Broken Record

"This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long
This song's just six words long"

— "Weird Al" Yankovic, "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long"

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Some of the more common reasons are a malfunctioning machine, an annoying child, or someone who is not right in the head.

For some reason, these phrases are often victim of Memetic Mutation.

Due to the advent of CD's, MP3's, and the like, which have largely supplanted actual records, this is something of a dead metaphor. For the self-demonstrating version, check out Broken Record All Blue Entry. For a literal version of this trope where audio is repeated due to broken machinery, see Repetitive Audio Glitch. If the physical record is literally broken into pieces, see Vinyl Shatters.

Often used in some Voice Clip Songs. Compare Department of Redundancy Department, Madness Mantra, and Overly Long Gag. Doubles with Isophagus if a person or animal has swallowed the glitchy bit of tech and it continues functioning (poorly) inside their guts. See also Welcome to Corneria, when video games create this effect by not giving NPCs enough original lines. Compare the Boléro Effect, when a piece of music repeats itself but also slowly builds in a long crescendo.

Not to be confused with Record Needle Scratch, which is about the specific sound effect, nor with Guinness Episode, which is for a different type of "broken record".

When someone speaks like that, it's One-Word Vocabulary. Annoyingly Repetitive Child is a subtrope.

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• HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead. HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead. HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead... Per some schools of thought, repeating something three times in a row, especially something annoying, indelibly imprints that in your mind.
• A commercial from 2005, which used Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight," combined this with Left the Background Music On. "It's late in the evening/She's wondering what clothes to wear," the song begins; the husband keeps skipping it back to "Wondering what clothes to wear" as a way of saying "come on, shift!" to his wife.
• Staples' "WOW! THAT'S A LOW PRICE!"
  Employee 1: How many items do we have?
  Employee 2: About 10,000.
  Employee 1: I'll get him a cart.
• Used for tragic effect in a PSA for child abuse prevention. A talking doll says cheery phrases: "My name is Mandy! I can sing and play games!" She then explains that "You can tell me all your secrets! My friend Ellie tells me hers!"...specifically that Ellie's mother "comes into her room and punches her! And punches her! And punches her! And punches her!"
• "I'm pleased to say I've been error-free for over a week."

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• The bee at the start of Mori no Ando when he's imitating the bear repeats "peropero peropero" over and over again.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion - Non-comedic example: the section of Asuka's dream sequence in the Director's Cut of Episode 22 that repeats six times in the English version. Almost enough to make you think your DVD is broken, but it is more the result of a borderline Dub-Induced Plot Hole. ^note In the original, it wasn't exactly that. The lines were indeed being repeated, but each time they were spoken by a different voice actress of the cast, resulting in "Asuka" sounding somewhat like (in order) Misato, Rei, Maya, Ritsuko, and Hikari. This added more meaning to her repeated statement of "This isn't the real me!" The dub apparently missed the memo on this, though, and instead had Tiffany Grant voice all the repetitions. Asuka also seems prone to this: her last words are "I'll kill you!" about a half-dozen times.
• Umineko: When They Cry: Maria Ushiromiya will repeat different lines over and over and over again. Sometimes, it's cute, sometimes it's annoying, but a lot of times, it's just plain creepy.
• Higurashi: When They Cry: -I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry...". There's also a part where Shion screams "You're lying!" about six or seven times in a row to Mion.
• Azumanga Daioh:
  • In one strip, Yomi asks Tomo if she recorded a show like she asked her to, only for Tomo to casually admit that she forgot. Yomi calls herself an idiot for trusting Tomo, and Tomo responds by shouting back "idiot!" Tomo then proceeds to keep shouting "idiot!" over and over again, which freaks Yomi out and results in her clutching onto Tomo like she's malfunctioning; the strip is even titled "Broken VCR."
  • During her New Year's Day 2000 dream, where she's exaggeratedly better than her classmates at everything, Tomo revels in the chance to be the Straight Man to Yomi for once and spends a solid 30 seconds bonking her on the head and asking "Why the heck?" on a loop.
  • After Year 3's summer break, her last before graduation, Tomo comes to class painfully demotivated and repeating "today is the first day of summer vacation" to herself as a Madness Mantra. It doesn't take long before she gets Osaka to join her.
  • During the class trip to Okinawa in Year 3, Osaka buys some sata andagi (a Chinese donut popular in the region) and repeatedly says "Sata andagi!" once her friends start asking about it.

