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— Advertisements for Deel seen on the New York City Subway

    Anime and Manga 
"Excuse me?!? Ditching a diamond for a dumb disguise makes you dumber than it!"

    Fan Works 
Noah: But why bother stocking the lake with sharks? Wouldn’t it have been a lot less labor to just let a luckless leaper live with the likelihood of leaving the land of the living as a light lunch for those allegedly legendarily large Leech Lake lampreys? Oh, silly me, it’s not like they’re actually real, LOL.
Izzy: (with a wink) Now look, you lame little loser, I'll allow that I like to let loose a long alliterative line as well as anyone, but just because this is supposed to be a kid's show doesn't mean we need to turn it into a Dr. Seuss routine. But if Lady Luck likes you, and you live through the "life in the balance" leap and Leech Lake's legendary lampreys don't lunch all your scarlet life liquid and lap up the last of your lymph, you'll laugh last, 'cause I'll let you alliterate as long as you like."
Chris: Okay, bro and bra, it’s not like I wouldn't love to listen to your little alliter-off, but we’re on a schedule.
— Alliteration "duel" from The Legend of Total Drama Island (boldface added)

    Film — Live-Action 
"Great big globs of greasy, grimy, gopher guts!"
Carl Spackler, Caddyshack

Marjoribanks: Leave it to me, sir. I'll pick a panel properly to pro-and-con the pulchritude, with probity and precision.
Captain Crowther: You do that. (Beat) Eh?
Marjoribanks: Vivid eh? And alliterative. Rather good I must say...

"Man is a machine that manufactures manure."

"A flood of senseless, sensual music has been drowning out every sensible speaker in the city, but our crafty cryptographers are working day and night to uncover some clue from this relentless flow of garbled gibberish."
Admiral Ballsy, J-Men Forever

Kenneth Williams: It was noble - a pageant of history. A cavalcade of contemporary comment!
Barbara Windsor: A colossal Carry On cockup!

Evey: Who are you?
V: 'Who'? 'Who' is but the form following the function of 'what', and what I am is a man in a mask.

"Presenting Willy Wonka’s Wild and Wonderful Wishy-washy Wonka Walker! Please don’t make me say that again!"
'Willy Wonka, Wonka

    Literature 
"A pilgrim wanting a pin or a pistol, a cucumber or a camel, a house or a horse, a loan or a lentil, a date or a dragoman, a melon or a man, a dove or a donkey, has only to inquire for the article at the Joppa Gate."
Ben-Hur or a tale of the Christ

    Live-Action TV 
"Australia: The land of opportunity. Big blonde blokes with bulging biceps on Bondi Beach. Better than bonkin' blokes with bad breath in Billericay."
Sharon Theodopolopodous, Birds of a Feather, "Old Friends"

Jago: You mean to say the celestial Chang was involved in all these Machiavellian machinations?
The Doctor: Yes, up to his epicanthic eyebrows.

Stor: I am Commander Stor, of the Sontaran Special Space Service.
The Doctor: The SSSS. Isn't that carrying alliteration a little far?

Hyacinth: Beautiful day, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth: Yes, isn't it?
Hyacinth: Completely conducive to contemplating cozy charismatic country cottages!

"Are you clever enough to catch the cunning culprit? Or will you be deliciously deceived? Alliteration is awesome."

Blanche: Oh shut up! Just shut up you babbling, bubble-headed, bleached-blonde…
Sophia: Baboon.
Blanche: BABOON!
Rose:
Sophia: She needed a B!

    Music 
PERCEPTION!
Post-nuclear places
Are pretty prearranged
To put you through your paces
Pinpoint the parts of predators that plan to prey
With the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System
Hooray!
You may need to pickpocket
Pinching for your own protection
Practicing your pilfering
Purloining to perfection
If your preferential predilection's
Petty theft of peoples' possessions
You'll be protected by perception
Dan Bull, "You're Special! (Fallout 4 Song)"

"There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets!"
Half Man Half Biscuit, "National Shite Day"

    Roleplay 
"Nah. Just making sure the Diamond Dogs didn't decide a night raid was a good idea. Huh. These guys are easy to alliterate with."

    Tabletop Games 
"From fires in Frankfurt to monsoons in Mumbai to villains victimizing Venezuela and other alliterative disasters, the teen heroes are there to help. This means the scale of the adventure is always large, since it's doubtful the team will pop in on Reno to rein in ruinous robbers... sorry, couldn't help myself."
Mutants & Masterminds supplement Hero High (3rd edition)

    Video Games 
"Pitiful people prepare, plead plentifully plentiful platitude phenomenal patriot pounds, poundingly perverse puppets; pulping, pleasantly, putrid pasties."
Krieg, Borderlands 2

"'When waked, we walked where willows wail, whose withered windings won't wassail.' It's poetry because of W's and shit."

Buzz: Kitteh, we have gained access to Lemon's domain of degenerate debauchery.
Kitteh: Easy on the hyperbole, buddy. It's just a bunch of hippie stuff.
Buzz: It's a lascivious lair of laziness and languor.
Kitteh: Alright, Shakespeare, enough.

"My fiery fingers of frustrating flame force foes to fumble, fall, and fail!"
Shaitan the Advisor, Realm of the Mad God

"Sickly, sinful, spectacles stand, shuffle, shamble and saunter shamelessly in mine scandalized sight! I suggest a solution... Surely such sedition should sour and succumb to Sigvald - the salacious, scandalous and sensational servant of Slaanesh! Son of Succubi, scion of sordid acts and slayer of squalid serfs!

