Verse criticism gags

Songwriting and poetry can be difficult tasks (as Don Music can attest). In comedy contexts, it often involves unusual word selections, near rhymes, or improvising a pronunciation to force it to rhyme. Such creative license (or flowery phrasing in general) does not always go unnoticed by the listening audience.
* In Tales of the Tinkerdee, minstrel Kermit ends a line with "I suppoose" to rhyme with "news". King Goshposh says "What was that last word?"
* Sesame Street pageants: In "Let's Make a Face", Ernie sings a line about eyes, ending with "they look very nize", to which Prairie Dawn questions, "Nize?"
** In "The Four Seasons", Ernie, representing summer, mentions fishing and swimming. His next line is "The beaches are open / For men and for wimming." Prairie Dawn questions, "Wimming?"
* In the song "When I Was Little", Ernie sings about a time when he was afraid to take a bath in the tubby, being afraid of going down the drain with, among other things, "a glub-glub-glubby", to which Bert questions the use of the word "glubby" and Ernie points out that it rhymes with "tubby".
* In The Muppet Movie, during "Movin' Right Along", a series of lines ending with rhymes for "habit" ends with Fozzie saying, "We'll hitchhike, bus, or yellow cab-it," to which Kermit says, "Cab-it?"
* In The Muppet Show Episode 323: Lynn Redgrave, Scooter (as Alan-a-Dale) ends a line with "living fast and looth" to rhyme with "in sooth". Fozzie questions, "Fast and looth?" Scooter replies, "Come on, give me a break. I'm usually the go-fer around here."
* In Episode 4135 of Sesame Street, the Bookaneers map reads "If No L's Be Upon The Sign / Then Take Eight More Steps And Try Agine." The First Mate calls the rhyme a stretch, to which the Salty Dog pirate responds, "I just reads them. I don't writes them."
==Notes==
* In the 2021 web video of "Movin' Right Along", Kermit remarks that Rhode Island does in fact rhyme with "pie in the sky land."
==See also==
*"The Rhyming Song," a song where each line is expected to rhyme with the line before it, but fails to do so. 
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Category:Running Gags