Line #18 TotallyRadical/WesternAnimation


1	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
2	** The series loves coming up with [[RuleOfFun deliberately goofy]] slang, such as "mathematical" and "algebraic". Largely justified, in that [[spoiler:it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, meaning that the characters' understanding of slang would be taken from the movies, video games, and other entertainment that remained after the Great Mushroom War]].
3	** Party Pat: "That monster's gut was totally excellent".
4	** Lumpy people have "lump/ing", "buumps", and overuse contemporary slang like "totally", "whatever" and "awesome".
5	* Creator/DisneyChannel's ''WesternAnimation/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 It got toned down in the second season and was even called outdated by his sister.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 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.
6	** One flashback to Lao-Shi's heyday as the Hong Kong Dragon had him talking in equally absurd seventies slang.
7	* InUniverse, King Andrias from ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has befriended the TrappedInAnotherWorld human teen Marcy Wu, who has taught him human teenager slang and mannerisms which he now regularily uses somewhat awkwardly. [[spoiler:He continues to use it after his [[BitchInSheepsClothing true nature]] is revealed, though it now comes across as terrifyingly AffablyEvil]].
8	-->"You must be Anne! Sup. ''[aside, to Marcy]'' Am I saying it right? Sssup"\
9	"Ooops, looks like I 'spilled the tea' as you kids say."\
10	"Andrias out!" ''[winks and does a V with his fingers]''
11	* ''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. Imagine someone nowadays saying "Bully!" to mean "Awesome!" That's how Aang looked to the rest of the Fire Nation.
12	--> Stay flamin'!\
13	Hotman. (Hotman. Hotman...)\
14	Flameo!
15	* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Buster and the Daredevils", when Arthur and Buster try to impress a pair of "cool kid" bullies named Toby and Slink. The slang these two use, and their hobbies (skateboarding and reading ''[[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Peabrain and Nuthead]]'' comics), are more or less contemporary to when [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties when the episode was written]], a few years out of date at worst. Buster's idea of acting cool, however, is to put on some oversized sunglasses and talk in a bizarre amalgam of misused '70s and '80s slang, driving home just how uncool he is. Toby and Slink have no idea what he's trying to say.
16	* 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!"
17	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': Used here to mock a turn of phrase that sounds very NewAgeRetroHippie:
18	-->'''Gwen''': I'm at one with the cosmic mana, feeling the energy of the universe flowing around and through me.\
19	'''Ben''': Groovy...
20	* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' parodies this in Season 5, when Officer Meow-Meow Fuzzyface pulls a sting operation while riding a scooter, wearing a hat labelled "Teen", and asking "Is it 'lit' under here?"
21	* Creator/DisneyChannel has been doing this to their old shorts, called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ydDZc940w Disney]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1ipEmyFjg Blam!]]
22	* In the direct-to-DVD movie ''Franchise/{{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."
23	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', already infamous for [[YouDontLookLikeYou playing fast and loose with character designs]], made the bizarre (and hilarious) decision to transform [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse Alucard]] from a goth {{bishonen}} into an ''aggressively'' dudebro [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/castlevania/images/3/34/Captain_N_-_The_Game_Master_-_05.png/revision/latest?cb=20150822085129 "sk8er boi,"]] complete with over-sized sunglasses, day-glo clothes, and embarrassing nineties haircut. They also [[AdaptationalVillainy made him evil]] for some reason.
24	* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'':
25	** Parodied extensively in an episode 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. One of the executives in the background during the Totally Radical moments tends to shout out how this type of pandering has destroyed his dignity. "My son won't even look me in the eye anymore!"
26	** In one of the first episodes, Principal Scudworth goes undercover to a party and constantly spouts phrases like "raise the roof" and "tight", among others.
27	* One of the many reasons ''WesternAnimation/DaBoomCrew'' failed. "Creator/TonyHawk it later"? What does this even mean?
28	* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'':
29	** Miss Elaina often refers to people as "toots." Her mother did this on ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''.
30	** Jodi has a fondness for outdated slang phrases like "Neato!", "Yippy skippy!" and "See you later, alligator!"
31	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' suffers from this quite a bit:
32	** Mr. Lancer especially. He even has a book called "How to Sound Hip for the Unhip", which he often reads from when attempting to "connect" with his students, which is horribly outdated. Even the students give him weird looks and try to leave when he attempts to talk to them from it.
33	** The characters rampantly use the word "[[NeverSayDie waste]]".
34	%%** To say nothing of Sidney Poindexter; he's from ''the '50s''.
