Line #342 Main/BabyTalk


1	->''"Are you telling me that this mangy... drooling... mutt is going to wiv wif us foweva?! Oh, yes, he is! Yes, he is! Oh, isn't he adorable!"''
2	-->-- '''Weiss Schnee''' to the dog Zwei, ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', "[[Recap/RWBYV2E8FieldTrip Field Trip]]"
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4	In TV, film, and comics, babies and toddlers tend to communicate in a manner somewhat different from adults.
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6	Baby talk has several common tendencies:
7	* Misuse of pronouns (e.g. ''me'' instead of ''I''), or [[ThirdPersonPerson not using pronouns at all]]
8	* [[YouNoTakeCandle Lack words such as "a" and "the"]]
9	* [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Pronunciation of the letters "L" and "R" as "W"]]
10	* Big words becoming shorter, different words which sound similar
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12	Adults may communicate this way if they are in the CutenessProximity that babies, toddlers, kittens, and puppies create. Odds are, only one half of a conversation between a baby and an adult will be in baby talk. Which half depends on the tone of the work. In a bit of visual dissonance, a FluffyTamer might do this to an animal that most would consider [[FluffyTheTerrible anything but cute]].
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14	A variant is a sexy woman using such language to sound seductive ("Is Daddy feeling angwy? Maybe him need Baby to kiss it aww better"). This has not been used [[ForgottenTrope in some time]] because it [[FetishRetardant no longer sounds sexy]].
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16	Another variant is someone using baby talk to mock another character's perceived immaturity--which generally ends up making the mocker sound even more immature than their target. [[BerserkButton And can backfire.]] [[SchmuckBait Badly.]]
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18	Want to duplicate the effect more naturally? Study linguistics (''phonemes'', the sounds of language): You'll become aware of which sounds we make and how they're related. Soon you'll know to simplify words by repeating sounds (''doggy'' to ''goggy'') and you'll be able to eliminate whole sound categories by shifting to the nearest comparable sound (e.g., F to P: ''fan'' becomes ''pan''). Also helps when you're trying to emulate a stuffy nose (M to B, N to D: ''by doze is stuffed'') or other speech impediments.
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20	And if you're concerned because your kid can't say ''th'' at five, don't be. Kids develop sounds at their own rate and don't need speech therapy unless there's a ''physical'' reason for the difficulty. And just because the kid can't ''say'' the words doesn't mean they can't understand them--their ''guck'' might mean ''duck'' or ''truck'' or ''jug'', but if ''you'' use the wrong one, they’ll certainly let you know.
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22	Not to be confused with BabyLanguage, which gives pre-language babies the same treatment as AnimalTalk.
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25	!!Examples:
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29	[[folder:Advertising]]
30	* In a VISA commercial, a stay-at-home mom has become so accustomed to using this kind of talk with her toddler, that she has forgotten how to speak normally. After she's been dealing with the child all day, when her husband comes home from work, she greets him with a high-pitched, uberhappy, "Is Daddy-waddy home from worky-jerky?"
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33	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
34	* The English-language translation of ''Manga/BabyAndMe'' has the toddler Minoru speaking in this manner. "Bwaza!" for "Brother" is practically his catchphrase.
35	* [[KidAppealCharacter Suzie Wong]] of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' talked this way. Such examples include Terriermon as "Tewwiermon," training as "twaining," and referring to Rika as "Wika". To be fair, she seemed to have a slight form of this in the Japanese version too.
36	* The titular kitten in ''Manga/ChisSweetHome''. The author calls it 'Chi-go' (Chi-language).
37	* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', little America would pronounce "Igirisu" (England) as "Igirichu". Scanlators render this as "Engwand".
38	* Hina in ''Literature/ListenToMeGirlsIAmYourFather'' ("Listen To Me Girls, I'm Your Father!") does this. Justified as she's only 3 years old, and [[{{Kawaiiko}} adorably cute.]]
39	* All the toddlers in ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'' have this to varying degrees, though Kirin's is the most prominent since she has a lot of childish speech impediments (like pronouncing "desu" as "dechu"). In an attempt at {{Woolseyism}}, all the translators so far have translated this into the ElmuhFuddSyndwome.
40	* Akachanman, a baby superhero in ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' talks like this. He says "dechu" instead of "desu".
41	* In the English dub of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Joey weirds his friends out by baby-talking to his [[FluffyTheTerrible Red-Eyes Black Dragon]].
42	* Kale's baby brothers talk like this in the English version of ''Manga/HappyHappyClover''.
43	* [[DeathbringerTheAdorable Hell Wolf]] in ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred''.
44	* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' manga ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'', Leafstar's kits talk like this on occasion; for instance, calling squirrels "skirrels".
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47	[[folder:Comedy]]
48	* Creator/RedSkelton's character of Junior, "the mean widdle kid"...who actually dates back to Skelton's radio show.
49	* Josh Blue has a variation on this. People talk to him like he's mentally challenged when he's just got cerebral palsy.
50	-->'''Josh Blue:''' 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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53	[[folder:Comic Books]]
54	* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s Preservers talk in a very irritating babyish way, but are ''possibly'' smarter than they sound (they could hardly be stupider).
