You're listening to a song, (maybe deciding to sing along) or are on one of those (with a population of Janets?) where (without needing to rehearse). A rhyming couplet is set up, (and you watch your hopes get up) but rather than using a rhyme, (being ) the speaker takes it in a different, non-euphonic (but maybe not in need of course correction) either by speaking a different word, (could be one you've never heard) having it bleeped out, (lest you be creeped out) or cutting off an offending section. (Such as the outcome of a ) This is most often used for comedy: typically, the rhyme set up and subverted was clearly supposed to be a profanity. (If the replacement word begins the same way as the averted word, this amounts to a deliberate.) It's one of the myriad gimmicks used for, and when used this way is known as a 'Miss Susie,' after one of the most famous examples. Sometimes in this case the cut-off word will appear in a different context as a ('The steamboat went to hell/-o operator.' ) Doing this is the only way to get the worse on American network television — though of course the trope is much older than that: it's used in an Elizabethan broadside ballad about seducing a maiden, thus making it at least. That said, the trope can be used for comedy without implying profanity, just by making the way the rhyme is going totally obvious and then not going there.

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At least the Russian dub retains this joke, using a word that rhymes with the Russian word for 'puddle'. • The film also uses a darker and more subtle version in the song 'Do You Want To Build a Snowman?' , which sets it up to sound like Elsa is going to respond to her sister's question, only to be met with silence. •: Played comically during the film's opener. Rapunzel - a (technically voluntary) but bored - sings about doing the chores, only to realise she's done them all within a quarter of an hour after waking up.

A turner of phrases quite pleasin', Had a penchant for trick'ry and teasin'. In his songs, the last line Might seem sans design; What I mean is, without why or wherefore. • Non-comic, non-profane example: In George Herbert's poem 'Denial' every stanza (except the last) ends on a non-rhyme, to symbolize the speaker's spiritual crisis. • Non-profane, example: Poems is mainly about this trope. Paddy Pig, a poet, keeps writing 4-line poems that all rhyme but the last line, even if there's a rhyming synonym for the last word. His friends weren't amused and even pointed this flaw out. • In, Dwayne recalls his father singing this rhyme while drunk.

There'll be no joy in Tedville if our Lisa is a. Note It was supposed to be 'lesbian' • Colin Mochrie, of fame, is very good at improv—but his talents do not lie in music. Inexplicably, during the American run of the show, Drew Carey's favorite game was Hoedown (his excitement at it visibly irritated Ryan Stiles at times), meaning it was performed very often.

Mochrie didn't even try to sing most of the time, rhyming in a sort of chant. However, he gleefully subverted the format several times—in one about the lottery, saying he didn't care anymore, speaking briefly in tongues, running around the studio, and hugging an attractive audience member; another time, in a callback to an earlier gaffe with his microphone's battery, mouthing words but saying nothing, ending in 'my battery pack!'

; and once ending a hoedown verse about a traumatic event in 'I lost the ability to rhyme' (which did not, obviously, rhyme with the previous line). • On the other hand, however, many of the other stars on the show, particularly Greg Proops, do this so often and easily that subverting a profane rhyme is called 'Pulling a Greg' in. My teacher was beautiful, a beautiful lass. But I was embarrassed in front of the class. I would sit in the back because I was quite a loner.

And then I - oh! • During an Irish Drinking Song, Colin is set up to say a line that rhymes with trucker, but instead he just smiles and says nothing. Both he and the audience know what he could have said. • This was a gag about in where one of the characters, an extremely virginal young man would compose odes to his current crush which would suggest an obviously bawdy rhyme which was invariably subverted.

• The limerick version popped up again in. What Is This Thing Called Knowledge Pritchard Pdf. Rob Lee: We've all heard it: 'Beans, beans, good for your heart, the more you eat, the more you'.er, produce flatus. • In one episode of, the White Rabbit has contracted 'rhymitis', which forces him to. Hp 6127 Driver Mac. After he's cured, he sings a song full of these, with each followed by the chorus 'And you know what the best part is? It doesn't rhyme!' • In a skit called 'Lady MADtv (a spoof of 'Lady Marmalade') on: 'I'm the reason MAD's back for season seven / Disagree, well boo-hoo and tough luck / 'Cause to tell you the truth, I don't give a huh' • One episode of opens with Mr Burgess composing a text in which says this week's show contained 'wit, grit and sh.

Surely the best act we've ever had in the history of the show'. • The UK consumer show That's Life once did a major story on fake diet pills made from guar gum, which apart from not working caused illness and flatulence. After the company had recalled the product, the show ended its final report with a, in which an actress who had appeared in advertisements for the tablets sang 'I'm so sorry that I took part, / Guar gum just made me sick!' • From the 2013 closing number, 'Here's to the Losers'.