• In Urusei Yatsura (only in the manga version), Ataru reads the fake letter from "Kumino Otoko" out loud:
  Ataru: "You make that dork Mendo look like pond-scum!"
  Mendo: Hmph!
  Ataru: "You're much more wonderful than Mendo, much more wonderful than Mendo, much more wonderful than Mendo, much more wonderful..."
  Mendo: Is there a scratch in your CD?!
• Bleach: "Kurosaki-kun, Kurosaki-kun, Kurosaki-kun, Kurosaki-kun"
• Durarara!! - Saika tends to spam repetitious, monosyllabic phrases (Typically "mother mother mother mother mother..." but she later changes her tune to "Shizuo Shizuo Shizuo Shizuo Shizuo...") in chatrooms whenever a Slasher attack occurs. The chatroom users are convinced she's a troll. She's far far worse.
• Code Geass R2: When Luciano Bradley is introduced, his first line is "Let me ask you something: What do people value most? That's right, their lives!" This also makes up nearly every other line he says after this, as well.
• The one music track that plays throughout most episodes of G-Force, the second English dub of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (after Battle of the Planets).
• Ghost Stories: This line exclusively from the ADV English dub, when Leo suddenly runs out of his room after his mother comes in.
  Leo's mother: "Leo! Leo! Leo! Leo! Goddammit! Goddammit! Goddammit! Goddammit!"
• During the EM comet arc in the anime adaptation of Mega Man Star Force, Libra Scales says "hello" and "good morning" over and over again due to the comet's effect on him. He sometimes added the names of other characters to the latter phrase, such as "Good morning, Omega-Xis!" and "Good morning, Crown!"

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• Happy Heroes: In Season 6 episode 31, the first proper "conversation" that Careless S. has with Xiaolun is just them repeating the same greetings over and over. This lasts for quite some time, understandably catching Professor Limen and the Mayor of the Planet Guling town off-guard.
  Careless S.: My name is Careless S.! And you?
  Xiaolun: [gives a slight chuckle] My name is Xiaolun! What's your name?
  Careless S.: My name is Careless S.! And you?
  Xiaolun: My name is Xiaolun! What's your name?
  Careless S.: My name is Careless S.!
  [nighttime falls on Planet Guling]
  Xiaolun: What's your name?
  Careless S.: My name is Careless S.! And you?
  Xiaolun: My name is Xiaolun! It was pleasing talking to you for a day!
  Careless S.: I'm pleased too! Let's continue tomorrow!
  [in the background, Professor Limen and the Mayor both faint]

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• According to Bill Bailey in Part Troll, he becomes a broken record when high on LSD: "Isn't that interesting how it forms an N, forms an N, forms an N, forms an N, forms an N, forms a NNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNN...". Also: "That's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting..."
• Monty Python:
  • A literal example takes place on Another Monty Python Record, where side 1 of the record ends with an argument about whether to continue the current sketch, which ends with "Oh, sorry, squire, I've scratched the record" with the record grooves arranged to make this line repeat indefinitely.
  • Matching Tie and Handkerchief has the "First World War Noises" sketch, with similar results.
• Fairly common in Ross Noble's works.
  (From Unrealtime) There's a face, next muffin... There's a face, next muffin...
  (From Fizzy Logic) Bummed in the face! Bummed in the face? Bummed. In. The. Face! ... Bummed in the face?
  (From The Randomist) It was very moving and touching... and moving.. and touching... and moving... and touching... and moving and touching and moving... and touching... and moving... and touching... and moving...
• Tim Vine's famous "pen behind the ear" routine is set to a song that is literally just the words "pen behind the ear, pen behind the ear..." over and over again. The routine lasts over four minutes.
• Greg Proops once said the thing about Australia is that it's really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really far.
• John Pinette, trying to buy a TV:
  Pinette: Why do I need an extended warranty?
  Clerk: In case the TV breaks.
  Pinette: If it's going to break, I don't want it.
  Clerk: It's not going to break!
  Pinette: Then why do I need an extended warranty?
  Clerk: In case the TV breaks.
  Pinette: If it's going to break, I don't want it!
  Clerk: It's not going to break!

