If you’re over 25, then I’m sorry. This video might make you feel old. The way I feel.
Catch Phrases & Tressla
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If you’re over 25, then I’m sorry. This video might make you feel old. The way I feel.
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Matt, your videos are truly entertaining, and just packed with awesome. I’m a child of the 80s, so here are some of the old words and catchphrases we used to say:
Mint – as in, “I just got paid! Mint!” Mint had to be said in a slightly higher voice. I guess it’s pretty much how “sweet” is used today.
Dickweed – “That guy is such a dickweed.”
NOT! – “Yeah, I really enjoyed that math test. NOT!!”
Eat me. – Explains itself.
Reject – “Why are you acting like such a reject?” “My little sister is a friggin’ reject, man.” Became popular right around the time “retard” was on the wane, I think. (And I aways hated the word “retard”, it’s hateful.)
As for fashion, well. This was in Spryfield, Halifax, Nova Scotia, you have to understand. Stirrup pants were all the rage, for us girls that is. Hair spray was a must. Big hair, preferably with bangs that STOOD STRAIGHT UP IN THE AIR, a la “There’s Something About Mary” – yeah, they were way ahead of their time.
Another popular look for girls, was to wear the black spandex pants paired with a large over-size shirt, possibly a belt on over the shirt. Chunky jewellery, and high heels completed the ensemble.
I was one of the fashion rebels (or rejects, if you prefer). I liked to wear “strange” things sometimes, like berets, and one time, even a “bullet belt”. (Very punk looking, it was.) Other than that I was boring, a quiet teenager who liked to read, act in school plays, and occasionally party. People expected a red head to have a bad temper, and I was usually laid back. Except for the time they handcuffed me to the chain-link fence around the high school. Sorry, I’ll stop blathering now.
Thanks for the laughs, please keep up the great work.
If someone talked about something they really liked, you’d respond with “Then why don’t you marry it!” Oh man, who doesnt miss the 90′s. :)
I like the pegging your jeans part when you were like, “buddy…” that’s good stuff matt.
this video is tressla XD
Hahahaha I just found out abt u today! But already saw around 10 videos..love them all! This one just made me laugh soo much! N i love the face expressions))
OOh and the video abt the dog talk..haha..i got 3 little girls n smtimes ppl look at me like im crazy..but they dont realize they do the same when they talk to my girls)))
Thnx for fun videos)))
First off, you need to keep making Fupler videos, I love them! I nagged my dorky Honors Calc teacher to watch them for weeks and he finally gave in. I wrote it with his other reminders on the chalkboard every single day until he agreed haha.
So here are some things that the kids at my school say:
Most of us have a problem with starting every story with “So how about”
When someone says something weird, awkward, or just off the wall we say “That’s cute”… it’s good to say when you have no idea how to respond to something too…. “My aunt just ran off with an eskimo midget!” “That’s…cute” works every time.
This is actually just me.. and I have no idea when I started saying it, but when I mess up at something or something doesn’t go right, I say “just kidding”
Hm… my aunt makes a habit of yelling “Yowza!” out the window at people in a manly voice… I was actually concerned she’d do that at my graduation…
Saying “don’t worry about it” when someone wants to know something or asks you a question became popular within the past few years.
The group of nerdy guys in my class would call each other “pile” and “useless pile”
I was also raised believing “glauma” was a word… then I tried to look it up in the dictionary and was confused that it wasn’t there. But it should be!
glauma- n. a person who is obese or overweight
ex. I ate so much food! I feel like a glauma!
Didn’t read the whole mess of comments above and hope this isn’t a repeat of any.
And oh yeah the age thing is going to kick in.
“No shit Sherlock” – after someone as state the pretty obvious.
“Numb nuts” – after doing something stupid.
“Shank” – one of those girls.
“Sweet” – said after something really cool happened.
Those are the ones I remember.
Your allways funny, Matt!
I can see it over and over again! :D
LOL Strange as it seems, I’ve heard No-Doy before… ?!
Coolbeans isn’t as awesome as it once was, but that’ how I got my name ;D so it must be pretty awesome :D
Now-adays, me and my friends use Intense, lol or the phrase “That’s Intense, like camping” [LOL we're so punny]
Don’t forget “LOL”, the word that’s taken over the world.
