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# Characters.HadesCthonicGods: Today we associate "chaos" and "chaotic" with energetic, violent, disordered imagery. Chaos in the Greek sense meant the vast, empty, infinite void -- this difference in connotation is remarked on by Chaos, whom only Ares still pays (the wrong) homage to. He still worships me, you know; yet, I would say he does not know me very well.
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# Characters.HadesCthonicGods: HadesChthonicGods: Today we associate "chaos" and "chaotic" with energetic, violent, disordered imagery. Chaos in the Greek sense meant the vast, empty, infinite void -- this difference in connotation is remarked on by Chaos, whom only Ares still pays (the wrong) homage to. He still worships me, you know; yet, I would say he does not know me very well.
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# Recap.BobsBurgersS9E6BobbyDriver: Bob lampshades that "queef" doesn't mean "quilt thief" like Mr. Frond uses it.
# Characters.StarWarsRebelCells: Lampshaded by Sabine. "Squadron" is usually used to refer to a team of ships, like Phoenix Squadron, but Iron Squadron is actually just a group in one ship. This is because Mart named it after the original Iron Squadron, his late father's military unit.
# Fanfic.DeathKorpsOfJustice: The Justice League and the Team whine that a "hero" shouldn't treat criminals the way Krieg does. They seem to forget (or ignore) Krieg's repeated insistence that he is NOT a hero, but a soldier.
# Literature.TheScrewtapeLetters: Hell has a Philological Arm, whose job is to redefine words in misleading or ambiguous ways to make it easier to lead people astray with Insane Troll Logic. Screwtape discusses using several of these words (such as "a religious phase", or contradictory definitions of "real") to tempt the Patient. They're particularly proud of the work they did on "Puritanical", which shifted from 'particularly concerned with virtue' to 'hopelessly old-fashioned'.
# WesternAnimation.BatmanAndHarleyQuinn: Harley is annoyed at the fact people (such as Batman) refer to sociopaths as "psychopaths".
# Theatre.TheLieutenantOfInishmore: Davey: Them facts are only circumstantial. Padraic: These guns are only circumstantial, so, and so too your brains'll be only circumstantial as they leave your heads and go skidding up the wall.
# Music.SiIvaGunner: In Level Theme 1 - The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock, [=SiIva=] pops in briefly to clear a few misconceptions; mainly, using the word "soundfont" in reference to consoles that use synthesizers, such as the NES, the SEGA Genesis, and the Game Boy.
# Characters.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMinorCharacters: At one point, he claims that there is a "mountain of evidence" pointing away from him. If you press him on this point, however, it turns out his "mountain of evidence" isn't really evidence at all; simply a claim regarding his supposed lack of motive. If an attorney or Edgeworth tried to pull that kind of baloney in court, they would have gotten penalized. Especially bad because Portsman should know what the word means; he is a prosecutor, after all. Edgeworth calls him out on this: Edgeworth: ...Might I recommend that you review what the word "evidence" means.
# Characters.StarWarsRebelCells: Lampshaded by Sabine. "Squadron" is usually used to refer to a team of ships, like Phoenix Squadron, but Iron Squadron is actually just a group in one ship. This is because Mart named it after the original Iron Squadron, his late father's military unit.
# Fanfic.DeathKorpsOfJustice: The Justice League and the Team whine that a "hero" shouldn't treat criminals the way Krieg does. They seem to forget (or ignore) Krieg's repeated insistence that he is NOT a hero, but a soldier.
# Literature.TheScrewtapeLetters: Hell has a Philological Arm, whose job is to redefine words in misleading or ambiguous ways to make it easier to lead people astray with Insane Troll Logic. Screwtape discusses using several of these words (such as "a religious phase", or contradictory definitions of "real") to tempt the Patient. They're particularly proud of the work they did on "Puritanical", which shifted from 'particularly concerned with virtue' to 'hopelessly old-fashioned'.
# WesternAnimation.BatmanAndHarleyQuinn: Harley is annoyed at the fact people (such as Batman) refer to sociopaths as "psychopaths".
# Theatre.TheLieutenantOfInishmore: Davey: Them facts are only circumstantial. Padraic: These guns are only circumstantial, so, and so too your brains'll be only circumstantial as they leave your heads and go skidding up the wall.
# Music.SiIvaGunner: In Level Theme 1 - The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock, [=SiIva=] pops in briefly to clear a few misconceptions; mainly, using the word "soundfont" in reference to consoles that use synthesizers, such as the NES, the SEGA Genesis, and the Game Boy.
# Characters.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMinorCharacters: At one point, he claims that there is a "mountain of evidence" pointing away from him. If you press him on this point, however, it turns out his "mountain of evidence" isn't really evidence at all; simply a claim regarding his supposed lack of motive. If an attorney or Edgeworth tried to pull that kind of baloney in court, they would have gotten penalized. Especially bad because Portsman should know what the word means; he is a prosecutor, after all. Edgeworth calls him out on this: Edgeworth: ...Might I recommend that you review what the word "evidence" means.
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# Recap.BobsBurgersS9E6BobbyDriver: Bob lampshades WebVideo.TheObscure: He points out that "queef" doesn't mean "quilt thief" like Mr. Frond Liquid Sky uses it.
# Characters.StarWarsRebelCells: Lampshaded by Sabine. "Squadron" is usually used"punk" to refer to a team of ships, like Phoenix Squadron, but Iron Squadron describe what is actually just glam rock.
# Funny.AtopTheFourthWall2023Episodes733To751: Yugi goes to his grandfather's game shop to find it closed, then flashes back to when Solomon told him he was leaving on agroup in one ship. This is "secret expedition": Yugi: You never told me anything about that! Solomon: [laughs] That's what makes it a secret! Inigo Montoya: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep using that word.]] Linkara: Yugi's confused because Mart named it his flight was supposed to have returned last night. Linkara: [as Yugi] And if there's one thing you want to do after the original Iron Squadron, his late father's military unit.
# Fanfic.DeathKorpsOfJustice: The Justice Leaguea long flight on some kind of expedition, it's open your retail store and the Team whine that a "hero" shouldn't treat criminals the way Krieg does. They seem to forget (or ignore) Krieg's repeated insistence that he is NOT a hero, but a soldier.
deal with customers! [beat] Game customers!
# Literature.TheScrewtapeLetters: Hell NightWatchDiscworld: When Rust rails that the guards turning on him for being a psychotic arse is mutiny, Vimes corrects him. Soldiers mutiny, and they're not soldiers.
# WebVideo.EpicRapBattlesOfHistory: Pablo Picasso points out that Bob Ross probably hasa Philological Arm, whose job is to redefine words in misleading no idea what cubism means.
# WebVideo.{{Crossed}}: In the DOA: Dead orambiguous ways to make it easier to lead people astray Alive review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with Insane Troll Logic. Screwtape discusses using several of these words (such as "a religious phase", or contradictory definitions of "real") to tempt the Patient. They're particularly proud meaning of the work they did on "Puritanical", which shifted from 'particularly concerned with virtue' to 'hopelessly old-fashioned'.
# WesternAnimation.BatmanAndHarleyQuinn: Harley"traitor", while it is annoyed at the in fact people (such as Batman) refer to sociopaths as "psychopaths".
# Theatre.TheLieutenantOfInishmore: Davey: Them facts are only circumstantial. Padraic: These guns are only circumstantial, so, and so too your brains'll be only circumstantial as they leave your heads and go skidding up the wall.
# Music.SiIvaGunner: In Level Theme 1 - The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock, [=SiIva=] pops in briefly to clearjust a few misconceptions; mainly, using the word "soundfont" in reference to consoles that use synthesizers, such as the NES, the SEGA Genesis, and the Game Boy.
# Characters.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMinorCharacters: At one point, he claims that there is a "mountainsynonym of evidence" pointing away from him. If you press him on this point, however, it turns out his "mountain of evidence" isn't really evidence at all; simply a claim regarding his supposed lack of motive. If an attorney or Edgeworth tried to pull that kind of baloney in court, they would have gotten penalized. Especially bad because Portsman should know what the word means; he is a prosecutor, after all. Edgeworth calls him out on this: Edgeworth: ...Might I recommend that you review what the word "evidence" means."Ninja".
# Characters.StarWarsRebelCells: Lampshaded by Sabine. "Squadron" is usually used
# Funny.AtopTheFourthWall2023Episodes733To751: Yugi goes to his grandfather's game shop to find it closed, then flashes back to when Solomon told him he was leaving on a
# Fanfic.DeathKorpsOfJustice: The Justice League
# Literature.
# WebVideo.EpicRapBattlesOfHistory: Pablo Picasso points out that Bob Ross probably has
# WebVideo.{{Crossed}}: In the DOA: Dead or
# WesternAnimation.BatmanAndHarleyQuinn: Harley
# Theatre.TheLieutenantOfInishmore: Davey: Them facts are only circumstantial. Padraic: These guns are only circumstantial, so, and so too your brains'll be only circumstantial as they leave your heads and go skidding up the wall.
# Music.SiIvaGunner: In Level Theme 1 - The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock, [=SiIva=] pops in briefly to clear
# Characters.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMinorCharacters: At one point, he claims that there is a "mountain
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# Characters.TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDWAlliesAndCivilians: He's extremely fond of the word "obtruse." While it is a legitimate English word, he's constantly using it in the wrong form. Neither Donatello nor Angel ever seem able to convince him that he's using it wrong.
# Funny.VoltronLegendaryDefender: This gem when Keith suggests staying on Arus: Lance: Here's an option: shut your quiznak. Coran and Allura: D: Coran and Allura's facial expressions are especially funny, reacting as though Lance has just spoken the most foul word in the Altean language. Funnily enough, Coran actually said that word when he tried to attack Lance right after he woke up. Keith's retort is pretty good, too. Keith: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I don't think you're using that word correctly.]] Not to mention the exchange that follows: Lance: What do you know, Mullet?! Keith: We're staying! Lance: Leaving! Pidge: Staying! Hunk: Snake! Beforehand, the group was arguing about them not having all the lions, which Hunk points out. Hunk: And we only have four lions! Pidge: Technically, only three lions. Hunk: (sincerely) That's right. Thank you, Pidge.
# Film.OlsenBanden: At one point, Benny keeps referring to Egon as „dilettanten“ (the amateur), instead of the correct „delinkventen“ (the delinquent). Egon is not amused. In the Swedish version of the scene he keeps making this mistake even after getting corrected.
# WebVideo.TwoBestFriendsPlay: Video 28 of Nier reveals that Pat is mildly aggravated by people's misuse of the word "sentient". He notes that while it means having the ability to use the five senses, people often misuse it to mean being able to think and reason about the world around you. The intended word is '"sapient". He adds that even Star Trek misuses "sentient".
# Funny.BestOfTheWorst2014Episodes: The panel ruthlessly tears into the terrible titular "blood lock", with Jessi suggesting it was children's artwork they stole from one of the crew's kids.The panel tries to determine why the lock would have "an Amish symbol", as the Amish a) don't have their own alphabet and b) aren't renowned as vampire hunters. Jessi excitedly thinks she's figured it out, declaring that vampires hate the sun just like the Amish hate electricity. Mike doesn't miss a beat in pointing out that doesn't make a lick of sense. The filmmakers [[YouKeepUsingThatWord obviously don't know the difference between "mortality" and "immortality"]], and the panel do not let it slide. The panel, especially Jessi, are baffled by the specificity of the female protagonist's extended dream sequence, particularly her imaginary boyfriend and the bizarre and completely irrelevant details she attributed to him, including a "Mullets Rule" t-shirt and a jar sitting in his bedroom that, judging by the label, is full of farts.
# ZeroPunctuation.TropesUToZ: During the Mailbag Showdown: Yahtzee: I think you should look up the word "objective", because I don't think it means what you think it means. Lampshaded by Yahtzee himself in one column, where he mentions that he's caught himself using certain words so many times that he's had to step back and wonder what the hell he's actually talking about. Helpfully, he put together a handy little glossary of some of his favorites.
# Film.EightyForBrady: Betty keeps calling her fanny pack a "strap-on", even though her friends have to remind her that's not actually the word for it.
# Characters.FuturamaAntagonists: In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", he keeps misusing the word 'irony', and Bender keeps correcting him. Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.
# Series.{{Ziwe}}: Ziwe repeatedly refers to vogue's Signature Move, the "dip", as a "death drop" while learning vogue from her on-set costumer and Ballroom Legend Ricky Allure. Ricky repeatedly insists that she use the correct term, as the "dip"/"death drop" distinction is Serious Business in the Ballroom scene. This, naturally, just prompts Ziwe to use the terms interchangeably even more.
# SCPFoundation.TropesSToZ: A pair of modern-day Are We Cool Yet? artists try to appeal to an older artist by calling the modern EU "fascist". Since the older artist lived through actual fascism he doesn't appreciate the AWCY guys' ignorance/hyperbole and entombs them (and himself) in his "living" collage.
# Characters.SouthParkAntagonistsSecondaryAndMinor: NeverMyFault: She shirks any sort of blame for prolonging Kyle's illness and blames the all-powerful autonomy of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "toxins."]]
# Website.NotAlwaysLegal: According to this person, somebody who is "bilingual" speaks English and Spanish, everybody should know that the word just means those two languages, and somebody who speaks multiple languages but not Spanish isn't bilingual. They get very upset when their legal counsel try to convince them otherwise.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS21E4TreehouseOfHorrorXX: Parodied with Kang and Kodos' cameo in the audience of "Moe Business": Kang: This is the best musical in lightyears! Kodos: Lightyears measure distance, not time. Kang: You know what I meant!
# Webcomic.TerminalLance: "Grunt" is a term mainly applied to the infantry and similar frontline fighting units. When Garcia hears support troops referring to themselves as "Grunts of X", he's drawn similarly to Inigo Montoya and quotes the trope, since the other marines have an infinitesimal chance of facing the enemy in battle.
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2020Episodes: After hearing Huxley refer to himself as "feeling a bit saucy today", the Critic decides he now has no choice but to play a certain clip from The Princess Bride: Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I do not think it means what you think it means.]]
# Literature.ThePrincessBride: CatchPhrase: Inigo: "Hello!, My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley: "As You Wish" Vizzini: "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable!]]" "True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for cough drops." It's repeated multiple times by characters at multiple levels of reality as if everyone knows this is self-evidently true.
# Film.BackToTheFuture1: At least from 1955 Doc's point of view, as he thinks that Marty's use of the word "heavy" still applies to weight and measurements — when, from Marty's point of view, he's just using the slang term for something that has a deep, powerful impact, whether philosophical, intellectual, or emotional.
# Franchise.MortalKombat: Sub-Zero will often correct someone to clarify that his clan, the Lin Kuei, are not ninja, despite their rivalry/alliance with (and similarities to) the Shirai Ryu ninja clan.
# Film.{{Religulous}}: During an interview with a United States Senator who believes in creationism, he uses the word "indigous", which the subtitles note isn't really a word (he was probably thinking of "indigenous").
# Characters.NijisanjiENOBSYDIA: No matter how much the chat corrects her, she will refer to helicopters as planes.
# Recap.ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E03TheGangHitsTheSlopes: Dee and Charlie point out that Drisko's "prank" of drilling a hole in the wall of the women's showers and sticking his dick through it isn't really a prank at all but a sex crime.
# WebVideo.TheMarkRemark: The 12/5-6/16 episode has him call out David Otunga for overusing the word "literally" when talking about Kalisto's match with Baron Corbin when covering TLC 2016.
# Fanfic.SadalaChroniclesTheTimeHitman: In-Universe. Cabba asks Rasley if his undercover wardrobe makes him look cool. Rasley tells him he looks like a queer. Cabba then starts to think queer is Cinnamian slang for cool, which makes him proclaim himself as "a totally queer Saiyan". Rasley didn't felt like telling him the truth.
# Recap.MiraculousLadybugS05E23Revolution: Well, trying to, at any rate. Chloé keeps talking up decromacy as an ideal, but she forcibly took control with the power of superpowered robots. Later, she simply declares that everyone clearly loves what she's done with Paris, and that there is no need for elections - that's the detomacric answer!
# Characters.TheOtherSideOfTheSpectrumEquusPrime: TCB Celestia claims that her xenocide of the humans is her way of spreading harmony, much to Prime Celestia's disgust. Princess Celestia: Don't even say the word harmony! What you're doing is nothing of the sort! Queen Celestia: You poor thing. Has he really filled your mind with such delusion in so little time? They're just misguided, resisting because they don't know the harmony we can bring them. Princess Celestia: (Royal Canterlot Voice activated) I SAID TO NOT ABUSE THAT WORD!
# Characters.AnotherEdenZerberiya: When panicking or flustered, Rosetta will randomly scream "heresy", even to a non-believer like Aldo is. Aldo calls her out on it.
# Literature.GuardsGuards: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
# Tsundere.AnimeAndManga: Lucky Star: Kagami Hiiragi is outright designated as one by Konata, complete with the explanation that it's appropriate for twintails. This reference is probably due to the prevalence of tsundere with Girlish Pigtails at a time when the term started to come into general usage. However, Kagami's dere side isn't actually focused on romantic feelings but more on her loneliness; despite her sarcastic outer demeanor, she cares about her friendships with the other main characters more than she'd like to admit and is secretly disappointed that she's never in the same homeroom class as them. The Lucky Channel segment of the anime even includes Minoru Shiraishi giving an extended [[YouKeepUsingThatWord rant over the term "tsundere" and how it has evolved over time]], from a transitional personality process to someone who switches back and forth constantly; in the end, he wonders if "tsundere" is really the right term to describe Kagami at all.
# Pantheon.{{Phrases}}: Relatively disgusted by Tsumugi Shirogane’s belief that fiction cannot change the world. Fiction has changed people throughout history and the statement that fiction cannot do anything is just ludicrous. Scott: What do you mean fiction can’t change the world? There are trillions of dollars poured into the industries are about FICTION. I buy thousands of dollars worth of things about FICTION. Your entire career is about dressing up as people from FICTION. So stop yelling the word [[YouKeepUsingThatWord FICTION like its a bad thing]] because it isn’t! Tsumugi, angered by his rant, decided to get personal with Scott. She decided to cosplay as one of Scott’s greatest enemies: a copy Animal Crossing amiibo Festival. Scott can be heard screaming from miles.
# Funny.VoltronLegendaryDefender: This gem when Keith suggests staying on Arus: Lance: Here's an option: shut your quiznak. Coran and Allura: D: Coran and Allura's facial expressions are especially funny, reacting as though Lance has just spoken the most foul word in the Altean language. Funnily enough, Coran actually said that word when he tried to attack Lance right after he woke up. Keith's retort is pretty good, too. Keith: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I don't think you're using that word correctly.]] Not to mention the exchange that follows: Lance: What do you know, Mullet?! Keith: We're staying! Lance: Leaving! Pidge: Staying! Hunk: Snake! Beforehand, the group was arguing about them not having all the lions, which Hunk points out. Hunk: And we only have four lions! Pidge: Technically, only three lions. Hunk: (sincerely) That's right. Thank you, Pidge.
# Film.OlsenBanden: At one point, Benny keeps referring to Egon as „dilettanten“ (the amateur), instead of the correct „delinkventen“ (the delinquent). Egon is not amused. In the Swedish version of the scene he keeps making this mistake even after getting corrected.
# WebVideo.TwoBestFriendsPlay: Video 28 of Nier reveals that Pat is mildly aggravated by people's misuse of the word "sentient". He notes that while it means having the ability to use the five senses, people often misuse it to mean being able to think and reason about the world around you. The intended word is '"sapient". He adds that even Star Trek misuses "sentient".
# Funny.BestOfTheWorst2014Episodes: The panel ruthlessly tears into the terrible titular "blood lock", with Jessi suggesting it was children's artwork they stole from one of the crew's kids.The panel tries to determine why the lock would have "an Amish symbol", as the Amish a) don't have their own alphabet and b) aren't renowned as vampire hunters. Jessi excitedly thinks she's figured it out, declaring that vampires hate the sun just like the Amish hate electricity. Mike doesn't miss a beat in pointing out that doesn't make a lick of sense. The filmmakers [[YouKeepUsingThatWord obviously don't know the difference between "mortality" and "immortality"]], and the panel do not let it slide. The panel, especially Jessi, are baffled by the specificity of the female protagonist's extended dream sequence, particularly her imaginary boyfriend and the bizarre and completely irrelevant details she attributed to him, including a "Mullets Rule" t-shirt and a jar sitting in his bedroom that, judging by the label, is full of farts.
# ZeroPunctuation.TropesUToZ: During the Mailbag Showdown: Yahtzee: I think you should look up the word "objective", because I don't think it means what you think it means. Lampshaded by Yahtzee himself in one column, where he mentions that he's caught himself using certain words so many times that he's had to step back and wonder what the hell he's actually talking about. Helpfully, he put together a handy little glossary of some of his favorites.
# Film.EightyForBrady: Betty keeps calling her fanny pack a "strap-on", even though her friends have to remind her that's not actually the word for it.
# Characters.FuturamaAntagonists: In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", he keeps misusing the word 'irony', and Bender keeps correcting him. Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.
# Series.{{Ziwe}}: Ziwe repeatedly refers to vogue's Signature Move, the "dip", as a "death drop" while learning vogue from her on-set costumer and Ballroom Legend Ricky Allure. Ricky repeatedly insists that she use the correct term, as the "dip"/"death drop" distinction is Serious Business in the Ballroom scene. This, naturally, just prompts Ziwe to use the terms interchangeably even more.
# SCPFoundation.TropesSToZ: A pair of modern-day Are We Cool Yet? artists try to appeal to an older artist by calling the modern EU "fascist". Since the older artist lived through actual fascism he doesn't appreciate the AWCY guys' ignorance/hyperbole and entombs them (and himself) in his "living" collage.
# Characters.SouthParkAntagonistsSecondaryAndMinor: NeverMyFault: She shirks any sort of blame for prolonging Kyle's illness and blames the all-powerful autonomy of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "toxins."]]
# Website.NotAlwaysLegal: According to this person, somebody who is "bilingual" speaks English and Spanish, everybody should know that the word just means those two languages, and somebody who speaks multiple languages but not Spanish isn't bilingual. They get very upset when their legal counsel try to convince them otherwise.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS21E4TreehouseOfHorrorXX: Parodied with Kang and Kodos' cameo in the audience of "Moe Business": Kang: This is the best musical in lightyears! Kodos: Lightyears measure distance, not time. Kang: You know what I meant!
# Webcomic.TerminalLance: "Grunt" is a term mainly applied to the infantry and similar frontline fighting units. When Garcia hears support troops referring to themselves as "Grunts of X", he's drawn similarly to Inigo Montoya and quotes the trope, since the other marines have an infinitesimal chance of facing the enemy in battle.
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2020Episodes: After hearing Huxley refer to himself as "feeling a bit saucy today", the Critic decides he now has no choice but to play a certain clip from The Princess Bride: Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I do not think it means what you think it means.]]
# Literature.ThePrincessBride: CatchPhrase: Inigo: "Hello!, My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley: "As You Wish" Vizzini: "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable!]]" "True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for cough drops." It's repeated multiple times by characters at multiple levels of reality as if everyone knows this is self-evidently true.
