Punctuated! For! Emphasis! - TV Tropes

Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!
Leonidas: Madness? …This! Is! SPARTA!

• Weslie in Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Rescue Across Time, upon learning that Wolffy's back to his old ways: "You're... still... catching... goats?"

• The Classic Doctor Who Twitter Blog: "YOU. FUCKING. LIAR."
  • "FOUR. IS. HANGING. OUT OF A WINDOW."

• Over the Hedge: A Drill Sergeant Nasty demands twenty push-ups from R.J. and Verne. When Verne reveals his one push-up bra, which he uses to cover his alleged ears, the sarge asks "WHAT? IS? HAPPENING?"

• Early "talking" solid-state Pinball games could only talk this way, often combining it with Machine Monotone and Mad Libs Dialogue. With a few years, however,, it was now possible to include longer recorded voice samples, making this trope's use strictly an artistic choice.
• Gorgar was the first commercially-release talking pinball.
  • "GORGAR! SPEAKS!"
  • "ME! GOT! YOU!"
  • "ME... HURT!"
• Black Knight: "THE-BLACK-KNIGHT-WILL-SLAY-YOU!"
  • "I-WILL-SLAY-YOU-MY-ENEMY!"
• Space Shuttle: "READY - FOR - LIFTOFF!"
• Pin*Bot: "Pin*Bot - circuits - activated!"
• The Getaway: High Speed II has "RED - LINE - MANIA!"
• The Addams Family: "THE - MA - MUSHKA!"
• Rush (2022): One of the voice clips that plays upon tilting the game ends with Ed Robertson angrily telling the player "Don't... shake... the... machine!"

• RiffTrax makes fun of this trope, especially while riffing 300.

  Bill Corbett: Well, I think he certainly proved that THIS! IS! SPARTA!
  Mike Nelson: Yeah, his kids make fun of him cause when he's handing out stuff on the 4th of July he insists on saying, "THIS! IS! A SPARKLER!"
  Kevin Murphy: Or, when he's giving his car a tune-up and his kid asks, "Hey Dad, what's that small white thing with the metal at each end?" he always replies "THIS! IS! A SPARKPLUG!"
  Bill Corbett: Or, when he sits down to a meal of juice, toast, milk, and Trix cereal...
  Mike Nelson: Uh-oh, where's he going with this?
  Bill Corbett: And he looks at his bowl of Trix and he says, "THIS! IS! SPART OF A BALANCED BREAKFAST!"
  Kevin Murphy: Wow!
  Mike Nelson: You pulled it off; nicely done!
  Bill Corbett: Thank you very much.

  • Later, there's "This! Is! Dinner!"
  • And in the Twilight Rifftrax, "THIS! IS! Forks High School: Home of the SPARTANS!"

• Being filled with barely-dressed super-manly-men, Professional Wrestling has a number of examples:
  • Shane Douglas: And they... can all... KISS! MY!! ASS!!!
  • And tomorrow night, Jazz will KICK! YOUR! ASS!
  • Vince McMahon's "YOU'RE! FIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!"
  • Whenever DX is together, Triple H is bound to ask the crowd if they're ready. Then, he'll clarify for them that he did, in fact, ask "ARE?! YOU?! REEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAADY?!?!"
  • After the requisite Michael Buffer schtick was concluded, Shawn Michaels would without fail conclude with this exchange.

  Shawn: And if you're not down with that, then we got TWO! WORDS! FOR YAAAAAAA!!

  Crowd: SUUUCK IIIIIIT!!!!

