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->'''Dad''': That's what I'm talking about!
->'''Jeremy''': (''shudder'') Whenever Dad uses a slang phrase that's the least bit current, the world seems totally out of balance and weird.
-->-- ''{{Zits}}''

->'''Jesse''': It'll be a radical party! All of the most radical Pokémon Trainers will be there!
->'''Ash''': ''(to Misty)'' Do you know ''anybody'' who says "radical" anymore?
->'''Misty''': ''(shakes her head in the negative)''
-->--''{{Pokemon}}''

->''Let's dig this groovy chick! Come on, men!''
-->-- ''Beach Blanket Bingo''

Most television shows for audiences younger than 25 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.

The biggest problem is slang. Either it's out of date (usually from the writers' own childhood), or it's awkwardly misused. Either way, there will be gnarly, bitchin' amounts of it, slathered over the dialogue like sauce over a particularly inept casserole.

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 videogames, surfing, motorcycling, or fixing cars; a recent example would be grossly stereotypical "[=Sk8r Boiz=]". However, even your standard episode won't probably 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.

This also applies to commercials focused on kids, although they'll at least be knowledgeable about the product they're selling.

Totally.

Of course, this all ''can'' be done well. Most producers figure, though, that kids can't tell good writing from bad (ViewersAreMorons, after all), and throw whatever out there. BuffySpeak is a common way of avoiding this for those who do care. Another way to avoid the problem is to do it ''intentionally'' badly.

Shows on the DisneyChannel, {{Nickelodeon}} (especially the "New" Nick), and 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".

A rich, deep well of {{Narm}}, especially when it's a {{Long Runner}}'s obvious ploy to stay [[{{ptitle4y5q6h4a}} Relevant, Dammit]]. See also JiveTurkey, BuffySpeak, SurferDude, ValleyGirl, LeetLingo, XtremeKoolLetterz; this is also a common trait of the MascotWithAttitude. GetALoadOfThatSquare is a common mockery of this. Contrast with SpockSpeak; LittleProfessorDialog and GrokkingTheHorrorshow. A character like this may also be TheNicknamer.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
*And then there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00qaMs3025I this commercial]] for the Hardee's Little Thickburger. ThisTroper only saw it air once; presumably it was pulled fairly quickly.
* An advertisement for the "Slim and Lite" revision suggests that players can "put it where they like", which typically means "shove it up their ass". Sony seems to be getting annoyed at their customers.
* Despite trying to win over -- presumably -- the kid demographic, consider how anachronistic the Chuck E. Cheese mascot is with his depiction as a "Sk8r" boy, [[strike:nearly]] ''over'' a decade after that fad has run its course with young kids. The mascot originally stasrted as a auspendered, straw-hatted barbershoppe-type performer, appeared in the 1980s as a skateboarding mouse, went out of style, then swerved right back into relevancy when the Sk8r boy image appeared, and is now fading back out of style -- all without any changes ever being made to the character itself. If the owners just wait long enough, maybe it'll come back into style yet again.
**And how long until goofy cartoon animals are in style again?
***Ask [[KingdomHearts Sora]].
**** [[LooneyTunes They're always]] [[ClassicDisneyShorts in style]].
* Amp'd Mobile briefly retained a commercial gimmick which involved elderly people talking like teenagers (i.e. one features an old black woman who uses street vernacular and says stuff like "Where you at?"; in another, an old white lady makes frequent usage of "like", "[[{{Whatever}} whatever]]" and "totally"). Later referenced on the ''TheSimpsons'':
-->'''Marge''': Yeah, I'll bet there'll be old people talking like young people, like those cell phone commercials everybody hates.
** Also parodied in ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Pranksta Rap", when Bart uses slang words that Lisa (and even Marge) knows aren't used anymore.
***Amp'd? Is that the non-US name for them? Because these commercials were for ''BOOST'' Mobile in California and Texas where I've lived during their run.
**** ''AMP'D'' was a mobile phone company in the US as well.
** Some regional American dialects have used the phrase "where you at?" or even "where yat?" as a form of greeting going back several generations. Okay, so what's Boost Mobile's excuse? To make it even weirder, it had old white people using modern "black" slang.
* This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWR5DtYMgg Hubba Bubba commercial]]; note TheLibby-sounding voice at the closer.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o This commercial]] for Cingular. It's been argued that it's intentional irony; this does not prevent it from being very annoying. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySR3hpieiQc A later commercial]] combined it with the "[[CoolOldGuy hip grandma]]".
** Is that the [[MemeticMutation meme-worthy]] "IDK, my BFF Rose"?
** Parodied with [[http://www.rustywalrus.com/view.php?id=199 this comic]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRYtx_zO394 This commercial]] for Schick Quattro parodies this and mixes it with SophisticatedAsHell.
* What happens when a cell-phone advertisement becomes a big hit, but ad execs don't fully get the joke? Apparently, teenage girls talking to one another in textspeak... face-to-face.
* Parodied in a series of Volkswagen commercials which would end with a grey-haired, thickly accented Peter Stormare "un-pimping" someone's ride.
-->'''German Guy:''' Yo, Mike, you vant us to un-pimp dis ting say vhat?
-->'''Mike:''' What?
-->''Car is launched from trebuchet''
** It's excusable because [[RuleOfCool trebuchets are awesome.]] "Vee-Dub in da haus!"
* The Cliff's Notes banner ads, some of which were, at the time of writing, visible on this very site. Among their misinterpretations of textspeak are spelling "who" as "hoo", a ''Zero Wing'' reference, and the mystifying term "xcore" (which is possibly "score" spelled with XtremeKoolLetterz). Xcore sometimes means "hardcore."
* Gas stations advertising "We got the hooch" after the popular '90s song.
* EA's [[http://kotaku.com/5010047/skate-2-teaser-might-be-doing-it-wrong initial teaser]] for ''Skate 2'' announced "We're dropping the deuce." While this can be read as "dropping number 2", its slang meaning is "taking a shit". This was possibly intentional, which makes one wonder how they felt about the product.
* Parodied in an Aim Trimark ad, where some executives, upon being told that their new shoe design is "sick", take most of the commercial to puzzle over whether or not that's a compliment. Then the Aim Trimark guy comes and says that he's not going to invest your money in a company run by these idiots.
* "It's the LegendOfZelda and it's really rad! Those monsters from [[GannonBanned Gannon]] are pretty bad! [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=LIEE6hvSJiQ Octoroks, Tektites and Leevers too, but with your help our hero pulls through!]]"
* ''For the Nintendo Entertainment System: Your parents help you hook it up.''
* A billboard ad for forest fire safety: "Get Your Smokey On". Hmm, should the anti-drug ad on the other side of the sign be nervous?
* A sign for youth sports that says "Be a Playa". While it obviously was meant to say "Be a player of sports!", what it actually said was "Have promiscuous sex!"
** Is that the same one with the TV commercial with that cartoon referee? Completely agree. That word does not mean what they think it means.
* In 1968, Columbia Records ran a notorious ad in ''Rolling Stone'' showing a bunch of picket sign-toting young radicals in a jail cell with the caption "But The Man can't bust our music."
