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8	-> ''"Come on down to 'Bling Bling'! Market research said our name was cool!"''
9	-->-- '''Jewelry Store Radio Ad''', ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''
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13	''[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Yo, the kids love Descriptions of Totally Radical Here. They think it's bodacious.]]''
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15	[[MostWritersAreAdults Most television shows for audiences younger than their 20s are written by people significantly older than the target demographic]]. On its own, this is all right. It is when these writers attempt to co-opt the culture of the younger generation that the trouble starts.
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17	The biggest problem is slang. Either it's out of date (usually [[TwoDecadesBehind from the writers' own childhood]]), awkwardly misused (usually because the writers lack the proper understanding of the context and syntax), or just used far too frequently in the dialog (because they understand the meaning and syntax from a theoretical standpoint, but lack the understanding of the nuances of authentic contemporary youth dialogue). In more contemporary examples, expect similar misuse of emojis, ranging from awkward and unnecessary, to gratuitous overuse, all the way to completely inappropriate or badly misapplied usage (often with unintentionally hilarious results). Memes, when they are used, are also often some combination of outdated, awkwardly shoehorned, or badly misused, especially if they are either grossly out of date (e.g., advice animals, Doge/Grumpycat, or deep fried memes being used in the early 2020s) or used for purposes completely antithetical to their usual context. Whatever the case may be, there will be gnarly, bitchin' amounts of it, slathered over the dialogue like sauce over a particularly inept casserole.
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19	Also problematic is what kids do in their leisure time. This can be particularly painful if they're attempting AnAesop about [[TheNewRockAndRoll something that's recently become popular]]. Usually, that involves many stereotypical "bad boy" or "cool" activities, such as video games, surfing, motorcycling, or fixing cars; a recent example would be grossly stereotypical "[=Sk8r Boiz=]" or Soundcloud rappers. However, even your standard episode probably won't show video games (for instance) as anything but the back of a TV with [[PacManFever some Pac-Man-esque beeps and boops]] played over the soundtrack.
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21	A major problem with this trope as a whole is that it plays into loose stereotypes that really don't apply to the majority of real life children or teenagers. While kids and (especially) teenagers may be ''more'' likely to give in to pop culture trends than adults, they too are individuals with their own unique tastes and preferences. Even the latest TeenIdol will likely only have a small fraction of real life teenagers as "hardcore fans", while the remaining 90% of teens will have opinions ranging from disdain to indifference to relatively casual fandom.
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23	This also applies to commercials focused on kids, although they'll at least be knowledgeable about the product they're selling.
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25	Totally.
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27	Of course, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this]] ''[[Administrivia/TropesAreTools can]]'' [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools be done well.]] Most producers figure, though, that kids can't tell good writing from bad, and throw whatever out there. Because TVNeverLies, some impressionable viewers even believe it, resulting in PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy. BuffySpeak is a common way of avoiding this for those who do care. Another way to avoid the problem is [[StylisticSuck to do it]] ''[[StylisticSuck intentionally]]'' [[StylisticSuck badly]], though the line between this and PoesLaw or ParodyRetcon is often nebulous, and if not done in a sufficiently obvious manner, expect people to accuse you of the latter if you try to defend it as a parody.
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29	Don't forget, you copacetic hepcats, that if a show is trying to be set in a period older than the 80s, the same rules apply.
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31	Shows on the Creator/DisneyChannel, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, and Creator/CartoonNetwork are known for doing this, despite most of them centering around tweens and teenagers. This is usually entwined with the overuse of [[GoshDangItToHeck far-past-neutered euphemisms]], like "crud". {{Badbutt}} characters often speak this way.
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33	A rich, deep well of {{Narm}}. A lot of these examples also veer into SoBadItsGood territory. A character like this may also be TheNicknamer. This character also tends to believe that LikeIsLikeAComma.
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35	See also YoungerAndHipper, JiveTurkey (where a character pulls this off believably), BuffySpeak, SurferDude, ValleyGirl, LeetLingo, XtremeKoolLetterz; this is also a common trait of the MascotWithAttitude and the HippieTeacher. Often, this overlaps with NostalgiaFilter, as works that use this trope typically give very idealized depictions of childhood. SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen is a common InUniverse mockery of this as is the AgingWouldBeHipster.
