History Main / FunWithAlphabetSoup

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} (1991)'' episode "[[Recap/RugratsS3E17MommysLittleAssetsChuckiesWonderfulLife 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".

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "Mr. Monk Stays in Bed," Natalie brings Monk some alphabet soup while he [[SickEpisode is sick with the flu]]. Due to his obsessive personality, he insists on eating the letters in alphabetical order.
* In an episode-pair of ''Series/{{Batman}}" ("A Piece of the Action"/"Batman's Satisfaction," which was a crossover with ''Series/TheGreenHornet''), "Special Guest Villain" Colonel Gumm (Roger C. Carmel) is such a connoisseur of alphabet soup that he keeps extra consonants on hand. A bowl of alphabet soup is deciphered by the Bat-Computer.

** In "Diggs," Homer keeps pestering Bart to give him back the $20 that Homer lent him. This includes giving him alphabet soup where the letters float up to say, 'U OWE ME $20."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E6MoeNaLisa 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".

* In ''The Hostile Hospital'', the 8th book in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', 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.

* In ''ComicBook/{{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.

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37107733 Spell Me My Alphabet]]'', [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier 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 [[TheGadfly Natasha]] eats it before Steve can find out the message. After a TimeSkip, 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: [[GivenNameReveal her real name]].

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37107733 Spell Me My Alphabet]]'', [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier 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 [[TheGadfly Natasha]] eats it before Steve can find out the message. After a TimeSkip, 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.

Compare AnthropomorphicTypography for another form of letters "coming to life." Not to be confused with AlphabetSoupCans, which is something else entirely, though could use alphabet soup for spelling.

** 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.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': 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.

* In a LicensedGame based on ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'', the player must sort the letters from the numbers and put them into the correct bowl of soup to make alphabet soup and "number soup".
* In one LicensedGame of ''Series/SesameStreet'', you need to fill in the missing letter to spell a word in Cookie Monster's alphabet soup.

[[caption-width-right:350:Image by [[https://www.speedbump.com/about-1 Dave Coverly]]. Image used with permission.]]

* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' #131, Superman tricks Mr Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards (thereby banishing him to the fourth 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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* The GagDub of Film/TheAvengers2012 by Creator/{{Coldmirror}} has [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext this conversation:]]
-->'''Phil Coulson:''' Was ist eigentlich in Buchstabensuppe drin?[[note]] What's actually in alphabet soup?[[/note]]
-->'''Steve Rogers:''' Ein Haufen blöder Buchstaben.[[note]] A bunch of stupid letters.[[/note]]

** Jason spells out a message with alphabet cereal that says: ?By eating this cereal, you agree to buy Jason a new computer?.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', while Goofy and Max are stuck in the car as the Bigfoot is rummaging though 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.

* ''Literature/MarthaSpeaks'': The premise of the stories is a dog, Martha, having the [[PowerUpFood ability to talk]] [[IngestingKnowledge by eating alphabet soup]]. She has to eat it everyday to retain that ability.

* An article of the German satire website Website/DerPostillon 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 for anyone requiring help there.

** 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E6MoeNaLisa 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".

* ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'': In "The Reckless Driver", Woody Woodpecker goes to the police department to renew his driver 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".