* In a commercial for Lunchables' newest product, "[[XtremeKoolLetterz Wrapz]]", three kids lousily rap about the wrap. Possibly intentional, but still full of fail, and with slang like "A'ight" pronounced "Ah-Ite.".
* A recent Australian example for a rather mediocre car combines this with BuffySpeak, explaining that the Holden Astra "has extra features to an exclamation mark". Um...what?
* A poster advertising the Slush Puppies sold there. The right side of the poster is a generic image of some Slush Puppie cups, but the left side is in a league of its own. It consists of three open cell phones with text messages on them. They read, in order, [="LuVN DA CHiLLLLLLLLLLLL TASTe and FLAVZZZzzzzzzz" "REal FRUIT JUICE ITS GOT VITA C!!!!!!!!" and "GOTTA GET A SLUSH PUPPIE PLUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"=]
** You've gotta love that they miss the point of texting and chatspeak entirely: It compensates for a lack of space for typing by shortening everything, not ''adding as many extra characters as possible while shortening the rest of the word''.
*** Some people actually type like that, though. (I don't know why...)
*** They get so used to using chatspeak that they still write everything that way, regardless of how useful it is or isn't.
* Similarly, Big Daddy Pizza posters saying {{Narm}}ful things like "Every other slice is a sliver", "Wanna Piece of Me?", and "Show Your Hunger Who's Boss".
* There is a German PSA about hepatitis that features a hip-hoppin' syringe (filled with a hepatitis vaccine), singing about using it to protect yourself. Yes, it's as bad as it sounds.
* ''Monster'' energy drinks. '''JUST LOOK AT THE CAN'S DESCRIPTION.'''
* Any Canadian Troper will be familiar with the horrible [=McCain=] Pizza Pockets commercials, which shows what happens when a company founded in a small Maritime town tries to make an ad that plays in Toronto's suburbs. The worst part is that, in spite of being mocked by the entire country, [=McCain=] kept churning the horrible ads out.
* Special mention must be made of K-Mart's Back to School 2009 ads, which went BeyondTheImpossible in creating not one, but two horrendous pseudo-slang words that no decent human being will ever utter without monetary compensation: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdfaLGUvD7s "Blingitude"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_FinnaHoU "Rockstare".]] Far from being incentive to buy clothing from their store, [[SpringtimeForHitler this troper is convinced that it's part of an elaborate ploy to annoy people to the breaking point and collect arson insurance money nationwide.]]
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* The [=TokyoPop=] translation of the ''TokyoMewMew'' manga, which gave characters terrible {{catchphrase}}s that clashed with their personalities (such as {{Ojou}} Minto's "Bust a move, girl") or just sounded awful (Ichigo's "Shocker!").
* Likewise, to appeal to less traditional manga readers, the Viz Media translation of ''HotGimmick'' gives everyone vaguely ValleyGirl speech patterns. While this sounds reasonable coming from the mouth of the teenage protagonist, coming from traditionalist middle-aged Japanese housewives? Not so much.
*Speaking of Tokyopop, the OEL manga ''Bombos vs. Everything'' uses this trope liberally.
* Viz Media's translation of ''[[LovelyComplex Love.com]]''. ''Japanese teenagers do not talk like that.''
* If an anime is subjected to a {{Macekre}} dubbing companies will often shove painfully bad slang into the scripts. Take for example this line from [=DiC=]'s ''SailorMoon'' dub:
--> "'''Serena:'''" This contest is going to be major boss, Luna!
** To be fair to [=DiC=], the company that the voice actors worked for, Optimum, was responsible for most of the slang, as part of their marketing was based on the fact that they would add correct slang and cultural references. ([=DiC=] could arguably have sued them for false advertising.) It's also why the practice continued with Cloverway, as they used the same studio, though most of the bad episodes during Cloverway's reign were due to their writers trying to keep in line with [=DiC=]'s version.
*** Lampooned in the ''AbridgedSeries'' where Sailor Venus' debut is filled with hackneyed ValleyGirl speech. "Okie dokie pokie!"
** ''{{Pokemon}}'':
---> '''Brock:''' Blastoise is da bomb!
* Let's not forget the infamous "KRILLIN'S IN DA HOUSE!" monstrosity from ''{{Dragonball}} Z''. also from garlic jr arc " Totally crampin my style"
** Z has other examples as well, even in the superior re-dubbing of the first 60-some episodes - though they usually aren't quite as bad as the above. Krillin is the usual culprit, having actually said "totally radical" at least once, and describing Goku as "one bad dude".
*** Yes. That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
* ''DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ''. Not too much in the way of speaking, but most of their motions seem ripped from '90s "thug4lyfe" gangsta rap videos.
* ''ExcelSaga'' had an episode where Excel and Hyatt had to be the teacher of a bunch of {{Delinquents}} who spoke in incredibly anachronistic slang. However, this was both in the original and intentional, as Hyatt actually questioned why they were talking like that.
* Parodied in the dub of an early episode of ''{{Pokemon}}'', when Jessie and James [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=XGIfx7x-Ttk disguise themselves]] as teenage girls who talk exclusively in over-the-top TotallyRadical speak.
* In the otherwise fairly good English dub of CodeGeass, [[ActionGirl Kallen]] gives this priceless line:
--> '''Kallen:''' "You fellas know full well what this badass mother can do!"
* Who can forget this gem from the dub version of ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'':
--> '''Elemental Hero Neos:''' If you go into this duel doubting yourself, Yubel will ''own'' you!
**Isn't that somewhat of an aversion or subversion since people playing the game actually talk like that, rather than it being what adults would presume kids would say?
*** Maybe, but it's not a player saying it, it's some kind of cosmic monster spirit, so it's still stupid.
**** Cosmic monster spirits wouldn't keep up with modern slang anyway.
***** Humorously enough, this can also be taken literally.
** Not to mention "I'm gonna throw down a face down!"
*** I thought that was his CatchPhrase.
* Bud, of ''TransformersArmada'' is infamous for his catchphrase "Wicked sweet!", as well as the meme "I want to tell you about the Transformers!"
* The infamous 4kids dub of ''OnePiece'' changed the original Japanese opening (which they even had translated) into a rap song. A very bad rap song.
* The MahouSenseiNegima manga has this problem in a few volumes, depending on who's doing the translation. The first volume practically borders on a GagDub. Volume 5 is a little better, but having characters actually say "OMG" and "WTF" does ''not'' work well.
* In the .hack//SIGN DVD exclusive episode "Unison," there is a lovely conversation between Balmung, [[spoiler:who is an office worker in the real world]], and Kite.
-->Balmung: This shindig looks like the bomb-diggity.
-->Kite: What did you say?
-->Balmung: What I mean is, it's not bad at all.
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[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* In the early SilverAge, Snapper Carr was essentially the JusticeLeagueOfAmerica's collective {{sidekick}}. He spoke in constant slang and was always fixing hot rods, going to baseball games, and so on.
** Acknowledged in the ''JLA/Avengers'' CrossOver when Marvel's Rick Jones says that Carr is an okay guy "no matter how he talks".