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37	Contrast with SpockSpeak, FormalCharactersUseKeigo, LittleProfessorDialog, and {{Neologism}}. The StreisandEffect can be said to be an inversion: a figure of authority ''wants'' to draw attention away from something, but succeeds only in the opposite, because their interest in keeping it under wraps [[RevealingCoverup is seen as indication that there must be something interesting there]]. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] someone who ''is'' a [[TheOnlyRighteousIndexOfFanatics total radical]].
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39	There's even a [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] ([=r/FellowKids=]) about this.
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42	!!Example subpages
43
44	[[index]]
45	* TotallyRadical/{{Advertising}}
46	* TotallyRadical/AnimeAndManga
47	* TotallyRadical/ComicBooks
48	* [[TotallyRadical/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
49	* TotallyRadical/{{Literature}}
50	* TotallyRadical/LiveActionTV
51	* TotallyRadical/VideoGames
52	* TotallyRadical/WebAnimation
53	* TotallyRadical/{{Webcomics}}
54	* TotallyRadical/WebOriginal
55	* TotallyRadical/WesternAnimation
56	* TotallyRadical/RealLife
57	[[/index]]
58
59	!!Other examples:
60	[[foldercontrol]]
61
62	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
63	* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' creator Lynn Johnston, in an effort not to sound dated ten seconds later, made up her own teenage slang phrases, which, since they were still being coined by a middle-aged woman, tended to sound pretty awkward anyway. Notable examples include "going/gone roadside" (i.e., [[IntercourseWithYou putting out]]); also, "foob" (a portmanteau of "fool" and "boob"), close enough to the strip's actual acronym that [[{{Hatedom}} snarkers]] now routinely call the strip ''Foob''. This really shone through because, well, it was a newspaper comic, which are not known for giving their readers the benefit of the doubt in intelligence... between that and just not having much space, Johnston would thus have to ''explain'' what her made-up slang meant... with slang or euphemisms that ''were'' Totally Radical.
64	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', Jeremy had to teach his dad not to say "What's up, dood?" Unfortunately, though he could pronounce "Whatup, dude?" (relatively in use at time of publishing), he had no idea what it meant. Parodied in one strip where Jeremy tries to get a slang word of his own invention to catch on: "Plasmic". It works about as well as you'd expect.
65	* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' both averted ''and'' parodied this trope in a strip wherein Calvin made up his ''own'' slang, just to prove to his dad that it was possible. The father replied with some old hippie slang.
66	-->'''Calvin:''' Don't you think that's totally spam? It's lubricated! Well, I'm phasing.\
67	'''Dad:''' Marvy. Fab. Far out.
68	[[/folder]]
69
70	[[folder:Fan Works]]
71	* The characters of the ''Manga/DGrayMan'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4342956/1/Any_Way_You_Want_It Any Way You Want It]]'' use [[TheEighties eighties]] slang heavily in their dialogue, thanks to the authors' love of the decade.
72	--> '''Author's Note''': If you didn't catch it from the summary, it takes place in 1985, which means we ''will'' be raping the 80s terms dictionary we found.
73	* In ''Fanfic/BlueSkyWaffles'', anytime Wheatley tries to use slang, it comes across as this.
74	* ''Website/FamilyGuyFanon'': Season 2's "[[Recap/FamilyGuyFanonS2E17BetweenSanityAndMadness Between Sanity and Madness]]" has Francis and Thelma dress in 90's clothing and use 90's slang to appeal to Meg and Chris. They have the reaction one expected to seeing their grandparents trying to be hip with the kids.
75	-->'''Meg''': I think I just threw up in my mouth.\
76	'''Chris''': That's better than me dying a little inside.
77	** Even better is that the episode aired in 2000 and led to this interaction:
78	--->'''Francis''': Damn, Skippy! It's the 90's!\
79	'''Chris''': Grandpa, it's 2000. People literally don't say that anymore.
80	* ''Anime/MonColleKnights'' guest character Mondo Ooya speaks this way in the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Starbound}}'', even going as far as to strike poses and gestures. This becomes particularly noticeable when the mains bring him and Rokuna to Minami's house, and is something Kagami calls him out on ''twice''. Case in point, here's how he's shown to have introduced Miyuki to his own family, [[{{Foil}} in stark contrast to]] her having just introduced him and Rokuna to Minami:
81	--> "Man, you won't believe how many hot-babes I got to chill with! Here's one of 'em right here!"
