Scandalgate: Difference between revisions

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'''Webb:''' No, that would mean it was just about water. No, it was a scandal or "gate" -- add the suffix '-gate', that's what you do with a scandal -- involving the Watergate Hotel. So it was called the Watergate scandal, or Watergategate.''|''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]''}}

 

* ''[[The Thick of It]]'' - Flatgate, despite Terri pointing out that [[Notting Hill]]-Gate would be a lot cleverer.

* In ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'', Rob refers to the original scandal as "Watergategate" on the grounds that, otherwise, what would you call a scandal about water?

* Modelgate: The scandal on ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' involving Bob Barker, Dian Parkinson and many, many others that he fired as a result of what he did with Dian.

* On ''[[Community]]'', the main characters conspire to make "Star-burns" lose his job in a scandal. The school newspaper headline reads "[[Name's the Same|Star-Gate!]]" in big letters, and underneath reads "[[Lampshade Hanging|Headline in reference to Watergate, not]] [[Stargate (film)|the 1994 sci-fi film]]."

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Subverted in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', where Kent Brockman reveals that the trial of Mayor Quimby's nephew for assaulting a waiter is being dubbed by the media as "Beat Up Waiter":