  • Triple H would like to tell you that "I!! AM!! THE GAME!! And I AM! THAT! DAMN!! GOOD!!!"
  • "THE HEART! BREAK! KID! SHAWN! MICHAELS! LAYS DOWN! FOR ABSOLUTELY! NOBODY!!!"
  • Diamond Dallas Page's catchphrase back in WCW: "You will FEEL! THE! BANG!"
  • Used by Pro Wrestler The Undertaker, though he doesn't shout each word so much as he treats each one like its own sentence. Oh, and he draws the last one. "Rest. In. PEACE."
  • "Stone Cold" Steve Austin: "OH! HELL! YEAH!"
  • "RAW! IS! JERICHO!"
  • Booker T:
    • FIVE TIME!! FIVE TIME!! FIVE TIME!! WCW CHAMPION BOOKER T!!
    • You didn't say that. Tell me...you did NOT...just say that!
    • NOW! CAN! YOU! DIG! THAT!? SUUUUUCCCCCKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
  • "ROB! VAN! DAM!"
    • He punctuates this by pointing both of his thumbs at himself.
  • BECAUSE I'M THE MIZ! AND I'M! AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEESOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMME!!!!!!
  • Randy Orton will. Do. This. Quite. OFTEN~! Got a problem? Then meet the three most dangerous letters in sports entertainment history: R. K.—BRO!
  • Fighting out of GREEN...BAY...WIS-CON-SIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...is MISTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... Kennedy. Kennedy.
    • He's now MISTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... Anderson
  • Kane during The Undertaker's (kayfabe) funeral in 2010: "THERE! WILL! BE! VENGEANCE!"
  • Batista couldn't believe John Cena would STOOP! THAT! LOW! and resort to duct tape to win their Last Man Standing match.
  • Two examples from Michael Cole: "NOT! THIS! WAAAAY! NOT! THIS! WAAAAY! DAMMIT!!!" And of course, to our collective chagrin, "AND! I! QUOTE!"
  • IF! YOU! SMEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL... WHAT THE ROCK! IS! COOKIN'!!!
  • Jack Swagger's "WE! THE PEOPLE!"
  • Brother Love:

  "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU!!!"^note 

  • Shawn Michaels did not sleep with that young intern. As a matter of fact, he was "UP! ALL! NIGHT!".
  • "I'm...going...full...force!"^note 
  • When introducing his NJPW stable, Tetsuya Naito always ends with "Nosotros Los Ingobernables DE!! JA!! PÓN!!!
  • This trope is also present as part of Joey Styles' rant before leaving WWE: "WWE...CALLED ME! I didn't call this company because I needed a job. I didn't need a job. WWE...CALLED ME!"
  • Enzo and Cass have only ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE YOU! AND THEY'RE GONNA SPELL! IT! OUT! FOR YOU: S-A-W-F-T! SAWFT!" But before that, Enzo introduces himself with this trope in effect: "MY NAME IS ENZO AMORE, AND I AM A CERTIFIED G AND A BONAFIDE STUD! AND YOU CAN'T! TEACH! THAT!" With Big Cass in tow, he also adds "AND THIS RIGHT HERE? THIS IS BIG CASS, AND HE'S 7-FOOT-TALL! AND YOU CAN'T! TEACH! THAT!"
  • Braun Strowman:
    • I'M! NOT! FINISHED WITH YOU!
    • GET! THESE! HANDS!
  • Make way for L.A. Knight. Yeah!

• The Muppet Show: PIGS! IN! SPACE!
• Sesame Street:
  • When Telly Monster is struggling to use a bubble wand for the first time...

    Telly: I will blow a bubble! I have to! For this! Is! Bubble-Fest!

  • In "The Monster's Three Wishes", after Cookie Monsters wastes his wishes on "big, bigger, and biggest" trucks to hold a million cookies, he's left without the desired million cookies. That leaves him with only one option...

    Cookie Monster: EAT! TRUCK!

• From Adventures in Odyssey: During the "Darkness Before Dawn" arc, Richard Maxwell crosses paths with middle-management villain "Jellyfish". After being kept in jail about half a year longer than his sentence should have lasted, he isn't happy. As such, he informs him that apart from cleaning up his act, one thing hasn't changed:

  "I. Never. Forget."

• From the classic Barbara Frum interview on the CBC Radio show As It Happens: "WHAT! DID! YOU! FEED! THE! GODDAMN! CABBAGE?!?!"
• Bleak Expectations: Pip Bin when his wife reminds him of the nursery rhyme "Undead Georgie felt no pain/Til Isabella destroyed his brain":

  Pip: What the hell. Kind of nursery rhyme. Is THAT?

• Bob & Ray's "Slow Talkers of America" skit offers a nifty subversion of the trope, in that it's the relentless lack of drama that eventually sends the interviewer over the edge:

  Bob: (as president Harlow P. Whitcomb) ... the STOA... the Slow...
  Ray: Talkers of America, right. Now, you—
  Bob: ... Talkers...
  Ray: Of America!
  Bob: ... of...
  Ray: America! Of AMERICA!!
  Bob: ... America.

