History ReferencedBy / Scrabble

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E2BartTheGenius Bart the Genius]]", Bart spells out "[[ScrabbleBabble KWYJIBO]]" in a game of ''Scrabble he plays with his family.

* Richard Castle from ''Series/{{Castle}}'', naturally, is a master at ''Scrabble'', and always wins every game. Until Beckett comes and utterly humilliates him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bart spells out "[[ScrabbleBabble KWYJIBO]]".

* ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'': ''Scrabble'' tiles are used to solve an anagram.

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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In the [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[GrandFinale series finale]], Miss Brooks and Lawrence Nolan play a game of Scrabble aboard the ''Paradise'', Nolan's yacht. Not surprising, the board is plainly the deluxe edition, with built-in turntable.

* NonFiction book ''Word Freak'' covers the world of competitive ''Scrabble'', as does the movie ''Word Wars''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Daria adds "incarce" to "rate" in the episode "Big House".

* A strip in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has both characters playing [[ScrabbleBabble the most outrageous words]] and getting ridiculously high scores from them. Another has Calvin spelling only two-letter words like "be" (complaining that he lacks vowels on his rack) whereas Hobbes wins big with words like "nucleoplasm".
* There's a scary ShortStory about a man who plays ''Scrabble'' with his wife. Any time either of them spells out a word, that word takes place on the other person. (For example, FLY causes a fly to appear or something.) It ends when the wife plays DEATH... The story is called "Death by Scrabble".
* The movie ''Film/{{Innerspace}}'' had Martin Short's character attempting to watch the game show (during a [[BonusRound Sprint]]) to calm himself down, only for the shrunken guy inside him ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]) to send a pulse out that blows up the TV.
* In ''Series/Numb3rs'', it is mentioned that Charlie is a terrible speller and his father gets the game in the first season finale after a game of chess that Charlie lost due to a misspelling of "Anomaly".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': In the episode "Klokblocked", Skwissgaar spells "quhzk". To quote [[YouNoTakeCandle Toki]]:
--> Yeah, "Quhzk"s. That's whats a duck says.

* In the ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' episode "Car Periscope", Larry plays ''Scrabble'' with an elderly man, who shocks him by [[RacistGrandma putting down "coon"]].
* In ''Series/TheSopranos'', Meadow is playing with Jackie Jr. He complains that she's not allowed to play "Spanish words". The word Meadow played was "oblique", which he pronounces "ob-lik-ay".
* In her memoir ''Bossy Pants'', Creator/TinaFey says that her "proudest moment as a child" was beating her uncle at ''Scrabble'' with the word "farting".
* Done in [[http://xkcd.com/492 this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' comic, which suggests use of the word "CLITORIS" without spelling it, of course.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bart spells out "[[ScrabbleBabble KWYJIBO]]".
* In ''Series/{{ALF}}'', Alf spells out "QUIDNUNC". The rest of the players challenge him but they later learn that it is an actual word (one who enjoys gossip). Alf takes this up a notch by using his extra turn to spell out "QUIDNUNCLE".

* ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'': Dylan and Eric Knox were playing Scrabble at one point on their evening. The next morning, Dylan spells out "ENEMY" when TheDragon shows up, not knowing that Eric himself was the BigBad.
* Steve and Alex Keaton spend a whole episode ''Series/FamilyTies'' playing Scrabble, as they use increasingly hilarious strategies and questionable words to try to get an advantage, such as Alex hoarding U's to prevent anyone from getting rid of a Q.
* In one of the MythOMania books, "Hit The Road, Helen", Persephone and Hades play this. The second game has Hades playing war words since this mind is worrying about the "Trojan War".
* The end of the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode "Repairs" has most of Coulson's team playing a game, though the only move shown is when Simmons makes the word [[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet aglet]].
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBOdOf-oN20 Troll Palace]]''. The animatronics (with the exception of Foxy, apparently) just want to play a game of ''Scrabble'' with the security guard.
* [[Series/{{Castle}} Richard Castle]], naturally, is a master at this, and always wins every game. Until Beckett comes and utterly humilliates him.
* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "[[DoubleMeaningTitle Bad Words]]" a competitive Scrabble player is found dead with tiles in his mouth; it's discovered that he was killed after infuriating his opponent. He played a phony (EXVIN; "a wine aficionado who no longer drinks"), and [[JerkAss then challenged his opponent for pluralizing it]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Leonard of Quirm invents Discworld's equivalent of Scrabble, which he, of course, calls [[GiverOfLameNames The Make Words With Tiles That Have Been All Mixed Up Game]]. The one game of it that is played is between him, Colon, Nobby and Vetinari. Nobby only gets three points because [[SirSwearsALot all the words he wants to make are rude]] and Colon won't let him use them. Meanwhile, Vetinari manages to win by extending "avoid" into "unavoidable" and onto "this Three Times Ye Value Of Ye Whole Word square."
* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Cat plays "Jozxyqk" in a game against Lister. He insists it's a cat word, defined as the sound people make when they get their sexual organs trapped in things. He's not sure if it's in the dictionary, but it would be if you were reading it in the nude and you closed the book too quickly.
* ''Series/LeCoeurASesRaisons'' has a scene during which Criquette and Brett play Scrabble together. Not only do they use utterly obvious ScrabbleBabble (wqt, ffiffu, txtxtx, etc, which are suspiciously all nocturnal aquatic animals), they place the tiles anarchically over the board.
* In cousin skeeter Skeeter spells out "grzplfx"
* ''[[Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)]]'': Near the beginning, Klaus and Violet can be seen playing it - Too bad Sonny's been gnawing on the tiles.
* [[https://youtu.be/wT1fl90KQAA?t=1494 One episode]] of ''[[Series/{{EightOutOfTenCats}} 8 Out Of 10 Cats]] Does Series/{{Countdown}}'' had a member of Dictionary Corner discuss a Scrabble variant entitled "Cult", which involved "convincing the other player" that the nonsense words as seen in a picture (in which the center star space ''isn't even used'') had actual definitions and were legal to play.[[note]]Three letters and a [[WildCard blank]] sitting in a corner spelled "CU□T" as well.[[/note]]
* In ''Series/LittleBritain'', hypnotist Kenny Craig plays Scrabble with his mother. He adds a Y to his mother's "cupboard", making the word "cupboardy", which he says means, er, cupboard-like.
* Referred to: WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is playing with Napoleon's battle plans, maps and arsenal models in the cartoon "Napoleon Bunny-part" and tells him "This has Scrabble beat a mile! You oughta patent it!"