35	%%** Technus is another offender. He uses this trope in every appearance and nearly makes the main characters' ears bleed.
36	* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
37	** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' largely averted this trope by sticking to FutureSlang, but one splicer's warnings to not "diss" him stuck out like a sore thumb in the second season premiere.
38	** Parodied brilliantly in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries / The New Batman Adventures'' episode "Mean Seasons," one of whose scenes shows a group of network bigwigs' pilots:
39	--->(Kid with backwards baseball cap and shades skateboards up to the camera, pulls out a police badge):\
40	'''Kid''': "You're busted!"\
41	'''Announcer''': "Teen Cop: inner-city street drama with a fresh attitude."\
42	'''Kid''': "Education RULES!"
43	** In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', the Flash generally speaks with more slang than the other members, but not to the extent of this trope. However, Batman once spotted Clayface imitating the Flash by the way his speech ''did'' fit the trope. "[[Awesome/JusticeLeague You overplayed your part]], ''[[Funny/JusticeLeague yo]]''."
44	* In the ''Justice Friends'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Val Hallan, Viking God of Rock, speaks in a combination of outdated California surfer slang and YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe. As such, he sounds as SophisticatedAsHell.
45	* On ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'', sometimes some of the older toys or ones about specific subject matter use slang such as "Far out." This once got Doc an odd look from her Dad when she described a meteor shower as being "Far out" after hearing the phrase from her toy telescope.
46	* ''WesternAnimation/DudeThatsMyGhost'' (if the title didn't tip you off) has this in spades, mostly hinging on cool-sounding puns, nicknames and incredibly, achingly "cool" voicework where you're not sure if it's parody leading the dialogue or a very lost sense of how people speak.
47	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Eddy, Kevin, and Nazz.
48	** Eddy speaks in classic 90's jargon with an emphasize on giving nicknames, various pop-culture references, and smooth-talking "cool guy" tones. It's implied he does so to emulate his brother, as he stops doing so when coming clean about his insecurities.
49	** Kevin says "man" and "totally" often, is particularly fond of calling people he doesn't like "dorks" or some variation thereof, and insulting Edd with "Double Dweeb" [[DontExplainTheJoke (as opposed to his usual nickname "Double D")]]. He's also into stereotypically cool things like customizing his bicycles.
50	** Nazz often talks like a SurferDude ("Dude!", "Awesome!", "It's so rad!"). She still has the habit when she's an old woman in "Take This Ed and Shove It."
51	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had Chester talk like this, much to A.J.'s annoyance.
52	* Parodied in the episode "Bye Bye Nerdy" from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' from 2004. Bloo, under the belief that Mac is a nerd, tries to teach Mac to be cool. This involves making him dress in a fashion that is years out of date (as in, from explicitly ''1987''), watching totally-radical-in-their-own-right juice commercials, and looking at boy bands (which were already becoming outdated). When Mac goes to school and does what Bloo says, he becomes the laughing stock of his school.
53	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' simultaneously avoids and parodies this trope:
54	** The youngest adult main character, Amy, uses semi-current slang with [[BuffySpeak science-fictiony]] add-ons. (For example, shmeesh=yeesh, splech=yech, guh=duh, etc.)
55	** Conventional totally radical speech was parodied by That Guy in the episode "Future Stock." He was awesome... awesome to the max.
56	** In ''Roswell That Ends Well'' (set in the '40s), Leela goes all over the map with her 20th century slang. ("What's up, Holmes?")
57	** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Zapp Dingbat'', when Leela addresses her chilled-out father who has been using conventional surfer slang.
58	---> '''Leela:''' I don't want to [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour put a rat in your face-cage]], or whatever you kids say nowadays.
59	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/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]].)
60	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' parodies this trope a few times:
61	** In the episode "Dungeons, Dungeons, And More Dungeons", Dipper mentions how the creators of the titular D&D expy tried to make it "cooler" in the 90s, giving EvilSorceror Probabilitor pastel-colored streetwear and a bit of rapping in the commercial the audience is shown, as well as renaming the game "Diggity-Dungeons And All That". From Dipper's comments, it's considered an AudienceAlienatingEra for the game.
62	---> '''Dipper:''' (shudders) Must've been dark times, those [=90s=]...
63	** Upon finding Mabel in the LotusEaterMachine that is Mabelland, Dipper, Wendy, and Soos are greeted by Mabel's "backup Dipper" Dippy-Fresh, a skateboarding "cool" dude that wouldn't look out of place in a Mountain Dew commercial. Naturally, Dipper takes an instant dislike to the doppleganger.
