"It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much."
—Yogi Berra
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All about the things that characters say. (Note: Dialogue can refer to any number of people speaking; "dia-" means "through". Two people speaking would be "duologue".)
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Department of Redundancy Department
All items (421)
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A Rare Sentence
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Accent Tropes
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Category:Accent Tropes
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Accidental Public Confession
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Action Figure Speech
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After-Action Villain Analysis
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Ahem
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All Cheering All the Time
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All Cheering, All the Time
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Analogy Backfire
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And the Rest
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And Then I Said
- Angrish
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Announcer Chatter
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Answering Echo
- Apologises a Lot
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Appeal to Obscurity
- Applied Mathematics
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Aren't You Forgetting Someone?
- Armor-Piercing Question
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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As the Good Book Says...
- Ask a Stupid Question
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
- Atomic F-Bomb
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Audience Murmurs
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Author Catchphrase
B
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Backhanded Apology
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Bad News in a Good Way
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Bad Omen Anecdote
- Bait and Switch Comment
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Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults
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Battle Cry
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Battle-Interrupting Shout
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Beam Me Up, Scotty
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Bearer of Bad News
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The Bechdel Test
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Bilingual Backfire
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Bilingual Dialogue
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Blah Blah Blah
- Blatant Lies
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma
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Bold Inflation
- Bond One-Liner
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Book'em, Danno
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Borrowed Catchphrase
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
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Break Them by Talking
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Breaking Bad News Gently
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Bring Them Around
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Broken Record
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But I Digress
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But That I Would Believe
C
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Calling Shotgun
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Calling Your Bathroom Breaks
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Can't Argue with Elves
- Casual Danger Dialog
- Casual Danger Dialogue
- Catch Phrase
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Catchphrase Interruptus
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Trope Workshop:Catchphrase Spouting Duo
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Censorship by Language
- Censorship by Spelling
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Chain of Corrections
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Change the Uncomfortable Subject
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Chew Out Fake Out
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Cliché Storm
- Closed Door Rapport
- Cluster F-Bomb
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Code Emergency
- Code Word Coitus
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Collective Groan
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Comic Role Play
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Confusing Multiple Negatives
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Conjunction Interruption
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Constantly Curious
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Conversational Troping
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Converse with the Unconscious
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Cough-Snark-Cough
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Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
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Cryptic Conversation
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Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
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Cue Card Pause
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Cultural Posturing
- Curse Cut Short
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Cypher Language
D
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Damned By Faint Praise
- Dare to Be Badass
- Department of Redundancy Department
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Derailed for Details
- Derailed Train of Thought
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Description Cut
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Description Porn
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Category:Dialogue
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Dialogue Reversal
- Dialogue Tree
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Dialogue/WMG
- Digging Yourself Deeper
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Disappointed in You
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Disorganized Outline Speech
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Dispense with the Pleasantries
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Disregard That Statement
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Do I Really Sound Like That?
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
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Does That Sound Like Fun to You?
- Double Edged Answer
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Double Meaning
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Category:Double Meaning Tropes
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Double-Speak
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Dramatic Deadpan
- Dramatic Ellipsis
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Dramatic Pause
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Dramatic Stutter
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Dropping the Bombshell
- Duck Season! Rabbit Season!
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Dude Not Ironic
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Dude, Not Ironic
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Dumbass Has a Point
E
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Earpiece Conversation
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Easily Overheard Conversation
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Easily-Overheard Conversation
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Either World Domination or Something About Bananas
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Emergency Presidential Address
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Enemy Chatter
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Escalating Punchline
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Especially Zoidberg
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Euphemism Buster
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Everyone Gets Their Turn
- Evil Gloating
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Evil Sounds Deep
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Exactly What I Meant to Say
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Category:Exposition
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Exposition Cut
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Externalizing Internal Monologue
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Facial Dialogue
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Category:A Failure to Communicate
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Famed in Story
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Famous Last Words
- Fauxdian Slip
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Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue
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Finish Dialogue in Unison
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Finishing Each Other's Sentences
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First Name Ultimatum
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Flippant Forgiveness
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Freudian Threat
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Friendly Address Privileges
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Full Name Ultimatum
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I
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I Can't Believe I'm Saying This
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I Gave My Word
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I Have Nothing to Say to That
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I Say What I Say
- I Take Offense to That Last One
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I Uh You Too
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I Would Say If I Could Say
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
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I'll Take Two Beers, Too!
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I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
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I'm Thinking It Over
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Ignore the Disability
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Ignoring by Singing
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Implied Death Threat
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In That Order
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Inaction Sequence
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Inane Blabbering
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Inflationary Dialogue
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Info Dump
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Inner Monologue Conversation
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Instructional Dialogue
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Insult Friendly Fire
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Insult Misfire
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Category:Insult Tropes
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Intelligible Unintelligible
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Ironic Echo
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Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?
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Is the Answer to This Question Yes

