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Episode 425
Urban Dictionary 19
In this episode, we are back for our 19th installment of Urban Dictionary, a series that had its Popcast soft launch in the summer of 2014. Join us as we introduce new-to-you words that will help you update your vocabulary arsenal without causing you to drop micropretensions. Plus we discuss which animated characters could get it.
In this episode, we are back for our 19th installment of Urban Dictionary, a series that had its Popcast soft launch in the summer of 2014. Join us as we introduce new-to-you words that will help you update your vocabulary arsenal without causing you to drop micropretensions. Plus we discuss which animated characters could get it.
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- Source material: UrbanDictionary.com
- Look back: Previous Urban Dictionary episodes
- “Any time you meet anyone from Indiana you’re three degrees from hearing about how their city is laid out in a coherent way.” -Knox McCoy
- The best meet-cutes: The Holiday | Out of Sight | Coming to America | La La Land | Crazy Stupid Love | Up | Toy Story | Lego Movie | Wall-E
- It’s that time again already: Hallmark Channel Holiday 2021 lineup | See also: The No’s of Hallmark movies
- Tik Tok: The dog with no bones | Maia and her twins | Wakanda on the Weekend
- Soft launch mentions: October SMK (90’s trends) | sweater vests are back | Tennessee fans
- Google with Erin: Robert Duval as Boo Radley | Bald Ed Harris
- SMK1: Yul Brynner | Jason Statham | Samuel L. Jackson // SMK2: Peppa Pig | Caillou | Shrek | Charlie Brown | See also: Adele vs. Peppa Pig, Peppa Pig is super tall
- Rank: most pretentious cities in the United States
- Make it: Bri McCoy’s Pumpkin Chili
- Know Thyself: Pretentious-O-Meter
- CILF: Dimitree in Anastacia | Li Shang in Mulan | Brian in Family Guy | Prince Naveen in The Princess in the Frog | Beast in human form in Beauty in the Beast | King Triton in The Little Mermaid | Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit | Red Jasmine in Aladdin | Esmerelda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Flynn Ryder in Rapunzel | Spanish mode Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3 | Robinhood
- Fact check: Flynn Rider was made via a hot guy survey
- Redlight mentions: John Mulaney and the Great Celebrity-Sympathy Overcorrection (via Slate)
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