Tina’s frenemies, Tammy and Jocelyn, do it. Lola from Big Mouth also does it. That very annoying “-aah” that they put at the end of (usually) interjections. What is that? At first I thought it was a new Valley-Girl type thing, which to me wasn’t quite so annoying because honestly, it was mainly a white girl thing. Or maybe a cartoon thing. But now I hear it in my mostly black, Hispanic and West Indian 'hood. It’s even more annoying than that wispy singer-songwriter affectation that suddenly became popular in pop music (there’s a thread here somewhere about that, too).
Why? What’s it called? Where’d it come from? And most importantly, how can we get them to stop?
If you have a lasting solution to this, please share! For quite some time, in many places I’ve been in Asia, women affect the cartoon talk considering it (or believing that men consider it) cute and attractive. Yesterday while on the way to teach a 10th grade class, I encountered both genders speaking in cartoon talk. It was annoying enough when only half the young population did it. Now it’s a full on horror.
I do plenty of cartoon talk. “You might, rabbit; you might.” “Uh-uh-uh-UH-uh!” “Shut up, bunghole!”
“Ruh-roh, Raggy.” “Carrots are divine, you get a dozen for a dime, they’re simply maaaa-gic.”
Well, Tina, from Bob’s Burgers is a very anxious and nervous young lady and that’s why she groans a lot, like in this clip when she is behind the wheel for the first time, at 35 seconds.
Like Paintcharge said, Nck Kroll’s mission in life is to be as annoying as possible so that’s why his character does it.
Tina groaning is not what I’m talking about and it really seems to be a girl thing, not any of those other examples posted. It basically them adding ‘uh’ at the end of words. The clip of Lola is an extreme example. The real life girls I’ve heard mostly do it as a form of whiny emphasis.
