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• It's a general law of advertising that the product will be mentioned at least three times, to ensure it lodges firmly in the brain. • Nick At Nite has run commercials for itself, emphasizing this type of comedy bit and going so far as to call it 'the triple'. • ', apply directly to the forehead., apply directly to the forehead., apply directly to the forehead.' And its lesser-known sister ad: 'Freedom from hemorrhoids, FREEdHEM hemorrhoid cream. Freedom from hemorrhoids, FREEdHEM hemorrhoid cream.

Freedom from hemorrhoids, FREEdHEM hemorrhoid cream.' • A Toyota commercial has a hybrid car speeding along with three black horses, three white horses, three hang-gliders, and three fighter jets to show that and can get along. • A series of Warburton's Bakery adverts in the UK used an extremely long-burning (the last ad came two years after the first two, which were six months apart) version of 'the third is the punchline'. The first one had approaching John Warburton to propose. The second had approach him about a musical extravaganza featuring crumpets. Both ended with a somewhat gobsmacked Warburton endorsing the concepts.

Then the third one had suggesting a about the company's origins. This time, Warburton calls security.

•: episode 9 has Moa blowing up Giroro and Keroro twice in a row. Then it happens a third time, and the explains that this is due to the conventions of humor. • The Mazinger series used this trope continuously. Starting with the original TRILOGY: •: The eponymous is a formed by three parts: Mazinger-Z, the Hover Pilder and the Jet Scrander.

The Photon Atomic Power Research Institute is protected by three: Mazinger-Z, Aphrodite-A and Boss Borot. Throughout the series three show up: Aphrodite A, Minerva-X and Diana-A.

Yumi is aided by three scientists (Profs. Morimori, Sewashi and Nossori). The Boss' gang is formed by three members: Boss, Nuke and Mucha. Hell never had more than three at once, and several times he sent three-mecha teams to take down his enemies (Aeros B1, B2 and B3; Megaron P1, P2 and P3). Baron Ashura kidnapped three workers of the Institute in one episode (Kasuya, Kata and Yokoi). A Mechanical Beast could split in three parts could act and attack independently. •: The Fortress of Science is protected by three robots: Great Mazinger, Venus-A and Boss Borot.

The are three. Kabuto had three sons Tetsuya, Kouji and Shiro. Umon was assisted in the Lab by three (Hayashi, Yamada and Aoi). Makiba family was formed by three members: Hikaru, Danbei and Goro. Duke battle partners were Kouji, Hikaru and his sister Maria. Grendizer got three: Double, Marine and Drill Spacer. • In, before King Kai (King Kaio) agrees to train someone, they must make him laugh with a joke.

Tien performs the multiform technique to create 3 bodies just before shouting the punchline. Thus making his joke 3 times funnier. • Rule Of Three is referenced in by a couple of proverb-misquoting Yakuza members: 'Even Buddha only waited three times.' • Manga covers for, the main girls stars at each 3 volumes with no changes so far, the formula is one volume for Rei then Saeko and finally Saya, they are the only main characters to appear on covers.

•: The third Endless Eight episode has Itsuki state that 'We have entered an endless recursion of time.' Three times in a row. • In, the ultimate weapon, the Hydra Cannon, is made of three smaller uber-weapons, the Star Saber, Skyboom Shield, and Requiem Blaster. Each of these is itself made of three Mini-Cons.

• Specifically invoked by Batou in 2: Innocence. • • There are three marine admirals: Akainu, Aojiki, and Kizaru. • Three great powers: the Marines/World Government, the Shichibukai, and the Yonkou. • The Monster Trio in the Strawhat crew consists of Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji. • In, there are three true Dragon Slayers: Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy. Also, there were three active S-Class mages in the guild: Laxus, Erza, Mystogan.

Then: Erza, Mirajane and Mystogan. Later: Erza, Mirajane, Gildartz. After the: Erza, Mirajane, and Laxus.

• In, there are three Legendary Dragons and three corresponding Legendary Heroes. We also have the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Cyber End Dragon, formed by fusing three of the same monsters into one. Egyptian God Monsters, of which there happen to be three, demand a sacrifice of three monsters to be summoned. There are also three levels of the Orichalcos: Seal of Orichalcos, Orichalcos Deuteros, and Orichalcos Tritos. There are three powerful magicians (Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Magician of Black Chaos) that form a trio. • And three Phantom Beasts. And three Wicked Gods.

