In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|''"In America[...] you can always find a party.

 

{{quote|[[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue|Roses are red

Violets are blue,]]

In Soviet Russia

 

In Soviet Russia, [[Describe Topic Here|topic describes YOU]]''!!''

 

{{quote|In America, you watch Television.

In Soviet Russia, [[Sinister Surveillance|television watches YOU]]! }}

 

See also [[Glorious Mother Russia]] for the [[Hollywood Atlas]] version of Soviet Russia that inspired the jokes.

{{examples|In Soviet Russia, examples post YOU!}}

== [[Trope Namer]] ==

* The [[Trope Namer]] is, of course Yakov Smirnoff <ref>although in Soviet Russia the trope made him</ref> who made jokes about how the U.S.S.R. had a [[Big Brother Is Watching]] regime. It's also a case of [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]; his most famous line was simply "In Russia...", not "In Soviet Russia..."

** He shifted his comedy after starting his theater in Branson back in 1992 (where he is still playing,) which means he quit using this joke long before it became an internet meme.

 

* [[Recycled in Space|In Space]], [[Planetes|garbage disposes of YOU]]!

* [[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue|Sakura is red]], Hinata is blue, [[Naruto|In Soviet Konohagakure]], [[Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can|prison is in YOU]]!

* [[Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing|In Soviet Anatoray]], [[Sky Pirate|ship steals YOU!]] - helped by the fact that the Silvius' captain is named Tatiana, a Russian name.

* In America, [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Jack Atlas kicks your ass]]. [[Subverted Trope|In Soviet Russia]], [[Memetic Badass|Jack Atlas also kicks your ass]].<ref>From a [[YouTube]] comment.</ref>

 

== Comic Books ==

 

 

* A piece of the ''[[Stargate]]''/''[[X-COM]]'' crossover ''[[XSGCOM|XSGCOM: Goa'uld Defense]]'':

{{quote|'MALP shows all clear' reported the control room over the loud speaker system.

'In Soviet Russia MALP watches you' Andianov declared as they headed up the ramp.

Teal'c couldn't understand why O'Neill, Major Carter and Daniel Jackson were in hysterics as they stepped through the gate. }}

* From "It's a small world after all" the characters get kidnapped by fangirls. [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Russia]] responds "In Russia, fangirls don't kidnap chibis, chibis kidnap them, da?"

 

* In [[Van Helsing]] Igor says this, when the the hot female ally and the Q of the hero try to force Igor into givinjg them the Werewolf antidote:

{{quote|"You try to get Igor. Igor get you!"}}

** This is a glorious example from the 2004 ''Punisher'' movie. There's a scene in which a massive hitman known only as the Russian shows up at the Punisher's apartment and proceeds to kick his ass. Like the comic series from which it was adapted (Welcome Back, Frank), the Russian (played by pro wrestler Kevin Nash) is wearing a very distinctive horizontally striped red and white shirt. This prompted fans into proclaiming "In Soviet Russia, [[Where's Waldo|Waldo]] finds you!"

* [[The Big Lebowski|"Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar, well, eats you."]]

{{quote|'''Kirk Lazarus''' : I don't read the script. The script '''reads me'''.}}

* [[Horror Films|Horror satire]] ''The Stuff'' concerns a yogurt-like, addictive food that turns out to be a parasite. It eventually makes those who eat too much of it into zombies. One of the last lines is an investigator asking pointedly, "Are ''you'' eating ''it''...or is '''''it''''' eating '''''YOU'''''?"

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Humanx Commonwealth|Mid-Flinx]]'', Teal warns Aimee about the flower in her hair: "You do not wear the cristif, the cristif wears you." Unfortunately for Aimee, Teal's not making a Yakov Smirnoff reference: {{spoiler|The "flower" is an invasive parasite, which sends its tendrils fatally bursting from Aimee's flesh seconds later.}}

* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Anti-Villain|Jack]] [[Villain Protagonist|of Shadows]]'' turned the tables on a vampire when she was too weakened by hunger to bite him first. He later made "I drank the blood of a vampire" part of his [[Badass Boast]].

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: guess what movie the Gulag level in ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' [[Whole-Plot Reference|ripped off]].

* This is kind of the point of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]. In other horror works the girl, or child, will look under the bed for monsters. Here...here the monster checks under the bed for [[Badass|Buffy]].

 

== Music ==

* [[Of Montreal]] has a song titled ''The Party's Crashing Us'' (Do they mean [[Dirty Communists|the]] party?)

* A line in the [[Muse (band)|Muse]] song "Knights of Cydonia" goes, "Don't waste your time or time will waste you".

 

== Mythology ==

* In a strange sort of [[Fridge Brilliance]] / [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] example, the [[Amazon Brigade|Amazons]] from [[Classical Mythology]]. In the myths, they were just about the only civilization at the time where women oppressed men instead of the other way around. (And, as chance would have it, according to [[The Histories|Herodotus]] they inhabited parts of what is now Ukraine and Russia.)

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Rifts]]'', the standard cyborg presented in the main book is pretty underwhelming. However, in the Russia splatbook, there are numerous cyborg variants that can be some of the more powerful options. Thus in America, you defeat cyborgs; in Soviet Russia, cyborg defeats you!

* One collection of epic monsters for ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' introduces the junkyard golem with the line, "On the world of the Sklavadok, the trash takes you out!"