55	* [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=28%3Asuperdickery&id=85%3Asuperbabys-search-for-a-petq&option=com_content&Itemid=24 Quite]] [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=28%3Asuperdickery&id=278%3Athe-super-mischeif-of-superbaby&option=com_content&Itemid=24 a]] [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=28%3Asuperdickery&id=289%3Asuperbabys-super-pranks&option=com_content&Itemid=24 few]] ''[[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=1000%3Asuperbaby-jimmy-olsens-pal&option=com_content&Itemid=24 Superbaby]]'' [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=31%3Amonkeys-index&id=640%3Asuperbaby-king-of-the-apes&option=com_content&Itemid=24 strips]].
56	* ''ComicBook/TheBeano'': ''Dennis the Menace'''s sister Bea.
57	* In a collection by Lynn Johnston, ''David, We're Pregnant!'', a young mother goes about her day followed by her baby daughter, who says "Aglaglaglaglagl" as she imitates Mom's daily tasks. When the husband comes home and says "How was your day?" the mom cheerily replies "Aglaglaglaglagl...."
58	* ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2022'': Little Mary Stuart talks this way to [[Characters/ShieldAgents Nick Fury]] when her mother calls him regarding Mr. Stuart's alleged replacement by an alien Skrull [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]]. [[spoiler:As she's actually an adult Skrull impersonating a murdered child, it's all for show]].
59	-->'''Mary:''' You're gonna find him, yeah Mista Fuwwy? ''Pwease'' will you save my daddy?
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62	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
63	* Darryl sometimes did this in early strips of ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues''; one strip even had him stuck talking that way, much to Wanda's chagrin.
64	* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'': Almost every child character did this in their lives save for [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Francoise Caine]] and [[TheVoiceless Leah Nichols]]. April in particular spoke in baby talk until she was ''eight.''
65	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
66	** In one comic strip, Garfield encounters a woman who tries this on him. [[DeadpanSnarker He doesn't react well]]:
67	--->'''Garfield:''' Excuse me while nicey-wicey puddy tat takes a barfy-warfy in the grassy-wassy.
68	** In a previous one, Jon is the culprit...
69	--->'''Jon:''' Would puddy tat wike a bowl of milk?\
70	'''Garfield:''' Would funny-wooking man wike a milk bath? ''[he asks this while providing it]''\
71	'''Garfield:''' ''[to audience]'' Never be condescending to a cat.
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74	[[folder:Fan Works]]
75	* ''Fanfic/AmongYou'': In ''like son, like father'', Pink uses this to a sickening extent when talking to her Mini crewmate, Mr. Fluffykins.
76	-->'''Pink:''' Say ''bwuh-bye to Mwster Owange, Fluffles! Bwuh- bye!!!!!!!''
77	* A metric buttload of ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fan fiction portrays Dobby and other house elves as talking like this (Kreacher is an exception, for some reason). Why this occurs is an utter mystery given that, in the books and the movies, house elves speak perfectly good English pretty much all the time. Oh sure, Dobby has pronoun trouble, and can't pronounce "Weasley", but he doesn't talk in baby talk.
78	* Sally Sparrow and Beth Lestrade do this with Sally's baby in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime''. Of course, [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] actually ''understands'' Baby, so no problems there...
79	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfics:
80	** ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Lynn mocks Lincoln by saying things like "Does wittle Winky want his bunny wabbit?".
81	** In ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', an evil teddy bear in Lisa's nightmare talks about her drinking "milkies", falling on her "tushy-wushy", etc.
82	** ''Fanfic/SundaySkivvies'' has [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Luan Loud]] tease her brother Lincoln by speaking to him in third person and calling him "Linky Winky".
83	** ''Fanfic/LincolnsMemories'':
84	*** In "Lola's First Bottle", she pronounces his name as "Incoln".
85	*** In "Lincoln Chases the Rainbow", one-year-old Lana pronounces "Kitty cat" as "Diddy dat".
86	* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10951206/chapters/26164047 Ninja Wizard Book 5]]'' Harry does this with Zuko's son.
87	-->'''Harry:''' And what cute widdle cwown pwince he is! Yes he is!\
88	'''Azula:''' Don't speak to him in that stupid voice! He won't learn proper enunciation!
89	* ''Fanfic/PoundAndPumpkinCakesAdventuresAndMisadventuresInPottyTraining'' has Flurry Heart and the Cake twins say their "R"s and "L"s as "W"s, and use words like "ticken" for "chicken", "tat" for "that", "dun" for "don't" and "diapee" for "diaper".
90	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3004662/1/Life-Death-and-Other-Career-Options Life, Death and Other Career Options]]'' Dumbledore does it to Snape's daughter.
91	-->'''Dumbledore:''' Ababababababa! Ookie pookie poo! Who's the cutest lickle cutie-pie in the castle? You are! Yes, you are! A-booboobooboo!
92	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7588677/2/Beard-Hunters-a-Yuletide-Story?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=JvADSFZnMh4I.gh2V8kiP7YEVwPKlPM2cc.5jGjpAeU-1639714534-0-gaNycGzNCVE Beard Hunters: a Yuletide Story]]'' Lavender does it to her boyfriend.
