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Scrabble Babble
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The cast is sitting around playing Scrabble (or some obvious knockoff) when someone plays a nonsense word and gets called on it. The cheater will be forced to "prove" it's a real word by giving its definition. If the writers know something about Scrabble, expect the word to contain copious amounts of the high-scoring consonant tiles (J, K, Q, X, and Z) or a full rack of seven tiles. Let's ignore the fact that actual English-language Scrabble sets only contain one each of those tiles (the game's wildcards, the two blank tiles, are worth no points on their own). A similar game, Bananagrams, contains two of each of those consonants. Usually, but not always, a sitcom trope. A Rules Lawyer may note that even according to official Scrabble rules, players are still technically allowed to play such words — you just have to pay a points penalty if your opponent challenges them. Also, contrary to the trope, asking an opponent to actually define a challenged word is considered bad form in high-level play; tournament Scrabble players are too busy memorizing huge lists of allowed words to bother with trivial things like what the words mean. (Case in point: the French world championship was won by a man who didn't speak French.) It also doesn't have to specifically be Scrabble they're playing; it could also be Boggle, the aforementioned Bananagrams, Bookworm Adventures, or whatever. Subtrope of Neologism. See also Perfectly Cromulent Word and Antidisestablishmentarianism. See Eleventy Zillion for a numerical version. Compare Boggles the Mind, when people use real words that reflect what's on their mind. See also Hollywood Board Games, when playing Tabletop Games serves as characterization. |
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In an episode of The Bob Newhart Show, Howard tries to use the word "zoophyte," in a game of scrabble, defining it as "a fight between two or more animals at a zoo." It is challenged and found to be an actual word, so he wins the game. (It actually is a term for an animal that visually appears to be a plant.) | |
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In The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass aged 37¾, Leonard Thynn uses "vquex", which he insists is defined in the full length Oxford Dictionary as "a cross between a ferret and a giraffe". Gerald objects because the required mating act would be physically impossible. | |
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A one-off Oink! strip used this trope, but subverted it because the word was supposedly in the dictionary, albeit defined as "a word commonly used for cheating at Scrabble". | |
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Becker: Bob complains about his useless letters - "J! A! C! K! A! S! S!" - and has them exchanged. Reggie tells him, "You had a word! 'Jackass'!" Bob replies, "Hey, I'm doing the best I can, moron!" Later, Jake plays 'Xebec': |
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Used in Bottom, as part of a long string of jokes about not comprehending the point of a Crossword Puzzle. Asked to come up with a six-letter word meaning 'fish', Eddie takes it literally and comes up with "vzzbks". | |
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Inverted in an episode of That '70s Show, where Midge was unable to realize that she had the word "zygotes" spelled out in order in her... tile-holding thingamajig. | |
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The Simpsons: "Kwyjibo": "Uh... a big, dumb, balding North American ape. With no chin. ...And a short temper." (Homer then becomes angry and threatens to hurt Bart, prompting Bart to quip: "Uh-oh, kwyjibo on the loose!") Admittedly those were pretty lousy letters (and Marge, Homer, and Lisa had been playing 2- and 3-letter words, leaving him little to work with). Inverted in the same episode, where Homer complains of having a bad set of tiles — that spell out "oxidize." Oddly, unlike many examples, combining both these "words" into a single game is still entirely possible with the rarity of certain letters. However, the score given is incorrect, as pointed out here. Oddly played in the episode "Flaming Moe" where the old folks at the retirement home are playing Scrabble and Abe plays the word "be", which is challenged by the Old Jewish Guy. Whether he's doing it because the "e" is the oversized "E" of the MOE'S Tavern sign thrown through the window is never clarified. |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: At the end of the episode "Repairs", most of Coulson's team are playing Scrabble (or at least, UpWords). Simmons plays "aglet", which the others protest isn't a word. Settled when Skye looks it up online. | |
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In the Adventures in Odyssey episode "Always", Bethany (who is implied to do this on a regular basis) invents the word "narfy", defined as not feeling like doing anything today. She proceeds to use it in a narfy-sounding sentence, then differentiates it from "glubby", which is a similar state brought on by having eaten too much. At the end of the episode, when her older sister Aubrey has left for college, she defends the word "fudnoof" by calling her. Aubrey is able to match her sister's definition without any cues. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) primary phase ends with Arthur Dent trying to teach Scrabble to the caveman in order to help them evolve. "The only word they know is 'grunt' and they can't spell it right." Arthur and Ford Prefect use the letters from the Scrabble bag as a random element in coaxing the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything (the answer being 42, which the caveman has pointed out on the board). | |