82	* In ''Fanfic/ExcusesExcuses'', after learning that Applejack is a trans mare, Shining Armor has a dream featuring a male Applejack that speaks this way. He's exaggerating male stereotypes:
83	-->"Hey! Don't be mean to Shining! He's just a bro lookin' out for his little sister ya' know homie?"
84	* In chapter 10 of the multi-crossover chat fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12006930/chapters/30180012#workskin Welcome to the Party Line!]]'' [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Marinette]] tells the others about how Hawk Moth akumatized a father trying too hard to connect with his son. The result was a villain who called himself "Xtreme Daddio" [[XtremeKoolLetterz (spelling intentional)]], wore his jeans down to his knees, spoke in "radical" slang terms (with at least one use of [[WesternAnimation/DaBoomCrew "Tony Hawk it later, dude"]]), and weaponized various outdated memes (included twerking, dabbing, and fidget spinners). Everyone except [[Franchise/Ben10 Ben]] reacts to him with complete disgust.
85	* Parodied in ''Fanfic/XMenTheEarlyYears'' when the gang runs into a -pretty silly- Satan cultist who talks like this the whole time.
86	-->"Dude. My cult is not going to be happy about this. I, like, had to bring the new snake over tonight to, like, get ready for tonight's sacrifice."
87	* Invoked by Danny in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29773263/chapters/73241475 Operation I'm Totally 300]]'' where he intentionally uses outdated slang and memes (such as dabbing) to hide the fact that [[ItMakesSenseInContext he's not really a centuries old ghost]].
88	* Averted in ''Fanfic/PatternsOfThePast'', where every character speaks in phrases and terms that are appropriate for TheRoaringTwenties, the time period where the story is set in.
89	* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': ''Mr Stripes Versus A Cthonic Horror'': In the first chapter, Mr Stripes is reading a book that uses "hip" to sound up-to-date with kid culture and fails ''hard'':
90	--> The book’s title was ''1001 Possible Presents for Your Teenage Filly’s Birthday (And Where to Get Them All at Extremely Short Notice)'', and as he read it, Mr Stripe’s forehead formed a mass of worried wrinkles that could have put glaciated continents to shame.\
91	“‘Tickets to a concert by whatever hip new band foals are listening to these days’,” he muttered under his breath, sidestepping a newscolt as his brows creased further. “Am reasonably sure ‘hip’ was unhip term even when ''I'' was colt.
92	* Invoked in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/51245905 Drift]]'', a side story for ''Fanfic/AGameOfCatAndCat''. By the twentieth century, Dracula has become completely incomprehensible due to LanguageDrift, so before he faces [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Julius Belmont]], he kidnapped a professor of linguistics to teach him modern Romanian. He never quite realized what ''kind'' of modern Romanian the resentful professor taught him.
93	-->'''Dracula''': Then prepare to throw down, daddy-o, because you're about to get wrecked!
94	* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': All Might drops this line along with a huge {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}, complete with GratuitousEnglish:
95	-->'''All Might: As you youngsters say, [later dude]!'''
96	[[/folder]]
97
98	[[folder:Films — Animation]]
99	* Played straight ''and'' {{inverted\|Trope}} at the same time in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'': The movie has Scat Cat and others saying "groovy" and "cat" in a film released in 1970 (when that kind of slang was going out of style), but the film itself is set in ''1910'', when none of such slang was in common use (or even invented) yet. Of course, the movie has [[AnachronismStew swing to begin with...]] It still counts, because that sequence also has the eponymous kittens (who are, as their name suggests, supposed to be {{Upper Class Twit}}s) 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.")
100	%%* The Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon generally averts this, but ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', especially Megara, is plagued with it.
101	* Who can forget the immortal scene from ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''? We still have no idea if it's meant to be a satire (note Crysta's reaction) or if the writers were serious:
102	--> '''Zack''': You know -- bodacious, bad, tubular...
103	--> ''Zack looks meaningfully into Crysta's eyes''
104	--> '''Zack''': As in, you are one ''bodacious'' babe.
105	* "WesternAnimation/RileysFirstDate", the short following ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' features Riley's mother trying to find out whether Riley is attracted to Jordan. Unfortunately, she attempts to do so with her idea of current slang. It's as hideously grating as it sounds.
