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Interrupting Meme
Yo, TV Tropes! I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish. But Know Your Meme has the best page on "Imma Let You Finish" of all time! OF ALL TIME!

Knock Knock.

Who's there?

Interrupting Article.

Interrupti—
A particular form of Memetic Mutation, generally taking the form of an article, video or similar, in which the subject at hand gets flipped, turned upside-down, so I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how--

...er, sorry. The subject at hand is overtaken by the meme, to the surprise and chagrin of the viewer. Sometimes these memes go as far as interrupting other memes. (One assumes that should any of these memes face off against each other, the universe would end.)

See also Bait and Switch. The original topic may be left with No Ending. If the original topic was boring anyway, the interruption may serve as a Drop The Cow moment.


Examples

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    Advertising 

  • MORNING RESCUE! (Especially combined with Puella Magi Madoka Magica. And especially in the role of Big Damn Heroes.)
  • The first Energizer Bunny ad campaign had the drumming toy rabbit, who was still going, march his way through other (fake) commercials.
  • Old Spice similarly interrupts other (fake) commercials, claiming that it's too powerful to let an ad-break end. (It's probably supposed to run in conjunction with another Old Spice ad, but sometimes it's played in isolation.)

     Anime and Manga  

     Card Games  

  • Magic: The Gathering: Time Stop! *
  • The Scornful Egotist is a creature spell that, despite its flagrantly bad effect, has gathered something of a ALL HAIL THE GREAT LORD EGOTIST.

    Comics 

  • Final Crisis: Due to The Anti-Life Equation running through all of humanity, some fans have beguALL IS ONE IN DARKSEID.

    Film 

  • Superman Returns: Superman will nev-''WROOOOOONNNG!!!!''
  • Sometimes, when talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, people tend tWE ARE SEX BOB-OMB, ONE TWO THREE FOUR!!!
  • Inception's BWOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNGGG
  • It's more obscure, but The Terminator seriWHERE IS SARAH CONNOR
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show: I see you shiver with anticipa—SAY IT!
  • The much maligned horror film The Devil Inside has its infamous lack of en- The events of this entry have never been fully explained. Visit tvtropes.org or more information on the ongoing investigation.
  • After the scene in Wreck It Ralph where the audience learns the origin of the Arc Words "going Turbo" Explanation , animated pictures started popping up of Turbo interrupting other video games involving vehicles, driving by with his smug grin and his catch-phrase "Turbo-tastic!"

    Jokes 

  • This is used in the Interrupting Cow joke, as follows:
    Knock knock.
    Who's there?
    Interrupting cow.
    Interr-
    MOO!
  • Made popular by The Office:
    Knock knock.
    Who's there?
    KGB
    KGB w-
    *slap* WE WILL ASK THE QUESTIONS!

     Live-Action TV  

    Music 

  • A Rickroll can occasionally take this form.
    • Especially with that year Astley Rickrolled all of America during the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
  • As the current page image shows, the Kanye West "Imma let you finish" meme is sometimes used in this-Yo Troper! I'm real happy for ya, and imma let you finish, but this is one of the greatest pages of all time! ONE OF THE GREATEST PAGES OF ALL TIME!!!!-fashion.
  • Sometimes, people will start to write a post, but then their parents will open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.
  • The monster mash is occasionally used as an alternative to the Bel-Air theme song.
  • And of co-STOP! HAMMER TIME!

     Professional Wrestling  

     Tabletop Games  

  • I was going on TV Tropes, thinking about how to add to the Warhammer 40000 article, when suddenly I heard a rumbling sound. I looked around a bit, and concluded it must be coming from underneath the table my monitor was sitting on. I stood up and looked underneath the table, when, out of nowhere, a frakking Baneblade came out from under my computer, smashed it and the table, then shot up my modem and entire Chaos Space Marine army. How the hell did a 300 ton tank sneak underneath my computer? It would have to take some kind of tactical genius t- CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDD!
    • It's also damn near impossible to discuss the Imperial Guard, and especially Commissars, witho-"HERESY!" *BLAM*
    • Squats (essentially Space Dwarves) are infamous among the fandom. It is alleged that Games Workshop employ assassins to make their removal from canon stick, and merely bringing up their name ca
    • There is an infamously terrible unit which shall not be named because otherwise you'll turn into one and being a Chaos Spawn suck-OH GOD I DIDN'T MENAW0RWHIOEFEFER9IGHERGVJKR
  • The Truly Immovable Rod, which, when interpreted as a rod that stays immobile as the world rotates around it, would frequenl- *CLANG* WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?

