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== [[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..."
** Half of his jokes were this. The other half were jokes about ''being'' a [[Funny Foreigner]] (e.g he goes into a a restaurant and gets asked how many are in his party, whereupon he replies "100 million")
** 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.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Recycled in Space|In Space]], [[Planetes|garbage disposes of YOU]]!
* [[[[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue]] Sakura is red,<br />Hinata is blue,]]<br />[[Naruto|In Soviet Konohagakure]],<br />[[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can|prison is in YOU]]!
* In most ''[[Gundam]]'' series, Earth lords over the space colonies. In ''[[G Gundam]]'', the colonies lord over Earth.
* In Soviet [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Amestris]], arm loses you!
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** In Soviet Amestris, pride swallows you!
* In real life, you eat meat. In [[Bio Meat]], [[Extreme Omnivore|meat eats you!]]
* [[Rozen Maiden|Rozen]] [[[[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue]] is red,<br />Suigintou is blue]],<br />In [[Memetic Mutation|Soviet Japan]],<br />[[Tsundere|Dolls break YOU!]]
* In [[Memetic Mutation|Soviet Japan]], [[Chobits (Manga)|persocom]] [[Grail in The Garbage|finds YOU]]!
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|cake eats ''you!''}}
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton In Port Coquitlam, pork eats you!]
* Inverted with the text your question company in the United States, KGB. Thus, "in mother Russia the KGB ask you the questions, in the United States you ask the KGB the questions."
* In Soviet Russia [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost11503-sov-cthulhu.jpg you eat] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Cthulhu]] (text on a label: <ref> Innsmouthian Cthulhus, 400 roubles</ref>).
** On the other hand, in Soviet Kanto, [[Pokémon]] [http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/183621/Pokemon+catch+YOU/ catches YOU!!].
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose|In ... everywhere, your ass is kicked by badass. In Soviet Russia, badass kicks the ass of YOU!!]]
* In Soviet Russia environment destroys YOU!
** Germany learned this the hard way (twice - apparently Hitler didn't take heed of what happened to the Teutonic knights). As did Napoleon beforehand.
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Watchmen (Comic Book)|"I'm not locked up in here with you...you're locked up in here with ME!"]]
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose|In America, you're scared of Batman]]. [[Superman Red Son|In Soviet Russia]], [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose|Batman scares you!]]
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* [[The Big Lebowski|"Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar, well, eats you."]]
* In Soviet Russia, [[Rocky IV|I must break you!]]
* [[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue|Blood is red, <br />Serum is blue,]] <br />[[The New Russia|In Former Soviet Russia,]] <br />[[Blade|Vampire is bitten by YOU!!]]<ref>It refers to the final scenes of Blade 1, which features Blade hunting Russian vampires in... Russia</ref>
* The 4th theme of the ''Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol'''s soundtrack is named "In Russia, phone dials you".
* In ''[[Tropic Thunder (Film)|Tropic Thunder]]'', though not Soviet :
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== Literature ==
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]: "If you gaze for long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes back [into you]."
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty
** That's weird, because NO ONE WATCHES BIG BROTHER!
** Even in [[Real Life]], [[Paranoia Fuel|Big Brother Is Watching You]].
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Mystery Science Theatre 3000|MST3K]]'' had a Yakov Smirnoff [[Expy|knockoff]] saying: "In your country, you watch movie ''[[The Rock]]''. In my country, we break rock in Gulag!"
** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: guess what movie the Gulag level in ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' [[Whole
* 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]].
* [[Deadliest Catch (TV)|On Bearing Sea]], piñata [[Everything Trying to Kill You|hits you]].
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** 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]].
* From [[Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]] episode 52: In Soviet Cyber World [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|rules screw you.]]
* ''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!''<br />
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* In America, you consume vodka. In [[Soviet Russia]], [[The Alcoholic|vodka consumes YOU]]!
** Unfortunately, in [[The New Russia|Former Soviet Russia]], [[The Alcoholic|vodka still consumes YOU]]!
* In Soviet Russia, [[
* In Soviet Russia, [[Yuri Gagarin|rocket launches you!]]
* In Soviet Russia, [[Human Cannonball|cannon]] [[Red Alert 3|fires you!]]
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* Another inversion: In Soviet Russia, [[Josef Stalin|leader]] [[The Purge|purges military brass]]; in America, [[Government Conspiracy|military brass purges]] [[John F Kennedy|leader]].
* [[Darker and Edgier|Darker and Edgier:]] In Soviet Russia, [[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:[[E Di]]_eQzfjQcJ:www.top-monitor.com/forum/index.php<!-- 3Faction3Dprintpage%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, Trope Mocks 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!
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