93	-->'''Lavender:''' Please say yes, Emmsy-wemmsy. Pwetty pwease ... with a Lavender on top.
94	* Fanfic/TheKedaboryVerse:
95	** In ''Fanfic/AnythingForFamily'', [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Hugtan]]'s idea of waking up in the morning is described as waking up from her night-night sleep.
96	** Some of her ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' fanfics have the baby triplets, Padma, Benito, and Juana, speaking like this ("Timilo seepy").
97	** In ''Fanfic/PreCureInANutshell'', [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Princess Elle]]/Princess Lmnop only says "Goo goo ga ga", with a translation bubble appearing next to it to explain what she means.
98	** In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fic ''4*Town and a Baby'', Kayla has some dialogue that is rendered in baby talk.
99	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14043306/30/The-Guile-of-the-Traveller The Guile of the Traveller]]'' Harry has issues with eating a cake shaped like a baby dragon because it's too cute, slowing down when she gets near the head.
100	-->'''Orion:''' [Doing ventriloquism badly] ''Pwease don't eat me, Hawwy.''
101	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12089217/13/Son-of-Morgaine Son of Morgaine]]'':
102	-->'''Ariana:''' Awe, is ickle Hawy afraid of the big bad Daphne.
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105	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
106	* ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'': Baby Jack-Jack Parr. Also, his babysitter, Kari, talks in a baby talk voice to him, up until she realizes there is something decidedly unusual about this baby...
107	-->'''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?
108	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Mother Gothel's speech briefly devolves into this in her VillainSong as part of her attempts to keep Rapunzel home with mommy.
109	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Junior devolves into this while singing to the baby when he sees it laughing along.
110	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', this is Tim's mother's response to Tim's complaint that the Boss Baby is "taking over the whole house."
111	-->'''Tim's Mom:''' ''[baby-talk voice]'' Are you taking over the whole house? Yes, you are! Yes, you are!
112	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Ming talking to her red panda spirit devolves into this during the epilogue.
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115	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
116	* 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.
117	-->'''Wagstaff:''' If icky girl keep talking that way, big stwong man gonna kick all her teef wight down her thwoat.
118	* In ''Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days'', Andie uses baby talk as one of her methods of annoying Ben enough to break up with her.
119	* 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).
120	* In ''Film/LookWhosTalking'', Mollie's mother speaks this way to baby Mikey, which he takes as a sign she's unstable.
121	-->'''Rosie:''' I'm going to give Mikey a bath, and then later, we're gonna have a ba-ba!
122	-->'''Mikey (internally):''' A ''what?''
123	-->'''Rosie:''' ''(Unintelligible gibberish)''
124	-->'''Mikey (internally):''' Oh yeah, she's gone.
125	* ''Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians'': How the Twilight Bark is spread across London, courtesy of Oddball and translated by both Waddlesworth and Kevin: "Tubble: Bad man gwabs twee wittle 'potted doggies."
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128	[[folder:Jokes]]
129	* Defied in this joke: A first-grade teacher is addressing her class on their first day.\
130	"Now class, you're in the first grade. Baby talk won't be tolerated, we'll be using proper English from now on." she said. "Do I make myself clear?"\
131	As the class nodded, the teacher then skims through the attendance sheet. "Alright, we'll begin the year with a casual conversation. Timmy, you can start by telling the class how you spend your holidays."\
132	A little boy at the back of the class stood up. "I went with my ''mamma'' and ''papa'' to visit my ''nana''..."\
133	"Hold it," the teacher interrupted. "You went with your ''mother'' and ''father'' to visit your ''grandmother''. Proper English. Please go on."\
134	"I went there on a ''choo-choo''..." Timmy continues, only for the teacher to interrupt again.\
135	"You went there on a ''train''." the teacher said. "Proper English. Continue."\
136	"And at my grandmother's place, I watched a cartoon." Timmy said. And then stops, as if hesitant on what to say next.\
137	"Go on, tell the class what cartoon you watched." the teacher said.\
138	At which point Timmy replies in a meek voice, "[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Winnie]] the ''[[PrecisionFStrike shit]]''..."
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141	[[folder:Literature]]
142	* In ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' book ''Five Go To Demon's Rocks'', the elderly Jeremiah talks about one of the villains being caught by the tide, and "drownded". The villain retorts with an insult ending in "get drownded too".
143	* 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]].
144	* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'s'' "Dibbuns" (baby animals) are prone to this. When combined with [[FunetikAksent molespeech]] the results are ''really'' bizarre.
145	* Satirized in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''. Sunny Baudelaire is a surprisingly intelligent baby, but still only a baby, so she speaks in baby talk. People who know her well can apparently fully understand what she is saying, but every one of her baby talk words is translated into a well thought-out sentence for the convenience of the reader. She often speaks in nonsense words (translated into perfectly articulate English), which often reference something relevant to what she's actually saying, rather than the usual distorted English. Sunny's almost more of a StrangeSyntaxSpeaker, particularly in the later books.
146	* In ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'', Tossie talks this way to her cat, Princess Arjumand (AKA "Dearum Dearum Juju")
147	%%* Lola Pratt in ''{{Seventeen}}'' by Booth Tarkington.
