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== Advertising ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW-bomqZ3Lw This Tim Horton's commercial] for tea that is "steeped". A woman is under the impression that "steeped" is a slang word after being told that her tea has been steeped. Needless to say, she goes around saying the word to everyone.
** One wonders why this middle-aged woman didn't take the word literally, as most tea is
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Mary Marvel in ''I Can't Believe It's Not the [[Justice League of America|Justice League]]'':
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'''Mary Marvel:''' Too street?
'''Fire:''' Next to you, Laura Bush is too street.
'''Mary Marvel:''' That's what Booster said. Not in so many words, but —
'''Fire:''' Booster?
'''Mary Marvel:''' Booster Gold? Y'know — our teammate?
'''Fire:''' Yes, I believe I've heard of him. Now what exactly did our dear teammate tell you?
'''Mary Marvel:''' That I was too... retro. That I needed to... how did he put it? Get down with my boogie parts and —
'''Fire:''' That's enough. }}
== [[Film]] ==
* In an interesting subversion, Marty uses it to get out of 'trouble' in ''[[Back to The Future]]'', when he accidentally calls his future father 'Dad'... "Dad... daddy... daddy-o."
* In the live-action ''[[Scooby
* In ''[[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!"
* There's one scene in ''[[The Last Dragon]]'' where Bruce Leroy is trying to infiltrate a group of shady factory workers by pretending to be cool. While practicing his intro, he repeats the line "Hey my man, what it look like?" in various tones and enunciations.
* 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.''
== Literature ==
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* In one epsiode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' Carla tries to bond with a teenage patient by using the phrase "T.M.I." After a couple of seconds of the teen staring at her blankly, Dr Cox breaks the silence with "Okaaaay. Joshua, I'm going to have a quick word with your parents, so you stay here and chat with Nurse Early Nineties Catchphrases."
** Dr Cox tries to talk to a 16 year old girlfriend with the following speech. It's one of the rare times he's not being sarcastic.
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* Parodied in an episode of ''[[8 Simple Rules]]'' where we get introduced to a [[Pretty Fly for a 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.
* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' had a dentist greet Miley with a lot of outdated 70s slang.
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== Music ==
* From [[June Christy]]'s 1945 hit "Tampico":
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To play a rumba down there
He turns and says to the boys
"Hey, fellas, dig that square!" }}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Zits]]'', Walt's attempts to use what he thinks is hip slang are a constant source of embarrassment to Jeremy.
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** Later, Jeremy is alarmed when his dad ''does'' successfully use slang. This quotation returns things to normal:
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* In the musical ''Wonderful Town'', Speedy Valenti hires Ruth as a barker for his swing club, handing her a flyer. She starts to read (and sing) in a very stiff manner that prompts one of the patrons to shout, "Hey, cats, get a load of that square!" When the hep cats start singing, however, she gets the message.
* Shows up briefly towards the end of the stage musical version of ''[[Once]]'':
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'''Girl:''' You mean hanky-panky?
'''Guy:''' I don't think anybody calls it "hanky panky" anymore...
'''Girl:''' Oh. Maybe that's why I haven't had any for a while. }}
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* In ''[[Sly Cooper|Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]'', Bentley tries to brief Dimitri on a diving mission, and attempts to sound like him. After sadly failing, Dimitri responds with, "My speech is like smoke! All over the place, but ungrabable!"
** Afterward, he tells Bentley to "come at him with some turtle talk".
* Algernon, one of the [[
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'''Jimmy:''' Ahh, no.
'''Algernon:''' Heh, heh... Yeah, well, cat, looks like your homies took care of some lames for us.
'''Jimmy:''' What are you talking about?
'''Algernon:''' Don't get fresh wit' your homies!
'''Jimmy:''' Can you please talk normally?
'''Algernon:''' This is my normal style of rapping, bro. Hoo, hoo, hoo!
'''Jimmy:''' Alright. Enough. WHAT'S MY QUEST?
'''Algernon:''' Ah, right. Salutations, sir James! }}
== [[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:
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'''The Ugly One:''' Buh-
'''What's-her-Face:''' -arf. }}
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** Not even the guy in the suit [[Who Writes This Crap?|can take himself seriously]].
* ''[[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.
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* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', this is one reason that Poochie became [[The Scrappy]] of ''The Itchy & Scratchy Show''.
* ''[[Recess]]'':
** An episode had a child psychologist studying the kids in the field. She introduced herself saying "wazzup, homeys" and "mind if I hang with your posse".
** Another episode has Miss Grotke introduce a friend of hers dubbed a "slangologist" who used a load of slang words none of the kids could understand.
* 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".
* Mrs Bolts's husband in ''[[Lloyd in Space]]'' tries to relate to the kids by using the words "chill" and "dude" rather excessively.
* Phineas tries this in an episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''... however, it doesn't go over so well (much to his disappointment and acknowledgement), ranging in confusion from his peers.
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'''Ferb:''' "...You're not very ''street''."
'''Phineas:''' "...Yeah." }}
* Dexter of ''[[Dexter'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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