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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
'''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.
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
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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
*** No, you're just conceding defeat. The argument is that the treadmill would keep the plane from moving forward.
** Randall Munroe of ''[[
* 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 [[
** 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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