Member Berries

Sometimes, after a franchise has Jumped the Shark, become a Franchise Zombie, or been Ruined FOREVER, it will enter a phase in which new entries rely more on nostalgia and callbacks to the "good" installments than on trying to tell interesting new stories or create famous new moments and lines of their own. This is the dreaded Memberberries stage of a franchise's life cycle.

Memberberries are often the result of a failed attempt to get a franchise back on track. They also frequently coincide with time-travel soft reboots.

Note that callbacks alone do not constitute Memberberries. There must be a popular perception that a franchise has declined in quality, and the events and lines being referenced must have happened long enough ago to be associated with feelings of nostalgia. If a particular line, trope, or running gag existed before the franchise jumped the shark, then continued examples of it do not count as memberberries even after the shark has been jumped.

Named after the sentient purple berries from season 20 of South Park, who tried to invoke people's nostalgia for political gain.

Film

 * Ghostbusters Afterlife - Oh jesus, where do we even begin?
 * Jurassic World - "That first park was legit!"
 * The Matrix Resurrections - The second trailer and the movie itself both include clips from the first movie and re-creations of the first movie's most famous scenes.
 * Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens - practically the trope codifier due to being the butt of the jokes in the South Park episode that is the trope namer.
 * Terminator Genysis - Literally recreates scenes from the first Terminator movie. Oh, and why is the T-1000 in this movie wearing a cop uniform? Because the T-1000 in the second movie wore one.

Live-Action TV

 * Star Trek


 * Started suffering a mild case of Memberberries in the last season of Star Trek: Enterprise, which consisted mostly of prequels to and origin stories for stuff that was seen in other shows/movies
 * The Memberberries really kicked into high gear in Star Trek: Into Darkness, which was basically two hours of "remember The Wrath of Khan? Yeah, I 'member!"
 * Star Trek: Discovery started off trying to do its own thing, but then spent most of season 2 reminding audiences of Spock, the original Enterprise, Captain Pike, and Number One.
 * Star Trek: Picard is literally nothing but "remember The Next Generation? Yeah, I 'member!" with a tiny amount of 'membering Seven of Nine from Voyager.
 * Star Trek: Lower Decks would require its own subpage just to cover all the memberberries powering it.