And the English manga was published as three series ( for the first seven volumes, Duelist for Duelist Kingdom onward, and Millennium World, following the Duel City finals). • even has three Kaiba. • portrays the three Extra Deck summoning methods (Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz) with this dynamic, with each having its own dimension and specializing duelists. In-story, Pendulum Summon (which focuses on quickly amassing materials for the aforementioned methods) and the Standard Dimension (where all three co-exist without any of them being dominant over the others) act as bridges between them. • The same goes for quite a few regular cards. There were originally three Harpie Lady Sisters, three monsters that made up the Gate Guardian, three Machines that make up the XYZ-Dragon Cannon and of course, one of the biggest rules in the game is that you can have a maximum of three copies of a card in your deck (at least in most cases). • The 3 kids Maurice, Maeter, and Linck in, as well as the number of times Nirvash and fight each other.

• ends with 333 chapters. Many of the close friendships in the series are in groups of three. • has triplet princes who were predicted to be the 'perfect child, protecting child, and destroying child', the last one having a tell-tale birthmark (the king loved them so he marked the other 2 and raised them all the same).

Sure enough, one is posing as the deceased king, another is the poison tester, and the 3rd alone is a brilliant engineer but was so traumatized by seeing his father's death that he looks a lot younger and can't stop killing things, but that hasn't yet proved anything. Despite being triplets they no longer look the same: the one who's posing as the king while the one who is traumatized and can't stop killing • has 3 princes who are the 3 'adopted' sons of the king.

Well, 2 were adopted and the 1st was illegitimate. • In the anime, First Impact happened before humanity existed, Second Impact in the last two decades, and the objective of NERV is to stop • Most of the skits in rely on a triple repeat of the same joke or three jokes with the same theme. • Three students slip on frozen puddles in one skit. • Yoshitake's as Karasawa by wearing a white cap works three times in the Kick The Can skit (twice on Mitsuo). • Mitsuo makes three attempts to get a soccer ball past Hidenori during the Sure Kill Shot skit.

Third time is the charm in this case. •: • The anime always has three main characters (Ash and his two companions, one male, one female, with Hoenn being the exception due to Max tagging along, and Kalos with Bonnie being part of the group), plus the Team Rocket trio. • According to, if a gym leader loses three times in a row they are forced to quit. This causes many gym leaders to bribe trainers in order to lose. • In, there are three main worlds separated dimensionally: The human world, the spirit world, and the Makai world; the latter in turn has three major rulers: Mukuro, Yomi, and Raizen ( when the latter one dies, a tournament is run to decide who will rule all three worlds). Averted in the second movie, where it's revealed that there is actually a fourth world.

• features a Goddess who plays the part of Mercury in the myth. The first time she makes the offering, it is a gold and silver harp to the man who she comes to love. The second time, it is an exceptionally sharp axe to herself so she can break free from her spring. The third time, it is a gold and silver bike to Keiichi who is on the verge of losing Belldandy in. • Big 3: A about the three most popular manga from Weekly Shonen Jump.

• In, each priestess gets. Miaka's evolve from entirely selfish to a combination of selfish and selfless, to entirely selfless over the course of the series as she plans out what to ask of Suzaku. She only actually makes two wishes.

• Background material for the original notes that standard mobile suit tactics for the Principality of Zeon involved squads of three Zakus. The Federation fudged this a bit for space battles, mimicking that with three GMs per squad, but with the addition of two Balls as support. This also comes up in many of the Universal Century series, where while the number of leading protagonists who pilot them will vary, it often ends up that there are three mobile suits among them (for instance from the original series, Amuro's Gundam, Kai's Guncannon, and Ryu and Hayato's Guntank). Explains how a drawing of three rocks in a background scene was Ernie's way of showing us there were some rocks in the background. It was always three. Because two rocks wouldn't be 'some rocks.' Two rocks would be a pair of rocks.

And four rocks was unacceptable because four rocks would indicate 'some rocks' but it would be one rock more than was necessary to convey the idea of 'some rocks.' —Scott McCloud • In a somewhat similar vein, repeatedly employs a 9-panel grid - three wide, three high - in most of his comics. While the format in itself obviously predates Moore, Moore was (one of) the first to combine it with the panel, lending a certain rhythm and gravitas to even the most rote conversations in his stories.

