"This is what I wanna do with my life, Dad! Why can't you believe in me???"
No, studying potatoes is not actually a job (I think?). Sorry. But, you can still add "-ologist" to the end of the word to make it SOUND like you know what you're talking about! (Note: Results may vary. You will quite likely sound LESS intelligent this way.)
Typically used as a comedic element, this is when Alice says, in place of "someone who studies the website
TV Tropes", that she would like to become a "
TV Tropeiologist". Epic job, if you ask me.
Compare to
Whatevermancy,
Fictional Field Of Science, and
Buffy Speak.
Examples:
Film
- In The Boondock Saints, FBI Agent Paul Smecker claims to be an expert in "Nameology" after Detective Dollypoposkallius expresses amazement that he said his name right.
Literature
- There is "Headology" mentioned in the Discworld novels, starting in "Equal Rites", and continuing through all subsequent ones.
- "Harry Potter" has two such jobs; Herbologist, a popular fantasy version of/counterpart to Botanist, and Magizoologist, a unique invention of the series and fantasy counterpart to the Zoologist.
- In "Cryptid Hunters" and "Tentacles", Travis Wolfe is a Cryptozoologist, or someone who studies mythical creatures.
Live-Action Tv
- Averted: Staanz from Far Scape once claimed to be a "Garbologist, a connoisseur of what other people throw away". Garbology, however, is a Real Life field of study. Go figure.
- In iCarly: Spencer: "...I'll be speaking Japanese better than a... Japanese-iologist."
Music
Poetry
- "The Frogologist" by Brian Patten
Web Comics
- Munchkin Red Mage in Eight Bit Theater pretends to be an expert in many things, and sometimes uses this trope to get the point across.
Western Animation
- In an episode of The Simpsons called "The Monkey Suit", a guy testifying against evolution in court claims to have "a PHD in Truthology from Christian Tech".
- In Spongebob Squarepants: "...Wumbology, the study of Wumbo? It's first-grade, Spongebob!"
- In Futurama, Dr. Zoidberg claims to have Correspondence Course degrees in "Murderology" and "Murderonomy".
Real Life
- "Scientology" translates to "The Study of Knowing" in Latin.
Tv Tropes
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