My Grandma Can Do Better Than You: Difference between revisions

A common insult. Sometimes "grandma" is replaced with something else, usually "sister". Bonus points for following it up with "...and she's dead!" Although it can be amusing if she is not only alive, but [[Right Behind Me|Right Behind The Speaker]].

 

See [[You Fight Like a Cow]] and [[My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad]] for similar insults.

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== Anime & Manga ==

* In the [[Toonami]] version of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', a virtual Sayan warrior (conjured by Mr Popo's training room) uses this line to ridicule the secondary characters' power levels.

* One of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' was a rock-music ape named Etemon. He stood about half the size of the highest-level-to-date protagonist Digimon, but even when blasted by needles from a ten-foot-tall walking cactus with fists, he tossed it away with, "Is that the best you can do? I've seen sharper needles in Granny's knittin' bag!"

 

{{quote| '''Miguel:''' You fight like my sister!<br />

'''Tulio:''' [[Insult Backfire|I fought your sister, that's a compliment!]] }}

{{quote| '''Lampwick:''' Ah, you smoke like me grandma!}}

* ''B.O.B.'s Big Break'', supplemental short on the ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' DVD:

== Literature ==

* Used at least once in ''[[Captain Underpants]]''.

* One Kenan&Kel book has Kel being insulted at basketball with the phrase, "My dog is better than you." [[Cloudcuckoolander|Kel]], though, is too amazed at the thought of a basketball-playing dog to be insulted, however, and the bully has to explain the taunt.

 

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* In the ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode "Running for Honor," Sam leaps into a track runner, and fails to live up to the guy's previous performance:

{{quote| '''Sam:''' ''(looking at his time)'' Is that good?<br />

* Appears in the "sports" game ''[[Chaos League]]'' as an insult by one of the two guys commenting the game.

* Variant: In ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'', [[Badass Grandpa]] Shibata Katsuie occasionally taunts "You can't outfight ''my corpse''!"

{{quote| "My ninety-eight-year-old grandmother has bigger arms than you."<br />

"Ungh... Yeah, but we both got better bladder control than you do." }}

* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', there's a level where the player controls Venom who has been unleashed on Manhattan to chase down Electro as part of a demonstration of Venom's abilities. Expect Electro to constantly pelt you with lame insults if you're even ten yards behind him, including "My grandma can move faster than you!" And no, there is no way to prevent hearing this a dozen times except to turn off the sound.

* Obscure Genesis game ''Ex-Mutants'' does this if you die too many times in the auto-scrolling levels. If you play as one character, he says "my grandmother could do better", and if you play as the other, she says "[the first character's] grandmother could do better".

* When missing a shot in Backyard Basketball 2004, Barry Dejay sometimes says: "My grandma can shoot better than that. And she's got cataracts."

* While Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II's Commander Garrett doesn't say it, botching a mission may result in the dialogue box reading, "my four year-old could have done better than that".

 

 

== Webcomics ==

 

 

{{quote| '''[[Green Lantern|John Stewart]]:''' That all you got? My grandma hits harder than that!}}

* ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'': While watching an Ogre Bowl game, Fu Dog said his grandmother could play better than that and she was 1400 years old. Said grandmother, who was also at the stadium watching the game, told him she's [[Really 700 Years Old|''only'' 1392 years old]].