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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Blackadder]]:'' "I'll be back before you can say Antidisestablishmentarianism." Since the "you" in question is [[The Ditz|Prince George]], he's right. Although he needs two days.
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** Notable for Blackadder leaving to perform an act of antidisestablishmentarianism.
* In an episode of ''[[Big Time Rush]]'', during a montage of the boys answering many arbitrary questions, Logan replies solely with the word.
* ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' episode "The $99,000 Answer''
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'''Ralph:''' I'll spell it. ''[pause]'' I'll spell it!
'''Alice:''' Well? Go ahead.
'''Ralph:''' ''[agitated]'' I'll spell it when you give me $16,000 for spelling it!
'''Alice:''' ''[disbelieving]'' Sixteen thousand dollars for spelling it?! I'll give you ''$32,000'' if you can SAY it! }}
* In a segment on Victorian school punishments in the second ''[[Horrible Histories (TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'' TV series, one boy was being punished for misspelling antidisestablishmentarianism.
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** At one time, Disney had sing-a-long videoes put out with intros to each song by Professor Ludwig Van Drake. The cartoon before the sing-a-long to Supercalifragilisticexplialidocious involves a gag about antidisestablishmentarianism not being the word he was thinking of.
* Shows up in ''[[Dave Barry]]'s Money Secrets'' when showing the proper way to write a resume:
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* The Elizabethan form of this was the Latin word ''honorificabilitudinitatibus'', (Literally, "to those things in the state of being able to achieve honours."
* The Dutch variant is ''Hottentottententententoonstelling'', Khoikhoi tents exhibition. It can be expanded to, among others, ''Hottentottententententoonstellingsterrein'' (Khoikhoi tents exhibition terrain).
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