TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open
Tropes Media Reviews Popular Indexes Forums Videos Ask The Tropers Trope Finder Media Finder Trope Launch Pad Tech Wishlist Browse Tools
Cut List Image Fixer New Edits New Articles Edit Reasons Launches Images List Crowner Activity Un-typed Pages Recent Page Type Changes Changelog
Tips
Creating New Redirects Cross Wicking Tips for Editing Text Formatting Rules Glossary Edit Reasons Handling Spoilers Word Cruft Administrivia FAQ
Tropes HQ
About Us Contact Us DMCA Notice Privacy Policy Report Bug Terms Of Service
Go Ad-Free Changelog
  • Show Spoilers
  • Night Vision
  • Sticky Header
  • Highlight Links

Follow TV Tropes

Department of Redundancy Department
74 Following

Go To

Department of Redundancy Department (trope)
For when you want even your zaniest of ringleted mop-tops to know this is curl cream... for curls. You know, in case they think this curl cream is for braids or something.
"I do not talk like that! The way I communicate is much different. I do not reiterate, repeat, reinstate the same thing over and over again. I am clear, concise, to the point!"
— Mojo Jojo, The Powerpuff Girls (1998)

Describe Department of Redundancy Department Here by writing a description of Department of Redundancy Department.

When listing things, a character will repeat an item. Might end with "Did I mention X already?" when making a list. Common ways for it to show up are a list going "A, B, C, B, D, B, E... and did I mention B?" and "You said X twice." "I like X." These occur frequently, especially when listing things, and are often said by characters with short attention spans that are short — especially energetic characters such as the Genki Girl.

Listing things in this manner also tends to be used as a tongue-in-cheek way of implying that the repeatedly listed item is the most prominent characteristic of something, with little in the way of variety.

Alice: Oy, what was it like sailing across the ocean?
Bob: It was nice! There were sea birds, water, fish, water, more water, boats, whales, even more water... y'know, the usual.

The dictionary definition for this trope is a tautology or pleonasm.

This also shows up frequently with the misuse of acronyms, specifically when part of the acronym is used next to the acronym itself. The Other Wiki knows this as RAS Syndrome (i.e. Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome).

With some websites and occasionally in Real Life, the Redundant Department of Redundancy is referred to as an actual organization run by Captain Obvious with a side branch called the Branch of Awkward Wording (or, for bonus points, the Branch Of Awkward Wording Branch).

The Firesign Theatre gets credit for naming this trope on their classic 1970 album "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers", the album where the trope name comes from.

Compare Shaped Like Itself; Broken Record; Repetitive Name; Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs; Captain Obvious; "Double, Double" Title; Hurricane of Euphemisms; Repeated for Emphasis. Cluster F-Bomb is generally this trope applied to swearing, where people swear over a swearing word. Super-Trope of Once More, with Volume! (saying something once, and then again but louder). May occur in Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death.

Disclaimer: The D.R.D. Department does not share the opinion of anything written on this page, including overly long gags, overuse of Homestar Runner quotes, pot holes, overly long gags, and use of redlinks.

Examples and various cases that exemplify the trope:

    open/close all folders 

    Advertisements Using TV to Promote Products to You on Television 
  • Fifth/Third Bank uses a fictitious Redundancy Incorporated Inc. in their commercial for their new duo bank card. The workers repeat themselves and they even ordered double decker sandwiches, twice-baked potatoes, and bon-bons for lunch.
  • Almost any asthma medication HAS to use the phrase "like an inhaled corticosteroid" at least five times within the commercial. Sheesh, we GET IT!
  • "Void where prohibited." Well, duh!
  • Nationwide Insurance once had a mascot named The World's Greatest Spokesperson In The World.
  • The Monkees' Kool-Aid commercial from 1970, in which Micky Dolenz exclaims, "Hey, let's make some new sugar-sweetened Kool-Aid with the sugar already in it!"
  • DOMESTOS: KILLS ALL KNOWN GERMS DEAD
    • Likewise, on the other side of the pond, "Raid: Kills Bugs Dead".
  • There's a school in south Florida called CBT College. The "C" stood for "College". The College of Business and Technology College. Way to ruin your credibility before the commercial even starts...
    • See also UMUC - the University of Maryland University College. (They may have realized how ridiculous this is, as University of Maryland University College changed its name and is now University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC).)
    • See also the University of California system where the college name is usually an acronym (like UCI or UCSD). You will see on the campus website statements like UCI University (university of California university) or "California's UCI"
  • The label on this product◊, a polish for acrylic, reads FINE SCRATCH REMOVER: Removes Fine Scratches. You know, in case it wasn't absolutely clear.
  • Taco Bell once touted a new menu item in a TV commercial as a "grilled carne asada steak". Since "carne asada" translates as "grilled steak", they essentially were advertising a "grilled grilled steak steak". Delicious.
  • HeadOn: Apply directly to the forehead.
  • Ronseal: Ronseal Quick-Drying Woodstain protects and is rain-proof in about thirty minutes. Which means in about thirty minutes, your wood's rain-proof and protected. So if you've got wood to stain, and you want it to dry quickly, use Ronseal Quick-Drying Woodstain. note 
  • A commercial for Boston Pizza has a man suffering from "turkey brain" after eating too many Christmas leftovers. He describes his symptoms as "the confusion, the sluggishness, the excessive napping, the confusion..."
  • An ad campaign that began in 2011 encourages you to "Take a Cheetos break With Cheetos".
  • "If you don't have an iPhone, well... you don't have an iPhone."
  • "In Mexico we speak Spanish, mostly because it's the language we speak."
  • A Target commercial showed a music teacher singing about all the clothes his students will need for the new school year. Denim was on it 4 times.
  • A Five Hour Energy campaign has ads ending "Five Hour Energy! Hours and hours of energy!" You mean like five?
  • A 1980s print ad for Elephant brand floppy disks promoted the need to make backups by explicitly referring to the Department of Redundancy Department, "and what goes on when it goes on!"
  • A magazine advertisement for a Duel Masters card-pack series (specifically, "Survivors of the Megapocalypse") states "Attack with the Billion-Degree Dragon and watch your opponent run like someone who is under attack and is frightened by that attack!"
  • An ad for Assassin's Creed III mentions defending "liberty and freedom."
  • This commercial for Florida orange juice starring Yankees great Mickey Mantle (probably late 50s-early 60s). After the announcer tells us that Mickey needs to drink Florida orange juice every day to play his best ball, because the body doesn't store Vitamin C, Mickey proceeds to say the same thing, almost verbatim.
  • When Tim Hortons added paninis to its menu, it advertised it now sold "grilled paninis". Seeing as a panini is, by definition, already grilled...
  • Dutch commercials for Heinz pasta sauce used the phrase "Heinz Pasta Sauce: sauce for on pasta".
  • A local commercial for a grocery store informs you that if you shop their competition, you could waste over a hundred dollars, or even more!
  • "Love. It's what makes a Subaru a Subaru."
    • If you live in the UK, there you have "Uncommon Engineering, Uncommon Stability, Uncommon Roadholding, Uncommon Sense." What else is uncommon for a Subaru to handle?
  • A commercial for AT&T U-Verse wireless Internet has a family in a house where everything is unreliable and breaking down—except their Internet! The ad mentions it has reliability you can rely on.
  • The commercial for Burger King's Extra Long Jalapeño Cheeseburger mentions it is topped with cheese, jalapeños, jalapeños, and jalapeños.
  • truTV's series Billy on the Street was advertised with promos saying it stars Anna Kendrick, Julienne Moore, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Billy, Billy, Billy Billy, and Billy!
  • GEICO: "I'm sorry Daisy, but I'm a loner. And a loner's got to be alone."
  • The ad for Verizon's hum smart system for cars begins "Whether you have a red car, white car, blue car, red white & blue car..."
  • From Liberty Mutual's new commercial: "You can leave worry behind when Liberty stands with you. Liberty Stands With You."
  • One Polish meat-producing company has a slogan that says "Nature begins in Bory Tucholskie, a place of discovering unique tastes where for over 30 years created are cold cuts from Bory Tucholskie".
  • Dairy Queen has a "$5 Buck Lunch" (exactly as written). It's as if they don't even realize that the dollar sign and the word "buck" mean the same thing in this context.
  • This 2002 Aflac commercial featuring New York Yankee legend Yogi Berra as a barbershop patron.
    Berra: The [insurance] you really need to have; if you don't have it, that's why you need it. [...] And they give you cash, which is just as good as money.
  • An ad for Curiosity Stream informs us that “Monthly subscriptions start at $2.99 a month.”
  • A YouTube ad: “YouTube Music is a music app made by YouTube.”
  • Radio ads for products by ACS Manufacturing Corporation in the Philippines typically end with this: "Manufactured by ACS Manufacturing Corporation."
  • MetLife: Lucy describing Schroeder: "Now please enjoy this hold music, performed by the world's cutest, sweetest, most cutest musician ever. Did I mention he's cute?"
  • The longtime jingle for Goldberg’s Furniture(a defunct Syracuse-based chain)went “Goldberg’s, the money-saver/We’re gonna save you more!”

