Most common is an exchange that is initiated when one person mentions madness, triggering the other to respond, "Madness? This...is...SPARTAAA!!!" Explanation
Spoken by Leonidas as he kicks a messenger into a pit.
It's been so overused that some forumites have already gone meta, responding to mentions of Sparta with, "Sparta? This...is...[INSERT MEME HERE]!!!"
When we talk about the trope created through that line on this very wiki, we will type! WORDS! LIKE! THIS!
I just wanted to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
Surely you can't be serious!
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
Drinking problem.
I speak jive
A meme, what is it? A meme is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture but that's not important right now.
"CALM DOWN, GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!"
"[He/She/I] had the fish." Explanation
The reason everybody was sick on the flight was because they had fish instead of chicken for dinner.
This made a hilarious appearance in 'Allo 'Allo! when Herr Flick was convulsing on the floor after a failed assassination attempt on somebody else. When asked what was wrong with him Helga replied "He had the fish" when everybody was served chicken.
"I love the smell of napalm on the morning... smells like victory" (which omits a large, offensive part of that speech). Also "Charlie don't surf" and "The horror... the horror..." (which was also in the book).
Terminate... with extreme prejudice.
A nonverbal one is the repeated use of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries for any grand attack scene in any situation ever. It even made it onto Farscape.
The original statement is believed to be "Houston, we've had a problem.", but it became this because the original made it seem like the problem had passed. And in fairness, it's difficult to tell for sure due to the quality of the original transmission.
"I'm Bad Ash. You're Good Ash. You're goody little two-shoes. Goody little two-shoes, goody little two-shoes~"
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
Ash himself is also a Memetic Badass. Not surprising, considering the guy cut off his own possessed hand then attached a motherfucking chainsaw to the stump.
"With your permission, I will speak now. You would honor me by translating. The Sky People have sent us a message... That they can take whatever they want. That no one can stop them. Well we will send them a message. You ride out as fast as the wind can carry you... You tell the other clans to come. Tell them Toruk Makto calls to them! You fly now, with me! My brothers! Sisters! And we will show the Sky People... That they cannot take whatever they want! And that this... this is our land!"
"Why does the human marine side with the space furries again?" Michael Ironside: They sucked his brains out.
Bad Teacher: "IT'S THE ONLY ARGUMENT I NEED, SEAN!" Has become a default when arguing with someone on a message board shockingly fast, as well as a hilarious catchphrase due to the 2011 NBA Finals.
Interestingly in a Memetic Mutation of its own. Since Jeff Bridges played both The Dude, and Obadiah Stane in the Iron Man movie, this troper has seen avatars and banners with Obidiah in sunglasses saying alternately "the Dude Abides" and "The Dude does not abide."
... well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes * click* .
Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Okay, a simple 'wrong' would have done just fine, but eh...
This movie spawned enough memes among guys that a 1999 Saturday Night Live sketch featured host Bill Murray advertising the leather-bound tome The Quotable Caddyshack.
And from the 2005 Tim Burton version: "Everything in this room is eatable, even I'm eatable! But that is called "cannibalism," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies."
I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
Spoken by Ed Wood when questioned about the sudden day to night transitions in Plan 9 from Outer Space. Frequently used by internet reviewers to mock various Wall Banger moments.
Let the record show that Mr. John Merrick (or perhaps Joseph) is not an elephant, nor is he, indeed, any kind of animal. Mr. Merrick is a human being. He is, more specifically, a man.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw [Name] pass out at 31 Flavors last night.
Cigarette Smoking Man would like to remind you that Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once in a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper.
And lest we forget: "Shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There's, um, shrimp kebabs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp and lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.".
And that's all I have to say about that.
Bubba got big lips...
WE ARE THE TITANS! WE ARE THE TITANS! THE MIGHTY MIGHTY TITANS!
The scene in Jason Takes Manhattan where Jason randomly obliterates a blaring boombox by kicking it has become popular, with people editing any random music into the scene.
This is Tokyo. Once a city of six million people. What has happened here was caused by a force which up until a few days ago was entirely beyond the scope of Man's imagination. Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world. There were once many people here who could've told of what they saw... now there are only a few. My name is Steve Martin. I am a foreign correspondent for United World News. I was headed for an assignment in Cairo, when I stopped off in Tokyo for a social; but it turned out to be a visit to the living HELL of another world.
The title itself has become an accepted phrase used for any sort of plot where a time period repeats itself, in real life as well as on this site (well we had to rename it to make all the wicks easier but with regret, with regret).
It's gonna be cold. It's gonna be gray. And it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.
I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil.
Hancock dares you to call him an asshole one... more... time...
If you don't give yourselves up quietly, I swear to Christ, your head is going up the driver's ass, his head is going up your ass, and you drew the short stick, cause your head is going up my ass! *** Did you shove a man's head up another man's ass?
(nods)
[shows a comic book with a picture of a spandex clad superhero on it] Homo. [shows him another comic with a hero in red spandex] Homo in red. [shows him a third comic with a blonde-haired hero] Norwegian homo.
