# "Awesome" in high wavering voice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990 "2018-03-04T00:58:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/1 "2018-03-04T00:58:33Z")
I don’t hear it as much today, so maybe it has passed by already. But in the past few years I would hear a character in a TV show, or a commercial say, “Awesome” in a higher pitched voice with vibrato. Did this come from some specific person or show? Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/2 "2018-03-04T01:14:34Z")
Kids show? It sounds like something Arianna Grande would say on Sam And Cat. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/3 "2018-03-04T01:19:45Z")
Didn’t they do it on ‘Wayne’s world’? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/4 "2018-03-04T01:48:36Z")
Maybe Jim Gaffigan? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/5 "2018-03-04T01:51:28Z")
Man, imagine if we’ve all got this wrong? _AAAAWK-WARD!_ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/6 "2018-03-04T02:18:24Z")
My first thought was Danny McBride in _Pineapple Express_, where he says [“thug life,”](https://youtu.be/XzhE0c8kaHo) but that’s really nowhere near accurate. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/7 "2018-03-04T02:27:42Z")
Michael Cera said it at least once. Maybe in Sausage Party? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/8 "2018-03-04T03:14:42Z")
Wasn’t it from a stupid Discover Card commercial? ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/9 "2018-03-04T04:37:00Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Wasn’t it from a stupid Discover Card commercial? Possibly. The first time I heard it was a commercial for one of those hotel room websites, the family had visited some crummy room and then used the service to find a nice room. Their eyes lit up as they went in, the kids were happy and one character says it. But it was an animated character and the entire commercial may have been claymation or something. I had to see the commercial several times before I understood what he was saying. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/10 "2018-03-04T13:38:20Z")
Oprah ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/11 "2018-03-04T13:45:20Z")
It could be Eddie Murphy as Jiff Ramsey in “Bowfinger”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZwYqMtBsjdk/hqdefault.jpg "Bowfinger - Jiff First Sexual Experience") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwYqMtBsjdk) ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/12 "2018-03-04T22:18:41Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Wasn’t it from a stupid Discover Card commercial? I think the phrase there, spoken as the OP described, was “Awesome Sauce!” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/13 "2018-03-05T15:03:27Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Oprah This is my first thought. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/14 "2018-03-05T16:05:38Z")
Oprah was my first though, too. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-in-high-wavering-voice/809990/15 "2018-03-05T22:14:14Z")
Scrubs? I could see Zach Braff doing something like that.