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This is a subversion of [[
# "Who's X?"—The person from Group B doesn't get it at all because of a failure of [[
# "Oh, X! He was in Y, right!"—The person from Group B ''gets it wrong'' because of a failure of [[
# "Wait, Y was based on a real X?"—The person from Group B gets it wrong because of a ''clash'' of [[
# "Impressive, you know X... oh, you don't"—The person from Group B gets it wrong because of a clash of [[
This can happen because the person from Group B:
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:E) is [[In the Original Klingon|amusingly]] [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|displaced]] from the time of origin;
:F) simply is not familiar with a genre or a work;
:G) the work itself is [[Fan Myopia|thought to be so popular]] that all who know it think it will be passed on through [[
Note that A-F can go both ways (for example, someone too old to know [[Britney Spears]] or The [[Backstreet Boys]] may have fond memories of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' or [[wikipedia:Herman's Hermits|Herman's Hermits]]), and G is the natural conclusion of [[
This, by the way, is the reason character-named tropes are often renamed. For example, if you're not familiar with original [[Sherlock Holmes]] tales, you won't know who [[Inspector Lestrade]] is; if not well-read in 19th-century French literature (or [[All Musicals Are Adaptations|Broadway musicals]]), [[Inspector Javert]] may be unknown to you.
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Compare [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]], [[Adaptation Displacement]], [[Forgotten Trope]], [[It's Been Done]], [[Fleeting Demographic Rule]], [[Recognition Failure]], [[Lampshaded the Obscure Reference]], and [[Reindeer Aren't Real]]. Applying this to sports gives you [[Gretzky Has the Ball]].
Contrast
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* Agent 355 from ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'' never gets pop culture references; at the end, when Yorick brings up ''[[Moonlighting]]'' he explains what it is "before you ask". {{spoiler|In the [[Distant Finale]], set 60 years after the rest of the story, when Yorick asks his young clone if he knew that [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] [[Book Ends|had a twin brother]], he asks: "Who's Elvis?"}}
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* ''[[Zombieland]]''
** Little Rock doesn't know who [[Willie Nelson]] is, much to Tallahassee's horror. Or who [[Bill Murray]] is, ALSO to Tallahassee's horror.
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=== Web Original ===
* [[TV Tropes]] and [[All The Tropes]]: This is the reason that many tropes named after characters got [[Renamed Tropes|renamed]] (for example, [[Encyclopedia Brown|Bugs Meany Is Gonna Walk]] to [[Conviction by Contradiction]].)
** Also seen in any trope that doesn't explain the reference. (For example, [https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=Remember_the_Alamo!&direction=prev&oldid=2005066 this version] of [[Remember the Alamo!]], which doesn't even try to explain what the Alamo is and why it should be remembered.)
=== Western Animation ===
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'''Bart:''' Who are Beavis and Butthead? }}
* In [[Bob's Burgers]] episode "Nightmare on Ocean Adventure" Linda asked Louise what she was for halloween. Louise answered "dragon with a girl tattoo." Linda: "Ooh you [[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo|flipped the script]]!" Louise: "What do you mean?"
** In another Halloween Episode, Linda thinks Louise's costume is [[Wolverine]]; actually, she is [[Edward Scissorhands]].
=== Real Life ===
* [[Truth in Television]]: A teacher didn't think a kids choir needed to have the lyrics or music to the song "One Tin Soldier" since those kids should have [[Seen It a Million Times|heard it a million times]] and learned it through [[
* As described on our very own page for ''[[Gargoyles]]'', in the entry for [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: "When describing Brooklyn and Katana's relationship in "Timedancer", [creator] [[Greg Weisman]] mentioned [[Cheers|Sam and Diane]]. No-one got it. Then he mentioned [[Much Ado About Nothing|Beatrice and Benedick]]. ''That one'' people got, which should tell you a lot about the kind of fans this show has."
* On [[This Very Wiki]], the page for [[Washington DC]] is illustrated with a montage of photos of... a bunch of statues and buildings. As of August 2019, no names for any of that stuff are given for those of us who don't live in the USA.
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== "X was in Y, right?" ==
(previously called "Type 2")
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* From ''[[Armageddon]]'':
{{quote|'''A.J.:''' Have you ever heard of Evel Knievel?
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** [[What's Opera, Doc?|"Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit!"]];
** the piece played during the air cavalry attack in the movie ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''; and
** [[Bryan Danielson|Daniel Bryan's]] [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] theme music.
*** Of course, like many examples from "X was in Y, right?", [[The Miz]] thought it was from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* Basically the reason [[Covered Up]] and [[Sampled Up]] exist (just see the opening quote for the former entry).
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(previously called "Type 4")
=== Comic Books ===
* An example from [[Older Than They Think]] fits here, as a clash of [[
* In a ''[[Robin]]'' annual, Huntress tells Robin it was a clever idea of his to wear mirrors under their ponchos (to blind their enemies in a gunfight). He says he got the idea from an old movie. She says "''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'', huh?" and he replies "No. ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]] III''.
* In ''[[Fanhunter]]'', it goes something like this:
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