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Slang Gang
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The setup
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The premise
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Three members of a covert slang committee are summoned to a paneled conference room by their leader Bob, who warns that a debutante in Connecticut has already picked up their newest catchphrase. Using a wall chart tracing decades of slang, from groovy through cool, fat and all that to the bomb, the group bickers about which word came first, then brainstorms a replacement. After rejecting weapons-based ideas, they land on disaster and plague imagery and decide that Ebola is the next way to say something is great. They send the new word out to their operatives, shrug off a worried reminder about the word funky, and close the meeting delighted with their work.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Did any white people see you come down here?
Tight never made it east of the Rockies.
Your shoes are Ebola.
Script
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- 00:02
What the hell is the hold up?
- 00:05
I got a little tender on it waiting for me at the crib, and my man B is late like Madonna's period.
- 00:10
Look, if Bob called us both down here, it's got to be a national crisis.
- 00:14
I've got a bad feeling about this.
- 00:18
D-Bone, Dr. Mambuca.
- 00:22
Did any white people see you come down here?
- 00:26
Hells no!
- 00:26
Come on, Bob, what is it? Tell us.
- 00:29
Our nightmare continues.
- 00:31
continues last night one of my operatives in greenwich connecticut heard a debutante say
- 00:35
that's the bomb oh my god hey we just changed that to that's the bomb last week it was all
- 00:40
that in a bag of chips i told you someone is leaking information white america is co-opting
- 00:45
our slang faster than ever what do you expect we got ricky lake on twice a day now i know yo man
- 00:51
it's much harder to get my rap on without them knowing what i'm saying you know what i'm saying
- 00:54
well that's what we're here for people let's get to work can't believe they got that's the
- 01:00
the bond that's some of my best work me all right in 1960 we introduced groovy then it was stolen
- 01:07
by simon and garfunkel so we replaced it with i can dig it i can dig it became out of sight out
- 01:13
of sight became solid solid became cool cool became raw raw became cool again cool became
- 01:17
fresh fresh became deaf death became fly fly became cool again cool became dope dope became
- 01:20
fat fat got cool for a week cool got chill for a minute till became all that all that became all
- 01:23
that in a bag of chips and that's how we arrived at the ball it's like butter baby nah nah negatory
- 01:27
Megatard. Megatard.
- 01:29
Dope did not come before fat.
- 01:31
Tight came before fat.
- 01:32
Your ass always forget tight.
- 01:33
Tight never made it east of the Rockies.
- 01:35
It was a colloquialism that originated in Hunters Point, San Francisco,
- 01:37
and died on your MTV rest.
- 01:39
That's still in dispute, people.
- 01:42
Focus, please.
- 01:44
All right, look, we can always go back to Coe.
- 01:47
Come on, D-Bone, we're better than that.
- 01:49
All right, let's think.
- 01:50
What are the possible etymological extensions of bomb?
- 01:53
Neutron bomb.
- 01:55
Patriot missile.
- 01:57
sidewinder scud how about that's the scud nobody know what a scud is that's stupid
- 02:04
you mean stupid good or stupid bad stupid bad wait bad isn't fat bad or bad bad bad bad now
- 02:10
listen listen baby you the scud better get slapped for saying something like that
- 02:15
that is weak weak as in trifling sorry to the curb trump changed no major pub scrub bright
- 02:21
gobble all right then think big think big bomb vampire in brooklyn uh no no no no the bomb as
- 02:30
in you're blowing up you're exploding we're tracing no no no as in disaster mass killings
- 02:36
destruction bloodbath bodies everywhere ebola girl your shoes are ebola yeah club paradise
- 02:46
last was the ebola last night but not the ebola ebola you're right my boy like did you see the
- 02:52
new receptionist her booty's ebola agreed we'll wire ebola to our best operatives immediately
- 02:59
all right i'll contact caris one dr dray and ice cube actually before we go i feel i should once
- 03:05
again bring up the subject of funky oh man squash that noise bob bob how many times do we have to
- 03:12
go over this we have so few connections to our past please let funky be funky we got to represent
- 03:17
and keep it round but i've got a report here that a pro bowler from mobile alabama said funky last
- 03:23
week they don't know how to use it right they'll never know what it means okay okay just making a
- 03:29
suggestion very good work people ah that was better than good that was ebola i'm gonna give
- 03:38
This is Ebola Booty. I'll see y'all later.
- 03:40
know.
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