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In Wondermark, during a game of Boggle, Laurence claims that "glond" is a word (when pressed for a definition, he says it's an archaic verb meaning "to lie convincingly"), and then finds 87 points worth of conjugations. The Alt Text states that "So far in this game, Laurence has identified twenty-four previously-unknown terms for 'to lie convincingly.'" Then, in a followup blog post, the author discovers to his dismay that "glond" allegedly was a word at one point. | |
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Roseanne: Inverted when dumb guy Mark puts down the word "oxygen". The others convince him that this is not a word but an abbreviation so that it will fit on those tanks. When he asks why they don't print it vertically they tell him it's illegal. He is convinced and puts down the word 'it" instead. Played straight when Darlene plays the word "BUCKETY" in a game of Scrabble against her sister Becky. When Becky challenges it, Darlene defines it as "of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of a bucket". Becky appeals to their father to mediate, and he casually replies, with a shrug, "It's a perfectly cromulent word. |
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According to 8-Bit Theater, "qukrx" is an irrational letter that exists outside of the alphabet and it is difficult to play Hypothetical Scrabble without it. | |
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Played with in Taz-Mania, where Taz makes a weird word, with symbols that aren't even in Scrabble pieces, but when he was called on it, it actually was in the dictionary, albeit a dictionary of vulgar expletives. | |
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Corner Gas: Hank, in the first move of the game, decides to start things off with "abang". After being told that's two words, he decides to play... "A". Which, unlike most of the examples of this page, is a real word, and the person playing it did know it, spelled it correctly, and knew the meaning of it. Hank fell victim to a completely different rule, namely, that it's not legal to play single letter words in Scrabble, because if it was legal, people would be randomly trying to claim extra points every time they used 'A' or 'I'. (In fact, as all letters are in the dictionary as themselves, they'd probably all count as 'words' if not specifically excluded.) |
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Spaced had a variant in that the words weren't made up, just extremely dubious. They included "Shazam" and "Pro-V". ("That's not a word, it's something they made up to make shampoo sound important.") It should be noted though that "shazam" is indeed a playable word in a game of Scrabble. As is Pro-V, with the new rules. | |
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Dilbert: In one strip (September 8, 1989), Dogbert plays the word 'neans', not for the points, but simply to get rid of some N's. Dilbert responds with "The N's don't justify the 'neans'," and Dogbert responds "I just wanted to hear you say that." Dilbert's mother has been accused of trying to use "counterfeit vowels" in a game of Scrabble; the charges were never proven. |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin plays "Zqfmgb" on a Double Word Score box for 957 points. In another strip, Calvin somehow scores 2 points by playing the word "be", despite the letter B being worth three points in Scrabble. Hobbes counters with "nucleoplasm", which is a real word, but an illegal play because the U forms "cu", not a valid word, with an adjacent word. |
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In an episode of King of the Hill, Cotton is playing Scrabble with his fellow World War II veterans and plays "anzio". One of them challenges, and Cotton relates the stirring story of the Battle of Anzio. His friend retracts his challenge, even though it's a proper noun. The episode "Peggy the Boggle Champ" had a few instances of this: At the beginning, Peggy's teaching Minh how to play Boggle, and the only words we see her come up with are "bametomyam," a Thai spicy noodle soupnote tasty and delicious!, and "pad thai," which Peggy couldn't find in the dictionary (we can only assume "bametomyam" was also disqualified). Happens to Peggy in the first match against Cissy Cobb, with the only word she could come up being "dang", which isn't in the dictionary and ends up losing 0-73 to Cissy. Subverted in the final round when Cissy sees Peggy's final word, which she thinks is "ain't", but turns out to be "acquaintanceship". |
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Married... with Children: In an opening scene, Kelly and Bud are playing Scrabble, and Kelly puts down "NBC." Bud challenges. | |