ZOMFG and don’t forget “TROLLIN’”
Trolls [people who are trollin'] are people who are Stupid/Lying/Copyright stealing and the such! :D
Also, we use “Twice the Jesus”, lmaooo, as a new form of cool
[eg, "That movie was Twice the Jesus"] LOLOL Yeah, I’m definetly a cool kid ;D
Tressla video!
I just had to comment. No one mentioned the HEY GIRL, HEY!
That was something in all the girls back in high school.
I must just say, you can tell a story! :D
Youre so funny, I love your videos, don’t stop to make them. :)
This video is so Tressla! lol. I remember jellies! they were sick. My group of friends did the backwards upside down visors istead of the base ball caps.
RAD!
I freaking about died laughing!! Lets see I remember saying”want a cookie”? when someone told a story about themselves.Also when somethng was cool saying “thtas tight”. lol
I remember when I was a child (in the 80′s) when “no guff” was the baddest thing we could say. Now it seems so ridiculous! Ahh those were the days! HaHa!
“your mom”…this phrase was used and abused whether it made any sort of sense in the sentence, or not. oh oh! I love this one…”as if” (said with a twist of the wrist while shifting one’s weight to one side and placing spare hand on hip)…lastly (cause I’m too sleepy to think anymore) “wuz up/wussup/wassap” <–this one killed me the most…okay, one more…using the word “super” before anything…”you’re super cool”…”that’s super lame” etc.
anyways, super tressla video (that’s gonna take some getting used to :P)
Ohh.. sry, I forgot to say something.. I rewatched the video,
and I wanted to say that like every 4-6 years everything change. cause there are a new teenagers so you and all the grown up (25+ like you say) can go with baseball caps, roll your jeans, and talk as you were when you were the teenagers, I don’t see what the problem.. You afraid to llok stupid? before who? your underage neighboor? the kid on the bus station?
So the kids maybe will laugh, we laughin on the old people in my country that wearing the jeans so high that we don’t understand if they need a shirt at all.. We laugh at things we don’t understand, but I don’t see what bad at acting like you used to.. My parents don’t understand me and my jokes, but the same goes to me, so Be yourself dude, I sure that all the people that remember the style of their time, will understand you and that’s the main idea.. right?
Hi dude,
I watched some of your videos and that stuff there is awesome!
Well I am a teenager bymyself, but I’m not the type that u described up there, in your video.
Maybe I am using a few modern cuts to words and sleng, but that’s not only what I know to write..
Actually I wanted to commet about the rest of your videos but I’m lazy to back to them and post a commet so I do it here..
Damn, I haven’t laughed like that for a month, well not acctually from that video above, but it’s just because I didn’t get the idea… maybe..
But the rest of your videos that I watched, they are a master piece dude!!
*still laughing*
NBC, ABC, SPIKE or even HBO has got to pick you up man! You are way too talented to just be doing these videos, although without them, I wouldn’t be in so much gut-splitting pain from laughing so hard…
This also reminds me of a cartoon someone drew in photoshop a while ago when mIRC chatrooms were so popular…also very funny… can’t find it now of course but some of the convo’s that happen in those chatrooms were freakin’ hilarious!
Other memorable words? Righteous. Wicked. PHAT. awesome. TOTALLY!! haahahaha
That video was totally WICKED man!!! <– ha!
well i have less to say in this topic, because i represent another country, but now ‘cool’ is very popular, but even this word becomes overused, especially when the older people are trying to use it. But Tressla Thing should be a hit, coz it’s rather unique and could be international catch phrase,
I’m not really that old and that’s really not tressla. But I did grow up with really old expressions. You lucky dog, thats the one i get made fun of the most. Tressla rox. heh…
i forgot; straight, dirty, nasty, sick, sweet. which all mean something is awesome, or cool.
Dude, this was pretty tressla…
I’m a teenager now and we say a lot of the same kind of things. There are a few phrases that are more recently popular.
wow (but you have to say it drawn out and loud sometimes miss pronouncing it as WEEE-OWWW. i personally find it very annoying), hot damn, awesome, dipset (to leave), chyeah, do work, thats what she said (very overused), man, whack, creeper, hang.
its hard for me to really think of any more and i assume thats because i don’t notice any since they all part of my regular vocabulary.
OMG…I laughed so hard, because those are all the things I said, but you forgot “Not”, as in “your cool…not”. Keep’em comin!!
To Steve: as a 16-year-old in 1987 rural Texas, ‘No doi’ was among the most common of slang terms. And we were regional champs! Not variants or deviants (so they told us).