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• Guardians of the Galaxy: Groot can only say "I am Groot" so extended conversations of his can turn into this.

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• Always Visible: The whacky psychic who was pursuing Jordan kept repeating the same phrase "Take a book!".
• Evangelion 303: In chapter 12, while she's arguing with herself, Asuka yells out loud: "SHUT UP!!! Shut up Shut up Shut up Shut up Shut up Shut up SHUT UP!!!"
• The cover image for Mutant has a semi-transparent human supremacist argument on the cover image, that gradually devolves into "Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill..."
• Although each Manchurian Agent of Pokextinction in Pokéumans tends to only say 'You're one of them' a couple of times when everyone in the neighbourhood is saying it as they bear down upon a transformee it seems this way.
• Thousand Shinji: Asuka becomes this when she describes her mother's madness:
  Asuka: She... she.... she... she went... went... crazy! She didn't... didn't... die... right away. She... she... she... she... she... she thought a... a... doll was me! She didn't see me as her daughter! She hung herself and I was the one who found her!
• The Racket-Rotter Chronicles: zombie!Shark to Annette in the chapter "Even in Death, You Could Have Lived". His speech is a loop of "I hate you" and "give him back."
• In the ninth chapter of Advice and Trust, Hikari explains what listening to Shinji and Asuka's thoughts when she was mind-linked with them was like. She tells that they sounded "like someone repeating 'Love Lust Joy Happiness Trust Comfort, Love Lust Joy Happiness Trust Comfort' over and over."
• The original SAO in Sword Art Online Abridged is littered with this kind of NPC, several of which Keita recruited into his guild to artificially inflate its ranks. The NPCs are as intelligent as you'd expect, which ultimately leads to the guild being destroyed. The only "members" remaining are Kirito (who was involuntarily recruited via Keita's charismatic hat), and Gary, whose only line is "We must save my family!"; the former identifies the latter via this line and "goes to say 'hi' to an old friend".
• In Trickshot Harry is annoyed when Lisa won't participate in a card trick.
  Harry: Lisa. Lisa, Lisa. Lisa. Lisa, pick a card. Pick a card Lisa. They're there for a reason. Pick a card, pick a card Lisa. Lisa. Lisa. Pick a card, pick a card. Pick a card, pick a card. Pick a card. Lisa pick a card. Lisa why are you doing this to me? Pick a card. Pick a card Lisa. Pick a card, pick a card.

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• Two variations of the same joke use this:
  A: Welcome aboard the world's first completely automated commercial flight! While the technology is new, it is thoroughly tested and entirely foolproof... proof... proof... proof...
  B: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first fully automated airplane flight. Soon we will reach our cruising altitude of 36,000 feet and robot stewardesses will be bringing you dinner and drinks. We assure you nothing can go wrong. -go wrong. -go wrong. -go wrong. -go wrong...
• An old joke (to be used with a phone): "Hello? You don't say. Hello? You don't say. Hello? You don't say. Hello? You don't say." "So who was it?" "They didn't say..."
• Another old joke: (usually said to a small child who hasn't heard it yet)
  Q: Pete and RePete were sitting on a tree branch, Pete fell off. Who was left?
  A: RePete.
  Q: Pete and RePete were sitting on a tree branch, Pete fell off. Who was left?
  A: RePete.
  And so on...
• A family, while having guests, decided to keep their child out of their way. So, they take him to his room, put a record on, give him the headphones... After the guests leave, they come to the boy's room, and see him banging the head on the wall, repeating "I do! I do! I do!..." they put the headphones on, and hear: "Do you want me to tell you a story?... Do you want me to tell you a story?... Do you want me to tell you a story?..."
• A joke from the 3rd Reich. The wife of Goebbels (renowned horndog) buys a record named "Du kannst nicht treu sein"^note You can't be faithful". As she visits the wife of Göring (renowned impotent) she stumbles and falls, and the record gets a scratch. When she plays it, it goes "Du kannst nicht...Du kannst nicht...Du kannst nicht..."^note You can't...You can't...You can't..." "That's nothing for my Joseph!" "Nevermind, I take it for my Hermann!"

