History Main / BabyTalk

* Foofy Wuggums, the [[TheWoobie lost]] [[TastesLikeDiabetes teddy bear friend]] from the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' TV movie ''Good Wilt Hunting''. "My wittle giwl weft me hewe when she went to visit hew gwandma."

* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040224c Poor widdle Georgie...]] got even.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}:

** Young Sam in ''Literature/{{Thud}} and ''Literature/WheresMyCow'' repeats what Sam says, but with adorable mispronouncations. This is possibly the only thing that saves Sam after he goes off-script with the book, since Lady Sybil may ''suspect'' what "buglit" means, but she can't be ''sure''.

-->"Didda nasty wolfie fwiten us, den?" she hazarded.\\

* In ''Literature/EqualRites'', Granny Weatherwax has very little idea how to deal with children:

* The "jellicle cats" in ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats'', later adapted into ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', were named for T. S. Eliot's niece attempting to say "dear little cat."

-->-- '''Weiss Schnee''', ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''.

* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Polly tends to talk this way to her new cat Bootsie, who is introduced in book #10 (''The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts''), much to the chagrin of Qwilleran, who treats his Siamese as sophisticated and intelligent. She eventually stops doing it, which (along with a name change to Brutus) helps with the cat's attitude.

* Stewie Griffin on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' averts this trope by being -- to us -- over-articulate and a (warped) child genius. But it is implied, especially by the adults around him who treat him like a fractious toddler and baby-talk him, that all they can hear is baby-noise and the tantrums of a typical "Terrible Two". Lois never hears or responds to his blood-curdling threats of matricidal violence, for instance, and carries on baby-talking him as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening. To be fair, Stewie is just a baby/toddler, so people probably just don't take him seriously because of his age (with the exception of Brian, the family's pet dog).

->''"Are you telling me that this mangy...drooling...mutt is going to wiv-wiv us for-weva?! Oh, yes, he is! Yes, he is! Oh, isn't he adorable!"''

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->'''Pink:''' Say ''bwuh-bye to Mwster Owange, Fluffles! Bwuh- bye!!!!!!!''

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* Foofy Wuggums, the [[TheWoobie lost]] [[TastesLikeDiabetes teddy bear friend]] from the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' TV movie ''Good Wilt Hunting.'' "My wittle giwl weft me hewe when she went to visit hew gwandma."
* In ''Film/HorseFeathers'', a woman talks baby-talk in an attempt to seduce Professor Wagstaff (Groucho) into showing her the secret football signals, but it only annoys him.
-->'''Wagstaff:''' If icky girl keep talking that way, big stwong man gonna kick all her teef wight down her thwoat.
* In ''Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days'', Andie uses baby talk as one of her methods of annoying Ben enough to break up with her.

-->'''Kari''': (''to Mrs. Incredible'') Mrs. Parr, I can totally handle anything this baby can dish out. (''to Jack-Jack'') Can't I, little boo boo? Who can handle it? Who can handle it?

* This was how ''Film/RainMan'' got its title. The director tried find the funniest example of a young child mispronouncing a person's name (Raymond).

* The Muppet Babies mostly talk like this in ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'' in comparison to their adult counterparts. Their [[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies spin-off series]], however averts this.
** Also a pet owner uses baby-talk to speak to his dog, prompting Rowlf to deadpan, [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish "You speak Chinese like a native."]]

-->'''Tim's Mom''': (''baby-talk voice'') Are you taking over the whole house? Yes, you are! Yes, you are!

* At the end of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', [[TheDragon Bellatrix Lestrange]] speaks like this to mock the main character. She also does it to taunt Neville Longbottom - [[spoiler: whose parents she tortured to insanity, likely in front of him, when he was a year old and probably speaking baby talk]].

* Anne of Creator/LMMontgomery's ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series, was firm in the idea that baby talk should never be spoken to her children; she had read a parenting book that said baby talk was an improper way for children to learn language. This goes right out the window the minute her son, Jem, is born, much to her husband Gilbert's amusement. When he calls her on it, she has this to say about the author of the parenting book:
-->'''Anne''': He never had any children of his own, Gilbert--I am positive he hadn't or he would never have written such rubbish. You just can't help talking baby talk to a baby. It comes natural--and it's RIGHT. It would be inhuman to talk to those tiny, soft, velvety little creatures as we do to great big boys and girls. Babies want love and cuddling and all the sweet baby talk they can get, and Little Jem is going to have it, bless his dear itty heartums.
** Their youngest daughter, Rilla, had a lisp as a child. In her book, "Rilla of Ingleside", she relates how hard she worked to get rid of it, and how embarassed she is that it still comes out when she is nervous. When her childhood friend Kenneth Ford [[spoiler: proposes to her]] at the end of the book, she answers with "Yesth".

