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Hollywood Tourette's
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Like all neurological conditions, Tourette's Syndrome is a complicated and variable disorder that can manifest itself in many different ways. And like most neurological conditions, this is not the case on TV. In real life, Tourette's Syndrome is characterized by involuntary "tics" that the person feels compelled to perform fairly regularly; depending on the severity, this can range from an easily-suppressed thought to actions so uncontrollable that it makes Adrian Monk seem perfectly normal. To be categorized by a psychiatrist as Tourette's (instead of a related disorder), the sufferer must have multiple physical tics or at least one Verbal Tic. These tics can range from something small like uncontrollable breathing patterns or involuntarily pulling a face to hand movements and gestures to specific words. Around 10% of people with Tourette's also display something called "coprolalia" (derived from Greek, literally meaning shit-talking), which is the involuntary uttering of socially unacceptable things. In TV land, though, Tourette's Syndrome is coprolalia. In most people's minds, Tourette's is a condition where people fire Cluster F Bombs upon Cluster F Bombs and nothing more. It makes sense that this is how it would be treated — it gives the writers the chance for a Very Special Episode about accepting others even if they are different... and the chance to Cross The Line Twice with really, really dirty language. The kind of things people "with Tourette's" say on TV and in movies varies significantly depending on the medium and culture. American TV tends to avoid f-bombs and really strong profanity, though cable can be a little stronger. "Ass" is more common, as are other naughty parts of the body. Obscene words for women are usually out so as to avoid being accused of sexism, but milder words are usually cool. Ethnic and racial slurs are usually out to avoid being racist (except when a person accidentally blurts out the n-word in a room full of black people, and hilarity theoretically ensues). Slurs like "queer" have traditionally been fair game, but more recently this has been on the down slide to avoid homophobia. Foreign swears have always been very popular, as they enable a person to use much stronger language, as the audience (and the censors) won't be as likely to understand their severity. Very mild swears like "damn" and "hell" are usually not used, unless to signify how lame the person with Tourette's is. Compound swears generally fall under the rules for the worst swear making up the compound. The exception to this being compounds that alter the nature of the swear. Of course, this varies. And occasionally, a show might just even feature a person with Tourette's who doesn't swear. (An episode of 20/20 profiled a real-life sufferer who said things like "Help! My underwear's on fire!") Note that coprolalia does not occur in writing (or typing). Most moderators of major chatrooms are in fact aware of this. Examples |
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The main characters in (500) Days of Summer, Tom and Summer, play a game in the park where they dare each other to yell "Penis!" in public. When Tom's given dirty looks, this happens: | |
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Played straight in the Island of Recalled Toys segment, with a recalled Elmo doll with Tourette's who swears a lot. | |
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The Tourettes Guy is a shining example of this. Of course, the now-defunct website did include a special note saying that while the Tourette's Guy does have Tourette's Syndrome, his behaviour is influenced far more by his heavy drinking than it. | |
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Other Voices: Jeff is characterized as having a mild version of this, as it mainly shows up when he is stressed, as he can be heard loudly swearing and popping his mouth from time to time. | |
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Oddly enough, on Angel, Angelus seems to know what Tourette's Syndrome actually is. When a demon in a bar mutters an insult in his general direction, he draws Angelus's attention. Angelus decides to take out some aggression. The demon asks if he knows what it is, claiming he has it in an effort to divert his attention away. Angelus says he does: | |
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An episode of Dexter used coprolalia as a punchline. Deb, up all night and wired on coffee, jabbers away almost incoherently, complete with cussing that would make a sailor blush. The problem with the joke is that Deb uses loads of foul language already, and not due in any way to Tourette's Syndrome. It could, of course, simply be teasing from a friend. | |
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On The Simpsons, Bart once attempted to get out of class by claiming he had Tourette's Syndrome; he then shouted, "Shove it, witch!" and began barking. In later broadcasts, after a series of complaints, the scene was changed so that he claimed to have rabies and the outbursts were removed. | |
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Nurse Jackie has Dr. Cooper ("Coop" to his friends), who suffers from a physical tic when he is stressed or nervous, fairly realistic. However, this tic is grabbing women's breasts. Some people think he's making it up, but he honestly can't help it. | |
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Scarface: The World Is Yours. Taunting can be done anytime, anywhere, thus faking the condition. In other words, having Tony scream violent swears at the bank teller, Mexican Wrestler or nobody at all. | |
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And when it wasn't dirty puns, it was something that usually wasn't beneficial to other wrestlers. After Torrie Wilson posed for Playboy Test could be seen enjoying, while at the same time trying to hide it from Stacy Keibler, his then-girlfriend both on- and off-screen, with a phony jacket. | |
