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DEFINITION: n. The unpleasant physical and/or psychological effects, which occur after watching the entire season of a TV show, non-stop on DVD. v. To watch an old TV series on DVD with stopping to think.
Verboticisms
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Episodelepsy
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: EH-pah-sode-lep-see
Sentence: After we watched the entire run of "Fantasy Island" last weekend, Norbert was stricken with episodelepsy. Now he keeps yelling "da plane, da plane" between his shaking fits...
Etymology: episode, epilepsy
Serialillers
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: seer-ree-ull-ill-urs
Sentence: The serialillers from watching LOST season 2 included brainfreeze, dead eye (like red eye but not exclusive to photographs) and numbbum.
Etymology: From "serial", "ill" and "serial killer".
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COMMENTS:
they sound like they are seriesouslyill - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-02: 12:22:00
Damn straight. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-02: 18:23:00
Now if they watched the complete set of Taggart - they'd be serialmurrded - said with an extremely strong Scottish accent. - petaj, 2007-04-02: 22:53:00
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Episoverload
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: epp-ee-soh-ver-load
Sentence: No matter how often they squeezed in the 'entire' season of Firefly they never suffered episoverload
Etymology: episode, overload
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COMMENTS:
I'd be lying if I said that at least a little of that vote is because I have watched all the episodes of Firefly more or less all at once myself. Several times. - Osomatic, 2007-04-02: 16:32:00
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Rerunover
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: re-run-oh-ver
Sentence: They both felt as if they'd been rerunover after their 36 hour marathon of CSI was over.
Etymology:
Tvqueasy
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: tee vee queee see
Sentence: After a full day of x-files colin was more than tvqueasy, he was almost blind.
Etymology: from TV and queasy.
Wearisumreshow
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: weri-sm.rishao
Sentence: I have watched this movie more than ten times , its has now become a wearisumreshow to me.
Etymology: wearisome means boring. reshow means to play or see again.
Overdvded
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: over dvd ed
Sentence: i dont want to watch it anymore i am overdvded
Etymology: over as in to much an dvd as in as it is.
Naustalgia
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: nawhs tahl jyaa
Sentence: By 5.00am the naustalgia was palpable, she began to envy the decapitated horse she had seen seven hours before.
Etymology: nostalgia nausea
Ickathon
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ikəθän
Sentence: What started as a dare, ended as a ickathon as a group of friends spent their vacations watching Green Acres episodes non-stop. Besides the psychological effects of spending so much time with such insipid drivel several of the women and one of the guys took almost a week to loose the Eva Gabor-esque accent.
Etymology: ick (exclamation used to express strong distaste or disgust) + marathon (a long-lasting or difficult task or operation of a specified kind)
Episodomy
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ep-i-SOD-o-mee
Sentence: Buffy felt slayed and not a little lost. She also had a sore derriere from sitting on the sofa watching the entire season of Fawlty Towers without getting up. She had a bad case of episodomy.
Etymology: episode (a part of television series) + Sodom (a city well known for vice and corruption especially of a certain kind likely to cause psychological unpleasantness and/or a sore butt)
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COMMENTS:
Also reminds me of episiotomy -- another cause of sore butts. - petaj, 2007-04-02: 05:11:00
Excellent word. I take it Buffy won't be watching any Gomorrah for a little while. I know, lame... - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-02: 07:27:00
now I know why she feels so icky - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-02: 12:26:00
Nice word! - simplysimon, 2007-04-02: 13:15:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by catgrin.
Thank you catgrin! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by catgrin. Thank you catgrin. ~ James