106	-->'''Mom:''' So, what's the dealio with Jordan? OMG, he is awesomesauce. Fo' shizzy!\
107	''[Inside Riley's control center, her emotions stare blankly]''\
108	'''Joy:''' ... Did she just say "fo' shizzy?"\
109	'''Sadness:''' I don't understand. What's happening?\
110	'''Disgust:''' Ugh, this is just embarrassing! I can't. I c-can't. ''[[[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Storms off]]]''\
111	'''Mom:''' Holla!\
112	''[The rest of the emotions cringe]''
113	* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', where Shrek spews out a string of hip-hop slang in a failed attempt to relate to Artie.
114	-->'''Artie:''' Help! I've been kidnapped by a monster that's trying to relate to me!
115	[[/folder]]
116
117	[[folder:Magazines]]
118	* ''National Geographic Kids'' was a particularly egregious example, seeing as it was written for kids by people with an apparently very dim view of children's capacity for learning. Aside from the fact that the magazine was almost entirely composed of either advertisements or advertisements masquerading as articles, the writers decided it was necessary to appeal to children using outdated (not to mention ludicrous in any time period) slang. A particularly pertinent example occurred in their "review" (read: advertisement) of ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' when discussing the costume changes from the last two films: "Harry and the gang now dress in hip street clothes instead of their stuffy Hogwarts uniforms."
119	%%* ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' did this when promoting new subscriptions or the totally cool lifestyles of game counselors.
120	* Some magazines will run articles explaining "teen speak" to parents. For example, Dutch magazine Elsevier once ran an article explaining obscure slang terms. Even more ridiculous was the article then positing that children would use this language at the dinner table, with parents being powerless to understand it or to stop their children from using it.
121	* ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' used to have a monthly feature demonstrating five slang terms every month, for about the first six or so years of publication. It was discontinued after 1996 or so, probably when the publication's editors realized that it dated ''very quickly.''
122	* A 2011 issue of ''National Geographic'' (which tends to be aimed at ages 18 and up) introduced a story about the "teenage brain" with [[LikeIsLikeAComma "Like, totally!"]] Teenagers haven't seriously used that expression for about two decades now.
123	* ''Magazine/{{Cracked}}''[='=]s parody of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', [[https://animorphs.fandom.com/wiki/Animorons_(Cracked_Magazine_Parody) Animorons,]] mocks this:
124	-->The gang met up under the bleachers where the others quickly updated me using hip language and pop culture references, just like real teenagers, so readers can better relate to us.
125	[[/folder]]
126
127	[[folder:Music]]
128	* The band ''Leetstreet Boys'' seems to be purposefully invoking this trope in their songs, most notably in the song "Yuri The One For Me". The band members can't possibly be younger than mid twenties, and the lyrics include such lines as:
129	-->"Like a Pokémon I Pikachu."
130	-->"You and I make Nintendo Wii /
131	-->Will together be [=WoW=] Level 70."
132	-->"[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephy's]] [[EldritchAbomination mom]] [[NoYay has got it goin' on.]]"
133	* A ''Washington Post'' review of Music/KatyPerry's album ''Teenage Dreams'' and its song "Last Friday Night" says: ''But concerned parents of young Katy Perry fans, don't fret -- this woman might have more in common with you than with your kids. When it's time for Perry to reflect on her 3 a.m. follies, she stiffly sings "That was such an epic fail". It sounds like a clueless parent's attempt to speak teenager.'' (Be that as it may, the song was her fifth number-one hit from the album, the first time a female musician has pulled that off.)
134	* In an earlier version of ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'', Caiaphas delivers the dated line "One thing I'll say for him, Jesus is cool." In later editions, this line is changed to "Infantile sermons; the multitudes drool".
135	* The [[https://www.nme.com/news/music/people-pretty-baffled-bizarre-super-horny-meghan-trainor-press-release-2449255 press release]] for Music/MeghanTrainor's EP ''The Love Train'' gained immediate notoriety for, among other things, its clueless use of slang like "bae", "wig snatch", and (in all-caps) "QUEEN", going viral online for slamming head-first into this trope. The author of the press release, a writer for ''Series/TheLateLateShow'' named Caroline Goldfarb, admitted that she did it purely to get that reaction, saying that the joke was on all the people cringing at it because [[MoneyDearBoy she got paid to write it]] -- while noting that she originally came up with even ''worse'' lines that she cut from the finished product.
136	* Music/{{Eminem}}, once bang up to the minute on popculture, became rather infamous for putting outdated references into his middle-aged work, such as his verse in the 2014 Bad Meets Evil song "Vegas" shouting out Music/KidRock and Music/{{Slipknot}} and having him literally yell "''{{squee}}!''" at one point. Following criticism, he updated both his sound and references in 2018's ''Kamikaze'', insisting he was more in tune with everything than people thought he was -- but still using it for effect at times, like starting off his verse on "Chloroseptic (Remix)" with jokes about TurnOfTheMillennium villains like Jack Kavorkian and Osama Bin Laden in order to reinforce the sense that he's going back to who he was in 2000.
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138
139	[[folder:New Media]]
140	* In 1995, [=CompuServe=] released "Internet In A Box For Kids." It was basically the grown-up version of "Internet In A Box," except with a videotape on proper internet usage along with an internet monitoring software program for parents to block sites they deemed inappropriate for their children. While the included video mostly averted this (probably because it featured actual children explaining how to properly use the internet), the box art was filled to the brim with Totally Radical imagery and lingo... such as a kid screaming "Totally Internet!!!"
141	* The [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] [[http://www.reddit.com/r/FellowKids r/FellowKids]] collects various advertisements of this nature, usually involving forced references to memes and internet lingo.
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	[[folder:Pinball]]
145	* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/Breakshot1996'', the moose yells "Bodacious!" if you score a jackpot during Ball-O-Rama.
146	* [[Creator/WilliamsElectronics Bally's]] ''Pinball/DrDude'' is totally ''loaded'' with Totally Radical surfer slang throughout the game.
147	* Unsurprisingly, ''Pinball/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesDataEast'' is full of '80s and '90s slang.
148	-->"Totally excellent!"\
149	"Wipeout!"
150	* ''Pinball/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesStern'' lays off on it, but still has a few voice clips that engage in (by then dated) '80s and '90s slang.
151	-->'''Michelangelo:''' Totally tubular!
152	%%* Similar to the above, ''Pinball/TheSimpsonsDataEast'' has a bit of this, mostly from Bart Simpson.
153	* ''[[Pinball/{{Radical}} Radical!]]'' is a pinball machine about skating whose playfield resembles a skate park and whose artwork embodied '80s skater culture at its thickest.
154	[[/folder]]
155
156	[[folder:Podcasts]]
157	* Jake Coolice of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty'' definitely qualifies as this, though it is toned down significantly in his later appearances.
158	[[/folder]]
159
160	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
161	* Wrestling/{{WCW}} dipped into this when they tried to market themselves to the urban/hip hop market. They hired Music/MasterP, widely considered at the time to be Rap's equivalent of Music/{{Hanson}}, and made an entire stable with a rap themed gimmick called the No Limit Soldiers. The worst part, though, was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4VPrBqLII DJ Ran,]] who periodically interrupted the wrestling show to ask the fans where the rowdiest section was at.
162	* ''Wrestling/WrestlingSocietyX'', MTV's short lived attempt at producing a wrestling show. We're talking about musical guests playing at the start of every episode, plenty of explosions and "awesome" sound effects, not to mention the wrestling being about as flashy as possible.
163	* [[Wrestling/TotalNonstopActionWrestling TNA]] went through a period where they were intentionally inverting WWE's example above: they ''constantly'' threw out insider lingo, openly referred to "the script", talked about "turning" and "swerves", etc. etc. This was in the middle of their "Wrestling is real" kick, and was a pretty blatant attempt to snag the Internet Wrestling Community that the WWE seemed to take every opportunity to piss off... Except it was ''so'' blatant and self-contradicting (how can something be "real" one break while someone gets chastised for "going off-script" the next?) that it backfired spectacularly and got the IWC to basically make fun of them even ''worse'' than they were before. Fortunately, it didn't last long and has all but vanished.
164	* Wrestling/HulkHogan is known for throwing around slang like "brother", "dude", and "jack". He still does it, even though he's well into his sixties and long-retired.
165	* Wrestling/DanaBrooke subverts this - she sometimes uses 'trendy' expressions like "totes", "jelly" and "cray-cray," but she's supposed to be an obnoxious millennial rather than cool.