# Film.BackToTheFuture1: At least from 1955 Doc's point of view, as he thinks that Marty's use of the word "heavy" still applies to weight and measurements — when, from Marty's point of view, he's just using the slang term for something that has a deep, powerful impact, whether philosophical, intellectual, or emotional.
# Franchise.MortalKombat: Sub-Zero will often correct someone to clarify that his clan, the Lin Kuei, are not ninja, despite their rivalry/alliance with (and similarities to) the Shirai Ryu ninja clan.
# Film.{{Religulous}}: During an interview with a United States Senator who believes in creationism, he uses the word "indigous", which the subtitles note isn't really a word (he was probably thinking of "indigenous").
# Characters.NijisanjiENOBSYDIA: No matter how much the chat corrects her, she will refer to helicopters as planes.
# Recap.ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E03TheGangHitsTheSlopes: Dee and Charlie point out that Drisko's "prank" of drilling a hole in the wall of the women's showers and sticking his dick through it isn't really a prank at all but a sex crime.
# WebVideo.TheMarkRemark: The 12/5-6/16 episode has him call out David Otunga for overusing the word "literally" when talking about Kalisto's match with Baron Corbin when covering TLC 2016.
# Fanfic.SadalaChroniclesTheTimeHitman: In-Universe. Cabba asks Rasley if his undercover wardrobe makes him look cool. Rasley tells him he looks like a queer. Cabba then starts to think queer is Cinnamian slang for cool, which makes him proclaim himself as "a totally queer Saiyan". Rasley didn't felt like telling him the truth.
# Recap.MiraculousLadybugS05E23Revolution: Well, trying to, at any rate. Chloé keeps talking up decromacy as an ideal, but she forcibly took control with the power of superpowered robots. Later, she simply declares that everyone clearly loves what she's done with Paris, and that there is no need for elections - that's the detomacric answer!
# Characters.TheOtherSideOfTheSpectrumEquusPrime: TCB Celestia claims that her xenocide of the humans is her way of spreading harmony, much to Prime Celestia's disgust. Princess Celestia: Don't even say the word harmony! What you're doing is nothing of the sort! Queen Celestia: You poor thing. Has he really filled your mind with such delusion in so little time? They're just misguided, resisting because they don't know the harmony we can bring them. Princess Celestia: (Royal Canterlot Voice activated) I SAID TO NOT ABUSE THAT WORD!
# Characters.AnotherEdenZerberiya: When panicking or flustered, Rosetta will randomly scream "heresy", even to a non-believer like Aldo is. Aldo calls her out on it.
# Literature.GuardsGuards: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
# Tsundere.AnimeAndManga: Lucky Star: Kagami Hiiragi is outright designated as one by Konata, complete with the explanation that it's appropriate for twintails. This reference is probably due to the prevalence of tsundere with Girlish Pigtails at a time when the term started to come into general usage. However, Kagami's dere side isn't actually focused on romantic feelings but more on her loneliness; despite her sarcastic outer demeanor, she cares about her friendships with the other main characters more than she'd like to admit and is secretly disappointed that she's never in the same homeroom class as them. The Lucky Channel segment of the anime even includes Minoru Shiraishi giving an extended [[YouKeepUsingThatWord rant over the term "tsundere" and how it has evolved over time]], from a transitional personality process to someone who switches back and forth constantly; in the end, he wonders if "tsundere" is really the right term to describe Kagami at all.
# Pantheon.{{Phrases}}: Relatively disgusted by Tsumugi Shirogane’s belief that fiction cannot change the world. Fiction has changed people throughout history and the statement that fiction cannot do anything is just ludicrous. Scott: What do you mean fiction can’t change the world? There are trillions of dollars poured into the industries are about FICTION. I buy thousands of dollars worth of things about FICTION. Your entire career is about dressing up as people from FICTION. So stop yelling the word [[YouKeepUsingThatWord FICTION like its a bad thing]] because it isn’t! Tsumugi, angered by his rant, decided to get personal with Scott. She decided to cosplay as one of Scott’s greatest enemies: a copy Animal Crossing amiibo Festival. Scott can be heard screaming from miles.
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# AtopTheFourthWall.TropesQToZ: Linkara quickly becomes annoyed at the poorly-defined overuse of the word "Justice" throughout the Justice League: Cry for Justice miniseries. Early in the review, he speculated that the fact they were blatantly just after revenge and calling it justice would be an obvious plot point, but it is never acknowledged in the comic. In the Mr. T #2 review, he rants about writers who use "literally" incorrectly after a character mentions another who "literally burned away" without actually bursting into flames.
# Characters.TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDWAlliesAndCivilians: He's extremely fond of RurouniKenshinRivalsAndVillains: Espiral refers to Kenshin as the word "obtruse." While it is "strongest samurai" despite the fact that Kenshin has never been a legitimate English word, part of that social class. As far as he's constantly using it in the wrong form. Neither Donatello nor Angel ever seem able to convince him that he's using it wrong.
# Funny.VoltronLegendaryDefender: This gem when Keith suggests staying on Arus: Lance: Here's an option: shut your quiznak. Coran and Allura: D: Coran and Allura's facial expressionsconcerned, all Japanese swordsmen are especially funny, reacting as though Lance has just spoken the most foul word in the Altean language. Funnily enough, Coran actually said that word when he tried to attack Lance right after he woke up. Keith's retort is pretty good, too. Keith: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I don't think you're using that word correctly.]] Not to mention the exchange that follows: Lance: What do you know, Mullet?! Keith: We're staying! Lance: Leaving! Pidge: Staying! Hunk: Snake! Beforehand, the group was arguing about them not having all the lions, which Hunk points out. Hunk: And we only have four lions! Pidge: Technically, only three lions. Hunk: (sincerely) That's right. Thank you, Pidge.
# Film.OlsenBanden: At one point, Benny keeps referring to Egon as „dilettanten“ (the amateur), instead of the correct „delinkventen“ (the delinquent). Egon is not amused. In the Swedish version of the scene he keeps making this mistake even after getting corrected.
# WebVideo.TwoBestFriendsPlay: Video 28 of Nier reveals that Pat is mildly aggravated by people's misuse of the word "sentient". He notes that while it means having the ability to use the five senses, people often misuse it to mean being able to think and reason about the world around you. The intended word is '"sapient". He adds that even Star Trek misuses "sentient".
# Funny.BestOfTheWorst2014Episodes: The panel ruthlessly tears into the terrible titular "blood lock", with Jessi suggesting it was children's artwork they stole from one of the crew's kids.The panel tries to determine why the lock would have "an Amish symbol", as the Amish a) don't have their own alphabet and b) aren't renowned as vampire hunters. Jessi excitedly thinks she's figured it out, declaring that vampires hate the sun just like the Amish hate electricity. Mike doesn't miss a beat in pointing out that doesn't make a lick of sense. The filmmakers [[YouKeepUsingThatWord obviously don't know the difference between "mortality" and "immortality"]], and the panel do not let it slide. The panel, especially Jessi, are baffled by the specificity of the female protagonist's extended dream sequence, particularly her imaginary boyfriend and the bizarre and completely irrelevant details she attributed to him, including a "Mullets Rule" t-shirt and a jar sitting in his bedroom that, judging by the label, is full of farts.
# ZeroPunctuation.TropesUToZ: During the Mailbag Showdown: Yahtzee: I think you should look up the word "objective", because I don't think it means what you think it means. Lampshaded by Yahtzee himself in one column, where he mentions that he's caught himself using certain words so many times that he's had to step back and wonder what the hell he's actually talking about. Helpfully, he put together a handy little glossary of some of his favorites.
# Film.EightyForBrady: Betty keeps calling her fanny pack a "strap-on", even though her friends have to remind her that's not actually the word for it.
# Characters.FuturamaAntagonists: In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", he keeps misusing the word 'irony', and Bender keeps correcting him. Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.
# Series.{{Ziwe}}: Ziwe repeatedly refers to vogue's Signature Move, the "dip", as a "death drop" while learning vogue from her on-set costumer and Ballroom Legend Ricky Allure. Ricky repeatedly insists that she use the correct term, as the "dip"/"death drop" distinction is Serious Business in the Ballroom scene. This, naturally, just prompts Ziwe to use the terms interchangeably even more.
# SCPFoundation.TropesSToZ: A pair of modern-day Are We Cool Yet? artists try to appeal to an older artist by calling the modern EU "fascist". Since the older artist lived through actual fascism he doesn't appreciate the AWCY guys' ignorance/hyperbole and entombs them (and himself) in his "living" collage.
# Characters.SouthParkAntagonistsSecondaryAndMinor: NeverMyFault: She shirks any sort of blame for prolonging Kyle's illness and blames the all-powerful autonomy of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "toxins."]]
# Website.NotAlwaysLegal: According to this person, somebody who is "bilingual" speaks English and Spanish, everybody should know that the word just means those two languages, and somebody who speaks multiple languages but not Spanish isn't bilingual. They get very upset when their legal counsel try to convince them otherwise.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS21E4TreehouseOfHorrorXX: Parodied with Kang and Kodos' cameo in the audience of "Moe Business": Kang: This is the best musical in lightyears! Kodos: Lightyears measure distance, not time. Kang: You know what I meant!
# Webcomic.TerminalLance: "Grunt" is a term mainly applied to the infantry and similar frontline fighting units. When Garcia hears support troops referring to themselves as "Grunts of X", he's drawn similarly to Inigo Montoya and quotes the trope, since the other marines have an infinitesimal chance of facing the enemy in battle.
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2020Episodes: After hearing Huxley refer to himself as "feeling a bit saucy today", the Critic decides he now has no choice but to play a certain clip from The Princess Bride: Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I do not think it means what you think it means.]]
# Literature.ThePrincessBride: CatchPhrase: Inigo: "Hello!, My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley: "As You Wish" Vizzini: "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable!]]" "True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for cough drops." It's repeated multiple times by characters at multiple levels of reality as if everyone knows this is self-evidently true.
# Film.BackToTheFuture1: At least from 1955 Doc's point of view, as he thinks that Marty's use of the word "heavy" still applies to weight and measurements — when, from Marty's point of view, he's just using the slang term for something that has a deep, powerful impact, whether philosophical, intellectual, or emotional.
# Franchise.MortalKombat: Sub-Zero will often correct someone to clarify that his clan, the Lin Kuei, are not ninja, despite their rivalry/alliance with (and similarities to) the Shirai Ryu ninja clan.
# Film.{{Religulous}}: During an interview with a United States Senator who believes in creationism, he uses the word "indigous", which the subtitles note isn't really a word (he was probably thinking of "indigenous").
# Characters.NijisanjiENOBSYDIA: No matter how much the chat corrects her, she will refer to helicopters as planes.
# Recap.ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E03TheGangHitsTheSlopes: Dee and Charlie point out that Drisko's "prank" of drilling a hole in the wall of the women's showers and sticking his dick through it isn't really a prank at all but a sex crime.
# WebVideo.TheMarkRemark: The 12/5-6/16 episode has him call out David Otunga for overusing the word "literally" when talking about Kalisto's match with Baron Corbin when covering TLC 2016.
# Fanfic.SadalaChroniclesTheTimeHitman: In-Universe. Cabba asks Rasley if his undercover wardrobe makes him look cool. Rasley tells him he looks like a queer. Cabba then starts to think queer is Cinnamian slang for cool, which makes him proclaim himself as "a totally queer Saiyan". Rasley didn't felt like telling him the truth.
# Recap.MiraculousLadybugS05E23Revolution: Well, trying to, at any rate. Chloé keeps talking up decromacy as an ideal, but she forcibly took control with the power of superpowered robots. Later, she simply declares that everyone clearly loves what she's done with Paris, and that there is no need for elections - that's the detomacric answer!
# Characters.TheOtherSideOfTheSpectrumEquusPrime: TCB Celestia claims that her xenocide of the humans is her way of spreading harmony, much to Prime Celestia's disgust. Princess Celestia: Don't even say the word harmony! What you're doing is nothing of the sort! Queen Celestia: You poor thing. Has he really filled your mind with such delusion in so little time? They're just misguided, resisting because they don't know the harmony we can bring them. Princess Celestia: (Royal Canterlot Voice activated) I SAID TO NOT ABUSE THAT WORD!
# Characters.AnotherEdenZerberiya: When panicking or flustered, Rosetta will randomly scream "heresy", even to a non-believer like Aldo is. Aldo calls her out on it.
# Literature.GuardsGuards: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
# Tsundere.AnimeAndManga: Lucky Star: Kagami Hiiragi is outright designated as one by Konata, complete with the explanation that it's appropriate for twintails. This reference is probably due to the prevalence of tsundere with Girlish Pigtails at a time when the term started to come into general usage. However, Kagami's dere side isn't actually focused on romantic feelings but more on her loneliness; despite her sarcastic outer demeanor, she cares about her friendships with the other main characters more than she'd like to admit and is secretly disappointed that she's never in the same homeroom class as them. The Lucky Channel segment of the anime even includes Minoru Shiraishi giving an extended [[YouKeepUsingThatWord rant over the term "tsundere" and how it has evolved over time]], from a transitional personality process to someone who switches back and forth constantly; in the end, he wonders if "tsundere" is really the right term to describe Kagami at all.
# Pantheon.{{Phrases}}: Relatively disgusted by Tsumugi Shirogane’s belief that fiction cannot change the world. Fiction has changed people throughout history and the statement that fiction cannot do anything is just ludicrous. Scott: What do you mean fiction can’t change the world? There are trillions of dollars poured into the industries are about FICTION. I buy thousands of dollars worth of things about FICTION. Your entire career is about dressing up as people from FICTION. So stop yelling the word [[YouKeepUsingThatWord FICTION like its a bad thing]] because it isn’t! Tsumugi, angered by his rant, decided to get personal with Scott. She decided to cosplay as one of Scott’s greatest enemies: a copy Animal Crossing amiibo Festival. Scott can be heard screaming from miles.samurai.
# Characters.
# Funny.VoltronLegendaryDefender: This gem when Keith suggests staying on Arus: Lance: Here's an option: shut your quiznak. Coran and Allura: D: Coran and Allura's facial expressions
# Film.OlsenBanden: At one point, Benny keeps referring to Egon as „dilettanten“ (the amateur), instead of the correct „delinkventen“ (the delinquent). Egon is not amused. In the Swedish version of the scene he keeps making this mistake even after getting corrected.
# WebVideo.TwoBestFriendsPlay: Video 28 of Nier reveals that Pat is mildly aggravated by people's misuse of the word "sentient". He notes that while it means having the ability to use the five senses, people often misuse it to mean being able to think and reason about the world around you. The intended word is '"sapient". He adds that even Star Trek misuses "sentient".
# Funny.BestOfTheWorst2014Episodes: The panel ruthlessly tears into the terrible titular "blood lock", with Jessi suggesting it was children's artwork they stole from one of the crew's kids.The panel tries to determine why the lock would have "an Amish symbol", as the Amish a) don't have their own alphabet and b) aren't renowned as vampire hunters. Jessi excitedly thinks she's figured it out, declaring that vampires hate the sun just like the Amish hate electricity. Mike doesn't miss a beat in pointing out that doesn't make a lick of sense. The filmmakers [[YouKeepUsingThatWord obviously don't know the difference between "mortality" and "immortality"]], and the panel do not let it slide. The panel, especially Jessi, are baffled by the specificity of the female protagonist's extended dream sequence, particularly her imaginary boyfriend and the bizarre and completely irrelevant details she attributed to him, including a "Mullets Rule" t-shirt and a jar sitting in his bedroom that, judging by the label, is full of farts.
# ZeroPunctuation.TropesUToZ: During the Mailbag Showdown: Yahtzee: I think you should look up the word "objective", because I don't think it means what you think it means. Lampshaded by Yahtzee himself in one column, where he mentions that he's caught himself using certain words so many times that he's had to step back and wonder what the hell he's actually talking about. Helpfully, he put together a handy little glossary of some of his favorites.
# Film.EightyForBrady: Betty keeps calling her fanny pack a "strap-on", even though her friends have to remind her that's not actually the word for it.
# Characters.FuturamaAntagonists: In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", he keeps misusing the word 'irony', and Bender keeps correcting him. Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.
# Series.{{Ziwe}}: Ziwe repeatedly refers to vogue's Signature Move, the "dip", as a "death drop" while learning vogue from her on-set costumer and Ballroom Legend Ricky Allure. Ricky repeatedly insists that she use the correct term, as the "dip"/"death drop" distinction is Serious Business in the Ballroom scene. This, naturally, just prompts Ziwe to use the terms interchangeably even more.
# SCPFoundation.TropesSToZ: A pair of modern-day Are We Cool Yet? artists try to appeal to an older artist by calling the modern EU "fascist". Since the older artist lived through actual fascism he doesn't appreciate the AWCY guys' ignorance/hyperbole and entombs them (and himself) in his "living" collage.
# Characters.SouthParkAntagonistsSecondaryAndMinor: NeverMyFault: She shirks any sort of blame for prolonging Kyle's illness and blames the all-powerful autonomy of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "toxins."]]
# Website.NotAlwaysLegal: According to this person, somebody who is "bilingual" speaks English and Spanish, everybody should know that the word just means those two languages, and somebody who speaks multiple languages but not Spanish isn't bilingual. They get very upset when their legal counsel try to convince them otherwise.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS21E4TreehouseOfHorrorXX: Parodied with Kang and Kodos' cameo in the audience of "Moe Business": Kang: This is the best musical in lightyears! Kodos: Lightyears measure distance, not time. Kang: You know what I meant!
# Webcomic.TerminalLance: "Grunt" is a term mainly applied to the infantry and similar frontline fighting units. When Garcia hears support troops referring to themselves as "Grunts of X", he's drawn similarly to Inigo Montoya and quotes the trope, since the other marines have an infinitesimal chance of facing the enemy in battle.
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2020Episodes: After hearing Huxley refer to himself as "feeling a bit saucy today", the Critic decides he now has no choice but to play a certain clip from The Princess Bride: Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I do not think it means what you think it means.]]
# Literature.ThePrincessBride: CatchPhrase: Inigo: "Hello!, My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley: "As You Wish" Vizzini: "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable!]]" "True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for cough drops." It's repeated multiple times by characters at multiple levels of reality as if everyone knows this is self-evidently true.
# Film.BackToTheFuture1: At least from 1955 Doc's point of view, as he thinks that Marty's use of the word "heavy" still applies to weight and measurements — when, from Marty's point of view, he's just using the slang term for something that has a deep, powerful impact, whether philosophical, intellectual, or emotional.
# Franchise.MortalKombat: Sub-Zero will often correct someone to clarify that his clan, the Lin Kuei, are not ninja, despite their rivalry/alliance with (and similarities to) the Shirai Ryu ninja clan.
# Film.{{Religulous}}: During an interview with a United States Senator who believes in creationism, he uses the word "indigous", which the subtitles note isn't really a word (he was probably thinking of "indigenous").
# Characters.NijisanjiENOBSYDIA: No matter how much the chat corrects her, she will refer to helicopters as planes.
# Recap.ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E03TheGangHitsTheSlopes: Dee and Charlie point out that Drisko's "prank" of drilling a hole in the wall of the women's showers and sticking his dick through it isn't really a prank at all but a sex crime.
# WebVideo.TheMarkRemark: The 12/5-6/16 episode has him call out David Otunga for overusing the word "literally" when talking about Kalisto's match with Baron Corbin when covering TLC 2016.
# Fanfic.SadalaChroniclesTheTimeHitman: In-Universe. Cabba asks Rasley if his undercover wardrobe makes him look cool. Rasley tells him he looks like a queer. Cabba then starts to think queer is Cinnamian slang for cool, which makes him proclaim himself as "a totally queer Saiyan". Rasley didn't felt like telling him the truth.
# Recap.MiraculousLadybugS05E23Revolution: Well, trying to, at any rate. Chloé keeps talking up decromacy as an ideal, but she forcibly took control with the power of superpowered robots. Later, she simply declares that everyone clearly loves what she's done with Paris, and that there is no need for elections - that's the detomacric answer!
# Characters.TheOtherSideOfTheSpectrumEquusPrime: TCB Celestia claims that her xenocide of the humans is her way of spreading harmony, much to Prime Celestia's disgust. Princess Celestia: Don't even say the word harmony! What you're doing is nothing of the sort! Queen Celestia: You poor thing. Has he really filled your mind with such delusion in so little time? They're just misguided, resisting because they don't know the harmony we can bring them. Princess Celestia: (Royal Canterlot Voice activated) I SAID TO NOT ABUSE THAT WORD!
# Characters.AnotherEdenZerberiya: When panicking or flustered, Rosetta will randomly scream "heresy", even to a non-believer like Aldo is. Aldo calls her out on it.
# Literature.GuardsGuards: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
# Tsundere.AnimeAndManga: Lucky Star: Kagami Hiiragi is outright designated as one by Konata, complete with the explanation that it's appropriate for twintails. This reference is probably due to the prevalence of tsundere with Girlish Pigtails at a time when the term started to come into general usage. However, Kagami's dere side isn't actually focused on romantic feelings but more on her loneliness; despite her sarcastic outer demeanor, she cares about her friendships with the other main characters more than she'd like to admit and is secretly disappointed that she's never in the same homeroom class as them. The Lucky Channel segment of the anime even includes Minoru Shiraishi giving an extended [[YouKeepUsingThatWord rant over the term "tsundere" and how it has evolved over time]], from a transitional personality process to someone who switches back and forth constantly; in the end, he wonders if "tsundere" is really the right term to describe Kagami at all.
# Pantheon.{{Phrases}}: Relatively disgusted by Tsumugi Shirogane’s belief that fiction cannot change the world. Fiction has changed people throughout history and the statement that fiction cannot do anything is just ludicrous. Scott: What do you mean fiction can’t change the world? There are trillions of dollars poured into the industries are about FICTION. I buy thousands of dollars worth of things about FICTION. Your entire career is about dressing up as people from FICTION. So stop yelling the word [[YouKeepUsingThatWord FICTION like its a bad thing]] because it isn’t! Tsumugi, angered by his rant, decided to get personal with Scott. She decided to cosplay as one of Scott’s greatest enemies: a copy Animal Crossing amiibo Festival. Scott can be heard screaming from miles.
# ShoutOut.StargateSG1: "Origin" has Vala remark that she doesn't think "enlightenment" means [[YouKeepUsingThatWord what the Priors think it means]]. Funnily enough the next episode, "The Ties That Bind", features a guest appearance by Wallace Shawn, who played Vizzini in the movie.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan: At the spelling bee, Bart laughs at a student who spells "acerose" wrong, saying "He's an ass-erose!" Professor Frink asks if he means that he's similar to a pine needle. Bart shrugs off that he's bored and this is all he has to entertain himself.
# Music.{{Jewel}}: MTV's Kurt Loder once criticized her to her face for confusing "casualty" with "casualness" in one of her poems.
# Website.NotAlwaysLearning: {{Malaproper}}: This teacher. ("[[YouKeepUsingThatWord I don't think that word means what she thinks it means.]]") This young camper malapropers the word "facilities" (like in "shower facilities") into "f**ky lights", much to the shock and horror of their camp counselors.
# ComicBook.DeathOfTheFamily: Joker is quite willing to point out to Damian that he doesn't really qualify as a "clown", despite being called this frequently.