But you bring up a more important point: ball cap bill curvature. I hadn’t noticed it until you brought it to my attention, Matt, but seeing you sporting the acute bill angle of my youth brought to mind nostalgic thoughts of crushes long past.
Not that I’m suggesting anything. I’m happily married. Just sayin’, it was a nice trip down memory lane.
Uhh….”no doy-ee”?
Perhaps this was a regional variant. I’m 29, grew up in Ontario, Canada, and this is the first I’ve ever heard of that version. “No duh” was ubiquitous though, sometimes said more like “uh DUUUUH” in a retarded sort of voice (or maybe I just had bizarre friends back then).
There was a period in the early-90s when that classic 80s catchphrase “wicked” morphed into just “wick”. “Did you come up with that yourself? That’s wick!!”. It didn’t last very long, though.
And remember when a really really drunk person was “plastered” or “hammered”? Don’t really hear those anymore. Whenever you got with a girl you’d say “I just got me some”.
Who could forget the days in which whenever you were annoyed with something, you’d call it “gay”?
I should mention though that the dopey way you used to wear your ballcap hasn’t changed. Teenagers these days still wear them like that.
Wicked! Whoa, I used that all the time. Me and a bunch of friends dressed up as Scooby Doo and the gang and me being the nerd I am had to go door to door saying ‘Jeepers Creepers!’ Also there was cool beans and the whole your mom ordeal. Things have changed a lot. I’m soo using tressla now!
for the love of all things holli! PLZ do a bit on the mis-spelling, the all small caps, hard to write and read feed back U get. most folk dont know what a TARD i am becuase i text all the time and make it look as if i HAD to leave out importent letters in my words. i think u could have some good clean fun with that. push 4WARD………
Bitchin’ —– cool beans —–get bent —– wicked, like “that was wicked funny” or “that was wicked cool” —– phat —– tubular —–cowabunga —– not! —– chyeeeaah (maybe not?) —– have a cow about it why dont ya —– spazz, like “don’t spazz out” or “what a spazz” —– for sure —– bodacious —– hella’ —– schweet —– eat my shorts —– heavy —– dufus —– yuppie/preppie (not sure about that one) —– bad to the bone —– boinking (LOL) —– grody —– bogus —– choice —– ill —– flamer —– da bomb —– hoser —– dweeb —– lame —– bite me —– buggin’ out —– face! —– mondo —– righteous —– yikes…….that took a lot of brain power and a few i got from some friends. Haha!!!
Fabulous! Was just looking for a good laugh for the day. Thcrabble was a great first course, followed by a healthy dose of Thalad Drething and finished off with a nice strong Tressla. I’ll be back for seconds!
honk & smoke…as in what the honk ….what the smoke…
look those up eh …
i’m old ….and canadian
when mike myers started doing snl, i was freaking out cause he did so much canadian stuff… wayne of waynes world? – every guy i went to high school with -really.
and when jim carrey was on conan obrian a couple of years ago he did an ontario song that you only know if you were in the toronto area one particular summer in the seventies….
…these are the things that make me feel less isolated.
I am a tad older than you but in the 70s we definitely used “duh” and “No duh”. If a person was cool he was “wicked” or a “pissah” and you would be “stoked” to know him. If someone was uncool he was a “spaz”, or a “putz” or a “fag” (nerd not homosexual fag) and it wasn’t “kosher” to hang with him so you told him to go “get bent”. If you were uptight you’d take a “chill pill” or go “get baked” and “chill out” until everything was “excellent”.
Hello Matt,
Just wanted to say that I think you’re really funny and as far as I know, really talented as well. My fav videos are the Fulpers, specifically the one about klondikes. I love the characters you portray, especially the little girl. She (you) is so cute! You should do more with them. I really like how you don’t have to be distasteful or use profanity and such to be funny. I feel that’s what people who aren’t creative or smart enough do. I hate that. So yeah, just want to let you know I appreciate that you have clean comedy and also that I think you’re great all around. =) You seem like a stand up guy. Kudos. Keep up the good work! Your videos are tressla!
lawlz yer a funny guy. i just found out about you today because your thcrabble video was a promoted video so i checked it out and i think you’re hilarious. this video was funny as well. i am seriously going to start using Tressla now. my friends are gonna be like “what the fuck did you just say?” then ill make them watch this video, getting you more fans. you’re welcome!
if you email me back i will feel a little star struck. now i know you’re not like a big celebrity or anything, but that would still be pretty kewl.