* Bob Haney's work on the original ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' comics of the mid-to-late 1960s could be the archetype of this trope. The least subtle display taking place within one such issue which featured Robin deducing that that a message from an adolescent was a forgery based on its "vernacular". Daddy-O.
** In fact, most slang in comics of that era [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=30%3Aframes-and-panels-index&id=791%3Ai-cant-understand-teenagers-to-save-my-life&option=com_content&Itemid=24 sounds really stupid]]; [[MarvelUniverse Marvel]] tended to be ahead of the pack, but not by much.
** A number of other comic book examples are scrutinized [[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics57.html here]].
* An issue of {{Deadpool}} spoofed this when the title character time travels back to the 1960s and encounters the then-current versions of {{Spider-Man}}'s cast. Their constant overuse of inexplicable 60s slang is a running gag throughout the issue, with Mary Jane being the worst offender. And upon hearing Harry Osbourn speak, Deadpool actually asks if he is having a stroke.
* An issue of {{Superboy}} addresses this when the titular character seeks to reinvent himself after being given the cold shoulder by a girl for his over-use of early-90's cliches and expressions. However, all this accomplishes is trading sunglasses for bug-eyes (which were never seen again), a leather jacket for a PVC one, loses the piercings for a scruffy goatee, ditches his belts all together, and saying "Word. Reprezent." instead of "Don't Mess with the S!"
* In ''{{NextWave}}'', Boom Boom uses phrases like "Oh noes!" and "ZOMG!" in both everyday conversation and periods of extreme stress. However, this is due to her actually being completely brainless, in the most literal sense of the word. WarrenEllis, the comic's writer, practically lives on the Internet and was taking the opportunity to lambast some of its stupider members.
** The acid overdose survivor Arkady in ''Freakangels'' apparently starts talking in lolcat when drunk. "I can has vodka" indeed.
* DCComics's miniseries ''The Weird'' from the late eighties had the "son" of its titular character speak in terribly inaccurate slang -- flying with his pseudo-father was apparently "bogus" and The Weird's abilities were "the dudest". Jim Starlin: good writer, terrible slangologist...
* The front cover of [[DCComics DC's]] ''[[Comicbook/TeenTitans Raven]]'' miniseries proudly states, "Finally in Her Own Emo Series!". Someone at DC is apparently unaware that emo, when applied to a person, is generally considered an insult.
** To be fair, Raven ''is'' the original emo girl.
** This troper honestly thought [[SelfDeprecation that was the gag]]...
* In Frank Miller's ''{{Batman}}: TheDarkKnightReturns'', the new Robin and the teenaged members of the Mutant gang use slang created for the comic, like "he's gone totally billy" and "She don't shiv".
* ''{{Fray}}'''s anning hab of abrevving half of the words in every sent she speaks has a sim eff to the more comm vers of this tro on a lot of peep; That is, making it both hard to under and frustringly diff to igno.
* ArchieComics are notorious for this trope. For example, one late-80s story had a lifeguard tell a surfing Veronica, "I really dig the way you attacked those waves with your rad moves". Around the same time, an in-house ad for an ''Archie'' calendar featured a cartoon teenager, sporting a ridiculous multi-coloured mohawk, oversized shades that Elton John would reject, and mismatched-colour clothes, telling the reader, "I ordered mine!" Like gnarly, daddy-o, if a rad hepcat teen like him bought one, I better slap down the bread too, yo yo yo.
*Ah, Jubilee...she's like totally like radical. Y'know? Like with her ultimately killer shades, and like totally far out outfits? Like, too bad about like the parentals being all dead like. This is like how normal teenagers like talk...right?
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[[folder:Film]]
* This is part of the plot in the first ''ScoobyDoo'' movie: the gang starts getting suspicious when those who arrive at the island resort speak like any average teenager, while those who leave speak using awful TotallyRadical slang. [[spoiler:It's because they're actually monsters wearing a human skin, and [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]] taught them how to speak like "normal teenagers".]]
** Sadly, a lot of the made-for-TV movies of yesteryear had a lot of this too with loads of [[HurricaneOfPuns god-awful monster puns]] and [[JiveTurkey outdated slang]].
* The movie ''Gleaming the Cube'' is named after a particularly interesting-sounding skateboarding term one of the writers overheard from a crew member's son. The boy had made the phrase up on the spot.
* The Jets in the stage/film musical ''West Side Story'' speak (and sing) in a street language including both actual [[TheFifties Fifties]] slang and words that Arthur Laurents made up.
* The film ''Juno'' suffers from this in the first half, though it's heavily debated if it's either the writer, Diablo Cody, trying to be hip and "indie" or if it's simply she being ironic. Most agree with the former.
** With the release of ''Jennifer's Body'', it would appear Diablo Cody suffers from this trope on a constant basis.
* ''Flight of the Navigator'': When the [[SpockSpeak technical-talking]] ship's AI scans David's brain, for some reason (not the least of which he's voiced by Paul Reubens), it starts speaking like Pee Wee Herman.
* This scene from ''CampRock'':
--> '''Tess''': ''makes random hand signs''
--> '''Caitlyn''': Okay, what is that?
--> '''Ella''': She said "Whatever, major loser."
** That was NOT random, that was outdated ASL slang from the 90s. She made a W, E (looking-ish thing), L on her forehead. This troper has since adopted it and gets the oddest looks.
* In ''{{Better Off Dead}}'', there is a scene where the teenage protagonist's father attempts to connect with his son while awkwardly using slang he is reading from a book on how to communicate with teenagers. He still gets some of it wrong, saying things like "Right off!"
* Who can forget the immortal scene from ''FernGully The Last Rainforest''? We still have no idea if it was meant to be a satire (note Crysta's reaction) or if the writers were serious:
--> '''Zack''': You know -- bodacious, bad, tubular...
--> *Zack looks meaningfully into Crysta's eyes*
--> '''Zack''': As in, you are one ''bodacious'' babe.
** It was probably something resembling a satire; when it becomes clear to everyone that Zack is making sense only to himself-and that his exaggerated surfer dude persona prevents him from converting to normal English to explain just what the hell he thinks he's talking about-Batty quips, "Awesome use of the language, dude."
*** Of course, that quip was probably an ad-lib by RobinWilliams.
* Spoofed in ''{{Shrek}} the Third'', where Shrek spews out a string of hip-hop slang in a failed attempt to relate to Artie.
-->'''Artie:''' Help! I've been kidnapped by a monster that's trying to relate to me!
* In the movie ''Disturbing Behavior'', Katie Holmes' character uses the term "razor" as analogous to "cool" or "sweet".
* ''TheNeverendingStory'' III was just... ugh. Definitely only one of the many problems with this film (the primary being its existence) we had school bullies being referred to, by the other students, as "The Nasties," and Bastian's step-sister referred to his sense of style as being "Un."
* ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' seems to intentionally embrace this. Much of the comedy comes from the two characters' flamboyantly silly version of California teen slang, which turns out to have swept the world in a utopic future. Their legacy includes two prime directives: "Be ''excellent'' to each other," and "Party on, dude!"