--->'''Robin''': What's that?
--->'''Lily''': It's Jeremy's sock... I'm having a baby!
--->'''Robin''': But... but what about "Project Lily"?
--->'''Lily''': But... but sohck!!
--->'''Robin''': But what about Marshall working all the time?
--->'''Lily''': But xohck!!
--->'''Robin''': Ted and I gave you all these arguments and a sock is what decides it?
--->'''Lily''': Wittwe fixiehs ohn iht!!

* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** Downplayed for [[ThirdPersonPerson Elmo]], [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Baby Bear]] and [[YouNoTakeCandle Cookie Monster]], who have flawed English but don't sound babyish.
** Natasha, being a baby, cannot talk but she does sometimes sort of almost try to talk (she once said "kiddy-dat" for "cat", for example). Bob once said "cootchie-coo" to Natasha.
** A background character Freda has a baby brother who babbles gibberish. His mother and sister sometimes go "coochie-coo" to him.
** In one episode, Baby Bear gets jealous because his one-year-old cousin, Oliver, is getting all the attention. When Telly makes baby talk to Oliver, Baby Bear says this.
--->'''Baby Bear''': You're kitchy-cooing the baby, aren't you?!
** Baby Bear's sister Curly Bear is two years old, so she speaks like this: her grammar is imperfect and she also uses "woo-woo" to mean poop.
** Oscar's niece Irvine is about one and a half, and can say a few words, filling in the rest with gibberish.

--->'''Devon:''' ''[childishly]'' Awww, looks like somebody ''weaked'' it.
--->'''Jack:''' You did! You weaked it!

---> '''Annie''': Bwain huwty undewstandy chwistmas, mistletoe for eaty taste good? You smarty, me dumb, help pwetty have fun, boopy doopy doop boop sex.\\
'''Jeff''': Look, eventually you hit a point of diminishing returns on the sexiness.\\
'''Annie''': What's a diminiwawawa?

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' had an example in "Friday's Child", which perplexes Spock:
--> '''[=McCoy=], holding a newborn baby:''' Oochie-woochie-coochie-coo! Oochie-woochie-coochie-coo!
--> '''Spock:''' "Oochie-woochie-coochie-coo," Captain?
--> '''Kirk:''' An obscure Earth dialect, Mr. Spock. If you're still confused, consult Linguistics.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': "...And you're my outlet Michele. ... Big boy walking!"

-->'''Dorothy''': ''[angry]'' Get back here, you deceitful little Sicilian gecko!\\
'''Sophia''': ''[sweetly]'' I wuve you!\\
'''Dorothy''': Too wittle, too wate.

-->'''Mrs Nigger-baiter:''' (''condescendingly'') Ooh, can he talk? Can he talk, eh?\\

* ''Series/OddSquad'': In "Rise of the Hydraclops", Otto speaks in this manner to Norman, Oscar's teddy bear from when he was a young child, calling him "adowable".

--> '''Ohlm:''' Ohh! Did wittle ol' Ohlm take away your gadgets?

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* In one comic strip, ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' encounters a woman who tries this on him. [[DeadpanSnarker He doesn't react well]]:
-->'''Garfield:''' Excuse me while nicey-wicey puddy tat takes a barfy-warfy in the grassy-wassy.
** In a previous one, John is the culprit...
--->'''John:''' Would puddy tat wike a bowl of milk?
--->'''Garfield:''' Would funny-wooking man wike a milk bath? (He asks this while providing it)
--->'''Garfield:''' (to audience) Never be condescending to a cat.

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* [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] mocked Wrestling/JohnCena by imitating Cena's "You can't see me!" CatchPhrase in baby talk, then said, "What? Are we playing peek-a-boo?"

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* Red Skelton's character of Junior, "the mean widdle kid"...who actually dates back to Skelton's radio show.
* Josh Blue has a variation on this. People talk to him like he's mentally challenged when he's just got cerebral palsy.
-->I get people saying stuff like, "Hiiiiiii...''Buuuuuddyyyyyyy''...How...are...youuu?" You know what I say to these people? "[[YouNeedToGetLaid IIIIIIIIII...need to get LAAAAID!]]" And that seems to throw them for a loop.
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-->[[spoiler:Lilith]]: She doesn't like being baby-talked.
-->Agatha:*Agitated*...Smart girl.