148	* Creator/LMMontgomery's ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series:
149	** Anne 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:
150	--->'''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.
151	** 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 embarrassed 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".
152	* Creator/DorothyParker, who wrote a book review column called "The Constant Reader" truly ''loathed'' A. A. Milne's work. In her review savaging ''Literature/TheHouseAtPoohCorner'' she used baby talk:
153	-->It was at the word "hummy", my darlings, that marked the first point in ''The House At Pooh Corner'' [[NauseaFuel where Tonstant Weader fwowed up]].
154	* 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." The "pollicle dogs" also mentioned in the book were "poor little dogs".
155	* ''Every single one'' of Creator/LouisaMayAlcott's juveniles has an instance of phonetically rendered baby talk:
156	** The opening chapter of ''Literature/LittleWomen'' ends with a flashback to the March sisters as small children, gathered around Marmee at the piano, singing "Crinkle, crinkle, 'ittle 'tar".
157	** As soon as Meg March Brooke's children show up the book is laden with their adorable incomprehensibility, including little Demi's attempt to lift Daisy in an improvised "lellywaiter".
158	** One character in the sequel, ''Little Men'', is moved to religion by overhearing a small child's bedtime prayer of "Pease Dod bess everybody, and hep me to be dood".
159	** A child in ''Jack and Jill'' says his nighttime prayers for fear of being a "heevin" and being "frowed to the trockindiles".
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161	* In ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' (©1961) by Ian Fleming (1905-1961; it was published two months after Fleming's death), the main villains, Joe the Monster and his gang, kidnap the Pott children, Jeremy and Jemima. In doing so, Joe uses baby talk with them.
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163	-->'''Joe the Monster:''' Now then, duckies, everything's quite all right. Your dear pa and ma have asked us to take you for a little hight drive to see something of the French countryside by moonlight.
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165	-->'''Joe the Monster ''(to one of his henchmen, Man-Mountain Fink)'':''' Ain't that right, Man-Mountain?
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167	-->'''Man-Mountain Fink:''' Absolutely-one-hundred-percent-right-and-cross-my-heart-and-wish-to-die.
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169	-->'''Joe the Monster:''' Hear that, my duckies? You're in good hands, the very best. You just go off to bye-byes, and when you wakey-wakey, there'll be a delicious brekky waiting for you.
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171	::The narrator mentions that no child enjoys being spoken to in baby language, and that Jeremy "would prefer Joe to be monstrous rather than niminy-piminy".
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173	* In ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'', Polly Duncan, the girlfriend of the main character, Qwilleran, tended to talk this way to her Siamese cat Bootsie, much to Qwilleran's chagrin, as he always talked to his own Siamese in an intelligent manner, as if they actually understood what he was saying. (Which, given the MaybeMagicMaybeMundane nature of the main "mystery-solving cat," Koko, he might actually have.) Eventually, Bootsie was renamed to Brutus and Polly got better about this.
174	* In ''Literature/{{Alfie}}'', the title character's one-and-a-half year old sister Annie Rose can only say four words properly: "Daddy", "Mum", "No", and "More". Other times she either says "Dernard" (a failure to pronounce Bernard) or babbles in what her brother calls "Annie-Rose-Language".
175	* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', Manny Heffley, Greg's brother, sometimes pronounces "R"s and "L"s as "W"s, "T-H"s as "F"s and gets tenses wrong (like saying "felled" instead of "fell"). Justified as he's, as he puts it, "ownwy thwee". Apparently, Greg had trouble pronouncing "R"s when he was Manny's age too.
176	* In ''Literature/ASuddenWildMagic'', two-year-old Marcus talks this way, and his speech is rendered as what an inexperienced adult might hear. PlayedForLaughs when he asks an easily shocked stranger for "damn damn bitches" (jam sandwiches).
177	* ''Literature/GangstaGranny'': Ben finds his granny annoying when she tells him it's time for his "beddybyes".
178	* In ''Literature/InTwoWorlds'', adults talk to Anthony in oversimplified sentences like "No eat sand, Anthony. No, bad. Bad." It irritates him so much he wants to eat more sand out of spite.
179	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
180	** In ''Literature/EqualRites'', Granny Weatherwax has very little idea how to deal with children:
181	--->"Didda nasty wolfie fwiten us, den?" she hazarded.\
182	For quite the wrong reasons, this seemed to work. From the depths of the ball a muffled voice said: "I ''am'' eight, you know."
183	** In ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', the recently reincarnated Abbot has a tendency to lapse into "wanna wanna BIKKIT" in the middle of his speech.
184	** 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''.
185	** Wentworth, Tiffany's little brother in ''Literature/TheWeeFreeMen'', whose dialogue largely consists of "wanna sweetie" "wanna go-a ''toy''-lut" and, when he meets the Nac Mac Feegle, "weewee men".
186	* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', this is Sister Mary Loquatious's reaction to the baby Antichrist, who she expected to have "little hoofy-woofies".
187	* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “Don’t Feed Wildlife, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys calls a squirrel “squirrely whirly”.
