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{{quote|'''Spike:''' Look, if cavemen and astronauts got into a fight, who would win?
'''Wes:''' Oh. You've been yelling at each other for forty minutes about this. ''[[Beat|[Beat]]]'' Do the astronauts have weapons?
'''Angel & Spike:''' NO!
|''[[Angel]]'', "A Hole in the World"}}
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But not this time. No, ''this'' time the argument becomes truly heated. Voices are raised. Curses are spit out. Friends are insulted. Furniture is thrown across the room in fury. No one involved is willing to back down until they convince the others that they are right ''right'' ''RIGHT'', ''DAMMIT!!''
 
... all over something as mundane and inconsequential as whether or not peanut butter technically counts as a sauce.<ref>[[Self-Demonstrating Article|For the record, it ''doesn't'', and if you say otherwise, I'll '''kill you'''.]]</ref> It's stupid, pointless, and really shouldn't be worth so much passion, but the characters ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|just. Can't. Let it.'' '''''Go''']]''.
 
Needless to say, [[Truth in Television]] - just see [[Unpleasable Fanbase]], [[Broken Base]], and [[Base Breaker]] for a number of media-centric examples. Frequently overlaps with [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]].
 
Not to be confused with the 1960s Astronauts in Caveman Days comedy ''[[It's About Time|Its About Time]]''. Or a [[Ginger or Mary Ann]] debate. Not related to [[Ancient Astronauts]].
 
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* If an airplane were on a conveyor belt, could it... uh, never mind.
** As noted above, this was tested by the [[MythBusters]]. It worked.
** Debatable, since it was moving FORWARD''forward'' on the treadmill, still generating lift. (Oh god I'm starting the trope inside the trope.)
*** No, you're just conceding defeat. The argument is that the treadmill would keep the plane from moving forward.
** Randall Munroe of ''[[Xkcdxkcd]]'' explains it all [httphttps://blog.xkcd.com/2008/09/09/the-goddamn-airplane-on-the-goddamn-treadmill/ here]. (Short answer: {{spoiler|The question is ambiguous}}. Shorter answer: {{spoiler|Yes}}.)
* Pirates vs Ninjas. That is all.
** [[Rooster Teeth]] parodied the pirates vs ninjas debate by starting Cake vs Pie.
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**** Not to mention the [[True Blood|Team Bill vs Team Eric]] argument.
*** In fact, let's just say [[Shipping]] in general.
* In an interview with [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]], Bill Clinton discussed this essentially happening in politics. When you have two similar candidates (in this case Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton), the campaign becomes about stressing the minor differences between them. That can lead to them passionately stressing and arguing about a stance that the candidates don't actually find that important.
** Heck, ''any'' random, small, and otherwise irrelevant, difference in political, philosophical or religious views could turn into this. We could give examples of this, [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|but we're not going to.]]
* Even troping wikis aren't immune: back on [[The Other Tropes Wiki]], the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] once had the line, "debating which time travel theory is right is much like trying to find the best flavor of ice cream". After over fifty different edits of what the best flavor of ice cream actually was, the joke was removed.
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