# Creator.HarryTurtledove: Turtledove is fond of this trope, having a doctor discuss the "lay/lie" distinction in The War That Came Early, and has a character reflect on the media's misuse of "impact" to mean "affect" in Supervolcano: Eruption.
# Recap.AdventureTimeS2E11TheChamberOfFrozenBlades: A more direct example when Ice King talks to Doctor Princess. Ice King: Without Gunter, I'll be all alone! You see, I'm a widower... Princess: Oh, I'm sorry. How did your wife die? Ice King: Oh, uh, whah? Is that what that means?
# WarpThatAesop.SouthPark: If it's a new thing based on an old thing, it automatically qualifies as a reboot [[YouKeepUsingThatWord even if, technically speaking, it's actually a sequel.]]
# Characters.TheSecretWorldTheBigThree: Used word for word in regards to Mary's understanding of the term "understated."
# VisualNovel.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth: At one point, Prosecutor Portsman claims that there is a "mountain of evidence" pointing away from him. If you press him on this point, however, it turns out his "mountain of evidence" isn't really evidence at all; simply a claim regarding his supposed lack of motive. Edgeworth hangs a lampshade on this: Edgeworth: ... Might I recommend that you review what the word "evidence" means.
# LampshadeHanging.LiveActionFilms: The movie also lampshades Vizzini's catchphrase, "Inconceivable!" Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep using that word]]. I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Series.CutthroatKitchen: Just like Chopped, the judges do not like calling something on the plate anything other what it really is, similar to YouKeepUsingThatWord.
# Characters.DeathKorpsOfJusticeKrieg: He is exasperated by other people constantly berating him for not acting like a "hero", and repeatedly states that he is a soldier.
# Recap.TheAdventuresOfPussInBootsS06E04TheScarletPanther: As part of his Loss of Identity, Puss decides to start using contractions, but every time he says he's going to he uses a compound word instead, causing Dulcinea to question if he even knows what a contraction is.
# WebVideo.TheAmazingAtheist: Discussed in a video in which TJ talks about common phrases people use without thinking about what they actually mean. The Amazing Atheist: Here's something people say after some kind of tragedy or things don't turn out as planned, someone will always say, "You know, it is what it is." And it's always with that sage like tone as if we should be in awe of them for taking that common saying and infusing it with such weight and wisdom. It is what it is... yeah it is... IS what it is. Obviously! Of course it is what it is! That's what it is! That is like saying yellow is yellow.
# Characters.HomestuckCherubs: Dirk calls him out on using the word "ironic" to characterize his enjoyment of observing human love and romance, when it's clearly more of a weird Fetish.
# Series.CougarTown: Grayson expresses exasperation at how the rest of the crew keeps flipping the meaning of words; "kicks ass" now means something terrible, and "cakewalk" is something really hard to do.
# WebVideo.CasualGeographic: He basically points out how the concept of "alpha wolves" technically don't exist, since wolves are social predators that, no pun intended, are Papa Wolf to their family. An alpha wolf implies a wolf that's low in the wolf pack manages to fight his way up to the social ladder and fight the biggest wolf of them all (his father), but males the would rather hunt with their family as a pack, but not gain control. Putting unrelated wolves in one location however makes them hostile to each other. The only known species of animals that does have such social structure are hyenas, and it's lead by a dominant female (sometimes non-violently).
# Recap.CharmedS3E6PrimroseEmpath: Piper tells Leo to stop calling the empathy power a "gift" since it only causes pain.
# Characters.TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes: Discussed. In III, he talks to Sylvia about diversity and mentions how everyone keeps throwing it around.
# Film.AllAboutEve: Margo gets very annoyed when Bill keeps using the word 'paranoiac' to describe her behaviour.
# Creator.RobertRankin: NotUsingTheZWord: In The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived, Gwynplaine D'hark QC is very obviously a vampire (and not even making any attempt to hide it), but the word is never used. Instead, he's described as "one of the undead", a "coffin dweller" and a "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord necrophile]]" (though he's rather annoyed by the last one, pointing out that he's not a living person who makes love to corpses, he is a dead person who sucks the life blood of the living.)
# Series.{{Chopped}}: The contestants may call a dish X but the components may not necessarily fit. It's a big Berserk Button for the judges. So much so that more than a few have been chopped based at least loosely on this issue.
# WebVideo.DiamandaHagan: She fervently believes that "castrate" can also refer to emasculation, to the point where when a minion calls her out on it, she offs him before ordering that the word be redefined in dictionaries to refer to both.
# MassEffectAndromeda.TropesAToG: Every larger Remnant installation has at least one so-called gravity well that facilitates access to the underground levels by floating the user up or down a deep vertical shaft. Some even work horizontally. SAM points out that [[YouKeepUsingThatWord this is not in line with what the physical term "gravity well" actually means]].
# Catchphrase.{{Literature}}: A Hat Full of Sky's Annagramma Hawkin always says the word "literally", but never literally. At the book's end, Tiffany Aching pleads her to [[YouKeepUsingThatWord learn what "literally" means]].
# Characters.ElliotGoesToSchool: Condemns Brandon for his continued overuse of the word "Gay".
# Funny.SFDebrisStarTrekVoyager: When Janeway later muses on whether she should just straight up tell Michael the truth and explain to him that "I'm a starship captain and you're a 300 deciwatt holodeck programme." Chuck muses on her [[YouKeepUsingThatWord choice of words]]: Chuck: A "deciwatt" is a tenth of a watt. So besides the fact that what she just said was the same as "That oil-change will cost you 300 dimes!", it means that powering his body and personality requires just slightly more wattage than a Hitachi Magic Wand, which never asks you awkward questions and always knows how to find the clitoris on the first try.
# WebVideo.MrRepzion: Discussed in a video where he asked his audience to define feminism. He wasn't sure if he was a feminist, based on the many contrary definitions of feminism posited by many people, so he asked his audience what it was.
# Characters.TheHeavenCycleApplicants: Doesn't know what “subtlety” means, much to Jilton's amusement (even gaining a name drop to the film in question) and uses it in a way similar to “cool.”
# InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail.TropesPToZ: Delia admits that for all the time's Ash has said he wants to be a 'Pokemon Master', she's not quite sure what exactly he means, or if he is quite sure what he means by it half the time.
# WebVideo.PatFinnerty: Points out that Train uses "soul sister" in place of "soulmate" because Monahan needs the syllables, even though they do not mean the same thing. “Are we gonna take another thing from these people?!”
# Funny.TheDomReviews2019Episodes: Being fully convinced that Ana has gotten to the point where she is actually experiencing full-on hallucinations of her [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "subconscious"]] performing the actions she describes.
# Hypocrite.WebOriginal: At the climax of Suburban Knights the Big Bad Malachite, after spending the series killing people for being overly reliant on technology (and unlike most killing on TGWTG. com shows, his actions are NOT played for laughs) and in the middle of declaring his intention to destroy all technology, is interrupted by an utterly trivial call on his iPhone. He is promptly called out on for this, and initially responds by trying to deny that an iPhone counts as technology.Made even more blatant, when he claims that even if the iPhone counts, "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord At least I'm not a hypocrite.]]" The Critic is so irritated that he has to hand the conversation over to [=JewWario.=]
# Funny.DeathBattleSeasonFour: After Boomstick describes Renamon as a "stone-cold fox", Wiz tells him [[YouKeepUsingThatWord the phrase means something else]]. One Google search later... Boomstick: Oh, come on, like anyone's gonna sexualize a Digimon— (cue fanart of Renamon with enlarged breasts)— OHDEARGODMOVINGON!
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2020Episodes: After hearing Huxley refer to himself as "feeling a bit saucy today", the Critic decides he now has no choice but to play a certain clip from The Princess Bride: Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I do not think it means what you think it means.]]
# Film.ManOfTheHouse1995: In the intro, Ben describes their new place as a "small loft apartment". While obviously colored by young age and moving from his childhood home, the loft is enormous.
# ComicBook.WebWarriors: Lady Spider claims being an empiricist and a scientist are different things and that because he's the latter Spider-Man India struggles to accept or work with situations (e. g. magic based villains) that don't have a known explanation. In reality you can't have science without empiricism as making observations and following evidence is how science comes to understand and explain phenomena in the first place.
# WebVideo.SuburbanKnights: After [[spoiler: Malachite pauses his "destroy all technology" campaign to answer his smartphone and the Critic calls him an idiot, he replies, "At least I'm not a hypocrite." Critic is so dumbfounded by this response that he has to have Jew Wario take over for him.
# Series.TheNextFoodNetworkStar: In season [=10,=] Sarah kept using the word "Texas" ad-nauseum to try to describe her food during an audience challenge. Alton and Giada got tired of her using that word and told her "Saying 'Texas' doesn't make your food Texan." They were right: Her dish in question wasn't even remotely Texan.
# Catchphrase.LiveActionFilms: The Princess Bride: Vizzini shouts, "Inconceivable!" whenever something goes happens that he didn't expect. His partner, Inigo Montoya, eventually says, "YouKeepUsingThatWord. I do not think it means what you think it means." Inigo's own catch phrase: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley's own "As You Wish," which he even uses to identify himself.
# LetsPlay.{{Videogamedunkey}}: He calls attention to the announcer from Rocket League's basketball mode, which calls every goal a "Slaaaaaaaaaaaaam dunk!" "NOT EVERY MOVE IS A SLAM DUNK!"
# Characters.RuPaulsDragRaceSeason6: When Gia made her entrance, she called herself "fresh tilapia." As Sharon Needles pointed out in the season recap episode (and Bianca would later point out), that's normally the cheapest fish in the store.
# Recap.TheLegendOfKorraS3E7OriginalAirbenders: Played for Laughs. Early in the episode, someone says "bisons" and Tenzin notes that the plural of bison is actually bison. Most of the new airbenders keep saying "bisons" anyway.
# Recap.ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E13TheNightmanCometh: Dee says this to Charlie verbatim when he keeps insisting that calling the play's protagonist a little boy is a "metaphor".
# WebVideo.BadCreepypasta: The phrase "hyper-realistic" gets called out in some of the video game and lost episode creepypastas they've read when they're used in the wrong context. Sometimes they'll read sentences again or put them on the screen (although it's up to the editor) whenever they find sentences or words without any sense, such as "Thankfully rhe screaming stopped" in Tetro and "Gerty and Phil where mentally unstable. This is because of their age." in the Hey Arnold! Theory.
# Series.FUBAR: Luke with the word "cuckolding" until he's persuaded to Google it. After finding out what it actually means, he pointedly uses the "My wife's boyfriend" joke to refer to his ex's new man.
# Series.WandaVision: Hayward repeatedly refers to Wanda as a "terrorist", which Monica says is not accurate for several reasons. 1.) Wanda does not have a political agenda. 2.) She is not using terror as a means to attract attention for any message. On the contrary, she is doing everything she can to hide from everyone outside of Westview. 3.) She is not making any demands of anyone other than "leave me alone" after Hayward tries to kill her and her children with a missile. Calling Wanda a "criminal" or a "supervillain" would be more accurate.
# WebVideo.{{Retsupurae}}: in the Kaizo Mario 64 videos, they jokingly use "kaizo" an awful lot in many varying contexts. (For the record, it just means "hacked", which nobody can really deny the game in the videos is, no matter how poorly.) slowbeef: I like how he stole 'kaizo', like that's the ubiquitous term for bad romhacks that are more annoying to play than anything.
# Webcomic.LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes: When it's suggested that their new team cave be called "Redundant", Lazer Pony objects that this would only make sense if they had another cave they weren't using right now. As it so happens, they do.
# Film.TeenWolfTheMovie: Deaton corrects their understanding of Bardo: Deaton: Bardo is a Tibetan word, it’s a means of interpreting death and the movements of consciousness between physical states of being. It’s just a word, it’s a concept.
# Fanfic.FoursAParty: Taylor says this in regards to Amy's repeated threats to give her all the cancer.
# Funny.ToddInTheShadows2018Episodes: Todd points out that the Title Drop in "Lucid Dreams" makes it evident that Juice Wrld [[YouKeepUsingThatWord doesn't actually know what a lucid dream is]]. He goes on to explain that a lucid dream is a dream you know is a dream and that you can control, whereas Juice Wrld describes a dream wherein he "can't move a thing" meaning that it is really just a regular dream: Todd: Of course he doesn't know that, because he's a fucking kid. He can't even drink yet. I mean, that's a pretty big error, right? It's the title of the song! It's like if Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote their Alabama song, and then accidentally called it "Sweet Home Massachusetts".
# Literature.GuardsGuards: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan: At the spelling bee, Bart laughs at a student who spells "acerose" wrong, saying "He's an ass-erose!" Professor Frink asks if he means that he's similar to a pine needle. Bart shrugs off that he's bored and this is all he has to entertain himself.
# Music.{{Jewel}}: MTV's Kurt Loder once criticized her to her face for confusing "casualty" with "casualness" in one of her poems.
# Website.NotAlwaysLearning: {{Malaproper}}: This teacher. ("[[YouKeepUsingThatWord I don't think that word means what she thinks it means.]]") This young camper malapropers the word "facilities" (like in "shower facilities") into "f**ky lights", much to the shock and horror of their camp counselors.
# ComicBook.DeathOfTheFamily: Joker is quite willing to point out to Damian that he doesn't really qualify as a "clown", despite being called this frequently.
# Creator.HarryTurtledove: Turtledove is fond of this trope, having a doctor discuss the "lay/lie" distinction in The War That Came Early, and has a character reflect on the media's misuse of "impact" to mean "affect" in Supervolcano: Eruption.
# Recap.AdventureTimeS2E11TheChamberOfFrozenBlades: A more direct example when Ice King talks to Doctor Princess. Ice King: Without Gunter, I'll be all alone! You see, I'm a widower... Princess: Oh, I'm sorry. How did your wife die? Ice King: Oh, uh, whah? Is that what that means?
# WarpThatAesop.SouthPark: If it's a new thing based on an old thing, it automatically qualifies as a reboot [[YouKeepUsingThatWord even if, technically speaking, it's actually a sequel.]]
# Characters.TheSecretWorldTheBigThree: Used word for word in regards to Mary's understanding of the term "understated."
# VisualNovel.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth: At one point, Prosecutor Portsman claims that there is a "mountain of evidence" pointing away from him. If you press him on this point, however, it turns out his "mountain of evidence" isn't really evidence at all; simply a claim regarding his supposed lack of motive. Edgeworth hangs a lampshade on this: Edgeworth: ... Might I recommend that you review what the word "evidence" means.
# LampshadeHanging.LiveActionFilms: The movie also lampshades Vizzini's catchphrase, "Inconceivable!" Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep using that word]]. I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Series.CutthroatKitchen: Just like Chopped, the judges do not like calling something on the plate anything other what it really is, similar to YouKeepUsingThatWord.
# Characters.DeathKorpsOfJusticeKrieg: He is exasperated by other people constantly berating him for not acting like a "hero", and repeatedly states that he is a soldier.
# Recap.TheAdventuresOfPussInBootsS06E04TheScarletPanther: As part of his Loss of Identity, Puss decides to start using contractions, but every time he says he's going to he uses a compound word instead, causing Dulcinea to question if he even knows what a contraction is.
# WebVideo.TheAmazingAtheist: Discussed in a video in which TJ talks about common phrases people use without thinking about what they actually mean. The Amazing Atheist: Here's something people say after some kind of tragedy or things don't turn out as planned, someone will always say, "You know, it is what it is." And it's always with that sage like tone as if we should be in awe of them for taking that common saying and infusing it with such weight and wisdom. It is what it is... yeah it is... IS what it is. Obviously! Of course it is what it is! That's what it is! That is like saying yellow is yellow.
# Characters.HomestuckCherubs: Dirk calls him out on using the word "ironic" to characterize his enjoyment of observing human love and romance, when it's clearly more of a weird Fetish.
# Series.CougarTown: Grayson expresses exasperation at how the rest of the crew keeps flipping the meaning of words; "kicks ass" now means something terrible, and "cakewalk" is something really hard to do.
# WebVideo.CasualGeographic: He basically points out how the concept of "alpha wolves" technically don't exist, since wolves are social predators that, no pun intended, are Papa Wolf to their family. An alpha wolf implies a wolf that's low in the wolf pack manages to fight his way up to the social ladder and fight the biggest wolf of them all (his father), but males the would rather hunt with their family as a pack, but not gain control. Putting unrelated wolves in one location however makes them hostile to each other. The only known species of animals that does have such social structure are hyenas, and it's lead by a dominant female (sometimes non-violently).
# Recap.CharmedS3E6PrimroseEmpath: Piper tells Leo to stop calling the empathy power a "gift" since it only causes pain.
# Characters.TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes: Discussed. In III, he talks to Sylvia about diversity and mentions how everyone keeps throwing it around.
# Film.AllAboutEve: Margo gets very annoyed when Bill keeps using the word 'paranoiac' to describe her behaviour.
# Creator.RobertRankin: NotUsingTheZWord: In The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived, Gwynplaine D'hark QC is very obviously a vampire (and not even making any attempt to hide it), but the word is never used. Instead, he's described as "one of the undead", a "coffin dweller" and a "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord necrophile]]" (though he's rather annoyed by the last one, pointing out that he's not a living person who makes love to corpses, he is a dead person who sucks the life blood of the living.)
# Series.{{Chopped}}: The contestants may call a dish X but the components may not necessarily fit. It's a big Berserk Button for the judges. So much so that more than a few have been chopped based at least loosely on this issue.
# WebVideo.DiamandaHagan: She fervently believes that "castrate" can also refer to emasculation, to the point where when a minion calls her out on it, she offs him before ordering that the word be redefined in dictionaries to refer to both.
# MassEffectAndromeda.TropesAToG: Every larger Remnant installation has at least one so-called gravity well that facilitates access to the underground levels by floating the user up or down a deep vertical shaft. Some even work horizontally. SAM points out that [[YouKeepUsingThatWord this is not in line with what the physical term "gravity well" actually means]].
# Catchphrase.{{Literature}}: A Hat Full of Sky's Annagramma Hawkin always says the word "literally", but never literally. At the book's end, Tiffany Aching pleads her to [[YouKeepUsingThatWord learn what "literally" means]].
# Characters.ElliotGoesToSchool: Condemns Brandon for his continued overuse of the word "Gay".
# Funny.SFDebrisStarTrekVoyager: When Janeway later muses on whether she should just straight up tell Michael the truth and explain to him that "I'm a starship captain and you're a 300 deciwatt holodeck programme." Chuck muses on her [[YouKeepUsingThatWord choice of words]]: Chuck: A "deciwatt" is a tenth of a watt. So besides the fact that what she just said was the same as "That oil-change will cost you 300 dimes!", it means that powering his body and personality requires just slightly more wattage than a Hitachi Magic Wand, which never asks you awkward questions and always knows how to find the clitoris on the first try.
# WebVideo.MrRepzion: Discussed in a video where he asked his audience to define feminism. He wasn't sure if he was a feminist, based on the many contrary definitions of feminism posited by many people, so he asked his audience what it was.
# Characters.TheHeavenCycleApplicants: Doesn't know what “subtlety” means, much to Jilton's amusement (even gaining a name drop to the film in question) and uses it in a way similar to “cool.”
# InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail.TropesPToZ: Delia admits that for all the time's Ash has said he wants to be a 'Pokemon Master', she's not quite sure what exactly he means, or if he is quite sure what he means by it half the time.
# WebVideo.PatFinnerty: Points out that Train uses "soul sister" in place of "soulmate" because Monahan needs the syllables, even though they do not mean the same thing. “Are we gonna take another thing from these people?!”
# Funny.TheDomReviews2019Episodes: Being fully convinced that Ana has gotten to the point where she is actually experiencing full-on hallucinations of her [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "subconscious"]] performing the actions she describes.
# Hypocrite.WebOriginal: At the climax of Suburban Knights the Big Bad Malachite, after spending the series killing people for being overly reliant on technology (and unlike most killing on TGWTG. com shows, his actions are NOT played for laughs) and in the middle of declaring his intention to destroy all technology, is interrupted by an utterly trivial call on his iPhone. He is promptly called out on for this, and initially responds by trying to deny that an iPhone counts as technology.Made even more blatant, when he claims that even if the iPhone counts, "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord At least I'm not a hypocrite.]]" The Critic is so irritated that he has to hand the conversation over to [=JewWario.=]
# Funny.DeathBattleSeasonFour: After Boomstick describes Renamon as a "stone-cold fox", Wiz tells him [[YouKeepUsingThatWord the phrase means something else]]. One Google search later... Boomstick: Oh, come on, like anyone's gonna sexualize a Digimon— (cue fanart of Renamon with enlarged breasts)— OHDEARGODMOVINGON!
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2020Episodes: After hearing Huxley refer to himself as "feeling a bit saucy today", the Critic decides he now has no choice but to play a certain clip from The Princess Bride: Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I do not think it means what you think it means.]]
# Film.ManOfTheHouse1995: In the intro, Ben describes their new place as a "small loft apartment". While obviously colored by young age and moving from his childhood home, the loft is enormous.
# ComicBook.WebWarriors: Lady Spider claims being an empiricist and a scientist are different things and that because he's the latter Spider-Man India struggles to accept or work with situations (e. g. magic based villains) that don't have a known explanation. In reality you can't have science without empiricism as making observations and following evidence is how science comes to understand and explain phenomena in the first place.
# WebVideo.SuburbanKnights: After [[spoiler: Malachite pauses his "destroy all technology" campaign to answer his smartphone and the Critic calls him an idiot, he replies, "At least I'm not a hypocrite." Critic is so dumbfounded by this response that he has to have Jew Wario take over for him.
# Series.TheNextFoodNetworkStar: In season [=10,=] Sarah kept using the word "Texas" ad-nauseum to try to describe her food during an audience challenge. Alton and Giada got tired of her using that word and told her "Saying 'Texas' doesn't make your food Texan." They were right: Her dish in question wasn't even remotely Texan.
# Catchphrase.LiveActionFilms: The Princess Bride: Vizzini shouts, "Inconceivable!" whenever something goes happens that he didn't expect. His partner, Inigo Montoya, eventually says, "YouKeepUsingThatWord. I do not think it means what you think it means." Inigo's own catch phrase: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley's own "As You Wish," which he even uses to identify himself.
# LetsPlay.{{Videogamedunkey}}: He calls attention to the announcer from Rocket League's basketball mode, which calls every goal a "Slaaaaaaaaaaaaam dunk!" "NOT EVERY MOVE IS A SLAM DUNK!"
# Characters.RuPaulsDragRaceSeason6: When Gia made her entrance, she called herself "fresh tilapia." As Sharon Needles pointed out in the season recap episode (and Bianca would later point out), that's normally the cheapest fish in the store.
# Recap.TheLegendOfKorraS3E7OriginalAirbenders: Played for Laughs. Early in the episode, someone says "bisons" and Tenzin notes that the plural of bison is actually bison. Most of the new airbenders keep saying "bisons" anyway.
# Recap.ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E13TheNightmanCometh: Dee says this to Charlie verbatim when he keeps insisting that calling the play's protagonist a little boy is a "metaphor".
# WebVideo.BadCreepypasta: The phrase "hyper-realistic" gets called out in some of the video game and lost episode creepypastas they've read when they're used in the wrong context. Sometimes they'll read sentences again or put them on the screen (although it's up to the editor) whenever they find sentences or words without any sense, such as "Thankfully rhe screaming stopped" in Tetro and "Gerty and Phil where mentally unstable. This is because of their age." in the Hey Arnold! Theory.