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• Isaac Asimov:
  • "Someday":
    • Niccolo and Paul disparage the story-telling computer, talking about how crude and out-of-date the Bard is compared to newer designs. They try loading data about modern history, technology, and so forth to get it to tell more interesting stories, but to no avail. When the boys leave, the robot tells itself a story, with a strange amount of feeling, about a computer owned by "cruel step-people" and that someday--someday--someday--
    • In the art drawn for Infinity Science Fiction (and reused for the audiobook cover), the title is written over and over and over.
  • In The Naked Sun, a robot was found at the scene of the murder. It was completely broken due to the First Law being violated, and constantly repeating the victim's last words.

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• Alan Alone: Dede the robot sometimes repeats his sentences such as "Do not tickle Dede, do not tickle Dede," when Alan tickles him, or "Alan is not dreaming, Alan is not dreaming," when they emerge from the bunker and see the aftermath of the storm.
• Curtains for Three: According to Archie, Broadyke (a client in Bullet for One) uses the same wordy phrase to insult his late rival four times in one conversation.
• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. Used in-universe to block against mind-reading telepaths.
• Discworld:
  • At the end of Night Watch Discworld, Sergeant Dickens keeps repeating "there was an amnesty" in confusion, horror, and finally outrage after Snapcase sends Carcer and the remaining Unmentionables to murder "Keel" and his men.
  • In The Truth, a broken Dis-organizer begins repeating "A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on." It eventually cuts out more and more of the phrase, finally going silent after "truth has got its boots on."
• The first line of "Footnote to Howl" by Allan Ginsberg:
  Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
• This is apparently the normal mode of conversation on Gor. The normal mode of conversation on Gor? Yes. It is the normal mode of conversation on Gor.
• Knights of the Borrowed Dark has Uriel, a defector from the Cult of the Redemptress, attempting to deliver a warning to the heroes. After he loses his beloved twin sister to the Art of Apertura on the way, he's left brokenly repeating, "I need to speak to Edifice Greaves."
• The Lord of the Rings: "We cannot get out," is repeated in the diary the Fellowship find in Moria, chronicling the last days of the Dwarven colony under attack from the Balrog.
• In Frank Bonham's Mystery of the Fat Cat, Buddy's brother Ralph is autistic and very concerned about accuracy in written or printed material. When the boys view the crucial picture, Ralph becomes agitated and begins repeating "That is doof God dena tack." Even Buddy thinks Ralph is just raving at random...
• In the second book of The Pure Trilogy, Fuse, a little girl is taken by the people of the Dome and modified to be a living message, capable only of saying "We want our son returned. This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time." Later in the book, a character mentions that it's since happened to other children, too, all programmed with pro-Dome propaganda.
• Schroder: Features the phrase "I let you down." repeated for three whole pages. It is not played for laughs.
• The Ray Bradbury short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" ends with an example of this one. "Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026..." The entire story is the last cycle of a years-long Broken Record.
• The Eagle Tree: March didn't realize language could be used to communicate until he was eight. Until then, he just repeated words and phrases he liked over and over again.
• The title of the light novel Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. "Kuma" means "bear," so the fully-translated version is "Bear Bear Bear Bear." The original title is technically written "くまクマ熊ベア" which may not appear repetitive, but this is actually "Kuma" written three different ways (in hiragana, katakana, and kanji) followed by the English word "bear" (in kakatana). For one extra layer of redundancy, the author goes by "Kumanano" i.e. "Is that a bear?". The premise is that the protagonist gets sucked into a video game in which the most powerful item is a goofy bear costume.
• The Swedish Sune book series occasionally uses this to get the child protagonist's boredom/annoyance across. For example, the first line of the Sunes Jul novelisation would translate to:
  "Karl Sune Rudolf Andersson is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, super^note originally, the words used were "mycket" and "bautamycket", the latter of which would literally be translated to "super-very" impatient."
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: In "The Reptile Room", this doubles with Overly Long Gag when the narrator says "We all know, of course, that we should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, [an entire page of just iterations of the word 'ever']...ever, ever fiddle around in any way with electric devices. Never."

