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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WonderOverYonder'' has Wander and Sylvia tasked with delievering a box, without looking inside. Wander's curiosity about the contents of the box drives him to near insanity, and despite Sylvia's attempts to get him to leave the box along he eventually runs up a tree with the box and yells "You can't box me, Box-ia! I'm gonna box this box and there's not a box BOX BOX BOX!"

* The scene preceding the DisneyAcidSequence in ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'' (2011). Pooh starts honeying[[note]]seeing[[/note]] everyone as honey, and they start to replace random honeys[[note]]words[[/note]] with the word honey. (e.g. "I can't wait to see the honey on that Backson's honey when he falls into our honey!") Soon, practically every honey[[note]]word[[/note]] is replaced with the honey honey, including the honeys[[note]]words[[/note]] in the honey[[note]]book[[/note]]! Honey honey honey honey honey!

* The scene preceding the DisneyAcidSequence in ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'' (2011). Pooh starts honeying[[note]]seeing[[/note]] everyone as honey, and they start to replace random honeys[[note]]words[[/note]] with the word honey. (e.g. "I can't wait to see the honey on that Backson's honey when he falls into our honey!") Soon, practicably every honey is replaced with the honey honey, including the honeys in the honey! Honey honey honey honey honey!

* ''Manga/ShinryakuIkaMusume''. In the English dub and the Crunchyroll subs, Squid Girl peppers a lot of her squiddences with the word "squid".

* The cats on Fargo's ship in VideoGame/ChronoCross, once you are transformed into a cat and can understand Cat, speak Japanese or English (depending on your translation), except they end almost every sentence and veil swears with "Meow."

[[IThoughtItMeant Not be smurfed]] for "Smurfing", a practice on ranked online games where an experienced player makes a new account to dominate lowbies or get back in practice.

Also not about the practice of spreading transactions or behaviors that would be banned or illegal into a series of legal transactions or behaviors, which is done financially (with bank/financial institution transactions among money launderers and people seeking to evade taxes), to avoid parking fees or similar (e.g. moving your car around time-restricted parking spots in the same lot) and in the context of buying substances that are limited (e.g. going to another bar after being cut off for drinks at one, "doctor shopping" for prescriptions or going to different pharmacies in an attempt to avoid a limit on an over the counter drug) [[note]]([[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSA]]: Which is ''not'' a good idea - most people involved in situations like that ''know'' when people are doing it, and if caught, you can often be charged with a crime. For example, if your bank catches 5 $9999 transactions within the span of a month to avoid the $10,000 deposit flag, you'll likely be investigated for money laundering or tax evasion ''and'' conspiracy to commit it, ''even if you made the money by legitimate means'' because the evasive action shows criminal intent, when a single deposit of $50,000 might be flagged but will likely eventually clear with no issues unless there's blatant criminal activity.[[/note]]

* The Cragnons in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' use "crag".

[[IThoughtItMeant Not be smurfed]] for "Smurfing", a practice on ranked online games where an experienced player makes a new account to dominate lowbies or get back in practice.

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The UrExample is probably ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'', who smurfed it to ridiculous extremes, and fused it with SpeciesSurname, making some smurfs contain the word upwards of thirty smurf. [[CaptainObvious It is also]] the [[TropeNamer Smurf Smurfer]].

* The [[TropeNamer Smurf Namer]] is ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'', of course. While the reader is, of course, left to smurf the smurf from context, it is smurfed (most directly in the lesser-smurfed ''JohanAndPeewit'' smurf that ''The Smurfs'' were originally smurfed off from) that the Smurfs themselves can smurf the difference between instances of "smurf" with no smurf; it is just outsiders that smurf them as identical. Smurfly, outsiders are insmurfable of ''pronouncing'' "smurf" reliably however hard they smurf.
** This is even more of a tongue twister in the comic's original language, where Smurfs are known as "{{Schtroumpfs}}".

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[TheAbridgedSeries abridged series]] ''FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' [[ParodiedTrope parodies]] Rainbow Dash's AwesomeEgo by having her constantly do this with "rainbow" and "dash" - culminating in a monologue in the fourth episode where it devolves into complete PokemonSpeak.

* ''BeingJohnMalkovich'': Malkovich. Malkovich malkovich? Malkovich!!!

