History TotallyRadical / WesternAnimation

** The episode ""New Kids on the Blecch" features Music/NSync doing a self-parody in which every other word out of their mouths is either "square" or "old-school".

** Also briefly attempted by Mrs. Dr. Possible. Kim's reaction: "Mom, [[HotMom you're]] [[ActionMom already cool.]] Don't push it."

* In the ''Justice Friends'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Val Hallan, Viking God of Rock, speaks in a combination of this and YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe.

* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' with Bling-Bling Boy, a rich jerk who's Johnny's recurring nemesis. He came up with the name in an attempt to be cool. A RunningGag is when people refer to him by his first name, he insists that you call him Bling-Bling Boy. It was eventually dropped when the characters learned to humor him. The show itself is full of this, giving it a bizzare late-90's type of atmosphere.

** In ''TurtlesForever'', one of the 80s Turtles exclaim "Totally Radical!" when riding in the 2K3 Turtle Van.

* ''TotallySpies'' uses this as part of its effort to deliberately evoke the late 80s, from its setting in Beverly Hills to its Valspeak. Judging from the technology the girls use, the adventures are probably taking place either in our own era or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture....[[PurelyAestheticEra unless the show really is a period piece with modern technology interspersed throughout]].
** Funnily enough, one last season episode has a villain that turns everything into being 80's styled.

* One of the many minuses of ''RocketPower'' is its (mis)use of slang.

* In season 1 of ''[[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]]'' 's dub of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Musa seemed addicted to slang. Her use of it gradually toned down in S2.
* Parodied extensively in an episode of ''CloneHigh'' with the product X-Stream Blu (which notably contains [[XtremeKoolLetterz a hip spelling]]) in the spirit of Go-Gurt and like commercials. Among the blatant attempts to seem hip include the phrases "to the max", "legit-ass contract", and the random string "Sick! Tight! Cyber! Awesome!" Yeah, that energy drink is cyber.

* In the direct-to-DVD movie ''{{Bratz}}: Rock Angelz'', the main characters can't seem to go two minutes without exclaiming that something is totally "slamming", "rocking", "styling", "scorching", or, in the case of a punk rock night club, "punkalicious".
* In ''{{Transformers}}'', Jazz is supposed to be the young, cool, hip robot. Unfortunately, he's usually about 30 years behind with his "cool" phrases, and nobody seems to notice.
** This is somewhat justified in the [[Film/{{Transformers}} 2007 movie]], where it is mentioned that the Autobots learned all their human cultural information from the internet. We're lucky he wasn't talking in [[{{Lolcats}} LOLcat]].
** And ''TransformersAnimated'' brings us the Headmaster, who uses gamer slang instead of the usual '80s works... but still manages to be just as bad (or SoBadItsGood), with his constant shouting of "lamer" and "ownage". They even lampshaded it:

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Transformers, Cheetor began the series as a version of this, constantly saying things like "Ultra Gear!" and other radical things. The writers and the voice actor all hated this, and the lame dialogue largely went away by the end of the first season.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Chef describes a variety of words used in lieu of "house", such as "hizzy", claiming that blacks are changing the word to keep white people from using their slang. Eventually, the word for "house" is "flippity floppety floop".
** Which Mr. Garrison (at that point a FlamboyantGay) immediately steals, much to Chef's chagrin.
*** It severely [[MemeticMutation chagrined my dazzle]] as well.
* In the beginning episode ''Butt Out!'', an anti-smoking group performs at South Park Elementary, trying (and horribly failing) to reach the kids this way. When they tell the kids that, by not smoking, they can be "just like them", the boys look at each other, horrified, and the show cuts to them chain-smoking behind the school as if their lives depended on it.
* An episode of ''TheSimpsons'' features NSync doing a self-parody in which every other word out of their mouths is either "square" or "old-school".
** Bart Simpson's image in [[TheNineties early 90s]] pop culture can be seen as TotallyRadical, even though this was never really part of his persona in the actual show (his skateboarding in the opening sequence perhaps being the closest he ever came). The episode ''Bart's Inner Child'' parodied this phenomenon, right down to the quoting of "Cowabunga". When popular perception of the show began to focus more on Homer's antics, this aspect subsided.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has an ''in-universe'' example: When Aang is in the Fire Nation, he tries to blend in by using 100+ -year-old slang that gets him all kinds of odd looks. lmagine someone nowadays saying "Bully!" to mean "Awesome!" That's how Aang looked to the rest of the Fire Nation.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' Mr. Krabs asks his daughter Pearl if he's still cool. Pearl responds that the word "cool" is no longer considered hip, and that kids now say "coral". The minute Krabs starts saying "coral" (he pronounces it "corral"), Pearl calls her friends to tell them that "coral" is definitely out.
** Meanwhile Pearl and her friends themselves sound like stereotypical eighties Valley Girls.
** Also parodied in a later episode; Patrick, upon getting tanned, remarks that he feels like one of those hip young folks from the soda commercials. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] a live-action sexagenarian drinking from a can of soda on a psychadelic background, with dramatic zooms and loud rock music, while an announcer screams about how "radical" the drink is.