64	** From one of the shorts, we have Blubs and Durland's PSA on [[PeerPressureMakesYouEvil peer pressure.]] [[spoiler:It ends with Wendy and her friends stealing the officers' uniforms and car, with Wendy mocking the two on what they're wearing.]]
65	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
66	** Parodied 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.
67	** Also parodied with the ShowWithinAShow ''The X-treme Adventures of Brandon and Mallory''.
68	** This becomes a plotline in the episode ''Goodbling and the Hip-Hop-Opotamus'' where Grim unintentionally turns Principal Goodvibes into a rapper and he changes the school system to suit this trope.
69	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' with Poop Dawg, the gangsta spectre of defeat!
70	-->'''Poop Dawg:''' Hey kids, do you wanna go magnet wit da monies?\
71	'''Kids:''' Yay!\
72	'''Child:''' What does that mean?
73	** This goes on to the point where even he himself can't take it.
74	--->'''Poop Dawg:''' And if you think you somethin' with the top sellies and... I can't do this.\
75	'''Director:''' CUT!
76	* Creator/{{Boomerang}}'s promo spot for their "Meddling Kids" block spotlights a clip of a character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}}'' saying "Wowwy-wow-wow!" as an example of "the lingo."
77	* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'':
78	%%** Judy Jetson in the 1980's revival of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' fits this trope to a tee, even going so far as to follow this trope when talking to her own mother!
79	** In ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'', which was in production around the end of the 80s, George's new co-worker Ruby-2 explains the sprocket-making process to him through a rap song.
80	* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', [[{{Satan}} Lucius]] tries speaking in slang during a commercial for his cologne. Jimmy notes, "It's almost cool how uncool he is."
81	* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' itself is full of this, giving it a bizarre late-90's type of atmosphere, but these examples are very noteworthy:
82	** Spoofed 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.
83	** The Extreme Teen Team, a group of "evil" skateboarding adolescents. They steal energy drinks and snacks and shout "EXTREME".
84	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' mostly used BuffySpeak, but also threw in a few characters who spoke in out-of-date slang for comic effect:
85	** Motor Ed, [[CatchPhrase seriously]].
86	** A throwaway gag in one episode involves Dr. Drakken learning the phrase "off the heazy" from a book on teenage slang, prompting Shego to question its validity. And apparently, he loved being "hip" so much that he continued to use terribly out-dated or poorly delivered phrases for the rest of the series. Thanks to Drakken's VA, Creator/JohnDiMaggio, it was hilarious. "Why you got to leave me hangin' like that, yo?" and "Word to yo' mutha!" are examples.
87	** Also briefly attempted by Mrs. Dr. Possible. Kim's reaction: "Mom, you're [[ActionMom already cool.]] Don't push it."
88	%%* In-universe example when Shifu tries to be cool in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness''.
89	* While most of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' were no strangers to using slang that is now considered dated, the one major stand-out is their last recurring character, [[http://looneytunes.wikia.com/wiki/Cool_Cat 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 30 years later. As a result, he's seldom used today.
90	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': “The Cream Cake Mystery” connects poetry to rapping for seemingly no reason other than to be “hip” to the show’s audience.
91	* Used on ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', with Nino, Alya, and Chloe being the biggest offenders. They regularly say things like "off the chain" or "hot mess."
92	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "Dream Tube", tubes are being sold at the Denali Trading Post, and the sign above it says "Totally Tubular".
93	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': "Phat", "Crib", "Badonkadonk"....yeah, this show was definitely made in 2002.
94	** In one episode Jenny reads a slang book in order for her to fit in, only for her to realize that the book was published in [[TheEighties 1984]]. ''Gnarly!'' Taken even further in the same episode, when a strange person finding an opportunity to chat [[note]]actually Vexus in disguise[[/note]] speaks in 1920s slang.
95	** It's parodied further in a scene where Tiff is trying to teach a disguised Vexus how to fit in with teenagers and lets out a BARRAGE of awful mid-2000s slang.
96	--->'''Brit:''' "Look, Vex, just don't go buggin' and actin' like a punk. You've gots to be poppin', classy. Act like you got some badonkadonk! Can you represent?"
97	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
98	** Parodied when Rainbow Dash insists that her pet must possess "coolness," "awesomeness" and "radicalness." When Twilight Sparkle points out those three mean the same thing, she is given an AffectionateGestureToTheHead by Rainbow.
