History Main / DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment

''[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe Department of Redundancy Department Here by writing a description of Department of Redundancy Department.]]''

The dictionary definition for this trope is a [[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tautology tautology]].

** Amusingly, peanuts aren't actually nuts, which puts an interesting spin on the traditional 'may contain nuts' warning. In particular "This product was made in a place that processes nuts and peanuts".

** Although it is somewhat valuable to people with serious food allergies, in that some products don't actually contain what you think they obviously should. For example 'honey nut' Cheerios don't contain nuts and in various times in their production history did not contain honey.

** [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya We've entered an endless recursion of time.]]

This also shows up frequently with the misuse of acronyms, specifically when part of the acronym is used next to the acronym itself. [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] knows this as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome RAS Syndrome]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke i.e. Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome]]).

* TV Tropes has [[Wiki/TVTropes a page on itself]].

** [[VideoGame/EarthBound It hurts, Ness... It hurts...]]

** [[SayMyName Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness,]] [[VideoGame/EarthBound Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness...]]

-->-- '''Mojo Jojo''', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''

* [[Redundancy/AnimeAndManga Anime Cartoons from Japan and Manga Comics from Japan]]

* [[Redundancy/LiveActionFilms Filmed Movies Using Film Which Was Used to Film the Filmed Movies]]
* [[Redundancy/AnimatedFilms Animated Movies Filmed by Animating the Images of the Animated Movies]]

* [[Redundancy/VideoGames Video Games That You Play Games with Including Visuals Played Using Electronics]]

* [[Redundancy/{{Webcomics}} Webcomics Made and Uploaded to the Internet by Webcomic Artists]]

* [[Redundancy/WesternAnimation Western Animation Moving Pictures Made in the West]]
* [[Redundancy/RealLife Real Life Non-Fictional World of 3-D]]

[[caption-width-right:350:In case you're not sure if it's a cat toy for iguanas or something.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:In case you're not sure if it's a cat toy for iguanas or something.[[note]]On the back, it says "Cat Toy" ''again'', and below that, "This toy is not suitable for children."[[/note]] To be fair, it could be a toy that is shaped like a cat, in which case it ''might'' be for dogs.]]

** [[CompleteMonster Irredeemable Monstrous Monstrosity]]

** IncorruptiblePurePureness.

[[caption-width-right:350:In case you're not sure if it's a cat toy for iguanas or something.[[note]]On the back, it says "Cat Toy" ''again'', and below that, "This toy is not suitable for children."[[/note]] To be fair, it could be a toy that is shaped like a cat, in which it ''might'' be for dogs.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:In case you're not sure if it's a cat toy for iguanas or something.[[note]]On the back, it says "Cat Toy" ''again'', and below that, "This toy is not suitable for children."[[/note]]]]

''[[DescribeTopicHere Describe Department of Redundancy Department Here by writing a description of Department of Redundancy Department.]]''

** "[[FortheEvulz I am evil by doing evil deeds just for the sake of those evil deeds.]]"

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 "[[Film/BlazingSaddles You said X twice]]." "I like X." These occur frequently, especially when listing things, and are often said by characters with [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny short attention spans that are short]] -- especially energetic characters such as the GenkiGirl.

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 "[[Film/BlazingSaddles You said X twice]]." "[[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice I like X]]." These occur frequently, especially when listing things, and are often said by characters with [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny short attention spans that are short]] -- especially energetic characters such as the GenkiGirl.

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 "[[Film/BlazingSaddles You said X twice]]." "[[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice I like X]]." These occur frequently, especially when listing things.

* Peanut butter jars or labelled peanut containers often display "Warning: May contain peanuts", as if something suggest that ''it might not''.

* 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''.

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 "[[Film/BlazingSaddles You said X twice]]." "[[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice I like X]]." These occur frequently, especially when listing things. Other times, listing a list of listed things in this manner can also be a [[DeadpanSnarker tongue-in-cheek way]] of implying that something is mostly made up of the repeated item with little in the way of variety. ("Oy, what was it like sailing across the ocean?" "It was nice! There were sea birds, water, fish, water, more water, boats, even more water... y'know, the usual.")

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 "[[Film/BlazingSaddles You said X twice]]." "[[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice I like X]]." These occur frequently, especially when listing things. Other times, listing a list of listed things in this manner can also be a [[DeadpanSnarker tongue-in-cheek way]] of communicating that something mostly consists of the repeated item with little in the way of variety. ("Oy, what was it like sailing across the ocean?" "It was nice! There were sea birds, water, fish, water, more water, boats, even more water... y'know, the usual.")