Other dub names: Word Nerd (Studio 100)
Barry and Olga drag Dokko to play Scrabble with them, despite the fact that he has a lot of work. Carlin explains the rules of the game to him and distributes tiles to everyone.
Dokko is quick to make his turn, but Olga has difficulty finding her combination, so he decides to help her. Barry faces the same problem, but Dokko helps him too. Carlin rejects Dokko's help and, after much thought, decides to skip. Dokko tells him the combination that could be used, which greatly angers Carlin because he doesn't know the meaning of any of them. Dokko continues to help his friends make up words, but after he lays out the word "beatty", Carlin finally snaps and demands that he stop making them up, prompting Dokko to leave. Barry doesn't like his friend's behavior, they all played so well. Carlin points out that Dokko was the only one who really played.
At night, Dokko comes to Carlin's house with a dictionary and points him the definition of "beatty." Carlin asks him why he is so fixated on this, since they know Dokko's the smartest and Carlin and the rest are fools. Dokko replies that he spent the whole day searching for a dictionary and is just as stupid as they are, just a little more erudite.
Tropes:
- An Aesop:
- Some ideas you try to bring up might alienate your friends.
- It's best to not fixate too much on certain things.
- Lost in Translation: The title obviously refers to Dokko and his smarts. However, the Russian word for Erudite (Эрудит) also happens to be the name for the Soviet-era version of Scrabble, which explains why this was the game KikoRiki play in the episode. This means that the English translation gets only half of the intended meaning across.
- Scrabble Babble: Dokko has a vast knowledge of vocabulary and uses it to the fullest, but Carlin does not understand the meaning of most of them and demands to stop making them up. Things escalate to the point he undergoes a breakdown and smashes the table, sending the game pieces flying everywhere and ending the game. When Dokko justifies his choice by the fact that the word he used (beatty, a very real but obscure type of bird. In the original Russian version, he uses "Figma", which was used in some countries to refer to side hoops) is colloquial, Carlin uses this trope against him, saying that he can play something like "Hryetgc" and claim it to be colloquial.