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Averted in Discworld when Leonard of Quirm invents the Make Words With Tiles That Have Been All Mixed Up Game. Everyone's words are perfectly cromulent (except for Nobby's — they aren't made up, it's just that Colon, who considers Leonard and Lord V to be Polite Society, won't let him explain what they mean). (Of course, Vetinari wins.) | |
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In the Metalocalypse episode "Klokblocked", the guys (minus Nathan) are playing Scrabble. Skwisgaar plays the word quhzk. Which is something of a subversion on account of it being a real word, but spelled (horribly) wrong. It should be noted that Skwisgaar and Toki don't have the greatest grasp on the English language in the first place. (They're Swedish and Norwegian respectively.) Also, no one at the game seems to care that "quhzk" isn't a real word. Pickles even tallies up the score without becoming suspicious. |
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MADtv (1995) had this trope in a fake commercial for a special edition Scrabble game as played by Bill Cosby and Little Richard (both played by cast member Aries Spears). | |
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Undocumented Features has Lying Bastard Scrabble. Here is a forum post about it. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: A variation occurs in one episode when the guys are playing Klingon Boggle and Howard finds the word "kreplach." | |
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There is a Mother Goose and Grimm cartoon that shows Grimm and Attilla playing Scrabble. Grimm challenges Attilla when he plays the word "meow". The point being that Grimm is a dog and Attila is a cat. | |
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Family Ties: Dad Steve puts down "zoquo", Greek for water sports. When Alex is accused of hoarding the U's so nobody can use a Q (which doesn't make sense; a normal Scrabble set contains only one Q, which already would be in "zoquo"), he puts down "ushnuu". | |
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Sunset's Little Twilight: Subverted - four of the girls play Scrabble at Applejack's house at one point (Pinkie and Applejack are playing Go Fish in the same room), and both Sunset and Twilight play real words that they have to explain - Sunset's is "Alicorn", which she explains by pointing to Twilight, and Twilight's is "zax", which Rainbow Dash doesn't believe is real even after Applejack says she used one a while back. It's soon confirmed to be a type of cutting tool. | |
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The Order of the Stick: as seen above, Elan the dumb-as-rocks bard plays Scrabble with a Squid Thingy! | |
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Subverted in Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult. Fitz uses the word "linn" in Scrabble, which the the other players call him out on. It is a word that means "waterfall". After this, Delia and Eric read the dictionary so they can beat him, and their scrabble board is filled with words such as larum, girn, ghat, revet and valgus. Fitz eventually wins the game by using the word "fungible" on a triple word score. | |
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In Generation X #2, Skin and Husk play Scrabble; Skin plays the word "BXLOMRMLEZQ" for 375 points. Husk humors him and doesn't challenge, though she does bring it up later when they argue about which of them is smarter. | |
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Red Dwarf: "jozxyqk" — a Cat word meaning "the sound you make when you get your sexual organs trapped in something." | |
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In the documentary Word Wars, one of the players plays "bemeant" during a tournament, his opponent says later that he could have called him on it, but didn't. | |
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Used to heartwarming effect in xkcd in the author's strip marking two years since his fiancée (now wife) was diagnosed with breast cancer. | |
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American Dad!: In the episode "Stan Knows Best", the family is playing Scrabble. Roger the alien tries to play "quivecs". In the Valentines-at-the-lake episode, Stan tries to kwyjibo, but gets caught and passes. He's holding 2 blanks and can spell "take" "smokes" "to" "skank" (which he just did/needs to do). |
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In Webster, George plays BOYRDEE. (Ironically, he does this after challenging Katherine's word, which turns out to be a real word.) Both Webster and Gramps suggest that Katherine challenge this one too, but the scene ends a minute later. | |
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Subverted in King Ralph: When Ralph and Miranda are playing Scrabble during their first date, Ralph plays the simple word "yo". When Miranda objects, saying that there's no such word, Ralph replies, "Are you crazy? I use it all the time! You don't have to look it up. We're using the King's English, right? If I say it, it's a word." Oddly enough, the rules for Scrabble do state that you can use slang... | |
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Sherman's Lagoon: While hiding in Hawthorne's crab hole during a typhoon, Sherman and Fillmore try to get their minds off the rising tension by playing Scrabble. Fillmore puts down the word "BLSTRCHTX" — which according to him is the noise that Sherman makes when he snores. | |