166	[[/folder]]
167
168	[[folder:Radio]]
169	* ''The Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany Radio Show'':
170	-->'''Reed''': I told you, Adam, Antony and Cleopatra has nothing to do with rap!\
171	'''Adam''': Oh yeah? Well, where does Cleopatra come from?\
172	'''Reed''': Egypt.\
173	'''Adam''': And what continent is Egypt on?\
174	'''Reed''': Africa.\
175	'''Adam''': Africa... African-Americans... rap! Boom! Hit it!\
176	There was a red-hot mama and her name was Cleo\
177	A babe born in Egypt but she moved to Italy-o\
178	She hooked up with a dude who was built like a tree\
179	Her old man's name was Mark An-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-
180	** The published script to their stage show includes a tongue-in-cheek footnote remarking that they are only too aware that rap as a signifier of youth and coolness was hopelessly cliched even back when the "Othello Rap" was originally added in 1987, but they keep it in because it's consistently one of the most popular parts of the show with audiences.
181	* Matt Smith [[Series/DoctorWho (no, not that one)]], original presenter of [[Creator/TheBBC Radio 4's]] children's show ''[=Go4It=]'' in 2001, was more than a little prone to this and extensively parodied on the radio version of ''Series/DeadRingers''. His successor Barney Harwood (who would later go on to present ''Series/BluePeter'') was rather more restrained.
182	* National Cynical Network's "Chap in the Hood", with a crisply accented Briton interjecting urban slang into his monologue, joined in the finale by a Cockney rival doing the same.
183	* An episode of the CBC comedy news show ''Radio/ThisIsThat'' had a teacher who switched to talking in this sort of forced slang in class. [[RuleOfFunny It worked.]]
184	* In the Creator/BigFinish ''Series/DoctorWho'' audio adventure ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsCuddlesome Cuddlesome]]'', the Mark [=II=] Cuddlesomes talk in 1980s slang that sounds like a cross between the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]].
185	* In The Secondary Phase of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'', Zaphod [[CharacterisationMarchesOn suddenly begins]] talking in a garbled parody of 1970s slang, executed by mixing up contemporary slang words with [[FutureSlang invented 'hitch-hiker slang']] and lots of PardonMyKlingon. It's supposed to make him sound like a bit of a dick, though.
186	* Parodied in a fake ad by The Vestibules, in which a company desperately tries to target a new customer demographic:
187	-->'''Teenager''': (With rock music playing in the background) Yeah, Kentworth-Haynes Olde English Tea Biscuits are cool, and radical, and they're not things that ''old people'' eat! ... I like to eat 'em when I'm doing extreme sports, dude! And by the way I should know, because I'm wearing large pants that are fashionable now.\
188	'''Announcer''': Made according to a traditional ''cool'' time-honored English recipe that combined the ''radical'' stone-milled flour with an ''extreme'' light country fresh taste, Kentworth-Haynes Olde English Tea Biscuits are guaranteed fresh - and they are ''cool''!
189	* Old-time Creator/{{BBC}} DJ's are prone to this. Even when on [=BBC=] Radio One in TheSeventies, Radio/TonyBlackburn was prone to using the slang and argot of a decade before, much to the amusement of parodists and comedians who saw how he was slipping behind the cutting edge of musical relevance. Even the jingles he used on his radio show in TheSeventies were unchanged from the ones he had pioneered when on [[BuccaneerBroadcaster pirate radio]] in TheSixties. Blackburn, to be fair, was not the only example of this at the [=BBC=], but it stuck out a mile and added to his reputation for out-of-touch cheesiness. Today he still works for [=BBC=] radio presenting nostalgia shows for an older generation, where the original presentation styles and jungles are not so much accepted as expected.
190	[[/folder]]
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192	[[folder:Sports]]
193	* The first incarnation of the XFL was an attempt by Wrestling/VinceMcMahon (after being rebuffed by the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague CFL]] when he tried to buy them out and move them south) to create a more "extreme" UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball league. In promoting the new league, [=McMahon=] described the established [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]] as the [[FunWithAcronyms "No Fun League"]] for rule changes discouraging hard hits, with the XFL having fewer penalties in favor of what [=McMahon=] described as "smash-mouth, wide-open football". In addition to [[XtremeKoolLetterz the league's name]], the teams also had "extreme" names like the Maniax, the Rage, the Demons, the Hitmen, the Outlaws, and, yes, the Xtreme. The presentation reflected that of [=McMahon=]'s Wrestling/AttitudeEra Wrestling/{{WWE}}, with scantily-clad cheerleaders, smack-talking announcers, a scramble for the ball between two players in place of a coin toss, and microphones and cameras in the huddle and in the locker rooms. It only lasted a single season in 2001 before folding, seen by many critics and sports fans as a gimmick-laden mess of bad football that substituted on-the-field talent for "extreme" attitude.
