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** A few years ago, a car ad in the UK was very similar, but exclusively picked two (often opposed) words, and mashed them together- "Sporty" and "Safe" became "Spafe", for instance. [[Top Gear|Richard Hammond]] deemed this to be a load of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|shiny and bright]].

* A recent [[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]] themed cell phone commercial describes its internet surfing as "faster-er."

"It came out of my mouth, didn't it?" }}

** In ''[[Sleeper]]'', [[Diane Keaton]]'s character describes a friend's painting as "pure keane. No, it's greater than keane...it's cugat." (The made-up words are a [[Shout-Out]] to '60s schlock artist Walter Keane and bandleader-turned-cartoonist Xavier Cugat, respectively.)

* From ''[[Kung Pow]]''

* A few minutes into ''The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer'', servant Bessie tries to wake up one of her charges:

'''Susan''': But Bessie, I feel absolutely [[Not a Morning Person|sklonklish]]. }}

* ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]'' has "shpadoinkle", a word used repeatedly by different characters in wildly inconsistent contexts.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* [[Blackadder]] trying to confuse the writer of <s>the first</s> a well-known dictionary:

'''Blackadder''': Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation. }}

** He later goes ballistic when he realises that ''Baldrick'' knows a word that's not in the dictionary, namely "sausage".

** Mandy somehow manages to [[Springtime for Hitler|find a packet of them anyway]]. Mandy had to go down to the ethnic district to find them however.

* ''[[Friends]]'':

'''Rachel:''' Have I been living with him for too long, or did that all just make sense? }}

** In an earlier episode, Chandler, bemoaning his pickiness with women, once mentioned he broke up with a girl for (mis)pronouncing a word, "supposebly" (meant to be "supposedly".) The incorrect version seems to stick with Joey, though.

* ''[[Deadliest Catch]]'' gives us [[Incredibly Lame Pun|''Crabalanche'']] which is what you get when you dump a freshly retrieved container filled with crab onto the sorting table.

* ''[[You Have Been Watching]]'':

* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode ''The Fifth Race'', Jack begins using seemingly made-up words, albeit without realizing he is doing so. As it turns out, {{spoiler|he's speaking Ancient.}}

* [[30 Rock|Jack Donaghy]] recently coined the term "innoventually" during 24 straight hours of successful problem-solving (referred to, by him of course, as "Reaganing"). Of course, at the very last moment, his Reaganing (which would have been rewarded with a shower of lavish gifts) was rendered moot by his inability to solve Liz Lemon's intimacy problem...at least not until after the 24 hours had elapsed. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]...the Reaganing, not "innoventually".

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' features a character, Qui the Promoter, who talks almost entirely like this, including a [[Shout-Out]] to the ''Simpsons'' quote at the top of the page.

'''[[Player Character|Spirit Monk]]:''' "Austi..." Don't you mean "auspicious?"<br />

'''Qui the Promoter:''' I apologize if I'm using words beyond your grasp. Very few people can match either the supply or the command of my language.<br />

* In one article for [[Cracked]], Michael Swaim coins the term "presturbating" - the act of masturbating to the porn that gets you horny enough to watch the porn that ''really'' gets you off, because you're dead inside. (It can also mean "masturbating a priest".)

* ''[[Skippy's List|Skippys List]]'' has examples:

* In the [[Slender Man Mythos|Slenderfandom]], people will often affix "Slender" to the beginning of Slenderman-related words. Also, it's common to refer to [[Buffy-Speak|that thing he does when he's not really doing anything but he's really scary for some reason]] as "slendering around".

* ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' gives us [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0127.html this] biollorky example.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' with Dukeicide.

'''Alt Text''': Dukeicide is not a real word. }}

* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' makes a [[Running Gag]] of applying this to [[Applied Phlebotinum|sci-fi gadgets]], starting with the Pumpkin Appearifier from ''Jailbreak''. Meanwhile in ''[[Homestuck]]'', the otherwise [[Grammar Nazi|linguistically stringent]] Jane is quite defensive about the cromulence of the word "shalln't."

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has [[Harry Potter|Millard Dynam Stoop]] trying to create a [[Significant Anagram]]:

'''William Wotcherclaws:''' If the master says it is, then IT '''IS'''! }}

** The next comic...

'''William Wotcherclaws:''' Forgive us! We were all too slorddly, master! }}

** They also gave us ''quijibo'': A fat, balding, North American ape with no chin (and a short temper)."

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. When Spongebob accidentally shrinks Squidward with Mermaidman's belt, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Patrick]] suggests turning the belt buckle from M for mini to W for wumbo. When Spongebob disputes the word, Patrick goes into a mini-rant about it.

'''Spongebob''': Patrick, I'm sorry I doubted you. }}

** Later, a shrunken Mermaidman says [[Strange Minds Think Alike|"Did you set it to wumbo?"]]

** Also showed up in the episode where a health inspector visits the Krusty Krab, but Spongebob and Mr. Krabs suspect he may be an impostor.

'''Mr. Krabs:''' That's not even a word, and I agree with ya! }}

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[South Park]]''. The boys are mad because all the boys from New York know slang terms they don't. They make up a new word just so they could use a word the New York boys didn't know -- and then it turns out that the word "mung" is real.

** In a late scene, a scientist refers to a situation as [[Strange Minds Think Alike|"a real quzybuk".]]

* An example from ''[[Futurama]]'':

'''Donbot:''' From the context, it is clear what you mean. }}

** [[Don't Explain the Joke|This is because]] it sounds similar to "Intransigent", a real word meaning "inflexible" or "uncompromising".

* Happens a lot with the Duke of Zill in the ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' movie. He called. His servant. A numcrut.

* Parodied in ''[[Family Guy]]''.

* An entire episode of ''[[Recess]]'' revolves around T.J. making up a new word ("whomp", as in, "Man, this whomps!"). He is punished, because most of the adults assume it must be a 'bad' (dirty) word. In truth, he made up the word as a minced oath so he wouldn't get in trouble anymore. After a good deal of irony and courtroom antics, it's decided that the word is up to anyone's interpretation since it was made up, and "Those who think it has a dirty meaning probably have dirty minds to begin with."

* Lampshaded in ''[[The Emperor's New School|The Emperors New School]]'':

* Happened in an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', where the Buddy Bears try to make the show more educational by interrupting an otherwise "normal" episode to provide trivia on anything that came up in conversation. Irritated, Garfield asked them what they knew about "gazorninplats", and after they're unable to find any information on it, they give up and leave. It backfired at the end of the episode, when G&F was "cancelled" for ''The Gazorninplat Hour''.

** Another episode featured a [[Show Within a Show]] hosted by a character named Fred Gazorninplat. Garfield claims that the host changed his name to get the job and that he used to be called ''Sam'' Gazorninplat.

** In part 2 of ''Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves'', Roy is refusing to kiss Snow Wade so she wakes up, but then reads the story and is happy to do it because he learned he gets "20 million gazortniks".

* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E8 Look Before You Sleep|Look Before You Sleep]]", Applejack claims to be "the get-alongingest pony you're ever gonna meet!", and Rarity retorts "That's not even a word."

** Gets a bit of a [[Call Back]] in season 2 premiere "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E1 The Return of Harmony Part 1|The Return of Harmony, Part 1]]", when the Cutie Mark Crusaders have this exchange (for added fun, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are Applejack and Rarity's respective little sisters):

'''Scootaloo:''' [[Memetic Mutation|What are you, a dictionary?]] }}

* From [[Young Justice]] Robin {{spoiler|1/Nightwing}} is fond of taking the prefixes off of words to make new ones. His favourite is "whelmed": what you get when you're neither overwhelmed or underwhelmed. The fandom has embraced it whole-heartedly.