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190	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
191	* An episode of ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' featured Samantha being completely repulsed by a grown man who uses baby talk while having sex with her. "Gah, it's like putting ketchup on prime rib. Stop, you're ruining it!"
192	* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
193	** This gradually happens to Lily in "Not A Father's Day", when she finds a baby sock:
194	--->'''Robin:''' What's that?\
195	'''Lily:''' It's Jeremy's sock... I'm having a baby!\
196	'''Robin:''' But... but what about "Project Lily"?\
197	'''Lily:''' But... but sohck!!\
198	'''Robin:''' But what about Marshall working all the time?\
199	'''Lily:''' But xohck!!\
200	'''Robin:''' Ted and I gave you all these arguments and a sock is what decides it?\
201	'''Lily:''' Wittwe fixiehs ohn iht!!
202	** In the episode "Baby Talk", Barney tries to pick up a girl with baby talk. He succeeds.
203	** Barney also does this in "How Lily Stole Christmas" when he gets sick and whines like a baby when Robin tries to take care of him, much to her annoyance.
204	* In a cold open of ''Series/{{The Office\|US}}'' it is brought to Andy's attention that many of the other employees are annoyed by his constant baby talk, which offends him.
205	* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'':
206	** 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.
207	** In a later episode, PJ uses Charlie to pick up girls at the mall and even instructs her to say "I wove PJ"(despite the fact that she can pronounce "love" properly). This has {{Gone Horribly Right}} when the girl he picks up only becomes interested in Charlie and always engages in baby talk when around her, and would only come to play with Charlie.
208	* ''Series/ThirtyRock'':
209	** Jenna complains about another character using "sexy baby" talk, complaining that she invented it. Cut to her coming out with the incomprehensible noises [[BabyLanguage babies use]] before they learn to speak.
210	** Also used when Jack discovers that his rival Devon Banks has leaked some sensitive information to the media.
211	--->'''Devon:''' ''[childishly]'' Awww, looks like somebody ''weaked'' it.\
212	'''Jack:''' You did! You weaked it!
213	* ''Series/{{Community}}'':
214	** A mild example occurs in "[[BottleEpisode Cooperative Calligraphy]]," when the study group spends the whole episode locked in the study room because Annie's pen has disappeared, and she's convinced that someone in the group has stolen it and refuses to let anyone leave until whoever stole it fesses up. At one point, Annie hits [[SoapboxSadie Britta's]] BerserkButton by asking to have a quick "look-see" in her bag.
215	--->'''Britta:''' There's no such thing as a "quick" invasion of civil liberties. Oh, it all starts with a quick look-see into someone's bag, and then it's a brisk peek a-roony at our phone records, and before you can say [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]], the Thought Police are forcy-worcing you to bend and spread!
216	** In the ''Series/{{Glee}}'' parody episode/ChristmasEpisode "Regional Holiday Music", Annie, who is usually a very intelligent and competent person, sings a song to lure Jeff into the cult-like glee club, which was a parody of how ''Series/{{Glee}}'' sexualizes young girls and the way Christmas songs treat women, (e.g. Santa Baby). Annie is wearing a SexySantaDress and sings about wanting Jeff to teach her how to understand Christmas, with it, by the last verse, morphing into baby talk.
217	--->'''Annie:''' Bwain huwty undewstandy chwistmas, mistletoe for eaty taste good? You smarty, me dumb, help pwetty have fun, boopy doopy doop boop sex.\
218	'''Jeff:''' Look, eventually you hit a point of diminishing returns on the sexiness.\
219	'''Annie:''' What's a diminiwawawa?
220	** A flashback in "Curriculum Unavailable" shows that Greendale offers a class in this.
221	** "Advanced Safety Features:" When the Dean goes on a rant about buying Honda stuff, Frankie takes out her phone and says she's going to put the school's assets on "a little freezy-weezy."
222	* A sketch of ''Series/SoRandom'' where two women (played by Tawni Heart and Coco Jones) speak babyishly to their dogs in the mall and cause a lot of annoyance to everyone around them.
223	* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has an example in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E11FridaysChild Friday's Child]]", which perplexes Spock:
224	-->'''[=McCoy=]:''' ''[holding a newborn baby]'' Oochie-woochie-coochie-coo! Oochie-woochie-coochie-coo!\
225	'''Spock:''' "Oochie-woochie-coochie-coo," Captain?\
226	'''Kirk:''' An obscure Earth dialect, Mr. Spock. If you're still confused, consult Linguistics.
227	* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': "...And you're my outlet Michele.... Big boy walking!"
228	* The B-plot of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''' final season episode "Beauty and the Beast" revolves around Sophia faking having to be in a wheelchair, so she can be taken care of by a BattleaxeNurse who makes the other girls' lives a living nightmare. Once her ruse is revealed at episode's end, however:
229	-->'''Dorothy:''' ''[angry]'' Get back here, you deceitful little Sicilian gecko!\
230	'''Sophia:''' ''[sweetly]'' I wuve you!\
231	'''Dorothy:''' Too wittle, too wate.
232	* In the new ''Series/HawaiiFive0'', it's revealed Danny is called "Danno" because his daughter couldn't say "Daniel" properly. This leads to mockery from Steve throughout season one and Steve's catchphrase: "Book 'em, Danno."
