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{{quote|'''Soujirou:''' Oh, [[Street Fighter II|back then]], Bison was dressed up as Mike Tyson. Pretty cool.
{{quote|'''Soujirou:''' Oh, [[Street Fighter II|back then]], Bison was dressed up as Mike Tyson. Pretty cool.
'''Konata:''' Who's Mike Tyson?
'''Konata:''' Who's [[w:Mike Tyson|Mike Tyson]]?
''(later that day)''
''(later that day)''
'''Soujirou:''' Today, I felt the generation gap in a deep and very personal way.|''[[Lucky Star]]'' Manga vol. 6}}
'''Soujirou:''' Today, I felt the generation gap in a deep and very personal way.
|''[[Lucky Star]]'' Manga vol. 6}}


This is a subversion of [[Popcultural Osmosis]]. When used in-universe, it's usually as a means of showing the difference between people from two different groups (usually generations) in which a character from Group A makes a pop culture reference (or mentions a famous person or movie or work) and one of four things happens:
This is a subversion of [[Popcultural Osmosis]]. When used in-universe, it's usually as a means of showing the difference between people from two different groups (usually generations) in which a character from Group A makes a pop culture reference (or mentions a famous person or movie or work) and one of four things happens: