If you feel like you’re the only one having a hard time keeping up with Gen Z slang, think again. Even Hollywood’s ‘Han Solo’, Harrison Ford can’t decode Gen Z language. Recently, during a media appearance with his ‘Shinking’ co-stars, Harrison Ford was caught off guard by a certain term, which filled the room with chaos and laughter. Read on to find out what happened.
The curious case of Harrison Fords and Generation Z slang
It all started with a simple explanation about disconnecting on flights. Sherry Cola, Ford’s star in the third season of ‘Shrinking’, was explaining how she likes to disconnect from everything while traveling. He used the term “raw-dogging” and started a chain reaction.“I’m going to take a flight,” Sherry Cola said on Sirius XM’s ‘The Morning Mashup,’ “It’s just… here’s the thing. We’re doing the most all the time, right?” He tried to explain further: “So sometimes silence and solitude are necessary, and sitting on the plane looking at nothing, doing nothing, staring blankly…a flight is called a raw dog.”This surprised Harrison, who said, “That’s not what ‘raw-dog’ means.” At this, the host jokingly asked, “Do you want to explain to us what it really means?” And it got messier and more ridiculous from there. “They told me a little late. I really didn’t, well, why would I come across that…” Ford said.Then he blurred the line between the reel and his real life, “I’m over this part of anyone’s life; I have five children. People – I never – what does this mean? Why do you let me do this? And then you make fun of me. It’s because I’m old “.It was like he was giving a nod to a scene from the first season of “Shrinking,” where Ford’s character misuses the term “gross dog.” According to him, “raw dog” means “talking to someone who doesn’t want to talk to you.”
More on “shrinking”.
Available streaming on Apple TV+, ‘Shrinking’ stars Ford as Dr. Paul Rhoades. He plays a seasoned therapist dealing with the challenges of Parkinson’s disease while mentoring younger colleagues. Others include Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, Lukita Maxwell, Brett Goldstein, Michael Urie and Ted McGinley.