• Cabin Pressure: "IT'S! A! CAKE!" (loud SPLAT!)
• Journey into Space: At the beginning of every episode, a voice — either Guy Kingsley Poynter (Doc) or David Jacobs — intones "JOURNEY. INTO. SPACE!"
• Lights Out: "It...is...later...than...you...think!"
• Lo Zoo Di 105: The usual response to Herbert's lame puns.

  "THAT'S! NOT! FUUUUUUNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

• NPR's On The Media with Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield always ends with:

  Bob Garfield: "And edited...by...Brooke".

• X Minus One: The show's title would be announced as "X! MINUS! ONE!".

• Go Through The Alphabet Before Somebody Posts A My Little Pony Picture: STOP. RIGHT. THERE.
• Survival of the Fittest has two instances of this:

• Portal 2: The (Unauthorized) Musical "You. Are NEVER! GOING! TO SPACE! Now SHUT UP! My god!"
• Les Misérables:
  • One more dawn! One more day! ONE! DAY! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!
  • Both Colm Wilkinson and Gary Morris tended to deliver their lines in Les Misérables this way: "MY NAME IS JEAN! VAL! JEAN!"
  • TWO! FOUR! SIX! OH! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!
• Elphaba does this at the end of Act 2 of Wicked when confronted by Glinda and told she can't go on behaving like this.

  Elphaba: I can do anything I want. I am. The. Wicked Witch. Of. The West.

  • Earlier, Galinda said to Elphaba, "You. will. be. POPULAR!"
• The Phantom of the Opera: SO!!! IT IS TO BE WAR!!! BETWEEN US!!!
  • And then there's Raoul with his Call-Back to that line: "...but this time, clever friend, the disaster—WILL! BE!! YOURS!!!" Phantom contains relatively few spoken lines, but its melodramatic roots mean an unusual proportion of those that exist can be delivered in this fashion.
• Anyone Can Whistle: "NOW — POINT — ONE!" This and several similar exclamations include the same musical Stings and vamp to fade.
• Carrie the Musical: "He! Will! Burn! You!"
• RENT: "VIVA! LA VIE! BOHEME!"
• Hamilton: "Then stand, Alexander. Weehawken. Dawn. Guns. Drawn." "You're on."
• The Fantasticks: "You're...standing...in...my...KUMQUAT!" ("SORRY!")
• Li'l Abner has this in the speech leading into "Oh, Happy Day":

  "Think of the unbounded horizons of science, when we can make all mankind look!" (Sforzando) "Act!" (Sforzando) "Think!" (Sforzando) "Feel!" (Sforzando) "Hope, desire, dream!" (Sforzando) "Buy, sell!" (Tremolo) "Inhale, exhale!" (Sforzando) "Exactly like those specimens over there!" (Fast segue)

• Averted in Calderon's Life is a Dream.
• Much Ado About Nothing: "YOU! ARE! AN! ASS!"
• The Prince of Tennis: TE... ZU... KAAAAAAAAAAA!!! (technically just one word with three syllables, but it's all in Luke C.'s delivery).
• The Pirate Queen: "GIVE ME. MY SWORD."
• Blood Brothers: "But a debt is a debt... AND MUST. BE. PAID."
• Jesus Christ Superstar when Jesus sasses Pilate: "WHAT! DO! YOU MEAN BY THAT? THAT! IS NOT! AN ANSWER!"
• The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals: "I DON'T! LIKE! MUSICALS!"