# Series.FUBAR: Luke with the word "cuckolding" until he's persuaded to Google it. After finding out what it actually means, he pointedly uses the "My wife's boyfriend" joke to refer to his ex's new man.
# Series.WandaVision: Hayward repeatedly refers to Wanda as a "terrorist", which Monica says is not accurate for several reasons. 1.) Wanda does not have a political agenda. 2.) She is not using terror as a means to attract attention for any message. On the contrary, she is doing everything she can to hide from everyone outside of Westview. 3.) She is not making any demands of anyone other than "leave me alone" after Hayward tries to kill her and her children with a missile. Calling Wanda a "criminal" or a "supervillain" would be more accurate.
# WebVideo.{{Retsupurae}}: in the Kaizo Mario 64 videos, they jokingly use "kaizo" an awful lot in many varying contexts. (For the record, it just means "hacked", which nobody can really deny the game in the videos is, no matter how poorly.) slowbeef: I like how he stole 'kaizo', like that's the ubiquitous term for bad romhacks that are more annoying to play than anything.
# Webcomic.LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes: When it's suggested that their new team cave be called "Redundant", Lazer Pony objects that this would only make sense if they had another cave they weren't using right now. As it so happens, they do.
# Film.TeenWolfTheMovie: Deaton corrects their understanding of Bardo: Deaton: Bardo is a Tibetan word, it’s a means of interpreting death and the movements of consciousness between physical states of being. It’s just a word, it’s a concept.
# Fanfic.FoursAParty: Taylor says this in regards to Amy's repeated threats to give her all the cancer.
# Funny.ToddInTheShadows2018Episodes: Todd points out that the Title Drop in "Lucid Dreams" makes it evident that Juice Wrld [[YouKeepUsingThatWord doesn't actually know what a lucid dream is]]. He goes on to explain that a lucid dream is a dream you know is a dream and that you can control, whereas Juice Wrld describes a dream wherein he "can't move a thing" meaning that it is really just a regular dream: Todd: Of course he doesn't know that, because he's a fucking kid. He can't even drink yet. I mean, that's a pretty big error, right? It's the title of the song! It's like if Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote their Alabama song, and then accidentally called it "Sweet Home Massachusetts".
# Literature.GuardsGuards: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
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# Literature.TheAbsolutelyTrueDiaryOfAPartTimeIndian: Gordy says he has a "boner" for books. However, he later reveals that he uses it to mean "joy." Junior: Did you just think books should give me a boner? Gordy: Yes, I did. Junior: Are you serious? Gordy: Yeah... Don't you get excited about books? Junior: I don't think you're supposed to get that excited about books.
# WebVideo.{{Crossed}}: In the DOA: Dead or Alive review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with the meaning of "traitor", while it is in fact just a synonym of "Ninja".
# Funny.TheDomReviews2017Episodes: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "THAT'S]] NOT WHAT 'SUBCONSCIOUS' MEANS!"
# DiggingYourselfDeeper.AnimeAndManga: Kaorin has this one in Azumanga Daioh: Supplementary Materials: Kaorin: (Sigh) Sakaki is so cool... Osaka: Kaorin, are you gay? Kaorin: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord The correct term is lesbian]]! Uh, not that I'm a lesbian!! It's just, you know, a teenage thing. That's all. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said she was cool. Just to prove it, I wouldn't mind if she was a guy! (Beat) Osaka: Huh?
# NostalgiaChick.TropesSToZ: She uses The Princess Bride clip "I don't think it means what you think it means" as a response to the "truly outrageous" Jem theme song. She keeps stressing to Thumbelina that "impossible" isn't the same thing as mildly inconvenient. She also points out that "preachy" and "epic" are used for everything these days.
# Characters.AwfulHospitalTheHospitalStaff: When Dr. Fleagood says "dogs," (okay, "BDAOBIGESS",) he is actually referring to all animals in general. Including babies. Fern: ...You keep saying "dogs." Don't you treat, um, anything else? Fish? Birds? Giant worm monsters or whatever? Dr. Fleagood: Whoa there, toots...we ain't use that kinda discriminatatin' language around here! [=WetBDAOBIGESS,=] [=flappyBDAOBIGESS,=] [=writheBDAOBIGESS,=] never judge no BDAOBGY by its cover!
# Webcomic.DanAndMabsFurryAdventures: Mab and Pyroduck get into an argument over the definition of "killing" and whether or not it includes "removed from existence entirely". Mab: Oh my goodness fiiiiine! If you're going to be pedantic about the definition!
# SFDebris.TropesSToZ: ViewersAreMorons: Their repeated use of the word "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Ancient]]" to describe anything in Earth's past, which he points out is seemingly done to remind us that this is the future. Because all the starships, aliens and phasers, didn't make it clear to the audience before?!
# ShoutOut.SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics: Sonic Universe #20, Dr. Fukurokov looks at his destroyed machine, muttering "...Inconceivable... inconceivable... inconceivable..." Tails replies "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep saying that word.]] I don't think you know what it means.
# WebVideo.{{Crossed}}: In the DOA: Dead or Alive review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with the meaning of "traitor", while it is in fact just a synonym of "Ninja".
# Funny.TheDomReviews2017Episodes: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "THAT'S]] NOT WHAT 'SUBCONSCIOUS' MEANS!"
# DiggingYourselfDeeper.AnimeAndManga: Kaorin has this one in Azumanga Daioh: Supplementary Materials: Kaorin: (Sigh) Sakaki is so cool... Osaka: Kaorin, are you gay? Kaorin: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord The correct term is lesbian]]! Uh, not that I'm a lesbian!! It's just, you know, a teenage thing. That's all. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said she was cool. Just to prove it, I wouldn't mind if she was a guy! (Beat) Osaka: Huh?
# NostalgiaChick.TropesSToZ: She uses The Princess Bride clip "I don't think it means what you think it means" as a response to the "truly outrageous" Jem theme song. She keeps stressing to Thumbelina that "impossible" isn't the same thing as mildly inconvenient. She also points out that "preachy" and "epic" are used for everything these days.
# Characters.AwfulHospitalTheHospitalStaff: When Dr. Fleagood says "dogs," (okay, "BDAOBIGESS",) he is actually referring to all animals in general. Including babies. Fern: ...You keep saying "dogs." Don't you treat, um, anything else? Fish? Birds? Giant worm monsters or whatever? Dr. Fleagood: Whoa there, toots...we ain't use that kinda discriminatatin' language around here! [=WetBDAOBIGESS,=] [=flappyBDAOBIGESS,=] [=writheBDAOBIGESS,=] never judge no BDAOBGY by its cover!
# Webcomic.DanAndMabsFurryAdventures: Mab and Pyroduck get into an argument over the definition of "killing" and whether or not it includes "removed from existence entirely". Mab: Oh my goodness fiiiiine! If you're going to be pedantic about the definition!
# SFDebris.TropesSToZ: ViewersAreMorons: Their repeated use of the word "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Ancient]]" to describe anything in Earth's past, which he points out is seemingly done to remind us that this is the future. Because all the starships, aliens and phasers, didn't make it clear to the audience before?!
# ShoutOut.SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics: Sonic Universe #20, Dr. Fukurokov looks at his destroyed machine, muttering "...Inconceivable... inconceivable... inconceivable..." Tails replies "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep saying that word.]] I don't think you know what it means.
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# Literature.TheAbsolutelyTrueDiaryOfAPartTimeIndian: Gordy says he has a "boner" for books. However, he later reveals that he uses it to mean "joy." Junior: Did you just think books should give me a boner? Gordy: Yes, I did. Junior: Are you serious? Gordy: Yeah... Don't you get excited about books? Junior: I don't think you're supposed to get that excited about books.
# WebVideo.{{Crossed}}: In the DOA: Dead or Alive review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with the meaningMusic.TheMegas: Mega Man and Proto Man argue from different definitions of "traitor", while it is in fact just a synonym of "Ninja".
# Funny.TheDomReviews2017Episodes: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "THAT'S]] NOT WHAT 'SUBCONSCIOUS' MEANS!"
# DiggingYourselfDeeper.AnimeAndManga: Kaorin has thisfree will, and Proto Man at one in Azumanga Daioh: Supplementary Materials: Kaorin: (Sigh) Sakaki is so cool... Osaka: Kaorin, are you gay? Kaorin: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord The correct term is lesbian]]! Uh, not that I'm a lesbian!! It's just, you know, a teenage thing. That's all. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said she was cool. Just to prove it, I wouldn't mind if she was a guy! (Beat) Osaka: Huh?
# NostalgiaChick.TropesSToZ: She uses The Princess Bride clip "I don't think it means what you think it means" as a response to the "truly outrageous" Jem theme song. She keeps stressing to Thumbelina that "impossible" isn't the samepoint accuses Mega Man of being disingenuous or outright self-deluded: This thing as mildly inconvenient. She also points out that "preachy" and "epic" are used for everything these days.
# Characters.AwfulHospitalTheHospitalStaff: When Dr. Fleagood says "dogs," (okay, "BDAOBIGESS",) he is actually referring to all animals in general. Including babies. Fern: ...You keep saying "dogs." Don'tyou treat, um, anything else? Fish? Birds? Giant worm monsters or whatever? Dr. Fleagood: Whoa there, toots...we ain't use that kinda discriminatatin' language around here! [=WetBDAOBIGESS,=] [=flappyBDAOBIGESS,=] [=writheBDAOBIGESS,=] never judge no BDAOBGY by its cover!
call your will / I call a ruse.
#Webcomic.DanAndMabsFurryAdventures: Mab and Pyroduck get into an argument over the definition of "killing" and whether or not it includes "removed from existence entirely". Mab: Oh my goodness fiiiiine! If you're going to be pedantic YMMV.TheNostalgiaCritic: Critic's depressed complaining in [=BloodRayne=] about the definition!
# SFDebris.TropesSToZ: ViewersAreMorons: Their repeated usetradition he's forced to do (have Linkara and Spoony review an Uwe Boll movie with him) is treated as such, with Tamara/Malcolm being tired of it and Linkara/Spoony forcing him to slapstick with a pie in the word "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Ancient]]" to describe anything in Earth's past, which he points out is seemingly done to remind us face. It doesn't help that this YouKeepUsingThatWord is the future. Because all the starships, aliens and phasers, didn't make it clear in play. It'd be better if he was just depressed about Pandering to the audience before?!
Base, as “I did an Uwe Boll movie with Linkara and Spoony once and have to do it again” does not a tradition make.
#ShoutOut.SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics: Sonic Universe #20, Dr. Fukurokov looks at his destroyed machine, muttering "...Inconceivable... inconceivable... inconceivable..." Tails replies "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep saying Recap.ParksAndRecreationS03E11: Andy thinks it's cute that word.]] I don't think April doesn't clean and they eat off frisbees with one plastic fork between them. Ben even lampshades it. Ben: Do you even know what it means.'cute' means?!
# Series.RealTimeWithBillMaher: Maher's editorial of October [=30,=] 2021 was a rant against people from his own side (i. e. leftwingers) continually redefining words such as "hate", "victim", "hero", "shame", "violence", "survivor", "phobic", and "white supremacy" in an attempt to rewrite reality. Maher: Word inflation is a problem. You can try to change reality by changing the words, but you can't. It just stops you from dealing with it.
# WebVideo.{{Crossed}}: In the DOA: Dead or Alive review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with the meaning
# Funny.TheDomReviews2017Episodes: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "THAT'S]] NOT WHAT 'SUBCONSCIOUS' MEANS!"
# DiggingYourselfDeeper.AnimeAndManga: Kaorin has this
# NostalgiaChick.TropesSToZ: She uses The Princess Bride clip "I don't think it means what you think it means" as a response to the "truly outrageous" Jem theme song. She keeps stressing to Thumbelina that "impossible" isn't the same
# Characters.AwfulHospitalTheHospitalStaff: When Dr. Fleagood says "dogs," (okay, "BDAOBIGESS",) he is actually referring to all animals in general. Including babies. Fern: ...You keep saying "dogs." Don't
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# SFDebris.TropesSToZ: ViewersAreMorons: Their repeated use
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# Series.RealTimeWithBillMaher: Maher's editorial of October [=30,=] 2021 was a rant against people from his own side (i. e. leftwingers) continually redefining words such as "hate", "victim", "hero", "shame", "violence", "survivor", "phobic", and "white supremacy" in an attempt to rewrite reality. Maher: Word inflation is a problem. You can try to change reality by changing the words, but you can't. It just stops you from dealing with it.
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# Fanfic.MiraiSMP: Techno falls into this in Chapter 4 when Poke calls him a hitman: Poke: You chose the wrong day to be a hitman, buddy. Techno: Well, hitman's assistant, techni—
# Recap.Ben10OmniverseS6E6BlukicAndDribaGoToArea51: ShoutOut: The episode title is a reference to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. There are also a couple dialogue references to The Princess Bride. Thunderpig: Hello!. my name is Thunderpig. You ate my father with cheese and mustard, open-faced on a whole-wheat baguette. Prepare to Die! Four Arms: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I don't think it means what you think it means.
# Website.NotAlwaysRomantic: The gay manager and lesbian coworker in this story insist that their affair isn't cheating, as it's not cheating if they're having sex with someone the opposite gender of their spouse. They both end up fired (for having sex in the office) and divorced.
# Recap.SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E12AllThatGlittersWishingYouWell: Mr. Krabs describes it as the Eugene Krabs Memorial Wishing Well. Squidward points out you need to be dead to have a memorial for anything.
# WebVideo.SuburbanKnights: After [[spoiler:Malachite pauses his "destroy all technology" campaign to answer his smartphone and the Critic calls him an idiot, he replies, "At least I'm not a hypocrite." Critic is so dumbfounded by this response that he has to have Jew Wario take over for him.
# WebVideo.STAR: In the 'Depths Of Fear' video, STAR_ pointed out that the game he's playing categorised itself as a roguelike game when it does not have the hard elements of it as it has 'restart a level' option and the ability to retrieve back the lost weapons easily from a wall.
# Characters.SleeperWildStorm: Called himself Genocide because he sometimes wants to kill everyone. Carver points out that genocide is the systematic elimination of a specific group.
# Film.ManOfTheHouse1995: In the intro, Ben describes their new place as a "small loft apartment". While obviously colored by young age and moving from his childhood home, the loft is enormous.
# Pantheon.CharacterActions: Portfolio: Constantly kneeing those who try to say something before they can finish, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Uses the term 'Ninja' despite not really being one]], Badass Adorable, Female Gamer, Used a Male avatar Pre-Catastrophe but later found it uncomfortable afterwards, Views herself as Shiroe's ninja after he helped her with her avatar situation, Does not like her short stature, Flash Step, Can create clones of herself as her Overskill
# Characters.TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim: Norlock calls him out on his repeated usage of the word "punk".
# WebVideo.{{Jacksfilms}}: "Literally", which is a collection of tweets that misuse the eponymous word. The ending card reads “Friends don’t let friends misuse the word ‘literally’. If not, you’re literally Hitler”.
# Film.TeenWolfTheMovie: Deaton corrects their understanding of Bardo: Deaton: Bardo is a Tibetan word, it’s a means of interpreting death and the movements of consciousness between physical states of being. It’s just a word, it’s a concept.
# Film.{{Dadnapped}}: Skunk, trying to demonstrate his literary skill, calls adjusting a disguise to get any followers of one's track a "colander of deception". Maurice tells him that he himself doesn't know what a "colander" is, but he knows it isn't used properly here.
# Catchphrase.LiveActionFilms: The Princess Bride: Vizzini shouts, "Inconceivable!" whenever something goes happens that he didn't expect. His partner, Inigo Montoya, eventually says, "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means." Inigo's own catch phrase: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley's own "As You Wish," which he even uses to identify himself.
# NotAlwaysWorking.TropesTToZ: This developer keeps using the wrong terms for a piece of software, and can't be convinced to use the correct ones, except for one for loading icons that is little-known and, in all likelihood, taken as a much naughtier term. This cook keeps saying the bag of chips (french fries) he cooked are gluten-free despite the fact the submitter saw him cook those chips in the same fryer used for the regular chips even though her mother told him the submitter's aunt has Celiac Disease. Despite the submitter pointing this out, the cook still keeps saying it's still "gluten-free" and it's not a big deal if her aunt doesn't know it. The submitter and her mother are not amused and refuses to take and pay for the chips much to the cook's anger who demands they pay for it which they ignore his calls until he gave up and stopped advertising he served gluten-free chips.
# YMMV.{{Jimquisition}}: DiscreditedMeme: By their own admission, they felt that "Ubisoft [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Iconic]]" had lost its bite after Ubisoft itself poked fun at it during the lead-up to E3 2017.
# Funny.BadCreepypasta: JC the Hyena [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't learn anything from his other stories.]] Toby: "Kazuki is practically enjoying himself with being—" Matt: He's PRACTICALLY enjoying himself. Jacob: Oh my god, it's fucking JC the Hyena again. Does he fucking KNOW what the word "Practically" means? He did this in Sonic as well!! "I practically gave the chief a lot of evidence!"
# VideoGame.ToTheMoon: In Act II, Potato says that Colin once "literally" beat up Amber for her. She then asks her mother if that's the right word, but she corrects her, saying that she meant "figuratively".
# WebVideo.KwentongTakipsilim: In recent episodes, "demonyo" (literally "demon") is used almost Once an Episode, either as an insult or referring to actual evil spirits.
# ComicBook.WebWarriors: Lady Spider claims being an empiricist and a scientist are different things and that because he's the latter Spider-Man India struggles to accept or work with situations (e.g. magic based villains) that don't have a known explanation. In reality you can't have science without empiricism as making observations and following evidence is how science comes to understand and explain phenomena in the first place.
# Fanfic.SeventyTwoHours: AuthorAppeal: 80s slasher films and music, there being a ridiculous number of references to each - including an entire song quoted at each 6 hourly report. Paul and JJ Squalls seem to be fanatics of the respective genres just so Marston can get away with including so many. For some reason, students tend to quote entire songs in their heads or at each other. He also likes using certain words; expect every student who isn't obese to be described as [[YouKeepUsingThatWord wiry]], with this occuring on one occasion five times within a single chapter.
# Recap.TheNostalgiaCriticS10E10: The Critic is irked at the Analysts excusing their cuts as being "for the fans".
# Website.TVTropes: Egregious has been used so egregiously on this wiki that it has its own page. Similarly Your Mileage Will Vary is used as a way of referring to Your Mileage May Vary taken up a notch on especially controversial issues that reach a point where there is no middle ground. Your Mileage May Vary comes from car commercials that say consumers might get a different amount of mileage than is advertised, and on this wiki, means that viewers might not agree with the statement. Using "Your Mileage Will vary" implies unanimous disagreement rather than inevitable controversy. The word Trope does not come from TV Tropes, and like "subversion" its meaning in the real world is different than on this site. In reality, "trope" does not mean "storytelling device" but "the use of a word to have a meaning different than the usual one."
# Fanfic.TheNowakverse: "Pelagic" means an open zone in the deep ocean. It has nothing to do with cats. Given that Nowak co-wrote the MST of Under the Bridge, presumably he looked up what the word meant at some point after writing the story, because the MST beats him up heavily for misusing the word.
# Funny.SFDebrisStarTrekVoyager: When Sullivan confronts Janeway with the town folk's suspensions towards her: Sullivan: They can tell me you're the Devil himself, and I wouldn't care. Janeway: I would! Never compare me to that amateur. When Janeway later muses on whether she should just straight up tell Michael the truth and explain to him that "I'm a starship captain and you're a 300 deciwatt holodeck programme." Chuck muses on her [[YouKeepUsingThatWord choice of words]]: Chuck: A "deciwatt" is a tenth of a watt. So besides the fact that what she just said was the same as "That oil-change will cost you 300 dimes!", it means that powering his body and personality requires just slightly more wattage than a Hitachi Magic Wand, which never asks you awkward questions and always knows how to find the clitoris on the first try.
# Funny.ThePrincessBride: This priceless exchange after Vizzini cuts the rope to keep the Man in Black from completing the climb up the cliff: Vizzini: He didn't fall!? Inconceivable! Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep using that word.]] I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Gush.LiveActionFilms: It's got history, it's got character, it's got a sweet moral. It's clean enough to show to toddlers, and funny enough to make cynical adults laugh, especially The Wizard's lines. When you're a little kid, the Wizard's a strange old man who knows a lot of long words, but when you're an adult, he's a funny con-man using [[YouKeepUsingThatWord words he doesn't understand to sound important]]. That level of script writing is truly amazing.
# Film.CatchMeIfYouCan: "Concur". Frank drops it in a conversation with one of the other doctors at the hospital, just because he thinks "Do you concur?" is a question that all doctors are supposed to ask each other. The word really just means "agree". (Frank watches a medical drama on television) Doctor 1: Do you concur? Doctor 2: I concur! (later, when Frank is called in to respond to an emergency at the hospital) Frank: Gentlemen. What, uh...what seems to be the problem here? Ashland: Bicycle accident. Fractured tibia, about five inches below the patella. Frank: I see. (Beat) Dr. Harris? Do you concur? (Beat) Harris: Concur with what, sir? Frank: With what Dr. Ashland just said. Do you...do you concur? (Beat) Harris: Well... It was a bicycle accident. The boy told us. Frank: So you concur. Harris: "Concur"?
# Characters.TheHeavenCycleApplicants: Doesn't know what “subtlety” means, much to Jilton's amusement (even gaining a name drop to the film in question) and uses it in a way similar to “cool.”
# Characters.ThePrincessBride: Trope Namer when Vizzini says "Inconceivable!" when Westley evades Vizzini's attempt to make him fall from the Cliffs of Insanity. Vizzini: He didn't fall?! Inconceivable! Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Recap.Ben10OmniverseS6E6BlukicAndDribaGoToArea51: ShoutOut: The episode title is a reference to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. There are also a couple dialogue references to The Princess Bride. Thunderpig: Hello!. my name is Thunderpig. You ate my father with cheese and mustard, open-faced on a whole-wheat baguette. Prepare to Die! Four Arms: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I don't think it means what you think it means.
# Website.NotAlwaysRomantic: The gay manager and lesbian coworker in this story insist that their affair isn't cheating, as it's not cheating if they're having sex with someone the opposite gender of their spouse. They both end up fired (for having sex in the office) and divorced.
# Recap.SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E12AllThatGlittersWishingYouWell: Mr. Krabs describes it as the Eugene Krabs Memorial Wishing Well. Squidward points out you need to be dead to have a memorial for anything.
# WebVideo.SuburbanKnights: After [[spoiler:Malachite pauses his "destroy all technology" campaign to answer his smartphone and the Critic calls him an idiot, he replies, "At least I'm not a hypocrite." Critic is so dumbfounded by this response that he has to have Jew Wario take over for him.
# WebVideo.STAR: In the 'Depths Of Fear' video, STAR_ pointed out that the game he's playing categorised itself as a roguelike game when it does not have the hard elements of it as it has 'restart a level' option and the ability to retrieve back the lost weapons easily from a wall.
# Characters.SleeperWildStorm: Called himself Genocide because he sometimes wants to kill everyone. Carver points out that genocide is the systematic elimination of a specific group.
# Film.ManOfTheHouse1995: In the intro, Ben describes their new place as a "small loft apartment". While obviously colored by young age and moving from his childhood home, the loft is enormous.
# Pantheon.CharacterActions: Portfolio: Constantly kneeing those who try to say something before they can finish, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Uses the term 'Ninja' despite not really being one]], Badass Adorable, Female Gamer, Used a Male avatar Pre-Catastrophe but later found it uncomfortable afterwards, Views herself as Shiroe's ninja after he helped her with her avatar situation, Does not like her short stature, Flash Step, Can create clones of herself as her Overskill
# Characters.TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim: Norlock calls him out on his repeated usage of the word "punk".
# WebVideo.{{Jacksfilms}}: "Literally", which is a collection of tweets that misuse the eponymous word. The ending card reads “Friends don’t let friends misuse the word ‘literally’. If not, you’re literally Hitler”.
# Film.TeenWolfTheMovie: Deaton corrects their understanding of Bardo: Deaton: Bardo is a Tibetan word, it’s a means of interpreting death and the movements of consciousness between physical states of being. It’s just a word, it’s a concept.
# Film.{{Dadnapped}}: Skunk, trying to demonstrate his literary skill, calls adjusting a disguise to get any followers of one's track a "colander of deception". Maurice tells him that he himself doesn't know what a "colander" is, but he knows it isn't used properly here.
# Catchphrase.LiveActionFilms: The Princess Bride: Vizzini shouts, "Inconceivable!" whenever something goes happens that he didn't expect. His partner, Inigo Montoya, eventually says, "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means." Inigo's own catch phrase: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley's own "As You Wish," which he even uses to identify himself.
# NotAlwaysWorking.TropesTToZ: This developer keeps using the wrong terms for a piece of software, and can't be convinced to use the correct ones, except for one for loading icons that is little-known and, in all likelihood, taken as a much naughtier term. This cook keeps saying the bag of chips (french fries) he cooked are gluten-free despite the fact the submitter saw him cook those chips in the same fryer used for the regular chips even though her mother told him the submitter's aunt has Celiac Disease. Despite the submitter pointing this out, the cook still keeps saying it's still "gluten-free" and it's not a big deal if her aunt doesn't know it. The submitter and her mother are not amused and refuses to take and pay for the chips much to the cook's anger who demands they pay for it which they ignore his calls until he gave up and stopped advertising he served gluten-free chips.
# YMMV.{{Jimquisition}}: DiscreditedMeme: By their own admission, they felt that "Ubisoft [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Iconic]]" had lost its bite after Ubisoft itself poked fun at it during the lead-up to E3 2017.
# Funny.BadCreepypasta: JC the Hyena [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't learn anything from his other stories.]] Toby: "Kazuki is practically enjoying himself with being—" Matt: He's PRACTICALLY enjoying himself. Jacob: Oh my god, it's fucking JC the Hyena again. Does he fucking KNOW what the word "Practically" means? He did this in Sonic as well!! "I practically gave the chief a lot of evidence!"
# VideoGame.ToTheMoon: In Act II, Potato says that Colin once "literally" beat up Amber for her. She then asks her mother if that's the right word, but she corrects her, saying that she meant "figuratively".
# WebVideo.KwentongTakipsilim: In recent episodes, "demonyo" (literally "demon") is used almost Once an Episode, either as an insult or referring to actual evil spirits.
# ComicBook.WebWarriors: Lady Spider claims being an empiricist and a scientist are different things and that because he's the latter Spider-Man India struggles to accept or work with situations (e.g. magic based villains) that don't have a known explanation. In reality you can't have science without empiricism as making observations and following evidence is how science comes to understand and explain phenomena in the first place.
# Fanfic.SeventyTwoHours: AuthorAppeal: 80s slasher films and music, there being a ridiculous number of references to each - including an entire song quoted at each 6 hourly report. Paul and JJ Squalls seem to be fanatics of the respective genres just so Marston can get away with including so many. For some reason, students tend to quote entire songs in their heads or at each other. He also likes using certain words; expect every student who isn't obese to be described as [[YouKeepUsingThatWord wiry]], with this occuring on one occasion five times within a single chapter.
# Recap.TheNostalgiaCriticS10E10: The Critic is irked at the Analysts excusing their cuts as being "for the fans".
# Website.TVTropes: Egregious has been used so egregiously on this wiki that it has its own page. Similarly Your Mileage Will Vary is used as a way of referring to Your Mileage May Vary taken up a notch on especially controversial issues that reach a point where there is no middle ground. Your Mileage May Vary comes from car commercials that say consumers might get a different amount of mileage than is advertised, and on this wiki, means that viewers might not agree with the statement. Using "Your Mileage Will vary" implies unanimous disagreement rather than inevitable controversy. The word Trope does not come from TV Tropes, and like "subversion" its meaning in the real world is different than on this site. In reality, "trope" does not mean "storytelling device" but "the use of a word to have a meaning different than the usual one."
# Fanfic.TheNowakverse: "Pelagic" means an open zone in the deep ocean. It has nothing to do with cats. Given that Nowak co-wrote the MST of Under the Bridge, presumably he looked up what the word meant at some point after writing the story, because the MST beats him up heavily for misusing the word.
# Funny.SFDebrisStarTrekVoyager: When Sullivan confronts Janeway with the town folk's suspensions towards her: Sullivan: They can tell me you're the Devil himself, and I wouldn't care. Janeway: I would! Never compare me to that amateur. When Janeway later muses on whether she should just straight up tell Michael the truth and explain to him that "I'm a starship captain and you're a 300 deciwatt holodeck programme." Chuck muses on her [[YouKeepUsingThatWord choice of words]]: Chuck: A "deciwatt" is a tenth of a watt. So besides the fact that what she just said was the same as "That oil-change will cost you 300 dimes!", it means that powering his body and personality requires just slightly more wattage than a Hitachi Magic Wand, which never asks you awkward questions and always knows how to find the clitoris on the first try.
# Funny.ThePrincessBride: This priceless exchange after Vizzini cuts the rope to keep the Man in Black from completing the climb up the cliff: Vizzini: He didn't fall!? Inconceivable! Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep using that word.]] I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Gush.LiveActionFilms: It's got history, it's got character, it's got a sweet moral. It's clean enough to show to toddlers, and funny enough to make cynical adults laugh, especially The Wizard's lines. When you're a little kid, the Wizard's a strange old man who knows a lot of long words, but when you're an adult, he's a funny con-man using [[YouKeepUsingThatWord words he doesn't understand to sound important]]. That level of script writing is truly amazing.
# Film.CatchMeIfYouCan: "Concur". Frank drops it in a conversation with one of the other doctors at the hospital, just because he thinks "Do you concur?" is a question that all doctors are supposed to ask each other. The word really just means "agree". (Frank watches a medical drama on television) Doctor 1: Do you concur? Doctor 2: I concur! (later, when Frank is called in to respond to an emergency at the hospital) Frank: Gentlemen. What, uh...what seems to be the problem here? Ashland: Bicycle accident. Fractured tibia, about five inches below the patella. Frank: I see. (Beat) Dr. Harris? Do you concur? (Beat) Harris: Concur with what, sir? Frank: With what Dr. Ashland just said. Do you...do you concur? (Beat) Harris: Well... It was a bicycle accident. The boy told us. Frank: So you concur. Harris: "Concur"?
# Characters.TheHeavenCycleApplicants: Doesn't know what “subtlety” means, much to Jilton's amusement (even gaining a name drop to the film in question) and uses it in a way similar to “cool.”
# Characters.ThePrincessBride: Trope Namer when Vizzini says "Inconceivable!" when Westley evades Vizzini's attempt to make him fall from the Cliffs of Insanity. Vizzini: He didn't fall?! Inconceivable! Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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# WebVideo.{{Jimquisition}}: Combined with [[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]], Steph's counter to the "Video Games Are A Luxury" justification for bad business practices is that luxuries are, by definition, inessential goods that people will forgo if they can't afford them. Thus, by thinking that the price of its products have no upper bound, the video game industry is setting a course to drive itself off a cliff by alienating huge portions of their customers.
# Webcomic.TwoGuysAndGuy: RunningGag: Guy and Frank taking Wayne to the ICU.Wayne [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misusing the word "literally"]], receiving punishments from Guy as a result.
# Webcomic.TwentyFirstCenturyFox: Bit character Fuscia is quite fond of using "unmitigated" inappropriately.
# SignatureLine.LiveActionFilm: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." (The Princess Bride)“Inconceivable!”“[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” "As You Wish..." “Have fun Storming the Castle!”“Think it'll work?” “It would take a miracle.”
# YMMV.ThePrincessBride: FountainOfMemes: Besides giving us "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]", Inigo gave us the most trope-heavy statement ever: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." It's also become something of a rite of passage for young geeks and nerds to see the film, so very geek-heavy cultures tend to know all the best lines from the work. It's gotten to the point where some LARP groups have a rule against making quotes from the work, because once one person starts, everyone quotes it. Vizzini tends to be viewed as a walking, talking meme as well, due to being a Large Ham idiot spouting “inconceivable!” whenever possible, even though it probably doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
# Recap.ParksAndRecreationS03E11: Andy thinks it's cute that April doesn't clean and they eat off frisbees with one plastic fork between them. Ben even lampshades it. Ben: Do you even know what 'cute' means?!
# Recap.SouthParQVaccinationSpecial: The [=QAnon=] members are quick to call anyone who isn't on their side pedophiles. The member that tutors Scott starts their lesson by asking him if he knows what a pedophile is and the scene immediately cuts off, leaving it ambiguous if [=QAnon=] even know what pedophiles are.
# Webcomic.TwoGuysAndGuy: RunningGag: Guy and Frank taking Wayne to the ICU.Wayne [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misusing the word "literally"]], receiving punishments from Guy as a result.
# Webcomic.TwentyFirstCenturyFox: Bit character Fuscia is quite fond of using "unmitigated" inappropriately.
# SignatureLine.LiveActionFilm: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." (The Princess Bride)“Inconceivable!”“[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” "As You Wish..." “Have fun Storming the Castle!”“Think it'll work?” “It would take a miracle.”
# YMMV.ThePrincessBride: FountainOfMemes: Besides giving us "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]", Inigo gave us the most trope-heavy statement ever: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." It's also become something of a rite of passage for young geeks and nerds to see the film, so very geek-heavy cultures tend to know all the best lines from the work. It's gotten to the point where some LARP groups have a rule against making quotes from the work, because once one person starts, everyone quotes it. Vizzini tends to be viewed as a walking, talking meme as well, due to being a Large Ham idiot spouting “inconceivable!” whenever possible, even though it probably doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
# Recap.ParksAndRecreationS03E11: Andy thinks it's cute that April doesn't clean and they eat off frisbees with one plastic fork between them. Ben even lampshades it. Ben: Do you even know what 'cute' means?!
# Recap.SouthParQVaccinationSpecial: The [=QAnon=] members are quick to call anyone who isn't on their side pedophiles. The member that tutors Scott starts their lesson by asking him if he knows what a pedophile is and the scene immediately cuts off, leaving it ambiguous if [=QAnon=] even know what pedophiles are.
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# Webcomic.TwoGuysAndGuy: RunningGag: Guy and Frank taking Wayne to the ICU.Wayne [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misusing the word "literally"]], receiving punishments from Guy as a result.
# Webcomic.TwentyFirstCenturyFox: Bit character Fuscia is quite fond of using "unmitigated" inappropriately.
# SignatureLine.LiveActionFilm: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." (The Princess Bride)“Inconceivable!”“[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” "As You Wish..." “Have fun Storming the Castle!”“Think it'll work?” “It would take a miracle.”
# ComicBook.DaredevilCharlesSoule: In-universe. Jennifer claims another lawyer "literally" drowned her in paperwork, then corrects herself, saying that she hates when people misuse the word "literally."
# Fanfic.{{Erutcarf}}: Turns out the reason that the Omni-Viewer keeps introducing himself as "Omnipotent" is because he was misinformed on the word’s definition. When he questions why no one informed earlier, Porker admits they just thought he was just that full of himself.
# ComicBook.TheSpectacularSpiderMan: Spider-Man calls Ironheart a
# Characters.HadesCthonicGods: Today we associate "chaos" and "chaotic" with energetic, violent, disordered imagery. Chaos in the Greek sense meant the vast, empty, infinite void — this difference in connotation is remarked on by Chaos, whom only Ares still pays (the wrong) homage to. He still worships me, you know; yet, I would say he does not know me very well.
# Fanfic.DeathKorpsOfJustice: The Justice League and the Team whine that a "hero" shouldn't treat criminals the way Krieg does. They seem to forget (or ignore) Krieg's repeated insistence that he is NOT a hero, but a soldier.
# LetsPlay.HCBailly: He has lampshaded this trope multiple times during his Let's Plays, when people says "Inconceivable", "Impossible", "Incomprehensible" or similar words that reflect the same meaning.
# Characters.BackToTheFutureBrownFamily: At least from Doc's point of view in [=1955,=] as he thinks that Marty's use of the word "heavy" still applies to weight and measurements — when, from Marty's point of view, he's just using the slang term for something that has a deep, powerful impact, whether philosophical, intellectual, or emotional.
# Funny.MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSeason7: Applejack's YouKeepUsingThatWord moment to Lily Lace's frequent use of "literally," especially for just how much Truth in Television it is: Lily Lace: You can thank Applejack. She literally did it all by herself. Applejack: I don't think that word means what you think it means.
# Literature.WhiteTeeth: Both in- and out-of-universe with the term "Aryan." Smith uses it to denote both the olive-skinned Eurasian peoples who colonized India thousands of years ago and the more contemporary sense of the pink-skinned peoples who populate Europe, Australia, and much of the Americas today. This gets lampshaded when Samad scolds Alsana for acting too "Western" and she responds by pulling out an encyclopedia entry on Bangladesh that confirms that Bengalis are an Indo-Aryan people, and thus Western in the first place.
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# WebVideo.ResidentEvilAbridged: Rebecca calls out Chris and Richard when they
# Series.TheLastLeg: The 2017 season naturally made reference to Donald Trump, like one
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# WebVideo.BidenAndTheGang: In "Biden & the Gang Play UNO," Biden claims that "cracker," (a slur for white people) means "buddy."
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# SelfDemonstrating.{{Malaproper}}: Mrs Slocombe from Are You Being Served? claimed that the primordial ooze had "little orgasms" floating round. She called the Caribbean the "Caribbeano" and "apoplectic" was "apoploptic". She's also in the habit of using the words "obstropulus" and "igni-moan-ius" Don't forget her being "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord unanimous]]" in all her opinions. Technically true, but... After the UK's conversion to metric, she told Ms. Brahms that everything was measured in centipedes. "But I would ask you to remember that Parliament has passed the Sexual Relations Act, which states that women are
# Film.{{Religulous}}: During an interview with a United States Senator who believes in creationism, he uses the word "indigous", which the subtitles note isn't
# WebVideo.KwentongTakipsilim: In recent episodes, "demonyo" (literally "demon") is used almost Once an Episode, either as an insult or referring to actual evil spirits.
# Funny.PokemonVietnameseCrystal: Pretty much everything Silver says. WHAT DON'T STARE ME ALWAYS YOU HAD GAINED MONATERS FROM GRADUATE SCHOOL What he says when you defeat him for the first time. I AM... I Am a Monster COACH. The
# Film.{{Labyrinth}}: When Sarah tells Jareth the Labyrinth is "a piece of cake", he proceeds to magically reduce her remaining time to solve it. Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that
# WebVideo.TwoBestFriendsPlay: Video 28 of Nier reveals that Pat is mildly aggravated by people's misuse of the word "sentient". He notes that while it means having the ability to use the five senses, people often misuse it to mean being able to think and reason about the
# Series.TheNewAdventuresOfOldChristine: When old Christine kept bringing up how she thought she was racist she was told not to use the word until she learns what
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# Literature.LordsAndLadies: After the Lancre Morris Men discover that "Rude Mechanicals" is a phrase used to describe amateur thespians like themselves, one of them thinks this means he has to periodically shout rude words. Doubly amusing, in that the ones he thinks to shout aren't particularly rude. Many of the descriptive terms that now make the average person think elves must be good ("terrific", "glamorous", etc) originally meant something scary ("instill terror", "use glamor-magic against you", etc).
# Recap.DragonBallZAbridgedE30: LampshadeHanging: Goku is surprised at Freeza's claim that he can breathe in space. Even Goku understands how "Space is a 'Va-cum'". He later brings up how "five minutes" according to Freeza is much longer than it should be: Freeza: Wha— Oh, I get it. You're scared, aren't you? Afraid knowing this planet has one minute left before it explodes! Goku: Question. Freeza: Huh? Goku: Do you have a watch? Freeza: No, why? Goku: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Do you know what a minute is?]] Freeza: What? Of course I do! Goku: I don't think you do... Freeza: Bu—I—uh—
# YMMV.ItsMyLife: AccidentalInnuendo: Accidental Innuendo - [[YouKeepUsingThatWord She keeps saying "wank".]] It does not mean what she thinks it means.As well as "companion boob". As well as everything involving the Scout's "ballsack" in Teen Fortress 2 (weren't it for The Half-World, one would assume she meant a sack containing baseballs).Skepkitty, who runs The Half-World, hadn't yet read the next chapter which makes this more clear (he [=MSTs=] stories as he reads them). He chose to go with the crazier interpretation partly because it seemed somewhat plausible after what Rattman did with the personality cores in It's My Life, and partly due to Rule of Funny. As well as "CHAPTER SEX". Rule 34 can apply even to chapter titles. In THE KILL OF SNAPE, Steven Universe is referred to as "Steven Galaxy". In reality, "Stephen Galaxy" is used for NSFW content pertaining to SU.
# Funny.TheSpoonyExperiment: Then, seemingly after the game started to look somewhat good, it ruins it by [[YouKeepUsingThatWord repeatedly mixing up the terms of "Body Slam" with the "Power Slam" and "Cross-Body Block"]]
# Literature.TheThings: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Inverted. The alien likens assimilating other lifeforms to rape as a supreme positive. Justified as he heard the word from a human mind all but stated to be Childs, and [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't get]] the connotations. These poor savage things will never embrace salvation. I will have to rape it into them.
# Recap.PeekingThroughTheFourthWallEpisode17: The fic's nonstop insistence on referring to Luna as Lincoln's "guardian" wears on Tye, Eps, Kirby and That Engineer until the latter finally snaps towards the end of the fic.
# WebVideo.CaptainDisillusion: The Captain expresses disappointment at the comments of the UFO Over India video claiming it was done with "CGI."note Specifically, there's a distinction between "computer generated images" and "visual effects such as compositing done in post." Captain: YouKeepUsingThatWord. I do not think it means what you've become accustomed to define it as.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan: At the spelling bee, Bart laughs at a student who spells "acerose" wrong, saying "He's an ass-erose!" Professor Frink asks if he means that he's similar to a pine needle. Bart shrugs off that he's bored and this is all he has to entertain himself.
# Recap.SeinfeldS5E21TheHamptons: Elaine is flattered when Ben calls her "breathtaking," but starts getting suspicious when says the same thing about the hideous baby. As it turns out, it's just something he says. She later gives him an exasperated look when he says the same thing about breakfast.
# VideoGame.{{Mardek}}: TechnicalPacifist: Meraeador, though he has no problem with killing monsters, as they are simply 'Miasma'. Lampshaded by Mardek, who asks Meraeador something like [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "Doesn't pacifist mean opposition to all violence?"]], whereupon Meraedor retorts that the meaning of pacifism is pretty pedantic. Also lampshaded in the Flamethrower's in-battle description. Engulfs all enemies in flame. MWAHAHA! Mereador's such a pacifist.
# WebAnimation.FiveAMAtFreddys: Glamrock Freddy consistently refers to his stomach hatch as a "hole" in Superstar Edition, resulting in weird phrases when he tells Gregory to get inside it. Roxy becomes fed up with this habit near the end. Roxy: STOP CALLING IT YOUR "HOLE!"
# Recap.DragonBallZAbridgedE30: LampshadeHanging: Goku is surprised at Freeza's claim that he can breathe in space. Even Goku understands how "Space is a 'Va-cum'". He later brings up how "five minutes" according to Freeza is much longer than it should be: Freeza: Wha— Oh, I get it. You're scared, aren't you? Afraid knowing this planet has one minute left before it explodes! Goku: Question. Freeza: Huh? Goku: Do you have a watch? Freeza: No, why? Goku: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Do you know what a minute is?]] Freeza: What? Of course I do! Goku: I don't think you do... Freeza: Bu—I—uh—
# YMMV.ItsMyLife: AccidentalInnuendo: Accidental Innuendo - [[YouKeepUsingThatWord She keeps saying "wank".]] It does not mean what she thinks it means.As well as "companion boob". As well as everything involving the Scout's "ballsack" in Teen Fortress 2 (weren't it for The Half-World, one would assume she meant a sack containing baseballs).Skepkitty, who runs The Half-World, hadn't yet read the next chapter which makes this more clear (he [=MSTs=] stories as he reads them). He chose to go with the crazier interpretation partly because it seemed somewhat plausible after what Rattman did with the personality cores in It's My Life, and partly due to Rule of Funny. As well as "CHAPTER SEX". Rule 34 can apply even to chapter titles. In THE KILL OF SNAPE, Steven Universe is referred to as "Steven Galaxy". In reality, "Stephen Galaxy" is used for NSFW content pertaining to SU.
# Funny.TheSpoonyExperiment: Then, seemingly after the game started to look somewhat good, it ruins it by [[YouKeepUsingThatWord repeatedly mixing up the terms of "Body Slam" with the "Power Slam" and "Cross-Body Block"]]
# Literature.TheThings: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Inverted. The alien likens assimilating other lifeforms to rape as a supreme positive. Justified as he heard the word from a human mind all but stated to be Childs, and [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't get]] the connotations. These poor savage things will never embrace salvation. I will have to rape it into them.
# Recap.PeekingThroughTheFourthWallEpisode17: The fic's nonstop insistence on referring to Luna as Lincoln's "guardian" wears on Tye, Eps, Kirby and That Engineer until the latter finally snaps towards the end of the fic.
# WebVideo.CaptainDisillusion: The Captain expresses disappointment at the comments of the UFO Over India video claiming it was done with "CGI."note Specifically, there's a distinction between "computer generated images" and "visual effects such as compositing done in post." Captain: YouKeepUsingThatWord. I do not think it means what you've become accustomed to define it as.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan: At the spelling bee, Bart laughs at a student who spells "acerose" wrong, saying "He's an ass-erose!" Professor Frink asks if he means that he's similar to a pine needle. Bart shrugs off that he's bored and this is all he has to entertain himself.
# Recap.SeinfeldS5E21TheHamptons: Elaine is flattered when Ben calls her "breathtaking," but starts getting suspicious when says the same thing about the hideous baby. As it turns out, it's just something he says. She later gives him an exasperated look when he says the same thing about breakfast.
# VideoGame.{{Mardek}}: TechnicalPacifist: Meraeador, though he has no problem with killing monsters, as they are simply 'Miasma'. Lampshaded by Mardek, who asks Meraeador something like [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "Doesn't pacifist mean opposition to all violence?"]], whereupon Meraedor retorts that the meaning of pacifism is pretty pedantic. Also lampshaded in the Flamethrower's in-battle description. Engulfs all enemies in flame. MWAHAHA! Mereador's such a pacifist.
