Watching Comedy Central recently I've noticed that every show in their arsenal is currently embracing the word really, as in:

"Really, Jade? That's what you wanted to post about? Really?"

They use it sometimes thrice per episode. It's the new it word, like "not" and "shizzle" only it's risen to prominence so quickly and seen so much usage that it's already hackneyed and painful for me to hear. I'm all for new language but it's like these writers all got the same memo about the hot new sarcasm and have milked it until the teat went pale and dry.

There's a mental picture...But yeah, overused catch phrases are just...bleh. :|

Heh heh heh heh He said teat...

SAMMICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me Want FOOD!

Sammich got a lot of play, tis true... but imagine every show on a network saying sammich at least once per show for a weeks straight.

Me Want Food was hilarious. My client Don Scardino wrote and directed that episode of 30 Rock. He's brilliant.

I've always used the word 'really' loads! Argh... *self conscious shuffling* :(

I've always used the word 'really' loads! Argh... *self conscious shuffling* :(

Do you use it in that sarcastic context? Such usage seems to be the chic new humorous dialog device. I liked it when I first heard it but then came the pop culture deluge.

R-type wrote:

I've always used the word 'really' loads! Argh... *self conscious shuffling* :(

As in, "Really, R-type? That's your word?"

Do you use it in that sarcastic context? It seems to be the hot new thing.

:) No not like that -just to express how REALLY great things are and how much they're really, really cool. usually. ;)

R-type wrote:

:) No not like that -just to express how REALLY great things are and how much they're really, really cool. usually. ;)

Well then you're not guilty of being desperately contemporary. Continue on as you were, enjoying the word. Really.

PS: Sat Nite Live has co-opted "Really?" into their 'newscast'...it even has its own segment with a title card and everything.

Therefore: DEAD!

Really, were still stuck on "Waaazzzup?" and "AllRIGHT!!" out in the far far south west.

I mean really, "WAZZZZUP? and "ALLRIGHT"

Really, were still stuck on "Waaazzzup?" and "AllRIGHT!!" out in the far far south west.

I mean really, "WAZZZZUP? and "ALLRIGHT"

Rea...Blaaaarrrggghhhh!

PS: Sat Nite Live has co-opted "Really?" into their 'newscast'...it even has its own segment with a title card and everything.

Therefore: DEAD!

Time of death 11:30pm.

Really, were still stuck on "Waaazzzup?" and "AllRIGHT!!" out in the far far south west.

I mean really, "WAZZZZUP? and "ALLRIGHT"

I had no idea. Whazzup... that's like a pre "R. Kelly pees on kids" saying.

"The Year of R. Kelly, 4 anno micturitum"

The Jade wrote:

I had no idea. Whazzup... that's like a pre "R. Kelly pees on kids" saying.

And this is the new standard by which all future calendars will be set.

"The Year of R. Kelly, 4 anno micturitum"

::applauds wildly::

And this is the new standard by which all future calendars will be set.

"The Year of R. Kelly, 4 anno micturitum"

** spoiler omitted **

Really?

Blaaarrrggghhh!

What he barfed.

Vomit jokes? Really?

"Really" in my community (nowheresville NY) is overused in the same way "like" was a punctuation (er, still is here for some). As in "Really? Really? OMG! (yes, people here pronounce chat acronyms, like those commercials) Really?" It's like a mental crutch or something here. (No offense to R-Type, it is not a crutch when used as an adjective no matter what high school english teachers say.)

Since I posted this, I've seen "really?" spread exponentially throughout every "hip" show's script. Multiple uses per episode are also the rage. I hate to be the crazy man wearing the doomsday sandwich sign here folks, but stop this expression before it's too late!

::All of a sudden The Jade is "fatally censored" by an electric dart to the back of the head. His attackers, clay-faced automatons from the future who communicate only through use of the word "really?" in mumbled monotone, step back through their momentaroily stabalized rip in the space time continuum and are gone in an instant--the only evidence of their stay being one face down herald of the neodark age to come.::

Fo' rizzle?

~really, really wants to say something but decides that it is really a good thing to not say something~ ...

::spasms in detestation despite his irreversible trephination-delivered lobotomy::

::spasms in detestation despite his irreversible trephination-delivered lobotomy::

I'm like,

\/\/

Whatever.

Yeah, I'm going retro.

I'm like,

\/\/

Whatever.

Yeah, I'm going retro.

....pshaw...

Get outta my yard, you rascally whippersnappers!