    Audio Dramas That Are Dramatised Audibly 
  • In the Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama Omega, the Doctor (actually a copy of the Doctor's mind) gives one of his "small beautiful things" speeches where he says Sentia can still find happiness in our universe: "It's not such a bad old cosmos. Flowers, cups of tea, trees, mugs of tea, sunsets ... pots of tea. As you can see, I don't expect too much from this universe."

    Stand-up Comedy Done By Comedians While Standing Up 
  • The trope is perhaps exemplified best by Shaun Majumder in his stint as the host of the Just For Laughs TV show, where he had a number of recurring segments, including Comedy Dojo. He was already inclined to repetition in a sort of Ice-Cream Koan fashion in that recurring segment, and then he did one on the subject of repetition in comedy, where he demonstrated it using the classic "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side" joke.
    I will demonstrate. "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side." (Beat) "To get to the other side." (Beat) "To get to the other side!" Hi-yah!
  • Maria Bamford, as part of a routine on how she dislikes how complicated fancy restaurants make the act of eating, thinks that all that really matters is:
    How do we get food into the munching cave? Do you perhaps have a dinner blizzard—a, a blizzard, of dinner?
  • Brian Regan's routine about mixing up the expressions "Take care" and "Good luck":
    Take...luck! Take luck and care. Take...care of the luck! Good luck taking care of the, the luck that you might have, if you have luck, take it, and care for it. Take-care-of-luck—when you take all care of luck...you just might get it.
  • The Firesign Theatre coined this trope. One record album began a patriotic pageant telling us "It's about this country - about which we're singing about!"
  • Jeff Dunham's puppet Achmed the Dead Terrorist once got so angry with Jeff that he swore to kill him until he's dead, which is somehow worse than just killing him.
  • Jon Reep has a bit about NASCARs meaning.
    • National Association for Stockcar Auto Racing
    "Stock. Car. Auto. Racing. (beat) Car. Automobile. Racing. It says car twice. That's how much they love cars"
  • Morecambe and Wise did this in their Grieg Piano Concerto sketch, the first time Wise announces the performance.
    Wise: Ladies and gentlemen! Tonight: Grieg's Piano Concerto by Grieg...
  • Robin Williams's bit on Ronald Reagan:
    Willams-as-Reagan: What would this country be without this great land of ours?
    Williams: ... What? Wait, Mr. Reagan! Sir, excuse me sir! In the dictionary, under redundant, it says 'See redundant'?
    Williams-as-Reagan: Well, you can say that again!
  • Stewart Lee talking about how people had to keep tweeting about him and his physical appearance.
    "OMG. Just seen Stewart Lee walking around Dalston Junction by himself. He was eating a burger. He looked fat and depressed and fat.