# WebAnimation.FiveAMAtFreddys: Glamrock Freddy consistently refers to his stomach hatch as a "hole" in Superstar Edition, resulting in weird phrases when he tells Gregory to get inside it. Roxy becomes fed up with this habit near the end. Roxy: STOP CALLING IT YOUR "HOLE!"
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# Literature.LordsAndLadies: After Characters.TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim: Norlock calls him out on his repeated usage of the Lancre Morris Men discover that "Rude Mechanicals" word "punk".
# Characters.StarWarsRebelCells: Lampshaded by Sabine. "Squadron" isa phrase usually used to describe amateur thespians refer to a team of ships, like themselves, Phoenix Squadron, but Iron Squadron is actually just a group in one of them thinks this means he has to periodically shout rude words. Doubly amusing, in that the ones he thinks to shout aren't particularly rude. Many of the descriptive terms that now make the average person think elves must be good ("terrific", "glamorous", etc) originally meant something scary ("instill terror", "use glamor-magic against you", etc).
# Recap.DragonBallZAbridgedE30: LampshadeHanging: Gokuship. This is surprised at Freeza's claim that he can breathe in space. Even Goku understands how "Space is a 'Va-cum'". He later brings up how "five minutes" according to Freeza is much longer than it should be: Freeza: Wha— Oh, I get it. You're scared, aren't you? Afraid knowing this planet has one minute left before it explodes! Goku: Question. Freeza: Huh? Goku: Do you have a watch? Freeza: No, why? Goku: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Do you know what a minute is?]] Freeza: What? Of course I do! Goku: I don't think you do... Freeza: Bu—I—uh—
# YMMV.ItsMyLife: AccidentalInnuendo: Accidental Innuendo - [[YouKeepUsingThatWord She keeps saying "wank".]] It does not mean what she thinks it means.As well as "companion boob". As well as everything involving the Scout's "ballsack" in Teen Fortress 2 (weren't it for The Half-World, one would assume she meant a sack containing baseballs).Skepkitty, who runs The Half-World, hadn't yet read the next chapter which makes this more clear (he [=MSTs=] stories as he reads them). He chose to go with the crazier interpretation partlybecause Mart named it seemed somewhat plausible after what Rattman did with the personality cores in It's My Life, and partly due to Rule of Funny. As well as "CHAPTER SEX". Rule 34 can apply even to chapter titles. In THE KILL OF SNAPE, Steven Universe is referred to as "Steven Galaxy". In reality, "Stephen Galaxy" is used for NSFW content pertaining to SU.
# Funny.TheSpoonyExperiment: Then, seeminglyafter the game started to look somewhat good, it ruins it by [[YouKeepUsingThatWord repeatedly mixing up the terms of "Body Slam" with the "Power Slam" and "Cross-Body Block"]]
# Literature.TheThings: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Inverted. The alien likens assimilating other lifeforms to rape as a supreme positive. Justified as he heard the word from a human mind all but stated to be Childs, and [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't get]] the connotations. These poor savage things will never embrace salvation. I will have to rape it into them.
# Recap.PeekingThroughTheFourthWallEpisode17: The fic's nonstop insistence on referring to Luna as Lincoln's "guardian" wears on Tye, Eps, Kirby and That Engineer until the latter finally snaps towards the end of the fic.
original Iron Squadron, his late father's military unit.
# WebVideo.CaptainDisillusion: The Captain expresses disappointment at the comments of the UFO Over India video claiming it was done with "CGI."note Specifically, there's a distinction between "computer generated images" and "visual effects such as compositing done in post." Captain: YouKeepUsingThatWord. I do not think it means what you've become accustomed to define it as.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan: At the spelling bee, Bart laughs at a student who spells "acerose" wrong, saying "He's an ass-erose!" Professor Frink asks if he means that he's similar to a pine needle. Bart shrugs off that he's bored andCinemaSins: Basic Instinct has this is all he has sinned a lot due to entertain himself.
# Recap.SeinfeldS5E21TheHamptons: Elaine is flattered when Ben calls her "breathtaking," but starts getting suspicious when saysthe same thing Anti-Hero's very awful practices, lots of his detective friends do the same. Everyone knows about the hideous baby. As it turns out, it's just something fact he says. She later gives him an exasperated look when he says the same thing about breakfast.
# VideoGame.{{Mardek}}: TechnicalPacifist: Meraeador, though he has no problemis sleeping with killing monsters, as they are simply 'Miasma'. Lampshaded by Mardek, who asks Meraeador something like the therapist, attacks his coworkers, nobody seems to know what [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "Doesn't pacifist mean opposition to all violence?"]], whereupon Meraedor retorts alibi really means]]. The iconic interrogation scene is sinned for the fact that a group of trained cops shouldn't be unable to guide an interrogation like that and command absolutely no respect from the meaning main suspect of pacifism is pretty pedantic. Also lampshaded in the Flamethrower's in-battle description. Engulfs all enemies murder.
# Funny.SuperGamingBros: Elliot's [[YouKeepUsingThatWord case of misusing words reaches an all-time... climax]] inflame. MWAHAHA! Mereador's such a pacifist.
# WebAnimation.FiveAMAtFreddys: Glamrock Freddy consistently refersPart 4. Johnny: Elliot, I shouldn't have to his stomach hatch as a "hole" in Superstar Edition, resulting in weird phrases when say this! But Elliot, never butt-fuck me!
# Characters.ZapDramatic: PerfectlyCromulentWord: In "The Mediator Episode 1: The Angry Neighbors", Sonia calls Jim out on making up the words "planticide" and "vindicative", then accuses him of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord not knowing what hetells Gregory to get inside it. Roxy becomes fed up with means]] by the latter. Jim: "I know what 'vindicated' means. I've got the scar."
# Funny.HistoryOfPowerRangers: "What the hell makes thishabit near the end. Roxy: STOP CALLING IT YOUR "HOLE!"metal so ninja? [[YouKeepUsingThatWord 'Ninja' is not just some random adjective you can slap in front of other stuff.]] 'What color is this rock?' 'Oh, it's ninja-colored.'"
# Characters.StarWarsRebelCells: Lampshaded by Sabine. "Squadron" is
# Recap.DragonBallZAbridgedE30: LampshadeHanging: Goku
# YMMV.ItsMyLife: AccidentalInnuendo: Accidental Innuendo - [[YouKeepUsingThatWord She keeps saying "wank".]] It does not mean what she thinks it means.As well as "companion boob". As well as everything involving the Scout's "ballsack" in Teen Fortress 2 (weren't it for The Half-World, one would assume she meant a sack containing baseballs).Skepkitty, who runs The Half-World, hadn't yet read the next chapter which makes this more clear (he [=MSTs=] stories as he reads them). He chose to go with the crazier interpretation partly
# Funny.TheSpoonyExperiment: Then, seemingly
# Literature.TheThings: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Inverted. The alien likens assimilating other lifeforms to rape as a supreme positive. Justified as he heard the word from a human mind all but stated to be Childs, and [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't get]] the connotations. These poor savage things will never embrace salvation. I will have to rape it into them.
# Recap.PeekingThroughTheFourthWallEpisode17: The fic's nonstop insistence on referring to Luna as Lincoln's "guardian" wears on Tye, Eps, Kirby and That Engineer until the latter finally snaps towards the end of the fic.
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# Recap.TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan: At the spelling bee, Bart laughs at a student who spells "acerose" wrong, saying "He's an ass-erose!" Professor Frink asks if he means that he's similar to a pine needle. Bart shrugs off that he's bored and
# Recap.SeinfeldS5E21TheHamptons: Elaine is flattered when Ben calls her "breathtaking," but starts getting suspicious when says
# VideoGame.{{Mardek}}: TechnicalPacifist: Meraeador, though he has no problem
# Funny.SuperGamingBros: Elliot's [[YouKeepUsingThatWord case of misusing words reaches an all-time... climax]] in
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# Characters.ZapDramatic: PerfectlyCromulentWord: In "The Mediator Episode 1: The Angry Neighbors", Sonia calls Jim out on making up the words "planticide" and "vindicative", then accuses him of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord not knowing what he
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# Recap.BobsBurgersS9E6BobbyDriver: Bob lampshades that "queef" doesn't mean "quilt thief" like Mr. Frond uses it.
# Characters.StarWarsRebelCells: Lampshaded by Sabine. "Squadron" is usually used to refer to a team of ships, like Phoenix Squadron, but Iron Squadron is actually just a group in one ship. This is because Mart named it after the original Iron Squadron, his late father's military unit.
# Fanfic.DeathKorpsOfJustice: The Justice League and the Team whine that a "hero" shouldn't treat criminals the way Krieg does. They seem to forget (or ignore) Krieg's repeated insistence that he is NOT a hero, but a soldier.
# Literature.TheScrewtapeLetters: Hell has a Philological Arm, whose job is to redefine words in misleading or ambiguous ways to make it easier to lead people astray with Insane Troll Logic. Screwtape discusses using several of these words (such as "a religious phase", or contradictory definitions of "real") to tempt the Patient. They're particularly proud of the work they did on "Puritanical", which shifted from 'particularly concerned with virtue' to 'hopelessly old-fashioned'.
# WesternAnimation.BatmanAndHarleyQuinn: Harley is annoyed at the fact people (such as Batman) refer to sociopaths as "psychopaths".
# Theatre.TheLieutenantOfInishmore: Davey: Them facts are only circumstantial. Padraic: These guns are only circumstantial, so, and so too your brains'll be only circumstantial as they leave your heads and go skidding up the wall.
# Music.SiIvaGunner: In Level Theme 1 - The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock, [=SiIva=] pops in briefly to clear a few misconceptions; mainly, using the word "soundfont" in reference to consoles that use synthesizers, such as the NES, the SEGA Genesis, and the Game Boy.
# Characters.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMinorCharacters: At one point, he claims that there is a "mountain of evidence" pointing away from him. If you press him on this point, however, it turns out his "mountain of evidence" isn't really evidence at all; simply a claim regarding his supposed lack of motive. If an attorney or Edgeworth tried to pull that kind of baloney in court, they would have gotten penalized. Especially bad because Portsman should know what the word means; he is a prosecutor, after all. Edgeworth calls him out on this: Edgeworth: ...Might I recommend that you review what the word "evidence" means.
# Recap.KingOfTheHillS13E14BornAgainOnTheFourthOfJuly: When Bobby is preaching in the mall, he calls everybody he sees as a sinner a "fornicator", probably not realizing that the words means a very particular sin.
# Characters.TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDWAlliesAndCivilians: He's extremely fond of the word "obtruse." While it is a legitimate English word, he's constantly using it in the wrong form. Neither Donatello nor Angel ever seem able to convince him that he's using it wrong.
# Funny.VoltronLegendaryDefender: This gem when Keith suggests staying on Arus: Lance: Here's an option: shut your quiznak. Coran and Allura: D: Coran and Allura's facial expressions are especially funny, reacting as though Lance has just spoken the most foul word in the Altean language. Funnily enough, Coran actually said that word when he tried to attack Lance right after he woke up. Keith's retort is pretty good, too. Keith: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I don't think you're using that word correctly.]] Not to mention the exchange that follows: Lance: What do you know, Mullet?! Keith: We're staying! Lance: Leaving! Pidge: Staying! Hunk: Snake! Beforehand, the group was arguing about them not having all the lions, which Hunk points out. Hunk: And we only have four lions! Pidge: Technically, only three lions. Hunk: (sincerely) That's right. Thank you, Pidge.
# Film.OlsenBanden: At one point, Benny keeps referring to Egon as „dilettanten“ (the amateur), instead of the correct „delinkventen“ (the delinquent). Egon is not amused. In the Swedish version of the scene he keeps making this mistake even after getting corrected.
# WebVideo.TwoBestFriendsPlay: Video 28 of Nier reveals that Pat is mildly aggravated by people's misuse of the word "sentient". He notes that while it means having the ability to use the five senses, people often misuse it to mean being able to think and reason about the world around you. The intended word is '"sapient". He adds that even Star Trek misuses "sentient".
# Funny.BestOfTheWorst2014Episodes: The panel ruthlessly tears into the terrible titular "blood lock", with Jessi suggesting it was children's artwork they stole from one of the crew's kids.The panel tries to determine why the lock would have "an Amish symbol", as the Amish a) don't have their own alphabet and b) aren't renowned as vampire hunters. Jessi excitedly thinks she's figured it out, declaring that vampires hate the sun just like the Amish hate electricity. Mike doesn't miss a beat in pointing out that doesn't make a lick of sense. The filmmakers [[YouKeepUsingThatWord obviously don't know the difference between "mortality" and "immortality"]], and the panel do not let it slide. The panel, especially Jessi, are baffled by the specificity of the female protagonist's extended dream sequence, particularly her imaginary boyfriend and the bizarre and completely irrelevant details she attributed to him, including a "Mullets Rule" t-shirt and a jar sitting in his bedroom that, judging by the label, is full of farts.
# ZeroPunctuation.TropesUToZ: During the Mailbag Showdown: Yahtzee: I think you should look up the word "objective", because I don't think it means what you think it means. Lampshaded by Yahtzee himself in one column, where he mentions that he's caught himself using certain words so many times that he's had to step back and wonder what the hell he's actually talking about. Helpfully, he put together a handy little glossary of some of his favorites.
# Film.EightyForBrady: Betty keeps calling her fanny pack a "strap-on", even though her friends have to remind her that's not actually the word for it.
# Characters.FuturamaAntagonists: In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", he keeps misusing the word 'irony', and Bender keeps correcting him. Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.
# Series.{{Ziwe}}: Ziwe repeatedly refers to vogue's Signature Move, the "dip", as a "death drop" while learning vogue from her on-set costumer and Ballroom Legend Ricky Allure. Ricky repeatedly insists that she use the correct term, as the "dip"/"death drop" distinction is Serious Business in the Ballroom scene. This, naturally, just prompts Ziwe to use the terms interchangeably even more.
# SCPFoundation.TropesSToZ: A pair of modern-day Are We Cool Yet? artists try to appeal to an older artist by calling the modern EU "fascist". Since the older artist lived through actual fascism he doesn't appreciate the AWCY guys' ignorance/hyperbole and entombs them (and himself) in his "living" collage.
# Characters.SouthParkAntagonistsSecondaryAndMinor: NeverMyFault: She shirks any sort of blame for prolonging Kyle's illness and blames the all-powerful autonomy of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "toxins."]]
# Website.NotAlwaysLegal: According to this person, somebody who is "bilingual" speaks English and Spanish, everybody should know that the word just means those two languages, and somebody who speaks multiple languages but not Spanish isn't bilingual. They get very upset when their legal counsel try to convince them otherwise.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS21E4TreehouseOfHorrorXX: Parodied with Kang and Kodos' cameo in the audience of "Moe Business": Kang: This is the best musical in lightyears! Kodos: Lightyears measure distance, not time. Kang: You know what I meant!
# Webcomic.TerminalLance: "Grunt" is a term mainly applied to the infantry and similar frontline fighting units. When Garcia hears support troops referring to themselves as "Grunts of X", he's drawn similarly to Inigo Montoya and quotes the trope, since the other marines have an infinitesimal chance of facing the enemy in battle.
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2020Episodes: After hearing Huxley refer to himself as "feeling a bit saucy today", the Critic decides he now has no choice but to play a certain clip from The Princess Bride: Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I do not think it means what you think it means.]]
# Literature.ThePrincessBride: CatchPhrase: Inigo: "Hello!, My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley: "As You Wish" Vizzini: "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable!]]" "True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for cough drops." It's repeated multiple times by characters at multiple levels of reality as if everyone knows this is self-evidently true.
# Film.BackToTheFuture1: At least from 1955 Doc's point of view, as he thinks that Marty's use of the word "heavy" still applies to weight and measurements — when, from Marty's point of view, he's just using the slang term for something that has a deep, powerful impact, whether philosophical, intellectual, or emotional.
# Franchise.MortalKombat: Sub-Zero will often correct someone to clarify that his clan, the Lin Kuei, are not ninja, despite their rivalry/alliance with (and similarities to) the Shirai Ryu ninja clan.
# Film.{{Religulous}}: During an interview with a United States Senator who believes in creationism, he uses the word "indigous", which the subtitles note isn't really a word (he was probably thinking of "indigenous").
# Characters.NijisanjiENOBSYDIA: No matter how much the chat corrects her, she will refer to helicopters as planes.
# Recap.ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E03TheGangHitsTheSlopes: Dee and Charlie point out that Drisko's "prank" of drilling a hole in the wall of the women's showers and sticking his dick through it isn't really a prank at all but a sex crime.
# WebVideo.TheMarkRemark: The 12/5-6/16 episode has him call out David Otunga for overusing the word "literally" when talking about Kalisto's match with Baron Corbin when covering TLC 2016.
# Fanfic.SadalaChroniclesTheTimeHitman: In-Universe. Cabba asks Rasley if his undercover wardrobe makes him look cool. Rasley tells him he looks like a queer. Cabba then starts to think queer is Cinnamian slang for cool, which makes him proclaim himself as "a totally queer Saiyan". Rasley didn't felt like telling him the truth.
# Recap.MiraculousLadybugS05E23Revolution: Well, trying to, at any rate. Chloé keeps talking up decromacy as an ideal, but she forcibly took control with the power of superpowered robots. Later, she simply declares that everyone clearly loves what she's done with Paris, and that there is no need for elections - that's the detomacric answer!
# Characters.TheOtherSideOfTheSpectrumEquusPrime: TCB Celestia claims that her xenocide of the humans is her way of spreading harmony, much to Prime Celestia's disgust. Princess Celestia: Don't even say the word harmony! What you're doing is nothing of the sort! Queen Celestia: You poor thing. Has he really filled your mind with such delusion in so little time? They're just misguided, resisting because they don't know the harmony we can bring them. Princess Celestia: (Royal Canterlot Voice activated) I SAID TO NOT ABUSE THAT WORD!
# Characters.AnotherEdenZerberiya: When panicking or flustered, Rosetta will randomly scream "heresy", even to a non-believer like Aldo is. Aldo calls her out on it.
# Literature.GuardsGuards: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
# Tsundere.AnimeAndManga: Lucky Star: Kagami Hiiragi is outright designated as one by Konata, complete with the explanation that it's appropriate for twintails. This reference is probably due to the prevalence of tsundere with Girlish Pigtails at a time when the term started to come into general usage. However, Kagami's dere side isn't actually focused on romantic feelings but more on her loneliness; despite her sarcastic outer demeanor, she cares about her friendships with the other main characters more than she'd like to admit and is secretly disappointed that she's never in the same homeroom class as them. The Lucky Channel segment of the anime even includes Minoru Shiraishi giving an extended [[YouKeepUsingThatWord rant over the term "tsundere" and how it has evolved over time]], from a transitional personality process to someone who switches back and forth constantly; in the end, he wonders if "tsundere" is really the right term to describe Kagami at all.
# Pantheon.{{Phrases}}: Relatively disgusted by Tsumugi Shirogane’s belief that fiction cannot change the world. Fiction has changed people throughout history and the statement that fiction cannot do anything is just ludicrous. Scott: What do you mean fiction can’t change the world? There are trillions of dollars poured into the industries are about FICTION. I buy thousands of dollars worth of things about FICTION. Your entire career is about dressing up as people from FICTION. So stop yelling the word [[YouKeepUsingThatWord FICTION like its a bad thing]] because it isn’t! Tsumugi, angered by his rant, decided to get personal with Scott. She decided to cosplay as one of Scott’s greatest enemies: a copy Animal Crossing amiibo Festival. Scott can be heard screaming from miles.
# ComicBook.{{Princeless}}: BerserkButton: Adrienne's shaping up to be something of a Grammar Nazi. She especially hates it when people [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misuse]] the word "fair" to mean "beautiful" rather than "pale," which her family definitely is not. note For the record, though, "fair" could generally mean "beautiful", as shown by the word's etymological history.
# Creator.BDylanHollis: The "Glorified Rice" recipe says to "gently" cool down the cooked rice ("Opposed to what?! What am I gonna use, a leaf blower?") and to "gently" whip cream ("How do you gently whip cream, you tart? It's like saying gently have a car accident!").
# Literature.TheAbsolutelyTrueDiaryOfAPartTimeIndian: Gordy says he has a "boner" for books. However, he later reveals that he uses it to mean "joy." Junior: Did you just think books should give me a boner? Gordy: Yes, I did. Junior: Are you serious? Gordy: Yeah... Don't you get excited about books? Junior: I don't think you're supposed to get that excited about books.
# WebVideo.{{Crossed}}: In the DOA: Dead or Alive review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with the meaning of "traitor", while it is in fact just a synonym of "Ninja".
# Funny.TheDomReviews2017Episodes: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "THAT'S]] NOT WHAT 'SUBCONSCIOUS' MEANS!"
# DiggingYourselfDeeper.AnimeAndManga: Kaorin has this one in Azumanga Daioh: Supplementary Materials: Kaorin: (Sigh) Sakaki is so cool... Osaka: Kaorin, are you gay? Kaorin: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord The correct term is lesbian]]! Uh, not that I'm a lesbian!! It's just, you know, a teenage thing. That's all. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said she was cool. Just to prove it, I wouldn't mind if she was a guy! (Beat) Osaka: Huh?
# NostalgiaChick.TropesSToZ: She uses The Princess Bride clip "I don't think it means what you think it means" as a response to the "truly outrageous" Jem theme song. She keeps stressing to Thumbelina that "impossible" isn't the same thing as mildly inconvenient. She also points out that "preachy" and "epic" are used for everything these days.
# Characters.AwfulHospitalTheHospitalStaff: When Dr. Fleagood says "dogs," (okay, "BDAOBIGESS",) he is actually referring to all animals in general. Including babies. Fern: ...You keep saying "dogs." Don't you treat, um, anything else? Fish? Birds? Giant worm monsters or whatever? Dr. Fleagood: Whoa there, toots...we ain't use that kinda discriminatatin' language around here! [=WetBDAOBIGESS,=] [=flappyBDAOBIGESS,=] [=writheBDAOBIGESS,=] never judge no BDAOBGY by its cover!
# Webcomic.DanAndMabsFurryAdventures: Mab and Pyroduck get into an argument over the definition of "killing" and whether or not it includes "removed from existence entirely". Mab: Oh my goodness fiiiiine! If you're going to be pedantic about the definition!
# SFDebris.TropesSToZ: ViewersAreMorons: Their repeated use of the word "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Ancient]]" to describe anything in Earth's past, which he points out is seemingly done to remind us that this is the future. Because all the starships, aliens and phasers, didn't make it clear to the audience before?!
# ShoutOut.SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics: Sonic Universe #20, Dr. Fukurokov looks at his destroyed machine, muttering "...Inconceivable... inconceivable... inconceivable..." Tails replies "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep saying that word.]] I don't think you know what it means.
# Characters.BangDreamHelloHappyWorld: She's usually the most to call out Kaoru's excessive use of the word "fleeting" without really knowing what it means.
