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Fun with Alphabet Soup
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Alphabet soup is an iconic meal of many people's childhood. After all, who doesn't want to eat words? Because it is well-liked by a lot of people, it shows up quite often in media, too. Being a dish shaped like letters, alphabet soup is prone to be Played for Laughs. It could be used to spell offensive messages, contain the alphabet of a different language, be missing certain letters, appear as Anthropomorphic Food (since they have a way to spell messages out), spell threatening messages, be used in place of writing, and more. It often appears in media aimed at very young children, often in the form of Alphabet Songs. It also appears frequently in Edutainment Games involving spelling. Compare Anthropomorphic Typography for another form of letters "coming to life." Not to be confused with Alphabet Soup Cans, which is something else entirely, though could use alphabet soup for spelling. Not to be confused, either, with a Red-Tape Shuffle, where one might be sent to a myriad of bored, uncaring government office workers and shuffled to a number of departments, which is confusing, time-consuming, and the number of abbreviated names often dismissively called "alphabet soup". Note that examples with Alpha-Bits cereal also count for this trope. |
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The Simpsons: In "Moe'N'a Lisa", Homer wakes up to various reminders telling him not to forget... something, and he doesn't know what. One of these happens at breakfast when Maggie coughs up some alphabet cereal that says "DON'T FORGE". | |
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In A Goofy Movie, while Goofy and Max are stuck in the car as the Bigfoot is rummaging through their items, and what they have salvaged so far is a can of alphabet soup, Goofy and Max reminisce about the time when Max was younger, he would arrange the letters in the alphabet soup such as "Hi Dad", which he did again in the car, and Goofy was heartwarmingly touched. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-1404 is a bowl filled with milk that periodically manifests threatening messages like "DEATH IS NEAR" and "YOU WILL DIE" in cereal letters. Various attempts by Foundation scientists to communicate with it have all failed. | |
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Sesame Street: In one "Abby's Flying Fairy School" skit, Abby and her classmates use letters from alphabet soup to make a stop sign because they Couldn't Find a Pen. In one skit, Mr. Johnson the crabby restaurant customer orders alphabet soup, but he isn't satisfied until every single letter is present, and by then, the soup has cooled down. |
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Woody Woodpecker: In "The Reckless Driver", Woody Woodpecker goes to the police department to renew his driver's licence but Wally Walrus, the officer in charge, is sleeping, so Woody wakes him by burning his feet in a stove. In retaliation, Wally tells him to read a chart where it's written "I can't see a thing". Of course, Woody reads it perfectly but it sounds like he can't read, so Wally jokingly puts some alphabet soup in a bowl for him to try again. The alphabet also forms the phrase "I can't see a thing"; pretending to help, Walry gently pushes Woody forward for him to read it better then pushes his head into the soup. Furious, Woody spits the alphabet on Wally's belly, spelling: "Roses are red, violets are blue; this test stinks and so are you". | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fic Spell Me My Alphabet, when she was undercover as Steve's neighbor "Kate", Sharon left a bowl of Alpha-Bits cereal with a message as a Valentine's Day gift for him, but Natasha eats it before Steve can find out the message. After a Time Skip, Steve attempts to gift a bowl of (expired) Alpha-Bits spelling his answer to what he thought was Sharon's message, "Yes", having assumed she was asking him to be her Valentine. Sharon explains what she originally tried to tell him: her real name. | |
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WordWorld: In the episode where Ant is sick, Pig tries to make him feel better with alphabet soup. Since the premise of the show is everything being made of words, he uses the letters to build a bed, pillow, and blanket for Ant to get some rest. At the very end, he also feeds Ant some of the soup. | |
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Arthur: "Paradise Lost" opens with D.W. eating alphabet soup. We see that the two letters on her spoon are "D" and "W", and the "D" falls off. | |
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The Annoying Orange episode Souper Dooper features a talking Alphabet Soup. It can create words with his letters that come out in soup bubbles, which he demonstrates by spelling Pear's name. He creates "Z"'s when sleeping and "GRR" after being completely annoyed by an Orange. | |
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Monk: In "Mr. Monk Stays in Bed," Natalie brings Monk some alphabet soup while he is sick with the flu. Due to his obsessive personality, he insists on eating the letters in alphabetical order. | |