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After a long dry spell in a game, Wally of Stone Soup puts down "Zuccini" [sic] on a double-word score. He defends himself by saying that's how it's spelled at the produce stand, only to be told "They also sell 'onyons' and 'bokays'." | |
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Goosebumps: In "Return of the Mummy", Gabe and his cousin Sari spend a lot of time playing Scrabble while waiting for Sari's father to finish working for the day, but Sari plays this trope to win a lot - by claiming Gabe, who tends to put down really good words, is the one cheating by making up fake words. Since they don't have a dictionary in the tent, she wins most of the arguments. | |
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In Sneakers, Bishop tries to play the word "scrunchy" and describes it as "you know what happens to your face? Right now, your face is scrunchy." Of course, "scrunchy" is a real word, though some people might be more familiar with the spelling "scrunchie". | |
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While ruling over an abandoned Earth, Pinky and the Brain play Scrabble in the White House. | |
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Seinfeld - "Quone": "To quone something!" Upon not finding it in the dictionary, Kramer explains that it's a medical term: "A patient gets difficult, you quone him!" | |
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Stephen Colbert, in response to Hasbro's (or, more specifically, Mattel's) proposed rule change, revealed his "new" middle name, Qxyzzy. It requires 0-point blank tiles to spell out, as it contains a second "z", but otherwise would be a legal word under the new rules (if it were his actual middle name). However, under those rules, Xexex (an actual arcade game) would be legal (albeit low-scoring due to 2 zero-point blanks). The unrelated NES game Xexyz would also be legal— and score 23. He challenged a young boy called Brandon to a Scrabble game and insisted that BURGLKAF was a word. ("Burglkaf's not a word". "Oh, really, cos you just used it in a sentence, smart guy!"). In the next episode, he jumps over BURGLKAF in the opening credits. |
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In It's Kind of a Funny Story, Craig plays Scrabble with two friends, whose house rules are "If you don't have a word, you can make up a word and think of a definition for it." Resulting in words like "smap" (a cross between a slap and a smack) and "trili" (an unmentionable act). | |
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An episode of The Flintstones opens with Fred playing Scrabble against Arnold the paperboy, and trying to pass off "zarf" as a word. "Zarf" is an antiquated Victorian word describing an ornamental cup holder for a hot cup without a handle. Just so you know. | |
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In The Office, Michael attempts to hasten a game of Scrabble between Jim and Creed by grabbing all of Jim's tiles and playing "NOSCRUB." Creed immediately challenges. | |
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Will & Grace - "Spramp": "Every morning I... spramp my face with cold water. (...)The bubbles from a Jacuzzi spramp up. Note how the sea spramps off the jagged rocks." | |
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One scene in the indie drama Snow Cake involves a game of "comic book word Scrabble", a variant in which made-up words are allowed as long as they sound reasonably comic-book-ish and the player can use them in a sentence. Words played during the game include "baang", "yaamool", and "dazlious". | |
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Referred to: In "Napoleon Bunny-part," Bugs Bunny is playing with Napoleon's battle maps and models: | |
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M*A*S*H did this as a throwaway joke during one of the earlier episodes. Hawkeye tries to play the word "vailness", defining it as "a quality of vail; the act of vailing; to be full of vaily." | |
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Subverted in NCIS - Tim is winning a scrabble game by a lot of points, and smugly remarks: "It's going to be awfully difficult to play that Q without a U." Of course, Ziva plays it as "Qi" in such a good place that she wins the game, with Timothy still arguing that it isn't a word. Of course, he has to say that considering he's a published author who just got beaten by someone who speaks English (badly) as a seventh language. Well, Hollywood Badly. | |
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American Dragon: Jake Long: One episode has Lao-Shi and Fu Dog play the game with a group of magical creatures. Much to Lao-Shi's frustration, they play with an Elfin dictionary so words like "leprechaunistic" are completely legal. | |
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In the Man About the House episode "In Praise of Older Men", Robin plays the word "ZXC" and tells a dubious Jo that it's an Abyssinian nose-flute that makes a sound familiar to female rhinoceroses in heat; Jo asks Chrissy for confirmation, and Robin is initially surprised when she says it's an Abyssinian nose-flute... until she adds, "I dunno, that's what you just said!" The joke was recycled in its American counterpart, the Three's Company episode "Chrissy's Date", with Jack playing "ZXC" and insisting it's an Abyssinian nose-flute, while Janet doesn't buy it and awards him no points despite Jack almost getting Chrissy to side with him until she admits she only "knows" the definition because she heard him say it. | |
