Jalapeña

Goliath is about to have a life altering experience.

Jalapeña is the feminine form of jalapeño. Jalapeños are large chili peppers, known for being quite spicy.

History

While Elisa Maza was undercover, she and Tony Dracon shared a jar of Jalapeña Brand jalapeños, which was later given to Broadway. After Dracon was arrested, Goliath tried a jalapeño, and subsequently yelled "Jalapeña!" ("Protection") [1]

Since then, "jalapeña" has become something of a curse word among the Manhattan Clan and has similar usage as the phrase "holy cow" and the like.

Uses

• Broadway and Goliath in "Protection"
• Brooklyn in "The Price"
• Goliath in "Avalon" Part Three
• Elisa in "Sanctuary"
• Hudson and Lexington in "Pendragon"
• Goliath in "Eye of the Storm"
• Hudson in "Vendettas"
• Elisa in "Nightwatch"
• Elisa in "Reunion"
• Gnash in "New Rules"

Apocrypha

Prior to the initial airing of "Protection", Brooklyn uses the expression when parasailing for the first time in Gargoyles #5 "Venus In Stone" by Marvel Comics.

Production Background

In 2021, NECA immortalized the running gag in plastic.

Keith David used to shout out "jalapeña" as a replacement for "hallelujah." He picked that up from a Blues singer named Bernadine Mitchell. [2] Voice Director Jamie Thomason bet Greg Weisman he could not work that into the show, and Greg bet that he could. [3] Later, Gary Sperling wrote and story edited "Protection" (poor, innocent Gary Sperling), and Greg worked in a little subplot involving jalapeño peppers, so that at the end, Goliath would shout "Jalapeña!" [4]

During production, Frank Paur and others who worked on the show hated it. [5]

Though Goliath's encounter with jalapeño peppers at the end of "Protection" leads to it becoming a pseudo-curse, Broadway uses it in that sense earlier in the episode, before Goliath's experience.

See Also

• Jalapeño at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia