Case in point:
Recently I’ve been talking to my son about “the silent e" at the end of a word that makes the other vowel in the word say its name. For example: ride, base, bone, mute. As he and I read along in a book, we often come to a word following this rule and I will remind him. But since watching Electric Company he calls this English spelling rule the “ninja e”.
and so much more memorable than boring old Mom.