History Main / Dissimile

** Attorney Lionel Hutz has:
--->'''Lionel Hutz:''' He's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog... Well, replace the word "kinda" with "repeatedly" and the word "dog" with "son."

--->'''Bart:''' Grandpa, Matlock's not real!
--->'''Grandpa:''' Neither are my teeth, but I can still eat corn on the cob if someone cuts it off and smushes it into a fine paste. Now that's good eatin'.

* Creator/NathanFillion [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQKZ5r4QIak&NR=1#t=00m49s describes]] ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

A Dissimile is like when you eat a banana, but instead of peeling it, you compare it to another thing that isn't entirely like it. And instead of eating it, you deconstruct the comparison. Also, it doesn't necessarily have to be a banana, or any other kind of fruit, or even anything edible. Actually, it is nothing like eating a banana. [[Series/DoctorWho Forget the banana.]]

** His review of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' when describing ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'s abilities: "Mainly she plays like Batman making use of a few pole dancing lessons in her own combat and stealth sections, although she can [[CeilingCling cling to ceilings]] as well, just like real cat ([[Franchise/SpiderMan that's been bitten by a radioactive spider]])."

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVeryGoodAdventuresOfYamRollInHappyKingdom'', the main character starts off a story with, "It was on a day just like today...except, snowing. And...night. And a Tuesday."

* This conversation from ''Series/LeCoeurASesRaisons" :

* Creator/LarryTheCableGuy gives us this one: "I met this gal a while back, looked like Music/ShaniaTwain. Only a little shorter, and, uh, the face was different. I was drunk, it looked like Shania Twain."
** "When I woke up she looked like Creator/MarkTwain!"

* The page image and caption for CuteMonster: 'He's like a big puppy from another world, which spits corrosive acid'.

-->'''David Quantick:''' If you haven't seen ''Series/GameOfThrones'', it's like ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' without dragons. Except they have dragons.

* In Creator/StephenFry's first novel, ''Literature/TheLiar'', one character remarks that a good bottle of wine is like a good woman 'apart from the fact it doesn't have arms, legs or breasts. Or can't bear children. In fact a good bottle of wine is nothing like a woman come to think of it'.

* ''Creator/CharlieBrooker's Gameswipe'' describes ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' as "rolling at high speed through a jolly cartoon world just like real hedgehogs don't".

* From the Bulwer-Lytton 2011 list:
-->"Dawn crept up like the panther on the gazelle, except it was light, not dark like a panther, and a panther, though quiet, could never be as silent as the light of dawn, so really the analogy doesn’t hold up well, as cool as it sounds, but it still is a great way to begin a story; just not necessarily this particular one."

*** Let's face it, it's Eleven's new CatchPhrase.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", {{inver|tedTrope}}sion:

Let's try again. A Dissimile is when you attempt to make a comparison between two things that can't be usefully compared to each other, realize your problem, and then attempt to salvage the argument by stating all the ways the two things are ''not'' alike. In the process, you invariably demonstrate that your comparison just doesn't work.

-->'''Kumar:''' How were Katie Holmes's tits? [[note]]They're discussing a scene from ''Film/TheGift2000''.[[/note]]\\

* ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' has Lucky's speech to the villagers of Santo Poco:
-->'''Lucky Day:''' In a way, each of us has an El Guapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the ''actual'' El Guapo!