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Goldust had this problem for a while, electrocuted by being thrown into a fusebox. Once the joke started getting old, though, they cut back on how much Goldust actually did it. In his current run with WWE, he's made callbacks to it, but with WWE shooting for TV-PG, these callbacks are rare and usually nowhere near as dirty as his Attitude Era shenanigans. And when it wasn't dirty puns, it was something that usually wasn't beneficial to other wrestlers. After Torrie Wilson posed for Playboy Test could be seen enjoying, while at the same time trying to hide it from Stacy Keibler, his then-girlfriend both on- and off-screen, with a phony jacket. |
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No swearing, since it was a kid's show, but Warpath's bizarre mannerisms in The Transformers (as well as some of the comics and the War for Cybertron game) are pretty consistent with the condition. Appropriately enough, he turns into a tank. |
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The Daily Show presented the disorder slightly more realistically by claiming that Rudy Giuliani had "9/11 Tourette's Syndrome", which caused him to mention that fateful date seemingly at random and often inappropriately. Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourette's! |
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One season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm has Larry at the fancy pants opening of a friend's restaurant when the chef lets out a string of Tourette's-generated profanity. Everything stops... and then Larry saves the day by offering his own string of profanity. Soon enough, everyone is swearing at everyone. | |
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Martin Silenus in Hyperion gets this for a while after being brain damaged. | |
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In the xkcd comic Clark Gable, the famous occurrence of "damn" in Gone with the Wind is attributed to Tourette's. | |
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In Kira☆Kira, Tonoya gets the group to cuss at every opportunity as a part of their band's "training". | |
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Alestorm's "Fucked With An Anchor" is about a pirate who was cursed by a Witch Doctor at birth to swear uncontrollably whenever he speaks. The song doesn't explicitly call it Tourette's syndrome, but it certainly fits the description of the trope well enough. Here's the song's chorus: | |
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A teenager in a Very Special Episode of Quincy, M.E. had this. It was played more correctly, with plenty of non-swear words and lots of tics. | |
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A recurring character on Snuff Box walks around, occasionally saying "Fuck!" with a characteristic cane-wave. He eventually meets a group of similar individuals, and a Mysterious Ticking Noise-esque song starts. | |
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Mentioned, but not actually seen in The Nanny. Fran hires her cousin Sheila who's a decorator (played by Roseanne Barr), to help redecorate their kitchen. Sheila was recently dumped by her boyfriend Mitch, and was rather devastated. In between her hysterical lamenting, she would shout out random bursts of design ideas like "Clock!" or "Cabinets!" Fran, getting a little frustrated with this bi-polar girl talk, finally asks, "What have you got? Decorator's Tourettes?" | |
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Maze: The titular character has Tourette's. For example, he would occasionally slap himself, saying wake up and other times would awkwardly shake his head, which makes it difficult for him to communicate with other people. | |
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In Rogue Legacy, one of the randomly-selected traits that can affect player characters is Hollywood Tourette's, which causes them to shout profanities (via Symbol Swearing word balloons) whenever they're hit, and replaces the random advice when you die with even more Symbol Swearing. A patch changed the name of this trait from Tourettes to the more-accurate Coprolalia. | |
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With Pearl and Ruby Glowing has an aversion with Vanellope, whose glitching becomes Tourette's that causes muscle spasms but not swearing (although she does bring up that some people with Tourette's curse). | |
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Tropico. Tourette's is one of the character flaws you can choose your dictator to have. In the latest installment it complicates foreign policy (sizable relationship score penalties with both superpowers), makes holding election speeches a kind of a political Russian roulette (a big popularity drop with a random faction)... and grants you an annual $1000 in Pay-per-View royalties (the presidential addresses have become a huge hit with the Yanquis!). | |
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In the machinima The Leet World, Ahmad's stint on HAX leaves him with brain damage, which manifests as some sort of Tourette Syndrome-Cloud Cuckoo Lander hybrid, with the Terrorist spouting random verbal outbursts such as "Hamwallets!" "Crotchbutter!" and "Random Outburst!" | |
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In The Invention of Lying, almost everyone in the society has a form of Tourette's where they always speak with complete, unfiltered honesty. Early in the film, the man (played by Ricky Gervais) is waiting for a woman. She says, in effect "I'm just going out with you because I'm bored and my mom keeps bugging me about grandchildren. I'm way out of your league. I'll be down in 15 minutes after I finish masturbating." | |
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In Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Deuce is ordered to take a woman with Tourette's Syndrome on a date at one point. He takes her to a baseball game, whereupon everything she shouts seems appropriate (as everyone else in the stands is cursing, too). Incidentally, she was played by a pre-fame Amy Poehler. | |
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On Being Human, George's attempts to suppress the werewolf in him result in temporary Tourettes. Unfortunately, he learns this after he's got a job teaching English as a Foreign Language, leading to extremely ill-timed usage of the phrase "Repeat After Me". | |