233	* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' has "Overseas Minister" (a.k.a. "Mrs Nigger-baiter") with the title gentleman being talked to like this by his mum and Mrs Nigger-baiter.
234	-->'''Mrs Nigger-baiter:''' ''[condescendingly]'' Ooh, can he talk? Can he talk, eh?\
235	'''Minister:''' Yes, of course I can talk. I'm minister for overseas development.
236	* ''Series/OddSquad'':
237	** 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".
238	** When Baby Genius speaks for the first time in "Two Agents and a Baby", he speaks like this. It would be a justified example if he weren't a BrainyBaby.
239	** Ohlm uses this as mockery against Olympia in "Odds and Ends" when she instinctively reaches behind her back for the Handcuff-inator to capture him, only for her to come up with nothing since he took away all of Precinct 13579's gadgets earlier in the episode.
240	--->'''Ohlm:''' Ohh! Did wittle ol' Ohlm take away your gadgets?
241	* In the ''Series/{{Ziwe}}'' sketch "Wet Diaper (Goo Goo Gah Gah)", Ziwe plays a pop princess who combines sexual innuendo with toddler-speak to satirize the fetishization of female youthfulness, resulting in maximum {{Squick}} factor.
242	* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "Way Outward Bound" the VillainOfTheWeek has indoctrinated an army of babies to TakeOverTheWorld. After rescuing them, Graeme tries to break their indoctrination with a PatrickStewartSpeech which Tim translates into baby talk.
243	[[/folder]]
244
245	[[folder:Music]]
246	* The band Geggy Tah came up with their name because their founding members (Greg Kurstin and Tommy Jordan) had young sisters at the time and neither could say their older brothers' names correctly.
247	* In Kay Kyser's rendition of "Three Little Fishies" each of the verses is repeated in baby talk after being sung normally.
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
251	* [[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?"
252	[[/folder]]
253
254	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
255	* The Muppet Babies mostly talk like this in ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'' in comparison to their adult counterparts. Their [[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 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."]]
256	* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
257	** Downplayed for [[ThirdPersonPerson Elmo]], [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Baby Bear]] and [[YouNoTakeCandle Cookie Monster]], who have flawed English but don't sound babyish.
258	** 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.
259	** A background character Freda has a baby brother who babbles gibberish. His mother and sister sometimes go "coochie-coo" to him.
260	** 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.
261	--->'''Baby Bear''': You're kitchy-cooing the baby, aren't you?!
262	** 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.
263	** Oscar's niece Irvine is about one and a half, and can say a few words, filling in the rest with gibberish.
264	[[/folder]]
265
266	[[folder:Radio]]
267	* A radio skit had Fergie getting angry whenever Prince Andrew mentioned his former lover Koo Stark. Unfortunately the prince then goes to play with the children and gets brained with a FryingPanOfDoom when he says, "Coochie coochie coo..."
268	[[/folder]]
269
270	[[folder:Theatre]]
271	* ''Theatre/BlackFriday'': The AdorableAbomination Wiggly does this, both in his guise as a children's toy, and in his horrifyingly monstrous true form. All his followers do this, too, and since all his followers are previously-rational adults, the effect is both [[PlayedForLaughs hilarious]] and obnoxious -- and weirdly creepy. And none of them drop it, even when they're threatening people, or following through on those threats.
272	-->'''Wiggly:''' Hello, Mr. Prezy-Wez. Welcome to Drowsytown.\
273	'''President Goodman:''' It's you...\
274	'''Wiggly:''' Don't be frightened. You're my bestest buddy-wud.\
275	'''President Goodman:''' No! I've come to tell you to... leave us alone!\
276	''[Wiggly and his AdorableEvilMinions all giggle.]''\
277	'''Wiggly:''' Leave? Just before Christmas? It's going to be my birthday, you know. I can't wait to open all my presents. I think I'll start with ''you''. I'm going to cut open your belly-well, and ''deck the halls with your '''gutsy-wutsies'''''!
278	* In ''Little Me'' Belle does this when she sings about her "Dimples".
279	-->Oh! Dem doggone dimples!\
280	Oh! Dey did it again!\
281	Tell me why a little indentation\
282	Should start a criminal investigation?\
283	Oh! Dem doggone dimples!\
284	If I ever go to da pen,\
285	Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!\
286	Dey did it again!
287	[[/folder]]
288
289	[[folder:Video Games]]
290	* Luanne Lui from ''VideoGame/BackyardSports''. But that's because she's 4 years old.
291	* In [[KidHero Marco's]] storyline in ''VideoGame/BattleFantasia'', all of his "r"s are written as "w"s ("that's not faiw" instead of "that's not fair").
292	* ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'': [[Characters/LegendsOfRuneterraTargon Chip]], Malphite's adorable baby son, has speech with poor enunciation and that doesn't allow R sounds, making him come off as even more childish and excitable.
293	* ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'': If you can't see Tails or Classic Tails, this is the easiest way to distinguish the two. Classic Tails still mixes his Ls, Rs and Ws.