* In the modern remake of ''Freaky Friday'', not only the dialogue, but the themes of the movie seem TotallyRadical, adjacent to AdultsAreUseless. The conversation in the restaurant where Anna (in the body of Tess, her mother) is talking with Jake over contemporary music (like they have a college degree in it) and then singing along with a rock cover "Baby One More Time" comes off as TotallyRadical. The moral of the story seems to be that teenagers just need to be left alone, and not relate to their parents (or vice versa), because neither can understand each other.
* How can we forget {{Terminator 2}}, which actually caused a {{Defictionalization}} with "Hasta la vista, baby." None for "No problem-o," though.
* A common complaint critics leveled at StevenSpielberg's ''{{Hook}}'' was that it invoked this trope with its approach to the Lost Boys, who ride around on skateboards, play basketball, and refer to Peter Pan as "The Pan". ("Pan the Man" at one point.) Leonard Maltin complained that they "would be more at home in a [=McDonald's=] commercial."
* I always thought that "They think he's a righteous dooood" sounded a little strange from ''FerrisBuellersDayOff''.
** I always thought that having this line delivered by the matronly school secretary was a deliberate parody of this trope.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The girls in the ''BabysittersClub'' books rarely say "cool"; they almost always replace it with some random word that no teenager in the history of the English language has ever said, such as "dibble" to mean "incredible". To be fair, it is explicitly stated that they invented those words.
**They also use a fair amount of actual outdated slang, as much of the series seems to be stuck in Ann Martin's own 1960s childhood. In one particularly cringe-worthy example, Claudia uses the phrase "What a hoot!" in a completely non-ironic manner.
* Likewise, the band in ''The Last Days'' use the word "fawesome". Over. And Over. And Over. And Over. And Over.
* In ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', Raoul Duke picks up some of the literature available at the anti-drug conference and flips through it. He notes that none of what is described as "drug culture slang" is correct, specifically noting the use of the word "tea shades" for sunglasses.
** TheFilmOfTheBook further emphasizes this disconnect by having a lecturer using '50s slang (the story is set in 1971) as part of a laughably inaccurate description of the drug scene.
* In Harry Turtledove's ''Timeline 191'' series, the majority of which is set between 1914 and 1945, we get an early 20th century version that could be considered a subtle parody: numerous characters comment on the word "swell" replacing "bully," and their difficulty adjusting.
*In the [[DisContinuity totally non-existent]] ''{{Dune}}'' prequels there are things called 'Cymeks,' apearently trying to combine 'cyborg' and 'mech' with a [[XtremeKoolLetterz Really Kool K]]. Cybernetic ''and'' mechanical, huh?
* Probably the oldest example here, PGWodehouse used a lot of slang from the 1890s in his works.
* The series ''{{Percy Jackson and the Olympians}}'' is told in first person point-of-view of a modern "tween". In the adult author's attempt to pander to the "tween" audience, he overuses out-of-date or incorrect slang to the point of being annoying.
** Actually, I don't see him using much more than the multi-generational "cool" and "dude", which, being a teen, I know is still very popular. Other than that, he name-drops junk food brands, which is excusable and mostly accurate. The biggest problem I see is that a kid branded as a juvenile delinquent and put in schools for the "mental" kids should probably be using "rougher" slang than the general population - but, because RealityIsUnrealistic, that would probably come of as ''more'' TotallyRadical.
* In the column "Dude, Read All About It," Dave Barry explains how newspapers have been trying to attract younger readers to boost their declining readership:
-->If you read your newspaper carefully, you'll notice that you're seeing fewer stories with uninviting, incomprehensible, newspaper-ese headlines like PANEL NIXES TRADE PACT, and more punchy, "with-it" headlines designed to appeal to today's young people, like PANEL NIXES TRADE PACT, DUDE.
* Subverted in Garth Nix ''KeysToTheKingdom'', when the characters seem to use offbeat slang. If the reader pays attention, they realize the series is actually TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, and it's not confirmed that the characters are even speaking English.
* E.E. Smith's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman Lensman]] series is set at some point in the indeterminate future in which interstellar travel and communication is a relatively casual matter. While "Doc" Smith essentially created the 'space opera' genre, his characters use slang based on 1920s United States constructions, such as a male addressing a female as "toots".
** There's also a fair amount of constructed slang, such as the substitution "QX" for "OK," and the constant use of the word "jets" for... personal ability and competence or something like that.
***Parodied hilariously in Randall Garrett's short story ''Backstage Lensmen'' where the slang gets so thick that even the characters don't understand what they are talking about.
** Much of the communication in the series is done telepathically using [[AppliedPhlebotinum the Lenses]], which can be used to talk to everything from humans to StarfishAliens. The author's use of 1920s-era slang may be a translation convention, intended to represent to the reader the way that Kinnison's thoughts sound ''inside his own head''. It still sounds really weird, and it contributes to the Zeerust atmosphere of the series.
* The {{Animorphs}} usually steered clear of Totally Radical by just not having their characters use slang. For a period lasting 2 or 3 books, however, they tried to introduce "honkin'" as a slang term. It didn't stick.
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[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
*The masterful and hilarious ''Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'' episode "The Derrick and Jim Show" creates an intentional nightmare of Clinton Era MTV clichés, WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome moments and XtremeKoolLetterz.
*On ''Gap'', a few of the lead characters use Totally Radical slang, such as "dude", "totally", and "awesome". However, the offhand and casual way the characters use it makes it seem more believable.
* Witness any [[strike:parody]] depiction of the 1960s youth culture in ''[[{{Dragnet}} Dragnet 1967]]''.
* The complete and utter disconnection of late-1960s/early 1970s television comedy from the sensibilities of the Baby Boomer generation was one of the things that spurred LorneMichaels to create ''SaturdayNightLive''.
* Rebellious urban teen sidekick Ace in 1980s ''DoctorWho''. ("Gordon Bennett, what a toerag!") For once, not the fault of the writer, who based her original dialogue on actual teenagers he'd actually met, but of {{Media Watchdog}}s who decided that authenticity was no excuse for a TV youngster using ''that'' kind of language, thank you, and insisted it be {{Bowdlerise}}d.
**She also liked to say the word "Ace" itself, which naturally leads to anyone not familiar with that slang term to think she's just saying her own name, like a {{Pokemon}}.
***RussellTDavies mocked this in his [[DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse ''Who'' novel]] ''Damaged Goods''. When the Doctor returns to a rough 1987 urban housing estate he expect another teenage girl to talk and act like Ace. She puts him straight.
**The otherwise enjoyable late '80's story ''The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'' features (and opens with) a rapping circus ringmaster whose rap falls somewhere between [[{{Narm}} hilarious]], and "Oh God, my ears". Fortunately he's [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel balanced out]] by the CircusOfFear and {{Monster Clown}}s. Even the Doctor (briefly) gets in on the act.
* Brand-new invented slang was one of the [[BuffySpeak keys to the success]] of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. This has also helped prevent the show from becoming obviously (and painfully!) dated, as slang may change but the cadence and patterns mostly don't.