    Comics with Pictures and Dialogue Drawn by Western Comic Book Artists 
  • Aggretsuko: Meet Her World: One scene in issue 2 begins with a caption setting the scene in an intentionally redundant fashion.
    PAINT AND SIP NIGHT. THE NIGHT THE LADIES WILL PAINT. AND ALSO SIP.
  • The Oracle in Azrael Annual #2 (a Legends of the Dead Earth Elseworlds):
    Oracle: Shut your mouth and open your ears. We oracles never repeat ourselves and I mean that most sincerely. Never, never repeat ourselves, understand?
  • In Batman #392, Detective Bullock is protesting against the idea that Comissioner Gordon might give Catwoman the same leeway as Batman. We come back to this throughout the issue, and Bullock's point is simply "she used to be a thief so we can't trust her" but he insists on repeating it over and over in slightly different ways, including "A bona fide thief, Commish! She filched!"
  • The Bonkers comic "Murder Mania" that appeared in Disney Adventures has a character note that Miranda Wright is pretty, helpful, pretty, efficient, and pretty helpful and pretty efficient as well.
  • The Boys: Black Noir's name means "black black".
  • The title of The Dandy Special issue 7: Desperate Dan in Dan in Japan. So Dan's in himself then? [1]◊
  • Deathstroke: Deathstroke the Terminator. Yes thank you, we gathered that you kill people from the first bit. Unless you're also responsible for laying off employees, "the Terminator" is not needed. The name actually came about by an error in his introductory issue, where he was referred to first as Deathstroke, then as the Terminator, so they decided to combine them.
  • DC Comics:
    • "DC" stands for "Detective Comics," ergo their name is Detective Comics Comics. They also publish a series called Detective Comics. Which means it's Detective Comics Comics' Detective Comics. And the comics they publish are Detective Comics Comics' comics.
    • DC has a series of omnibus reprints of comics, called Showcase Presents. One volume reprints the 1950s comicbook Showcase, so it's Showcase Presents Showcase. So... Detective Comics Comics presents Showcase Presents Showcase.
  • "Doomguy" from the Doom (1996) comic has the infamous "Rip and tear! Rip and tear your guts!", among other redundant lines that he used redundantly.
  • Green Lantern: Larfleeze's oath:
    "What's mine is mine
    and mine and mine
    and mine and mine and mine
    Not yours    "
  • In an issue of Legion of Super-Heroes, Apparition is waiting for Ultra Boy. The narration reads:
    Apparition: (she counts off his crimes to the tick of the clock) One. He's late. Two. He already has a girlfriend. Three. He gives bad gifts — a cactus, of all things. Four. He's late. Five. He already has a girlfriend. Six...
    Ultra Boy: I'm late.
  • Lucky Luke In the book "The Oklahoma Run", Luke encounters a traveling salesman who can sell him fresh water, whisky, fruit, whisky, (insert a lot more here) and whisky.
  • Marvel's Time Variance Authority, a bureaucracy that monitors every universe in existence, actually has a Department of Redundancy Department.
  • Frank Miller repeats himself with a lot of repetition. Repeatedly. Also, whores and prostitutes.
  • The obscure DC Comics miniseries Prez: First Teen President stars a U.S. President named Prez Rickard. That's right, President Prez Rickard. His mother had a premonition when he was born and decided to name him appropriately.
  • In the superhero comic series Runaways, the titular heroes' secret headquarters is situated under The La Brea Tar Sands, which, as a guard pointed out, means "The The Tar Tar Sands."
  • The Kindle version of the third Simon's Cat book is titled both on the website and the download itself as "Simon's Cat: In Kitten Chaos: In Kitten Chaos (Simons Cat 3)"
  • The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: Fry doesn't like the idea of taking the biggest comic collection in the universe and have it be sealed in diamond forever. Leela then says that it's the only way they'll be collectibles according to "The Collectible Comic Guide to Collecting Collectible Comics."
  • If anything remotely exciting is going on in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), it's a near-certainty that the character(s) involved will take it upon themselves to tell you what's happening by narrating it in real time as it happens.
  • Spider-Man: The exact phrase is used at the start of The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #140 in the recap bubble, saying that if you read the previous issue you already know all this anyway.
  • Stunt Dawgs: In the comic, Airball telling the readers why he must find out what the Stunt Dawgs are rejoicing for.
    Airball: For I am zee evil Airball! Second-in-command of zee evil Stunt Scabs... led by zee evil Richard Fungus! By zee way... did I mention we are evil?
  • Superman:
    • In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker has this line:
      Spider-Man: He hasn't seen angry till he's seen me angry.
    • Superboy-Prime In Countdown to Final Crisis:
      Superboy Prime: I'll kill you! I'll kill you to DEATH!
    • Strangers at the Heart's Core: As she watches Supergirl rushing to save her parents, Lesla-Lar gloats: "You may win this round, but I've another plan to execute— one that will — Ha Ha!— execute you!"
    • Way of the World: When Supergirl states she intends to revive a child by injecting him with Resurrection Man's blood, on grounds that it previously brought another person back from the dead, Resurrection Man points out that "Yeah, but now he's a living skull and insane. And a living skull."
  • Thunderstrike: After trying to think of a good code name for himself, Eric slips and says "Thunderstrike" to the public, which is like Thor calling himself Mjölnir.
  • done accidentally by Titeuf when he gets punished for unintentionally calling a rector "Mr. Rectum", he tells Manu that "The Rectum is a real asshole.".
  • Ultimate Fantastic Four: The Mad Thinker talks lightning fast and repeats herself expressed in a different way, a bit like Blurr would.
  • In the Warrior Cats graphic novel A Thief in ThunderClan, Brightheart's repetition is part of what demonstrates how bad of a liar she is: "Being pregnant is making me want to chew on burdock roots. Because I'm pregnant."

    Newspaper Comics Printed in the Comics Section of Newspapers 
  • In a February 2026 strip of Adam@home, horror movie fan Clayton tells his sister that he watched a new vampire movie the previous night: Bloodsuckers Who Suck Blood. Katie replies that it sounds like an Oscar winner.
  • B.C.. The strip for September 25th 2013 has a meeting of the Redundancy Department with Peter as the Speaker.
    Peter: First off, roll call will be followed by a brief head count, after which we can quickly take attendance. But first, let's just see who's here today.
  • In Calvin and Hobbes, when Calvin tells Susie about his new club "Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS," when he hears her respond with "Slimy girls?" he responds with "I know that's redundant, but otherwise it doesn't spell anything." Of course, this is only Calvin's interpretation of it, but it's still pretty funny.
  • Cathy does this in spades. Often the sentences or entire speech balloons will be identical except for the operative noun, and possibly an adjective. This leads to what is, for a newspaper comic, a lot of words.
  • Dilbert:
    • Dilbert asks Wally if he wanted to join his project, the TTP project. "What does TTP stand for?" "It stands for The TTP Project." Wally decided he'd rather be Dilbert's arch nemesis.
    • There's a lot of jokes on how the bureaucratic monstrosity that is Dilbert's company is rife with literal redundant departments of redundancy.
  • Garfield:
    • During an arc when he gets lost and meets his mom◊ in the Italian restaurant where he was born: "It's all gone! Where's the pasta? The people? The pasta? The excitement? The pasta?"
    • From an early Christmas strip: "I love Christmas. The parties and the presents, the caroling, the presents, the food, the presents, the decorations, the presents, the fun and the presents."
    • Other strips have Jon repeating what he's already◊ said◊. So has Garfield.◊
    • In one strip◊, Garfield is asleep when Jon wakes him up saying it's time for bed. Seconds after Garfield falls back asleep in bed, he realizes the redundancy and Dope Slaps Jon.
    • In Garfield and Friends, a Top Ten List of "Things Garfield hates to find on the dinner table.": 10. Raisins (...) 6.More raisins (...) 3.Lots more raisins 2.Nermal 1. Nermal with raisins
  • In Oor Wullie, PC Murdoch's Catchphrase is "Name, address, and whaur d'ye bide?" (Scots for "where do you live?") Increasing the redundancy is that he's almost always asking this of Wullie, and already knows all this.
  • One Pearls Before Swine strip had Rat write a list of "Top 7 things whose appeal I do not get". (The joke was that #1 on the list was Pearls itself.) "Non-alcoholic beer" was both #3 and #2.

