Discredited Meme: Difference between revisions

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Compare [[Discredited Trope]], [[Dead Horse Trope]], [[Never Heard That One Before]], [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]], [[Popularity Polynomial]], [[Defied Trope]].

 

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'''[[In-Universe]] Examples Only!'''

* [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]] complains about this in "Trogday '08".

* Old memes don't die, they just become undead, [http://xkcd.com/491/ and get recycled on] [[Twitter]]

** [http://xkcd.com/286/ Similarly,] with some [[Nostalgia Filter]] tossed in for the hell of it

* ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' has been quoted so much, it's now a joke to mock the fact that it's quoted so much.

** Part of the lyrics of "White and Nerdy" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].

*** [[White Wolf]]'s ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' games mention this in many of their Storyteller handbooks. In fact, they even tell you how to deal with a player who is an obsessive quoter.

** ''[[Xkcd]]'' had [http://xkcd.com/16/ an old strip] encouraging Python fans to celebrate the group by making up their own surreal, Pythonesque jokes rather than endlessly [[Incredibly Lame Pun|parroting]] their lines.

** An episode of [[Loading Ready Run]]'s ''[[Commodore HUSTLE]]'' involved a D&D group with a "no Monty Python" rule.

* [http://zanyvgquotes.com/ Zany VG Quotes]'s ''[[Zero Wing]]'' page says, "It's dead, Jim," and has a link to the infamous intro that simply says "Oh hell, you already know what this one is." At one point there was a snarky comment about it being time to stop wearing the AYB t-shirts and repeating it all the time. Notable because the entire All Your Base fad can be traced back to a [[Zany VG]] project.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Simpson Tide", Bart sings a portion of the song "Do the Bartman" and Ralph Wiggum comments that it "is so 1991".

* In ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]: Mind over Mutant'', Cortex says over an intercom at one point "No, you can't [[LOLcats|haz cheezburger]]. It's a stupid meme anyway..."

* The entire concept is embodied in a ''[[The Man Show]]'' sketch of their "Museum of Annoying Guys" (faux Latinate name: "Jokus Repeatus Shut the F Up-us"). "It's the beat a [[Catch Phrase]] to death guy."

* It's been old hat since about the mid-[[The Nineties|1990s]] to observe that [[MTV]] [[Network Decay|doesn't play music videos]] anymore.

* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'''s [[The Cake Is a Lie]] meme got discredited by the time the sequel rolled around, through massive overuse. The following media has mentioned that:

* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-effect KnowYourMeme,] a website dedicated to...well, memes, has an upcoming dictionary term called "The [[Family Guy]] Effect." To wit: "When a popular Internet meme is mentioned on the show Family Guy, popularity of said meme will either have a temporary spike in popularity, or begin to decline." E.g. [[Chuck Norris]]? He's been unpopular a ''long'' time.

** So the next time you watch Family Guy and see your favorite meme on it, ''weep for your fallen meme.'' '''''WEEP.'''''

* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] admitted in his ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' review that his use of [[Street Fighter (film)|M. Bison]] exclaiming, "Of course!" in response to world domination plans was no longer funny. The clip has made a handful of NC-related appearances since then, but the buildup in each instance deviated from that past reviews (NC simply saying, "He has an evil plan to, you guessed it, take over the world") in order to make the gag less stale (eg, a character announces world domination plans ''himself'', NC notices a character looks like M. Bison, or someone says "Of course").

** In the commentary for the same video, he cited this trope as his reason for not including the famous "[[Too Smart for Strangers|bad touch]]" clip, mentioning also that, really, it ''was'' good advice and it was pretty ballsy of the show to make it.

* The ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' custom map "I Hate Mountains" has some (custom-made) graffiti where someone asks "[[What Would X Do?|What Would]] [[Chuck Norris]] [[What Would X Do?|Do?]]" about the [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. After a couple of lines of banter, the exchange is ended with four words: "Seriously, he's fucking dead."

* In a moment of [[Self-Deprecation]], [[Little Kuriboh]] discredited his "Card Games On Motorcycles" meme by having Lector destroy it in order to demonstrate Jinzo's special ability. Lector then laughs and says "I've been waiting a whole year for that!"

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6VqHCvdg9I&feature=feedu This] episode features Jack trying to find a new catchphrase. He's told that "he will be doubled his paycheck if he never says that phrase again."

* [[Chuggaaconroy]] has completely disavowed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZF2Shvy-7w Steve the Trooper], a red leaf Pikmin. Originally a throwaway gag, as Chugga often names characters, the fans picked up Steve and made fanart, videos, Facebook pages, and more. Throughout his Pikmin2 review, he has specifically avoided the name Steve, sometimes stating "You know what that Pikmin's name is". Still, most comments on his videos relate to Steve in some way.

 

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