294	* Done mockingly very frequently by Hazama[=/=]Terumi in the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' series, particularly notable during one of his [[FinishingMove Astral]] quotes:
295	-->'''Hazama:''' It's time for a little punishment! I'll let you feel the most ''exquisite'' pain! Does it hurt? ''Doej it huwt?''
296	* Charlotte in ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', a least in the official localizations, replaces both her R's and L's with W's. The remake's English dub only amplifies it by giving her a Brooklyn accent on top of the baby talk.
297	* In ''Matchington Mansion'', Antonio remarks that well-trained dogs can understand a hundred words. Tiffany replies that she never knew her dog was so smart.
298	-->'''Tiffany:''' Aww, my snuggly-wuggly little cutesy face! You're so smartsy-wartsy!
299	[[/folder]]
300
301	[[folder:Web Animation]]
302	* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'':
303	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTEHPgKBwK8 Japanese version]] of "Getting revenge on my wife after finding out that she was cheating on me in a public restroom" has Hiroshi speak like this while impersonating his cheating wife Shoko to lure her lover, [[spoiler:Ken Sawabe]].
304	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7xMQ4mq_Q0 "I set up a baby cam to check up on my new born baby, but the camera showed me something unbelievable"]] [sic]: Mao's lover, Son, speaks like this [[GooGooGetup while dressed up as a baby]] to prank Mao, unaware that it was at the time Hiroshi revealed his baby daughter, Chiko, to both his parents and in-laws.
305	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQt9GQQy8Yw&t=7m30s Japanese version]] of "My wife tried to hide the affair but..." has Tomohiro talk this way upon hearing Ayumi (Akemi) crying over the phone after Hiroshi had her call him, unaware he was collecting confirmation of their affair until he spoke.
306	* [[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.
307	* In ''WebAnimation/XRayAndVav'', Vav meets [[RobotBuddy ORF]] for the first time and devolves into speaking this. ORF's response?
308	-->'''ORF:''' Language input does not compute. Please speak: English!
309	[[/folder]]
310
311	[[folder:Webcomics]]
312	* In ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'', the Flight portion of Liz's fight-or-flight response is represented by a little girl who speaks this way.
313	* ''Webcomic/{{Dissonance}}'': Sarah talks this way to keep Pandora from panicking while James takes a blood sample.
314	* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', [[BigBad Zenith]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/10/09/battle-begin/ talks this way to her giant chimera monster]].
315	* ''Webcomic/{{GirlGenius}}'': [[spoiler:Agatha's golem stepparents]] had a daughter! "Aren't you a widdle miwacle of scwience-" WHACK
316	-->[[spoiler:'''Lilith:''']] She doesn't like being baby-talked.\
317	'''Agatha:''' ''[agitated]'' ...Smart girl.
318	* Pix from ''Webcomic/LsEmpire'' talked this way right after he was born due to a combination of being a FourthWallObserver and lacking the muscle memory to properly form sounds (his thought bubbles have normal text). This goes away after a week.
319	* 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.
320	* In ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', this is how Amber talks to her hamsters.
321	[[/folder]]
322
323	[[folder:Web Original]]
324	* Fluffy ponies have this sort of speech, to the point it's practically a language due to their different terms for some things. For example, a leader of a feral herd of fluffies is a "Smarty Friend", a mate is a "Special Friend", sex is oddly (yet fittingly) referred to as "Special huggies", and more. They also talk with a speech impediment, so the already altered term for a herd member now comes out as "Smawty fwiend". This is more prominent in a variant of the Fluffy pony derpy hooves, who's speech is literally just friend, and is even more impediment, making it "fbwend".
325	* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'':
326	** The baby photos of the six clothing store owners who work at the Marketplace are described like this.
327	---> Look at those widdle faces!
328	** In the movie, Dr Strangeglove, the villain, mocks Moshlings (little animals common in the setting of Moshi Monsters) with baby talk.
329	--->'''Shishi:''' Help me, please!\
330	'''Dr Strangeglove:''' Help? Of course, ickle Shishi. Seeing as you said "pwease".\
331	'''Dr Strangeglove:''' Oh, the bwave lickle snuffler lives. How adowable. You think he can defeat the doctor?!
332	** During the song "The Moshi Dance", Lady Goo Goo says "Oh, coochie coo" to an Oochie Poochie (the Moshi Monsters equivalent of a poodle).
333	[[/folder]]
334
335	[[folder:Web Videos]]
336	* 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]].
337	* At one point in ''WebVideo/DeathNoteAbridgedParodyCharlestonVO'', Light does this to Misa:
338	--> '''Light:''' Does your bummy-twoshoes feel comfy-plumpy?
339	[[/folder]]
340
341	[[folder:Western Animation]]
342	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
343	** D.W. speaks like this to Fur Elise the cat in "D.W.'s Furry Freakout".
344	--->'''D.W.:''' And my little pretty-witty kitty is still sleepy-weepy-deepy!
345	** In "Arthur's Baby", Francine tells Arthur that once he has a baby sibling (the yet-to-be-born Kate), he'll start talking like this all the time. This leads to Arthur having a dream wherein he lapses into baby talk at the worst possible time: Right in the middle of a school football game, where he announces that he has "an ouchie-boo-boo" after a hard tackle and causes [[CircleOfShame everyone to starting laughing hysterically at him]].