    Eastern European Animation Animated in Eastern Europe 
  • One of Krisztofóró's main characters is a 13-headed dragon described as a "heads-aplenty dragon". He is named Bőfejű, which means "Plenty-Head".

    Animated Movies Filmed by Animating Cartoon Pictures the Images of the Animated Movies 
  • Aladdin (1992, Disney): Iago says "We gotta get out of here. Bring the guns, the weapons, the knives!" Why say "the guns" and "the knives" when they are also weapons? And what weapons do Jafar and Iago have that are not the guns and the knives?
  • In Animal Soccer World, Jacko names his soccer team "the Jungle Kings, the kings of the jungle".
  • Chicken Run:
    Rocky: You see, flying takes three things: hard work, perseverance and... hard work.
    Fowler: You said "hard work" twice!
    Rocky: That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance.
  • The Brave Little Toaster: It seems Lampy likes to do this sometimes:
    Lampy: And exactly how do you propose we do that, uh, exactly?
  • The Emperor's New Groove:
    Kronk: Riiiight, the poison, the poison for Kuzco, the poison specially chosen to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison. That poison?
    Yzma: Yes, that poison!
    • Kronk's New Groove: Many characters have labels on their possessions that read "[Name]'s [Item], property of [Name], do not touch except for [Name]".
  • Finding Nemo:
    Dory: I shall call him Squishy, and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy.
  • The central setting of the animated film Foodfight! (2012) is a supermarket called "Marketropolis Market". As the Nostalgia Critic put it in his review of the film: "Wow, redundant much, redundant?"
  • In Incredibles 2, the Unreadably Fast Text of the International Superhero Accord being signed on the Everjust concludes with "...the United League of Nations does hereby proclaim Supers legal henceforth unto eternity and for all time, forever."
  • Inside Out uses this cleverly when looking at Deja Vu (and this, and Deja Vu, and that, oh, and Deja Vu!) from the Train of Thought.
  • In the original 1998 release of Kiki's Delivery Service's Disney dub, Jiji has a line where he tells Kiki some instructions when she's almost about to crash her broom into a train. All of them are "don't panic"... well, except maybe that third one.
    Jiji: Okay, first: don't panic. Second: don't panic. And third: did I mention not to panic?
  • Kung Fu Panda:
    • The name Chorh-Gom translates to "sitting in prison". So Tai Lung was imprisoned in the Sitting in Prison Prison.
    • Also, Shifu's name translates as either teacher or master... so he's "Master Master".
    • And, Tai Lung's name translates as "Ultimate/Great/Awesome (no not really) Dragon". So if he'd been given the scroll, he would have been "Ultimate Dragon, the Dragon Warrior, bearer of the Dragon Scroll".
    • The opening dream sequence: "Legend tells of a legendary warrior, whose kung-fu skills were the stuff of legends!"
  • Mirai is known as Mirai no Mirai (未来のミライ), or Mirai of the Future, in Japanese. "Mirai" means "future", so the title can be translated as Future of the Future.
  • Robin Hood (1973):
    • First after Prince John is about to sentence Robin Hood to death:
    Prince John: I sentence you to sudden, instant, and even immediate death!
    • And then again not a minute later when he stops the execution (because Little John has a knife at his back):
    Prince John: Stop! Executioner, stop! Hold your axe!
    • In an earlier scene from a different character: "If I tattletale, I'll die till I'm dead."
  • Zandra from Ronal the Barbarian introduces herself as a shield-maiden from a tribe of shield-maidens.
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse:
    • During the Spot's initial attempt to rob an ATM, Miles wonders why people call them "ATM machines", since the "M" already stands for "machine".
    • Later, when meeting Pavitr Prabhakar, Miles mentions that he loves chai tea, which turns out to be Pavitr's Berserk Button - as he points out, "chai" already means "tea"note . During his run-in with the Spot, Pavitr points out the same applies to the phrase "naan bread" - and then the Spot also mentions that he loves chai tea, enraging Pavitr again.
  • In The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, when Plankton is trying to tell Mr. Krabs that the formula literally disappeared, Mr. Krabs answers with: "Why should I believe YOU, you lying liar?!"
  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie: In the "Super Mario Bros. Plumbing" ad, one of the streets in Queens is called "Road St."
  • In Disney's animated version of The Sword in the Stone, during the Wizards' Duel, one of the rules is that there's no cheating (i.e. it's against the rules to break the rules).
  • Dug from Up does this a lot:
    Dug: My master made me this collar. He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may talk— SQUIRREL!
    [looks to distance for a few seconds]
    Dug: My master is good and smart.
    Carl Fredricksen: It's not possible!
    Dug: Oh it is because my master is smart!
  • Wreck-It Ralph: Felix being interrogated upon entering Hero's Duty: "I'm Fix-It Felix Jr., ma'am, from the game Fix-It Felix Jr.!"
  • Zootopia: Judy calling Nick out for hustling her.
    Judy: I stood up for you, and you lied to me, you liar!

    Labels Showing What You Get On A Label 
  • If you are to google "butter flavored syrup contains no butter", you will get interesting results, including a Reddit post, featuring a bottle of syrup saying: "Butter Rich Syrup: Natural Butter With Other Natural Flavors, Contains No Butter", which could count as a double redundancy, due to "Natural butter with other natural flavors" and the over-excessive amounts of mentioning butter.

    Pinballs That Have Pins and Balls 
  • The flyer for Golden Cue states on both sides, "NOW TOURNAMENT VERSION EASILY UPDATES TO TOURNAMENT VERSION!"