** Likely a subversion, as "groovy" is 1960s slang, and Ben's probably making the point that Gwen's coming across like a New Age hippie. Unless Ben's just an ''Franchise/EvilDead'' fan, that is...
** [[TheresNoBInMovie Which is entirely plausible.]]
* DisneyChannel's ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' is chock-full of awkward attempts at writing circa-early-nineties skater-boy talk among the lead TokenTrio. It got toned down in the second season and was even called outdated by his sister.
** It was half-deliberate. The writers originally wanted Jake to slip into progressively worse slang when he was about to do something [[WhatAnIdiot stupid]] or [[WhatTheHellHero morally questionable]], but [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney missed the point]] and made them scale it up the rest of the time too under the delusion that this would make it relevant to children. Then they yelled at the writers at the end of season one when they ''actually read'' reviews criticizing the overused slang and made them tone it down in the second season. It ended up pretty close to where the writers wanted it all along.

* Parodied brilliantly in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries / he New Batman Adventures'' episode "Mean Seasons," one of whose scenes shows a group of network bigwigs pilots:
--->(kid with backwards baseball cap and shades skateboards up to the camera, pulls out a police badge):
--->'''Kid''': "You're busted!"
--->'''Announcer''': "Teen Cop: inner-city street drama with a fresh attitude."
--->'''Kid''': "Education RULES!"
* [[JusticeLeague Batman]]: "[[Awesome/JusticeLeague You overplayed your part, ]]''[[Funny/JusticeLeague yo]]''".
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' by the hopeless ButtMonkey geek Irwin, [[VerbalTic yo]]. Quite possible a subtle jab at the typical JiveTurkey, since Irwin is the TokenMinority.
** [[{{Flanderization}} Note that this was absent in the early episodes...]]
*** His dad is also a victim of this, although [[CoolOldLady his grandmama]] is [[NeverMessWithGranny a badass grandma]] combined with this and can actually get away with it.

* The now infamous pilot for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Battletoads}}'' cartoon is cosmically psychotronic!
** The games were hardly innocent of this, with {{Catch Phrase}}s such as "Mad, bad, and crazy, 'Toads!"
* This trope was one of the many things about ''WesternAnimation/YoYogi!'' that caused WesternAnimation/YogiBear to stop starring in regular cartoons.
* DisneyChannel has been doing this to their old shorts, called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ydDZc940w Disney Blam!]]
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in an episode of ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', when Professor Utonium makes himself a super suit and joins the girls on their missions. He uses slang, but it's the slang from when he was a kid. The girls [[FacePalm react appropriately]].

* ''{{Transformers}}'': "[=DreadWING=] / is punishING / his Gatling gun is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YX-U-Ulrw8&feature=related ILLIN']]!"
** To say nothing of the big bad battlin' Bruticus. ([[IAmNotShazam Some forget]], but it is in fact [[CombiningMecha Onslaught]] who is the metamorphin' dudicus.)
* In one episode of ''TheTick'', where the villain was a super-intelligent child, the Tick attempted to relate with him by talking like this.

* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' with Bling-Bling Boy, a rich jerk who's Johnny's recurring nemesis. He came up with the name in an attempt to be cool. A RunningGag is when people refer to him by his first name, he insists that you call him Bling-Bling Boy. It was eventually dropped when the characters learned to humor him.
** The show itself is full of this, giving it a bizzare late-90's type of atmosphere.
* In an episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'', Jon's teenaged niece talked like this and Garfield and the narrator had to do translating duties every time she spoke. Eventually, poor Garf' started talking this way ''himself''. (The sound of Lorenzo Music uttering "Gag us with a spoon, dude" in that famously dreary voice of his is undeniably a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious moment]].)
* Boomerang's promo spot for their "Meddling Kids" block spotlights a clip of a character from ''{{Jabberjaw}}'' saying "Wowwy-wow-wow!" as an example of "the lingo."

** Still counts, because that sequence also has the titular kittens (who are, as their name suggests, supposed to be [[UpperClassTwit Upper Class Twits]]) awkwardly joining Scat's crew in singing the jazz song "Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat." (Note that the song contains plenty of beatnik/hippie slang such as "square" and "where it's at.")
* On an episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', [[{{Satan}} Lucius]] tries speaking in slang during a commercial for his cologne. Jimmy notes, "It's almost cool how uncool he is."
* Chris [=McLain=] from ''TotalDramaIsland'' uses the words "dude" and/or "bro" every other sentence when addressing the contestants. This gets Lampshaded when [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Chef reads Chris's cue cards]], showing viewers that TotallyRadical language is not as easy as Chris makes it look.

