Difference between revisions of "Television-related fads"

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• Various Burger King advertisements.:
  • Ugoff, a self-important character in Burger King commercials saying "Please. I am Ugoff." and "Ugoff is hungry!". Ugoff appeared to be a demanding male fashion designer.
  • The Burger King "King" with the words "Where is your God now?" placed in the image. Usually accompanied by "Requiem for a Dream" or "King of Kings" by Motörhead. Many sites often depict the Burger King as a sexual predator due to the nature of the commercials that the King was in.
  • Darius Rucker's Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch ad.

• Throwing the shoe, a scene from the anime Azumanga Daioh where a girl named Osaka kicks her shoe off into the street. In the original scene, the shoe is hit off by a fast-moving truck. This sequence is replaced by other outcomes, for example the shoe hitting a battleship with a massive explosion.

• "It's Time to D-D-D-D-D-Duel."; A phrase uttered by Yugi Motou from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! in the opening sequence. People often take Yugi Moto's opening phrase and replace the last "duel" with another word beginning with D. For example, "It's time to D-D-D-D-D-Do a barrel roll!"

• "Nobody Expects the The Spanish Inquisition!"; Michael Palin's cry from the sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, often showing up as trap sites.

• I Love Bell Peppers; Iron Chef's Takeshi Kaga devouring a large piece of a bell pepper, as seen on the original show. The scene has been parodized to show him eating various other objects. Sometimes, his face will be photoshopped so that others (Brian Peppers, James T. Kirk, etc...) are eating them.

• "Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?"; A line from The Chappelle's Show. Sites will often have different words/people replaceing the "choke a bitch" and/or "Wayne Brady" portions of the quote.

• "Lieutenant Commander Data|Data just ran"; features an animated gif of Lieutenant Commander Data from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Data's Day running in place while the song "I Ran" plays in the background.

• "Walker told me I have AIDS"; A line from a skit on Late Night with Conan O'Brien involving the popular Chuck Norris lever that plays scenes from Walker, Texas Ranger. They are often accompanied by pictures having to do with Africa, food, etc.

• "Giggity Giggity"; Glenn Quagmire's (nonsensical) catchphrase from the cartoon "Family Guy", often used in similar situations as the ualaelaleale fad.

• "Hassan". Mark Copani (a.k.a. Muhammad Hassan) a wrestler with an Arab in-ring persona named suddenly appearing in unexpected places with his theme song referred to as "ALEAALEA", interrupting them in the process. Recently though, his theme has accompanied anything Arab-related. Note: Hassan really interrupts people with his theme song, which inspired the fad. The fad has also evolved into a variant of the Wikipedia vandalism fad, in which users would try to edit any wikipedia material related to UPN, Mark Copani, WWE etc adding the "ALEAALEA" entry, interrupting the article on a word or phrase.

• Tom Cruise's love fueled incident on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Various sites parodize this incident, the most infamous being a site called Tom Cruise kills Oprah, which showed Tom Cruise shooting lighting at Oprah, accompanied by a clip from Star Wars where Emperor Palpatine is using his lightning.
  • Tom Cruise getting squirted by a water gun at during an interview on the red carpet.

• Everything's ungodly!. Marguerite Perrin's rant on Trading Spouses, concerning the un-Christian practices of the D'Amico Flisher family, the presence of Jeanne D'Amico Flisher in her home, and what Marguerite believed Jeanne had planned to spend the $50,000 reward on.

• 2 scenes from the live action Sailor Moon TV Show (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon)
  • Sailor Moon Meets...", A scene where the 5 sailors meet various people. Accompanied by "Requiem for a Dream".
  • Sailor Moon vs. where said character fights various people by reflecting their attacks (mainly projectiles). This particular clip is accompanied by the refrain from the song "Invincible" by Pat Benatar. The original one featured Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh.

• "Don't say his name!"; WB Television Network's Freakazoid!: Freakazoid meets his enemy, Candlejack. His name is replaced with other spoiler fads.

• Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius: A scene from a musical version of Planet of the Apes, shown on The Simpsons, where the actors sing about the Dr. Zaius character. The song is a parody of the song by Falco called "Rock Me Amadeus" detailing the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• The Bill Nye the Science Guy theme song. Various YTMNDs, usually involving Bill Nye, include clips of the popular theme song.
  • A popular variation of the fad invovled the excerpt "Bill Bill Bill Bill" repeated again and again, accompanied by images of phone bills, people named Bill, etc...

• "They spinnin', nigga, they spinnin'!". Chris Rock's comedy skits, usually accompanied by an image of something spinning.

• George Costanza! A gif of a shirtless George Costanza from Seinfeld shooting various items out of his nipples (usually milk), mainly accompanied by "Go Go Naruto" from the anime Naruto.

• Chuck Norris, known for his role in Walker, Texas Ranger. The fad originated from a Chuck Norris Facts|website that displayed fake facts about his godlike powers. Sites will often be accompanied by the theme song from Walker. Other times, Craig Armstrong's Escape will accompany his sites.

• The More You Know, where little vox pop-style clips from celebrities are presented as public service announcements in the style of NBC's "The More You Know" PSAs.

• MacGyver saves..., from the TV show, where he would make absurd items from common household items, eg: a paper clip and string becoming a jet engine. The typical MacGyver YTMND starts with someone in trouble, MacGyver shows up, asks "What do I have to work with?", then it shows the items, then "14 seconds later", MacGyver completes what he needed. Then someone says "How'd you do it?", with MacGyver's reply being "I'm MacGyver, LOL," or some variation thereof. These sites are accompanied by the TV theme song. Sometimes, Jesus is used in these sites.

• Lamb Chop is goin crazy, a gif from the early children's TV show showing Lamb Chop moving out of control, mainly accompanied by HIM's "Soul on Fire", sometimes mixed with the "Chunk is Indestructible" fad.

• Various spoof television show intros, Animated GIFs utilizing various characters from other YTMND fads in the place of characters from said television shows. Spoofed shows include, but are not limited to:
  • Friends
  • Full House
  • Mighty Morpin' Power Rangers
  • Cheers

• Volkswagen commercial: features actor Peter Stormare as a German auto-engineer "un-pimping ze auto" by destroying sports cars of non-German style, then declaring "Oh Snap!"

• A-HA! Caught you, with Sean Connery; A scene from Jeopardy where Alex Trebek imitates the original "You're the Man Now, Dog!" scene featuring Sean Connery. Afterwards, he gives the answer to the contestants of Jeopardy with "A-ha! Caught you, with Sean Connery, in Finding Forrester!" when they could not answer this quote. Sites often play around with either of his 2 quotes.

• Kirby explains..., a counterpart to "Sonic Sez", in which Kirby points at a blackboard with a pointer and explains what he has drawn. This is a scene taken from "Kirby: Right Back at Ya!", and originally had Kirby pointing a board filled with his random scribbles, and babbling on about a plan. His speech and/or his drawings are edited.

• I Love Cake, a fad featuring the song "Cooking By The Book" from LazyTown. Sites either show various people "suffering" from the song or clips of people making cakes. The fad started out as a force fad by the user Cthulhu138 who just created sites with a picture of a Cake and a portion of the cake fad. Eventually, the fad caught on and images from the original video were used.

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