All The Tropes

In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You (view source)

Revision as of 07:56, 8 April 2014

356 bytes removed ,  10 years ago
m
Mass update links
VisualWikitext
m (categories and general cleanup)
m (Mass update links)
Line 16:
In Soviet Russia, [[Sinister Surveillance|television watches YOU]]! }}
 
The joke originated on ''[[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (TV)|Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In]]'', where [[Arte Johnson]]'s ambiguously [[Eastern European]] character Rosmenko simply refers to "Old Country."
{{quote| Here in America, is very good, everyone watch television. In Old Country, television watches you!}}
 
Line 43:
* 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 Thethe Garbage|finds YOU]]!
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|cake eats ''you!''}}
* [[Solty Rei|In the city, the Matrix enters you!]]
* [[Useful Notes/Romania|In Communist Romania,]] [[Snuff Film|you snuff]] [[Harmful to Minors|children.]] [[Black Lagoon|In Roanapur]], [[Creepy Twins|children]] [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|snuff YOU!]]
* In America, [[Sarah Palin]] can see Russia from her house. In Soviet Russia, [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Ivan Braginski]] [http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/007/8/7/In_Soviet_Russia_Shirt_Wears_U_by_rogueymu.jpg can see Alaska from his house.]
** Note also that in Soviet [[Axis Powers Hetalia]], Russia is in YOU!
* [[Last Exile: Fam, theThe 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! 5 Ds5D'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>
 
 
Line 71:
 
== Comic Books ==
* [[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|"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!]]
 
Line 85:
 
== Film ==
* One of the first examples, and a contemporary with Yakov Smirnoff's standup comedy, comes from the movie ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'', when the henchman of galactic gangster "Pizza the Hut" warns Lone Starr...
{{quote| "You'd better pay up, or Pizza is gonna send out for ''you!''"}}
* In ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'', Jay imagines a ''[[Planet of the Apes|Planet Of The Apes]]''-style dystopian world where "[[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|we will not spank the monkey]]; the monkey will spank us!"
* ''[[Teeth]]'' In Soviet Russia, Pussy eats you!
* 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:
Line 97:
* [[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 :
{{quote| '''Kirk Lazarus''' : I don't read the script. The script '''reads me'''.}}
 
Line 122:
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Mystery Science TheatreTheater 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-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]].
* [[Deadliest Catch (TV)|On Bearing Sea]], piñata [[Everything Trying to Kill You|hits you]].
 
 
Line 132:
{{quote| ''(if the pilgrims could see what became of American society)'' "Instead of landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock would land on them!"}}
* [[Of Montreal]] has a song titled ''The Party's Crashing Us'' (Do they mean [[Dirty Communists|the]] party?)
* A line in the [[Muse (Musicband)|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 [[HerodotusThe (Creator)Histories|Herodotus]] they inhabited parts of what is now Ukraine and Russia.)
 
 
Line 164:
* 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!
* ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'' has this trope between two ghosts the player encounters:
{{quote| '''Ghost 1:''' Fuck Fontaine!<br />
'''Ghost 2:''' You don't fuck Fontaine. Fontaine fucks you! }}
* In ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations Miles Edgeworth]]'', this is one of several memes spouted by [[Otaku|Sal Manella]] curing his brief cameo in case 2.
{{quote| In Soviet Russia, World Flags Lunchboxes eat j00!}}
* In [[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]], Hair cuts YOU! (bonus points- the character whose hair cuts you is russian)
* From ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]] Imperishable Night'':
{{quote| '''Marisa:''' Move and I'll shoot! ...I messed up. I mean, shoot and I'll move. [[Super Speed|In a flash.]]}}
* A certain mod of ''[[Sonic Robo Blast 2 (Video Game)|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 [[World of Warcraft]], when you attack a monster named Lurk, he says "In Nagrand, food hunt ogre!"
Line 180:
* [[Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy]]: "In Russian East Stereotypia, prostitute pays YOU! ... Why did I ever leave Russian East Stereotypia?"
* 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").
* [[Trope Overdosed the Webcomic]] has the Heavy from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' saying "In America, spy sap sentry. In Russia, sentry sap spy!"
* When [[Mulberry (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomic)|Dead Winter]]'' has it's resident Badass Russian say a version of [http://deadwinter.cc/page/338.htm this.]
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|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.]"
 
 
Line 192:
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/107744 Roses are red, violets are blue...]
** ...InSovietRussia, poem writes you!
* During [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara's]] joint review of ''[[Superman (Filmfilm)|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!"
* Invoked in the [[RifftraxRiff Trax]] of ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]] 3'' when Spidey nearly gets hit by a subway car: "In Soviet Russia train misses you!"
* "[[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|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.
* [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=In+Soviet+Russia#/d27uwij Courtesy of DeviantArt]: In Soviet Russia, [[Black Comedy Rape|Tentacle Monster gets raped...by you]].
Line 200:
** 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!: theThe 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: theThe 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 />
''Well, looks like they're screwed; unable to muck with the tractor beam that can only pull things...it looks like that ship seeking boulder is going to take out the ''Enterprise'' and ''Tsiolkovsky'', which won't make them happy back in Soviet Russia. Wait, that's it! In Soviet Russia, tractor beam will PUSH!'' }}
Line 244:
* In Soviet Russia, [[Masochist's Meal|pepper eats you!]]
* In Soviet Russia, [[Yuri Gagarin|rocket launches you!]]
* In Soviet Russia, [[Human Cannonball|cannon]] [[Command and Conquer Red Alert 3|fires you!]]
* A [[Star Trek|Ferengi]] Rule (Probably Nr. 190) which is equally true in [[Real Life]]: Drive your business or it will drive you.
* Inverted example: in Soviet Russia, [[Axis Powers Hetalia|you break Busby's Chair]]; in England, Busby's Chair breaks you!
Line 256:
* In America, [[NASA]] fires rockets. In Soviet Russia, [http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/27/russian-president-threatens-to-punish-officials-for-space-failures/?test=latestnews#comment rocket fires you!]
* [[Older Than They Think]] non-comedic example:
{{quote| If we don't end war, war will end us. -'''[[HGH. G. Wells]]'''}}
* In America, you can travel river by boat. In Russia, boat can travel river by YOU! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlak\]
 
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/887349"