** However, just about every pop culture reference made by the characters on the show came from an era when the writers of the show were younger, but the characters hadn't been born. Sure, there's no reason a modern teen can't enjoy ''MontyPython'' or the original ''StarWars'', but anything that became popular among teenagers after 1995 or so (such as {{manga}}) pretty much never showed up, except for a few references to ''HarryPotter'' and ''DragonBall''.
** Well, there was a reference to [[HomestarRunner Trogdor the Burninator]] being used in the last season. Doesn't make up for the first episode, which featured Buffy and Cordelia discussing the hotness of James Spader... Mistakes Were Made, people.
* In ''PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', the episode "Just Like Me", when a fight breaks out between Tyzonn and Will, team leader Mack tells them to "Put your personal junk in your trunk." This... doesn't come off sounding right.
** Other well known examples from the franchise include "Morphenomenal!" from ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', and Alpha 6 in ''PowerRangersTurbo'', who replaced his predecessor's "Ay-yi-yi!" catchphrase with "Yo, yo, yo".
* Averted in ''Summer Heights High''. Chris Lilley, the show's creator who also plays the three main characters, is unnervingly accurate as the teenage girl, Ja'mie. The show uses up-to-date slang and teenage speech mannerisms, as well as employing a realistic level of coarse language (which, amongst hormonal teenagers trying to sound cool, is a lot).
--->'''Ja`mie''': Oh my god, ties are so random. Like, what are they anyway, just pieces of fabric?
* Parodied in an episode of ''NewsRadio'': Bill is hired to advertise a malt liquor during news breaks, and adopts a "ghetto voice" during his ads, much to the chagrin of Catherine. Catherine ends up giving Bill a stream of "street slang" that she says will make the commercial seem more hip, that just makes him sound ridiculous ("It's got that upstate prison flavor that'll make your feet stank all night long!").
* Also parodied in their ADayAtTheBizarro InSpace episode, where "Gazizzah", one of the made-up words, has become a common greeting.
* The show ''Pizza'' is responsible for putting the phrase "fully sick" and "stooge" into the mouths of thousands of [[strike:bogans]] [[strike:Australians]] bogans. And Uncle Tobey's together with Thorpie helped kill it. To elaborate for Non-Australians: If you want to kill slang, put it in the mouth of a metrosexual swimmer in an advertisement for cereal.
* Played with in an episode of''HowIMetYourMother'': when Robin dates an older man, his TotallyRadical speech patterns (part surfer, part stoner) make him seem even older.
* Parodied in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNQf08Kxsw&feature=related this]] ''Armstrong & Miller'' sketch. Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like if RAF pilots talked this way?
** Speaking of the RAF, there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek&feature=fvw this]] Monty Python sketch, in which slang totally fails as a tool of communication.
* In the US version of ''TheOffice'', Michael frequently receives lessons in "black people phrases" from warehouse worker Darryl, never quite catching on that Darryl's just screwing with him.
** "Dink and Flicka"
* Parodied in the first several season of ''{{The Red Green Show}}'', with uber-geek Harold trying to seem "cool" and "radical", but merely revealing himself as the dork he was. Red's own speeches to teenage viewers were ironically much more authentic, as he didn't even bother trying to relate to them in the same way and just talked like an ordinary middle-aged guy.
* The [[TheSarahConnorChronicles Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]] episode "Goodbye to That" featured this bit of dialogue from a young kid playing on an Xbox 360: "Man up, noob. You don't want to get owned. Stop crying about your Internet connection and learn to play. [doorbell rings] I gotta AFK a minute." It just comes off as forced. Sadly, most Xbox Live players do sound exactly like this. Also, the kid is like 11 or 12 years old. Ironically, he's about to get his ass handed to him by a Terminator.
* Season one, episode four of ''VeronicaMars'' is one big long TotallyRadical marathon. Veronica and Wallace go undercover to end a credit card fraud scheme perpetrated by a pair of nerds called the "Silicon Mafia" developing a new game which will "make ''Quake'' look like ''Asteroids''." Part of their scheme involves tricking the evil nerds into believing they've been invited to a demonstration of ''TheMatrix'' MMORPG, which no one cared about in the first place. Apparently, it has "rag-doll effects." And "the physics engine is killer." The list goes on. And on. Also features a painful case of PacManFever.
* ''DarkAngel'' has its share of examples, but one seems deliberate: it is perfectly in character for hyper-square Normal to name his messenger service--wait for it--Jam Pony.
* Mercilessly spoofed in the short-lived ''FunkySquad'', an Australian take-off of American '70s cop shows like ''The Mod Squad''.
* Parodied in ''Not Going Out'': Lee has found yet another dead-end job, so Kate asks him if he bothered to look at some career leaflets she got for him. He dismissively says that they're all aimed at kids, citing a slogan: "Do you want a career, innit?" Kate reads the leaflet; the slogan in question is actually "Do you want a career in IT?"
** [[http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/001395.html "Train for jobs in biotch."]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carol_Burnett_Show Beach Blanket Boo Boo]]
* The long-running Australian soap ''{{Neighbours}}'' caught on that youngsters spend lots of time playing computer games. Apparently they only got access to one game though, so for years, whenever they showed a character playing computer games, the soundtrack featured the distinctive sounds of ''Magic Carpet''...
* Similarly, an episode of ''{{Zoey 101}}'' had stereotypical computer geeks saying stuff like "LOL!" These are ''typed'' expressions, though they're occasionally said out loud, either by the savvy in a spirit of ironic playfulness, or by the clueless through a lack of understanding. Guess which category the writers fell into.
* The Season Two episode from ''{{Ugly Betty}}'' when Betty writes an article for ''Hot Flash'', only to have Claire edit the hell out of it to make it sound more "youthful". Betty herself is indignant, and to her chagrin every single person who talks to her about the article comments on it. ("...Natch?")
* Spoofed in an episode of ''HannahMontana''; Miley goes to see a dentist, who greets her using a mish-mash of outdated slang. When Miley calls him out on this, the dentist says that he's just trying to be relatable, to which she quips, "To what, the 1970s?"
* ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' had an episode where Charlie invited his latest girlfriend ([[OedipusComplex a near doppleganger for his own mother]]) and her two kids. Jake gives Charlie a series of advice on how to handle the kids: don't rub their heads, don't call them "little dudes", don't raise your hand and say "high five" and don't ask if they would like ice cream. When they arrive, cue [[TheWoobie Alan]] who of course chains everything Jake had warned against, to the dismay of eveyone around. Alan doesn't even notice and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome enthusiastically plows through the entire list.]]
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* ''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" (ie, [[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''.
* In {{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.
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* ''TheReducedShakespeareCompany Radio Show'':
-->'''Reed''': I told you, Adam, Antony and Cleopatra has nothing to do with rap!\\
'''Adam''': Oh yeah? Well, where does Cleopatra come from?\\
'''Reed''': Egypt.\\
'''Adam''': And what continent is Egypt on?\\
'''Reed''': Africa.\\
'''Adam''': Africa... African-Americans... rap! Boom! Hit it!\\
There was a red-hot mama and her name was Cleo\\
A babe born in Egypt but she moved to Italy-o\\
She hooked up with a dude who was built like a tree\\
Her old man's name was Mark An-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-
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* ''Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2'' features a robot who initially talks in SpockSpeak... but the main character can't understand him and asks him to speak more understandably, so he starts talking in obnoxious TotallyRadical speech. He later goes back to SpockSpeak, to the relief of the other characters, and likely the relief of the player as well.
