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Weekend Update with Seth Myers

"This week the new Oxford American Dictionary named Sarah Palin's 'refudiate,' a word she first used on Twitter, word of the year. Which brings us to a segment called 'Come on, dictionary.' Come on, dictionary. Shouldn't the word of the year be better than Sarah Palin's accidental mash-up of refute and repudiate? And we know it was an accident because Palin herself went back and changed the Tweet to say refute. Yet then went back again to Twitter and defended herself, writing, 'Shakespeare liked to coin new words, too. Got to celebrate it.' Well there are a couple of differences between Shakespeare and Sarah Palin. For one, when Shakespeare coined new words it wasn't by accident. He came up with words like submerge and sneak. He didn't just take two words that kind of mean the same thing and then smash them together to make a third word that also kind of means the same thing. If you're going to make a word from two words, have it mean a new thing. For example, gynosaur. That's a gynecologist dinosaur. Irrespoonsible. That's when you play fast and loose with a spoon. And lumberjerk: the cashier who overcharges you at Home Depot (see also, woodscrooge). Shakespeare crafted new words; Sarah Palin got into a word fender bender. And when Shakespeare did come up with new words, he certainly didn't say 'Got to celebrate it.' In fact, I bet he never said that. 'Shakespeare, what are you doing at the club?' 'Just finished Twelfth Night, got to celebrate it.' Finally, we don't need refudiate because we already have repudiate. You can't just change the 'p' in a word to an 'f' and then say you made a new word. If it's that easy, then I just came up with one. Here, I'll use it in a sentence: New Oxford American Dictionary, please stop rafing the English language."

Community: "Conspiracy Theories and Soft Defenses"

Jeff: "Garrity, does the theater department have any of those prop guns that fire blanks?"
Drama professor Sean Garrity: "Of course. We just did a modern retelling of Macbeth set in gang land Chicago."
Jeff: "Oh, fresh take. [Aside to Annie:] And you think I'm lazy."

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Skit about ceramic busts: "You gotta get yourself these ceramic busts. It's people from all over history: France, Greece, Shakespeare. People are going to look at these and think you own a Mercedes Benz."

Bones

Season 6 Episode 5, "The Bones That Weren't"
Bones and Booth come across a living statue of Shakespeare 21 minutes into the episode. Sweets and the performer quote Shakespeare.
Sweets: "An honest tale speeds best being plainly told." (Richard III, Act IV, Scene 4)
Statue: "Truth is truth to the end of reckoning." (Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1)
Sweets: "There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow." (Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2)
Statue: "By Isis I will give thee bloody teeth, if thou with Robert [Caesar] paragon again." (Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene 5)
Sweets: "But were we burdened with like weight of pain, as much or more we should ourselves complain." (Comedy of Errors, Act II, Scene 1)
Statue: "This is the short and long of it, there is no honor amongst thieves."
Sweets: "One may smile and smile and be a villain." (Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5)
Statue: "A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!" (Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4)
Sweets: "Where the offense is, let the great axe fall." (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5)
"I can no other answer make, but thanks and thanks." (Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 3)
Statue: "How far that little candle throws its beams; so shines a good deed in a naughty world." (Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene 1)