# Fanfic.MiraiSMP: Techno falls into this in Chapter 4 when Poke calls him a hitman: Poke: You chose the wrong day to be a hitman, buddy. Techno: Well, hitman's assistant, techni—
# Recap.Ben10OmniverseS6E6BlukicAndDribaGoToArea51: ShoutOut: The episode title is a reference to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. There are also a couple dialogue references to The Princess Bride. Thunderpig: Hello!. my name is Thunderpig. You ate my father with cheese and mustard, open-faced on a whole-wheat baguette. Prepare to Die! Four Arms: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I don't think it means what you think it means.
# Website.NotAlwaysRomantic: The gay manager and lesbian coworker in this story insist that their affair isn't cheating, as it's not cheating if they're having sex with someone the opposite gender of their spouse. They both end up fired (for having sex in the office) and divorced.
# Recap.SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E12AllThatGlittersWishingYouWell: Mr. Krabs describes it as the Eugene Krabs Memorial Wishing Well. Squidward points out you need to be dead to have a memorial for anything.
# WebVideo.SuburbanKnights: After [[spoiler:Malachite pauses his "destroy all technology" campaign to answer his smartphone and the Critic calls him an idiot, he replies, "At least I'm not a hypocrite." Critic is so dumbfounded by this response that he has to have Jew Wario take over for him.
# WebVideo.STAR: In the 'Depths Of Fear' video, STAR_ pointed out that the game he's playing categorised itself as a roguelike game when it does not have the hard elements of it as it has 'restart a level' option and the ability to retrieve back the lost weapons easily from a wall.
# Characters.SleeperWildStorm: Called himself Genocide because he sometimes wants to kill everyone. Carver points out that genocide is the systematic elimination of a specific group.
# Film.ManOfTheHouse1995: In the intro, Ben describes their new place as a "small loft apartment". While obviously colored by young age and moving from his childhood home, the loft is enormous.
# Pantheon.CharacterActions: Portfolio: Constantly kneeing those who try to say something before they can finish, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Uses the term 'Ninja' despite not really being one]], Badass Adorable, Female Gamer, Used a Male avatar Pre-Catastrophe but later found it uncomfortable afterwards, Views herself as Shiroe's ninja after he helped her with her avatar situation, Does not like her short stature, Flash Step, Can create clones of herself as her Overskill
# Characters.TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim: Norlock calls him out on his repeated usage of the word "punk".
# WebVideo.{{Jacksfilms}}: "Literally", which is a collection of tweets that misuse the eponymous word. The ending card reads “Friends don’t let friends misuse the word ‘literally’. If not, you’re literally Hitler”.
# Film.TeenWolfTheMovie: Deaton corrects their understanding of Bardo: Deaton: Bardo is a Tibetan word, it’s a means of interpreting death and the movements of consciousness between physical states of being. It’s just a word, it’s a concept.
# Film.{{Dadnapped}}: Skunk, trying to demonstrate his literary skill, calls adjusting a disguise to get any followers of one's track a "colander of deception". Maurice tells him that he himself doesn't know what a "colander" is, but he knows it isn't used properly here.
# Catchphrase.LiveActionFilms: The Princess Bride: Vizzini shouts, "Inconceivable!" whenever something goes happens that he didn't expect. His partner, Inigo Montoya, eventually says, "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means." Inigo's own catch phrase: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley's own "As You Wish," which he even uses to identify himself.
# NotAlwaysWorking.TropesTToZ: This developer keeps using the wrong terms for a piece of software, and can't be convinced to use the correct ones, except for one for loading icons that is little-known and, in all likelihood, taken as a much naughtier term. This cook keeps saying the bag of chips (french fries) he cooked are gluten-free despite the fact the submitter saw him cook those chips in the same fryer used for the regular chips even though her mother told him the submitter's aunt has Celiac Disease. Despite the submitter pointing this out, the cook still keeps saying it's still "gluten-free" and it's not a big deal if her aunt doesn't know it. The submitter and her mother are not amused and refuses to take and pay for the chips much to the cook's anger who demands they pay for it which they ignore his calls until he gave up and stopped advertising he served gluten-free chips.
# YMMV.{{Jimquisition}}: DiscreditedMeme: By their own admission, they felt that "Ubisoft [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Iconic]]" had lost its bite after Ubisoft itself poked fun at it during the lead-up to E3 2017.
# Funny.BadCreepypasta: JC the Hyena [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't learn anything from his other stories.]] Toby: "Kazuki is practically enjoying himself with being—" Matt: He's PRACTICALLY enjoying himself. Jacob: Oh my god, it's fucking JC the Hyena again. Does he fucking KNOW what the word "Practically" means? He did this in Sonic as well!! "I practically gave the chief a lot of evidence!"
# VideoGame.ToTheMoon: In Act II, Potato says that Colin once "literally" beat up Amber for her. She then asks her mother if that's the right word, but she corrects her, saying that she meant "figuratively".
# WebVideo.KwentongTakipsilim: In recent episodes, "demonyo" (literally "demon") is used almost Once an Episode, either as an insult or referring to actual evil spirits.
# ComicBook.WebWarriors: Lady Spider claims being an empiricist and a scientist are different things and that because he's the latter Spider-Man India struggles to accept or work with situations (e.g. magic based villains) that don't have a known explanation. In reality you can't have science without empiricism as making observations and following evidence is how science comes to understand and explain phenomena in the first place.
# Fanfic.SeventyTwoHours: AuthorAppeal: 80s slasher films and music, there being a ridiculous number of references to each - including an entire song quoted at each 6 hourly report. Paul and JJ Squalls seem to be fanatics of the respective genres just so Marston can get away with including so many. For some reason, students tend to quote entire songs in their heads or at each other. He also likes using certain words; expect every student who isn't obese to be described as [[YouKeepUsingThatWord wiry]], with this occuring on one occasion five times within a single chapter.
# Recap.TheNostalgiaCriticS10E10: The Critic is irked at the Analysts excusing their cuts as being "for the fans".
# Website.TVTropes: Egregious has been used so egregiously on this wiki that it has its own page. Similarly Your Mileage Will Vary is used as a way of referring to Your Mileage May Vary taken up a notch on especially controversial issues that reach a point where there is no middle ground. Your Mileage May Vary comes from car commercials that say consumers might get a different amount of mileage than is advertised, and on this wiki, means that viewers might not agree with the statement. Using "Your Mileage Will vary" implies unanimous disagreement rather than inevitable controversy. The word Trope does not come from TV Tropes, and like "subversion" its meaning in the real world is different than on this site. In reality, "trope" does not mean "storytelling device" but "the use of a word to have a meaning different than the usual one."
# Fanfic.TheNowakverse: "Pelagic" means an open zone in the deep ocean. It has nothing to do with cats. Given that Nowak co-wrote the MST of Under the Bridge, presumably he looked up what the word meant at some point after writing the story, because the MST beats him up heavily for misusing the word.
# Funny.SFDebrisStarTrekVoyager: When Sullivan confronts Janeway with the town folk's suspensions towards her: Sullivan: They can tell me you're the Devil himself, and I wouldn't care. Janeway: I would! Never compare me to that amateur. When Janeway later muses on whether she should just straight up tell Michael the truth and explain to him that "I'm a starship captain and you're a 300 deciwatt holodeck programme." Chuck muses on her [[YouKeepUsingThatWord choice of words]]: Chuck: A "deciwatt" is a tenth of a watt. So besides the fact that what she just said was the same as "That oil-change will cost you 300 dimes!", it means that powering his body and personality requires just slightly more wattage than a Hitachi Magic Wand, which never asks you awkward questions and always knows how to find the clitoris on the first try.
# Funny.ThePrincessBride: This priceless exchange after Vizzini cuts the rope to keep the Man in Black from completing the climb up the cliff: Vizzini: He didn't fall!? Inconceivable! Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep using that word.]] I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Gush.LiveActionFilms: It's got history, it's got character, it's got a sweet moral. It's clean enough to show to toddlers, and funny enough to make cynical adults laugh, especially The Wizard's lines. When you're a little kid, the Wizard's a strange old man who knows a lot of long words, but when you're an adult, he's a funny con-man using [[YouKeepUsingThatWord words he doesn't understand to sound important]]. That level of script writing is truly amazing.
# Film.CatchMeIfYouCan: "Concur". Frank drops it in a conversation with one of the other doctors at the hospital, just because he thinks "Do you concur?" is a question that all doctors are supposed to ask each other. The word really just means "agree". (Frank watches a medical drama on television) Doctor 1: Do you concur? Doctor 2: I concur! (later, when Frank is called in to respond to an emergency at the hospital) Frank: Gentlemen. What, uh...what seems to be the problem here? Ashland: Bicycle accident. Fractured tibia, about five inches below the patella. Frank: I see. (Beat) Dr. Harris? Do you concur? (Beat) Harris: Concur with what, sir? Frank: With what Dr. Ashland just said. Do you...do you concur? (Beat) Harris: Well... It was a bicycle accident. The boy told us. Frank: So you concur. Harris: "Concur"?
# Characters.TheHeavenCycleApplicants: Doesn't know what “subtlety” means, much to Jilton's amusement (even gaining a name drop to the film in question) and uses it in a way similar to “cool.”
# Characters.ThePrincessBride: Trope Namer when Vizzini says "Inconceivable!" when Westley evades Vizzini's attempt to make him fall from the Cliffs of Insanity. Vizzini: He didn't fall?! Inconceivable! Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Recap.FilmRerollTeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze: The back half of the campaign causes Kara to develop a hatred over the repeated usage of the phrase "sneaky peak".
# WebVideo.{{Jimquisition}}: Combined with [[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]], Steph's counter to the "Video Games Are A Luxury" justification for bad business practices is that luxuries are, by definition, inessential goods that people will forgo if they can't afford them. Thus, by thinking that the price of its products have no upper bound, the video game industry is setting a course to drive itself off a cliff by alienating huge portions of their customers.
# Webcomic.TwoGuysAndGuy: RunningGag: Guy and Frank taking Wayne to the ICU.Wayne [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misusing the word "literally"]], receiving punishments from Guy as a result.
# Webcomic.TwentyFirstCenturyFox: Bit character Fuscia is quite fond of using "unmitigated" inappropriately.
# SignatureLine.LiveActionFilm: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." (The Princess Bride)“Inconceivable!”“[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” "As You Wish..." “Have fun Storming the Castle!”“Think it'll work?” “It would take a miracle.”
# YMMV.ThePrincessBride: FountainOfMemes: Besides giving us "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]", Inigo gave us the most trope-heavy statement ever: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." It's also become something of a rite of passage for young geeks and nerds to see the film, so very geek-heavy cultures tend to know all the best lines from the work. It's gotten to the point where some LARP groups have a rule against making quotes from the work, because once one person starts, everyone quotes it. Vizzini tends to be viewed as a walking, talking meme as well, due to being a Large Ham idiot spouting “inconceivable!” whenever possible, even though it probably doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
# Recap.ParksAndRecreationS03E11: Andy thinks it's cute that April doesn't clean and they eat off frisbees with one plastic fork between them. Ben even lampshades it. Ben: Do you even know what 'cute' means?!
# Recap.SouthParQVaccinationSpecial: The [=QAnon=] members are quick to call anyone who isn't on their side pedophiles. The member that tutors Scott starts their lesson by asking him if he knows what a pedophile is and the scene immediately cuts off, leaving it ambiguous if [=QAnon=] even know what pedophiles are.
# Characters.GoldenDawnLostSunrise: ThisCannotBe: Claims that Foxwhisker's trap is inconceivable. Foxwhisker replies by [[YouKeepUsingThatWord telling him that he should redefine "inconceivable"]], because he quite clearly walked into a trap.
# Literature.LordsAndLadies: After the Lancre Morris Men discover that "Rude Mechanicals" is a phrase used to describe amateur thespians like themselves, one of them thinks this means he has to periodically shout rude words. Doubly amusing, in that the ones he thinks to shout aren't particularly rude. Many of the descriptive terms that now make the average person think elves must be good ("terrific", "glamorous", etc) originally meant something scary ("instill terror", "use glamor-magic against you", etc).
# Recap.DragonBallZAbridgedE30: LampshadeHanging: Goku is surprised at Freeza's claim that he can breathe in space. Even Goku understands how "Space is a 'Va-cum'". He later brings up how "five minutes" according to Freeza is much longer than it should be: Freeza: Wha— Oh, I get it. You're scared, aren't you? Afraid knowing this planet has one minute left before it explodes! Goku: Question. Freeza: Huh? Goku: Do you have a watch? Freeza: No, why? Goku: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Do you know what a minute is?]] Freeza: What? Of course I do! Goku: I don't think you do... Freeza: Bu—I—uh—
# YMMV.ItsMyLife: AccidentalInnuendo: Accidental Innuendo - [[YouKeepUsingThatWord She keeps saying "wank".]] It does not mean what she thinks it means.As well as "companion boob". As well as everything involving the Scout's "ballsack" in Teen Fortress 2 (weren't it for The Half-World, one would assume she meant a sack containing baseballs).Skepkitty, who runs The Half-World, hadn't yet read the next chapter which makes this more clear (he [=MSTs=] stories as he reads them). He chose to go with the crazier interpretation partly because it seemed somewhat plausible after what Rattman did with the personality cores in It's My Life, and partly due to Rule of Funny. As well as "CHAPTER SEX". Rule 34 can apply even to chapter titles. In THE KILL OF SNAPE, Steven Universe is referred to as "Steven Galaxy". In reality, "Stephen Galaxy" is used for NSFW content pertaining to SU.
# Funny.TheSpoonyExperiment: Then, seemingly after the game started to look somewhat good, it ruins it by [[YouKeepUsingThatWord repeatedly mixing up the terms of "Body Slam" with the "Power Slam" and "Cross-Body Block"]]
# Literature.TheThings: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Inverted. The alien likens assimilating other lifeforms to rape as a supreme positive. Justified as he heard the word from a human mind all but stated to be Childs, and [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't get]] the connotations. These poor savage things will never embrace salvation. I will have to rape it into them.
# Recap.PeekingThroughTheFourthWallEpisode17: The fic's nonstop insistence on referring to Luna as Lincoln's "guardian" wears on Tye, Eps, Kirby and That Engineer until the latter finally snaps towards the end of the fic.
# WebVideo.CaptainDisillusion: The Captain expresses disappointment at the comments of the UFO Over India video claiming it was done with "CGI."note Specifically, there's a distinction between "computer generated images" and "visual effects such as compositing done in post." Captain: YouKeepUsingThatWord. I do not think it means what you've become accustomed to define it as.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan: At the spelling bee, Bart laughs at a student who spells "acerose" wrong, saying "He's an ass-erose!" Professor Frink asks if he means that he's similar to a pine needle. Bart shrugs off that he's bored and this is all he has to entertain himself.
# Recap.SeinfeldS5E21TheHamptons: Elaine is flattered when Ben calls her "breathtaking," but starts getting suspicious when says the same thing about the hideous baby. As it turns out, it's just something he says. She later gives him an exasperated look when he says the same thing about breakfast.
# VideoGame.{{Mardek}}: TechnicalPacifist: Meraeador, though he has no problem with killing monsters, as they are simply 'Miasma'. Lampshaded by Mardek, who asks Meraeador something like [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "Doesn't pacifist mean opposition to all violence?"]], whereupon Meraedor retorts that the meaning of pacifism is pretty pedantic. Also lampshaded in the Flamethrower's in-battle description. Engulfs all enemies in flame. MWAHAHA! Mereador's such a pacifist.
# WebAnimation.FiveAMAtFreddys: Glamrock Freddy consistently refers to his stomach hatch as a "hole" in Superstar Edition, resulting in weird phrases when he tells Gregory to get inside it. Roxy becomes fed up with this habit near the end. Roxy: STOP CALLING IT YOUR "HOLE!"
# Recap.BobsBurgersS9E6BobbyDriver: Bob lampshades that "queef" doesn't mean "quilt thief" like Mr. Frond uses it.
# Characters.StarWarsRebelCells: Lampshaded by Sabine. "Squadron" is usually used to refer to a team of ships, like Phoenix Squadron, but Iron Squadron is actually just a group in one ship. This is because Mart named it after the original Iron Squadron, his late father's military unit.
# Fanfic.DeathKorpsOfJustice: The Justice League and the Team whine that a "hero" shouldn't treat criminals the way Krieg does. They seem to forget (or ignore) Krieg's repeated insistence that he is NOT a hero, but a soldier.
# Literature.TheScrewtapeLetters: Hell has a Philological Arm, whose job is to redefine words in misleading or ambiguous ways to make it easier to lead people astray with Insane Troll Logic. Screwtape discusses using several of these words (such as "a religious phase", or contradictory definitions of "real") to tempt the Patient. They're particularly proud of the work they did on "Puritanical", which shifted from 'particularly concerned with virtue' to 'hopelessly old-fashioned'.
# WesternAnimation.BatmanAndHarleyQuinn: Harley is annoyed at the fact people (such as Batman) refer to sociopaths as "psychopaths".
# Theatre.TheLieutenantOfInishmore: Davey: Them facts are only circumstantial. Padraic: These guns are only circumstantial, so, and so too your brains'll be only circumstantial as they leave your heads and go skidding up the wall.
# Music.SiIvaGunner: In Level Theme 1 - The Flintstones: Burgertime in Bedrock, [=SiIva=] pops in briefly to clear a few misconceptions; mainly, using the word "soundfont" in reference to consoles that use synthesizers, such as the NES, the SEGA Genesis, and the Game Boy.
# Characters.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMinorCharacters: At one point, he claims that there is a "mountain of evidence" pointing away from him. If you press him on this point, however, it turns out his "mountain of evidence" isn't really evidence at all; simply a claim regarding his supposed lack of motive. If an attorney or Edgeworth tried to pull that kind of baloney in court, they would have gotten penalized. Especially bad because Portsman should know what the word means; he is a prosecutor, after all. Edgeworth calls him out on this: Edgeworth: ...Might I recommend that you review what the word "evidence" means.
# Recap.KingOfTheHillS13E14BornAgainOnTheFourthOfJuly: When Bobby is preaching in the mall, he calls everybody he sees as a sinner a "fornicator", probably not realizing that the words means a very particular sin.
# Characters.TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDWAlliesAndCivilians: He's extremely fond of the word "obtruse." While it is a legitimate English word, he's constantly using it in the wrong form. Neither Donatello nor Angel ever seem able to convince him that he's using it wrong.
# Funny.VoltronLegendaryDefender: This gem when Keith suggests staying on Arus: Lance: Here's an option: shut your quiznak. Coran and Allura: D: Coran and Allura's facial expressions are especially funny, reacting as though Lance has just spoken the most foul word in the Altean language. Funnily enough, Coran actually said that word when he tried to attack Lance right after he woke up. Keith's retort is pretty good, too. Keith: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I don't think you're using that word correctly.]] Not to mention the exchange that follows: Lance: What do you know, Mullet?! Keith: We're staying! Lance: Leaving! Pidge: Staying! Hunk: Snake! Beforehand, the group was arguing about them not having all the lions, which Hunk points out. Hunk: And we only have four lions! Pidge: Technically, only three lions. Hunk: (sincerely) That's right. Thank you, Pidge.
# Film.OlsenBanden: At one point, Benny keeps referring to Egon as „dilettanten“ (the amateur), instead of the correct „delinkventen“ (the delinquent). Egon is not amused. In the Swedish version of the scene he keeps making this mistake even after getting corrected.
# WebVideo.TwoBestFriendsPlay: Video 28 of Nier reveals that Pat is mildly aggravated by people's misuse of the word "sentient". He notes that while it means having the ability to use the five senses, people often misuse it to mean being able to think and reason about the world around you. The intended word is '"sapient". He adds that even Star Trek misuses "sentient".
# Funny.BestOfTheWorst2014Episodes: The panel ruthlessly tears into the terrible titular "blood lock", with Jessi suggesting it was children's artwork they stole from one of the crew's kids.The panel tries to determine why the lock would have "an Amish symbol", as the Amish a) don't have their own alphabet and b) aren't renowned as vampire hunters. Jessi excitedly thinks she's figured it out, declaring that vampires hate the sun just like the Amish hate electricity. Mike doesn't miss a beat in pointing out that doesn't make a lick of sense. The filmmakers [[YouKeepUsingThatWord obviously don't know the difference between "mortality" and "immortality"]], and the panel do not let it slide. The panel, especially Jessi, are baffled by the specificity of the female protagonist's extended dream sequence, particularly her imaginary boyfriend and the bizarre and completely irrelevant details she attributed to him, including a "Mullets Rule" t-shirt and a jar sitting in his bedroom that, judging by the label, is full of farts.
# ZeroPunctuation.TropesUToZ: During the Mailbag Showdown: Yahtzee: I think you should look up the word "objective", because I don't think it means what you think it means. Lampshaded by Yahtzee himself in one column, where he mentions that he's caught himself using certain words so many times that he's had to step back and wonder what the hell he's actually talking about. Helpfully, he put together a handy little glossary of some of his favorites.
# Film.EightyForBrady: Betty keeps calling her fanny pack a "strap-on", even though her friends have to remind her that's not actually the word for it.
# Characters.FuturamaAntagonists: In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", he keeps misusing the word 'irony', and Bender keeps correcting him. Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.
# Series.{{Ziwe}}: Ziwe repeatedly refers to vogue's Signature Move, the "dip", as a "death drop" while learning vogue from her on-set costumer and Ballroom Legend Ricky Allure. Ricky repeatedly insists that she use the correct term, as the "dip"/"death drop" distinction is Serious Business in the Ballroom scene. This, naturally, just prompts Ziwe to use the terms interchangeably even more.
# SCPFoundation.TropesSToZ: A pair of modern-day Are We Cool Yet? artists try to appeal to an older artist by calling the modern EU "fascist". Since the older artist lived through actual fascism he doesn't appreciate the AWCY guys' ignorance/hyperbole and entombs them (and himself) in his "living" collage.
# Characters.SouthParkAntagonistsSecondaryAndMinor: NeverMyFault: She shirks any sort of blame for prolonging Kyle's illness and blames the all-powerful autonomy of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "toxins."]]
# Website.NotAlwaysLegal: According to this person, somebody who is "bilingual" speaks English and Spanish, everybody should know that the word just means those two languages, and somebody who speaks multiple languages but not Spanish isn't bilingual. They get very upset when their legal counsel try to convince them otherwise.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS21E4TreehouseOfHorrorXX: Parodied with Kang and Kodos' cameo in the audience of "Moe Business": Kang: This is the best musical in lightyears! Kodos: Lightyears measure distance, not time. Kang: You know what I meant!
# Webcomic.TerminalLance: "Grunt" is a term mainly applied to the infantry and similar frontline fighting units. When Garcia hears support troops referring to themselves as "Grunts of X", he's drawn similarly to Inigo Montoya and quotes the trope, since the other marines have an infinitesimal chance of facing the enemy in battle.
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2020Episodes: After hearing Huxley refer to himself as "feeling a bit saucy today", the Critic decides he now has no choice but to play a certain clip from The Princess Bride: Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord I do not think it means what you think it means.]]
# Literature.ThePrincessBride: CatchPhrase: Inigo: "Hello!, My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley: "As You Wish" Vizzini: "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable!]]" "True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for cough drops." It's repeated multiple times by characters at multiple levels of reality as if everyone knows this is self-evidently true.
