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Anyone else catch this ad after tonight's repeat of Scrubs?

Announcer: "Thursdays on NBC are filled with romance. First, Jim and Pam became 'Jam' (referring to characters on The Office). Dwight and Angela became 'Dwangela'. And now, J.D. and Turk (of Scrubs) become 'Jurk'."

Followed by a scene of J.D. and Turk singing a love song to each other, with a joking but strong implication of fisting having occurred between them. The ad ends with a sweet embrace between J.D. and Turk. Apparently, this is a promo for the Scrubs musical episode coming in January.

A major network, adopting fan practices of smushing names together for pairings? Not to mention a HUGE fuckin' shout-out to the J.D./Turk slashers??? Holy crap!

So... did the practice of name smushing originate in fandom or elsewhere? Did the coining of "Brangelina" and "Bennifer" come out of fandom influences, or was it just the media being creative? Did fandom pick it up from popular culture or vice versa?

Edit: From Wikipedia: Blends and portmanteau are the closest entries I could find describing this practice.

Date: 2006-12-22 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashe-frost.livejournal.com
I refuse to do name smushing. I won't even do 'Snarry' except in mocking or as an example or something. I'll do like SS/HP.

Name smushing came in fandom first, didn't it? We did it before Bennifer came along.. And Bennifer is the first I can think of..

Date: 2006-12-22 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emmagrant01.livejournal.com
I dislike name smushing in fandom. I will never willingly use the term "Drarry", for example. :-P

I honestly don't know where name smushing started.

Date: 2006-12-22 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karitawyr.livejournal.com
I'm not much for name smushing either. However, it is funny that the mainstream media is doing it now for fictional characters.

The first real life name smush I recall hearing on TV was also Bennifer. The first fannish one I read was Clex, which sort of sounded like a disease to me.

Date: 2006-12-22 05:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashe-frost.livejournal.com
Wikipedia says they didn't start dating until 2002.. And I'm really pretty sure fandom was name-smushing before then..

For all we know the ancient and noble house of Star Trek Fan Fiction was doing it once upon a time..

Date: 2006-12-22 05:45 am (UTC)
florahart: (cracked)
From: [personal profile] florahart
with Kock?

Hm. Better still: RPS/FPS cloning fic: DeCoy

Date: 2006-12-22 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashe-frost.livejournal.com
Please, please tell me it is so. For all we know, that's where the term originated.

Or not.

Okay. Probably not.

Date: 2006-12-22 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laughingcamel.livejournal.com
ya, no. I think its spirk...

Date: 2006-12-22 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emmagrant01.livejournal.com
Spirk! I love that. It sounds so close to "spunk". :-D

Date: 2006-12-23 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laughingcamel.livejournal.com
See and I always think of squirt...

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