    Professional Wrestling by Professional Wrestlers Who Wrestle Professionally 
  • This happens to many promotions who join the NWA (or similar groups) (SWA to NWA SWA National Wrestling Alliance Scottish Wrestling Alliance?) but some promotions that were NWA members from the start still don't avoid it. Championship Wrestling From Hollywood had the excuse of Grand Father Clause, being based on CWF Florida, which was one of those after the fact cases. Most, such as NWA Pro Wrestling, NWA WCW or NWA ECW, have none.
  • There was an episode of Raw that aired in 1997 called "Thursday Raw Thursday".note 
  • Chris Jericho proves to everyone that he's the Man of 1004 Holds, by listing all the holds he knows.
    Hold #1: Arm Drag. Hold #2: Arm Bar. Hold #3: The Moss Covered Three Handled Family Gredunza. Hold #4: Arm Bar. Hold #5: The Saskatchewan Spinning Nerve Hold. Hold #8: Arm Bar...
    (much later) Hold #264: Armbaaarrr!
    • Years later, he started listing all the wrestlers he'd beaten, including a couple of different gimmicks used by the same guys.
    "...Kevin Nash, Diesel, Oz, Scott Hall, Razor Ramon..."
  • Averted when the term "WWE Superstar" or "Diva" is used (as officially used by WWE to refer to its wrestlers). Saying "WWE wrestlers", however, would be lampshaded.
  • The two time, two time, All-American American American American American, Jack Swagger!
  • "Uso", is the equivalent of "bro" or "sis" to two siblings of the same gender. Thus Rikishi's twin sons going by the "Uso Brothers" name in FCW is this. Upon calling them up to the main roster, WWE suddenly averted this trope by calling them simply "The Usos".
  • And then there's the infamous Promo of Michael McGillicutty at the end of WWE NXT Season 2
    McGillicutty: And starting this moment... from now... from this moment on... this will be the moment... starting now... of the Genesis... of McGillicutty.
  • Intentionally invoked in TNA, with Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian declaring themselves (and demanding they be announced as) "the World Tag Team Champions of the World".
  • There's a reason why Brock Lesnar had Paul Heyman for a mouth piece, as evidenced by one of his promos against John Cena.
    Lesnar: This is real John. This is a real feeling that you're feeling, because I can feel it... I'm the reason you're feeling the way you're feeling right now John.
  • Jeff Jarrett puts over Global Force Wrestling, his then-upcoming promotion, by mentioning his alliance with AAA, "the #1 Mexican wrestling promotion in Mexico".
  • When Michael Cole says, "Enzuigiri to the back of the head." The enzuigiri is a jumping kick to the back of the head, so he is basically saying, "Jumping kick to the back of the head to the back of the head."
  • WCW 1997: Mortis and Wrath were called manager James Vandenberg's "rare oddities."
  • WWE once had a program called WWF Superstars of Wrestling, which meant its full name was the World Wrestling Federation Superstars of Wrestling. This was averted later on when the name of the program became WWF Superstars.
  • Mid '90s WWF wrestler Timothy Well once went by the ring name of Rex King. Rex is Latin for king, meaning his ring name was essentially King King.
  • AEW women's champion Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D., who in fact is a dentist outside the ring. "D.M.D." is the abbreviation of a Latin phrase that translates to "Doctor of Dental Medicine".
  • The match between Solo Sikoa and Boa at NXT 2.0 was a "No Disqualification Falls Count Anywhere Match", but Falls Count Anywhere matches are already no-DQ by default.

    Radio Playing Radio Music and Radio News on the Radio 
  • The Bob & Tom Show has as one of its fan favorite prerecorded skits that the fans like very much, the "Jim Johnson Memory Program", which helps you remember where your car keys are, important dates or phrases, where your car keys are, long strings of information, and important dates or phrases. This skit gave us a second in the series skit called the "Joe Johannsen Vocabulary Builder-Upper", which was even more funnier than the one before it, which was about remembering where your car keys were. Both products work, or the creator's name isn't John Jacobs.
  • Punt and Dennis: It's Been A Bad Week showcases amusing news stories in order to figure out who qualifies for "The Worst Week of the Week Award, Awarded Weekly on a Week-by-Week Basis". One Christmas Episode Clip Show, showcasing the best stories from the past season, gave us "The Worst Week of the Year Award, Awarded Yearly on an Annual, Yearly ... Thing".
  • One episode of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour had him listing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease as "memory loss, confusion, disorientation, memory loss, societal withdrawal, memory loss, and memory loss".
  • A series of short radio comedy skits called The Adventures of Manman and Boyboy had as a villain in episode 42: Man who is Redundant Man.
  • The sketch show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again once did a parody of Star Trek, introducing Scotty as "our Scottish engineer from Scotland, Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott".
  • Voltaire's song Robber Baron combines this trope with There Is No Kill Like Overkill about halfway through: "With their flags and guns, And guns and drums and boots, And blood red banners, dogs and guns."
  • The Goon Show had many of these.
    • The episode "Dishonoured - Again" begins with the announcement:
    From the book I Knew Terence Nuke by Eileen Beardsmore-Lewisham (tiddley-doo-spot!), we present the play I Knew Terence Nuke from the book by Eileen Beardsmore-Lewisham.
    • "The Affair of the Lone Banana" includes the exclamation
    Fred Nerk?! That's Fred Nerk's name!
    • And then of course there's "The Mystery of the Marie Celeste Solved"
    He was a tall, vile man dressed in the naval uniform of a seagoing sailor.
    • In "The Junk Affair", Neddy declares his intention to 'kill myself with death and other accepted means'.
    • And in "The Mummified Priest":
    Give me that script, or I'll kill you by death!
  • In the Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation episode "How to Speak", Paul Basset-Davies claims to be a lecturer at the National Institute for the Study of Verbal Talking and Redundant Tautology.
  • The BBC Radio 2 quiz Popmaster regularly features questions in the form "X was a hit for which chart act?". And that's not shorthand for "recurring chart act", as it's also applied to acts with no other hits to their name.
  • In the Nordic Noir spoof Angstrom, Mina does her research at the Regional Public Records Office and Research Library for Public Research and Library Records, But It's All One Word in Swedish. Which is refered to as such every time.
  • The Laird in Hamish and Dougal is "The McCoist of McCoist of That Ilk". Either the second McCoist or the "That Ilk" is correct; both is competely unnecessary.
  • The News Quiz: The 16th January 2026 episode, reporting on the water being cut off in Tumbridge Wells:
    Andy Zaltzman: The outage has been blamed on various things, including a recent storm, the non-recent infrastructure, more people working from home, the modern affectation for washing, the woke refusal to get cholera any more like we did when Britain was great, a lack of investment in the water system, a failure to invest sufficiently in the water system, not investing enough in the water system, and a tendency towards underinvestment in the water system.

    Sports Moments in Sports 
  • John Madden's attempts to explain gridiron football to the uncultured hobos of the world.
"The offensive lineman are the biggest guys on the field. They're bigger than everyone else, that's why they're the biggest guys on the field."

