Eleventy-Zillion: Difference between revisions

* From ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'':

{{quote|"Today is my 111th birthday: I am eleventy-one today!"}}

** Also the implications that since hobbits live longer than humans, uneventfully going over a hundred, they would need handier terms for such ages.

*** Bilbo's life was artificially lengthened by the ring, so he had lived much longer than a normal hobbit.

* In ''[[Life the Universe And Everything]]'', the Krikkit Wars apparently resulted in two grillion casualties.

{{quote|"Bet you a million trillion zillion dollars you can't turn that bush into a pumpkin," said the child.

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** In ''Beezus and Ramona'', when she's five, she weighs herself and comes up with "fifty-eleven pounds."

 

* ''[[The Cosby Show]]''

** "It's All in the Game"

* In one episode of ''[[Doug]]'', the titular character is imagining [[Curb Stomp Battle|an utterly one-sided baseball game.]] When he asks Skeeter for the score, his bud replies, "A bajillion to nothing."

* In one episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', when Fry was bidding against [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Mom]] for the last can of anchovies on Earth:

'''Crowd:''' ''(gasps)''

'''Auctioneer:''' Sir, that's not a number.

* The "Broadway Magic" episode of ''[[Jem]]'' had Eric Raymond offering the real amount of one million dollars to anyone who could reveal Jem's secret identity, a man from a fake sweepstakes company approached Jem with a check for one ZILLION dollars and said that the money was hers if she signed her real name.

* In the ''[[Dennis the Menace (animation)|Dennis the Menace]]'' cartoon, Dennis and Joey go to watch a movie about a high-tech submarine; when Joey asks how much a submarine like that must cost, Dennis says it must be "at least eleventy-seven zillion dollars!" This is [[Brick Joke| later "confirmed" by one of the characters]] in the movie when he has an [[Imagine Spot]] with him as the ship's captain.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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