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Not Another Teen Movie has cheerleader Sandy Sue, who has Tourette's Syndrome. She becomes very popular and even gets a boyfriend. | |
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Ben (and Roxy) from Loserz - but just when they're meeting a member of the other sex. See this strip. | |
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One of Dewey's friends in the "special" class in Malcolm in the Middle has Tourette's. He once tried to use it to deliberately throw a school election, only to have everyone vote for him because they thought his constant (bleeped-out) swearing was cool. His Tourette's, incidentally, seems to be brought on by nervousness, as well as lack of sleep and staring into a strobe light for long periods of time. (The last two he did on purpose.) | |
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Shameless has Marty the pyromaniac, the brother of the next door neighbor to the main family, at one point Debbie tries to retrain him to say cake and biscuits instead in preparation for a job interview, he also has a range of other tics. | |
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In Ally McBeal, John dated a blond woman with Tourette's Syndrome, who paired up oddly with him, as he flinched every time he thought he was being insulted. | |
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Averted in Friendship is Witchcraft. Spike's Tourette's is hiccuping and involuntary firebreathing. That, combined with his weak grip, causes him to accidentally teleport his handwritten epic fantasy novels to Celestia, who burns them to roast marshmallows. | |
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In What About Bob?, the title character talks about his fear of the disorder right before a profane outburst. He then explains, "If I can fake it, I don't have it." Better than that is the scene where the psychiatrist's son reveals to Bob that he is afraid of dying. Bob tells him not to be afraid of death; he can be afraid of something else instead—like Tourette's. The boy asks him what Tourette's is, and Bob starts to smile... |
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Lord Tourettes from the Dick Figures series. His eyes go red when he is in a tic. Interestingly, he only swears when he has his hat on. Otherwise he just twitches and continues to speak normally, albeit loudly. | |
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Partially averted in Lost Souls (MUD), in that the implementation of Tourette's syndrome does manifest physical tics, but 100% of cases also display coprolalia rather than 10%. | |
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Inverted in Questionable Content when Sven says that he has "compliment-Tourette's". | |
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Doc the bartender in The Boondock Saints is affectionately referred to as "Fuckass" by his regular patrons, the reason being his exclamations of "Fuck! Ass!" that occur fairly frequently. While nobody ever mentions the words Tourette's Syndrome, the two heroes do end up trying to explain the behavior to a little girl who overhears some of the foul language in a Catholic hospital. There is some attempt at realism here, with Doc usually only shouting his signature curse after a difficult bout of stuttering... which he suffers once or twice a sentence. He also has the motor "tics" that an actual Tourette's sufferer might have, acting very much like someone who's never been treated for the illness. As an "Old Irish Publican" hard ass, he's probably not seen the inside of a doctor's office since his last barfight... it fits. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal depicted a character with "pun-Tourette's". | |
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On the 7th season of the UK version of Big Brother, the producers placed Pete Bennett in the house. His most significant tic was the word "wanker" and the producers thought he'd be hilarious - "wacky", and "well good telly". Instead, the housemates discovered he was an extremely kind, sensitive young man with a great sense of wit once he got over his initial shyness. At one point, every single girl in the house had a crush on him, which he did not seem to notice. The entire house loved him. With the winner as a foregone conclusion, there was no cruel, tactical voting and it's considered one of the best series ever. He won the last week with 61% of the vote out of 6 people. Pete had other tics, like his neck-flick, a quick whistle, and tapping his chest with his fist. |
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Also used in Touched by an Angel, with a pre-teen boy who has verbal and non-verbal tics. An older boy starts bullying him, and the kid's dad pushes him away roughly. Then the boy falls on his back, hits his head and dies. The father is sent to jail afterwards and the poor little lonely boy is hated by almost everyone, at least until Monica and Co. step in. | |
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Left 4 Dead 2 has Nick with the most swearing, but most of them had to be forced by the player via key binds. Most people playing as Nick would make him swear every chance they could get, making him sound like he had Tourettes. However, a patch disabled binding phrases so now Nick swears a lot less on player impulse. | |
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Subverted in one skit in Robot Chicken: A little girl gets diagnosed with Tourette's when she starts using racial slurs and various other profanities...when she's actually using them to describe everyday objects in order to demonstrate the power of homonyms (for example, "Bitch" is actually the term for a female dog, while "ass" is a synonym for "donkey"). Played straight in the Island of Recalled Toys segment, with a recalled Elmo doll with Tourette's who swears a lot. |
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Crank: Averted in the second movie. Venus has "full body Tourettes", which causes him to go into full-body spasmodic convulsions (consistent with a very severe motor tic), but actually swears significantly less than Chelios, who's just a jerk. | |
