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** One wonders why this middle-aged woman didn't take the word literally, as most tea is steeped--thatsteeped—that is, soaked in boiling water to extract its flavour.

{{quote| '''Fire:''' Whoa, whoa, back up. "''Crash'' in my ''crib''"?<br />

'''Mary Marvel:''' Too street?<br />

'''Fire:''' Next to you, Laura Bush is too street.<br />

'''Mary Marvel:''' That's what Booster said. Not in so many words, but —<br />

'''Fire:''' Booster?<br />

'''Mary Marvel:''' Booster Gold? Y'know — our teammate?<br />

'''Fire:''' Yes, I believe I've heard of him. Now what exactly did our dear teammate tell you?<br />

'''Mary Marvel:''' That I was too... retro. That I needed to... how did he put it? Get down with my boogie parts and —<br />

* In the live-action ''[[Scooby -Doo (Filmfilm)|Scooby Doo]]'' movie we discover that {{spoiler|monsters are possessing humans}} and being taught to blend in by watching videos of people using expressions like "what up, dog", "yo Red" and "y'know what I'm sayin G". This backfires because it makes them stick out even more.

* In ''[[Shrek (Animation)|Shrek]] the Third'', Shrek uses slang to try talk to Arthur, who just freaks out ''further'' and screams "Help, I'm being kidnapped by a monster that's trying to relate to me!"

* Inverted in ''[[Son in Law]]'' when Grandpa Walter, after looking askance at Crawl's endless stream of slang throughout the movie, unexpectedly cuts the film's primary antagonist down to size with a flawless slang soliloquy and instantly becomes the coolest grandpa ''ever.''

* [[Farscape (TV)|Aeryn's]] initial attempts at incorporating English into her speech are an interesting example. She tries to use English to be more relatable to John but he just gets annoyed and demands that she stop using English when she invariably butchers the language.

{{quote| "Hey, Lindsey. What's up, girlfriend? It must be totally awesome to have the same name as that Lindsay Lohan".}}

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[8 Simple Rules]]'' where we get introduced to a [[Pretty Fly for Aa White Guy|wigger called Anthony]] who uses street lingo which Paul can't understand. At the end of the episode Cate uses the same lingo to make fun of him.

{{quote| You ask a Mexican band<br />

To play a rumba down there<br />

He turns and says to the boys<br />

{{quote| '''Jeremy:''' Think outside the box? Dad, you ''are'' the box!}}

{{quote| Dad: What? I'm jiggy with the lingo!}}

{{quote| '''Guy:''' Would you like to stay over with me tonight?<br />

'''Girl:''' You mean hanky-panky?<br />

'''Guy:''' I don't think anybody calls it "hanky panky" anymore...<br />

* In ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', Annah mocks some not-so-lower-class thug wannabes for trying to speak the Sigil Cant and getting it wrong.

* Algernon, one of the [[Nerd|nerdsnerd]]s from ''[[Bully (Videovideo Gamegame)|Bully]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXw6BofMxdo takes to speaking in Ebonics in an attempt to sound cooler.] In fact, he won't get to the point about what he wants until Jimmy triggers him back to speaking with [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]/[[Expospeak Gag|Expospeak Gags]]s, as he normally does.

{{quote| '''Algernon:''' Yo, Jimmy, I'm over here! Gimme five, dude!<br />

'''Jimmy:''' Ahh, no.<br />

'''Algernon:''' Heh, heh... Yeah, well, cat, looks like your homies took care of some lames for us.<br />

'''Jimmy:''' What are you talking about?<br />

'''Algernon:''' Don't get fresh wit' your homies!<br />

'''Jimmy:''' Can you please talk normally?<br />

'''Algernon:''' This is my normal style of rapping, bro. Hoo, hoo, hoo!<br />

'''Jimmy:''' Alright. Enough. WHAT'S MY QUEST?<br />

* ''[[Teen Girl Squad (Web Animation)|Teen Girl Squad]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104133357/http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs11.html Issue 11], where Camp Counselor Shortshorts tries (and fails) to impress What's-her-Face and The Ugly One:

{{quote| '''Camp Counselor Shortshorts:''' Now before you ask, "Who's this square?", listen to this: Scha-wing! Not! Who let the dogs out?!<br />

'''The Ugly One:''' Buh-<br />

* ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]] ''[http://xkcd.com/166/ suggests] that maybe, just maybe, they do it on purpose...

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Atop the Fourth Wall]]''. Linkara points out that the dialogue one of the characters uses in the ''Nightcat'' comic sounds horribly out-dated That is, the comic was written in the 1990s but has slang that sounds like it came from the 1970s. This concept is then spoofed in a gag where [[Dark Age|90s Kid]] points out how lame he thinks the dialogue of the comic is [[Hypocritical Humor|while he ''himself'' is speaking in outdated 1990s slang.]]

* ''[[X -Men: Evolution]]'': Forge can't help it that his slang's outdated, he's been in stasis since the 1970s. Nightcrawler comments on it anyway.

{{quote| "Groovy"? Man, [[Hypocritical Humor|that homie's lingo is whack!]]}}

* In an episode of ''[[All Grown Up!]]'' when Lil's friend comes to pick her up for a party Howard says "well I too think you look awesome...and rad".

{{quote| '''Phineas:''' "We'll build the best dang carwash in the whole dang world, dang it! I...I can't really pull that off, can I?" <br />

'''Ferb:''' "...You're not very ''street''."<br />

* Dexter of ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' does this in the episode "Average Joe", where he becomes convinced he's not a genius because an intelligence test he took in school came back "average", so he tries to act like an "average" kid by hanging out with some random guy his age and talking like this.

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