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• The Magic: The Gathering card Infinity Elemental has this flavor text:
  It's so infinite that its flavor text says, "It's so infinite that its flavor text says, "It's so infinite that its flavor text says, "It's so infinite that its flavor text says, "It's so infinite that its flavor text says, "It's so infinite that its flavor text says, "It's so infinite that its flavor text says, "It's so infinite that its flavor text says, "It's so infinite that its flavor text says,

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• Bottom Live: Hooligan's Island Act II:
  Eddie: Oh, I see your point...
  Richie: Why, have my trousers fallen down? No, they haven't, they're up, I can see they're up – oh, I see your point!
  Eddie: Why, have my trousers fallen down? No, they haven't, they're up, I can see they're up – oh, I see your point!
  Richie: Why, have my trousers fallen down? No, they haven't, they're up, I can see they're up – oh, I see your point!
  Eddie: Why... have my trousers fallen down... Help! Help! Rich, we're caught in some sort of knob⸻gag Bermuda Triangle!
  Richie: Quickly, change routine! Change routine!

• Cirque du Soleil:
  • In Alegría, the vocals of "Mirko" are almost entirely repetitions of the Cirquish chanting line "Êêêêêêê...... Rhiamveràhm!". "Cerceaux" likewise alternates between the repeating chants "Uma cosê rú" and "Mari marrari, mari mazô".
  • The soundtrack version of Amaluna's main theme, "All Come Together", falls into this trope during the Last Chorus Speed-Up.
  • The song "The Change" from Volta has a "Hey Jude"-style choral ostinato: "Na, nana nana na, nananananana, nana nana na, nananana..."
• The Comedy of Errors: Dromio of Ephesus repeats everything he said to his master (although unbeknownst to him it was his master's twin brother) back to Adriana and tells her after each quote that the master said "My gold." He does this four times in a row, with three lines in the same structure and a fourth broken up by a long self-quote by Dromio.
• The Play That Goes Wrong: When Dennis ends up forgetting his next line, and substitutes an earlier line, the other characters begin to loop their dialogue (Causing Robert to repeatedly drink the White Spirit that he keeps spitting out).

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• In BIONICLE, the Bohrok swarms keep telepathically chanting "Must clean all. Everything must be cleaned."

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• From Tsukihime, "This chair is an eyesore. Disappear! This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair. This chair!"
• Leon Kuwata from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
  Leon: "I refuse to acknowledge you. You're stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid..."

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• PONY.MOV:
  • "CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY. SWAG. CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY. SWAG."
  • At the beginning of "SHED.MOV", Spike, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie are riding on top of each other and saying, respectively, "Bababababababababababa", "Shishishishishishishishishi", and "Mamamamamamamamamamama".
• Alfred's Playhouse:
  • "Country where the grass was veryClement put his hand on Timothy's arm! We should just improviseCountry where the grass was veryClement put his hand on Timothy's arm! We should just improvise"
  • Popsicle... popsicle... popsicle...
• DSBT InsaniT: Taylor has the tendency to answer a series of questions with the exact same one-word response.
• In Zero Punctuation, specifically in his review of S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky, he uses this twice to demonstrate how annoying the bugs are.
• In the episode "Evil" of Arby 'n' the Chief, the Arbiter says that Resident Evil 5 is as repetitive in gameplay as the reviews of it on the internet are. Well... almost as repetitive.
  Reviewer: Resident Evil 5 is a beautiful, solid, and well-executed third-person shooter, but Capcom has unfortunately made the game stray from the survival-horror genre that the past games of the series themselves define. Third-person shooter fans will be pleased however as Resident Evil 5 is a very well polished game, it's just not scary. The Resident Evil series of games have always had a reputation of being scary... [25 minutes later] ...but what you have to remember about Resident Evil 5 is that it's just not scary, which is sure to disappoint fans of the series that pick up the games hoping for a good scare. On the bright side though, the game is very fun to play. What fans have to keep in mind though is that it's just not scary. [Two weeks later] Still a very fun game to play and have some amazing amount of replayability, despite not being very scary, which has become expected of the Resident Evil franchise after all the prior games in the series. Fans will be happy to know though, that the game is incredibly enjoyable and features plenty of unlockables, those that hope to be scared though are out of luck, as the game just isn't that scary. I'm Josh Butterballs with Stupid Obvious Information Magazine. Thanks for watching our video review of Resident Evil 5. [Beat] Resident Evil 5 is fun but it's not scary but it's fun but it's not scary but it's fun but it's not scary! I'm saying the same shit over and over and over again! I'm a douchebag! I'm a douchebag! I'm a douchebag!
• Loser from Battle for Dream Island does this when he finds out he was eliminated.
  Loser: Bububububububububububububububububububububuububububububububububububububububububububububub...

