History Main / JiveTurkey

* Any version of [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm]] who did not speak in thick 1940's era Brooklynese would not be Ben Grimm. Got that, ya bunch a' lousy mooks?!

* Any version of [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm]] who did not speak in thick 1940's era Brooklynese would not be Ben Grimm. Ya bunch a' lousy mooks!

* Any version of [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm]] who did not speak in thick 1940's era Brooklynese would not be Ben Grimm.

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* In the comedy ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce?'', Bruce and Freddy run into trouble with a New York street gang. Bruce tries using a book titled ''Jive Talkin''' by Yo Mama to speak their language. They're not impressed at first, but end up teaching Bruce how to teach jive properly.

* In the comedy ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce?'', Bruce and Freddy run into trouble with a New York street gang until Bruce uses a book titled ''Jive Talkin''' by Yo Mama to speak their language.

* Frigg, from ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'', throws around {{ImageBoard|s}} 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]].

** Since Cage has been modernized somewhat in ''Comicbook/NewAvengers'', his GoshDarnItToHeck tendencies are subverted more often than not. ("Sweet f&#$%g Christmas!")

* Played for laughs in a few 1970s ''Avengers'' stories; after Comicbook/TheFalcon grudgingly joins the team on the orders of [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Henry Gyrich]] (who wanted to make it more ethnically diverse), he speaks this way on purpose to annoy Gyrich.

* Devin from Total Drama School speaks almost entirely in jive.

* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' introduced a concept called "Revertigo" where, when people who knew each other in the past are reunited, they start talking and acting the way they did when they knew each other. Cue Lily and her high school friend Michelle suddenly speaking in JiveTurkey whenever they're in a room together.
* On the US version of ''Series/{{The Office| US}}'', Darryl is fond of pranking Michael by making up ridiculous "black man phrases" to teach him.

-->'''House:''' Bros before hoes, man. ''(Fistbump.)''
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Malcolm in the Middle}}'', when Lois' racist mother decides to live in the family's house, they get rid of her by inviting their black friends over. Cue Abe, a very polite, soft-spoken gentleman, making a hilariously inept attempt to act gangsta.

* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Funky Student]] from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' gives the player character riddles while speaking entirely in jive.

* ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has the Atom Cats, a gang of greasers obsessed with custom-painted Power Armor.

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

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' has Roland. In-game, it's his only piece of characterization. He loses it come ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', however.

* Molly of ''WebComic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', whose vocabulary choices are always wildly eclectic, delves into Jive-speak [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100123.html here.]]
** Whenever the [[FishOutOfTemporalWater time-displaced]] [[{{Ninja}} ninjas]] speak in their native "Tokugawa-era Japanese," it's a [[RunningGag running gag]] that their words are translated for the reader as a random mish-mash of American slang. As a LeaningOnTheFourthWall joke, the only character capable of noticing this is the strip's MetaGuy, the [[GrammarNazi Grammar Squirrel,]] who ''[[RageAgainstTheAuthor despises it.]]''
* Frigg, from ''Webcomic/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]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': Robute Guilleman from ''Fanfic/{{PRIMARCHS}}''. The other characters find him very annoying.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'', Hesh is sometimes used this way for laughs.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''

* Okabe from ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' does this in the dub when trying to find the owner of an odd button. His latest inquiree states he doesn't speak jive, prompting Okabe to drop the act, which mildly disturbs Suzuha.

* Denzil from ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' in his first appearance only, as it was immediately realised what a bad idea this was.

* Paltenon, of ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'' often speaks in impenitrable jive, especially when operating the [[HumongousMecha Jagd Mirage]]. This is not so much because she's black as because she's [[AxCrazy violently]] [[TalkativeLoon insane]].

* As noted in the page guote, Zaphod Beeblebrox in every incarnation of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.

* On the episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' where TJ's use of the word "whomps" (which the adults believe to be some newfangled obscenity rather than an UnusualEuphemism) eventually lands him in ''court''. Miss Grotke brings in her old professor Dr. Reginald "Dice" Weathersby, Ph.D., "Slangologist", an expert on American slang, to defend him. This person talks exclusively in what is apparently supposed to be roughly '60s-'70s slang, which confuses everyone in the room. He also casually uses the word [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "crap"]] in his argument, which greatly offends [[MoralGuardians Mr. White]], the prosecutor. Needless to say doesn't help TJ's case at all.
-->'''Dr. Dice:''' Pad this, hammer man: TJ was just a boogler, hepping his aconas to a real gasser. You can't dis the kins for agging the profs. You're tootin' the wrong ringer, man! The big "W" ain't a word, ace, that's the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar crap]]. This biggity egg don't hold no air!

* '70s/'80s TV examples may be influenced by "{{Blaxploitation}}" films, which were often terrible in this respect.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari Polari:]] not exactly jive, but a mixture of PigLatin, UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} and backslang very popular amongst the theatrical and gay communities in the 1950s. The comic characters [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_and_Sandy Julian and Sandy]], from ''Radio/RoundTheHorne'', were the best known practititoners of it in the popular media.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari Polari:]] not exactly jive, but a mixture of pig latin, Rom and backslang very popular amongst the theatrical and gay communities in the 1950s. The comic characters [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_and_Sandy Julian and Sandy]], from ''Radio/RoundTheHorne'', were the best known practititoners of it in the popular media.

* Also, "[[UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers Pikey]]" [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208092/ "It ain't English an' it ain't Irish. Iss jus' .... Pikey"]]

** In one episode the Clampetts get involved with some hippies who need "bread" to keep their coffehouse going. The Clampetts think they mean actual bread.

-->'''House:''' "Bros before hoes, man." *fistbump*

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', during the part in the Davy Back Fight where Luffy wears a [[FunnyAfro afro wig]], Luffy, Usopp, and even the normally-stoic Robin speak like this.

* In ''Manga/HighSchoolDxD'', Koneko talks like this in the dub. [[JustifiedTrope It makes sense]] if you recall that [[HiddenDepths she likes hip hop music]].

** The Grizz from ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' likes to use rap and hip-hop slang, as well as making rhymes.

-->(Phase knocks at Chaka and Fey's room)
-->'''Chaka:''' (''whips door open'') Hey, ‘sup dawg?
-->'''Fey:''' (''looks up from her book'') What is it with you when Ayla comes over? You were being perfectly normal just two seconds ago.

** Parodied in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' when the wizards, under the influence of [[ThePowerOfRock Music With Rocks In]], start using 1950s slang. Ridcully is as immune to slang as he is to quantum physics lingo, and comments that the Dean's cool new trousers are "better than a thick robe in this hot weather."
** ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', the Dean gets some sort of military-Rambo complex and cannot stop saying "yo" at every possible opportunity. Until Ridcully threatens him with a lengthy and dire punishment unless he stops saying it. The Bursar, always a step behind everyone else, finally manages a "Yo-yo."

* ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'': Quincy, BlackBestFriend of the male lead is a subversion since he tries to use street slang and appear hip hop but comes off as a clear poser. To further the subversion, his family is latter shown to be a straight-laced, white collar family.

* A PublicServiceAnnouncement for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqGNfl_F6bU Operation: Graduation]] involves a teenage boy who thinks SchoolIsForLosers where his BlackBestFriend park the school bus in front of his house and persuade him to come down and come to school to avoid dropping out, speaking in stereotypical "hip" slang the whole time.