History Main / ExpospeakGag

** "Money": Edmund is trying to sell his house:

** "Goodbyeee":

* ''Series/RedDwarf'' played this for laughs several times, most notably in "Stasis Leak".

** Also to Kryten, a pub is a "Meeting place where people attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence through repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks"

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly "In a Mirror, Darkly]]". Hoshi translates a Tholian's protests as "Something about your [[YourMom maternal ancestor]]."

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* One commercial for ''Art/OmegaMart'' advertises a sale on products made with mammal liquid (dairy), and goes on to talk about the savings for gestating mammal liquid (milk), gestating mammal liquid toast paint (butter), aged gestating mammal liquid (yogurt), and gestating mammal liquid in block form (cheese).
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The number one all-time most common ExpospeakGag is, "He suggested that you perform an [[ScrewYourself anatomically impossible act.]]"

* Characters on ''Series/TheWestWing'' often use an ExpospeakGag to avoid mentioning politically unpopular things (like taxes).

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki Nicolas Bourbaki]] collective was mostly composed of people younger than 50, and with flexible minds. From time to time, in order to prove they qualify for the second part, people had to pass the "coconut test". Basically, it amounted to the member deciphering an ExpospeakGag about mathematics.

* A leak of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's personal schedules revealed large blocks of what was labeled "Executive time", which turned out to mean "sitting around watching television and doing nothing in particular", inspiring the use of the term by people goofing off at work or lazing at home.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Peridot is prone to describing simple Earth objects with unneccessarily complex language. She does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fU5Uh73Q2M&t=20s a whole string of them]] that greatly amuses Amethyst in "Too Far", like calling a screwdriver a "leverage optimizer" and a nose a "scent sponge".

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', Buzz Lightyear uses quite a few of these: He refers to tape as "unidirectional bonding strip," pizza delivery as "jettisoning food supply," and seatbelts as "restraining harnesses."
* From ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'':
-->'''Mouse Doctor:''' ''(to the nurses)'' Bring me the epidermal tissue disruptor!\\
'''Wilbur:''' The epidermal ''what?''\\
''(The mouse nurses hoist a chainsaw over Wilbur's hospital bed.)''

-->'''Rocky''': Ouch! What happened to my wing?\\
'''Ginger''': You took a rather nasty fall.\\
'''Mac''': And sprained the anterior tendon connecting your radius to your humerus. I gave her a wee bit of a tweak, Jimmy, and wrapped her up.\\
'''Rocky''': Was that English?\\
'''Ginger''': She said you hurt your wing. She fixed it.

* In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' the gadget used to track the Alien detects "micro changes in air density." In other words, it's a microphone.

You should have graced it with a weeding band.''

'''Prince George:''' Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds damn saucy, you lucky thing! [[UnEntendre I know some fairly liberal-minded girls, but I've never penultimated any of them in a solar sojourn, or for that matter, been given any Norman tongue.]]\\

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}:

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E9TheTimeMeddler "The Time Meddler"]]: At the end, the First Doctor breaks the dimensional controller of the TARDIS belonging to rival Time Lord the Monk, making the inside of the Monk's TARDIS the same size as the sarcophagus it uses as its outside — tiny, but perhaps just small enough to squeeze into. When the Monk shows up again hell-bent on {{revenge}}, they share this exchange:

->'''Sir Humphrey Appleby:''' Prime Minister, I must protest, in the strongest possible terms, my profound opposition to a newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions upon the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and which will in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a constriction of the channels of communication and culminate in a condition of organisational atrophy and administrative paralysis, which will render effectively impossible the coherent and coordinated discharge of the function of government within [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Her Majesty]]'s United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!\\

* Many of the Wiki/SCPFoundation’s [[SatireParodyPastiche joke articles]] run on this trope, since the entire point of the wiki is to make up supernatural anomalies and attempt to describe them in a clinical sense. To avoid DontExplainTheJoke (the trope of which coincidentally [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-005-j-ex has its own article on the SCP wiki]]), the examples here will be blotted out save for their links:

* Many Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} pages were used by some rogue authors to transfer this to articles with risqué topics, e.g. for ''Baby Got Back'' the lyrics were summarized this way. It began with expospeaking "I like big butts and I cannot lie" as "In the opening verse, Sir Mix-a-Lot professes his affinity for large buttocks and his inability to disguise this fact from others" and only got better from there.

Sometimes used as a form of UnusualEuphemism or to facilitate an OopsIDidItAgain plot where someone assumes the technical explanation refers to something much more serious than it really does.

* A minor example shows up in ''VideoGame/{{Paragon}}'' with Lt. Belica's ultimate ability, ''Neural Distruptor'', which involves her casually drawing out her sidearm and [[BoomHeadshot shooting her target in the head.]]

* In Bob and George, Doctor Light has said things such as "Fornicating Feces" when annoyed.

'''Edmund:''' ''({{beat}}) Do you mean, “How did the war start?”\\

--->'''Baldrick:''' No, the thing is: The way I see it, these days there’s a war on, right? and, ages ago, there wasn’t a war on, right? So, there must have been a moment when there not being a war on went away, right, and there being a war on came along. So, what I want to know is: How did we get from the one case of affairs to the other case of
affairs?\\

* In the ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'' episode "Money", Edmund is trying to sell his house:
-->'''Blackadder:''' Well, what we're talking about in, erm, privy terms is the very latest in front-wall, fresh-air orifices, combined with a wide-capacity gutter installation below.\\

** Making this even funnier, this actually convinces the man and his wife to buy Blackadder's house -- they're too lazy to bother with a chamberpot or anything like that.