Before that it was Monty Python.
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We had to have a rule at the D&D table. NO PYTHON REFERENCES! One 'Im not quite dead.' or a 'Get on with it!' quip and we'd lose an entire session to Holy Grail jokes.
My third place needs this as a rule for Mel Brooks. Drop a spaceballs or men in tights line in that place and the entire shop stops and waits for people to finish the scene.
Dont forget Princess Bride
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And 60% of the time, it worked all of the time.
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It's illegal in 6 countries
That doesn’t make sense.
Boy, that escalated quickly!
Brick killed a guy!
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There were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a Trident! 🔱 🔱
Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safe house or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder.
Anchorman came out in 2004, internet memes have existed way before that
Yeah, they existed, but they weren't mainstream and were mostly just simple image macros. In 2004, if you talked about memes in public, it meant you browsed 4 Chan or Something Awful, which made you a loser to most people.
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Cut OOP some slack. This was posted befkre chronology was invented
Related: Anybody else annoyed how you can't just tell jokes anymore? These days every time you try to tell a joke you heard before everyone just seems to yell about how you took the joke from somewhere or someone. It's like they expect every joke told to be 100% Original Content Donut Steel.
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Replace that with Montey Python and you'd be correct. There were memes around when Anchorman came out.
Sokath, his eyes open!
Family Guy is another one you can toss in the mix. Futurama, Simpsons, SeaLab 2021, Space Ghost.
Lots "I know the thing" memes.
Although I despise that I have to sit through my generation shoehorning The Office and Ron Swanson into EVERY conversation they can...
Big Trouble in Little China and The Last Dragon got a lot of air time for us too. Throw in The Blues Brothers 'we're on a mission from God' as an honorable mention.
It's all in the reflexes.
I wouldn’t have even been mad, that’s impressive
I don't believe you
I'm more of a Spaceballs asshole myself.
Or if you’re really old and nerdy, Monty Python.
Pretty much any quotable movie, really. Monty Python, Airplane, Star Wars...
It was a more civilized age. Before the dark times. Before the social media.
Shirley you must be joking.
I am joking, and don't call me, surely.
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When I was younger it was Jeff Dunham lol
Isn't that precisely what a meme is?
According to its technical definition, yes, a meme is an idea that transmits from person to person. According to its colloquial definition, no, when most people use the term "meme", they're referring to a screenshot. In the 2000s, though, it mostly referred specifically to image macros.
It was The Chapelle Show for our cohort.
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Buddy, you just described what a meme is.
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