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In The Hostile Hospital, the 8th book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, Klaus and Sunny have to use alphabet soup to solve anagrams. Since the letters are so fragile and slippery, they keep breaking, forcing the two to use chunks of carrot as stand-ins. | |
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In Superman #131, Superman tricks Mr Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards (thereby banishing him back to his home dimension) using a ruse involving a restaurant that offers a week of free meals to anybody who finds their name in a bowl of alphabet soup. | |
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Recess: The episode "King Gus" opens on a bowl of alphabet soup spelling out "uh oh" which, while it technically was referring to King Bob's situation, it could also be read as sign of what will happen when Gus takes the throne. The alphabet soup is used by Wizard Kid, appearing to be an improvised cauldron, similar to how a lot of seemingly mundane objects are improvised as something much cooler by the kids on the show via imagination. | |
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The Rugrats (1991) episode "Mommy's Little Assets" begins with a close-up of Angelica's alphabet cereal floating in milk. The letters that pass by the camera are SOS. Angelica then scoops up some of her alphabet cereal and spreads it onto Drew's tie, spelling her name as "ANXGF". | |
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The page quote is from the Hannah Montana episode "You Didn't Say it Was Your Birthday"; a guy interested in buying Darth-Vader look-alike chip mentions that he found it interesting when his alphabet soup spelled some random gibberish. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Origins", it's shown that Gumball picked a name for Darwin by mixing his alphabet soup. However, the soup actually read "JPXFRD", Gumball just couldn't read yet. | |
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FoxTrot has used several variations on this gag. Jason's alphabet soup consists of the letters N, A, C, and L. He comments that it tastes salty. Andy's Cordon Bleugh Chef tendencies are highlighted by her alphabet soup, which spells out things like "YUCKY" and "GROSS". Jason wants a refund on his soup because it doesn't contain the entire alphabet. Jason spells out a message with alphabet cereal that says: 'By eating this cereal, you agree to buy Jason a new computer'. Peter freaks out because his alphabet cereal spells out "HELLO PETER", saying that the odds of that must be "one in a gazillion". Andy responds that, given the amount of cereal Peter eats, it's statistically unsurprising. During finals week, Paige is concerned that it's a bad omen when her Alpha-Bits cereal doesn't have any A's. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "Jellyfishing", SpongeBob and Patrick try and obviously fail to cheer up an injured Squidward with soup that spells "Best Day Ever". Patrick blows on the spoon and sends steaming hot soup splashing all over Squidward's bandaged face. This repeats several times, until SpongeBob tells him that soup may not be the best thing for Squidward right now. In "Can You Spare A Dime", one of the ways SpongeBob tries to hint at the freeloading Squidward to move out of his house is by serving him alphabet soup that spells 'GET A JOB'. Squidward pettily rejects the soup, stating that it's from a can. |
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In the Martha Speaks series adapted from the books, the premise of Martha the dog being able to speak by eating soup is further involved in more situations. For instance, when Martha eats Polish alphabet soup, she can only speak Polish, and when half the letters are removed from the soup, Martha can only speak using the letters that remain. | |
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Pearls Before Swine: Pig gets a bowl that says "no one likes you" in the December 29, 2007 strip. This trope's nature as pareidolia is discussed as a play on Pig's Cosmic Plaything status. | |
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Family Guy: In "The Son Also Draws", Peter believes his Alpha-Bits are sending him a spiritual message until Brian points out that he's eating Cheerios. In "Peter's Def Jam", when Peter goes deaf, Joe tries to have him spell out messages with Alpha-Bits but has already eaten all of the "L"s. In "The Marrying Kind", Chris and Peter are eating Alpha-Bits at a hotel buffet. Chris' cereal spells out 'FART' while Peter's encourages him to murder his family. He quickly eats the message before Chris can see it, but the cereal continues to berate him for being a coward. |
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An article from the German satire website Der Postillon describes a woman finding the letters HELP in her soup and alerting the police, which immediately stormed the soup factory but couldn't find evidence of anyone requiring help there. | |
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