# Cartoon talk now heard on the street **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842 "2021-09-17T20:33:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842/1 "2021-09-17T20:33:49Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842/2 "2021-09-17T22:04:22Z")
I Love to Singa? > **[I Love to Singa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_to_Singa)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > I Love to Singa is a 1936 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The short was released on July 18, 1936. > I Love to Singa depicts the story of an owlet (singing voice of Jackie Morrow, speaking voice of Tommy Bond) who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German-accented parents wish him to perform. The plot is a tribute to Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer. > The owlet's disciplinarian violinist... ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842/3 "2021-09-17T22:27:28Z")
No where near as whiny and annoying. Listen to Lola for as long as you can stand it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e38kctBE3l0/hqdefault.jpg "TOP 6 Big Mouth Funniest Lola Moments!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e38kctBE3l0) ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842/4 "2021-09-17T22:44:18Z")
Well that is Nick Kroll, who has somehow made a career out of playing characters designed to be annoying. I can’t stand anything he’s in. But as to hearing it in the wild, I can’t help you there, I don’t interact with young people much. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842/5 "2021-09-18T01:17:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842/6 "2021-09-18T04:47:29Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842/7 "2021-09-18T06:05:29Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Tina’s frenemies, Tammy and Jocelyn, do it. Lola from Big Mouth also does it. 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. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hZ_EKHGgWJQ/hqdefault.jpg "Bob's Burgers - Tina Driving A Car") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ_EKHGgWJQ) Like Paintcharge said, Nck Kroll’s mission in life is to be as annoying as possible so that’s why his character does it. > [@Monty](#): > > women affect the cartoon talk > [@Monty](#): > > I encountered both genders speaking in cartoon talk. By “cartoon talk” do you mean this? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-pRnQYS0S5c/maxresdefault.jpg "Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pRnQYS0S5c) or this? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/i8Kk1556OYA/maxresdefault.jpg "Boomhauer talks for 1 hour") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Kk1556OYA) or this? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I1188GO4p1E/maxresdefault.jpg "Get Schwifty Music Video | Rick and Morty | Adult Swim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1188GO4p1E) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-talk-now-heard-on-the-street/950842/8 "2021-09-18T12:35:09Z")
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.