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Honestly what are we doing analyzing and splitting hairs on this stupid word, none of this really matters.
You're right but for the wrong reason. Nobody cares who said chungus first, what matters is who coined or popularized it. On that front Jim's right and he used it frequently enough to make it a more popular term. But his use of chungus has nothing to do with the meme. When people used big chungus no one was thinking about Jim Sterling or his shitty show. They were thinking of fat Bugs Bunny. I'm sure it eats at him that someone else took the joke he was using and became far more popular then him.
I vaguely remember hearing the word used now and then on the playground. He simply used something that he heard as a kid and is trying to claim he invented it. It would be like if Doug Walker claimed to have made the playground version of jingle bells about Batman.Who popularized it before him?
In a way it doesn't matter, but it matters a lot to Jim because it's the closest thing to a lasting legacy he has that he hasn't fucked up or distanced himself from. Meanwhile, people he doesn't like such as JK Rowling and Scott Cawthon have successful, long lasting legacies that continue to this day.