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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.
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.
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Date: 2006-12-22 04:50 am (UTC)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..
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Date: 2006-12-22 04:54 am (UTC)I honestly don't know where name smushing started.
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Date: 2006-12-22 04:57 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-12-22 05:20 am (UTC)For all we know the ancient and noble house of Star Trek Fan Fiction was doing it once upon a time..
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Date: 2006-12-22 05:45 am (UTC)Hm. Better still: RPS/FPS cloning fic: DeCoy
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Date: 2006-12-22 06:08 am (UTC)Or not.
Okay. Probably not.
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Date: 2006-12-22 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-22 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-23 03:07 am (UTC)