• The Debbie and Carrie Show: During an argument with Sandy Smith's oldest brother Samuel Green over religion, she says "I.....JUST...STOPPED....BEING.....A...HYPOCRITE!"
• FreedomToons: Bernie Sanders' speaking pattern is often portrayed as lethargic.
• Homestar Runner:
  • Strong Bad's "sage advice" to Homestar in the Strong Bad Email "do over", which is coupled with Punctuated Pounding as he's hitting Homestar over the head with a keyboard while he says it: "DON'T! EVER! DRESS! UP! As The CHEAT! AGAIN! PARSLEY! SAGE! ROSEMARY! And THYME!"
  • At the end of the "Non-Sequitur Champion" short, Homestar tells the Studio Audience on "The Show" "Until next time, as always: CHANT! WORDS! TOGETHER!"
  • In the SBemail "unnatural", King Bubsgonzola Supreme's roars turn out to be Bubs shouting "Don't! Eat! Mah! CHICKEN WIIIIIINGS!" slowed-down.
  • In "Jibblies 2", The Horrible Painting does this when it corners Strong Bad: "Come. On. In here!!"
  • On the original Podstar Runner animation, showing an iPod menu, at the end, Strong Bad finds himself inside the menu and pounds against the screen to get out, "LET me! OUTTA the! TINY! BOX!", then suddenly shatters the screen.
  • "DE! LE! TED!"
  • Homestar, to Strong Bad, in the first "Biz Cas Fri" short: "Rondleman, you crack me up. Crack! Me! Up!"
  • In "myths and legends," Homestar recounts how he caught footage of "A very. Scary. Monsterm'n."
• Alfred's Playhouse: BUT! HAVE! DO! LOVED! MEEEEEE!!!
• Awesome Series: WHERE'S!! MY!! WIFE!?
• Red vs. Blue had Grif do this when he was out of breath, causing him to put emphisis on every word while he was sucking wind.
  • "Sir! We! Are going! To DIE here!"
  • "My name is Michael J. Caboose and I! Hate! BABIES!"
  • "My name is Leonard Church, and you will FEAR! MY! LASER FACE!"
• From the beginning of Lazer Collection 3: Just. Pure. ENERGY.
  • Also this exchange between Genkins and Caboose after the former refuses to give up possessing Church.

    Genkins: Hmmmmmm, no.
    Caboose: Put. It. Down.
    Genkins: Or what?
    Cue Caboose attacking in a violent rage

• This 8-Bit Theater animation: "HA... DO... KEN!"
• DSBT InsaniT: Bill shouts "Dont! You! Dare!" when Alex is about to reveal his beta name in "The Camping Webisode".
• Dreamscape: In the flashback in "Tale of the Unworld", Keela shouts "Sending! You! To! Oblivion!" before she shatters the Master of the Dammed's scythe.
  • Betty shouts "Shut. The fuck. UP!" at the start of her "The Reason You Suck" Speech in episode 6.
• "NoEvil": "Kid. Nap. Ing. Kidnapping!" Wrip's response to Calamity and Huey's wandering off in the after math of Corn's narrowly-avoided kidnapping.
• If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Marneus Calgar has had enough of his underling's crap, and tricks him with a supposed battle tactic, complete with steps...
• Battle for Dream Island: "I. AM NEXT LEVEL. MAD."
• From the Grand Finale of Broken Saints: "SHUT... IT... DOWN!!"
• Extra Credits: In regards to how to do Micro-transactions: "Never. Sell. Power."
• RWBY: Although Salem initially deals with Oscar patiently and Ozpin with calm superiority, when they finally push her too far, she grabs Oscar's head with both hands and airs what truly frustrates her about her former lover with emphatic, staccato words: his determination to reincarnate and keep fighting her no matter what.

  Salem: Why. Do. You. Keep. Coming. Back?

• Epithet Erased: During the Western arc, Ramsey - who's been pretending to be a Mundie to keep his Epithet secret from Percy - ends up dragged into a set of Power Nullifier cuffs anyway. He takes it badly.

• From Adam Schwartze's Pokemon Yellow 6 Mon Challenge playthrough type thing, with guest star WatcherCCG a.k.a GM:

  GM: (to a wild Geodude that Adam has just encountered) Go. The hell. Away.

  • From the same playthrough, except in a much later part:
  • And from MobiusZero4's Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening playthrough, with commentary by both himself and the aforementioned Adam Schwartze (see it with commentary on ArcadiaComms and without commentary on the provided link to his channel):
• The Angry Video Game Nerd: They made. A Cheetahmen. Sequel. Oh yeah.
  • "I got Dark Castle, on C! D! IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!"
  • "I am dead. Fucking. Serious."
• Alpha Squad: Parodied in "25 SERIOUS Design Flaws In Everyday Products"

  "The space bar being right next to the period on some keyboards. It.makes.typing.really.annoying."

• The Annoying Orange: YOU KILLED MY BROTHER!!
• Atop the Fourth Wall:
  • "THIS. COMIC. SUUUCKS!!"
  • WORD! TO! THE! WISE! WEARING! A! HUGE! FREAKING! ECHO! CHAMBER! ON! YOUR! HEAD! IS! NOT! VERY! SMART!
  • JOE QUESADA, YOU! ARE! A! HAAAAACK!
• The Autobiography of Jane Eyre: Grace Poole is angry and takes it on Jane in ep. 14. She also gets pissed by Jane's questions, and she almost yells at her. Nearly her whole speech is chunked into several threatening phrases with raising, questioning intonation.

