"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."

"30 Rock" vocab lesson: "mind grapes"

"Mind grapes"; expression:

• the fruit of one's mind, from which "juices" (ideas, concepts, etc.) may be produced.

Origin: Jack Donaghy, portrayed by Alec Baldwin, and Tracy Jordan, portrayed by Tracy Morgan, in "30 Rock" episode 107, "Tracy Does Conan" (written by Tina Fey).

Screen cap credit: Lore-85.

In "Tracy Does Conan", Jack Donaghy is trying to write a speech about Jack Welsh, saying that Welsh "squeezes... juice out of his workers' mind grapes". Liz and Jack agree it doesn't make sense, and moments later Tracy says, "what else is on my mind grapes?" ... perhaps confirming that it does not, indeed, make sense. But I dare you not to use it in your everyday life.


Use it in a sentence: "I'm on a deadline and I've got to squeeze every last drop of juice out of my mind grapes."

"30 Rock" vocab lesson: "buying all the hot dogs"

"Buying all the hot dogs"; expression:

• overreacting to a situation and doing something illogical or grandiose just to prove a point; impulsively enacting an over-the-top solution to a not-so-major problem.

Origin: Liz Lemon, portrayed by Tina Fey, in the pilot episode of "30 Rock" (written by Tina Fey).

Screen cap credit: Lore-85.

In the pilot episode of "30 Rock", Liz Lemon gets upset that a man cuts in line at the hot dog stand, and further incensed when people in line behind her leave to start a second line behind him. Infuriated, Liz buys all of the hot dogs so that the cutter and his followers can't have them. She proceeds to hand them out to the "good people" who stayed in her line, as well as random strangers, homeless people, and the writers on her show. She also eats four of them herself. She later explains to Pete that she hates it when people cheat or break rules, so her solution was to buy all the hot dogs. She realizes that it was irrational, impulsive, and over-the-top, but it proved her point and the "bad" people didn't get hot dogs.


Use it in a sentence: "Joey wouldn't stop chewing on the pens I lent him, so I bought all the hot dogs and threw away all the pens in the office."