* Ink from ''[[Webcomic/PenAndInk Pen & Ink]]'' talks this way, both due to being a toddler and, as her bio in the comic's website describes, accentuates her disorganized nature.

* Baby Godzilla and Little Godzilla speak this way in ''WebVideo/MonsterIslandBuddies''. Averted with the baby versions of the main characters, who speak in [[HeliumSpeech chipmunked versions of their own voices]].
* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}}: Kyle does this sometimes to mock Damian for his idiocy.

* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Weiss]] devolves into this in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' when she sees Yang and Ruby's dog Zwei, just absolutely ''melting'' at the sight of him.
* In ''WebAnimation/XRayAndVav'', Vav meets [[RobotBuddy ORF]] for the first time and devolves into speaking this. ORF's response?
-->'''ORF:''' Language input does not compute. Please speak: English!
* At one point in ''WebVideo/DeathNoteAbridgedParodyCharlestonVO'', Light does this to Misa:
--> '''Light:''' Does your bummy-twoshoes feel comfy-plumpy?

---> '''Shishi''': "Help me, please!"
---> '''Dr Strangeglove''': "Help? Of course, ickle Shishi. Seeing as you said "pwease"."

---> '''Dr Strangeglove''': "Oh, the bwave lickle snuffler lives. How adowable. You think he can defeat the doctor?!"

-->'''D.W.''': And my little pretty-witty kitty is still sleepy-weepy-deepy!

--> '''Taffy''': Would Cavey Wavey do Taffy Waffy a widdle favey wavy?

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': In "Fairly Odd Baby", Timmy speaks this way to his new fairy godbrother Poof before noticing how stupid he sounds.
* Stewie Griffin on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' averts this trope by being - to us - over-articulate and a (warped) child genius. But it is implied, especially by the adults around him who treat him like a fractious toddler and baby-talk him, that all they can hear is baby-noise and the tantrums of a typical "Terrible Two". Lois never hears or responds to his blood-curdling threats of matricidal violence, for instance, and carries on baby-talking him as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening.
** To be fair, Stewie is just a baby/toddler, so people probably just don't take him seriously because of his age (with the exception of Brian, the family's pet dog).

-->'''Manjula:''' ''(Babbles to Maggie, who giggles)''
-->'''Marge:''' Maggie loves baby talk!
-->'''Manjula:''' That was Hindi.
-->'''Marge:''' Oh...

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10951206/chapters/26164047 Ninja Wizard Book 5]]'' Literature/HarryPotter does this with [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko]]'s son.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''. Dil took it even further than the rest of the main characters, being the youngest.
* Subverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where Marge lets Manjula hold Maggie.
-->'''Manjula:''' ''(Babbles to Maggie, who giggles)''
-->'''Marge:''' Maggie loves baby talk!
-->'''Manjula:''' That was Hindi.
-->'''Marge:''' Oh...

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "It's pwonounced cweam."
* An old ''ComicStrip/LittleLulu'' cartoon has the department store floorwalker resort to this in a vain attempt to entice Lulu to buy some toys for her doll.

** In the episode "Apple Family Reunion", there is a flashback of Applejack when she was just a baby.[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments And it's adorable]]. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlbeQxBBrJE&list=FLEKmd_eI6kiKguBxXrsBJkQ here]].

