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* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-effect KnowYourMeme,] a website dedicated to...well, memes, has an upcoming dictionary term called "The [[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]] Effect." To wit: "When a popular Internet meme is mentioned on the show Family Guy, popularity of said meme will either have a temporary spike in popularity, or begin to decline." E.g. [[Chuck Norris]]? He's been unpopular a ''long'' time.
** So the next time you watch Family Guy and see your favorite meme on it, ''weep for your fallen meme.'' '''''WEEP.'''''
** Oddly enough, their use of [[Rick Astley]]'s "Never Gonna Give You Up" may have been ''too'' early (depending on how long episodes take to produce) to have been a reference to [[
* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] admitted in his ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' review that his use of [[Street Fighter (Film)|M. Bison]] exclaiming, "Of course!" in response to world domination plans was no longer funny. The clip has made a handful of NC-related appearances since then, but the buildup in each instance deviated from that past reviews (NC simply saying, "He has an evil plan to, you guessed it, take over the world") in order to make the gag less stale (eg, a character announces world domination plans ''himself'', NC notices a character looks like M. Bison, or someone says "Of course").
** In the commentary for the same video, he cited this trope as his reason for not including the famous "[[Too Smart for Strangers|bad touch]]" clip, mentioning also that, really, it ''was'' good advice and it was pretty ballsy of the show to make it.
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