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In a scene on The Sketch Show, Lee Mack's tactic is to slip his made-up words into the conversation and explain what they mean before his turn starts. First is "quazoosl", referring to someone being so good looking they become intimidating (the example he gives is Elizabeth Hurley). In a later sketch, he offers Tim Vine a glass of "saxisquith". Tim replies, "Don't even think about it." | |
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Malcolm in the Middle: Francis is scamming Craig at Scrabble by claiming that everything was a "military term". He later retaliates: In another episode, Hal and Lois were both bribing Malcolm with special privileges to help them come up with words for the letters they had, like jivku and nazqueb, which Malcolm gleefully admits to the camera are completely made up. |
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In one Futurama DVD commentary, David X. Cohen mentions playing LEKQZ, which he claims is the national currency of Albania, multiple times in Scrabble. It's actually spelled without the Q or Z, and Cohen probably knows that. | |
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Dilbert: Dilbert is forced to defeat a supercomputer at Scrabble. The computer just orders Asok to lay out all its tiles, then hacks into various online dictionaries and inserts, for example, the word "wipqozn" into society. In another instance, Dogbert cheats by using a wood burner to make counterfeit tiles. Although the word he plays is an actual word ("Quizzing"), there's only one Z in a Scrabble set, as Dilbert himself points out. That's the sort of thing that allowed him to lose 188 games in a row... Also inverted when Dilbert tries to play "it". Dogbert challenges and wins because the dictionary in which they look "it" up was published by Dilbert's company and actually does not contain the word. This may actually play on the author's real-life issues with the game, thanks to his mother. |
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Questionable Content give us the Yarwhal. Justified, in this case, because they're playing drinkin' Scrabble | |
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Red Dwarf Magazine: One strip featured the word Yizox, which Rimmer claims to be the Plutonian word for teeth, being used in a game of scrabble. He is later forced to admit that he made it up when he is put into danger. | |
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Saturday Night Live: In one skit, the Coneheads use "sebfarg" and "klaatu" in a Scrabble game and try to pass them off as French words, since being French is their cover. | |
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The Partridge Family: While playing Scrabble with Laurie, Danny tries to play "Brogak," which he says is an elf-like creature found in Thailand, frequently killed and made into lamps. | |
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In Adventurers!, Argent puts perfectly valid words on the scrabble board (Like "Justice" or "Nice"), but Khrima challenges them on the grounds that the words are not evil. | |
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Home Improvement: | |
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FoxTrot: "What does H-O-H spell?" "Water?" Slightly justified in that the structure for water is indeed H-O-H (H2O). | |
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The IT Crowd: Moss successfully plays "TNETENNBA" on an episode of Countdown. A real Countdown contestant referenced this when he wore a T-shirt with the line "Good morning, that's a nice TNETENNBA" on it. | |
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Little Britain: "cupboardy" — Kenny Craig hypnotizes his mother to believe that "cupboardy" is a valid word. | |
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Parodied in the French-Canadian series Le cœur a ses raisons. Brett and Criquette are playing a friendly game of Scrabble. Criquette places the letters "W-Q-T" to spell the word "Waquetue", a (fictitious) nocturnal aquatic animal. Brett spells the word "quixict" (QXTC), also a nocturnal aquatic animal. Criquett then adds an "s" to "QXTC" to spell the word "helicopter"... | |
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In Warhammer, this, along with Language Equals Thought, is why Khazalid has so many words to describe gold. The dwarfs have a drinking game called the Gold Song, where each participant takes a turn singing a verse about gold, using a different word each time. Since any dwarf who fails to think of a new word for gold has to pay for another round of drinks, this leads dwarfs to invent new words for gold that, if unchallenged, get added to the dwarf lexicon. Thus we have gal for any type of gold, gorl for soft and yellow gold (or the color yellow in general), konk for ruddy gold (or a bulbous red nose), ril for gold ore that shines brightly in rock, bryn for gold or anything else that shines brightly in the sunlight, galaz for ornamental gold, galbaraz for "oathgold"... | |
