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SCART
SCART, also called Péritel or Euroconnector, is a 21-pin analog audio/video connector for consumer equipment, introduced in 1977 and standard in Europe until HDMI displaced it.
Scary Hours
Scary Hours is Drake's EP series: a 2018 two-track EP with "God's Plan" and "Diplomatic Immunity", Scary Hours 2 (2021) ahead of Certified Lover Boy, and the 2023 For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition deluxe.
Scary Maze Game
Scary Maze Game, also called The Maze, is a 2003 or 2004 Flash jump-scare prank game by Jeremy Winterrowd; completing Level 3 triggers an Exorcist image and scream, spawning viral reaction videos.
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), also called Scary Monsters, is David Bowie's 14th studio album, released 12 September 1980 by RCA, produced with Tony Visconti, topping the UK chart with the singles Ashes to Ashes and Fashion.
Scary Movie
Scary Movie is a 2000 American comedy horror parody directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, starring Anna Faris and the Wayans brothers, spoofing Scream and late-90s teen slashers.
Scary Movie (2026 film)
Scary Movie (2026), also called Scary Movie 6, is a horror-parody comedy directed by Michael Tiddes, reuniting the Wayans brothers with Anna Faris and Regina Hall; it opened June 5, 2026, grossed over $230 million worldwide, and scored 23% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Scary Movie (film series)
Scary Movie film series: American horror-comedy parody franchise begun in 2000 by the Wayans brothers for Dimension Films; six films through 2026, nearly $1 billion grossed, consistently panned by critics but audience-favored.
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 2, also known as Scary Movie II, is a 2001 American comedy-horror parody directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, the second film in the Scary Movie franchise.
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 3 (2003), directed by David Zucker, is the third horror-parody film in the Scary Movie franchise, spoofing The Ring, Signs, and 8 Mile; it grossed about $220 million worldwide and was the first entry made without the Wayans brothers.
Scary Movie 4
Scary Movie 4 is a 2006 American parody comedy film directed by David Zucker, starring Anna Faris and spoofing War of the Worlds and Saw II.
Scary Movie 5
Scary Movie 5 is a 2013 American horror comedy parody film directed by Malcolm D. Lee, the fifth in the Scary Movie franchise, spoofing Paranormal Activity and Mama.
Scary Pockets
Scary Pockets is a Los Angeles funk band founded in 2017 by Ryan Lerman and Jack Conte (Patreon co-founder, Pomplamoose), releasing weekly live-in-studio funk covers of pop songs on YouTube with rotating session musicians.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three children's scary story collections by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, first published in 1981.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (film)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a 2019 PG-13 supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal and produced by Guillermo del Toro, adapting Alvin Schwartz's 1981–1991 book series; teens in 1968 Mill Valley face stories that write themselves in blood, grossing $68.7M in the US.
Scarygirl (film)
Scarygirl is a 2023 Australian CG-animated adventure-fantasy film directed by Ricard Cussó, based on Nathan Jurevicius's toys, graphic novel, and games, following Arkie as she rescues her octopus father from Dr. Maybee.
Scat singing
Scat singing: jazz vocal improvisation using nonsense syllables (vocables) instead of lyrics, treating the voice as an instrument. Key figures Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald; term first recorded 1925-30.
Scatec
Scatec, founded as Scatec Solar in 2007 and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2014, is a Norwegian renewable energy company building solar, wind, and hydropower plants in emerging markets.
Scáthach
Scáthach ("the Shadowy One") is the warrior woman of the Ulster Cycle who trained Cú Chulainn in Alba, gave him the Gáe Bulg, and features in Tochmarc Emire with her rival Aífe.
Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop), 1994 Eurodance single by Scatman John (John Larkin) on Iceberg Records, built from sampled scat syllables, a stuttering-positivity anthem that topped charts across Europe in 1995.
Scatman Crothers
Scatman Crothers (Benjamin Sherman Crothers, 1910-1986), American musician and character actor known for Louie on Chico and the Man, Dick Hallorann in The Shining, and voice roles as Scat Cat, Hong Kong Phooey, and Transformers' Jazz.
Scatman John
Scatman John, born John Paul Larkin (1942-1999), American jazz pianist turned eurodance star; lifelong stutterer whose hits "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" and "Scatman's World" made him a 1995 global phenomenon and stuttering advocate.
Scatophagus argus
Scatophagus argus, the spotted scat (金錢魚), is a euryhaline Indo-Pacific scat of estuaries and mangroves, 45 cm max, venomous spines, Least Concern, farmed and sold as food and aquarium fish.
Scatopsidae
Scatopsidae, the minute black scavenger flies or dung midges, is a family of small dark nematocerous Diptera (0.5–4.0 mm) in Scatopsoidea, Bibionomorpha, with about 380 species whose larvae live in decaying organic matter.
SCATS (traffic management)
SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) is an adaptive traffic signal control system developed by the New South Wales Government in Australia in the mid 1970s and now owned by Transport for NSW.
Scatter plot
A scatter plot, also called a scatter diagram, is a graph of points showing two variables, one on each axis, to reveal relationships between them.
Scatter search
Scatter search (SS) is a population-based evolutionary metaheuristic for optimization, introduced by Fred Glover in 1977, which combines solutions systematically rather than randomly as genetic algorithms do.
Scattered disc
The scattered disc is a distant Solar System region of icy bodies on eccentric, inclined orbits, created by Neptune's gravity and extending to nearly 1,000 au.
Scattergories
Scattergories, a 1988 Milton Bradley (Hasbro) party word game based on Categories/Guggenheim: 2-6 players, 20-sided letter die, 12 categories, three 3-minute rounds, 1 point per unique answer, majority-vote challenges.
Scattering
Scattering is the process by which waves or particle beams meeting matter redirect part of their energy into other directions, explaining the blue sky and red sunset.
Scattering amplitude
The scattering amplitude is the complex function of angle and energy that multiplies the outgoing spherical wave in quantum scattering, and its squared modulus gives the differential cross section.