That Gaslighting MILF Put Me In The Friend Zone: 12 Words Created In Movies And TV Shows
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T.V. shows are always a great form of entertainment. Whether it's a well-known actor or musician popping up for a cameo role, or a famous athlete making a guest appearance as themselves, it always adds an extra level of excitement. We love to watch celebrities in our favorite tv shows. It seems like they are just like us, but with a lot more money. In some cases, the celebrity is playing themselves in the show. Other times, they are a character that is scripted just for them. Either way, it is always fun to see them on our screens.
But television shows are now regularly being turned into feature-length films and vice versa. This has led to some high-quality productions, but it has also created a lot of confusion among viewers about what is actually a movie and what a T.V. show wants you to see.
T.V. and movies aren't responsible for all English vocabulary, but that does have the air of truthiness about it, right? Here are 12 common words for which we can thank our onscreen friends. That Gaslighting MILF Put Me In The Friend Zone and many more!
![This word is just kinda MEH THE SIMPSONS CRACKED.COM The sound of a disinterested shoulder shrug. We heard it first in Sideshow Bob Roberts from an indifferent librarian answering Lisa's questions about voting records. The BBC named meh one of the 20 words that defined the 2000s decade.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/7/779947.jpg)
![Blame Monty Python for all of that SPAM MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS CRACKED.COM The classic sketch features a restaurant that serves every dish with lots of spam. Spam spam spam spam spam. An admin on USENET borrowed the term in 1993 to refer to something that keeps repeating over and over to great annoyance. Spam.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/1/779951.jpg)
![No one knew the term MILF AMERICAN PIE CRACKED.COM That's why an uncredited John Cho needed to spell it out for the Pie guys: Mom I'd Like to ... well, you know. It was the scene that launched a million online porn searches. Greek or](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/6/779946.jpg)
![This pictofact has the air of TRUTHINESS THE COLBERT REPORT RE CRACKEDO COM Truthiness was introduced on the first episode of The Colbert Report (the #1 television show of all time) as the belief in what you feel to be true rather than what the facts will support. The 2006 Word of the Year set a tone for the next decade of politics.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/0/779950.jpg)
![Recycling presents became known as REGIFTING SEINFELD CRACKED.COM Elaine gives Tim the dentist a label maker for Christmas, who sends an idential gadget to Jerry as a thank you for Super Bowl tickets. I think this is the same one I gave him, cries Elaine. He recycled this gift. He's a regifter!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/8/779948.jpg)
![The term was adopted at WARP SPEED STAR TREK CRACKED.COM Though the concept of warps was present in earlier science fiction, Star Trek brought the concept of speed into popular consciousness. It sounds SO much more impressive than super-fast.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/2/779952.jpg)
![Fudd should have been flattered by NMROD BUGS BUNNY GRACKED.COM Today, most use it to mean idiot but for hundreds of years, nimrod meant great hunter. Bugs altered the meaning when he hit Elmer with a sarcastic jab. Audiences who never knew the original term just assumed it meant moron.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/9/779949.jpg)
![Chandler forced Joey to GO COMMANDO FRIENDS CRACKED.COM When Joey steals Chandler's chair cushion, Chandler hides Joey's underwear. That's not ordinarily a problem except briefs-less Joey needs to get into a rented tux: I'm not going commando in another man's fatigues.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/4/779944.jpg)
![Maybe the movie was just crazy... GASLIGHT GASLIGHT CRACKED.COM Ingrid Bergman saw all kinds of weird things in her house, including dimming gaslights. OR DID SHE? Her husband convinces Ingrid that she's not in her right mind, introducing a very 21st century form of psychological torture.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/5/779945.jpg)
![Ross is Mayor of the FRIEND ZONE FRIENDS CRACKED.COM Joey is the one to break the bad news about Ross and Rachel: You waited too long to make your move and now you're in the Friend Zone. Ross, you're mayor of the zone. There are a million Rosses out there nodding in miserable recognition.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/3/779943.jpg)
![Conan writers put the junk in the CRUNK LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN CRACKED.CO A full decade before L'il Jon got low, Conan 'Brien and crew introduced the world to 'crunk.' The invention combined the sounds of all the nastiest profanities, creating a swear word SO heinous that censor brains would explode on impact.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/2/779942.jpg)
![Bart Simpson wasn't the first to shout COWABUNGA HOWDY DOODY CRACKED.COM Today, it's used to express delight, but Howdy Doody writer Eddie Kean originally made up the word for Chief Thunderthud to shout when he was mad or frustrated. Even though the word was co-opted by 1960s surfers, it's still a little bit racist.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/1/779941.jpg)