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Harvie Krumpet: Actually, Harvie's Tourette's Syndrome is portrayed realistically, as a compulsion to touch objects with his index finger and to touch people he meets on the nose. | |
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Averted in Boston Legal. The vocal tics are non-verbal. | |
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In "The A.D.D Test" by Matthew Santoro, when Matthew goes to pick up his Tourette's medication and finds that the store is closed, he curses in anger, "Motherfucking ballsack hairy asshole dick-licking tits!". | |
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In The Green Mile, one character lapses into swearing fits in the last stages of a brain tumor. In the book, one of the other characters comments that it sounds like Tourette's Syndrome. | |
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In Queer Duck: The Movie, Queer Duck calls into a homophobic evangelical reverend's talk show claiming to have Tourette's, then proceeds to call the reverend words like "homophobe, "gay-basher," and "motherfucker." | |
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One of 7th Heaven's many very special episodes deals with a boy with Tourette's whose verbal symptom is echolalia (repeating what others say). His parents, of course, have never heard of the condition until a parishoner tells them about it and assume he's "doing it on purpose." The father reluctantly admitted that he thought it was hereditary, though, since he had a cousin who did the same thing. | |
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Zerkaa has a tendency to say some very strange and profane things in his outbursts of frustration, which led the other Sidemen and the group's fans to believe that he may have Tourette's syndrome. | |
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Discussed in an episode of QI. In that episode, one of the panelists had actually seen a series of people with Tourette's. Many had vocal tics, but only one of those people actually had a tic involving foul language (and that one involved a very specific phrase). | |
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In Sam and Max: Season 2, Jimmy Two-Teeth is revealed to have a son, Timmy Two-Teeth, who has "terminal Tourette's syndrome", with the result that about half of Timmy's dialog is bleeped out. Subverted in the Season Finale when Sam and Max fiddle with the censoring process by replacing the list of "bad" words with a grocery list. When they talk to Timmy again, all his swear-words are revealed to be of the Gosh Dang It to Heck! sort. |
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South Park had "Le Petit Tourette", an entire episode about Cartman pretending he had Tourette's Syndrome so he could openly swear as much as he wanted and say anti-Semitic things without getting into trouble. However, this episode turned out to be a subversion. After being accused of being prejudiced against people with the disorder, Kyle meets with a support group for children with Tourette's, and the kids who actually had it were portrayed more realistically. Most of them had a physical tic of some kind; only two were cursing, and unlike Cartman, it was usually the same word each time. Cartman faking his Tourette's also came back to bite him in the ass by the end of the episode. Since he had gotten so used to just saying every thought that popped into his head out loud, he lost his ability to self-censor entirely and couldn't stop blurting out embarrassing secrets about himself. The Tourette Syndrome Association's reaction. They weren't completely happy, but even they had to admit the creators had Shown Their Work. Additionally, Cartman was not merely portrayed as a hilariously unpleasant person, but viewers were firmly reminded how awful a person must be to fake an official syndrome for their own entertainment. |
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In Space Station 13, player characters can get the Tourette's Syndrome mutation, which not only causes them to randomly shout out curse words - often on the station-wide comms channel - but also drop what they are holding and be stunned for a few seconds. | |
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In Jumpin' Jack Flash, Whoopi Goldberg's character is about to be arrested for disorderly conduct for losing her temper and calling a police officer a motherfucker (among other things) when a co-worker of hers tries to pass it off as Tourettes. | |
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The Fast Show has an example in the Bob Fleming's Country Matters segment, where one of the recurring guests (don't ask his name, that's a complicated matter) has a tic for saying "arse". Most notably is that he always ends up saying "arse" in situation where it fits into the context. For example, on one occasion, he was singing "All Around My Hat": |
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In Family Guy, Peter Griffin pretended to have Tourette's at least once to excuse away his potty mouth. In "A Hero Sits Next Door", Peter uses it to show why he got upset at Joe asking to borrow a screwdriver. Peter thought Joe was a moocher and didn't want anything to do with him, but changed his tune after he saw how many baseball trophies Joe had. Another episode had Lois claims that the spider from Charlotte's Web struggled with Tourette's. Cue Cutaway Gag where a little girl sees the word "WHORE" written in a spiderweb. Even though, y'know, Tourettes doesn't occur in writing... Another episode had a cutaway where Chris had "Hamster Dance Tourette's Syndrome," meaning he involuntarily sang the Hamster Dance at random intervals. |
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In an episode of TV Funhouse, Chicky's New Years resolution is to start spending more time with his brother, who suffers from Tourette's. | |
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Another episode had Lois claims that the spider from Charlotte's Web struggled with Tourette's. Cue Cutaway Gag where a little girl sees the word "WHORE" written in a spiderweb. Even though, y'know, Tourettes doesn't occur in writing... Another episode had a cutaway where Chris had "Hamster Dance Tourette's Syndrome," meaning he involuntarily sang the Hamster Dance at random intervals. |
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