History Main / Metaphorgotten

-->'''Iron Dalek: JARVIS. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO RUN... BEFORE YOU CAN... SLIDE AROUND ON THE FLOOR...'''\\

* Among the concepts used by the Oulipo, who were basically the UsefulNotes/{{Dada}}ists of the literary world, is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Pataphysics#.27Pataphor 'pataphor]] (canonically spelled with the apostrophe). It is described as being like a lizard whose tail has grown so long that the tail breaks off and grows a new lizard. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle "Look, Bob," said Alice, "what a strange lizard." "Indeed," replied Bob absently, beginning to grow impatient with this interminable safari.]]

** From his UsefulNotes/{{Kinect}} Review:

** His bit about romance among beekeepers? "[[ILikeMyXLikeILikeMyY I like my women how I like my coffee]]... COVERED IN BEES!"

** Pretty much everything Biff Tannen tried in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* In ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'', Doc tells the invasive Russian mobsters to leave, in a possible ShoutOut to the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' example above:

* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': Spender's [[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-4-page-74 attempt to explain why ghosts can't use tools]] gets... a little off-track.

* Entries for the [[http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ Bulwer-Lytton]] fiction contest frequently contain these. As do Literature/LyttleLyttonContest entries.

* The [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln other thing]] ''Theatre/OurAmericanCousin'' is famous for.

* Parodied in the fourth ''Film/ScaryMovie'', when the guy who's hiding in a cellar from the aliens tells Tom the metaphor from ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' that the alien invasion is no more a real war than there is between man and maggots. He continues: there's also no real war between dragons and wolves. And man, riding dragons, throwing wolves at maggots. Tom gives the camera a vacant expression in response.

** At the beginning of "Criminal", Slim says "my words are like a dagger with a jagged edge, that'll stab you in the head whether you're a [...]" before derailing into an obscene RhymingList of [[HeteronormativeCrusader slurs for sexual minorities]] that doesn't need to be repeated here. The metaphor continues into various homophobic scenarios where the gay men are looking at his crotch and Gianni Versace is murdered because he was too distracted checking out boys - and derails completely when Eminem [[TalkingToHimself raps as a homophobic pastor]] who thinks Jesus will turn gay men straight despite his own [[PedophilePriest sexual perversion]]. This is the most controversial pataphor of his whole career, as it often gets brought up as proof of Eminem's genuine, non-[[KayfabeMusic kayfabe]] desire to stab gay people. Eminem is a gay ally in real life, and the point of the song was to [[TheGadfly prove that, even if he's saying the worst stuff he can think of, it doesn't actually hurt people in real life]]; he's also expressed [[CreatorBacklash shame]] about "Criminal" in his later career, both in interviews and through his music (particularly in "Bad Guy"/"Parking Lot" on ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'', where he's murdered in revenge for the song, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain then]] commits suicide because of it).

** Even [[CloserToEarth Anji]] [[NotSoAboveItAll has been guilty of this]]. [[ExaggeratedTrope Very guilty]].

-->'''Queen Bess:''' My beloved people, I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a ''king''... [[WingPull And the WINGSPAN of an ALBATROSS!]][[note]]And the left hook of a heavyweight champ!

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''

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* ''WebComic/DarthsAndDroids'': Combined with a minor HurricaneOfPuns in [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1437.html episode 1437]]:

I'm not sure where this metaphor's going;\\

** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005569 When reuniting with his long-lost robotic plush rabbit]], John starts to compare their reunion with Harry Stamper's love for his daughter in ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', before going a lengthy tangent to clarify how their relationship [[{{Dissimile}} isn't actually like Harry Stamper's love for his daughter]] and promptly forgetting the point he was making.

** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004825 Foot-flowers]]:
--->'''CG:''' WE WILL GET OFF ON A FRESH FOOT, AND BY FRESH I MEAN MOST FOUL INDEED.\\
'''CG:''' ITS TOES ARE WIGGLING UNDER YOUR HIDEOUS PINK NOSTRILS. NOW BREATHE DEEP YOUR MISFORTUNE, YOU SAD LITTLE CLOWN.\\
'''CG:''' THIS IS THE END OF YOU. THAT AROMA YOU DETECT WAFTS FROM THE BOUQUET PERCHED ON YOUR CORPSE BOX.\\
'''CG:''' NOBODY CRIES, EXCEPT YOUR SHITTY GHOST. HEAVY SOBS FROM A SPECTER OF UNQUALIFIED FAILURE.\\
'''CG:''' IT IS A SYMPHONY TO MY ANGRY EARS.\\
'''EB:''' so... the smell is from a foot... but also from funeral flowers?\\
'''EB:''' this metaphor is confusing.

* German politician Edmund Stoiber is infamous for this. Plenty of [=YouTube=] videos are dedicated entirely to his derailing metaphors that start weird and [[UpToEleven go from there]].

* The narrator of ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'' often forgets the point of her metaphors, or worse, gets lost in her train of thoughts, and continues on with the metaphor as though it was the point itself.
* In ''Fanfic/FromTheFlameToTheSpark'' Sirius refers to fate as both male and female, prompting the following exchange.

* In ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', Hermione has a moment of embarrassment.
-->''All the blood was rushing back into her face, there probably should've been steam coming out of her ears, which in turn should've been melting off her head with the liquid flesh running down into her neck, as she realized what she'd just blurted out.''

* When Twilight notes in ''[[Fanfic/PoniesOfOlympus Head of a Dog; Tail of a Lion]]'' that her status as a Princess demands that she negotiate with the Diamond Dogs for the release of Spike and their other captives rather than simply attacking them, Fluttershy chimes in with the "you attract more flies with honey than with vinegar" adage before timidly admitting that it's actually the other way around. Applejack adds that Sweet Apple Acres cider is ''really'' best for the job before Twilight exasperatedly lampshades the whole thing.

-->'''Clint:''' "And, like, you know what they say about that - once is an accident, twice is coincidence..."\\

'''Marty:''' "Screen door on a ''submarine'', you dork...\\\

--->''"That makes about as much sense as a screen door on a battleship!"''\\\
''"Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?"''

--->''"I'll hunt you and shoot you down like a duck!"''

* Music/TheLonelyIsland's OST for the film ''Film/PopStarNeverStopNeverStopping'' includes "Finest Girl (Bin Laden Song)," about a woman who uses the assassination of Bin Laden as an extended metaphor for what she wants in bed. The metaphor details when the singer (Connor4Real, the protagonist of the film) claims that the president called him to congratulate him when he was done.