# Film.BackToTheFuture1: At least from 1955 Doc's point of view, as he thinks that Marty's use of the word "heavy" still applies to weight and measurements — when, from Marty's point of view, he's just using the slang term for something that has a deep, powerful impact, whether philosophical, intellectual, or emotional.
# Franchise.MortalKombat: Sub-Zero will often correct someone to clarify that his clan, the Lin Kuei, are not ninja, despite their rivalry/alliance with (and similarities to) the Shirai Ryu ninja clan.
# Film.{{Religulous}}: During an interview with a United States Senator who believes in creationism, he uses the word "indigous", which the subtitles note isn't really a word (he was probably thinking of "indigenous").
# Characters.NijisanjiENOBSYDIA: No matter how much the chat corrects her, she will refer to helicopters as planes.
# Recap.ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E03TheGangHitsTheSlopes: Dee and Charlie point out that Drisko's "prank" of drilling a hole in the wall of the women's showers and sticking his dick through it isn't really a prank at all but a sex crime.
# WebVideo.TheMarkRemark: The 12/5-6/16 episode has him call out David Otunga for overusing the word "literally" when talking about Kalisto's match with Baron Corbin when covering TLC 2016.
# Fanfic.SadalaChroniclesTheTimeHitman: In-Universe. Cabba asks Rasley if his undercover wardrobe makes him look cool. Rasley tells him he looks like a queer. Cabba then starts to think queer is Cinnamian slang for cool, which makes him proclaim himself as "a totally queer Saiyan". Rasley didn't felt like telling him the truth.
# Recap.MiraculousLadybugS05E23Revolution: Well, trying to, at any rate. Chloé keeps talking up decromacy as an ideal, but she forcibly took control with the power of superpowered robots. Later, she simply declares that everyone clearly loves what she's done with Paris, and that there is no need for elections - that's the detomacric answer!
# Characters.TheOtherSideOfTheSpectrumEquusPrime: TCB Celestia claims that her xenocide of the humans is her way of spreading harmony, much to Prime Celestia's disgust. Princess Celestia: Don't even say the word harmony! What you're doing is nothing of the sort! Queen Celestia: You poor thing. Has he really filled your mind with such delusion in so little time? They're just misguided, resisting because they don't know the harmony we can bring them. Princess Celestia: (Royal Canterlot Voice activated) I SAID TO NOT ABUSE THAT WORD!
# Characters.AnotherEdenZerberiya: When panicking or flustered, Rosetta will randomly scream "heresy", even to a non-believer like Aldo is. Aldo calls her out on it.
# Literature.GuardsGuards: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
# Tsundere.AnimeAndManga: Lucky Star: Kagami Hiiragi is outright designated as one by Konata, complete with the explanation that it's appropriate for twintails. This reference is probably due to the prevalence of tsundere with Girlish Pigtails at a time when the term started to come into general usage. However, Kagami's dere side isn't actually focused on romantic feelings but more on her loneliness; despite her sarcastic outer demeanor, she cares about her friendships with the other main characters more than she'd like to admit and is secretly disappointed that she's never in the same homeroom class as them. The Lucky Channel segment of the anime even includes Minoru Shiraishi giving an extended [[YouKeepUsingThatWord rant over the term "tsundere" and how it has evolved over time]], from a transitional personality process to someone who switches back and forth constantly; in the end, he wonders if "tsundere" is really the right term to describe Kagami at all.
# Pantheon.{{Phrases}}: Relatively disgusted by Tsumugi Shirogane’s belief that fiction cannot change the world. Fiction has changed people throughout history and the statement that fiction cannot do anything is just ludicrous. Scott: What do you mean fiction can’t change the world? There are trillions of dollars poured into the industries are about FICTION. I buy thousands of dollars worth of things about FICTION. Your entire career is about dressing up as people from FICTION. So stop yelling the word [[YouKeepUsingThatWord FICTION like its a bad thing]] because it isn’t! Tsumugi, angered by his rant, decided to get personal with Scott. She decided to cosplay as one of Scott’s greatest enemies: a copy Animal Crossing amiibo Festival. Scott can be heard screaming from miles.
# ComicBook.{{Princeless}}: BerserkButton: Adrienne's shaping up to be something of a Grammar Nazi. She especially hates it when people [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misuse]] the word "fair" to mean "beautiful" rather than "pale," which her family definitely is not. note For the record, though, "fair" could generally mean "beautiful", as shown by the word's etymological history.
# Creator.BDylanHollis: The "Glorified Rice" recipe says to "gently" cool down the cooked rice ("Opposed to what?! What am I gonna use, a leaf blower?") and to "gently" whip cream ("How do you gently whip cream, you tart? It's like saying gently have a car accident!").
# Literature.TheAbsolutelyTrueDiaryOfAPartTimeIndian: Gordy says he has a "boner" for books. However, he later reveals that he uses it to mean "joy." Junior: Did you just think books should give me a boner? Gordy: Yes, I did. Junior: Are you serious? Gordy: Yeah... Don't you get excited about books? Junior: I don't think you're supposed to get that excited about books.
# WebVideo.{{Crossed}}: In the DOA: Dead or Alive review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with the meaning of "traitor", while it is in fact just a synonym of "Ninja".
# Funny.TheDomReviews2017Episodes: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "THAT'S]] NOT WHAT 'SUBCONSCIOUS' MEANS!"
# DiggingYourselfDeeper.AnimeAndManga: Kaorin has this one in Azumanga Daioh: Supplementary Materials: Kaorin: (Sigh) Sakaki is so cool... Osaka: Kaorin, are you gay? Kaorin: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord The correct term is lesbian]]! Uh, not that I'm a lesbian!! It's just, you know, a teenage thing. That's all. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said she was cool. Just to prove it, I wouldn't mind if she was a guy! (Beat) Osaka: Huh?
# NostalgiaChick.TropesSToZ: She uses The Princess Bride clip "I don't think it means what you think it means" as a response to the "truly outrageous" Jem theme song. She keeps stressing to Thumbelina that "impossible" isn't the same thing as mildly inconvenient. She also points out that "preachy" and "epic" are used for everything these days.
# Characters.AwfulHospitalTheHospitalStaff: When Dr. Fleagood says "dogs," (okay, "BDAOBIGESS",) he is actually referring to all animals in general. Including babies. Fern: ...You keep saying "dogs." Don't you treat, um, anything else? Fish? Birds? Giant worm monsters or whatever? Dr. Fleagood: Whoa there, toots...we ain't use that kinda discriminatatin' language around here! [=WetBDAOBIGESS,=] [=flappyBDAOBIGESS,=] [=writheBDAOBIGESS,=] never judge no BDAOBGY by its cover!
# Webcomic.DanAndMabsFurryAdventures: Mab and Pyroduck get into an argument over the definition of "killing" and whether or not it includes "removed from existence entirely". Mab: Oh my goodness fiiiiine! If you're going to be pedantic about the definition!
# SFDebris.TropesSToZ: ViewersAreMorons: Their repeated use of the word "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord Ancient]]" to describe anything in Earth's past, which he points out is seemingly done to remind us that this is the future. Because all the starships, aliens and phasers, didn't make it clear to the audience before?!
# ShoutOut.SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics: Sonic Universe #20, Dr. Fukurokov looks at his destroyed machine, muttering "...Inconceivable... inconceivable... inconceivable..." Tails replies "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep saying that word.]] I don't think you know what it means.
# Characters.BangDreamHelloHappyWorld: She's usually the most to call out Kaoru's excessive use of the word "fleeting" without really knowing what it means.
# Fanfic.MiraiSMP: Techno falls into this in Chapter 4 when Poke calls him a hitman: Poke: You chose the wrong day to be a hitman, buddy. Techno: Well, hitman's assistant, techni—
# Recap.Ben10OmniverseS6E6BlukicAndDribaGoToArea51: ShoutOut: The episode title is a reference to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. There are also a couple dialogue references to The Princess Bride. Thunderpig: Hello!. my name is Thunderpig. You ate my father with cheese and mustard, open-faced on a whole-wheat baguette. Prepare to Die! Four Arms: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I don't think it means what you think it means.
# Website.NotAlwaysRomantic: The gay manager and lesbian coworker in this story insist that their affair isn't cheating, as it's not cheating if they're having sex with someone the opposite gender of their spouse. They both end up fired (for having sex in the office) and divorced.
# Recap.SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E12AllThatGlittersWishingYouWell: Mr. Krabs describes it as the Eugene Krabs Memorial Wishing Well. Squidward points out you need to be dead to have a memorial for anything.
# WebVideo.SuburbanKnights: After [[spoiler:Malachite pauses his "destroy all technology" campaign to answer his smartphone and the Critic calls him an idiot, he replies, "At least I'm not a hypocrite." Critic is so dumbfounded by this response that he has to have Jew Wario take over for him.
# WebVideo.STAR: In the 'Depths Of Fear' video, STAR_ pointed out that the game he's playing categorised itself as a roguelike game when it does not have the hard elements of it as it has 'restart a level' option and the ability to retrieve back the lost weapons easily from a wall.
# Characters.SleeperWildStorm: Called himself Genocide because he sometimes wants to kill everyone. Carver points out that genocide is the systematic elimination of a specific group.
# Film.ManOfTheHouse1995: In the intro, Ben describes their new place as a "small loft apartment". While obviously colored by young age and moving from his childhood home, the loft is enormous.
# Pantheon.CharacterActions: Portfolio: Constantly kneeing those who try to say something before they can finish, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Uses the term 'Ninja' despite not really being one]], Badass Adorable, Female Gamer, Used a Male avatar Pre-Catastrophe but later found it uncomfortable afterwards, Views herself as Shiroe's ninja after he helped her with her avatar situation, Does not like her short stature, Flash Step, Can create clones of herself as her Overskill
# Characters.TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim: Norlock calls him out on his repeated usage of the word "punk".
# WebVideo.{{Jacksfilms}}: "Literally", which is a collection of tweets that misuse the eponymous word. The ending card reads “Friends don’t let friends misuse the word ‘literally’. If not, you’re literally Hitler”.
# Film.TeenWolfTheMovie: Deaton corrects their understanding of Bardo: Deaton: Bardo is a Tibetan word, it’s a means of interpreting death and the movements of consciousness between physical states of being. It’s just a word, it’s a concept.
# Film.{{Dadnapped}}: Skunk, trying to demonstrate his literary skill, calls adjusting a disguise to get any followers of one's track a "colander of deception". Maurice tells him that he himself doesn't know what a "colander" is, but he knows it isn't used properly here.
# Catchphrase.LiveActionFilms: The Princess Bride: Vizzini shouts, "Inconceivable!" whenever something goes happens that he didn't expect. His partner, Inigo Montoya, eventually says, "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means." Inigo's own catch phrase: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley's own "As You Wish," which he even uses to identify himself.
# NotAlwaysWorking.TropesTToZ: This developer keeps using the wrong terms for a piece of software, and can't be convinced to use the correct ones, except for one for loading icons that is little-known and, in all likelihood, taken as a much naughtier term. This cook keeps saying the bag of chips (french fries) he cooked are gluten-free despite the fact the submitter saw him cook those chips in the same fryer used for the regular chips even though her mother told him the submitter's aunt has Celiac Disease. Despite the submitter pointing this out, the cook still keeps saying it's still "gluten-free" and it's not a big deal if her aunt doesn't know it. The submitter and her mother are not amused and refuses to take and pay for the chips much to the cook's anger who demands they pay for it which they ignore his calls until he gave up and stopped advertising he served gluten-free chips.
# YMMV.{{Jimquisition}}: DiscreditedMeme: By their own admission, they felt that "Ubisoft [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Iconic]]" had lost its bite after Ubisoft itself poked fun at it during the lead-up to E3 2017.
# Funny.BadCreepypasta: JC the Hyena [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't learn anything from his other stories.]] Toby: "Kazuki is practically enjoying himself with being—" Matt: He's PRACTICALLY enjoying himself. Jacob: Oh my god, it's fucking JC the Hyena again. Does he fucking KNOW what the word "Practically" means? He did this in Sonic as well!! "I practically gave the chief a lot of evidence!"
# VideoGame.ToTheMoon: In Act II, Potato says that Colin once "literally" beat up Amber for her. She then asks her mother if that's the right word, but she corrects her, saying that she meant "figuratively".
# WebVideo.KwentongTakipsilim: In recent episodes, "demonyo" (literally "demon") is used almost Once an Episode, either as an insult or referring to actual evil spirits.
# ComicBook.WebWarriors: Lady Spider claims being an empiricist and a scientist are different things and that because he's the latter Spider-Man India struggles to accept or work with situations (e.g. magic based villains) that don't have a known explanation. In reality you can't have science without empiricism as making observations and following evidence is how science comes to understand and explain phenomena in the first place.
# Fanfic.SeventyTwoHours: AuthorAppeal: 80s slasher films and music, there being a ridiculous number of references to each - including an entire song quoted at each 6 hourly report. Paul and JJ Squalls seem to be fanatics of the respective genres just so Marston can get away with including so many. For some reason, students tend to quote entire songs in their heads or at each other. He also likes using certain words; expect every student who isn't obese to be described as [[YouKeepUsingThatWord wiry]], with this occuring on one occasion five times within a single chapter.
# Recap.TheNostalgiaCriticS10E10: The Critic is irked at the Analysts excusing their cuts as being "for the fans".
# Website.TVTropes: Egregious has been used so egregiously on this wiki that it has its own page. Similarly Your Mileage Will Vary is used as a way of referring to Your Mileage May Vary taken up a notch on especially controversial issues that reach a point where there is no middle ground. Your Mileage May Vary comes from car commercials that say consumers might get a different amount of mileage than is advertised, and on this wiki, means that viewers might not agree with the statement. Using "Your Mileage Will vary" implies unanimous disagreement rather than inevitable controversy. The word Trope does not come from TV Tropes, and like "subversion" its meaning in the real world is different than on this site. In reality, "trope" does not mean "storytelling device" but "the use of a word to have a meaning different than the usual one."
# Fanfic.TheNowakverse: "Pelagic" means an open zone in the deep ocean. It has nothing to do with cats. Given that Nowak co-wrote the MST of Under the Bridge, presumably he looked up what the word meant at some point after writing the story, because the MST beats him up heavily for misusing the word.
# Funny.SFDebrisStarTrekVoyager: When Sullivan confronts Janeway with the town folk's suspensions towards her: Sullivan: They can tell me you're the Devil himself, and I wouldn't care. Janeway: I would! Never compare me to that amateur. When Janeway later muses on whether she should just straight up tell Michael the truth and explain to him that "I'm a starship captain and you're a 300 deciwatt holodeck programme." Chuck muses on her [[YouKeepUsingThatWord choice of words]]: Chuck: A "deciwatt" is a tenth of a watt. So besides the fact that what she just said was the same as "That oil-change will cost you 300 dimes!", it means that powering his body and personality requires just slightly more wattage than a Hitachi Magic Wand, which never asks you awkward questions and always knows how to find the clitoris on the first try.
# Funny.ThePrincessBride: This priceless exchange after Vizzini cuts the rope to keep the Man in Black from completing the climb up the cliff: Vizzini: He didn't fall!? Inconceivable! Inigo: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep using that word.]] I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Gush.LiveActionFilms: It's got history, it's got character, it's got a sweet moral. It's clean enough to show to toddlers, and funny enough to make cynical adults laugh, especially The Wizard's lines. When you're a little kid, the Wizard's a strange old man who knows a lot of long words, but when you're an adult, he's a funny con-man using [[YouKeepUsingThatWord words he doesn't understand to sound important]]. That level of script writing is truly amazing.
# Film.CatchMeIfYouCan: "Concur". Frank drops it in a conversation with one of the other doctors at the hospital, just because he thinks "Do you concur?" is a question that all doctors are supposed to ask each other. The word really just means "agree". (Frank watches a medical drama on television) Doctor 1: Do you concur? Doctor 2: I concur! (later, when Frank is called in to respond to an emergency at the hospital) Frank: Gentlemen. What, uh...what seems to be the problem here? Ashland: Bicycle accident. Fractured tibia, about five inches below the patella. Frank: I see. (Beat) Dr. Harris? Do you concur? (Beat) Harris: Concur with what, sir? Frank: With what Dr. Ashland just said. Do you...do you concur? (Beat) Harris: Well... It was a bicycle accident. The boy told us. Frank: So you concur. Harris: "Concur"?
# Characters.TheHeavenCycleApplicants: Doesn't know what “subtlety” means, much to Jilton's amusement (even gaining a name drop to the film in question) and uses it in a way similar to “cool.”
# Characters.ThePrincessBride: Trope Namer when Vizzini says "Inconceivable!" when Westley evades Vizzini's attempt to make him fall from the Cliffs of Insanity. Vizzini: He didn't fall?! Inconceivable! Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
# Recap.FilmRerollTeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze: The back half of the campaign causes Kara to develop a hatred over the repeated usage of the phrase "sneaky peak".
# WebVideo.{{Jimquisition}}: Combined with [[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]], Steph's counter to the "Video Games Are A Luxury" justification for bad business practices is that luxuries are, by definition, inessential goods that people will forgo if they can't afford them. Thus, by thinking that the price of its products have no upper bound, the video game industry is setting a course to drive itself off a cliff by alienating huge portions of their customers.
# Webcomic.TwoGuysAndGuy: RunningGag: Guy and Frank taking Wayne to the ICU.Wayne [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misusing the word "literally"]], receiving punishments from Guy as a result.
# Webcomic.TwentyFirstCenturyFox: Bit character Fuscia is quite fond of using "unmitigated" inappropriately.
# SignatureLine.LiveActionFilm: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." (The Princess Bride)“Inconceivable!”“[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” "As You Wish..." “Have fun Storming the Castle!”“Think it'll work?” “It would take a miracle.”
# YMMV.ThePrincessBride: FountainOfMemes: Besides giving us "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord YouKeepUsingThatWord]]", Inigo gave us the most trope-heavy statement ever: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." It's also become something of a rite of passage for young geeks and nerds to see the film, so very geek-heavy cultures tend to know all the best lines from the work. It's gotten to the point where some LARP groups have a rule against making quotes from the work, because once one person starts, everyone quotes it. Vizzini tends to be viewed as a walking, talking meme as well, due to being a Large Ham idiot spouting “inconceivable!” whenever possible, even though it probably doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
# Recap.ParksAndRecreationS03E11: Andy thinks it's cute that April doesn't clean and they eat off frisbees with one plastic fork between them. Ben even lampshades it. Ben: Do you even know what 'cute' means?!
# Recap.SouthParQVaccinationSpecial: The [=QAnon=] members are quick to call anyone who isn't on their side pedophiles. The member that tutors Scott starts their lesson by asking him if he knows what a pedophile is and the scene immediately cuts off, leaving it ambiguous if [=QAnon=] even know what pedophiles are.
# Characters.GoldenDawnLostSunrise: ThisCannotBe: Claims that Foxwhisker's trap is inconceivable. Foxwhisker replies by [[YouKeepUsingThatWord telling him that he should redefine "inconceivable"]], because he quite clearly walked into a trap.
# Literature.LordsAndLadies: After the Lancre Morris Men discover that "Rude Mechanicals" is a phrase used to describe amateur thespians like themselves, one of them thinks this means he has to periodically shout rude words. Doubly amusing, in that the ones he thinks to shout aren't particularly rude. Many of the descriptive terms that now make the average person think elves must be good ("terrific", "glamorous", etc) originally meant something scary ("instill terror", "use glamor-magic against you", etc).
# Recap.DragonBallZAbridgedE30: LampshadeHanging: Goku is surprised at Freeza's claim that he can breathe in space. Even Goku understands how "Space is a 'Va-cum'". He later brings up how "five minutes" according to Freeza is much longer than it should be: Freeza: Wha— Oh, I get it. You're scared, aren't you? Afraid knowing this planet has one minute left before it explodes! Goku: Question. Freeza: Huh? Goku: Do you have a watch? Freeza: No, why? Goku: [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Do you know what a minute is?]] Freeza: What? Of course I do! Goku: I don't think you do... Freeza: Bu—I—uh—
# YMMV.ItsMyLife: AccidentalInnuendo: Accidental Innuendo - [[YouKeepUsingThatWord She keeps saying "wank".]] It does not mean what she thinks it means.As well as "companion boob". As well as everything involving the Scout's "ballsack" in Teen Fortress 2 (weren't it for The Half-World, one would assume she meant a sack containing baseballs).Skepkitty, who runs The Half-World, hadn't yet read the next chapter which makes this more clear (he [=MSTs=] stories as he reads them). He chose to go with the crazier interpretation partly because it seemed somewhat plausible after what Rattman did with the personality cores in It's My Life, and partly due to Rule of Funny. As well as "CHAPTER SEX". Rule 34 can apply even to chapter titles. In THE KILL OF SNAPE, Steven Universe is referred to as "Steven Galaxy". In reality, "Stephen Galaxy" is used for NSFW content pertaining to SU.
# Funny.TheSpoonyExperiment: Then, seemingly after the game started to look somewhat good, it ruins it by [[YouKeepUsingThatWord repeatedly mixing up the terms of "Body Slam" with the "Power Slam" and "Cross-Body Block"]]
# Literature.TheThings: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Inverted. The alien likens assimilating other lifeforms to rape as a supreme positive. Justified as he heard the word from a human mind all but stated to be Childs, and [[YouKeepUsingThatWord didn't get]] the connotations. These poor savage things will never embrace salvation. I will have to rape it into them.
# Recap.PeekingThroughTheFourthWallEpisode17: The fic's nonstop insistence on referring to Luna as Lincoln's "guardian" wears on Tye, Eps, Kirby and That Engineer until the latter finally snaps towards the end of the fic.
# WebVideo.CaptainDisillusion: The Captain expresses disappointment at the comments of the UFO Over India video claiming it was done with "CGI."note Specifically, there's a distinction between "computer generated images" and "visual effects such as compositing done in post." Captain: YouKeepUsingThatWord. I do not think it means what you've become accustomed to define it as.
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan: At the spelling bee, Bart laughs at a student who spells "acerose" wrong, saying "He's an ass-erose!" Professor Frink asks if he means that he's similar to a pine needle. Bart shrugs off that he's bored and this is all he has to entertain himself.
# Recap.SeinfeldS5E21TheHamptons: Elaine is flattered when Ben calls her "breathtaking," but starts getting suspicious when says the same thing about the hideous baby. As it turns out, it's just something he says. She later gives him an exasperated look when he says the same thing about breakfast.
# VideoGame.{{Mardek}}: TechnicalPacifist: Meraeador, though he has no problem with killing monsters, as they are simply 'Miasma'. Lampshaded by Mardek, who asks Meraeador something like [[YouKeepUsingThatWord "Doesn't pacifist mean opposition to all violence?"]], whereupon Meraedor retorts that the meaning of pacifism is pretty pedantic. Also lampshaded in the Flamethrower's in-battle description. Engulfs all enemies in flame. MWAHAHA! Mereador's such a pacifist.
# WebAnimation.FiveAMAtFreddys: Glamrock Freddy consistently refers to his stomach hatch as a "hole" in Superstar Edition, resulting in weird phrases when he tells Gregory to get inside it. Roxy becomes fed up with this habit near the end. Roxy: STOP CALLING IT YOUR "HOLE!"