99	** Gilda from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]]" was this so bad that it ''hurt''. It's quite possible Rainbow Dash learned this from her, since she talked in ''nothing but Totally Radical'' for the entirety of her episode (complete with guitar riffs). Of course, since the viewers were [[HateSink supposed to dislike her]], it actually worked out -- notably, when she reappears in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone The Lost Treasure Of Griffinstone]], this time as a much more sympathetic character complete with a redemption arc, she speaks a lot more like a normal person.
100	** Done intentionally in "Testing Testing 1 2 3" where Pinkie's "educational rap" about the history of The Wonderbolts is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPV6SWS-lVM spot-on pastiche]] of TheNineties.
101	** The episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E4FakeItTilYouMakeIt Fake It 'Til You Make It]]'' has Fluttershy using phrases like "woke", "lit", and "lowkey savage" while pretending to be a {{hipster}}. They're acceptable in usage but they're not really associated with ''hipsters''. That might be the joke because Fluttershy is going off of stereotypes she knows little about.
102	* There's regular use of "dope" and "radical" in the script of ''WesternAnimation/NeoYokio'', as well as other trendy phrases like "fuckboy".
103	* ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'' episode "Back To Bach" introduces Ken The Keyboard, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQ4gEkVjsg&t=387s who really must be seen to be believed]]. Interestingly, instead of being the product of clueless writers attempting to appeal to kids and failing miserably, Ken was actually created ''by'' a kid who won a [[OfficialFanSubmittedContent "design your own character"]] competition on Series/BluePeter.
104	* In ''WesternAnimation/PeppermintRose'' Rose escapes from Buddy Bug via a rapping riddle contest, and her favorite food is pizza.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
106	** {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in "Powerprof" 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]].
107	--->'''Professor Utonium''': Bring it on, daddy-o.\
108	'''Mojo Jojo''': Oh that is so lame. You will pay for your use of inappropriate dialogue!
109	** Then there's the knock-off PPG in "Knock It Off," especially in the case of Buttercup's clone saying "Girl Power."
110	** Played straight in [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016 the 2016 series]]. Buttercup has a tendency to say "dude" a lot. It's not exactly a term most children in the 2010s use, though it signifies her as OneOfTheBoys. Bubbles is apparently the most Internet savvy and it shows. In "Painbow" she says "I can't even-!" and "OMG, yass!" when she meets the antagonist Allegro.
111	*** The episode "Summer Bummer": Hey, Bro Sharks... the 1980s called. They want their clichéd valley/surfer-speak back.
112	* ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'', a mid-90s reboot of Huey, Dewey and Louie, stated that "they're not kids anymore. They're EXTREME TEENS!!!!" Followed by one of the ducklings riding a skateboard saying "Ex-treme!"
113	* All the teen characters of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' unabashedly speak in made-up slang like, "Shoob-tastic" or "So Honking Bruce". Adult characters like Hannibal [=McFist=] try and fail to speak like this when trying to be "hip".
114	* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'': Ella’s "cool" cousin Herbie peppers his speech with odd vernacular that seems to resemble hippie slang mixed with a bit of SurferDude lingo, which for a show made in the ''2000s'' is, as Herbie would say, “so bogus”. (Interestingly, he never actually says the word “radical”.)
115	* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode, "The Plant From Bortron 7," Jet says "Hey, daddy-o! What's shaking?"
116	* Miss Grotke on ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' often makes use of outdated slang.
117	* ''WesternAnimation/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 one Halloween episode, in which Jebediah Townhouse (a ghost from the ''1780s'' who only speaks in 1980s slang) serves as a villain.
118	* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': Oddly lampshaded (sort of) in an episode where the cast laments the "Kooks" (non-local) and such stealing their "lingo" and using it without the proper pronunciation or usage. This is remarkably tone-deaf coming from a show that was just as likely to horrendously misuse slang as the Kooks are in-universe. "Remember when the Squid totally BEEFED IT?"
119	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'' ends with [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg9DbB_kqok rapping.]] This is exactly as painful as it sounds.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
121	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E14NewKidsOnTheBlecch 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."
122	** Bart Simpson's image in [[TheNineties early 90s]] pop culture can be seen as Totally Radical, 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E7BartsInnerChild 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.
123	** Even lampshaded a few times such as in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E19SimpsonTide Simpson Tide]]," when Bart tries to show he's still cool by singing and dancing to the "Do The Bartman" song. Ralph comments "That is so 1991." In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E25SummerOf4Ft2 Summer of 4 Ft. 2]]," Bart complains about Lisa using his old "Don't have a cow man" catchphrase to his mom. Marge retorts he doesn't even use it anymore.
