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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]]''}}

{{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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Compare with [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]].

== [[Advertising]] ==

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* ''[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 ''[[~~Eight~~ 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''.

* 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].

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{{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).''

* ''[[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 />

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* In ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Hugh]] says stuff like "funkariffic" and "puppetastic". [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Jimmy who asks if they are real words.

* In [[Spongebob 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.

* 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?