History Main / Antidisestablishmentarianism

* In ''JakersTheAdventuresOfPiggleyWinks'', one of Piggley's grandsons tricked the other out of dessert with the riddle "Antidisestablishmentarianism is a long word. Think I can spell it?"
** This troper is guessing he then went "I T it." as the first troper forgot to include how the trick worked.

* In ''Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Wink'', one of Piggley's grandsons tricked the other out of dessert with the riddle "Antidisestablishmentarianism is a long word. Think I can spell it?"

* There's a commercial where father bets his very young son that he can't pronounce antidisestablishmentarianism only to immediately lose.

->Church and state are like light in a prism: / Far more beautiful after the schism. / Some take issue with this, / And support anti[[MidwordRhyme dis-]] / establishmentarianism.

->Church and state are like light in a prism: / Far more beautiful after the schism. / Some take issue with this, / And support antidis- / establishmentarianism.

* In a segment on Victorian school punishments in the second ''HorribleHistories'' TV Series one boy was being punished for misspelling antidisestablishmentarianism.

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* ''PhineasAndFerb:'' In the episode "Comet Kermillian", Major Monogram delivers a message to Perry via the TV. When Phineas and Ferb's dad comes in immediately after Perry leaves and hears some of his message, Monogram pretends to pass himself off as the host of a telethon "to cure antidisestablishmentarianism", which "makes you look pale and weak". Dad listens attentively for a while, then comments "That's more of an ideological stance than a disease, isn't it?" At this, Monogram hurriedly announces that they've found a cure and stops broadcasting. When Mom hears that they've apparently found a cure, she says [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike "I can finally take off this puce ribbon."]]

->Church and state are like light in a prism:/Far more beautiful after the schism./Some take issue with this,/And support antidis-/establishmentarianism.

->Church and state are like light in a prism:/Far more beautiful after the schism./Some take issue with this,/And support antidis-/
establishmentarianism.

''Church and state are like light in a prism:\\
Far more beautiful after the schism.\\
Some take issue with this,\\
And support antidis-\\
establishmentarianism.''

-> ''Church and state are like light in a prism:\\
Far more beautiful after the schism,\\

And support antidis,\\

Far more beautiful after the schism.\\

And support antidis-\\

-> Church and state are like light in a prism: \\
Far more beautiful after the schism. \\
Some take issue with this, \\
And support antidis- \\
establishmentarianism.

* {{Eminem)) uses this in his song 'Almost Famous' in reference to the word length being similar to how well endowed he is.

You see, this infamously long-winded word is more famous for being long, unwieldly, hard to spell, and taking a heck of a long time to type. If anybody needs a go-to big word, this is the one they usually pull out. (Especially if it's at a SpellingBee.) It's not even [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English the longest word in the English language, though it is the longest one that is neither a scientific term nor specifically coined to make a huge word.]] Why this word? While it's long, it's really just "establish" with a bunch of fairly standard prefixes and suffixes tacked on. It's not even hard to spell, since it's spelled exactly as it's pronounced. Possibly because it's [[InherentlyFunnyWords Inherently Funny.]] A favorite form of SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.

* Showed up in ''APupNamedScoobyDoo'' during their quiz show segment. In the beginning of the episode, the designated {{Hollywood Nerd}}s (the [[IncrediblyLamePun Brainy Bunch]]) guessed this word from one letter and the blanks (possibly not so hard a task given the lack of words of that number of letters in English). They get tripped up in the end when the word has two consecutive Zs. The Bunch is stumped, while Shaggy and Scooby recognize the five-letter word immediately: "pizza".
** The latter was dumb luck. There are plenty of words with two consecutive Z's. "Dizzy", for example.
*** [[DontExplainTheJoke Precisely the point.]] It could have been any of a number of words with double Z's. They just didn't know which one it was.