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{{quote|'''Yami:''' (holding a box of cereal) Yu-Gi-Oh is sponsored by Yugi-O's. They're Yugi-licious. Wait a minute- Yugi-licious? Is that even a word?|''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]''}}
 
A variation of [[Absolute Comparative]] that shows up mostly in children's commercials. An advertiser uses completely made-up adjectives to describe their product. Whether this invokes [[Totally Radical]] or [[Weasel Words]] is up to the reader.
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* Some years ago now Jimmy Nail used to advertise Kodacolour Gold film as "Clicknologically superbluous" before the tag line "Kodak: We have the clicknology. (SFX: camera clicking)".
* Kraft Cheese Crumbles used "Crumbelievable", to the point of employing a re-recorded version of EMF's "Unbelievable" as its jingle. The commercials themselves were memorably mock-celebrated by Stephen Colbert on ''[[The Colbert Report]]''.
* Wonka-brand "Scrumdiddlyumptious Bars" (actually made by Nestle). However, the word "scrumdiddlyumptious" was created by Roald Dahl, author of ''[[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory]]'', and as "Wonka-brand" is a reference to the character of Willy Wonka from the book. So in this case, the word was not so much made up by marketing people as co-opted by them, [[Did Not Do the Research|despite the fact that Dahl was very likely]] ''[[Satire|satirizing]]'' [[Completely Missing the Point|this type of language.]]
* "Crispity-Crunchity-Peanut-Buttery Butterfingers!"
* ''Taco Bell'' commercials advertising "melty cheese" on their products. For fun, go to a fancy restaurant and ask for the fondue to be served extra melty. See if you don't get ejected.
* Taco Bell also had a commercial where three patrons attempt to come up with the perfect adjective to describe the chain's latest item: a combination taco/burrito with melted cheese between the two shells. They go through "smunchy" (soft/melty/crunchy) and "crufelty" (crunchy/soft/melty) before settling on "cruncheweesy" (crunchy/chewy/cheesy).
* Taco Bell isn't the only fast food chain describing their cheese as "melty." At least a few pizza chains have been doing it, too.
* Comcast is, apparently, "Comcastic!" Fun fact: Users of Comcast have described their service as "Comcastic" before it became the ad slogan. And when they said it, they meant "My internet is going down and/or being slow for absolutely no discernible reason." It's [[Appropriated Appellation|Comcastic]]!
* One Subway ad calls its sandwiches "freshalicious". Another referred to its meatball sandwiches as "splodgilicious". A more recent ad at one point describes the sandwiches as "flavorocious".
* Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum decided that the words 'funbelievable' and 'unbelievabubble' just weren't ''crazy'' enough for their product, so they took pride in informing us that it was "FUNBELIEVABUBBLE!"
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* Budweiser gives us "drinkability". Way to set the bar low there, guys.
* There are a couple of porn sites that have used the word "MILFtastic"...
* The Volvic commercials, source of many a [[YoutubeYouTube Poop]]: "I'm filling my water with Volcanicity!"
* ESPN did a series of NBA commercials. One of them featured Shaquille O'Neil's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo0ncg-2zPY vocabulary].
* Dairylea used to be called "calciyummy", without ever indicating why that might be a good thing.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4kHmbZTvyI This can of nightmare fuel] from Kinder Surprise contains mostly gibberish, but "chockadooobie" could qualify.
* Nestle Crunch used to use this following jingle:
{{quote| "Scrumptuous! 'Cause it's '''crunchous'''! That's why I like Nestle Crunch!"}}
* Nissan ran an advertising campaign around the concept of combining words to make new ones, such as "Luxurious" and "Durable" to make "Luxurable". The best was undoubtedly "Spafe" (a combination of spacious and safe". [[Top Gear]] naturally pointed out that it was just "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Shiny and Bright]]"
* Why does Avo Classic Frozen Guacamole taste so good? Because it's Fresherized!
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* Coco Pops (The UK's equivalent of Cocoa Puffs) briefly changed their name to "Choco Crispies", because, according to the accompanying advert, they are "crispalicious"
* Ariel washing capsules are "Brrrr-illiant" because they will clean at a low temperature.
* "Swapportunity" - the opportunity to swamp something out for a low-fat cup of Yoplait Light.
 
 
== [[Fanfic]] ==
* Characters in ''[[My Immortal (Fanfic)|My Immortal]]'' occasionally say things "preppily" or "gothically". Ebony and Draco regularly do things "sexily" - mostly things which aren't particularly sexy, such as crying, summoning broomsticks, and jumping in front of bullets. Tara also likes to attach "wisely" to Dumbledore's actions. Apparently, "You dunderheads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" can be screamed "wisely".