• In, there are the Warriors Three, three heroic Asgardians — Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg — who are lifelong friends and fighting companions. • Before the, published a limited series called Trinity essentially establishing,, and as the center of the DC Universe. They've used the term 'trinity' to refer to the three characters since. After the reboot, the first major crossover for the was the, in which three different Leagues (the main Justice League, the, and ) first clash then unite, then break into three groups, each led by a different member of the 'trinity' and accompanied by a different member of the 'Trinity of Sin' (New 52 versions of and, and new character Pandora). The events of the 'war' are revealed to be part of a plot by the Crime Syndicate, versions of the Justice League from Earth-3 •: Iznogoud once bought a magic catalogue that allows him to obtain items from the future but cannot use it more than three times.

A selection: • ' is built around this trope. The chairs are too hard, too soft, and just right, the porridges are too hot, too cold, just right, and so on.

• In ', the 3rd and largest goat defeats the troll. • ' traditionally goes to the ball 3 times before losing her shoe. Later, the 2 step-sisters each try the shoe on before Cinderella steps forward.

• The ': the first 2 pigs' houses fail to ward off the Big Bad Wolf, while the 3rd's brick house remains sturdy. • In the Grimms' ' story, the wicked Queen makes three attempts on Snow White's life (a cursed comb, strangling her with a bodice lace, and the famous poisoned apple). • In ', the title character gives the miller's daughter three days to. After he spun for her for three nights. • In ', Jack steals three treasures from the giant: a bag of gold, a goose that lays golden eggs, and a singing harp. • 'The Honey Princess': Three princes are set to accomplish three tasks in order to win three princesses' hands in marriage.

• ' help a girl against an impossible spinning task. • In ', it is the third stream that Brother drinks from; it is the third time he goes out to hunt that the king finds Sister; it was the third time she returned from the dead that her husband caught her and brought her back to life. • In ', the heroine meets three women who give her gifts; she uses them to bribe her way to her husband, and the third time, he is not drugged to sleep.

• In ', when she is pretending to be the bride, she speaks to three objects; the bride must find out from her three times what she said, and the bridegroom figures out the substitution. • In ', the heroine goes to the ball three times. • Anecdotes have plenty of examples. For an example, three nation anecdotes. • In ', the three aunts help her on three successive nights. • In, the prince gets three chances to watch the well.

He fails all the three, but only on the third is he sent away. • In, the hero tells the youngest daughter to wait for him three years — if he doesn't return then, he's dead and she's free to marry as she wishes. • In — well, three oranges.

Or citrons or whatever. • In, the girl loses three sets of candles, and later gets three gifts. • In, the daughter asks three times for a gift, meets three old women along the way, and at the end, bribes the bride three times before she manages to wake Finist. The Don Malayalam Movie Song Download more. • In, Boots is the youngest of three brothers to try the engagement challenge. • In the hero must endure three nights of escalating beatings to break the curse. Later, he finds three giants arguing over three magic items, which he steals and uses to get his kingdom and his family back.

Greenville Ms Drivers License Office. • In 's, three sons, and three innkeeper's daughters • In ', three brothers, three horses, and three golden apples. • In the story an actual wolf appears only after the first two times the boy cried wolf. • In, there are three princes, and the thief tells three stories to ransom them, and the first story features three witches. • In the youth has two spent three nights in a. • In, he rescues three princess, from trolls with three, or six, or nine heads. • In 's, three drinks from the flask are needed to lift the sword. • In, there are three jezinkas.

• In, he has two older brothers, and is set three tasks. • In, he was one of three brothers, and finds three princesses.

• In, the little men. • In, Betta bribes the queen three times for three nights. • In the fable of the Honest Woodsman, a woodsman loses his ax in an accident when it flies into the river. When a water spirit appears, he tells her of his dilemma, and then she dives into the river to find his ax. It takes three such dives before the woodsman recognizes the ax as his. As a reward for his honesty, he also gets to keep the other two axes the spirit had dug up.

• In The Princess Who Wore A Rabbit Skin Dress, a queen had three husbands — the first was the father of her daughter, the second gets no details and makes no impact on the story, and the third, after her death, wants to marry her daughter. Fagin: Three sunrises, three sunsets, three days.