Rant: I hate Larry the Fu-ckin Cable Guy!!! He's not funny, never has been, never will be. He makes stupidity fun, and I swear to God created the most soul wrenching phrase in life, Getter Done??? Really (sorry) how about you stop promoting the stereotype of the uneducated southerner you idiotic despot. It's almost as bad as promoting racial stereotypes. He doesn't even use jokes or life experiences just damn one line phrases that for some reason some people think are funny.

Sorry rant over. I hate catch phrases too. That's Hot...Getter Done...You're Fired... Flavor-Flava

Fizz

Rant: I hate Larry the Fu-ckin Cable Guy!!! He's not funny, never has been, never will be. He makes stupidity fun, and I swear to God created the most soul wrenching phrase in life, Getter Done??? Really (sorry) how about you stop promoting the stereotype of the uneducated southerner you idiotic despot. It's almost as bad as promoting racial stereotypes. He doesn't even use jokes or life experiences just damn one line phrases that for some reason some people think are funny.

Sorry rant over. I hate catch phrases too. That's Hot...Getter Done...You're Fired... Flavor-Flava

Fizz

If you took the next great undiscovered comedian into an office he'd likely lose an applause volume contest when pitted against the office watercooler funnyman who does cheesy Ahnold/Brokaw/Cosby/Nicholson impressions.

This thread got rezzed?

Really?

Yes. Really.

If I wasn't busy playing dead here, I give you all what fer.

Yes. Really.

If I wasn't busy playing dead here, I give you all what fer.

:D

Fizzban wrote:

Rant: I hate Larry the Fu-ckin Cable Guy!!! He's not funny, never has been, never will be. He makes stupidity fun, and I swear to God created the most soul wrenching phrase in life, Getter Done??? Really (sorry) how about you stop promoting the stereotype of the uneducated southerner you idiotic despot. It's almost as bad as promoting racial stereotypes. He doesn't even use jokes or life experiences just damn one line phrases that for some reason some people think are funny.

Sorry rant over. I hate catch phrases too. That's Hot...Getter Done...You're Fired... Flavor-Flava

Fizz

Comedy Central played four hour-long comedy specials for each of the blue collar comedy guys today. I was writing and reading and had it on in the background. Larry the Cable Guy was by far the worst. And falling back on get 'er done is so sad because it actually works. A lot of people don't know funny until it's been around a while, they're told it's funny, and then they're given catch phrases so they'll know when it's appropriate to laugh.

If you took the next great undiscovered comedian into an office he'd likely lose an applause volume contest when pitted against the office watercooler funnyman who does cheesy Ahnold/Brokaw/Cosby/Nicholson impressions.

~sighs~ We really, really need to stop this! Really!

Vraiment?

Fizzban wrote:

Rant: I hate Larry the Fu-ckin Cable Guy!!! He's not funny, never has been, never will be. He makes stupidity fun, and I swear to God created the most soul wrenching phrase in life, Getter Done??? Really (sorry) how about you stop promoting the stereotype of the uneducated southerner you idiotic despot. It's almost as bad as promoting racial stereotypes. He doesn't even use jokes or life experiences just damn one line phrases that for some reason some people think are funny.

Sorry rant over. I hate catch phrases too. That's Hot...Getter Done...You're Fired... Flavor-Flava

Fizz

Comedy Central played four hour-long comedy specials for each of the blue collar comedy guys today. I was writing and reading and had it on in the background. Larry the Cable Guy was by far the worst. And falling back on get 'er done is so sad because it actually works. A lot of people don't know funny until it's been around a while, they're told it's funny, and then they're given catch phrases so they'll know when it's appropriate to laugh.

If you took the next great undiscovered comedian into an office he'd likely lose an applause volume contest when pitted against the office watercooler funnyman who does cheesy Ahnold/Brokaw/Cosby/Nicholson impressions.

Comedy is getting away from the intelligent/smart style that used to be popular and becoming more slapstick/simplistic in style. This really comes through when you compare the comedy movies from the 60s/70s/80s (Animal House, Weird Science, anything by Ivan Reitman or Rob Reiner, etc.) to the movies produced in the 90s/00s (Dumb and Dumber, Next Friday, anything with Martin Lawrence, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, etc.). There are no set up lines anymore. No build up to a punch line. It's all done for shock value.

I don't even bother seeing comedies anymore.

This thread is weird. Really.

This thread is weird. Really.

Kobold Cleaver wrote:

This thread is weird. Really.

And so are you. Really. ;}

Tobus Neth wrote:

Kobold Cleaver wrote:

This thread is weird. Really.

And so are you. Really. ;}

Really? Is that what you think?

Really?