Lois: I think you just got to be in the "out" group. Whoever's on top, whoever's in power, whoever's successful, you gotta be on the other side or you don't feel like the smartest guy in the room. All you are, my dear, is a contrarian.
Brian: Oh, please, you could not be more off base.
Lois: Oh, yeah? Let me ask, what did you think of the movie Titanic?
Brian: Horrible, one of the worst movies ever made.
Lois: Mm-hm, what about Slumdog Millionaire?
Brian: Overrated, just a terrible movie.
Lois: Cocktail.
Brian: Actually, not a bad film. You know, as classically structured cinema, Cocktail was one of the best films of its era.
Lois: You make me sick, Brian.
Brian: Oh, please, you could not be more off base.
Lois: Oh, yeah? Let me ask, what did you think of the movie Titanic?
Brian: Horrible, one of the worst movies ever made.
Lois: Mm-hm, what about Slumdog Millionaire?
Brian: Overrated, just a terrible movie.
Lois: Cocktail.
Brian: Actually, not a bad film. You know, as classically structured cinema, Cocktail was one of the best films of its era.
Lois: You make me sick, Brian.
— Family Guy, "Excellence in Broadcasting"
"'Tell me your company, and I'll tell you your opinions,' might be said to many a man who piques himself on a select and superior view of things, distinct from the vulgar."
— William Hazlitt, "On Consistency of Opinion", in Winterslow, 1850
"I figure Diablo Cody’s role in the Evil Dead script was overplayed anyway, as none of the characters died after getting run over by a penny farthing."
— Stuart Millard
"I really want to see the quirky engagement ring Jacob proposed to her with. I know he's only been with Zooey for about 6 months, so I hope he had enough time to find a taxidermied squirrel tooth set in an antique gold harmonica."
— DListed
, "Zooey Deschanel Is Getting Married Again"
, "Zooey Deschanel Is Getting Married Again""Jack, you're such a hipster that even in our small group — even in our tiny little group — you just have to be the dissenting opinion, don't you?"
— Rich Evans to Jack Packard, Best of the Worst
YouTube Pedant: Well, nowadays it's cool to like things ironically that you don't really like.
Dad: How does that work out, then?
YouTube Pedant: It's just like olives and espresso. Nobody really enjoys them, but you pretend you do just to look cool and sophisticated.
Dad: How does that work out, then?
YouTube Pedant: It's just like olives and espresso. Nobody really enjoys them, but you pretend you do just to look cool and sophisticated.
— The Muppet sketch at the end of Techmoan's video about playing Seeburg 1000 records on a normal turntable
at the end of Techmoan's video about playing Seeburg 1000 records on a normal turntable"God, why does everything we do have to be cloaked in, like, 15 layers of irony?"
— April Ludgate, Parks and Recreation, "Gallentine's Day"
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by the Peech Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks.
I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagara record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit, 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut, and another box set from the '70s
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window, because you want to make something real. Ya wanna make a Yaz record
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars
I hear everybody that you know... is more relevant than everybody that I know...
. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagara record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit, 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut, and another box set from the '70s
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window, because you want to make something real. Ya wanna make a Yaz record
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars
I hear everybody that you know... is more relevant than everybody that I know...
— LCD Soundsystem, "Losing My Edge"
Mordecai: Okay, okay, I've got the perfect solution. Brain Explosion!
Rigby: What?! You can't explode my brain! That's gotta be illegal.
Mordecai: No, the band, Brain Explosion.
Rigby: Oh, never heard of 'em.
Mordecai: Yeah, I know. You wouldn't have. You gotta be in the know to know, y'know?
Rigby: No.
Mordecai: And that's why you've never heard of them. But, trust me, these guys are, like, real real musicians. Just listen to some of this, and it'll blow that poppy trash music right out of your head!
Rigby: What?! You can't explode my brain! That's gotta be illegal.
Mordecai: No, the band, Brain Explosion.
Rigby: Oh, never heard of 'em.
Mordecai: Yeah, I know. You wouldn't have. You gotta be in the know to know, y'know?
Rigby: No.
Mordecai: And that's why you've never heard of them. But, trust me, these guys are, like, real real musicians. Just listen to some of this, and it'll blow that poppy trash music right out of your head!
Michael: (after talking about Trevor's dress sense and personality) You... are a hipster!
Trevor: What?
Michael: You're a hipster.
Trevor: I hate hipsters.
Michael: Classic hipster denial.
Trevor: I. Abhor. Hipsters. I eat them for fun!
Michael: (laughs) Hipsters love saying they hate hipsters!
Trevor: Well, I really fucking do!
Michael: Self hatred. Common hipster affliction.
Trevor: Only because I'm living out here away from the Bean Machines, and the bankers?
Michael: You're gentrifying! Soon the skinny jeans will show up, and then the skinny lattes, and then, the bankers. And you'll be somewhere else starting the cycle all over again. Maybe you're not a classic garden variety hipster, but you are what the hipsters aspire to be! You, Trevor, are the proto-hipster!
Trevor: (calmly) I don't know what you're talking about. I don't agree with what you're saying. You're talking bullshit, and you're trying to wind me up. But I'm very, very angry, and I want this conversation to stop right away.
Michael: Hipster.
Trevor: FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU, MICHAEL! SAY IT AGAIN!
Michael: I've made my point. I'm not a sadist.
Trevor: What?
Michael: You're a hipster.
Trevor: I hate hipsters.
Michael: Classic hipster denial.
Trevor: I. Abhor. Hipsters. I eat them for fun!
Michael: (laughs) Hipsters love saying they hate hipsters!
Trevor: Well, I really fucking do!
Michael: Self hatred. Common hipster affliction.
Trevor: Only because I'm living out here away from the Bean Machines, and the bankers?
Michael: You're gentrifying! Soon the skinny jeans will show up, and then the skinny lattes, and then, the bankers. And you'll be somewhere else starting the cycle all over again. Maybe you're not a classic garden variety hipster, but you are what the hipsters aspire to be! You, Trevor, are the proto-hipster!
Trevor: (calmly) I don't know what you're talking about. I don't agree with what you're saying. You're talking bullshit, and you're trying to wind me up. But I'm very, very angry, and I want this conversation to stop right away.
Michael: Hipster.
Trevor: FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU, MICHAEL! SAY IT AGAIN!
Michael: I've made my point. I'm not a sadist.