Three and three and three. Sykes: No, Fagin. Fagin: (alarmed) Three? Oh, you mean just three days?! Oh, I'm having a bad day! •: 'Before the sun sets on the third day.' •: Whoever summons the Genie can ask for.

But there are also three things the genie can't do: kill, force love, or raise the dead (though that's excluding his earlier statement that wishing for more wishes is not allowed either). Also, it's three days (according to the Sultan) 'till Jasmine's birthday. • In, Mulan has three animal companions (Cri-kee, Khan and Mushu) and three human buddies (Yao, Ling and Chien-Po) while serving in the army. At home, she has three living relatives (father, mother and grandmother — Mulan's little brother significantly is changed into a dog called Little Brother). Also, Mulan's family is the third in town to receive a conscription notice.

• In, when Carolinus first decides to inspire to bring about his idealized magic realm, Lo Tae Shao reminds him that there must be three warriors at the start of a quest, because 'the laws so command it.' • The Medal of Everlasting Life from. Chakal had it. Xibalba stole it back, causing Chakal to go monomaniacal to seek it back. But Xibalba traded it to Joaquin, who used it to launch himself to fame in hopes of honoring his father. Then Joaquin lost it to one of the banditos, who in turn ended up losing it to the citizens of San Angel, before Joaquin gave it to Manolo.

• • The legendary armor Kubo seeks is made up of three separate pieces; the Sword Unbreakable, the Breastplate Impenetrable, and the Helmet Invulnerable. • The main protagonists are Kubo, Monkey, and Beetle. • Kubo's shamisen, a traditional Japanese instrument with three strings. During his final confrontation with the Moon King, Kubo re-strings his shamisen with the strand of his mother's hair he carried with him, his father's discarded bowstring, and a strand of his own hair. • In the second film, Stifler explains to Kevin that the rule of three implies that if a girl tells you how many guys she slept with, the real number is.

In a similar conversation, Jessica explains to Vicky that if a guy tells you how many girls he slept with, the real number is divided by three. •: Both parley and thinking of the pirates' code as guidelines are both mentioned thrice over the course of the movie: • Elizabeth uses parley to spare her life; Jack tries it later on his old partners to no avail; and Pintel warns Jack's captured crew not to think of playing the parley card. In this case, though, it's more like 'Rule of Four', as when the pirates are captured by the soldiers, Pintel nervously tells them, • Barbossa informs Elizabeth that he finds the pirates' code to be more like guidelines than actual rules; something she recites to Jack's crew; and something they tell him at the end of the film.

• In, Dawn's nether region severs exactly three penises on screen. • In, Indy must pass three tests (The Breath of God, The Word of God and The Path of God) to get to the Grail temple. 'Three times it drops.'

•: • 'Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.' The trope is subverted four times; the first time, the three questions are all easy, so the knight easily crosses. The second knight unexpectedly receives a third, difficult question which results in his death, while the third knight unexpectedly gets an easy question again but fails to answer it correctly and dies. On the final set of questions, King Arthur subverts it again by asking a question back to the bridge keeper, resulting in the bridge keeper's death. Additionally '.then thou shalt count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.

Five is right out.' • The first castle sank into the swamp.

The second castle sank into the swamp. The third castle. Burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. • An unfilmed scene would have shown Arthur and Bedevere about to cross the lake to the castle Argh, only to be accosted by the bridge keeper again, who says, 'He who would cross the Sea of Fate must answer me these questions twenty-eight!'

After some deliberation, Arthur and Bedevere toss him into the lake and continue on their way. During the landing sequence, Dr.

Rumack () steps into the cockpit three times and says 'I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you' in exactly the same way: once as they begin the descent, once in the middle of the landing, and once after the plane is on the ground.

• wove multiple instances of the Rule Of Three into his scenario for. Example: The, a heavy smoker, is twice seen striking a match off his resentful cheek; the third time it happens, the Dragon is doing it to the (dead) Big Bad. In his book, Rebel Without a Crew, Rodriguez calls this 'the kindergarten school of filmmaking', what he used to write a script that was interesting but also (and more importantly) quickly finished. • Guy Richie's first two films, and feature dialogue exchanges where two characters repeat the same line of dialogue three times while responding to another character. 'No, Harry, you can't' in the former and 'Yeah, dad, you told us' in the latter. Evil's Mook Mustafa will answer a question if asked three consecutive times. The scene with him in The Spy W.