* Jake from ''AdvanceWars: Dual Strike''. "Black Hole is all up in our business." Cue cringing. Or laughing, depending on the player's temperament.
** It gets worse from there: his victory line is "Get the plates, 'cuz you just got served!"
** Waylon's slang in ''Days of Ruin'' is a deliberate self parody''/''LampshadeHanging of the NoA localization team's work with the aforementioned Jake. "Would someone tell me why these Lazurians are up in my business?"
* ''Totally Rad'' is a game ''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/rom-pit/totally-rad.php absolutely loaded with this]]'', to the point that it borders on self-parody. It was actually a translation of a painfully straight platform game called [[http://www.flammie.net/vse/things/rad/ Magic John]] and was purposefully done over the top, but [[StealthParody may have been too subtle]].
* The Diamond and Pearl ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' games have people saying things such as "If you don't have gym badges, people think you're a total n00b, right?" and "I just got owned!" Translator Douglas Dinsdale of SomethingAwful put a lot of Internet memes (like an artist on route 208 saying he will name a painting "My Pokemon Is Fight") as injokes.
** "Jock" type characters in ''AnimalCrossing: Wild World'' also refer to you as a "total noob" if you annoy them.
* Likewise, ''MetalGearAcid 2'' had a nerdy PlayfulHacker who used Internet slang in dialogue; unfortunately, Internet slang evolves so fast his use of it seems dated ''just a year'' later.
* One word: [[{{Disgaea}} DOOD]]! 3 more words: [[http://cgshrines.rydia.net/_etna.html THAT'S SWEET, DOOD!]]
** "Dood" was an addition by the original translators by Atlus, but kept by NipponIchi when they opened their US branch. In the original, the Prinnies constantly end their sentences with ?? (''ssu''), a colloquial contraction of the polite copula ?? (''desu'').
*** Becomes a plot point in the first game -- one of the Prinnies is special, and the cast calls her on it because she doesn't use "dood". So she tries, and sounds extremely awkward. The fact that she's ''pink'' (whereas every other Prinny is very, very blue) isn't brought up.
*** Moreover, "dood" is [[BilingualBonus Dutch for "dead."]]
* ''Pocket Kingdom: Own the World'', one of the very few good-by-consensus games for the N-Gage platform, is intentionally filled with this, as it attempts to mirror an actual PC {{MMORPG}}. Players buy and upgrade their weapons with "loot", and losing characters are "owned", rather than simply being defeated.
* Seifer's painful [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=pY30kR3bQ4U rejoinder]] in ''KingdomHearts II'' (made even more [[{{Narm}} Narmtastic]] in the fact that it's delivered in a ''complete deadpan'').
* ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Justice For All'': "That monkey doesn't fake the funk on a nasty dunk." To say nothing of Sal Manella, the fat, geeky TV director in the first game who largely communicates in 1337-speak when agitated, prompting your sidekick to ask "What are 'suck sores'?"
* Zelos from ''TalesOfSymphonia'' is a milder version of this; he doesn't speak in it constantly, but when he does, it's ''painful''.
* Parodied in [[MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Mario And Luigi: Partners in Time]], where the plumbers encounter a hammer bros duo mindcontrolled by the bad guys via special helmets that talk 1337-speak. After they're freed from the helmets, they wonder who'd talk like that.
* Parodied, again, in ''Super PaperMario'' in the third chapter -- which is usually referred to as the ''"nerd"'' chapter. The (accidental) villain of the chapter is Francis, a "high-technicaaaal" nerd who abducts NinjaButterfly Tippi thinking it's a rare insect, with no worse intent than to take photos of her to show off his new camera.
* Pops up a lot in ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''. At one point, you have to help a pin salesman pass around [[strike:Player]] Red Skull Pins by [[MemeticMutation implanting catchphrases into his head]], which consist of such hilariously/painfully corny [='80s=] buzz words as "Totally gnarly!" and "Come get some hot stuff!" The other characters [[LampshadeHanging wonder exactly what he's thinking]].
** On the other end of the spectrum, we have Sho Minamimoto, who mixes mathamatical phrases in with his dialog.
-->'''Sho''':You fractals have no future! QED. Class is dismissed!
* In ''CityOfHeroes'', an officer representing Nemesis (a villain who's been around since the 1800s) tells a member of the cybernetic punk Freakshow: "I assure you, my good man, Nemesis is most definitely 'down with the street'. Word up, my homie, as it were."
* LampshadeHanging in ''MegaManStarForce'': When Geo travels to the AMAKEN compound, he meets a girl named "[[MeaningfulName Chatty Ditz]]" who's, like, totally having trouble, like, sending an e-mail to her friend, y'know? When Omega-Xis asks why she talks like that, Geo remarks that "it's some sort of dialect people used 200 years ago", to which Mega responds: "I'm not sure whether this means human language has reached its [[GuiltyPleasures high point]] or its [[SoBadItsGood low point]]".
** Also, parodied in Mega Man Star Force 3. One of the noise areas is inhabited by a corrupted wave being, which has a vocabulary that mostly revolves around one word, much to the confusion (and amusement) of the player.
-->'''Wave being''': "'SUP?"
-->'''Geo''': "Uh... 'sup?"
-->'''Wave being''': "'SUP... YEAH! 'SUP!"
* ''White Men Can't Jump'', a video game for the Atari Jaguar based on the movie of the same name, is notorious for playing this trope terribly straight.
* In ''CommandAndConquer: Red Alert 3'', the Japanese Commander Kenji will taunt you during skirmish matches with phrases like "Hey look! A noob in training." or "What? This wet nose scrub beat me?".
** Considering that this takes place (presumably) decades earlier in its timeline, this is probably still cutting-edge slang in-universe.
* In ''Tony Hawk's UnderGround 2'', slimy movie writer/director/producer Nigel Beaverhausen talks in labored, outdated slang to the skating teams. Mainly to get the point across that he's a total square whose attempts to relate to them are just condescending.
** In the previous game there was a Russian man who constantly spouted slang and apparently learned English from "American hip-hop videos, my man!"
* In the English localization of ''{{Xenogears}}'', Hammer the Supplier says, "Master, sir, did you just see my MAD SKILLZ!?"
* FinalFantasyVII painfully tried to incorporate ebonics (formally known as "African-American Vernacular English").
* Griffith "Griff" Simmons' speech in ''SSX 3'' was... painful. And, indeed, he does say "TOTALLY RAD!" as he's hitting a particularly awesome trick.
** Not to mention Mac Frasier's terrible street lingo, which aged pretty pathetically. Yeah, Mac, we ''can'' say "bling bling." But nobody has wanted to since 2004.