 
== [[Film]] ==
* It's not just a great day in the 1977 Disney musical [[PetesPete's Dragon]] - as the song says, "It's a brazzle dazzle day!" The [[Tagline]] was actually "Brazzle Dazzle Brilliance!" (No wonder kids preferred to check out ''[[Star Wars]]'' again...)
* "[[Mary Poppins|Supercalifregilisticexpialidocious]]."
* The people of ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry'' find it "fabulicious".
* ''[[Kung Pow]]'': "Killing is wrong. And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for killing. Like badwrong, or badong. Yes, killing is badong. From this moment, I will stand for the opposite of killing: gnodab."
* ''[[Billy Madison]]'': "What do you think of that, Mr. Blue Duck?" "That's quacktastic!"
* ''[[The Smurfs (Filmfilm)|The Smurfs]]'' combines this with [[SMURFINGSmurfing]] when Smurfette calls Patrick Winslow's dressing up for work "smurfalicious".
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Tobias Funke, M.D.: [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Analrapist]]
* Variation: In a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch parodying ''[[Inside The Actors Studio]]'', Will Ferrell as James Lipton feels that Charles Nelson Reilly's acting is so incredible that he must invent a word to describe it. The word: "Scrumtrillescent."
* The practice was parodied in another ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch involved an advertising jingle for the "Nuterrific" bar. The jingle consisted largely of this kind of descriptor, ending with "It's NUT very good!"
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* Dr. Cox from ''[[Scrubs]]'': "I megaloathe you all."
* [[Eureka|Nathan Stark]] about Carter: "Yes, he said ''invisibling''."
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'': "Oi, chavtastic again!"
* Season 5 of [[Project Runway]] had Blaine, who constantly applied "-licious" to words.
 
== [[Music]] ==
* [[DestinysDestiny's Child]] has (and is) "Bootylicious".
* Fergie is Fergalicious.
* Funkadelic should probably be canonized as the patron saints of this trope, insofar as it refers to music. ''Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication!''
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* [[Stripperiffic]]
* [[Troperrific]]
* [[Narm|Narmtastic]]tastic and [[Narm|Narmtacular]]tacular.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Spiky Joe, a side-character from, ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand -Year Door]],'' has this to say: "When I thinks something's cool, I always say it's "spiketastic'! ...It might catch on."
* The three beach fish girls in ''[[Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]''. Some of the words they came up with? 'Wonderfied' and 'Grandular'
* "[[Ratchet and Clank|It's Qwarktastic!]]"
* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' advertises the cigarette brand Holy Smokes! as "savioriffic".
* A variation used in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]-2'':
{{quote| '''Brother:''' How things going down there?<br />
'''Rikku:''' The situation...it's disasterrific!<br />
'''Brother: (over com device)''' Disasterific not a real word! Say "disastrous" like the rest of Spira! }}
** Yuna then takes the word and the trope is played straight via this exchange.
{{quote| Brother: [over com, hysterically] What happened? Is Yuna okay?!<br />
Yuna: Things are, ow, [slight sarcasm] disasterrific.<br />
Brother: Disasterrific? I am on my way!<br />
Rikku: [staring up in disbelief] What about me? }}
* Netting 5 kills in a row in ''[[Halo]]'' multiplayer earns you a "Killtacular" medal. Things escalate from there until the [[Arc Number|7]]-kill streak medal, which is called "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Killamanjaro!]]"
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* From ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20090126180417/http://www.drunkduck.com/Stickman_and_Cube/index.php?p=270124 Cube-O's. Just like regular O's, but CUBE-TACULAR!]
* And there's an instance in ''[[VG Cats]]'' where they combine fast food and ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' to make Kentucky Firaga Chocobo, with a side dish of moogle pom-poms. "They're kuporiffic!" Funny if you know that "kupo" is a Polish expletive.
** Another comic parodies the "dumbass fratboy gamer" stereotype by giving two such individuals a game review show. Every level of their grading scale is a normal word appended with "bro", culminating in a perfect score being labeled "Broseidon, God of the Brocean".
* [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0387.html This] ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' poll question.