 

== Theatre ==

'''Graustein''': Correct. }}

* ''[[Anything Goes]]'', the title song:

* In "Monica" from ''[[I Love My Wife]]'', the effects the eponymous girl has on people include "Men go ape/Apes go man."

 

* In [[Final Fantasy XI]] there was the Republic of Bastok, the only one of the three starting nations that was not a Monarchy, jokes soon followed.

** In Soviet Bastok, party looks for you!

* A certain mod of ''[[Sonic Robo Blast 2]]'' contains an extra difficulty known as "Soviet Russia Mode". You know how Sonic breaks monitors by jumping on them? Well, in Soviet Russia, [[Poison Mushroom|monitors break Sonic!]]

** Robotnik monitors break Sonic too!

 

* In nearly all [[Hentai]] featuring [[Naughty Tentacles]], tentacle monsters rape schoolgirls. In [[Questionable Content|Pintsize]]'s [[Doujinshi]], [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1524 it's the schoolgirls raping the tentacle monsters] (see the similar example under "Web Original").

* When [[Mulberry]] and her friends visit Russia in one comic, Jack claims to have trouble believing they're really there, since "the movies aren't watching people, the hamburgers aren't eating people, [and] the pants aren't wearing people". Mulberry explains that things have changed since the Soviets lost power. {{spoiler|However, [[Brick Joke|a later panel shows an anthropomorphic burger threatening to eat a Russian.]]}}

* ''[[Dead Winter]]'' has it's resident Badass Russian say a version of [http://deadwinter.cc/page/338.htm this.]

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had the eponymous amorph remind local frat boys that "[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-04-07 Sometimes you have fun, and sometimes the fun has you.]"

 

== Web Original ==

* Despair.inc advertised a t-shirt which mocked the bail-out General Motors received with the text: 'In Soviet America, the car drives you... bankrupt'

** [http://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2010-05-24 One of the contest winners.]

* [http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/107744 Roses are red, violets are blue...]

* During [[The Nostalgia Critic]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara's]] joint review of ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]] IV'', the two of them are stunned when Superman talks to some Russian astronauts...while still in [[Space Is Noisy|the vacuum of space]]. "In Soviet Russia, physics breaks you!"

* "[[The Nostalgia Chick|In Soviet Russia, Chick remembers you!]]". C'mon, she was reviewing ''[[Anastasia]]'', she had to.

* In the second season of ''Game Dogs'' they're called "game makes you" when they meet the new Russian owners.

** In Soviet [[Final Fantasy X|Spira, ze shoopuf]] [[Squick|rides you]].

* [http://www.xkcdb.com/?5293 The best] (so far) Yakov Smirnoff [[Russian Humour|metajoke]].

* ''Twice'' in [[SF Debris]]'s review of the [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|ST:TNG]] episode "The Naked Now", referring to the Soviet-built ship ''Tsiolkovsky''

{{quote|(as Picard) ''You know, number one, in your country, you send ships into space, but in Soviet Russia, ship sends YOU into space!''

* [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Special Edition|IN SOVIET RUSSIA MICHELLE GOROBOCHOP]]

* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Deletionist_Wikipedians In Soviet Wikipedia, bad article delete YOU!]

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Zoidberg:''' Earth! What a planet! On Earth, you enjoy eating a tasty clam. On my planet, clams enjoy eating a tasty you!

''([[Chirping Crickets|glass clinking]])'' }}

{{quote|'''Fry:''' That ice dispenser is so big, the ice crushes you. Yakov Smirnoff said that.

'''Leela:''' No he didn't. }}

{{quote|'''Alien:''' You don't feel the pain, the pain feels YOU!

'''Fry and Leela:''' SHUT! UP! }}

** But give Bobby credit, at least he plays with the trope. "In America, you put 'In God We Trust' on the money. In Russia, we ''have'' no money!"

*** And Yakov pays Bobby for the joke and says "keep them coming."

* From an episode of ''[[Rick and Morty]]'': In order to escape the Council of Ricks, the duo enters a dimension populated by Pizza-People who eat humans, evidenced by the fact that two of them are ordering one for delivery on the phone. Then they switch to another dimension populated by Phone-People who use pizza as chairs and eat chairs, ordering one on a human-shaped phone. Finally, they find refuge in a dimension full of chair-people who use humans as chairs, and eat phones, ordering one on a pizza-shaped phone. Fortunately, they're non-hostile, despite being a little curious. The duo is later able to throw the pursuers off again by using two of the people-chairs that look like them as decoys.

 

* [[Darker and Edgier|Darker and Edgier:]] In Soviet Russia, [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EDi_eQzfjQcJ:www.top-monitor.com/forum/index.php%3Faction%3Dprintpage%3Btopic%3D48113.0+www.the-mainboard.com/forum/index.php%3Faction%3Dprintpage%3Btopic%3D84149.0&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=de&client=ubuntu&source=www.google.de baggage claims you].

* In Soviet Russia, [http://www.cracked.com/article_19126_5-adorable-animals-that-are-turning-to-dark-side_p2.html Mouse trap you]!

* When Tropes Collide: In Soviet Russia, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHtE3nuxlY8 shark jumps you]!

* In Soviet Russia, STF U!

{{quote|If we don't end war, war will end us. -'''[[H. G. Wells]]'''}}

* In America, you can travel river by boat. In Russia, [[wikipedia:Barge Haulers on the Volga|boat can travel river by YOU]]!

 

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