History Main / JiveTurkey

* Benny, your would-be killer in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', spends the entire game talking in 50s swinger lingo. [[JustifiedTrope His justification]] for this is the fact that he was originally part of an AxCrazy Raider gang, living by the gun, until [[TheChessmaster Mr. House]] and his security robot force subjugated it and he began to find a new direction in life, which happened to be more compatible with the current environment he was living in (a partially restored casino town.)
** Not just him. This is the hat of The Chairmen, the gang led by Benny that runs The Tops casino (as the name indicates, they're walking references to TheRatPack). Similarly, The King and Pacer are {{Elvis Impersonator}}s, though they're the only ones of their gang that actually talk with the accent (since they're the only surviving members that got to hear the Elvis voice recordings before they broke).

* TexAvery's cartoon [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot92Yfovvvg "Symphony in Slang"]] features the angels at the [[FluffyCloudHeaven Pearly Gates]] unable to understand a new arrival who only speaks in 1940s - 1950s slang. St. Peter calls in Noah Webster for assistance. The entire cartoon features [[VisualPun humorously imagined literal interpretations]] of his expressions. "I got a job slinging hash, but couldn't cut the mustard, so they gave me the gate." Turns out he's in Heaven because he "died laughing".

* In ''The Limey'', Terence Stamp's character occasionally speaks a bit of Cockney slang, forcing him to repeat himself and explain the word.

-->'''Wolf Man:''' "Yeah, brother!"

* In DanielPinkwater's ''The Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death'', there's a union organizer from a banjo pick factory who speaks entirely in jive. His main plot function is to allow the protagonists to meet the [[EccentricMentor Chicken Man]], who translates the organizer's speech from jive into something more comprehensible.

* In the last episode of ''[[DotHack .hack//SIGN]]'', Balmung says "This shindig looks like the bomb-diggity!" to the other characters' shock.

* Most jargons are at least vaguely understandable by others, but Cockney rhyming slang is generally considered completely impenetrable, as the already bizarre terminology is made more incomprehensible by thick accents.

* Basher Tarr in ''Ocean's 11'' delivers several lines in an impenetrable mix of Cockney rhyming slang and technical jargon. Examples include:

* Seen in ''Better Off Dead'', when Lane's father is trying to use slang, but gets the prepositions all wrong, resulting in gems like "Mellow off", "Bringing me over", and "Right off!". Made worse, perhaps in that he's reading these phrases from a book ''about'' how to talk to teenagers.

* Subverted by the character of Yo-less in Creator/TerryPratchett's "Johnny" trilogy, a black character who makes a particular point of ''not'' speaking in a stereotypical manner and acquired his nickname through never having used the word "yo".

* Molly, whose vocabulary choices are always wildly eclectic, delves into Jive-speak [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100123.html here.]]

* The Skeletunes from ''Ruby Gloom''. On the various occasions when Ruby and company encounter the lead singer, they're left utterly perplexed. "Hey, what's happenin', babies?" "...?" "Come on, don't leave a guy hangin' like that, I said what's up!" "????" "*sigh* ''HOW ARE YOU?''" Ruby becomes one of these in ''Hair(less) the Musical'' after soaking up enough of his lingo to replicate it... somewhat.

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' raised some controversy with his excessive use of street slang. Executive producer Eddie Guzelian admits that the bravado of Jake's character was shaped by DanteBasco's ad-libbing and their own writing, which was supposed to parody the "wannabe MTV gangsta" crowd. Naturally, it was toned down in season 2.

* Dimitri, from the second and third ''SlyCooper'' games, is a literal lounge lizard from Paris, France who spouts a mishmash of slang ranging from beatnik to disco to gangsta. [[WordOfGod The creators of the series]] like to claim he learned English from hip-hop videos.

** The Grizz from ''Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time'' likes to use rap and hip-hop slang, as well as making rhymes.

* ''SaintsRow2'' full stop. The entire game is practically a JiveTurkey in and of itself.

* Subverted in (original) ''{{V}}'' with Elias Taylor talking in jive and his respectable brother, Benjamin, who talks in perfectly erudite English, tells to stop using such bad grammar in a "poor man's Richard Pryor act."
* In the ''{{QI}}'' episode "Cockneys", Stephen announces that "any flamencos you give in Pyong score Barney, and I'll also give you two Sundays..." before Alan Davies, a Essex native, asks him "What the fuck are you talking about?"

* ''TropicThunder'': Alpa Chino calls Kirk Lazarus out for this during the "filming".
* ''{{Airplane}}'': A gag repeated in both movies: two passengers speak only in jive, and can only be understood via an elderly white lady -- "Oh, Stewardess! I speak jive." The comedic effect of having English subtitles is sometimes lost when TV showings omit the subtitles; the subtitling reveals their conversation to [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue be perfectly sensible.]]\\

* Jax in ''MortalKombat: Annhilation.'' "You gon' fight Shao Kahn in his crib?" Ugh... It's especially ear-wrenching to hear because his video game counterpart doesn't come across that way at all.

* Frigg, from ''GuildedAge'', throws around ImageBoard slang, [[MemeticMutation mutated memes]], and [[[=Sir Swears A Lot=] creative profanity]] in a fantasy setting with an otherwise solid fourth wall. She's like [[CrazyAwesome a /b/tard trying to play a paladin]].

* Frigg, from ''GuildedAge'', throws around ImageBoard slang, [[MemeticMutation mutated memes]], and [[SirSwearsalot creative profanity]] in a fantasy setting with an otherwise solid fourth wall. She's like [[CrazyAwesome a /b/tard trying to play a paladin]].
* [[YuMeDream Fiona's]] conscience talks like this. [[spoiler:Only because she was ordered to by the director of Fiona's dream, though. She drops it in Part 2.]]
* ''{{Homestuck}}'': Jade's penpal, [[spoiler:Jake English]], speaks in a really odd mix of modern and archaic slang peppered with esoteric profanity and F-bombs. His fellow [[spoiler: Alpha Kid, Jane,]] is a milder version.

* [[SassyBlackWoman Chaka]] sometimes does this in the ''WhateleyUniverse'', mostly to bug rich-white-kid Phase.

* [[SassyBlackGirl Chaka]] sometimes does this in the ''WhateleyUniverse'', mostly to bug rich-white-kid Phase.

* Hilariously referenced in the Marvel vs DC spin-off ''[[AmalgamUniverse All-Access]]'' when 60's nerd Beast meets '90s teen Superboy...and neither could understand what the other was saying.

* Go-Go Chex from TheDCU and especially ''AmbushBug: Year None''. Let's just say he's one hip swinger, Clyde, and leave it at that.

1970's bittersweet BBC sitcom ''Series/{{Butterflies}}'' focused, as BBC sitcoms tend to, on the usual sort of mum-dad-and-two-kids affluent middle class family living in a nice part of London. Put-upon housewife Wendy Craig is taken for granted by her husband and two teenage sons - who in the 1970's talked, at best, in teenage slang that was only ten years out of date. Even in the late 1970's when most kids were getting into punk rock, the two sons stood out horribly as Teenagers That Time Forgot, talking hippie argot that would have been horribly stale and dated in 1967.

** Most incarnations of Jazz are like this to a certain degree. His ''[[TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' incarnation is [[WordOfGod explicitly]] supposed to sound like an beatnik.

* ''DanceDanceRevolution'' got a new announcer for X, who is pretty much the [[LargeHam hammiest]] example of a Jive Turkey ever. PSYCOLA!