    Tabletop Games Played by Gamers on the Top of a Table 
  • The English localization of Cardfight!! Vanguard happens in Bushiroad's Singapore office, so the flavor text tends to not be the greatest. Typically this simply results in lots and lots of superfluous commas, but on occasion it can enter into the territory of this trope. Probably the most blatant example is "Experiment Successful!" which sports the flavor text "Yes! The experiment was a success!".
    • To be fair to "Experiment Successful!", the Japanese flavor text is basically the same, but it Title Drops the card name within the flavor text instead of rewording it.
  • Digimon: The card game introduces Duftmon: Leopard Mode. However, most localized media outside of this iteration of the card game has his name as "Leopardmon: Leopard Mode".
  • GURPS Illuminati University actually has several Department of Redundancy Departments.
  • Naturally, Alpha Complex in Paranoia actually has a Department of Redundancy Department. And many other variations on the theme. "Oh, this is the Complex Supply Bureau. You want the Bureau of Complex Supply."
  • In the fantasy world Glorantha (featured in, among other things, the RPG RuneQuest) the local equivalent of China is bordered by the Shan Shan Mountains. In one Chinese language - I have forgotten which - "shan" means mountain. So they are the Mountain-Mountain Mountains. Did we mention that they are really high and impassable?
  • Due to some confusion when he first introduced himself, Ravenloft's most infamous lich is referred to as "Azalin Rex" in official court documents of his domain of Darkon. Invokes this trope, as "Azalin" is actually a mangling of his old Oerth title of "Wizard-King", thus making him Darkon's "Wizard-King King".
  • In the RPG Orbital, one space ship has "two emergency low berths for emergency use", and in outposts, "Individuals or teams will be regularly rotated back to the main installation on a regular basis".
  • The Low-Life card game Dementalism is described on the back of the box as, "An ingenious game of ingenious ingeniousness."
  • Smash Up has a minion called "King Rex." It's a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  • The producers of simsense recordings in the world of Shadowrun sometimes have to whip up portions of those recordings from scratch rather than live-record it, usually because sensations associated with spellcasting or astral phenomena can't be captured by sim-tech. Industry jargon refers to such computer-generated patches of experience as pseudosim.
  • In Delta Green, one antagonistic group are Americans Against Covert Enemies, basically a racist hate group that's secretly backed by a ruthless and very well-connected Mythos cult. The sourcebook they're covered in contains a list of their preferred targets, which mentions Islam five times even before discussing their direction after the September 11 terror attacks.
  • The D&D supplement Complete Psionics has the Deja Vu power (which causes the target to repeat their previous action) listed twice. Since the second entry shows up several pages later, with no indication of being a repeat (other than being out of alphabetic order), it's entirely possible to read it and go, "Hey, didn't I read this before?"
  • Magic: The Gathering has certain instances of redundant place names in the Western version of the lore of the Kamigawa block. This is due to the fact that the descriptive terms are masked within the Japanese names, thus have to be clarified again with English equivalents. Here are some examples with translations:
    • Eiganjo Castle: Eternal Rock Castle Castle
    • Jukai Forest: Forest Forest
    • Kamitaki Falls: Divine Falls Falls
    • Shizo, Death's Storehouse: Death's Storehouse, Death's Storehouse (literally); Hoarding, Death's Storehouse (figuratively)
    • Sokenzan Mountains: Icy Blade Mountains Mountains
    • Towabara Plains: Eternal Plains Plains
  • Warhammer 40,000: Ferrus Manus, Primarch of the Iron Hands, has iron hands, and his flagship is called the Fist of Iron.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!:
    • Japanese card names (consequently, also Korean card names) are frequently redundant. The format is usually something like this: the descriptive title in Japanese, followed by a hyphen, then the cool English title that more or less simply translates what comes before it. For example, Chinmoku no Majutsushi - Sairento Majishan means "Silent Magician - Silent Magician".
    • Several of these uses, though, result in rather odd-sounding English names. For example, many cards in the "Black Luster Soldier" archetype have names like "Black Luster Soldier - (descriptor) Soldier", where the second part was originally listed in Japanese first, followed by the archetype's Japanese name, the English words "Chaos Soldier". Special mention goes Konton no Senshi Kaosu Soruja, which means "Chaos Soldier, Soldier of Chaos", but because a card named "Black Luster Soldier" already exists, it was translated more literally to "Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Chaos".
    • Another way to make card names sound cool but also comprehensible is to write them with Japanese words, but also annotating them with English equivalents. For example, the Japanese name of "Blue-Eyes" is spelled with the Japanese words for "blue-eyed", but pronounced with the English words "Blue-Eyes" as per the annotation above them.
    • The card Red-Eyes Fusion, which Special Summons a monster and lists that it can only be used once per turn; despite the fact the card itself prevents any further Special Summons that turn hence making the limitation redundant.
    • Also, the card Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation will inflict damage among the highest ATK of your opponent's destroyed monsters, with the addition of "Your choice if tied". Since if the ATK is tied it will do the same thing no matter what, it's a completely redundant choice.
    • Prior to the addition of problem-solving text, many cards were an example of this, especially the earliest cards. Probably the most extreme example was declaring "Regardless of position" for monster destruction effects.

    Theatre with Actors Played by People on a Stage in a Theatre 
  • Older Than Steam, thanks to this bit from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice:
    My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
    Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
    Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
    A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
    Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!
    And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
    Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;
    She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.
    • As a matter of fact, Shylock's whole speech pattern is like this, possibly to enforce the idea that he's nightmarishly persistent (count how many times he says some variant on "I'll have my bond, I will not hear thee speak"). Launcelot Gobbo uses the trope more comedically, especially in his opening monologue.
      "Fia!" says the fiend. "Away!" says the fiend. "For the heavens, rouse up a brave mind", says the fiend, "and run!" note 
    • Portia gets a moment as well:
      I speak too long, but 'tis to pheaze the time,
      To eke it and to draw it out in length...
      • Justified in that she's doing exactly what she says she's doing—stalling for time.
    • Shakespeare uses it again in one of Dogberry's speeches:
      Marry, sir, they have committed false report;
      moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,
      they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
      belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust
      things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
      • To which Don Pedro replies: "First I ask thee what have they done? Thirdly, what's their offence? Sixth and lastly, why they are committed? and to conclude, what you lay to their charge?"
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream:
      But, masters, here are your parts, and I am to entreat you, request you and desire you to con them by tomorrow night...
    • Romeo and Juliet:
      You are looked for and called for, asked for and sought for in the great chamber.
    • Don Armado, Holofernes, and Nathaniel from Love's Labour's Lost all speak in this trope.
  • The Australian spoof of B-Movie sci-fi and horror films, Attack of the Attacking Attackers!. At the end of the play they announce the To Be Continued sequel, Revenge of the Revenging Revengers!
  • From Wicked, "Thank Goodness":
    Glinda: There's a kind of a sort of...cost
    There's a couple of things get...lost
    There are bridges you cross
    You didn't know you crossed
    Until you've crossed.
  • The Seattle-based ACT Theatre. "A Contemporary Theatre" Theatre.
  • Cyrano de Bergerac: This trope is combined with Rule of Three: The gratuitous repetition of a question or a gesture for three or more times are shown in the play:
    • Played for Laughs: In Act I Montfleury tries to say his lines four times, Cyrano orders him to disappear when Cyrano claps his hands the third time, the bore asks Cyrano three times if he has a protector. Lampshaded by Cyrano when he does not answer a third time:
    Cyrano: (irritated) No, I have told you twice! Must I repeat?
    • Played for Drama: In Act II, Cyrano asks Roxana three times what she would do if Christian is not as eloquent as he is fair; she answers two times that being fair, he has to be eloquent, and the third time she invokes Driven to Suicide. In Act IV, Cyrano asks Roxane if she would love Christian, even if he were ugly, three times. She answers yes every time.
  • From Fly by Night:
    Harold: You're like some kind of magical wizard!
    Miriam: What other kind of wizard is there?
  • "...then you think, 'I'm a thinker, and I think thinks!'"
  • Penny Pingleton of Hairspray is rather prone to this, suggesting they should write things on the signs they're planning to make and making mention of the fact that the armed guards will be armed.
  • Les Misérables:
    • One of the songs is called "I Dreamed a Dream".
    • One of the lyrics near the end of "Castle on a Cloud" is also like this:
    Please do not send me out alone, not in the darkness on my own.
  • In Urinetown, this trope is used many times (often being Played for Laughs), but the crowning moment has to go to this (spoiler-y) gem:
    Penelope: Hope is my daughter...
    Ensemble: (small gasp)
    Penelope: AND I AM HER MOTHER!
    Ensemble: (LARGE GASP)

