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** Also in ''SNL'', and spoofing Bush's supposed lack of intelligence (even if the sketch is from before his first election): the mediator of the Gore-Bush debate asks them for a one-word "best argument for the campaign". Bush's one is "Strategerie".
** In a joking [[Take That]] at his critics, Bush and other members of his administration continued to drop the word "strategery" into public statements, and it was used as the title of a book about the President which depicted a disconnect between his shrewd political savvy as represented in the book, and his bumbling buffoonery as represented by his enemies.
* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'': Finch and Eliot replace Nina's word-a-day calendar with one filled with Perfectly Cromulent Words right before she goes for a radio interview, in which she uses them all. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131006195624/http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c7645a62ec/just-shoot-me-ninas-wordaday-calendar-from-thaffner Link here].
** The word "ass-tastic" is apparently common in their magazine.
* ''[[Look Around You]]'': Spoofs the wealth of jargon found in the world of science by making up a host of new words, including fictitious chemicals ("bumcivilian", "segnomin"), laboratory equipment ("Besselheim plate", "gribbin"), units of measurement ("billigram", "quorums per second") and many more.
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** The narrator would have known this if he had watched a single episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', where Helga said this word so frequently as to really make it [[Catch Phrase|her own]].
* In ''[[Hustle]]'', Mickey and Emma have a long debate over whether 'stickability' is a word. Mickey insists that if it isn't, then it should be.
* Fans of [[Star Trek]] have created a [https://web.archive.org/web/20111017183940/http://www.tos.net/empires/romulan/romdict.html dictionary] of ''perfectly romulan words.''
* A common occurrence in ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]''.
* [[Victorious]]-"Oh my God, she's having heart confarctions!!"