See how I stroll, stride, swagger and swirl, spin, and slash and stab at stupid, senseless scum! Soon they shall swoon, shall seek solace and death from sundry torments wrought on them by my strategic, severing, scintillating shower of shimmering strikes!

Send for the sword - summon Sliverslash!"

    Web Animation 
"Why am I perfectly nitpicking this piece when the poet purposely put poor punctuation in his poems?! ...PTERODACTYL!"

"Delighting as it is that the drought is dying down, doing Destiny drained your debonair delegate. Dominant developers delay for a dogs age, then deliver a desperately drab discharge and dare to describe it as the due destination for depictions of destruction. Dammit, I don't desire to designate devotion to drudges as dull as dishwater so I'm declaring a downloadables day derived directly from discovering D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die!"

    Webcomics 
Outrageous Lemon: Lemon Lace... Laceration!
Outrageous Apple: Awesome Apple... Ollie!
Undine: Ah... they're that kind of team...
Outrageous Lime: Lime... Home Run!
Undine: That one didn't have alliteration...

    Web Original 
"BAM! TO BEHOLD, A PUBLIC BULLETIN BOARD, BUILT OF BOTH BRILLIANCE AND BARBARITY BY BASTARDS WITH BONERS. THIS BASTION, NO MERE BULWARK OF BOREDOM, IS A BRUTAL BARRAGE OF BLISTERING BULLSHIT, BARELY BENEVOLENT... BUT BEHIND THE BIGOTRY AND BOOBS, BEYOND THE BITTER BROADCASTS OF BRAGGING BUFFOONS: HERE BE THE BODY POLITIC. A BROTHERHOOD OF BLASPHEMY, BLESSED WITH MORE BALLS THAN BRAINS, BATTLING THE BLAND, THE BOGUS, THE BENIGN. BEDLAM? BRING IT ON. BUT I BABBLE... BETTER TO BE BRIEF. YOU MAY CALL ME /b/."
4chan pays homage.

    Web Video 
Chet: Well dudes and dudettes, it took some totally tubular time-travelling travails and tribulations, but we've finally returned all the artifacts to the important historical figures!
Dad: You know Chet, all this aforementioned alliteration is absolutely arbitrary! ...arduous? Atrocious! Asinine!
Ace: How about academically awesome!
Dad: Adoption! (picks up phone) Operator? Orphanage please.

"Deckin' dicey devil-dealing douches dead, that's a D6!"
Oogie Boogie, Freshy Kanal, "King Dice vs. Oogie Boogie"

Burnie: Are you seriously suggesting, sir, something sinister-sounding, circumstancially surrounding some scissors?!
Geoff: ...Could you say that again?
Gus: Could you not encourage him?
Burnie Burns, Rooster Teeth, Scissors

And also, let's talk about the fantasy TV genre in general and the dynamically downward direction it's descending distinctly due to dumb drafting and directing.

    Western Animation 
"You know the drill! Deliver, or the diva ditches your dippy charity!"

"Oh, no! Blossom and Bubbles' screams are being drowned out by this rogue Romeo's rambunctious rock!"

"New-fangled nonsense!"
Edward and Gordon, Thomas & Friends, "Edward Strikes Out"

Henry: Nonsense. Duck would never do that. We engines have our differences, but we never talk about them to the trucks. That would be dis... dis...
Gordon: Disgraceful!
James: Disgusting!
Henry: Despicable!

Thomas: I'm so excited, my firebox is fizzing!
Percy: And my boiler is bubbling!

"Gentle-mants, please. Might I propose a proposition to your perplexing and ponderous peanut problem?"

    Miscellaneous 
"God wants a relationship, not a religion. He reveals the record of my wrongs. And I recognize my need for him, and I repent, and then I rejoice! because Jesus came to reconcile us to God. And whoever receives him is rescued! and resurrected when he dies. And He shall give us the RE and we shall become ERs. We will be brothers and sister. Hopers and believers. Lovers and. . . fighters. We will receive our eternal reward. And all that was lost, shall be restored! in his eternal realm."
— Not exactly alliteration, but deserves a special mention. See the full clip here https://www.godvine.com/reimagine-gods-favorite-letters-re--7825.html

Man: But what about us atheists? Why should we have to listen to that sectarian turmoil?
Wife: You're a lapsed atheist, dear.
Man: The principle's the same! The Mohammedans don't come around here waving bells at us! We don't get Buddhists playing bagpipes in our bathrooms! Or Hindus harmonizing in the halls! The Shintoists don't come around shattering sheet glass in the shithouse, shouting slogans and—
Wife: Alright! Don't practice your alliteration on me!
Michael Palin and Terry Jones in Monty Python's "Bells" sketch

"Bringing up the very back of the list is the M M C; the Massive Miserable Cucumber, identified in the Hunter's Journal as the Massive Moss Charger. But as mortifying as that moniker may come across, this monumentally malformed clump poses only a marginally minor concern to your journey. This mangled miscarriage of calamity may use his macho-magnified chaparral to mask Mean-mannered Conceit, but much to my chagrin, this turns out to be a very misleading measure of his competence. Literally just stand in one spot, and make mincemeat of this cornball, making it majorly clear that this meandering Mesozoic cactus is but a meager match for your cutlass. To make my conclusion, murdering this moronic carapace isn't the most miraculous conquest, but after you've finished mopping the mat with this cretin, you can finally move on to something much more challenging."

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