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In a rare dramatic use of this trope, CSI features a player who used nonword "exvin" in a tournament for a Scrabble Fictional Counterpart game as a bluff. He then added insult to injury; when the opponent added an S to create "exvins", the first player challenged and had the tiles and points removed. This annoyed the opponent enough to murder him by shoving the tiles down his throat. Earlier in the episode, Catherine showed that the word "vixen" could be spelled with the same letters, though had he played the valid word he couldn't have screwed his opponent on adding the "S", so it's likely he did it intentionally. | |
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Not really a straightforward example, but in an episode of Yes, Dear, Jimmy attempts to play "Cheeto", but misspells it as "Cheato". Kim (having obviously never played Banjo-Kazooie) calls him on his spelling error and said he couldn't use it anyway because it was a brand name for snack food. Jimmy then challenges her earlier play of "ritzy" on the same merits. Also, a couple of minutes later, he asks if "gloonge" is a word. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: In "Itsy Bitsy Gopher", Daffy attempts to play "darvog", before announcing that he is going to the kitchen as he feels totally "darvog". In a Strange Minds Think Alike moment, we later learn that Lola invented a type of sandwich that she calls a darvog. And, at the end of the episode, Dr. Weinstein mentions it is the name of an anti-inflammatory preparation. | |
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In an episode of The Golden Girls, Sophia plays the word "disdam". When Dorothy asks her to use it in a sentence, she says, "You're no good at disdam game!" Sophia usually cheats at board and card games and Dorothy references once having to challenge the word "flot". | |
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As Time Goes By (Series 5, Episode 1) - After disagreements over furzes and an attempt to change cottage to pottage, Jean places flug and claims it's Old English. All of the preceding are words, although 'flug' is German. | |
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The Burkiss Way is characterized by parodying other, more successful radio broadcasts of the time and by the long titles it assigns to its slots. So, when the narrators wanted to spoof The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), they changed mocked the latter's alien-sounding names by referring to them as stuff you'd get from leftover Scrabble tiles. E.g., the constellation Go-And-Upset-Another-Scrabble-Board-Les-I-Need-A-New-Name. | |
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In his review of Ken Park (mentioned above), Kyle Kallgren noted that 'sipi' is a real word....in the Tagalog language. (It means 'copy'.) | |
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The T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Share-A-Lair" features "Schmoodled", which is then used later in the episode whenever something gets blown up. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls play a Scrabble-type game in "Super Scramble" (DC issue #64). The words they create are types of monsters that Him manifests as threats to Townsville. | |
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Lois & Clark - "chumpy": an adjective for someone behaving like a chump. | |
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Inverted in Stickin' Around where the bored kids bust out 'Squabble', where they must use anything that isn't a word. | |
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In The Kingdom, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt play Scrabble on plane to Saudi Arabia. She plays "whelp", which he claims isn't a word. Sykes, not playing but listening in, informs him that it is in fact a word. Mayes and Sykes are right. | |
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In Black Hawk Down, two helicopter pilots discuss their ongoing Scrabble game while switching patrol routes. | |
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The Critic: Extremely rich guy Duke makes up the word "quzybuk", and when Marty calls him on it, Duke phones Noah Webster himself (ignoring the fact the man has been dead for 150 years) and bribes them to make it a real word. Which he did, with a definition he made up on the spot ("How about...a big problem?"). Another character uses the word later in the same episode. It might be noticed that the writer for The Critic, Jon Vitti, also wrote the The Simpsons "Kwyjibo" episode ("Bart the Genius"), making it a bit of a Recycled Joke. | |
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Frasier: "Quilty" — "Her grandmother's bed was warm and... quilty." | |
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Friends: Phoebe tries to play "scrunchy". Ross and Chandler dismiss it as one of these. (...But scrunchy ''is'' a word) Then they do it themselves. | |
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Justified: Wynn Duffy and Mikey are playing scrabble, and Mikey plays "aplex": | |
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In Bobwhite, Marlene successfully plays "toastery". "Um... that... thing, over there... sure is... toastery." | |
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