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** Hilariously, in the European Spanish dub of this episode, [[KeepItForeign the languages are switched]] (with Brian trying to talk to the Hispanic guy in English). Anyway, the Hispanic guy's second line is along the lines of [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I don't speak it, I'm just dubbed".]]

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** Hilariously, in the European Spanish dub of this episode, [[KeepItForeign the languages are switched]] (with Brian trying to talk to the Hispanic guy in English). Anyway, English), and the Hispanic guy's second line is along the lines of [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I don't "No, I speak it, English, I'm just dubbed".]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'': Kahhori (pronounced "Ka-HOR-tee") is a native Mohawk woman who initially only speaks the Mohawk language. But by the end of her first appearance, she is also somehow able to speak Spanish to speak with Queen Isabella of Spain. In her second appearance, she also somehow learned to speak English.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'': Kahhori (pronounced "Ka-HOR-tee") is a native Mohawk woman who initially only speaks the Mohawk language. But by the end of her first appearance, she is also somehow able to speak Spanish to speak with Queen Isabella of Spain. In her second appearance, she also somehow learned to speak English. (This is at least somewhat justified as she's spent a fair amount of time -possibly a year or two due to travel times in the 16th century- making life miserable for Conquistador's giving her time to pick up Spanish and then spent quite sometime interacting with Strange Supreme).
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* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'': Kahhori (pronounced "Ka-HOR-tee") is a native Mohawk woman who initially only speaks the Mohawk language. But by the end of her first appearance, she is also somehow able to speak Spanish to speak with Queen Isabella of Spain. In her second appearance, she also somehow learned to speak English.
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*** It is later explained in "Buford Confidential" that he learned French because he fell in love with a French Fireside Girl named Brigitte. Buford then explains that it has the same roots as Latin, to which Baljeet is surprised that Buford also knows Latin.

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* Bill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' was born in Louisiana before moving to Texas. In one episode he goes back to his family's estate with the Hills, Dale, and Boomhauer and they encounter a man speaking Cajun French. Bill immediately starts speaking it back to him with the fluency of someone who had been speaking it exclusively their entire life... which surprises ''him'' just as much as everyone else since he had no idea he could do this before.

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* Bill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' was born in Louisiana before moving to Texas. In one episode he goes back to his family's estate with the Hills, Dale, and Boomhauer and they encounter a man speaking Cajun French. Bill immediately starts speaking it back to him with the fluency of someone who had been speaking it exclusively their entire life... which surprises ''him'' just as much as everyone else since he had no idea didn't know he could do this before.that either.



** Bart Simpson [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this one in an episode, where he goes to France in an exchange program and starts suddenly speaking French ''in the middle of a sentence''.

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** Bart Simpson [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this one in an episode, where he goes to France in an exchange program program, spends the majority of his time there with zero clue what anyone is saying, then suddenly gains perfect fluency and starts suddenly speaking French ''in the middle of a sentence''.sentence''.
** In another episode, Bart manages to become perfectly fluent in Spanish within the duration of a single flight to Brazil, just by listening to some language learning cassette tapes. Or so he claims, at least. He never actually gets to speak it since Marge promptly informs him that Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish. Homer then makes him forget all of the Spanish he learned by bashing himself in the head, deeming it pointless for him to know it if it's not going to be immediately useful.
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* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles'', Donut reveals that he can speak Spanish in the Season 3 finale. This never came up before even though one of Red Team's problems was their inability to communicate with their robot Lopez who was stuck in Spanish mode. Season 4 justifies and subverts this by revealing that Donut took Spanish classes in high school. This makes Donut too out-of-practice to understand Lopez, but just knowledgeable enough to understand ''some'' things. It depends on [[RuleOfFunny what's funnier]] at the moment.

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* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles'', Donut reveals that he can speak Spanish in the Season 3 finale. This never came up before even though one of Red Team's problems was their inability to communicate with their robot Lopez who was stuck in Spanish mode. Season 4 justifies and subverts this by revealing that Donut took Spanish classes in high school. This makes Donut too out-of-practice to understand Lopez, but just knowledgeable enough to understand ''some'' things. It depends on [[RuleOfFunny what's funnier]] at the moment. This is played straighter in the mini-series ''Relocated'', that takes place between Seasons 6 and 7. Sarge can suddenly understand to understand Lopez perfectly, despite showing in previous seasons and all subsequent seasons to not understand a single thing he says.
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* Series/{{Castle}} speaks Chinese in one episode. His only explanation is that he learned the language "from [[{{Series/Firefly}} this TV show]] [[ActorAllusion I used to love."]] It's never mentioned again. This is in reference to the TV show ''Firefly'' and accompanying movie ''Serenity'' in which Nathan Fillion starred.

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* Series/{{Castle}} Series/{{Castle|2009}} speaks Chinese in one episode. His only explanation is that he learned the language "from [[{{Series/Firefly}} this TV show]] [[ActorAllusion I used to love."]] It's never mentioned again. This is in reference to the TV show ''Firefly'' and accompanying movie ''Serenity'' in which Nathan Fillion starred.
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-->--''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E23KingOfTheHill King of the Hill]]"

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-->--''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', -->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E23KingOfTheHill King of the Hill]]"

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