124	** Parodied in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E14TheItchyAndScratchyAndPoochieShow The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show]]" by Poochie, a cartoon dog with "attitude" who's the kung fu hippy from the gangster city. It had the [[TheScrappy opposite effect]] the in-universe producers were going for.
125	** Also parodied with [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the]] [[ShowWithinAShow movie within a show]] Homer goes to see in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E9HOMR HOMR]]," featuring a kid yelling "RADICAL!" after a cheap slapstick gag, followed by another character randomly saying "[[Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire Is that your final answer?"]]
126	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E22SecretsOfASuccessfulMarriage Secrets of a Successful Marriage]]," Moe does this where he's teaching self defense through dance:
127	--->'''Moe:''' OK, here's the 411, folks: Say some gangsta is dissin' your fly girl...
128	* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' has shades of this, with Sonic's catchphrase "way past cool," but ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' took this to a whole new level with Manic, who was raised by thieves and repeatedly uses lingo like "crashing!" "ripping!" and "bogus."
129	%%* The twins from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' seem to fit into this category.
130	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
131	** 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.
132	** In the beginning of "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E13ButtOut 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.
133	** {{Exploited\|Trope}} by the parents in "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E11Chinpokomon Chinpokomon]]," when they discover that the surefire way to get their children to abandon the fad is to make a show of feigned, stilted enthusiasm for it.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
135	** 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.
136	** 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 psychedelic background, with dramatic zooms and loud rock music, while an announcer screams about how "radical" the drink is.
137	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Sunstone, [[spoiler:Steven and Garnet’s fusion]], is basically the AnthropomorphicPersonification of 90’s PSA mascots who are “totally hip” and “down with the kids”; virtually every line of dialogue she has is either obnoxiously radical (“Chillax, my dudes! Your rockin’ pal Sunstone is holdin’ it down!”) or a [[CaptainObviousAesop blindingly obvious]] [[AnAesop Aesop]], such as telling kids [[SpaceWhaleAesop they shouldn’t try to fight giant robots at home]].
138	* ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''. In the first episode of the 1973/74 season, "The Power Pirate," Wendy and Marvin speak like 60's hippies, regularly using terms like "groovy," "cool," "right on" and "far out." Apparently the writers figured out how silly this sounded and Wendy and Marvin [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness don't speak like that in any subsequent episode]].
139	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
140	** The youngest Titan, Beast Boy, in ''Teen Titans'' uses a lot of surfer slang like "dudes." The series ''is'' implied to take place in California, though. This is even more noticeable in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' as he's much goofier and more laidback.
141	** The "Rad Dudes With Bad Tudes" episode of ''Teen Titans Go!'' revolves around this and parodies it. Robin says "rad" and gets called out by the other Titans for using outdated slang. He is the only one of his group to consider rollerblades cool. The others think they're old and call rollerbladers "grandpas." The entire episode is full of 1980s slang and the Titans start dressing like neon, 80s stereotypes.
142	* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
143	** ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' used (largely out-of-date) California [[SurferDude surfer/valley-speak]]. It was primarily Michaelangelo who spoke like this. Except for the beginning and ending of the first live-action movie, the other Turtles only did it sufficiently rarely that it was usually considered out of character when they did.
144	** The Turtles' early overuse of Totally Radical speech was parodied in a sketch on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', where the Turtles said things like "Tubular!" "Radical!" "Awesome!" "Reaganomics!"
145	** Heck, the Turtles parodied themselves in the live-action movies. Donatello could never pick out the right word. "A Capella!... Perestroika? Oh, I know! Frere Jacques!"
146	** In ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', one of the 80s Turtles exclaim "Totally Radical!" when riding in the 2K3 Turtle Van.
147	** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 TMNT series]], they don't talk like this, save Mikey, who ''tries'' it, but the others tell him to cut it out. (Naturally, he ''loved'' the 1987 Turtles.)
148	** And the eighties series also had the Neutrinos, the "Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X," who spoke with a slang that was even more Totally Radical and was based on teens from the fifties rather than contemporary surfers like the Turtles. "Cool? Daddy-O, we are ''frozen''!"
