From the Excel Saga dub: "I have built this wooden underling-like puppet with an optional soy sauce puffy thingy!".It's likely that the bread crumbs are a reference to " Hansel and Gretel", who leave a trail of bread crumbs through the forest that they can follow back, though it gets eaten by birds.In that case, it sounded more like Kurama (who is a Really Seven Hundred Years Old Chessmaster and former White Haired Pretty) was trying to Buffy-Speak so that Yusuke would understand him. In the Yu Yu Hakusho dub, on the way to Sensui's hideout, Yuusuke ask Kurama what the seeds he's spreading around are for, and our favourite red-haired Bishounen goes into an explanation about lighting their way, trailing off into phosphorus and bread crumbs.
19 Those Things That Aren't Made Up But Are Actually Real.17 Cartoony Things Made In America And Europe And.15 Funny Picture Things, Except On The Internet Instead Of Newspapers.13 Those Things People Play In Dark Basements While Drinking Mountain Dew And Stuff.12 That Thing Where People Pretend They're Other People In Front Of More People.
11 People That Fake-Fight On TV On A Padded Stage Thing.7 TV With Real People Playing Fake People.6 Books And Scrolls And Other Stuff With Words.3 Those Things People On The Internet Write.See also Shaped Like Itself and Department of Redundancy Department. Relative to this trope, however, it was appropriate that Sunnydale was in, like, California.Ĭontrast with Totally Radical. The show's creator guy, Joss Whedon, is sometimes said to have made this kind of writing stuff (also called Whedonspeak), but in terms of the thing where arty stuff, like, imitates life? it's been around since waaay before Buffy. Named for the way the teenagers and stuff talk in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. really totally fake thing and can break the thing where people don't worry about if the story-thing is real. Buffy speak makes all that stuff sound less fake and it'll maybe help not sound like they're trying too hard with that talk.stuff.) If you do things wrong, it can sound as fake as a. Slang words, especially for kids and stuff, change really fast-like. (Which is kind of why people do this thing. If you do things right, Buffy-Speak can seem like teenager talk stuff without actually being like real-world wordy stuff. This Buffy-Speak thing would be called Dialogue-Where-The-Speaker's-Intent-Exceeds-Their-Powers-Of-Vocabulary-For-Comedic-Effect or something if he was the word guy person, but he's not, so it isn't. The dude who's bad at naming things does this stuff a lot. Sometimes it uses that verb-noun-ing dealie thing, and sometimes that name thing where it's like, descriptive, but not really their name, because you don't really know their name? Or are trying to make a point? I dunno, just click on the link. like a thing that doesn't go over very well." That thing where you go on and on and forget the stuff you were trying to say comes up a lot. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.īuffy-Speak is that thing where they say that a guy is saying things too fast, or can't figure out what the thing they want to say is, or doesn't have enough learning and stuff to say what the thing they mean is.Ī thing you see a lot with this is when they don't know the right words and stuff, so sometimes you see noun and verb things combined like in "shooty-gun thing", and stuff that goes in a cycle thing in frustration: "That idea went over like. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.