     Video Games  

    Web Comics 

    Web Original 
  • A notable couple from the -Trollvorlord blog; Hmac's Overly Long Gag with copypastas and Trollvorlord's obscure references to "Pl0x".
  • YTMND spawned a few:
    • The subject being crushed by a thwomp.
    • Happycat with NEDM
  • On 4chan and in similar circles, flash movies (usually NSFW ones) are occasionally "hooded", wherein the subject of the video has a crude MS Paint blackface imposed over them while DMX's "Where The Hood At" plays, usually just when it seems the viewer is about to see some boobs.
  • The aptly-titled "WTF Boom". Here's a good example.
  • It's not uncommon for someone to be in the middle of saying somethi— oh, crap! I just lost The Game!
  • *is shot* is a widely popular meme, where the poster is presumably Killed Mid-Sentence for an unpopular opinion and/or overused meme. (For examples, take a look at Wild Mass Guessing and run a search on "Time Lord".)
  • In The Cinema Snob review of Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2, during the introduction he keeps getting interrupted with the well-known "GARBAGE DAY" clip. Which makes sense, seeing as that's really all anyone knows about that movie.
  • EPICROLL :the cutscene: from REPLAYING :the game:. (The original cuts off after one loop.)
  • Imitating heart attacks is another popular interrupt which is found commonly on Image Boards; one particular usage, originating from Katawa Shoujo, involves finding something so overwhelmingly Moe tha-HNNNNNNNNNNG~
  • On GameFAQs, suddenly... NINJAS! Hundreds of them!
  • In the comments on the humor blog You Suck at Craigslist, whenever the discussion turns to zomb
    • Also on YSaC, there is a meme potentially related to Hypno-Toads, spawned by th- ALL HAIL HYPNO-DOGS!
  • Arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics: Even if you win, you're still retarded.
  • Every time someone mentions UltraFARK, Drew gives you a be+++CARRIER LOST+++
  • Blah blah extremely important Social Justice Crusade stuff blah.
  • Fandom Wank is an excellent site where a lot of interesting threads can be found. More importantly, though, what are your thoughts on yaoi?
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Versus, Kaepora Gaebora (the owl) will occasionally interrupt them to tell the audience "I'M AN OWL."

    Western Animation 

     Real Life  

  • We'd talk about the vuvuzelas at World Cup 2010, but BZZZZBZZZZBZZZZBZZZZBZZZZBZZZBZZZZ
  • The ZX Spectrum USENET newsgroup often has particularly embarrassing statem3w587fuN^NO&*IULYBvilu£%b6viaby5i+++NO CARRIER+++
    • This is most certainly a remnant of the era of Fido Net and similar messaging networks, conected via BB Ses before the advent of the Internet. Users usually connected to a BBS via a phone line (one phone line, one user) and they could usually write messages on forums directly on their terminal emulation software instead of using an off-line, separate program. When they were typing the message and the line got suddenly noisy, the software interpreted the line noise as random characters. The "NO CARRIER" was the standard modem response after an interrupted connection; whether the text ended being part of the message or not depended on the software, but it always appeared in the console of the interrupted user; hence the meme.
    • This was later picked up by Slashdot
  • Attention Deficit Disorder, and the jokes about it like for example "They say I have ADD, but they don't understa- SQUIRREL!" and its varia- Ooh Shiny!.
  • This probably has happened to most people when they were kids.
    Kid 1: Knock Knock
    Kid 2: Who's There?
    Kid 1: Interupting Cow.
    Kid 2: Interupting Cow w-
    Kid 1: MOO!


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