* ''RegularShow'' basically lives on this trope, [[InvertedTrope but not in the way you would expect]]. Its [[TwoDecadesBehind Eighties]] vibe is meant to appeal to ''[[PeripheryDemographic older viewers]]''.

* Parodied in ''InvaderZim'' with Poop Dog, the gangsta spectre of defeat!

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', where Rainbow Dash insists that her pet must possess "coolness", "awesomeness" and "radicalness". When Twilight Sparkle points out those three mean the same, she is given an AffectionateGestureToTheHead by Rainbow.

* The DisneyAnimatedCanon generally averts this, but Disney/{{Hercules}}, especially Megara, is plagued with it.
* While most of the characters in ''LooneyTunes'' were no strangers to using slang that is now considered dated, the one major stand-out is their last recurring character, Cool Cat, who reflected on the beatnik culture of the time and frequently used terms like "groovy" and "baby". Because of this, and his LimitedAnimation art style, he's considered even more dated than Bugs or Daffy despite debuting nearly 20 years later. As a result, he's seldom used today.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', already infamous for playing fast and loose with character designs, made the bizarre (and hilarious) decision to transform [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} Alucard]] from a goth {{bishonen}} into an ''aggressively'' dudebro "[=sk8er=] boi", complete with over-sized sunglasses, day-glo clothes, and embarrassing nineties haircut.
* [[MyLifeAsATeenageRobot Jenny]], in one episode, reads a slang book in order for her to fit in, only for her to realize that the book was published in [[TheEighties 1983]]. ''Gnarly!''
** Taken even further on the same episiode, when a strange person finding an opportunity to chat with [[note]]actually Vexus in disguise[[/note]] speaks in 1920s slang.
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** It's quite possible she learned this from Gilda, given that said griffon talked in ''nothing but TotallyRadical'' for the entirety of her episode.

** Taken even further on the same episiode, when a strange person finding an opportunity to chat with [[note]]actually Vexus in disguise[/[note]] speaks in 1920s slang.

** Taken even further on the same episiode, when a strange person finding an opportunity to chat with [[hottip:*: actually Vexus in disguise]] speaks in 1920s slang.

** Jubilee in the original ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'' cartoon did the same thing, though the setting was NewYork; this was adapted from the [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} comics]], she was a "mall rat" from Southern California.

* Kitty Pryde in ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'' originally used lots of somewhat-dated [[ValleyGirl Valley Speak]].

*** And it was [[Funny/{{X-MenEvolution}} hilariously]] {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Nightcrawler:

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' loves coming up with [[RuleOfFun deliberately goofy]] slang, such as "mathematical" and "algebraic". Largely justified, in that it takes place in a [[spoiler:post-apocalyptic world, which would mean that the characters' understanding of slang would be largely taken from the movies, video games, and other entertainment that remained after the Great Mushroom War.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has "mathematical" and "algebraic".

** It goes a little further than that. For example, people (not just Amy) in the future say "we're boned" instead of "we're screwed." (But considering what 'boning' meant already...) And of course "ask" has been completely replaced by the slang "axe".

* The now infamous pilot for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Battletoads}}'' cartoon.

** Likely a subversion, as "groovy" is 1960s slang, and Ben's probably making the point that Gwen's coming across like a New Age hippie. Unless Ben's just an ''EvilDead'' fan, that is...

* ''WesternAnimation/WidgetTheWorldWatcher'' and ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' (both from Zodiac Entertainment) are guilty of abuse of the word "awesome" in their opening titles (compounded by the latter dragging in "bodacious"), which get in the way of their otherwise awe... good theme tunes by Dale Schacker, who wisely avoided such slang with ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs''.

* Parodied in ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' by the hopeless ButtMonkey geek Irwin, [[VerbalTic yo]]. Quite possible a subtle jab at the typical JiveTurkey, since Irwin is the TokenMinority.

* ''[[MyLifeAsATeenageRobot Hey, guys and dolls, I'm Violet. You look like the bee's knees, and it would be the cat's meow if I could beat my gums with you a bit.]]''

* Miss Grotke on ''{{Recess}}'' often makes use of outdated slang.
* Judy Jetson in the 1980's revival of ''TheJetsons'' fits this trope to a tee, even going so far as to follow this trope when talking to her own mother!
* ''SuperFriends''. In the first episode of the 1973/74 season, "The Power Pirate", Wendy and Marvin spoke like 60's hippies, regularly used terms like "groovy", "cool", "right on" and "far out". Apparently the writers figured out how silly this sounded and they didn't speak like this for the rest of the season.

* An episode of ''TheSimpsons'' features N'Sync doing a self-parody in which every other word out of their mouths is either "square" or "old-school".

* This trope was one of the many things about ''Yo Yogi!'' that caused WesternAnimation/YogiBear to stop starring in regular cartoons.