Ever since it’s inception television has been accused by it’s detractors of being evil and making us stupid. Now, I don’t disagree that I am stupid but how can something be evil and give the world so much? Our culture is so rich and sparkly that I can’t even fathom life today without the magic box.
My vocabulary, for example, has been affected fairly positively. I mean, I write for one of classiest pop culture websites out there and I haven’t yet been told to get the funk out. So if you want to be a pseudo-successful, non-paid, nerd writer, like me you could do a lot worse things than watch an unbelievable amount of t.v.
To help you spruce up your sad vocabulary I’ve ripped out a couple of pages from my personal dictionary and pasted together a list of the 10 greatest words given to us by television.
Read and absorb, friends. Read and absorb!
Word: Bitchcakes
Origin: Newsradio
Definition: berserk, crazy, freaked out
Example: “Everyone is going totally bitchcakes today.”
Word: Blurgh
Origin: 30 Rock
Definition: an expression of disgust, replacement swear word
Example: “Blurgh! I forgot to write that stupid t.v. article for today.”
Word: Cromulent
Origin: The Simpsons
Definition: normal, acceptable, legitimate
Example: “Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word.”
Word: Crumbelievable
Origin: Commercial for Kraft Cheese
Definition: I’m not quite sure. It makes me smile every time I say it.
Example: “The big cheese taste that blows you away. It’s CRUMBELIEVABLE!”
Word: Embiggen
Origin: The Simpsons
Definition: to make or become bigger
Example: “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.”
Word: Frak
Origin: Battlestar Galactica
Definition: replacement for the word fuck
Example: “Frak you. You frakking, motherfrakker!”
Word: Semprini
Origin: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Definition: profanity, unspecified body part
Example: “Right, who’s got a boil on his Semprini, then?”
Word: Shazbot
Origin: Mork and Mindy
Definition: replacement swear word
Example: “Shazbot! When will this article end?”
Word: Strategery
Origin: Saturday Night Live
Definition: pseudo-strategy
Example: “Bush summarized his campaign with one word: strategery”
Word: Wikiality
Origin: The Colbert Report
Definition: the idea that if enough people agrees with a notion, it becomes the truth
Example: “In the Wikiality we can create a reality we can all agree on.”
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To quote a wise man: “Television! Teacher. Mother. Secret Lover.”
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You forgot “gorram”. TURN IN YOUR GEEK BADGE NOW. WHY AM I YELLING
Word: Gorram
Origin: Firefly
Definition: Some sort of futuristic swear word, possibly Chinese in origin.
Example: “Those gorram feds are after us.”
I’m all about the inclusion of bitchcakes and blurgh, though.
In my defense, I limited myself to a list of 10 and I already had 4 perfectly good curse words. Gorram will be included in my corrected addition next year.
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Turn in YOUR geek badge. Well, maybe not. You did suggest it, and I didn’t think of it first.
Gorram is a derivative of “goddamn.”
Also “frell,” but you said frak, which is the same thing. I just like Farscape better than BSG.
Excellent list! What happened to “scrumulescent?”
I’m sorry, sir, but what are you talking about, Willis? Scrumulescent?
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Another SNL creation, from the Inside the Actors Studio skits.
True, so many of them seem to be replacement swear words, like the oh, so popular ‘smeg’, from Red Dwarf.