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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"You've been wrong so many times that I'm not even going to say something is wrong anymore. I'm going to say that it's 'Dorian.'"''
|'''Dr. Cox''', to John Dorian, ''[[Scrubs]]''}}
Pop culture can be an interesting thing. Slang is in a constant state of flux, always changing. But for some things that stand the test of time, it will be adapted into our descriptive terminology.
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Related to [[Buffy-Speak]]. Compare [[Popcultural Osmosis]], [[Sein Language]], [[Malaproper]], [[Memetic Mutation]] and [[Weird Al Effect]]. Also check out the various [[Self-Referential Humor]] tropes.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* [[Batman]] is known for [[Stealth Hi Bye|vanishing abruptly while in the middle of a conversation]]. So when Nightwing, his first protege, does it to him, he smiles and mutters "Kid pulled a me".
* ''The Adventures of Johnny Bunko'' involves the titular character's surname becoming a verb at his workplace for "to mess up". {{spoiler|A little career advice from a helpful fairy later turns it into something positive.}}
* In the ''[[Transformers]]'' fanfic community, [[Fanon]] especially, something blowing up or exploding is known as 'Wheeljack' and 'Pulling a Wheeljack', such as "Dude, your computer just pulled a Wheeljack."▼
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', Professor Flitwick rants at Harry and Dumbledore that if there are any other odd plans or plots that go wrong in spectacular fashion again ([[Long Story]]), then Flitwick would kick Harry out of Ravenclaw and he could go to Gryffindor where all of the Dumbledoring belonged.▼
== Film ==
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* In ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'', Dave spills water on his pants after witnessing the confrontation between Baltazaar and Horvath and everyone believes that he wet himself. Even ten years later, kids in grade school still call having a nervous breakdown "pulling a Dave Stutler."
* In ''[[The Gamers]]'':Dorkness Rising, when Flynn is [[Back from the Dead|resurrected]], Lodge (the ''[[Game Master]]'') notes that "Flynn pulls a [[The Bible|Lazarus]]."
▲== Fanfiction ==
▲* In the [[Transformers]] fanfic community, [[Fanon]] especially, something blowing up or exploding is known as 'Wheeljack' and 'Pulling a Wheeljack', such as "Dude, your computer just pulled a Wheeljack."
▲* ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', Professor Flitwick rants at Harry and Dumbledore that if there are any other odd plans or plots that go wrong in spectacular fashion again ([[Long Story]]), then Flitwick would kick Harry out of Ravenclaw and he could go to Gryffindor where all of the Dumbledoring belonged.
== Literature ==
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* At the end of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Carrie]]'', it's said that "to rip off a Carrie" passed into teen slang, meaning "to commit arson".
** [[Truth in Television|Life Imitates Art]], but twisted: "Pulling a Carrie," or "going Carrie on [something]," actually did become synonymous with someone acting crazy after being humiliated.
** This one's become so well-
** Oddly enough, to "Carrie someone" usually refers to the act of inflicting such humiliation on the person rather than the act of retaliation. For example, in an episode of ''[[30
* In the [[Meg Cabot]] novel ''How to Be Popular,'' the phrase "Don't pull a Steph Landry" is the basis for the entire plot.
* Played with in ''[[Dave Barry]] Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States'', describing the occasion of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the first July Fourth ([[Running Gag|October 8]], 1776): "The members took turns lighting sparklers and signing their John Hancocks to the Declaration, with one prankster even going so far as to actually write '[[wikipedia:John Hancock|John Hancock]].'"
* The first modern novel, ''[[Don Quixote]]'', inspired the adjective "quixotic", which means, to be an ordinary person with grandiose or impossible dreams. However, at least one dictionary uses "quixote" as a lower-case noun with the same connotation. "He's such a quixote."
* ''[[Harry Potter and
* Done rather cruelly in ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]'': Pulling a "Charlie Gordon" is messing up.
* As usual, Shakespeare invented this one - "He out-Herods Herod."
** This one's an allusion to one of the old cycles of Biblical Miracle Plays which were the roots of English theatre; the raging tyrant Herod was one of the most melodramatic, over-the-top roles. Hamlet's warning against overacting.
** Another Shakespeare example: "She Phebes me", from ''[[As You Like It]]''.
* From one of the ''[[Dinotopia]]'' books, any instance of [[Aint No Rule]] or [[Loophole Abuse]] is referred to as "Pulling an Andrew", after said Andrew wins an obstacle course race against a ''far'' more athletic dinosaur by simple virtue of ignoring the obstacles and running down the straightaway between the courses.
* [[The Dresden Files|Jim Butcher]] says on [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811102031/http://www.cipher-wotr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=348 this page] about writing the middle of a novel: "It lurks between the beginning of your book and the exciting conclusion, and its mission in life is to [[The Neverending Story (film)|Atreyu you right down into the yucky, mucky mire]] in order to prevent you from ever actually finishing."
** For the unfamiliar, the mire was a swamp in the middle of the film that would suck in and trap anyone like a tar pit unless they had a certain frame of mind.
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* Hank Green of the [[Vlog Brothers]] made 'Warner Chilcot' a curse word after the company of that name [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPf8vwnoEtU raised the price of his medication by 1200%.]
* Parodied to the point of [[Refuge in Audacity]] in the [[Riff Trax]] of ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', as Neytiri fends off the jackal-like animals attacking Jake's Avatar.
{{quote|''"There's the Flying [[The Lord of the Rings|Legolas]]. Followed by the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Donatello]]. Unexpected [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Shatner Khan yell.]] Ahh, the [[OJ Simpson|OJ.]]''
''[[Crosses the Line Twice|I heard Michael Vick pulled a]] [[A Date with Rosie Palms|PeeWee Herman]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|in the theater during this scene.]]'' }}
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