To use a very flashy, poppy and shiny style of telling a story or explaining something on film to hide the fact you are saying nothing of value or your subject is so shallow in fact you need for people to be distracted.
Named after Morgan Spurlock, creator of Super Size Me, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden and other documentaries that emphasize flash, pomp and circumstance over content and insight. Was not the originator of this (Michael Moore came first) but Spurlock took this to a new level.
Does not have to be defined by documentaries. The films "Grand Canyon" and "Crash 2006" are other great examples of this.
Named after Morgan Spurlock, creator of Super Size Me, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden and other documentaries that emphasize flash, pomp and circumstance over content and insight. Was not the originator of this (Michael Moore came first) but Spurlock took this to a new level.
Does not have to be defined by documentaries. The films "Grand Canyon" and "Crash 2006" are other great examples of this.
The speech by Ricky Fitts in American Beauty was so spurlocky. It was completely empty!
Ben Stein being unable to prove anything in Expelled, it was such a Spurlocky affair.
Ben Stein being unable to prove anything in Expelled, it was such a Spurlocky affair.
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General moviegoing public: Please take several million of our personal dollars.
General moviegoing public: Please take several million of our personal dollars.
by Roach likes you August 25, 2005
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To be unceremoniously canned for failing to meet the terms of your employment using unsuitable tactics.
by StarfishKiller October 15, 2019
Get the Spurlocked mug.This happens if you get really wasted at a party and end up in bed with a lumpy sausage-shaped woman. When you scurry to the door you find that it is locked (hence scur+locked) and only she has the key. Thus you end up spending the night with said lumpy sausage woman. Shame on you.
Guy1: Fuck I was so high last nite I ended up with Fannie. I tried to leave but got scurlocked!
Guy2: Ahh sorry to hear that, dude. Theres some Lysol over there.
Guy2: Ahh sorry to hear that, dude. Theres some Lysol over there.
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A variation which compounds the stupidity of the person in which the statement is communicated to by obscuring the word "Sherlock" with the word "Scurlock"
A variation which compounds the stupidity of the person in which the statement is communicated to by obscuring the word "Sherlock" with the word "Scurlock"
Something you say to a dumbass who points out a completely obvious thing!
Dumbass: "Hey, your head is on fire!"
Smartass: "Yeah, no shit, scurlock!
Dumbass: "Hey, your head is on fire!"
Smartass: "Yeah, no shit, scurlock!
by Agent 49 July 6, 2016
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by Aaron Warrender January 2, 2009
Get the Spurlock mug.Some dumbass who decided to make a documentary called "Super Size Me", in which he ate McDonald's three times a day for a month to prove to America that fast food is bad for you. No shit, Sherlock.
Morgan Spurlock: "Now that I have made way too much money making a film about the obvious consequences of eating a fast food diet high in fats, cholesterol and sodium, I think I'll make a film called 'Surgeon General's Warning' where I smoke for 5 years to see how bad smoking is for you"
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