One of our local UHF stations plays Mad About You reruns in the afternoon. Last week they aired an episode which began with Paul and Jamie playing Scrabble. Paul had put down the letters to make the non-word "hing", and was trying to convince Jamie that it was really a word. Jamie challenged Paul about it and asked him to use it in a sentence, to which he replied (something like) "I won the game of Scrabble by playing the word 'hing'."
That reminded me of two other references to sitcom characters making up words to play in Scrabble. One was an early episode of The Simpsons, where Bart makes up the word "kwyjibo", which he claims to mean "a big, dumb, balding North American ape, with no chin."
The other was an episode of Family Ties, where (as I remember) Alex makes up the words "zoquo" meaning "to shower", and "ushnu" meaning "to towel off".
(Note the Google results for each italicized word.)
Does anyone know of any other made-up words that characters have used in Scrabble in other sitcoms?
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