* ''[http://community.livejournal.com/mspaint_lolz/2487.html Howse!!!]'' Dr. Eric "Crankypants" Foreman says:
{{quote| "There aren't actually enough words in the English language to fully describe how much I hate you. So I made up a couple. "Detestispize" seems to sum it up the best."}}
* About halfway through ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Black Mage finds that there is no longer a word to describe how much he hates Fighter, and so requests for Red Mage to [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/06/23/episode-567-paralinguistics/ propose several choice words] for the occasion before Black Mage settles on ''Omniloathe''. Then Fighter gets in on the word-making action himself, ''ultrabuddy''.
* Quite effectively satirized in [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20100128.html these] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20100129.html two] ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' strips... 'foodsmarts' clearly doesn't describe the marketing director's brain.
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' presents [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/1/3/ Tycho's reaction to Tropicana "snackifying" drinks].
* ''[[Order of the Stick]]'': "[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0067.html Karma-riffic!]"
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Sailor Moon Abridged]]'s comedy is based largely in mocking the bad (and often downright bizarre) English Dub. Which happened to be full of these. For example:
{{quote| '''[[Idiot Hero|Serena:]]''' Oh, c'mon, Luna! Don't be such a stoigemeister!<br />
'''[[Talking Animal|Luna:]]''' A ''what?!''<br />
'''Serena:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|I like making up words!]] [[Refuge in Audacity|Fudgecracklesnot!]] }}
* Turned [[Up to Eleven]] by the Powerthirst commercials. Observe: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs&feature=related\] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk&feature=related\]
{{quote| Now with preposterous amounts of testosterone. '''PREPOSTERONE.'''}}
* Strong Bad from [[Homestar Runner]] has coined "extracurriculariffic", and his Sblounskched! candy bar has a "crispety, cookety log" in the middle (a cookie center hollowed out to make room for more "candy matter"). There's a lot more. In fact the [[Wiki Rule|Homestar Runner Wiki]] has a page devoted to all the made-up words!
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]'' is Yugi-licious! Yami then goes to on to question whether that means that it tastes like Yugi and how they would even go about testing that (besides the obvious method).''
* [[Dragon Ball Abridged]]
{{quote| '''Reporter 2:''' Mr Kent, if you had to come up with a word for how dead he is, what would it be?<br />
'''Mr Kent:''' Cadaveriffic! }}
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] has taken to making up new words to describe how terrible the comic he's reading is, like Idiostuperific.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' writers are also famous for their use of these sorts of words, although [[Seanbaby]] and Gladstone are particularly notable.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied by ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', which introduced audiences to the phrase "[[Toyetic]]".
* Parodied on an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' where a cash-strapped Springfield Elementary has resorted to using free periodic tables provided by Oscar-Meyer - which, among other things, lists the atomic weight of "bolognium" as "snacktacular".
** Homer once described a [[It Makes Sense in Context|waffle he thought was God]] as "sacrilicious."
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** Based on a real life event, although the original lacks the pea-ness.
** ''[[The Critic]]'' also features this phone call from Ted Turner [[Captain Ersatz]] Duke Phillips: "What about that other word I invented: 'Dukelicious'? Nobody's using it? What a Duketastrophe."
* Rappers Gangstalicious, Thugnificent, Macktastic, and Flonominal in ''[[The Boondocks]]''.
* In ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Hugh]] says stuff like "funkariffic" and "puppetastic". [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Jimmy who asks if they are real words.
* In [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]], Patrick talks about the word [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|wumbo]], citing "Wumborama" and "Wumbology: The study of wumbo."
* In the big musical number of the first season finale of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], Applejack mentions her "Appletastic" treats.
** Even before that, in the episode "Applebuck Season," Pinkie Pie refers to Applejack diverting a stampede of cows from Ponyville as "Appletastic."
** The eponymous Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 is apparently "Icantbelievable". Mind you, what kind of advertising did you expect from the ''Flim Flam'' Brothers?
* Done in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' when Sokka was on his [[Mushroom Samba]] thanks to Cactus juice. Apparently nothing is quenchier.
{{quote| ''"It's the quenchiest!"'' <br />
''"Nothing's quenchier!"'' }}
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Common internet slang includes words like "suck-tastic", "failtacular", "craptacular", and many others.
* It's a little-known fact that Salman Rushdie, author of ''the Satanic Verses'', used to work in advertising. He created these slogans for the Aero chocolate bar: "delectabubble" and "incredibubble".
* During a review of an extremely bad game in Australian magazine [[PC Power Play]], the reviewer noted that describing how bad it was could leave him open to a being sued by the developers. As a result, he ([[Older Than They Think|re-]])invented 2 ([[Older Than They Think|not at all]]) new words to circumnavigate this problem- skanktacular and craptastic.
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