History Main / JiveTurkey

* In ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly'', on his final visit to the café [[spoiler:in playthroughs where Lua and Baileys show up late because they canceled their wedding]], Hyde greets the Barista with "Yo". It's his attempt at "younger people's speech", which Gala finds "a little disturbing".

* In ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly'', on his final visit to the café [[spoiler:in playthroughs where Lua and Baileys show up late because they called off their engagement]], Hyde greets the Barista with "Yo". It's his attempt at "younger people's speech", which Gala finds "a little disturbing".

* In ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly'', on his final visit to the café [[spoiler:in playthroughs where Lua and Baileys don't show up because they called off their engagement]], Hyde greets the Barista with "Yo". It's his attempt at "younger people's speech", which Gala finds "a little disturbing".

* Played straight TO THE MAX in Music/FrankZappa's Thing-Fish concept album/musical soundtrack

-->-- '''Zaphod Beeblebrox''', ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''

* As noted in the page quote, Zaphod Beeblebrox in every incarnation of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.

* The Forsaken in'' VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' speak Gutterspeak, which is supposed to be Common with so much slang that it is incomprehensible to the entire Alliance. The language was added to VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft when the developers decided against having any cross-faction communication.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Val, the adult writer of a teen magazine, takes this to the logical extreme as she not only speaks like a teenager (which is unsettling enough in a 30+ year old) but ''dresses'' like one. It borders on UncannyValley, and plays out as a deconstruction; she comes off as unsettlingly shallow and self-absorbed to anyone who spends much time in her presence, even compared to the teens she's trying to imitate.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroTheEternalNight'': Sniff is a parody of Creator/MrT, peppering his speech with a liberal amount of slang, in contrast to Scratch's posh accent.
-->'''Sniff:''' I pity the fool that messes with us!
* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'':
** Dimitri, from the [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves second]] and [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves third]] games, is a literal lounge lizard from Paris, France who spouts a mishmash of slang ranging from beatnik to disco to gangsta. [[WordOfGod The creators of the series]] like to claim he [[LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision learned English from hip-hop videos]].
** During the final chapter of the third game, Bentley tries to use slang to give Dimitri a mission objective (which is arguably more consistent and closer to actual slang than most of what Dimitri says). Dimitri appreciates the effort, but tells Bentley that he can never match Dimitri's style, and to hit him with some of his "turtle talk".
** ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': The Grizz likes to use rap and hip-hop slang, as well as making rhymes. Compared to Dimitri, however, he's much more understandable.
* Waylon in ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]''. Unusual for this trope, his slang is stuck in the 1950s, Daddy-O (though oddly enough his first line is "Why are these Lazurians all up in my business?").
** Jake in ''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' is even WORSE. His horrific hip-hop slang grows tiresome before the tutorial levels are even over.

* 70s super spy Harry Tipper from ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''. The player meets him via time travel.
* Disco Kid from ''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii''. Time for this turkey to jive!
* The Forsaken in'' VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' speak Gutterspeak, which is supposed to be Common with so much slang that it is incomprehensible to the entire Alliance. The language was added to VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft when the developers decided against having any cross-faction communication.
* Ellen in ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream.''

* Benny, the protagonist's almost-killer in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', and his gang, the Chairmen, spend the entire game talking in 50s swinger lingo. [[JustifiedTrope The justification]] is that while they were originally a nomadic raider tribe (the Boot Riders), they were hired by [[TheChessmaster Mr. House]] to run the Tops Casino and their original ways were incompatible. Benny killed the tribe leader in a duel to make sure the best idea ever came to pass and has been speaking swinger lingo ever since.
** This is the case for most of the Vegas tribes. Apart from the Chairmen, it also has [[TheMafia The Omertas]], the White Glove Society (upper class posh lingo), and an entire group of {{Elvis Impersonator}}s, the Kings. The latter go the whole nine yards, with their hair styles and outfits based on Elvis' costumes and Elvis speak (though it's only spoken by the King and Pacer, since they're the only surviving members that got to hear the Elvis voice recordings before they broke).
* ''Videogame/Fallout4'' has the Atom Cats, a gang of greasers obsessed with custom-painted Power Armor.
* In ''VideoGame/NightTrap'', the sole black member of SCAT.

* ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' got a new announcer for X, who is pretty much the [[LargeHam hammiest]] example of a Jive Turkey ever. PSYCOLA!
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' full stop. The entire game is practically a Jive Turkey in and of itself.
* If Wocky Kitaki from ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' opens his mouth, this is what you're going to be reading. Incidentally, he's ''supposed'' to be a [[TheMafia gangster]] but mixes it up with "gangsta".
** The sequel, ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', also has a case of this in its DLC case with animal feeder and amateur rapper Marlon Rimes, who manages to combine rap slang with TalkLikeAPirate. [[spoiler: His last testimony in court is a [[TheDissTrack diss track]] directed at Phoenix.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' has Roland. In-game, it's his only piece of characterization. He loses it come ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' in favor of being TheStoic with NoSocialSkills.

* Marvel's [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke "Sweet Christmas!" Cage]]. Then again, Cage [[RetCon uses strange expletives like that because he promised his grandmother he wouldn't swear]].
** Since Cage has been modernized somewhat in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', his GoshDarnItToHeck tendencies are subverted more often than not. ("Sweet f&#$%g Christmas!")
* Any version of [[Characters/TheThing Ben Grimm]] who did not speak in thick 1940's era Brooklynese would not be Ben Grimm. Ya got that, ya bunch a' lousy mooks?!
* Solomon, a verbally gifted creature of the simian persuasion from ''ComicBook/TomStrong'', espouses quite singularly in [[AntiquatedLinguistics the vernacular]] one might expect of a British gentleman late of TheGayNineties, eh wot? Humorously, a look into the future of 2050 shows that his son Augustus speaks solely in slang from the ''19''50s, pops.

* Back in the day before he was reinvented by the film portrayal, ''ComicBook/{{Blade}}'' was a fro sporting, bright clothes clad, jive and trash talking kinda guy.
* In ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: Spider-Man, an alien named [[http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6544787.html Goom]] from another dimension talks like this. Justified because he learned English from MTV. As a comment says, "The whole gangsta speak is as ridiculous as Teen Titan's 70's hip speak, the only difference being that [[LampshadeHanging the writers make Spidey aware that it's ridiculous.]]"

* Played for laughs in a few 1970s ''Avengers'' stories; after ComicBook/TheFalcon grudgingly joins the team on the orders of [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Henry Gyrich]] (who wanted to make it more ethnically diverse), he speaks this way on purpose to annoy Gyrich.
* John Stewart's first appearance in ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' #87.

-->'''Cheech Wizard:''' ...You got to harmonize yer complex. Be all.
-->'''A random lizard:''' But, is I down an out?! Not on yer life!...Dis is one little lizard dat got spunk an heart...Things can't get any worse.
* Anytime [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]] tries to relate to a black audience, it turns out like this. It's like the man learned all he knows about black people from watching ''Series/GoodTimes''.
* Used by ComicBook/LukeCage [[CaptainErsatz parody]] Buck Wild in Creator/DwayneMcDuffie's ''ComicBook/{{Icon}}'', with phrases such as "Sweet Easter!" and "Aunt Jemima's do rag!". It turns out this is because he suffered brain damage back in the '70s. Creator/DwayneMcDuffie was actually noted for his intense dislike of the Luke Cage character due to it's perpetuation of the "urban" stereotype.
* In some early stories ComicBook/BlackLightning talked like this. As with his afro wig, it was so no-one would connect him with [[BlackAndNerdy mild-mannered teacher]] [[SecretIdentity Jefferson Pierce]].
* Hilariously referenced in the Marvel vs DC spin-off ''[[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse All-Access]]'' when 60's nerd Beast meets '90s teen Superboy...and neither could understand what the other was saying.