149	** [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 The 2012 series]] varies. Mikey is the most likely turtle to delve into it, but thief Anton Zeck [[spoiler:the future Bebop]] really takes the Totally Radical cake. Later, the character of Mondo Gecko is introduced, who sounds and acts a lot like his 80s counterpart, but it's {{justified\|Trope}} as he is being deliberately old-school. He's also voiced by Creator/RobbieRist, who voiced Mikey in the 90s movies.
150	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', where the villain is a super-intelligent child, the Tick attempts to relate with him by talking like this.
151	-->Tick: Hey Charles, you in there? The Tick would like to "rap" with you.
152	* On ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'', the characters, particularly Toot, will sometimes say "Gee willikers!" which surely went out of fashion sometime around the 60s.
153	* Chris [=McLain=] from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' uses the words "dude" and/or "bro" every other sentence when addressing the contestants. This gets Lampshaded when [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Chef reads Chris's cue cards]], showing viewers that Totally Radical language is not as easy as Chris makes it look.
154	%%** Geoff speaks in this, while Ezekiel often attempts it with no success.
155	* ''WesternAnimation/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.
156	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
157	** 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.
158	** And ''WesternAnimation/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:
159	--->'''Headmaster''': I am so l33t!\
160	'''Optimus Prime''': Yeah? Well, I have no idea what that means!
161	** The worst part about this? Isaac Sumdac (a robotics professor in his 60s) has tried to adopt "Total OWNAGE, N00b!" [[spoiler:when using the Headmaster unit]] as his personal catchphrase. It's hideous and it's a good thing that [[spoiler:Megatron]] stopped him.
162	** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', 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.
163	** "[=DreadWING=] / is punishING / his Gatling gun is ILLIN'!"
164	** To say nothing of the big bad battlin' Bruticus. ([[IAmNotShazam Some forget]], but it is in fact [[CombiningMecha Onslaught]] who is the metamorphin' dudicus.)
165	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has Emperor Awesome, a muscular spray-tanned man with a shark head who acts and speaks like some weird mixture of a surfer bro, a 90s dude and a millennial (and he is exactly as [[LargeHam hammy]] as that description makes him sound). This is all intentional to make him an annoying yet entertaining douchebag.
166	** In one episode, Wander and Sylvia help some children who tell them stories about how they imagine a legendary hero who is actually Wander himself (but he doesn't let them know that). One of these stories features him as this kind of character, who is much more annoying and more of a {{Jerkass}} than the real Wander, who doesn't like that version of him.
167	* ''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 awes- ''good'' theme tunes by Dale Schacker, who wisely avoided such slang with ''Anime/SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs''.
168	* In season 1 of ''[[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]]'''s dub of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Musa seems addicted to slang. Her use of it is gradually toned down in S2.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'':
170	** Jubilee in the original ''X-Men'' cartoon laid the ValleyGirl slang on thick even by the standards of the time, with many lines sounding like they came from a Random Nineties Teen Phrase Generator. "Does a mallbaby eat chili fries?"[[note]]i.e. "Is the Pope Catholic?"[[/note]]
171	* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'':
172	** Kitty Pryde originally used lots of somewhat dated [[ValleyGirl Valley Speak]].
173	** Justified for the show's version of Forge, who was literally caught in a timeless limbo since the mid-seventies, and sounds just "groovy". And it was {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Nightcrawler:
174	---> '''Kurt''': Dude, I swear, that homie's lingo is so ''wack!''
175	** In a very transparent attempt to not make Spyke seem "urban," the writers had him using all sorts of skater lingo.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/YoYogi'' is the kind of show that could have only been spawned in the early 1990s, featuring WesternAnimation/YogiBear and company wearing neon-color clothes and backwards baseball caps, hanging out at the mall, skateboarding, and doing other typically "cool" '90s stuff.
177	* Happens to some extent in the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' cartoon. For instance, Artemis insults Kid Flash by calling him "Baywatch", a reference to a TV show that ended when she would have been around 5 years old.
178	** Justified and Played for Drama starting in Season 2, with future slang introduced in the form of "Crash,"[[note]]"Cool"[[/note]] and "Moded,"[[note]]"Screwed"[[/note]] as well as "Crash the Mode"[[note]]"to turn a bad situation around."[[/note]] These are later revealed to refer to [[spoiler:The Reach's terms for the scarab functionality; a "crashed mode" means that a scarab's user isn't possessed and therefore not helping The Reach TakeOverTheWorld, thus when these terms are used by those resisting the Reach, the words take on opposite meaning compared to when the Reach used those phrases, ie. to the Reach, a "Crashed Mode" is bad, but to the heroes, it is good]].
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Context TotallyRadical / WesternAnimation