she plays with this trope by telling him it was silly of him to believe that a cat could talk.}}

* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'' Erio and Caro had this reaction when Zafira spoke. This is a [[It Was His Sled]] moment for the audience, who knew he could do so, but he had never spoken in front of them before, and he was spending all his time in his wolf form.

* This happens between [[Big Bad|Captain Shiki]] and Dr. Indigo in the ''[[One Piece]]'' movie ''[[One Piece Strong World|Strong World]]''. Dr. Indigo tries to explain something to Shiki through charades or mime or something. When Shiki doesn't get it, Indigo just comes out and says it, and Shiki gives the reaction with much surprise. This happens more than once.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In [[Alan Moore]]'s ''Skizz'' from ''[[2000 AD]]'', the characters contrive a plan to break Skizz (an extra-terrestrial who crash-landed and stranded himself on Earth) out of an RAF airbase in Birmingham, not knowing that he has been taught English by his captors. When Loz discovers this, he has the following to say,

{{quote|'''Loz:''' You can ''talk''! Well I'll be! We've had our budgie for seven years and all it can do is ''whistle''.}}

'''Robo:''' Uh-''huh.''

'''Lovecraft:''' Oh, back to its native grunts. I say, the poor beast is ''devolving'' before our eyes, Charles. }}

 

== Fan Works ==

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ryh-nmnuE this] ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' doujin, Germany is transformed into a cat by England. Italy is out of the room at the time, so when he returns and sees a cat in Germany's place, he goes over to it and cuddles it. When Germany-cat starts talking, this is Italy's reaction. (Warning: Slightly NSFW)

{{quote|'''Italy:''' Oh, there's a kitty! *picks up Germany-cat* Hi there!

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Hotaru'''}}: Oh my gosh, a talking cat! So cute! May I pet you?

'''Luna:''' …I LOVE YOU, {{spoiler|HOTARU}}. }}

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' [[The Movie]]: The eponymous cat and mouse do this to each other once they both reveal they can talk.

* ''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'' Movie: The kids do this when they discover their fish is talking.

 

== Jokes ==

* There was a joke about a kid that refuses to say a first word, then asks for the salt at the table one day. When the parents are surprised he comments that it is the first time the table wasn't set properly and so there was no need to say anything.

** A variant of that joke has the son of university professors who is seemingly retarded, the parents start spelling out things like "intellectually inferior" because they don't want him to know what they're saying, and he says "You left out an 'l'". This may be [[Truth in Television]].

{{quote|A man is riding his horse down a road when he meets a rabbit. The rabbit tells him, "Good morning!" and bounds away. The man says to himself, "I didn't know rabbits could talk." "Neither did I," says the horse.}}

* A man knocks on the door of a farmhouse. He tells the farmer "Listen, I was driving past your farm when my car broke down. I got out to fix it and I heard a voice say 'It's the carburetor!' I turned, and all I saw was this brown horse." The farmer says "Well, don't you listen to him! He don't know nothin' 'bout cars!"

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]''—When Solebum the [[Were Cat|werecat]] speaks to Eragon telepathically the first time. Eragon utters: 'You said that!' followed by the reply: 'Who else?'

* [[Terry Pratchett]] loves playing with this one.

{{quote|'''Gaspode:''' I expect you're wondering how come I can talk?

'''Victor:''' Hadn't given it a thought. }}

** It's kind of a joke in ''[[Discworld]]'' that people always have this reaction to Gaspode, despite living in a setting where such a thing is hardly implausible.

*** It's explained in the books that adults have ideas about what "must" be real and what must not be, so their minds edit out a lot of what comes through their senses.

{{quote|'''Om:''' How many talking tortoises have you met?

'''Brutha:''' Well, they might all talk. They just might not say anything when I'm there. }}

* ''[[Land of Oz|Oz]]'' series:

** When Dorothy meets the Scarecrow in ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', she has this reaction.

'''Harry''' [after being turned back into a human]: "You can ''talk.'' How come I never hear you talk?"

'''Lea''': "Because you don't know how to listen." }}

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''The [[Benny Hill]] Show'': in a parody of ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'' and ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'', Steve Austin and Jamie Summers have a baby. They're worried about him not talking yet even though he's [six?] years old. He takes a suck from his bottle, and spits it out.

{{quote|'''Baby''': This is terrible!

 

== Music ==

* In his take on ''[[Peter and The Wolf]]'', [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] has Peter go "Wow! A talking bird!" when the bird appears.

* [[Frank Zappa]]'s "Stink-Foot" has this, with a dog and his owner having a short philosophical conversation before the owner exclaims, "You can't say that." Mind you, the owner and the dog had already been talking for a short while before this.

'''Marvin:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|And better than you, apparently.]] }}

 

* In ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'', Mortimer initially mistakes his long-missing and heavily surgically-altered brother for a particularly grotesque statue, so one can imagine his shock when it addresses him by name.

 

** [[Goldfish Poop Gang|Thinbeard's dragon Azareth]] surprises the main cast when he speaks, as well; he'd gone almost the entire game without uttering a syllable.

 

** Played with, somewhat. Vaarsuvius knew that Blackwing could speak Common, but thought that Blackwing wouldn't because it was demeaning. Turns out, that was only partly true. Blackwing considered speaking in Common ''to Vaarsuvius'' [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|to be demeaning.]]

* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' he says this to {{spoiler|Yoshi}}. According to the alt text he responds with, "[[That Reminds Me of a Song|And I can SING!"]].

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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