Memetic Mutation/Quotes

""You internet types ruined Trogdor! Just like you did zombies, pirates, ninjas and Strong Bad!""

- Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Trogday '08

""Attention duelists! My hair has become an internet phenomenon!""

- Kimo, Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series episode 35, "The Tale of Two Tourneys"

""It's just one of those daft things that's so brilliant about the Internet.""

- Rick Astley, on his own memetic phenomenon

""That's Cookie Monster! He's why people on the internet say 'nom nom nom.' But we forgive him. This time.""

- Jason, Something Positive

""They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.""

- Remarks of Sen. Ted Stevens before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, June 28, 2006

""Memes are what happens when someone decides to try to be funny, and then someone decides it's catchy and repeats it to try to seem cool, in short. Retarded.""

- Namedown, MUGEN user

""Oh! Oh- look, it's a barrel! I-it's like, do a barrel roll! I, uh... can't let you do that, Star Fox! I am the Juggernaut bitch Leeroy Jenkins.""

- Iruka, "A Brand New Abridged Series!"

""Meme: a term coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene that was originally used to describe packets of cultural information, but subsequently adopted by internet users to refer to inside jokes for people who have no friends with whom to have real inside jokes.""

- Wolfram Alpha, taken from Encyclopedia Dramatica

"CCT: color:"

- Equius sums it up in Hivebent

""Ladies and gentlemen, we have... An Internet Meme!""

- Linkara, referring to "I'm the Goddamn Batman"

"Chick: And I dare you to go into a circle of any respectable nerds and say the words "you remind me of the babe" without- Nella: What babe? Chick: ...the babe with the power. Nella: What power?
 * the Chick waves her hands in a "see?" gesture*"

- The Nostalgia Chick, Labyrinth review

""A man has an idea. The idea attracts others, like-minded. The idea expands. The idea becomes an institution. (pause) What was the idea?""

- Top Dollar, The Crow

"John Hodgman: [Packets like these] could be anything on the internet. Spam, videos of lonely teens practicing with their lightsabers, comical reimaginings of movie premises -- Brokeback Mountain, for example, cats dressed as nuns eating from dishes of gravy...

Jon Stewart: Or maybe even useful information, or news analysis.

John Hodgman: Well, I guess. In fact...(he passes another envelope to Jon Stewart)...these are all Chuck Norris jokes."

- The Daily Show, Net Neutrality Act.

""Oooh, long Johnson! Oooooh, looong John--*get hit by train*"

- South Park, "Faith Hilling"