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"I thought everyone was gonna eat the chips
Turns out I'm the only one who doubled-dipped
(truth)"
Robin Thicke, "Black Tar Cloud"

Jerry: Yeah, you know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture. They give me a swift pain.
Milo: Why?
Jerry: They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

Redd White: Welcome! Please furnish me with the title of your personage! [beat] Your name! What's your name? I was just inquirably asking the title that you go by.
Phoenix Wright: Uh... Wright. Phoenix Wright.
Redd White: Mr. Wright, is it? Right, I see... Splendiferous. Perhaps I have intimidated you with my giantesque vocabulary...? I'm Redd White, CEO of Bluecorp. You know, Corporate Expansion Official? My business dealings bring me into contact with the elite of the elite. So I'm afraid I am not used to conversing with the wordily-challenged.

This is shit up with which we will not put!
Brenda, Scary Movie 4

Oops! Sorry! Hope that didn't disturb you... It was the sound of books. Pages being turned, books. So I'm NOT a moron.
Wheatley, Portal 2

Freeza: That's stupid! You're stupid! Stop being stupid!
Goku: Or...maybe I'm being rhetorical.
Freeza: NO! NO YOU'RE NOT! God, it's like you just use words you hear randomly to try and sound smarter!
Goku: Huh. Well, now you're just acting transcendent.

"Sometimes I use big words and I don't actually know what they mean. I mean, I'm supposed to be the smart guy! If I'm not the smart guy, who am I?"
Dipper Pines, Gravity Falls

"Ah... You are from the Fighters' Guild, I resume. Good show. I am Lord Rugdumph gro-Shurgak. Let us conversate on the Lady Rogbut."
Lord Rugdumph gro-Shurgak, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

''"You found my belabored daughter! I will tell Burz gro-Khash about your indentures! Take this. It has been passed in my family for many generators."
Lord Rugdumph gro-Shurgak, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Benoit Blanc: "Inbreathiate." It's not a word.
Miles Bron: (flashback) Can we just take a second and fully inbreathiate this moment?
Blanc: It's not a real word. It kind of sounds like one, but it's just entirely made up. Now "reclamation," now, well, that... that is a word, but it’s the wrong word.
Miles: (flashback) This place is the full reclamation of everything I’ve achieved up to now.
Blanc: This entire day...
Miles: (flashback) The predefinite detective.
Blanc: ...a veritable minefield of malapropisms...
Miles: (flashback) The infraction point.
Blanc: ...and factual errors.

Promoter Qui: This is turning out to be an excellent day. Most austipacatious indeed!
Spirit Monk: "Austi..." Don't you mean, "auspicious?"
Promoter Qui: I apologize if I'm using words beyond your grasp. Very few people can match either the supply or the command of my language.
Spirit Monk: Seriously, you're just using the wrong words. It makes you sound like a fool.


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