194	** [=McMahon=] decided to give it another go in 2018, this time making things more separated from the WWE to avoid the accusations of {{Kayfabe}} and other various issues; the rules were changed as well to make it more like traditional football. Things got off to a good start in 2020... only for the COVID-19 pandemic to derail any momentum the new XFL had, cancelling the season (along with all other live sporting events); ultimately [=McMahon=] decided to pack it in and the XFL declared bankruptcy, though there are discussions about reviving the XFL for the 2022 season, complete with a partnership with the aforementioned CFL.
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198	* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': Played for laughs with the Death Leopard secret society, who are among the few in any universe who would actually say "Totally radical, dude!" and mean every word of it. (In Zap games, talking like a dodgy take on a 1980s surfer dude is all but expected).
199	* An unfortunate moment in ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds: Hero High'' had Lucien Soulban jump into this, by recommending renaming a number of skills "Yo, dis da shizzle, boy!"
200	* ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' occasionally dipped into this trope. For instance, the back cover copy of the Guiding Hand sourcebook ''Blood of the Valiant'' exhorts the reader to "check out this tome, G."
201	* For ''TabletopGame/{{Uno}}'s'' 50th anniversary, five new decks were released, each one representing a decade the game was around in. The box descriptions for them all read like a marketing executive was trying to appear hip to the youth of that decade (the 90's pack tells the player to "get jiggy with it" and references ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'', for example).
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205	* In ''Literature/FlowerDrumSong'', Wang San annoys his parents with his use of slang, for instance by trying to explain to his father that Helen has "got a yen for" his older brother:
206	-->'''Wang''': A yen?\
207	'''San''': That's when someone sends you--and Ta sends her.\
208	'''Wang''': What language are you speaking?\
209	'''San''': That's bop, Pop!
210	* Originally, "The Rap" from ''Theatre/StarlightExpress'' was entirely plot-relevant, though it was clearly a product of TheEighties. In TheNineties, the song was rewritten to comply with the musical's newly changed plot, but sounded even more dated than before ("Nah, diesel's wicked! That diesel's sweet!"). Its final incarnation for the twenty-first century, complete with "Hip Hoppers" replacing the previous trio of boxcars, was, in fact, ''totally'' [[{{Pun}} 'radical']], to the extent that not a single lyric remained from the first version of the song. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9whdKasGK8 This version must be seen to be believed.]] Needless to say, a CampGay electric engine rapping "I've got the pull! I'm takin' you to school!" is hilarious enough even without the choral assertion that racing is "the fastest, the dopest, the meanest, the quickest, the raddest, the baddest."
211	* All four characters in ''Theatre/TitleOfShow'' occasionally indulge in this, with terms like "hangry" (hungry + angry) and "fuxellent" (you can probably guess). Subverted in that while most of the slang terms used in the show were more or less made up, the fanbase actually embraced them after the fact.
212	* Parodied in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel'', when Umbridge promises the kids that having her as a teacher is going to be [[CallBack "Totally awesome!"]]
213	* For the 2014 London Palladium production of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', Creator/AndrewLloydWebber announced that he found the character Rum Tum Tugger to be "boring and outdated" and had decided to change him from a Music/MickJagger-esque rock star to a hip-hop "street cat". Tugger was given a rap song wherein he declared himself to be the "Jelli-coolest Cat", and he also nicknamed other cats, calling Old Deuteronomy "Old D" and Mistoffelees "the Magi-coolest cat". Needless to say, this new version of the character was [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks not well-received]], and was soon phased out in favour of the original.
214	* In ''Theatre/{{Assassins}}'', Sara Jane Moore attempts to bond with Squeaky Fromme by using terms like "groovy" and "psychedelic". Fromme comments that she sounds like a nark.
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218	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythWFw6RupI My Pal 2]] robot from Toy Biz fits this bill, saying phrases like "Yo, dude, what's up?" and "You da man!", albeit in a high robotic voice. Its successor, the My Pal 2000, was like this as well.
219	* ''Anime/BDamanCrossfire'''s US toyline had the slogan "Be da Man! B-Daman!" in addition to its very Tech Deck inspired commercials - marble-shooting robots shouting [[SurferDude surfer slang]] before one of them [[ToiletHumour vomits marbles everywhere]] due to being dizzy. One of them never even shows off the toys being played with - just some excited kids and a CGI cartoon of the toys tooling about.
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