Abstract guy


Videotapes are turned into modern art-like gibberish to simulate an out-of-focus background. From Family Guy episode Road to Rhode Island.

Perchance to dream


In the animated Batman episode "Perchance to Dream," Bruce Wayne awakens to find himself living an ideal life—his parents are still alive and he's getting married to Selina Kyle. But he soon realizes that things aren't as they seem. One clue: everything he tries to read looks like gibberish. Features the villainous Mad Hatter.

Cheerski!


When I first saw the bottles in this illustration from the children's book Alexander the Windup Mouse, I thought the text was Russian. A second glance suggests that the text is intentionally obscured English (collage materials in the other illustrations appear in English).

Illustrator crash haiku


Dialog box from Illustrator crash on OS X.

Any less readable than a real term paper?


An apparent printer error caused this page to print out as gibberish. I think this is a term paper. Found at a school computer lab.

The Fake-tendo everycomputer


This illustration from Computer and video games: how they work and how to win shows games genericized with fake English labels. Keeping with the theme of genericization, the date of this 1982 publication is omitted from the book.

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