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{{trope}}
{{quote|''I'm so hip, I have trouble seeing over my own pelvis. I'm so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month!''
|'''Zaphod Beeblebrox'''
Slang is funny!
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* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'': In the episode "A Hostage with No Compromises", The student council president must translate from street slang to military terms for Sousuke and then back again; seeing him speak street slang is hilarious, it's so unlike his cultured personality.
** Especially when he begins a response with "[[Sophisticated As Hell|Listen,]] [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]]" in the exact same polite tone he always uses.
== Comic Books ==
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{{quote|'''Cheech Wizard:''' ...You got to harmonize yer complex. Be all.
'''A random lizard:''' But, is I down an out?! Not on yer life!...Dis is one little lizard dat got spunk an heart...Things can't get any worse. }}
* Anytime [[Jack Chick]]
== Fan Works ==
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'''Remus:''' Something is wrong with your brain. }}
* Devin from Total Drama School speaks almost entirely in jive.
== Film ==
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== Literature ==
* Subverted by the character of Yo-less in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s
* ''[[Discworld]]'' series
** Parodied in ''[[
** ''[[
* Spook in the first book of the ''[[Mistborn]]'' series speaks solely in "Eastern street slang." It's all but incomprehensible, even to people in-story.
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'': Planescape slang. Looks dangerously brain-entangling when used in non-Planescape story. E.g. when in ''Finder's Bane'' characters travel to Sigil, every basher around immediately hear these berks are Clueless.
* The three members of ''[[Able Team]]'' (a [[Heroes-R-Us]] action series from the 1980's) would speak jive (or sometimes bad Spanish) when they wanted to exchange information without English-speaking foreigners being able to understand them.
* Peter Wheatstraw in ''[[Invisible Man (novel)|Invisible Man]]''. "Is you got the dog?"
* Most of the [[Unfortunate Implications|cannibalistic]](!) African-American characters in ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'': Quintessentially, the character of Huggy Bear.
* ''[[Knight Rider]]'', ''[[Gemini Man]]'' and ''[[MacGyver]]'' all ran into such characters.
* The [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] tag-team Cryme Tyme is another extreme example of this trope (exaggerated for comedic effect), and a vignette with Degeneration X managed to hit two out of three bonus points, with Shawn Michaels speaking fluent hip-hop slang (even admonishing Triple H to "let me handle this, I speak Jive", an obvious [[Shout-Out]] to ''Airplane!''), and Triple H playing the dorky white guy who spouts a slang word and gets laughed at.▼
** [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] offers another (somewhat subversive) example in Theodore R. Long, general manager of Smackdown, who, despite talking like a complete jive turkey, dresses in business suits and is a well-respected authority figure.▼
* A mild version occasionally features in ''[[Scrubs]]'', where J.D. is sometimes confused by Turk's slang, and sometimes attempts to talk to him in his own idea of black slang. There's nothing excessive about Turk's use of slang, but J.D. is so clueless the trope happens anyway. Subverted in the episode "Her Story", when Elliot and her friend Molly ("the two whitest chicks in America") corrected Turk's inaccurate "translation" of rap lyrics.
** Scrubs seems to get on well with this one. When Carla's brother Marco is first introduced, he ({{spoiler|apparently}}) speaks only Spanish. Later in the episode, he and Carla are conversing in Spanish in front of Turk, who responds by speaking in his own 'secret language', involving adding 'izzle' to the end of everything... Carla hasn't a clue what he's talking about.
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Hoppy :" Uh, right, split!" }}
* Parodied in an episode of [[Community]]. The main characters are playing a video game designed by a [dead] old racist. One level has Jive Turkeys as enemies.
== Music ==
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* Played straight TO THE MAX in Frank Zappa's Thing-Fish concept album/musical soundtrack
== Professional Wrestling ==
▲* The [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] tag-team Cryme Tyme is another extreme example of this trope (exaggerated for comedic effect), and a vignette with Degeneration X managed to hit two out of three bonus points, with Shawn Michaels speaking fluent hip-hop slang (even admonishing Triple H to "let me handle this, I speak Jive", an obvious [[Shout-Out]] to ''Airplane!''), and Triple H playing the dorky white guy who spouts a slang word and gets laughed at.
▲** [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] offers another (somewhat subversive) example in Theodore R. Long, general manager of Smackdown, who, despite talking like a complete jive turkey, dresses in business suits and is a well-respected authority figure.
== Radio ==
* As noted in the page guote, Zaphod Beeblebrox in every incarnation of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''.
== Theatre ==
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* Most of what passes for "humor" in the 1858 play "Our American Cousin" is based around a family of stodgy Brits trying to make sense of the then-contemporary rural New England slang used by the eponymous cousin. Which means that a joke of this sort was perhaps the last thing Abraham Lincoln heard before he was assassinated during a performance of the play some years later.
* Speedy Valenti in ''Wonderful Town''.
== Video Games ==
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* In [[Night Trap]], the sole black member of SCAT. Yeah....
▲== Webcomics ==
* Played with in ''[[Megatokyo]]'' with Largo and the l33t d00d. A subtitled example is [http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/172 here].
* Zillion in ''[[Starslip]]'' always speaks in "Deepslang", [https://web.archive.org/web/20120625080144/http://starslip.com/2006/06/26/starslip-number-287/ which makes him nigh incomprehensible to other].
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* [[YU+ME: dream|Fiona]]'s conscience talks like this. {{spoiler|Only because she was ordered to by the director of Fiona's dream, though. She drops it in Part 2.}}
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': Jade's penpal, Jake English, speaks in a really odd mix of modern and archaic slang peppered with esoteric profanity and F-bombs. Partially justified in that {{spoiler|he's a teenage version of her grandfather}}.
== Web Original ==
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** When she says "Boo-yah!", you can actually hear Spoony get up from his seat and walk around laughing uncontrollably.
* Rockoon from ''[[TOME]]''.
== Western Animation ==
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* On the episode of ''[[Recess]]'' where TJ's use of the word "whomps" (which the adults believe to be some newfangled obscenity rather than an [[Unusual Euphemism]]) eventually lands him in ''court'', Miss Grotke brings in a noted "slangologist" to defend him. This person talks exclusively in what is apparently supposed to be roughly '60s-'70s slang, and needless to say doesn't help TJ's case at all.
* ''[[Daria]]'': Val, the adult writer of a teen magazine, takes this to the logical extreme as she not only speaks like a teenager (which is unsettling enough in a 30+ year old) but ''dresses'' like one. It borders on [[Uncanny Valley]], and plays out as a deconstruction; she comes off as unsettlingly shallow and self-absorbed to anyone who spends much time in her presence, even compared to the teens she's trying to imitate.
== Real Life ==
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:The Seventies]]
[[Category:Language Tropes]]
▲[[Category:The Fifties]]
▲[[Category:Jive Turkey]]
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