346	* Rosie does this in earlier episodes of WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}, but no longer does in the newer episodes.
347	* 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.
348	-->'''Taffy:''' Would Cavey Wavey do Taffy Waffy a widdle favey wavy?
349	* 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''.
350	* ''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.
351	* 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.")
352	* 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.
353	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In "Fairly Odd Baby", Timmy speaks this way to his new fairy godbrother Poof (..."and I can bwame you for stuff"...) before noticing how stupid he sounds (..."and I'm totawwy sick of talking wike dis"...).
354	* 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). However, this is subverted pretty soon in early seasons with other adults understanding Stewie just fine while the rest of the family either understanding him at times or not many times, indicating their understanding is general stupidity on their part.
355	* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'':
356	** Foofy Wuggums, the lost teddy bear friend]] from the TV movie ''Good Wilt Hunting'', replaces both "l" and "r" with "w". "My wittle giwl weft me hewe when she went to visit hew gwandma."
357	** One of the imaginary puppies from the episode "Who Let the Dogs In" is able to talk, but due to being a puppy, he speaks like this: "I always woved you the best, Bloo."
358	* 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''.
359	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "It's pwonounced cweam."
360	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
361	** 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.
362	** Mr. Cat talks like this to the mini-Kaeloos in Episode 105.
363	* 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.
364	* Tweety from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' talks like this because he is supposed to be a baby bird.
365	* ''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".
366	* Given that they're infants the titular trio from ''WesternAnimation/MegaBabies'' speak in Baby Talk, especially Buck.
367	* Baby Ponies in G1 of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' didn't state some words when they talked, and didn't have correct grammar, so we had sentences like "Me try", "Get checkers", and "Maybe play now".
368	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Applejack begins comforting the apple tree she's delivering in baby talk [[IResembleThatRemark after Rarity accuses her of treating the tree like her baby]].
369	** Humourously, Rarity sometimes speaks to her cat like this.
370	** In "Secrets of My Excess", Spike is taken to a doctor who speaks to him in Baby Talk. Fitting since he's a baby dragon, but he doesn't find it amusing and promptly breathes fire at the doc.
371	** Spike's friends sometimes call him, "Widdew Spikey-Wikey," though. And he doesn't seem to mind at all.
372	*** Since it's just Rarity that calls him "Spikey-Wikey," and he has a secret crush on her (that everyone knows about) she is probably the only one he'll allow to talk to him like that. Then again, he'd allow her to do almost anything she wants to him, he's that smitten.
373	** Pinkie resorts to doing this with Mr. & Mrs. Cake's twin foals. However, considering that said foals are only a month old, it's justified.
374	** Cheerilee and Big Macintosh speak to each other in this manner in the Hearts and Hooves Day episode as a result of the "love potion" the Cutie Mark Crusaders had given them. They continue to speak this way at the end of the episode (after the love potion had worn off) to torment the [=CMC=] as part of their punishment.
375	** In the episode "Apple Family Reunion", there is a flashback of Applejack when she was just a baby. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlbeQxBBrJE&list=FLEKmd_eI6kiKguBxXrsBJkQ here]].
376	** Applejack speaks babyish to an embarrassed Apple Bloom in "Somepony to Watch Over Me".
377	* WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls\|1998}} affect this when ''they'' tuck the pooped Professor to bed in "Burglar Alarmed".
378	* ''WesternAnimation/RosiesRules'': Iggy calls his big sister Rosie "Wosie."
379	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''. Dil took it even further than the rest of the main characters, being the youngest.
380	* Subverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where Marge lets Manjula hold Maggie.
381	-->'''Manjula:''' ''[babbles to Maggie, who giggles]''\
382	'''Marge:''' Maggie loves baby talk!\
383	'''Manjula:''' That was Hindi.\
384	'''Marge:''' Oh...
385	* Joy from ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy''. Other than babbling/crying, she can say [[AffectionateNickname 'Why' and less commonly, 'Why-why',]] 'No', 'light', 'off', and 'sit'.
386	* ''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.
387	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
388	** Bridgette's and Geoff's relationship is a popular point of gossip, especially when it turns rocky in "[[Recap/TotalDramaCelebrityManhuntsTDAReunionShow Celebrity Manhunt's TDA Reunion Show]]". They make up with each other during an interview with mature apologies and baby talk like "little schmoopy-schmoo" and "cutie patootie". Josh and Blaineley judge them hard for how anti-drama the baby talk is.
389	** While faking a friendly demeanor opposite of her usual self in "[[Recap/TotalDramaMoonMadness Moon Madness]]", Heather uses baby talk while cuddling an alligator, which due to the Blue Harvest Moon is genuinely friendly. Her teammates are horrified by the "poochie-poochie-poo"-ing.
390	** The teams are given babies to take care of during the challenge in "[[Recap/TotalDramaThreeZonesAndABaby Three Zones and a Baby]]". This suits Max perfectly, because he's a professional babysitter and just adores babies. Every time that he can, he baby talks, repeat-rhymes, and coos to his charge while not letting go of his usual pro-evil dramatics like calling the baby his "tiny minion".
391	[[/folder]]

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