Citations:squeakquel
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Noun: "(humorous) a sequel, especially one involving rodents"
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- 2009 December 22, “Now Playing”, in Mountain Xpress[1], page 61:
- It doesn't matter that the original big-screen Alvin and the Chipmunks was an abomination. It made a lot of money, so a sequel — or as it's preciously called here a “squeakquel” — was inevitable.
- 2010 April 9, Matt Pais, “More than 'The Mac Guy'”, in RedEye Chicago[2], page 32:
- If the movie does well enough they’ll make a squeakquel. Squeakquels, it all depends on how many people go see it.
- 2011, Betty G. Birney, Humphrey's Ha-Ha-Ha Joke Book[3], page 152:
- Q. Why did the hamster not want to go to the cinema??
A. It wanted to see the squeakqel first!!!
- 2012, Laura DiSilverio, All Sales Fatal[4], page 54:
- An immortal hamster sounded like a shoo-in for whichever Hollywood studio had put out a “squeakquel” about chipmunks.
- 2012 January 11, “New In Theaters”, in Seven Days[5], volume 17, number 19, page 71:
- First a "squeakquel," now a "chip-wreck" on a deserted island.
- 2012 October, Glen Birdsall, “'Round and 'Round Willard”, in Halloween Machine[6], volume 1, number 4, page 15:
- Willard did come out with a sequel (a squeakquel...I had to do it) called Ben.
- 2015 January, Brandi Chambless, “Taking It to the Max”, in The Cross Timbers Gazette[7], page C14:
- He knew readers were engaged when I followed the Casey Anthony trial with The Atonement or inadvertently hit a nerve of every red-blooded pet activist in North America with my column Free Kittens followed by the squeakquel Free Cat.
- 2017 February 8, David Molloy, “Why Music Needs Neil Cicierega”, in Brag[8], number 699, page 11:
- Now, the trilogy is complete – Mouth Moods (the ‘zequel’ or ‘squeakquel’, depending on where you look) is loose upon the world, and Cicierega’s masterpiece is complete.
- 2023 April 11, Adam Beam, “Does Hollywood really have an originality problem?”, in The Slate[9], volume 66, number 16, page B1:
- I get just as sick as everyone else when I see new remakes, reboots, sequels, sequels and even squeakquels.