    Toys That You Play with Using Your Imagination 
  • "BJD Dolls" or otherwise, "Ball Jointed Dolls Dolls". This is mostly because you can't call them "BJ Dolls".
  • The Le-Matoran in BIONICLE use a bizarre dialect known as treespeak, which heavily involves redundancy, resulting in an unpleasant, cacophonous effect for most non-speakers. An often used term is "Toa-Hero", which is redundant as the word "Toa" apparently means "hero" in the Matoran language. Several Le-Matoran slang terms are like this, such as Crash-Wreck, Far-Distance, Fear-Dread, Huge-Big, etc. At one point, Kongu also points out that "Vezon" is the Matoran word for "copy". This is useful to the reader, however, Kongu and his friends are all speaking the Matoran language, so that statement would have seemed completely useless to the people he was speaking to.
    • However, there have been uses of "Toa-Villain" as well.
    • Not to mention Kanohi masks, Kanoka disks and the Great Spirit Mata Nui, which are just the same things said twice.
  • BIONICLE (2015) had Umarak the Hunter. The word Umarak was stated to mean Shadow Hunter, making his full name Shadow Hunter the Hunter. At least his title was later changed to "the Destroyer".
  • On the back of the packaging for Ratchet's toy from the Transformers: Prime series, Ratchet is listed as "Autobot Ratchet (Autobot)◊". This is quite common among a certain class of Transformer names, as those Transformer names cannot be trademarked by the maker of Transformers, Hasbro, so Hasbro adds the faction designation, in this case, Autobot or Decepticon, to the name of that Transformer, so it is trademarkable. Examples include Autobot Jazz, Decepticon Brawl, and Autobot Ratchet. If any of those characters show up in Transformers: Prime, they will likely have packaging declaring "Autobot Jazz (Autobot)", "Decepticon Brawl (Decepticon)", or "Autobot Ratchet (Autobot)".

    Troping Tropes of TV Tropes 

    Warning Labels That Provide Warnings on Their Labels 
  • Any time there's a peanut butter jar or a labelled peanut container that says "Warning: May contain peanuts." If it said 'contains peanuts', that would be one thing. The real headscratcher is that it seems to suggest that it might not.
  • Because of regulations or lawsuit-related ass covering, in the US a lot of food products that obviously have a product in them (Peanut M&Ms have peanuts!) have this trope in action on their packaging. Like milk or cheese labeled "Contains Dairy product."
  • In parts of the world where listing ingredients is mandatory regardless of the product, such as the UK, this trope is sure to occur.
    "100% Pure Maple Syrup"
    "Ingredients: Pure Maple Syrup (100%)"