Nobody's gonna fuck on you! I'm on your side! I hate Godzilla! I hate him too! I hate him! He destroys cities! *Please* ! This isn't your fault. I'll get you some pants.
Who was that guy? He was so mean!
What do tigers dream of when they take their little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras, or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit? Don't you worry your pretty striped head, we're gonna get you back to Tyson and your cozy tiger bed. And then we're gonna find our best friend Doug, and then we're gonna give him a best friend hug. Doug, Doug, oh, Doug, Dougie, Dougie, Doug, Doug! But if he's been murdered by crystal meth tweakers...well then we're shit out of luck.
Not much of a nationwide meme, but in this troper's town, it's common speech to utter the ever awesome line "You're pretty sick, Chubbs."
"THAT'S YOUR HOME! ARE YOU TOO GOOD FOR YOU HOME?" It's also worth mentioning that Boo Weekly was ridin' the bull, feelin' the flow at the '08 Ryder Cup.
The Price Is Wrong, Bitch!
"I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!" "You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?" "...No?"
Hide And Creep: "Is Pepsi okay? Is. Pepsi. Okay? No, ma'am. It most certainly is not. Pepsi, the so-called choice of a new generation, is nothing but a charlatan. A fraud. An impostor, and a poor one at that. The Pepsi-Cola company has somehow, through years of advertisements featuring well-known recording artists and pseudo-scientific research, convinced the world's population that Pepsi-Cola is comparable to, if not better than, Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola being the first carbonated cola drink, truly the real thing. You know, I've been another place where they don't let you choose what you want to drink. Red China!"
The movie created the chant "Rufio! Rufio! RU! FI! OHHHHHHHHHHH!", after the character played by Dante Basco. Anytime we see Mr. Basco or hear hisvoice, most people will use this chant.
BANGARANG!
"Don't you dare try to stop me, Smee, try to stop me."
If you put a frog in boiling water it will jump out. But if you put a frog in cold water, and then slowly turn the heat up, it'll sit there until...... Until..... Until..... Until somebody saves it!
We just want to remind you that TonyStark built his arc reactor in a cave! (pause) With a box of scraps! This one's getting popular enough where people look for excuses to insert it into every single page that has an Iron Man trope.
We only need to use this meme once. That's how this troper did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far.
And yeah. He can fly.
Which, let's be honest, is not the worst thing you've caught him doing.
Michael Caine's one-liner after one of his character's cohorts detonates a van: "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" A similar scene was shown in the now-infamous "hackers on steroids" news report, likely prompting the same reaction from some viewers.
The Kill Bill siren, taken from Quincy Jones' theme for Ironside.
"When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements referred to as a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. I roared. I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction."
Older than They Think: This was actually Tarantino mutating a very small meme from the exploitation film Ebony, Ivory, and Jade.
(Insert name here)? You and I have some unfinished business!
The very last line of the film, it speaks the main message: that Kong's love for his person was so great that he was willing to kill himself in order to "protect" her.
Thanks to Labyrinth, David Bowie's crotch has achieved levels of Memetic Badassery surpassing that of Chuck Norris. There's a freaking CHURCH devoted to worshipping The Area. Explanation
The scene from which this meme originates had many shots of David Bowie's crotch.
And of course, want to show support for someone tackling a task that is a) very difficult, b) something they've never done before, c) something very dangerous, or d) all of the above? Then simply tell them, "You have my sword."
The phrase "They're coming to get you, Barbara" is pretty popular, especially amongst horror fanatics. So much so that Ed yells into the phone, "We're coming to get you, Barbara!" in Shaun of the Dead.
Bolton worries that when they get caught because of Peter's money-laundering scheme, they'll be sent away to do hard time instead of going to a "white-collar resort prison".
You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie; a rebel.
I know you are, but what am I?
Say it, don't spray it!
That's my name don't wear it out!
Why don't you take a picture, it'll last longer!
Ha ha! (his trademark laugh)
(With the exception of the first, most of the above memes refer specifically to the character, who is just as memetic as this movie and other things he's been in)
I got a jar of dirt~! I got a jar of dirt~! And guess what's inside it~! Explanation
Jack hides Davy Jones' heart inside a jar of dirt to prevent him from getting at it. He later taunts Jones with this.
But why is the rum gone? Explanation
While marooned on a deserted island, Elizabeth forms a huge beacon of smoke by burning all the food, shade and rum on the island. Jack expresses dismay at the last.
What ain't no country I ever heard of! Do they speak English in What?
English, motherfucker, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
Crossing over with Lord of the Rings, this troper has seen Legolas 'shopped in place of Jackson's character, with the caption, "Elvish, motherfucker! Do you speak it!" in an elaborate font.
A socially relevant recent example: While the fourth Rambo film is banned from being distributed in Burma for its honest portrayal of the Burmese military's sickening brutality towards helpless ethnic minorities, bootleg copies of the film's DVD are extremely popular amongst the Karen Rebel army, which fights the Burmese military's tyranny. Rambo's signature quote from the film, "Live For Nothing, Or Die For Something," has become a morale-lifting battle-cry amongst the Karen Warriors - a point which Stallone himself has said to be "my proudest moments in cinema."
