The children's game show Incredible Games has the game 'Alphabet Soup', from which the contestants have to fish magnetic letters, and use them to spell words.Don amuses himself by removing the P and then wondering if ants find each other sexually attractive. In How Not to Live Your Life, Eddie uses Alphabetti Spaghetti to spell out 'Sexy Pants' (his nickname for Don) on Don's plate.The page quote is from the Hannah Montana episode 'You Didn't Say it Was Your Birthday' a guy interested in buying Darth-Vader look-alike chip mentions that he found it interesting when his alphabet soup spelled some random gibberish.In one episode of The Amanda Show, Penelope Taynt (Amanda's Number One Fan, please!) goes on a date with her boyfriend - himself a major Amanda fan - and he reveals that he made alphabet soup for her but removed every letter except A, M, N and D, so that 'it only spells 'AMANDA''.This trope's nature as pareidolia is discussed as a play on Pig's Cosmic Plaything status. Pearls Before Swine: Pig gets a bowl that says 'no one likes you' in the Decemstrip.During finals week, Paige is concerned that it's a bad omen when her Alpha-Bits cereal doesn't have any A's.Andy responds that, given the amount of cereal Peter eats, it's statistically unsurprising. Peter freaks out because his alphabet cereal spells out 'HELLO PETER', saying that the odds of that must be 'one in a gazillion'.Jason spells out a message with alphabet cereal that says: 'By eating this cereal, you agree to buy Jason a new computer'.Jason wants a refund on his soup because it doesn't contain the entire alphabet.Andy's Cordon Bleugh Chef tendencies are highlighted by her alphabet soup, which spells out things like 'YUCKY' and 'GROSS'.Jason's alphabet soup consists of the letters N, A, C, and L.FoxTrot has used several variations on this gag.Note that examples with Alpha-Bits cereal also count for this trope. Not to be confused, either, with a Red-Tape Shuffle, where one might be sent to a myriad of bored, uncaring government office workers and shuffled to a number of departments, which is confusing, time-consuming, and the number of abbreviated names often dismissively called 'alphabet soup'.

It also appears frequently in Edutainment Games involving spelling.Ĭompare Anthropomorphic Typography for another form of letters 'coming to life.' Not to be confused with Alphabet Soup Cans, which is something else entirely, though could use alphabet soup for spelling. It often appears in media aimed at very young children, often in the form of Alphabet Songs. It could be used to spell offensive messages, contain the alphabet of a different language, be missing certain letters, appear as Anthropomorphic Food (since they have a way to spell messages out), spell threatening messages, be used in place of writing, and more. After all, who doesn't want to eat words? Because it is well-liked by a lot of people, it shows up quite often in media, too.īeing a dish shaped like letters, alphabet soup is prone to be Played for Laughs.

Random Guy, Hannah Montana, 'You Didn't Say It Was Your Birthday'Īlphabet soup is an iconic meal of many people's childhood.

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