  Grace: Are you suggesting that Mr Rochester, your employer? — makes sport of throwing decorative glassware? — in the middle of the night? — in his OWN HOUSE? — where his DAUGHTER sleeps? — because he needs to let off little steam — every once in a while?

• CGP Grey: He. Uses. Them. A lot!
• Dark Lord Jadow 1 uses these especially in his Metroid: Other M review:
  • KISS! MY! ASS!
  • WHAT! DO! YOU! WANT! FROM! ME!
  • WHAT! AM! I! SUPPOSSED! TO SHOOT!
  • And one that doesn'teven parody the "THIS! IS! SPARTA!" quote from 300, "I 'don't' care what you or Nintendo says, THIS! IS NOT! SAMUS!"
• The conclusion of the Opening Narration of Doom House:

  Reginald P. Linux: ...[B]ut as as a philosopher once said, "Be careful what you dream for because you JUST... MIGHT... GET IT! " [1] DON'T! TOUCH! ME!!!!

• The Elevator Show parodies The Twilight Saga: "I. DON'T. READ."
• Freshy Kanal: Right before the monster awakens in "Hulk vs. Frankenstein", Victor Frankenstein drops his iconic line from the 1931 film and emphasizes it the best that he can.

  Frankenstein: IT'S... A...LIVE!

• Honest Trailers: During the Honest Game Trailer for Skyrim, while listing the DLC activities that the player can waste time on: "Riding. a Mother. F**king. DRAGON!"
• In "I Wonder What Happens in Tales of Monkey Island Episode 5: Rise of the Pirate God":

  Death: Your wits! Are! Not enough!!!

• After JonTron witnesses the protagonist of Narc (1988) blowing up people for using drugs, he says in horror: "Not... Even... Once!"
  • In his "Bootleg Pokémon Games" review: "When Pikachu jumps, the entire game lags. Every. Single. TIME!
• Everything mastr_of_deth27 says. I! HATE! READING!
• Mitten Squad: As part of a video title, and a play on the quest called "Best Minion Ever": "Borderlands 2: Part 2 | Worst. Minion. Ever."
• The Nostalgia Chick: The. Spice. Must. Flow.
• On this Nostalgia Critic review... JUST! EX-! PLAIN! *BLAAAAAAM*
  • GO! BACK! TO THE LESBIANS!!
  • WAAA! WAAA! WAAAAAAAAAA!
  • In the Alone in the Dark (2005) review:

    Nostalgia Critic (through a voicebox): You're. An. Idiot.

  • In his review of The Room, in reference to the infamous "navel f*cking" scene:

    Nostalgia Critic: Dude, I don't know how many times you've had sex, but it's not! That! TIGHT!

    • And later in the same review:
  • During his review of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, he shows off a clip of 300 to emphasize how bad the show is:

    Nostalgia Critic: This is torture! This is madness!
    King Leonidas: THIS! IS! SONIC!!!

• Pokémon Talk: From "Counting", in a Shout-Out to the "This. Is. Sparta!" line of 300, Squirtle's response to Bulbasaur's "This is madness!" line:

  Squirtle: This! Is! Squirtle!

• The Spoony Experiment "THAT! CAN'T! HAPPEN!!!"
  • "PIECE. OF. SHIIIIIIIIT."
• In the Tony Zaret skit "When the LORE Is Surprisingly DARK", Sneaker is so upset about potentially getting eliminated from Outrageous Object Island that he shouts his words and pauses between each one.

  Sneaker: I'm gonna be eliminated and IT'S. NOT. FAIR.

  Pinecone: You gotta calm down.

• TV Trash: At the end of a long rant during his review of "Road To The Multiverse" about a swipe at Walt Disney.
• Vegan Black Metal Chef loves this trope, using it in nearly episode, as well as the title sequence.
• At one point on Welcome to Night Vale, we get this message from a sponsor, which encourages you to consider the varieties of silence in this world.

  ...The sound of a mistake.
  Of emphasis.
  Of your own thoughts when you expected someone else’s.

  (whispered) SHOP. AT. TARGET.

• Best. Meme. Ever.
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• In a thread on on rule #34. the comments have absolutely nothing to do with the picture, it's all JUST this. Also a Funny Moment due to a perfectly timed snipe halfway through the thread.

  hentaiboy2: FIRE!