* This is lampshaded [[CrowningMomentOfFunny surprisingly well]] in the live-action film ''Film/TheSmurfs''. The man with whom the Smurfs are staying is getting annoyed at this trope, culminating in him shouting "Smurf-etty smurf smurf smurf!" One of the Smurfs then says, [[PardonMyKlingon "There's no reason for that kind of language!"]]
* Early on in ''TheDictator'', it is stated that [[TheCaligula General Aladeen]] has ordered that a great number of words in the [[{{Qurac}} Wadiyan]] language be replaced with "Aladeen"...including contradictory words like "positive/negative" which causes a great deal of confusion (as shown by a doctor informing a patient that he's "[[CrossesTheLineTwice HIV-Aladeen]]" and the latter not knowing how to react). Used as a RunningGag throughout the film (a Wadyian restaurant has an "Open/Closed" sign reading "Come in, we're Aladeen/Sorry, we're Aladeen" and in a credits scene, Aladeen himself accidentally shoots a man in the leg because the safety catch was on "Aladeen" instead of "Aladeen").

* In the seventh ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, A group of skateboarders are "duded" that Melvin duded their dudeboards. One of them says "I'm gonna dude that dude if it's the last dude I dude!"
* In the ''BeavisAndButthead'' tie in book "Chicken Soup for the Butt", a section on past lives gives us this gem.
-->'''Beavis''': Yeah, yeah, I remember in my past I watched a lot of those saturday morning cartoons. So like, in my past life I was a smurf. They called me "Beavis Smurf". I was hanging out with all these blue dudes. There was like a hundred of us...and one remote control. I never got to smurf the TV, because the other dudes were always like, "Wait your turn, smurfknocker." One time this one dude, "Butt Smurf," was like, smurfing with the remote control, and I was like, "Hey man, how's about letting another smurf smurf that smurf." But that smurfmunch just kept on smurfing! That was smurfy! Um, I mean, that sucked.

* On the ''HowIMetYourMother'' episode "How Lily Stole Christmas", the word "grinch" is used constantly in place of [[CountryMatters another word]].

* SomethingAwful's "wom" emoticon originated as one of these, when one poster used the nonsense word "wom" and others began using it to wom any wom in the wom. "Four score and seven years wom our fathers brought forth on this wom..."

* ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'': The Emoglobins in Bowser's globin tend to insert "globin" in place of other globins. IS THAT NOT GLOBIN?

* The Hooskis from MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam often put the word "hoo" into their sentences.

** Derp and herp can be used as several part of speech. In fact you can make a sentence using only derp (and any derivatives) and a few articles: Derp derpily derped the derpy derp. And that derpy derp said "Derp." Herp can be used in the same fashion, however this troper has not seen as many examples of this as "derp"

* This article needs ''far'' more [[RozenMaiden desu]].

* An episode of ''RobotChicken'' included a war between the Smurfs and TheSnorks, caused by the Smurfs dumping raw sewage into the Snorks' water, who retaliate by stopping up the sewer. Papa Smurf's toilet overflows, prompting him to yell out [[AssShove "Oh, smurf me up the smurf!"]]

* The watch-dog on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' who barks entire advertisements. "And now, a message from the Latter-day Saints..."
** Speaking of the Simpsons, "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" could be claimed for this trope. It has Homer hallucinating Bart everywhere, including a sign "Burt Bacharach" which turns into "Bart Bartabart".
* ''UglyAmericans'' features the Bird Men, who learned to speak from a foul-mouthed tourist who brought the first pair to the States. Most of their vocabulary consists of various intonations of the phrase "Suck my balls".

* The ''{{Archer}}'' episode "Once Bitten" has a running gag involving the leader of Turkmenistan replacing a number of words with the name of his dog, Gerpgork. This leads to a scene where Ray and Cyril have to explain that Archer's been bitten by a "gerpgork" to some tribesmen, and get offered everything from a piece of bread to a calendar.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnorks'', who were basically ''The Smurfs [[RecycledInSpace Only Underwater]]''.

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** In the comic, it was ''very rarely''[[note]]including one notable instance in ''King Smurf'' parodying Cambronne's LastStand[[/note]] used to cover profanities. In countless parodies, it's used almost ''only'' for that.

* Interestingly, Empath in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' can't fluently speak a word in Smurf without sounding like MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels to other Smurfs.

** Incidentally, in ''Smurf Versus Smurf'' they had a [[SillyReasonForWar civil war]] over whether "smurf" should be used as a verb or an adjective.

* The ''{{Archer}}'' episode "Once Bitten" has a running gag involving the leader of Turkmenistan replacing a number of words with the name of his dog, Gerpgork. This leads to a scene where Ray and Cyril have to explain that Archer's been bitten by a "gerpgork" to some tribesmen, and get offered everything from a piece of bread to a calendar.

* Interestingly, Empath in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' can't fluently speak a word in Smurf without sounding like MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels.

** Depending on the speaker's accent, those can be tricky distinctions for native English speakers. Some other examples of accent-induced confusion include "cot" and "caught", and "pin" and "pen".
** In some accents the words "merry", "marry" and "Mary" sound alike. Context is very important.

** In some accents, including those in much of California, the words "merry", "marry" and "Mary" sound alike. Context is very important.