"Cougar Town" vocab lesson: "graysonship"

"graysonship"; noun:

• a relationship with an emotionless robot (or closed-off partner).

Origin: Jules Cobb, portrayed by Courteney Cox, in "Cougar Town" episode 201, "All Mixed Up" (written by Bill Lawrence & Kevin Biegel).

Screen cap credit: JerkDoubleBitch.

Jules comes up with the term "graysonship" to describe her relationship with Grayson. Grayson is emotionally closed off and, therefore, somewhat robotic.



Grayson [doing the robot, with a robotic voice]: I don't like to feel things.
Jules: No he doesn't.

Use it in a sentence: "My boyfriend never opens up; this is a total graysonship."

Movie Mashup

Game: Movie Mashup
Origin: "Cougar Town", episode 201, written by Bill Lawrence & Kevin Biegel.

Photo credit: Yawgurt.com.

This is a really fun game to play with friends. On "Cougar Town" they call it a drinking game ("cause we drink while we play"), but it doesn't have to be. It would be especially great to play on long car trips, when you need to fill the time with something fun.

So how do you play? It's simple. You pick two movie titles that share a word (i.e. one ends with the word and the other starts with it). Then you describe what the plot of that movie would be, and your friends/the other players guess the title. Here are a few examples from our friends in "Cougar Town":

A crime-solving greyhound deals with racism in Brooklyn... Scooby Do(o) the Right Thing
A fat lasagna-loving cat plays baseball with his dead dad... Garfield of Dreams
Al Gore does a PowerPoint presentation on Madonna's naked body... An Inconvenient Truth or Dare

I love coming up with these mashups. I even tweaked it a little and did TV mashups for my Emmys party!

Hit me with your best mashup ideas... leave 'em in the comments and I'll feature a few of my favorites!