# Did Vampires ever say "Bleh, bleh!" ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193 "2016-06-24T00:05:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/1 "2016-06-24T00:05:45Z")
In _Hotel Transylvania_, Jonathan and others say “Bleh, bleh!” when they’re pretending to be Dracula. Drac is outraged: “I never say ‘bleh, bleh’ !” So what’s this meme referring to ? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/2 "2016-06-24T00:32:58Z")
Amusingly, [this blog entry](http://www.maximumfun.org/2011/10/31/history-and-origin-draculas-use-bizarre-expletive-bleh) about it referenced back to the SDMB. They postulate that it came from Bela Lugosi – either by people doing bad impressions of his pronunciation of “blood” or overtly from his performance in “My Son, the Vampire”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/3 "2016-06-24T00:50:38Z")
[Vampire Vords.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VampireVords) (TVTropes) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/4 "2016-06-24T02:39:39Z")
Pretty close in [this ep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvOlGmnvZFw) of “The Monkees.” At about 4:44. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/5 "2016-06-25T02:18:39Z")
or they went [Blood Sucking Monkeys from West Mifflin PA!!! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEjdt_n1l-4) ---
**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:** [June 25, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/6 "2016-06-25T13:01:35Z")
Wasn’t there a vampire character in “Greg the Bunny” who always ended his sentences with “bleh”? ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/7 "2016-06-25T18:14:36Z")
Didn’t _Count Floyd_ from SCTV say “bleh”? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/8 "2016-06-25T18:18:46Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Wasn’t there a vampire character in “Greg the Bunny” who always ended his sentences with “bleh”? Yes, but this meme was around for decades before that. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/9 "2016-06-25T18:20:35Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Wasn’t there a vampire character in “Greg the Bunny” who always ended his sentences with “bleh”? Count Blah! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/10 "2016-06-25T22:12:01Z")
> [@bunyupp](#): > > Didn’t _Count Floyd_ from SCTV say “bleh”? Fortunately he was “above” that trope and only did what was at the very beginning of the link in post #5.😉 ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-vampires-ever-say-bleh-bleh/758193/11 "2016-06-25T23:11:18Z")
Here is a discussion of it. Who would have thought. I was thinking Lenny Bruce, and he is cited here. > **[On the History and Origin of Dracula’s Use of the Bizarre Expletive “Bleh!” |...](https://maximumfun.org/news/history-and-origin-draculas-use-bizarre-expletive-bleh/)** > > On this week’s episode of Judge John Hodgman, His Honor set a task for devoted listeners. As your Halloween homework, he asked you to research the origin of Dracula’s use of the term “Bleh!