* When a challenge on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' involves carrying napping babies through sound-sensitive areas, Max (the self-proclaimed EVIL mastermind) baby talks to his infant throughout the whole challenge. What's even more funny is he mixes this sappy baby talk with his usual EVIL schtick. (It's surprisingly effective too.)
--> '''Max''' - "Reunited with my widdle evil babby-wabby~!"
* Stewie Griffin on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' averts this trope by being - to us - over-articulate and a (warped) child genius. But it is implied, especially by the adults around him who treat him like a fractious toddler and baby-talk him, that all they can hear is baby-noise and the tantrums of a typical "Terrible Two". Lois never hears or responds to his blood-curdling threats of matricidal violence, for instance, and carries on baby-talking him as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening.
** To be fair, Stewie is just a baby/toddler, so people probably just don't take him seriously because of his age (with the exception of Brian, the family's pet dog).
* Taffy from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels'' will often talk like this to Captain Caveman when she wants him to do a favor for her, when that doesn't work a kiss from her usually will.
--> '''Taffy''': Would Cavey Wavey do Taffy Waffy a widdle favey wavy?
* Lotsa Heart Elephant from ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAndCousins'' does this to Cheer Bear's plants in a bid to make them grow faster in the episode ''The Share Shack''.
* Rosie does this in earlier episodes of WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}, but no longer does in the newer episodes.
* Literature/{{Franklin}}'s sister Harriet in Season 5 and the earlier specials. She grows out of it by the time the spinoff, ''Franklin and Friends'', rolls around. Beaver also speaks in baby talk to both her pet hamster Henry (or "Chubby Cheeks, yes, he is a widdle Chubby Cheeks...") on ''Franklin'' and to the gecko Gordon on ''Franklin and Friends''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': In "Fairly Odd Baby", Timmy speaks this way to his new fairy godbrother Poof before noticing how stupid he sounds.
* On ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'', Waddly Penguin, being a toy for a baby, Suki, speaks in this manner. Doc herself speaks this way when talking to Suki. Also, Lala, the toy Doc chooses for her adoptive sister, full-stop.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
** Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat in Episode 93 while they're enacting a scene with her as a firefighter and him as an innocent cat stuck in a burning building.
** Mr. Cat talks like this to the mini-Kaeloos in Episode 105.
* On ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', especially in later installments, Margaret tends to speak in single, repeated syllables to express herself, i.e. "Dan-Dan" (Daniel), "fi-fi" (butterfly), or "ba-ba." (Misinterpreted by Daniel as "boat" because they were on a boat at the time, in actuality, she was referring to a "pawprint.")
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'': Helen has a younger brother who's one and a half named Jake. His friends sometimes call him "Jakey". He cannot talk properly and can only say a few words, including "dog", "door" (his first word), "baby", "Skits" (his family's dog, along with Martha), "Dad" and he's tried (and failed) a few times to say "Martha".
* ''WesternAnimation/ThirdAndBird'': Muffin and Jordan the young birds speak like this. Both speak [[ThirdPersonPerson in third person]], drop the word "the" sometimes, say "no" in place of "don't" or "doesn't", sometimes drop "s"es in verbs (like saying "he crawl" instead of "he crawls"), drop "is", and fail to pronounce names (Muffin calls her older brother Samuel "Sammel" and his friend Rudy "Oody", their friend Elliot "Ellit", and Quinn "Quinny". Jordan calls Muffin "'Uffin", which really annoys her, especially since other birds think it's cute.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': D.W. speaks like this to Fur Elise the cat in "D.W.'s Furry Freakout".
-->'''D.W.''': And my little pretty-witty kitty is still sleepy-weepy-deepy!
* Joy from ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy''. Other than babbling/crying, she can say [[AffectionateNickname 'Why' and less commonly, 'Why-why',]] 'No', 'light', 'off', and 'sit'.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'''s Milly does this in "Big Bug" when she sees Jim walking Kiwi, saying "How's it going, Jim, walking your ''wittle'' doggie." She's teasing, as she is old enough to speak clearly.

** In the episode "Apple Family Reunion", there is a flashback of Applejack when she was just a baby.[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments And it's adorable. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlbeQxBBrJE&list=FLEKmd_eI6kiKguBxXrsBJkQ here]].

--> '''[=McCoy=], holding a newborn baby:''' Oochie-coochie-coochie-coo! Oochie-coochie-coochie-coo!
--> '''Spock:''' "Oochie-coochie-coochie-coo," Captain?

* Akachanman, a baby superhero in ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' talks like this. He says "dechu" instead of "desu".

* Ink from ''Webcomic/PenAndInk'' talks this way, both due to being a toddler and, as her bio in the comic's website describes, accentuates her disorganized nature.

** Bob and Amy do this to Charlie. However, Teddy is annoyed by this so she gives them a night alone while she PJ and Gabe babysit Charlie.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Applejack begins comforting the apple tree she's delivering in baby talk [[HypocriticalHumor after Rarity accuses her of treating the tree like her baby]].

** Applejack speaks babyish to an embarrassed Apple Boom in "Somepony to Watch Over Me".

* ''FanFic/AmongYou'': In ''like son, like father'', Pink uses this to a sickening extent when talking to her Mini crewmate, Mr. Fluffykins.

->''"Are you telling ''me'' that this mangy...drooling...mutt is going to wiv with us for-weva!? Oh, yes, he is! Yes, he is! Ooohhh, he's adorable!"''
-->-- '''Weiss Schnee''', ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', meeting [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Zwei]] for the first time.

* Lola Pratt in ''Seventeen'' by Booth Tarkington.