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• In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! the Bigfeet's language consists almost entirely of the word "Ook!" Captions give a translation, but the voice bubbles themselves say, "Ook! Ook ook ook ook ook! Ook ook! Ook!"
• Jerkcity has a few strips that are just repeated phrases, possibly with a punchline.
• Melvina's Therapy has the curse affecting the people of Mornau. Once the curse starts to affect someone they will keep doing whatever it is they happen to be doing at the time, over and over again. If they are speaking they will repeat the same sentence constantly. One notable woman started repeating herself as she burned to death in a house fire and continued to scream even after she was dead.
• Starslip's Cutter Edgewise can't seem to get through to Vanderbeam that ''last time she was here, she tried to blow up the ship!''
• Twistwood Tales: There’s a literal one in "Elpie and Tofi" where the former, who is a living record player, gets a record stuck in a loop saying “useless!”, believing herself to be broken, but the latter fixes it by giving her a new record.
• 8-Bit Theater: Fighter didn't have a lot going on upstairs before Black Mage started stabbing him in the head.
  Fighter: You get used to it after the first dozen times. Dozen times. Dozen times. Dozen times.
  Two strips later
  Thief: I assume you authorised [what Red Mage is doing].
  Black Mage: No, Fighter did.
  Fighter: Dozen times.
  Black Mage: Of course I did!
• Reasons Pusheen the Cat loves fall: 1. Pie. 2. Pie. 3. Pie. 4. Pie. 5. Pie. 6. Also pie.

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• Nobody Here: "Messages" has the answering machine repeatedly say "There are no new messages" as it's being destroyed.
• TV Tropes: In the Trope Launch Pad: Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump.
• Eros in Thalia's Musings when Thalia gives him a talking-to about his "relationship" with Psyche.
  Thalia: Besides, it wouldn't just be your soul's babies she'd have. Have you two thought about that?
  Eros: Babies?
  Thalia: And she's mortal. She's going to get old and eventually die. Not only that, but your kids will be demigods. That means they can be killed. Have you thought about that, either?
  Eros: Babies?
  Thalia: Yes, little screaming nuisances who take a whole year to grow up. A year! Sometimes two, or even as many as five.
  Eros: Babies?
  Thalia: Do you need me to tell you how babby is formed?[1]

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• The Angry Video Game Nerd: An escalating version in the episode on Silver Surfer (1990), in reference to the game's monumental difficulty:
  James: It's like...you touch the top of the building, you die. You touch the ceiling, you die. You touch the floor, you die. Too far to the right, you die. Too far to the left, you die. You die, you die, you die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, DIE!
• Retsupurae: Diabetus' commentary becomes this in one video, regarding savestate scumming:
  Diabetus: We should try savestating our commentary.
  Diabetus: We should try savestating our commentary.
  Slowbeef: We should try savestating our commentary, you said?
  Diabetus: We should try savestating our commentary -ing our commentary -ing our commentary -ing our commentary.
• Abe Lincoln in How Abe Lincoln Really Died does this repeatedly to antagonise John Wilkes Booth.
• During the Judgement mini-arc in Vaguely Recalling JoJo, the only thing the fake Mohammed Avdol created by Judgement' says is "Leave it up to me!" while punching Polnareff in the face.
• In Some Jerk with a Camera's ABC Goes To DisneyLAND video, when he talks about how The George Lopez Show's episode about Disneyland has an obvious bit of cross-promotion for the then-new Twilight Zone Tower Of Terror, he parodies this by having George Lopez get caught in an endless loop repeating "The New Twilight Zone Tower of Terror". Then Jerk-as-Rod Serling pops up to comment on it, before getting caught up in the same loop. This repeats two more times before Regular!Jerk manages to get them out of it.
• A Dose of Buckley singles out three songs with repetitive hooks on his "Ten Worst Songs of 2013" as #6. The songs in question are Sage the Gemini's "Gas Pedal", Migos' "Versace", and J Dash's "WOP"
• In Twelve Hundred Ghosts "Bah, humbug!" and "three spirits/ghosts" get repeated about a dozen times by different Scrooges and Marleys.