    Web Animation Moving Pictures Uploaded to the Internet 
  • 5 Secondly Object Show: Bean's Show, in “The Elephants Cried”, Tape Measurer has been very stressed out after since last episode, so Watermelon helps by giving a long list of activities Tape Measurer can do so she can handle her stress against the world, in the form of an informercial, although, the majority of the activities on the list are pretty much repeated over, mostly “eating cheesecake”.
    Tape Measurer: [deadpan] I’m not gonna eat cheesecake.
    Cheesecake Fairy: [suddenly appears] And here comes the Cheesecake Fairy~
  • asdfmovie for sure.
    "I baked you a pie!"
    "Oh boy! What flavor?"
    "PIE FLAVOR."
    (A second pie emerges out of the first)
    • Or most recently:
    "I'm going to punch your face..."
    'GASP'
    "...In the face!"
    (Cue closeup on guy's face, revealing a second face)
  • Baby Cakes Diary #2: Babycakes describes how his father was scared of the moon when it "got all blue, and blue-lookin'."
  • Brain Dump: In the review of the Powerpuff Girls reboot, Max calls the show "a baby show for babies that only babies would like because they're stupid babies."
  • The Expository Theme Tune to Cat Face:
    Cat Face, he's got a big cat face
    He's got the body of a cat, and the face of a cat
    And he flies through the air 'cause he's got a cat face
    Cat Face!
  • Charlie the Unicorn. "Candy Mountain! It's a land of sweets and joy... and joyness..."
    • In the finale, Nix visits a place called "Magic City, City of Magic".
  • DaThings:
    • "This machine is called the Machine Machine" from "Wow! It's Made!"
    • "Seeder Point" offers "challenging challenges" and "different kinds of extinguishers for different kinds of extinguishing."
    • George in "Big Talking Volcano" starts filling his water with water, and one of the sections ends with Volvic bottled water being, "Filled with fill, so it's full of full."
    • "Eccentric Severe Murders" has one of the newscasters say it's possible the latest victim was, "murdered by the murderer and killed, too."
    • Taken to extremes in "Pep Of Pig":
    Narrator: "To talk to Miss Rabbit, walk up to Miss Rabbit, press the Talk to Miss Rabbit button, choose the Talking action when it appears on the screen. Use the stick to choose the ANIMAL Miss Rabbit."
  • Dusk's Dawn:
    • "What happened here? Is anypony able to tell me what happened here?"
    • "So cool! Cold even."
  • In the first episode of Furious Famicom Faggot, Furious plays Super Mario Bros. 2, and comments on the character selection screen with, "You can be any of these stupid assholes. You can pick Mario, Luigi, Toad, Luigi, or the princess!"
  • Present in spades in the Heavy is Dead.
    Soldier: What's that? A weapon? That thing is why the Heavy is dead!
    Engineer, Spy, and Sniper: The Heavy is dead?!
    Soldier: Yes! [Ace Attorney-style overdramatic gesture] He died!
  • history of japan makes this a Running Gag. Japan could be walked to, and some people walked to it. The Mongols, who have invaded China, have invaded China.
  • Homestar Runner:
    • Strong Bad needs no introduction: "I've been described as cool, awesome, hot, video games, the hottest, and real real hot."
    • Cheat Commandos member Reinforcements: "Justice Rocket Backpack Rocket Rocket, fire!"
    • Thy Dungeonman 3 repeats "Upon the table there is a stein."
    • From the Strong Bad Email "more armies": "The drive! The power! The motivation! The fortitude! The power again!"
    • Thnikkaman's message on Marzipan's answering machine: "I was just calling up to see if you wanted to join my Thnikkaband. I got instruments, drums, cymbals, drums..."
    • Coach Z trying to sink the 18th hole at Sweet Puttin' Cakes in "mini golf": "Oh! I guess I forgort to port. Oh! I guess I forgrat to prat. Oh! 'GORKA FA PORK!!"
    • From "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show": "Poopsmith, you smell like a Crapsmith!"
    • Somewhat lampshaded in "Where U Goin' 2":
      Strong Bad: Maybe [The Cheat's] just going to the ATM machine.
      Strong Mad: THAT'S REDUNDANT!
    • The theme to Stinkoman K 20X6:
      Challenge and fighting!
      We're fighting the challenge tonight!
      Everyone's fighting the challenge that's ought to be fighting!
    • Strong Bad describes the main characters of Teen Girl Squad as being "teenage girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen."
    • From Bubs's character video: "I sell hot dogs, chili dogs, slaw dogs, ketchup dogs and mustard dogs. I got drinks, drinks, drinks, candy and snow cones."
  • In How to Deal with a Yandere, Penelope's drink is poisoned... with poison!
  • If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device has the Man-Emperor of Mankind following episode 18.
    • Then there's this gem from Rogal Dorn:
    "Once upon a time, I was me."
  • The Red vs. Blue PSA introducing Grifball features Simmons and Church representing the "American Grifball League of America".
    • O'Malley: "You foolish fools will never defeat me! You're far too busy being foolish!"
  • Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl:
    • Aika's title as magical girl is Star Guardian: Guardian of the Stars. Eclipse says the full thing every time he mentions her.
    • Aika and Zira's high school is called School McSchool Memorial School.
  • One particularly popular Vine gave us the Sand Guardian, Guardian of the Sand.
    "Poseidon quivers before him!"
  • Zero Punctuation:
    • In Yahtzee's review of Dead Space, he sums up the game's faults thusly:
      Yahtzee: It's repetitive, it's riddled with clichés, you could replace the entire cast with puppy dogs and they still wouldn't be likable, it's repetitive, and despite its original ideas, it somehow fails to kill the feeling that you've seen it all before. All in all, it comes across as the sort of thing you'd get from a soulless video game generating machine if you fed an Aliens box set into the slot and asked for something less compelling. And more repetitive.
    • Also from another review: "Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Jericho, by Clive Barker."
    • The Stinger of his Splinter Cell: Conviction review:
      Yahtzee: Have I mentioned that I wrote a novel and you can pre-order it from Amazon and Amazon.co.uk? Well, I wrote a novel and you can pre-order it from Amazon and Amazon.co.uk.

    Webcomics Internet Comics That are Made for Uploaded to the Internet by Webcomic Artists 
Redundant statement is redundant.

"I just want to tell you both, good luck, we're all counting on you."

 
Feedback

Video Example(s):

The many ways to manage stress

Noticing Tape Measure's sudden snapping, Watermelon gives her a list of things she could do to relive her stress. Thing is, nearly every entry on the list involves cheesecake in some way.

Example of:
Long List

★★★★★ 5 (8 votes)
(Leave a comment)

"I'm going to k...

"Hula Girls!"

(Massive Spoile...

The Exo Stranger

Adventures of S...

Carmine Jr's Ro...

Pineapple Fever

Darkness Within...

It's a sword. M...

The Part Where ...

Cave Weather Re...

Count the Chairs

Sheriff Barnes

Roberto Flexing

What, with whom...

"You have ass c...

Do You Smell It?

Burdine Maxwell

Hold Circle, mo...

Egg

Redundant Scribe

The City of Tow...

A Flea in Her Dome

Armando

Look at All the...

The Secret Box

Homemade Megaphone

Addison

Lights, Camera,...

"FREE FOOD?!"

Legend

All toasters to...

Eric Bar Fight

Alternative Title(s): Redundancy Department Of Redundancy, Redundant Department Of Redundancy, Redundancy

Previous

Index

Next

  • Show Spoilers
  • Night Vision
  • Sticky Header
  • Wide Load

Important Links

Ask The Tropers Trope Finder Media Finder Trope Launch Pad Tech Wishlist Browse Go Ad Free!
Crucial Browsing
Resources
Top

The many ways to manage stress

Noticing Tape Measure's sudden snapping, Watermelon gives her a list of things she could do to relive her stress. Thing is, nearly every entry on the list involves cheesecake in some way.

(Leave a comment)

How well does it match the trope?

5 (8 votes)

Example of:

Main / LongList

Media sources:

Report

0:18

The many ways t...

 0:13

"I'm going to k...

 0:29

"Hula Girls!"

 0:28

(Massive Spoile...

 0:35

The Exo Stranger

 1:20

Adventures of S...

 0:12

Carmine Jr's Ro...

 0:54

Pineapple Fever

 0:25

Darkness Within...

 0:07

It's a sword. M...

 0:08

The Part Where ...

 0:44

Cave Weather Re...

 0:14

Count the Chairs

 0:27

Sheriff Barnes

 0:13

Roberto Flexing

 0:25

What, with whom...

 0:06

"You have ass c...

 0:13

Do You Smell It?

 0:09

Burdine Maxwell

 1:10

Hold Circle, mo...

 0:11

Egg

 0:17

Redundant Scribe

 0:22

The City of Tow...

 0:47

A Flea in Her Dome

 1:44

Armando

 0:35

Look at All the...

 0:21

The Secret Box

 0:07

Homemade Megaphone

 1:04

Addison

 0:27

Lights, Camera,...

 0:26

"FREE FOOD?!"

 0:08

Legend

 0:03

All toasters to...

 0:19

Eric Bar Fight
Morty Proxy This is a proxified and sanitized view of the page, visit original site.