* [[BadDudes "Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"]]
* Mr. Ekoda in ''{{Persona 3}}'' attempts this in his first lesson to attempt to get students interested in his subject.
* One of the villains in the second SlyCooper game is Dmitri, a French JiveTurkey lounge lizard who learned all of his English from American music videos, and communicates in a mish-mash of outdated slang. Eventually [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] after Dmitri delivers a convoluted threat right before the boss fight with him, and Sly retorts with "I have no idea what you're saying. And your suit sucks!"
* Although it is current usage in the gamer community, [[{{Ripsaw}} This Troper]] cringes a little whenever he's running through [[WorldOfWarcraft Trial of the Crusader]] and hears King Wrynn call a dying player a "worthless scrub". It just breaks the immersion.
* [[BackyardSports "YO DUUUUUUDE! I'M ERIK STREEEEM!"]]
* ''Kid Niki: Radical Ninja''
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[[folder:WebAnimation]]
* 90's Kids from ''ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' who is the physical embodiement of the DarkAge of comic books.
* Parodied on ''HomestarRunner'', in Strong Bad Email #164, [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail164.html looking old]]. Strong Bad fears he's losing the "youth vote" of "young parsons who eat their yogurt through a tube", and thus calls an "emergency marketing meeting". The Cheat suggests frenetic, MTV-style editing, while Bubs thinks adding a lowercase "i" to the front of words is a good idea. Ultimately he undergoes a "lace-lift" which results in the opposite of the intended effect so that he ends up looking and sounding like his own great-grandmother.
** Acknowledged yet avoided by the [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs11.html Teen Girl Squad]], as their TotallyRadical slang is so ridiculous, it can't be anything but fake.
--->'''Cheerleader''': Okay, my Spanish Galleons!
* Several of the "Awesome" videos on Newgrounds use this trope for comic effect with characters such as Sonic and Gray Fox. "Yo yo yo B-boy [[MetalGear Snake]]-Dawg-G..."
* [[http://www.sickanimation.com/cartoon.asp?name=coolcourt My client has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of chilling out!]]
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[[folder:WebComics]]
* Parodied throughout ''KidRadd'', as the main character is from an 80s VideoGame which used this trope. "Woo, air guitar!"
*[[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=13 This]] [[TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Dr. McNinja]] strip manages to replace the Totally with ''Epic''. King Radical is a recurring character riff on the trope, a villain known for such deeds as hijacking trucks carrying "Xtreme snacks." Subverted with that example when the Doctor finds a note from Radical in the truck stating that while his guess was good, Radical prefers fresh and locally-grown organic food.
* Deconstructed in [[http://xkcd.com/166/ xkcd]].
* [[http://www.achewood.com Achewood]] creator Chris Onstad makes a more successful effort to simulate teen slang indirectly than ''ForBetterOrForWorse''. "Little Nephew" Charley holds forth in a half-recognizable, half-invented hip-hop lingo with XtremeKoolLetterz. See [[http://charleysmuckles.blogspot.com/ Charley's]] blog for best examples.
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* In the late 80s and early 90s, many different media used (largely out-of-date) California surfer/valley-speak, like the ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', the video game ''Totally Rad'', and the ''Bill and Ted'' movies. There was something of a chain effect here, as the better writers used it with a wink, and hack writers used it because the better writers used it.
** The Turtles' early overuse of TotallyRadical speech was parodied in a sketch on ''RobotChicken'', where the Turtles said "Tubular!" "Radical!" "Awesome!" "Reaganomics!"
** 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!"
** ''TotallySpies'' uses this as part of its effort to deliberately evoke the late 80s, from its setting in BeverlyHills to its Valspeak.
* ''KimPossible'' mostly used BuffySpeak, but also threw in a few characters (such as Motor Ed, [[CatchPhrase seriously]]) who spoke in out-of-date slang for comic effect.
**Although they did use some words which are realistic slang, such as chillax, and coolio (which also shows up on ''{{Scrubs}}'').
** A throwaway gag in one episode involves Dr. Drakken learning the phrase "off the heazy" from a book on teenage slang, prompting GenreSavvy Shego to [[LampshadeHanging 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, John [=DiMaggio=], it was hilarious. "Why you got to leave me hangin' like that, yo?" and "Word to yo' mutha!" are examples.
** Also briefly attempted by Mrs. Dr. Possible. Kim's reaction: "Mom, [[HotMom you're]] [[ActionMom already cool.]] Don't push it."
* The use of chili dogs in various ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series. Not slang, but still something that supposedly appeals to kids while being way off the mark.
** Turned up to eleven in a series of childrens' novels based on the UK comics, where even the ''narration'' is done this way. "Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory" also included what one can only hope is a LampshadeHanging, as Sonic and Tails gently mock the monkeys of Emerald Hill for using "totally out of date" [[BritishAccents Cockney accents]].
*** There are four of these UK Sonic novels, and the later ones are composed entirely out of LampshadeHanging, [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]], NoFourthWall, anachronistic slang, and pop culture references. In places, they practically deconstruct TotallyRadical.
----> '''From Book 3''': "A big ten-four to that, good buddy," said Tails. "We've gotta get hip and dig his crazy scene, find his pad, cash his chips and everything will be copacetic. It'll be very."
** Knowing that said ''Sonic'' animated series were all made in the '90s, Sonic's fondness of them became {{Canon Immigrant}}s in the games. When exactly? In the GameboyAdvance game ''Sonic Advance 3'', released in 2003.
* Kitty Pryde in ''XMenEvolution'' originally used lots of somewhat-dated [[ValleyGirl Valley Speak]].
** Jubilee in the original ''{{X-Men}}'' cartoon did the same thing, though the setting was New York; this was adapted from the comics, she was a "mall rat" from Southern California.
** Justified for the ''Evolution'' version of Forge, who was literally caught in a timeless limbo since the mid-seventies, and sounds just "groovy".
*** And it was [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilariously]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Nightcrawler:
---> '''Kurt''': Dude, that homie's lingo is ''wack!''
* One of the many minuses of ''RocketPower'' is its (mis)use of slang.
** Oddly also lampshaded (sort of) in once episode where the cast laments the "Kooks" (non-local) and such stealing their "lingo" and using it without the proper pronunciation or usage.... Silly Nickelodeon.
** Remember when the Squid totally BEEFED IT??
* In season 1 of [[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]]'s dub of ''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.
** 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!"
** 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.
* In the ''Justice Friends'' segment of ''[[DextersLaboratory Dexter's Laboratory]]'', Val Hallan, Viking God of Rock, speaks in a combination of this and YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe.
* 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 [[TransformersFilmSeries 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:
--->'''Headmaster''': I am so l33t!\\
'''Optimus Prime''': Yeah? Well, I have no idea what that means!
*** 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]] as his personal catchphrase. It's hideous and [[strike:someone needs to stop him]] it's a good thing that [[spoiler:Megatron]] stopped him.
* In ''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.
* 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".
* ''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.
---> Stay flamin'!
---> Hotman. (Hotman. Hotman...)
---> Flameo!
* In ''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.
* ''{{Ben 10 Alien Force}}'':
-->'''Gwen''': I'm at one with the cosmic mana, feeling the energy of the universe flowing around and through me.