That's right ladies and gents. Rambo is so fucking hardcore that he's actually feared by real world tyrants. Hard. Core. Period.*
Interestingly enough the Columbus OHIO annual 24 hour science fiction marathon keeps the memory of Ro-Man alive by mentioning him, and running the trailer for his film. As far as some people know that particular character has yet to be elected to that fine body's hall of fame.
This entire movie has become memetic, including the various Audience Participation segments. It would be easier to list the lines that aren't meme fodder. There are none.
This movie has a scene where a guy's head explodes that has been mutated so far that most people, though familiar with the scene, have no idea that it's from Scanners.
This movie also made Don't Stop Me Now the official zombie-bashing song.
From The Shawshank Redemption, the scene where Andy plays opera music for the prison has been edited many times on Youtube. Said opera music has been replaced by various kinds of music, from pop music to heavy metal, and even to flea market ads. To be fair, the reactions of the prisoners and the warden made it pretty ripe for parody.
"I like to think the last thing that went through the warden's mind, apart from the bullet..."
"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" Explanation
Mae West's most famous misquoted lines from the pre-Code film "She Done Him Wrong". Has often appeared in many classic animated shorts, especially the ones from Warner Bros.Often misheard as "Come up and see me some time".
You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the F...B...I!
The most famous line from Snakes on a Plane (involving exasperation and much profanity) came from an Internet parody that emerged less than a month after Samuel L. Jackson was signed to the film. It then made its way into the film...
"May The Schwartz Be With Yoooouuuuuuuuuuuuu-what a world, what a world!"
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because Good Is Dumb."
"Ludicrous speed!! GO!!!"
"What the hell was that?"
"Spaceball One!"
"They've gone to plaid!"
"She's a bass!"
"Ha. What a pity. What a pity. So, Princess, you thought you could outwit the imperious forces of.... You idiots! These are not them. You've captured their stunt doubles!"
There is a story about one of Kirk Douglas's sons, Eric Douglas, an unsuccessful stand-up comedian, responding to a bad crowd action by yelling "Do you know who I am? I'm Kirk Douglas' son!". No prizes for guessing what happened next.
It has become occasionally popular since the release of the 2009 Star Trek movie, to make all references to Ensign Chekov include his... interesting accent. Even on this wvery vwiki.
Admiral Ackbar's exclamation "It's a trap!" has spawned a number of jokes and image macros, either with the original words or some pun thereof; this seems to be a Cyclic Trope, waxing and waning periodically.
Interestingly, the meme seems to have further mutated since it began- originally Ackbar was a memetic Captain Obvious who pointed out traps that anyone could easily notice; since then, he has become a Memetic Badass who is able to detect any trap, regardless of how devious or well-hidden it is.
"It's as if a million [x] cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Occasionally used to refer to Internet Backdraft in which case [x] would be fangirls/fanboys/nerds. Sometimes a word other than "terror" is also used.
"You refuse to accept...my godhood?! KEEP your own god! In fact, this might be a good time to PRAY to Him! For I beheld Satan as hefell from Heaven!LIKE LIGHTNING!!!"
For you, the day Bison graced your meme was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
QUICK! CHANGE DA CHANNEL!
"Every Bison dollar will be worth five British pounds. That is the exchange rate that the Bank of England will set once I've kidnapped their queen!"
Out of all the scenes in the movie, Lickboot's declaration that "We've got to have... money!" somehow came out on top as a YouTube Poop meme. The fact that it's Tony Jay doing the voice probably helped.
The Brazilian movie Tropa de Elite (The Elite Squad, for the foreigners). In the country it was produced, it generated a lot of memetic mutations due to the good number of catchphrases, jokes, and situations (the narrator and arguably protagonist Captain Nascimento became a Memetic Badass). But due to an overly literal and polite translation instead of a Cultural Translation, most of the jokes are lost, and the protagonists were seen as fascists. At least the grenade scene will still be understood.
"Cê não é caveira! Cê é muleque! Cê é minino!" ("You're not a Skull! You're a boy! A little kid!")
Let me get this down. 100 million... Oh, wait! I got a better idea. Instead of a hundred million, how about I send you a hobo's dick cheese? Then, you kill him. Do your thing, skin the fucking bastard. Go to town, man. Go to town! In the mean time and as usual, go fuck yourself.
Welcome to the goodie room! I'm talking... G5, unknown troper! That's how you can roll. No more frequent flyer bitch miles for my boy! Oh yeah! Playa... playa! Big dick playa!
"You got served!" This is mostly limited to dancing, but can be extended to thorough beatdowns in other media. Computer gamers refer to this process as "pwnage".
Hence, mounts on MMORPGs may be referred to as "pwnies".
It's become a meme to take a .gif file of the scene where Derek and his friends are dancing around while driving in a car and placing the heads of other fictional characters on them.
