- I made a joke. It was unsuccessful.
- There Ain’t No Justice (tanj) is a nice usage. My friend, Larry, would be pleased to see it used more often.
“Va-jay-jay”, from Grey’s Anatomy, which like all things from Grey’s Anatomy, is really fucking annoying.
The TARDIS n) anything bigger on the inside.
Sure, but you notice those are used very differently from the application in the show, which appends holy to a specific reference in the conversation. Like these. After Batman everybody did it, and you can still find it occasionally.
Oh, Seinfeld.
Streets ahead.
As stated in Urban Dictionary, “if you have to ask, you’re streets behind.”
To slightly threadjack, one legitimate word radio added to our vocabulary was bazooka.
Does radio count? Because the Goons introduced the disease “lurgi,” which is routinely used today (at least in Australia, and I assume Britain) to cover any minor non-specific illness. “Had a couple of days off work last week with the lurgi.”
A lot of the words and phrases Seinfeld gets credit for introducing were pre-existent. “Yada-yada-yada” is very old. Some even believe that show introduced “It’s not you, it’s me”–and I think that was in the original scroll of Genesis, or something…
My husband is British (and a big fan of The Goons") and we both use this word. ![]()
Popularized, sure. But my Italian family has been using “gobbagool” and “madon” (and it’s cleaner cousin, “maron”) for decades.
How about Master of your Domain as a reference to being able to resist masturbation.
“Unpossible” was even used by Shakespeare. I believe it was in one of the King Henry IV or VI plays. Maybe Ralph Wiggum is a lot smarter than we think.
This list might be helpful:
That one I’d never heard before.
Richard II, Act II, scene 2:
“The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,
But none returns. For us to levy power
Proportionable to the enemy
Is all unpossible.”
I don’t have a cite, but I think “Mirandize” is a TV-generated word. Giving the Miranda warning has a slightly different meaning on cop shows than in actual police work (On television, it is part of every arrest; IRL, it just has to precede questioning).
Really? That episode was quite well known. It actually won some awards.
On an episode of NCIS, Gibbs said “They shawshanked him.” Meaning they railroaded him into prison. Google reveals “shawshank” can also mean anal rape. Either way, you are screwed!