• A video created by Treatsforbeasts titled "Who wants to gnaw on human bones?" features a blank-faced, pink creature frolicking in a field while a keyboard plays. The whole time, a distorted voice shouts the title repeatedly. It can be found here.
• In The Nostalgia Critic's review of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie he says "If at first, you don't succeed try try try try try try TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY TRY UNTIL YOUR FUCKING LITTLE MIND CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!". Keep in mind that Doug Walker has stated that this is the worst movie he's ever seen in his life PERIOD, so he REALLY means that.

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• The Ig Nobel award ceremonies employ a Deliberately Cute Child named Miss Sweetie Poo to cut off long speeches by repeating, "Please stop. I'm bored. Please stop. I'm bored. Please stop. I'm bored..."
• A medical condition, Palilalia is the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words. It can be a symptom of Tourette syndrome or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• Computer programs and logic cover infinite loops. Questions such as "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Or the logic bomb where "Bob always tells the truth. Bob just said 'I lie'."
• This was a real issue that radio stations had to watch for back in the days when everything was on phonograph records with systems that automatically changed turntables. There is a too-good-to-be-true story passed around in the radio industry about a DJ who set up several records to go off one-after-another live and went down to the cafeteria for lunch. The speakers in the cafeteria were playing the station and when he got there a commercial for an audio version of Moby-Dick was playing but the record was skipping going "dick.. dick.. dick.. dick.. dick.. dick..". The DJ rushed up the stairs to the station and upon entering the studio slapped at the record player in a panic. The record player went "dick.. dick - *Record Needle Scratch* THAR SHE BLOWS!"
• This footage of a woman throwing a massive tantrum at an Uber driver who remains calm the entire time. She continuously shouts “Call the cops” dozens of times. It can be found here.
• Younger children often do this if they want to get a point across, especially to adults. Inversely, adults also complain of being this in regards to trying to get a child to do something.
• Actual broken records. On vinyl records, this is usually caused by dust or debris in the grooves. Using the right cleaning methods, it's possible to get it out so that the record plays through. Some records deliberately end in a "locked groove" in the run-out groove that is essentially a circular path with an entrance but no exit. While this is usually muted, some records to have snippets of audio in this section. A good example is the original British pressing of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
• RCA's Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) system is essentially video stored on a vinyl record^note It does not store the video signal with height or width modulation, as the needle would be too suceptible to "jumping". Instead, the needle measures the capacitance of the immediate area, hence the name.. The system is more vulnurable to repetition than normal vinyl audio records, as the tone arm is motorized, rather than passive like on normal records, and is capable of getting stuck. Though the players usually have an electromagnet to get the needle out of a locked groove situation.
• Anrab Goswami on live Indian TV.
• A number of MP3 players, as well as some media players such as VLC have controls to allow the user to intentionally repeat segments of audio or video. Some of them even allow to increase or decrease playing speed. Some LaserDisc players would also let the user perform section repeats on clips of video.
• Certain languages permit one to form grammatically correct sentences just by repeating the same word over and over:
  • English has the famous James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher, which is used to argue for the need of punctuation in English.^note James, while John had had "had", had had "had had", "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher. Then there is Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
  • Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den is a Classical Chinese poem in which every one of its 94 characters is pronounced shi in Mandarin, differing only in tones. This is because Mandarin has greatly reduced or merged the distinct sounds that disambiguated them in Classical Chinese; the poem is more comprehensible in non-Mandarin Chinese languages like Hokkien or Cantonese, because they have not undergone the same amount of sound merging that Mandarin has. For Mandarin speakers, the text is comprehensible only when read and it is therefore used to argue against the Romanization of Chinese.
  • "There are two chickens in the garden" (niwa ni wa niwa niwatori ga iru), a similar wordplay in Japanese.
• This is common for jobs that involve a lot of rapid-fire customer/client interactions, such as at stores and restaurants. Since they have to greet their customers, it’s common for them to repeatedly say something like “Hello, how are you,” and “Thank you! Have a great day,” over and over again in order to greet each and every customer that they serve.

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