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* In "Fanfic/TheShoeboxProject" Sirius does this to Remus at the opening of Part 23.
-->'''Sirius:''' Moony, I am getting the distinct impression that you are not hip to my jive. Are you or are you not hip to my jive?
-->'''Remus:''' Something is wrong with your brain.
* Devin from ''Total Drama School'' speaks almost entirely in jive.

* Creator/TexAvery's cartoon ''WesternAnimation/SymphonyInSlang'' features the angels at the [[FluffyCloudHeaven Pearly Gates]] unable to understand a new arrival who only speaks in 1940s - 1950s slang. St. Peter calls in Noah Webster for assistance. The entire cartoon from there is Noah's[[VisualPun humorously imagined literal interpretations]] of the man's expressions as he relates his life story. "I got a job slinging hash, but couldn't cut the mustard, so they gave me the gate." Turns out he's in Heaven because he "died laughing".

* Creator/TexAvery's cartoon ''WesternAnimation/SymphonyInSlang'' features the angels at the [[FluffyCloudHeaven Pearly Gates]] unable to understand a new arrival who only speaks in 1940s - 1950s slang. St. Peter calls in Noah Webster for assistance. The entire cartoon features [[VisualPun humorously imagined literal interpretations]] of his expressions. "I got a job slinging hash, but couldn't cut the mustard, so they gave me the gate." Turns out he's in Heaven because he "died laughing".

** There's the twins in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', who crank this UpToEleven, and subsequently [[TheScrappy got bashed]] [[UncleTomfoolery for it]].

** PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' as Mr. Feather, TheDragon for TheMan, is an avowed white supremacist... but [[GotMeDoingIt uses more "black" lingo as the movie progresses]].

* Many members of the [[HollywoodNerd Nerd clique]] in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' attempt to use slang when they talk, sometimes with [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe heavily-outdated English]], to try fit in. The worst offenders are [[MommasBoy Algie]], Bucky, and to a lesser extent, [[MrImagination Melvin]]. The cutscene for one mission in the game features Algie painfully trying to speak in Jive before Jimmy cuts him off.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' has Roland. In-game, it's his only piece of characterization. He loses it come ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', however.

Compare TotallyRadical and PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy. Often afflicts a DiscoDan. Not to be confused with BuffySpeak.

* Dimitri, from the [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves second]] and [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves third]] ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games, is a literal lounge lizard from Paris, France who spouts a mishmash of slang ranging from beatnik to disco to gangsta. [[WordOfGod The creators of the series]] like to claim he [[LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision learned English from hip-hop videos]].

** The Grizz from ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' likes to use rap and hip-hop slang, as well as making rhymes. Compared to Dimitri, however, he’s much more understandable.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Orville Mason, a dance instructor who hangs out at Elmer's Malt Shop, in "The Mambo". Walter Denton literally describes Mason as a "jive turkey".

* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' has Moondoggy. In one episode, he launches a string of slang intended to explain something to Renton, who promptly asks the other character in the room for a translation. It is a ShoutOut to the original ''Gidget'' surfer movies. Original Moondoggie too was the boyfriend of the titular character, and spoke that way.

* Molly of ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', whose vocabulary choices are always wildly eclectic, delves into Jive-speak [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100123.html here.]]

* Used by [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] [[CaptainErsatz parody]] Buck Wild in Creator/DwayneMcDuffie's ''ComicBook/{{Icon}}'', with phrases such as "Sweet Easter!" and "Aunt Jemima's do rag!". It turns out this is because he suffered brain damage back in the '70s. Creator/DwayneMcDuffie was actually noted for his intense dislike of the Luke Cage character due to it's perpetuation of the "urban" stereotype.

* Mammy Two Shoes from ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' is this trope played straight, though many reruns diminish the characterization.

* Any version of [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm]] who did not speak in thick 1940's era Brooklynese would not be Ben Grimm. Ya got that, ya bunch a' lousy mooks?!