 The episode features two neologisms : embiggen and cromulent . The show runners asked the writers if they could come up with two words which sounded like real words , and these were what they came up with . The Springfield town motto is " A noble spirit <unk> the smallest man . " <unk> Edna Krabappel comments that she never heard the word <unk> until she moved to Springfield . Miss Hoover , another teacher , replies , " I don 't know why ; it ’ s a perfectly cromulent word . " Later in the episode , while talking about Homer 's audition for the role of town crier , Principal Skinner states " He 's <unk> that role with his cromulent performance . " 