-->'''Ben''': Groovy...
** 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 Evil Dead]]'' fan, that is...
** [[TheresNoBInMovie Which is entirely plausible.]]
* This page has existed far too long without any mention of [[TheSimpsons Poochie]].
** But he's the kung-fu surfer from gangsta city!
*** ''Exactly''.
* The Disney channel'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.
* ''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.
* 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.
* The now infamous pilot for the Battletoads cartoon.
* This trope was one of the many things about ''Yo Yogi!'' that caused YogiBear to stop starring in regular cartoons.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''PowerpuffGirls'', 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]].
**Then there the knock off PPG in "Knock it Off" especially in the case of Buttercup's clone "Girl Power" =P
* The twins from {{Superjail}} seem to fit into this catogory.
* ''DannyPhantom'' suffers from this quite a bit. Especially with it's rampant use of the word "[[NeverSayDie waste]]".
** Danny wasn't nearly as bad as Master's Blasters, though.
***I was under the impression the "total radical" aspect of the Masters Blasters was intentional, given that it was being hosted by Vlad Masters, a man who isn't well tuned in teen speak.
* ''{{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.
* There's something about naming a character [[JohnnyTest Bling-Bling Boy]] that seems strangely desperate to appeal to kids.
**Or maybe not, since the character in question is a rich jerk who's Johnny's recurring nemesis...
* In an episode of ''{{Garfield and Friends}}'', Jon's teenaged niece talked like this and Garfield and the narrator had to do translating duties every time she spoke.
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* Too many church signs. [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/notratched/2590959112/in/pool-badsign This]] could be a [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] sign gag, and [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb-foto/2331909529/ this]] (currently inactive link) is where the pic at the top of the page came from.
** [[http://failblog.org/2009/03/25/reason-for-the-season-fail/ This]] is also worthy of mention.
** World Youth Day recently took place in Australia, and the people who went got religious text messages on their mobiles. These switched the "you" for a "u" and so on. An article was published about how they were doing it to "speak their language", and quoting "experts" on how the message would be "seen as cool". [[CompletelyMissingThePoint They somehow didn't get]] that people use text speak because it's just quicker.
**But [[http://iamhilarious.com/i-kissed-a-girl-and-i-liked-it-then-i-went-to-hell/ this]] has got to be the granddaddy of them all.
* If ''anybody'' has heard of any of the 20 Internet Acronyms Every Parent Should Know, please contact your local police station post-haste; they could definitely use you as a telepathic detective.
** The updated list of 50 acronyms contains some real corkers. A/S/L is legit, as pointed out, along with J/O. As are 1337 and 420 (the latter a marijuana reference) but both are a little out of place in a list that seems to concern itself mainly with cybersex. The rest seem to be initialisms of quite arbitrary phrases. Apparently, [[FreudWasRight banana means penis]]. And "kitty" means vagina, obviously a pun on "pussy". Using either is a good way to give your cybersex session [[{{Narm}} that little something extra]].
* ObjectiveMinistries is a StealthParody of fundamentalist Christianity; their [[http://objectiveministries.org/zounds/ Zounds! Youth Rock Ministry]] is an equally stealthy parody of this trope, to the point where it was originally posted on this page as a straight example.
* In 1992, a New York Times columnist wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak glossary of "Seattle grunge slang"]] for that paper. He didn't make it all up, but his cunning informant did. The gullible reporter reported it as fact. Some of the slang actually made its way into the mediasphere in minor ways. For example, it inspired the title of the short-lived series ''HarshRealm'' (very loosely based on a comic book called ''The Realm'').
* Michael Steele, the new chairman of the RNC, drew a great deal of satire for promising an "off the hook" PR campaign in "urban-suburban hip-hop settings", among many such 'cool' comments.
* A great many conservatives, in an effort to liken their objections to the federal budget to the colonists' objections to British taxation, i.e. the Boston Tea Party, have been urging their followers to "teabag Obama/Congress/America", seemingly unaware of the testicle-based sex act the word refers to in slang. Certainly, the savvier members of the movement changed their rhetoric, but it was too late for ''TheDailyShow'' and the like not to continuously mock it as such.
** You've got it backwards. The various groups setting up the "tea parties" did mail tea bags to politicians, but there was no language of "tea bagging" anyone. News commentators such as Rachael Maddow and Anderson Cooper marginalized the protests by referring to "tea bagging" and then the protestors took up the language as a {{Take That}}.
* The annotation by to [[http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/issue176.htm this article]] by Seanbaby points out an especially lame example from a company pamphlet shilling gamer chairs. His mockery may have even caused to company to pull the dialogue.
* At some [[{{Nohamotyo}} award]] show a few years ago, Joan Rivers made a comment about a rapper along the lines of "always getting some bling for him and his crew." *cringe, facepalm*
* In an effort to appeal to appeal to a younger crowd, Pizza Hut has decided to [[http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2009/06/19/pizza-hut-cuts-the-quot-pizza-quot.aspx change]] its name to "The Hut."
** As in [[StarWars Jabba]]?
** Or perhaps more appropriately, er, [[{{Spaceballs}} Pizza]]?
* Speaking of shortened brand names, "Mtn Dew", anybody?
* This troper, age 24, has the habit of saying "far out" in casual conversation. Apparently, I'm not old enough to do this.
* While campaigning in 2008, Mitt Romney once attempted to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H8Nq7BglIg relate to the people]] by having his picture taken with bystanders while talking about camera phones and (awkwardly) using phrases such as "Who let the dogs out? Woof! Woof!" and talking about "bling bling" To a crowd of comprising mostly of African-Americans. On MLK Day.
* This troper was absolutely horrified by this joke, which she found on a Laffy Taffy wrapper:
---> '''Q:''' What did one cool alien say to the other?
---> '''A:''' Yo! You're a far-out dude!
* Similar to the above-mentioned "The Hut", Radio Shack is in the process of changing its name to "The Shack".
** [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/41644675@N04/3838976809/ But that's what their friends call them.]]
* This troper and many of his friends have made a point to ''only'' use slang that's outdated by at least a decade, preferably 2 or 3.
* To encourage young people to go to the lakes district, some council re-recorded Some beautiful wordsworth poetry as a rap song, along with a GOD DAMNED GUY IN A SQUIRREL SUIT. Called MC Nuts. If you think this sounds like an awesome idea, you need to be ritually executed. Here it is, in all it's horror [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbrSALG684/ Holy hell]]
* Another branding example: Denver's [[TheCW CW]] station, KWGN, calls itself "The Deuce" in an attempt to appeal to a younger demographic. On-air personality Chris Parente even said on the day of the change that it was "totally radical".
* Infamous source of insane fundamentalist rambling Conservapedia, apparenlty, [[http://www.conservapedia.com/Street_Slang thinks Ragsnaozzle Gus Gus is a slang term]]. For what, nobody knows. Naturally, due to the wiki nature of the site and [[PoesLaw the sheer insanity of the rest of it]], we can't tell whether it's serious or not, but given it's been there since February 2009 at least...
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