Watch It for the Meme

I see them shiver with antici...

Just as Tropes Are Not Bad, neither are memes per se. True, they get old by the 9001st time they're played, but there's a reason they get played a thousand times and more. Who hasn't ever had some lulz with them?

There's the fanbase that has been ever since the beginning of the show, and there's the second wave that watches the show/plays the game/reads the book after exposure to the meme. It's not (most of the times) Viral Marketing, since it's fans rather than marketroids behind them. Think What's uuuup! vs All Your Base Are Belong to Us.

This is right before people endlessly repeating them makes it annoying and, ironically, may make you want to avoid it as much as possible. Related to I Read It for the Articles, Just Here for Godzilla, Come for the X, Stay For the Y. Spoiler marks are used in order to keep you from unneeded exposure.

Compare Bile Fascination, where people watch/play/listen to it for the crap quality.

Examples of Watch It for the Meme include:

Anime and Manga

• Watching Bleach or getting a Vocaloid for the Leek Spin; also looking for more music by Loituma.
  • Misao's dialogues set to Ievan Polkka have surely added to the fanbase of Lucky Star. Too bad there's not so much of Misao in the anime.
• Speaking of Lucky Star, most people watch it for Konata (after hearing her Gourmet Race).
  • Or her Haruhi impressions, or the other Gourmet Races.
  • Timotei!
• School Days: A lot of people watched it only after hearing that they went for the bad ending. Also, Nice Boat.
• Watching Rozen Maiden for the Desu of it. Especially funny since a lot of other characters, and in fact real people speak that way.
  • But not to the level Suiseiseki does it.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Viral, The Dragon.
  • Now that's Viral Marketing.
  • WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK THEY ARE?!
  • There's' also people that watch it for the Cool Shades, drills, Kamina's manliness, and the Lensman Arms Race which leads to mecha that use galaxies as shuriken.
    • Let's be fair. Anybody who isn't watching it for at least one of the above reasons picked it up by accident.
• Pokémon: So I herd u liek Mudkips (sic) macros, as well as Fuck yeah, Seaking!, let me show u my pokemans and endless memes involving Slowpoke.
  • Speaking of Pokémon, the Team Rocket motto just never gets old. Ever. Neither does Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again....*PING!*
  • Deviant ART, in a misguided attempt at an April Fools' Day prank, changed every avatar on the site to a Mudkip with the legendary "So I Herd U Liek Mudkips" phrase going across the top on April 1, 2008. Reactions ranged from panic to rage to "That's not funny! Stop sucking!"
    • One of the "Why Am I Here" choices you can set for your profile is "To view pretty, pretty Mudkips."
• Azumanga Daioh has piles of image macros and references which keep drawing new fans in. Two very well known are Bananaphone and Chiyo dressed as a penguin.
  • Osaka's "bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep" in AMV Hell...and Osaka in general.
  • And Norio Wakamoto's cameo as a cat...thing.

"Harro, eburynyan! Oh, I wish I were a buhd." —"OH MY GAH!"

• • And "predicting the weather by throwing your shoe", again by Osaka. The shoe lands on a passing truck.
• Death Note: Because eating a potato chip can be dramatic, and because of "single-word spoilers" like: L(A)DIES.
  • Exactly. Just. As. Planned.
• The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya: "Is this a dancing anime?" Also, "nyoro~n."
  • Now in a separate form. :3 nyoro~n...
  • And "Mi.. Mi.. Mikuru Beeeaaam!"
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series: Screw the Rules, I Have Money... in America!
• Naruto: Dynamic Entry!!
  • There's also searching out clips of the original Japanese broadcast episodes you've already seen on Cartoon Network or DVD, for the "Sasuke can see you!" or "Good, Naruto, you look kind of cool" animation glitches.
• Axis Powers Hetalia: Prussia will seize your vital regions!
  • Don't forget the epic taglines! "I want to see your country and my country making out," and "LOL History."
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: because it's wryyyyyly good when Time Stands Still.
• Kanon, after watching all Ayu's multiple uguu~s on YouTube. Same case as Rozen Maiden's "Desu". And Shana's "Urusai!".
• If your attention span is long enough you're likely watching Ghost in the Shell for the meme. The meme that became an actual meme, just to further the show's Mind Screw.
• Reading/watching Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei may just leave you in despair!
  • Don't forget the hits Bure, bure, bure, bure and Runba, runba, runba, runba, runba.
• K-On! for Yui and Castanet.
  • Moe Moe K~yun!
  • Azusa meowing.
• Hidamari Sketch: Because it just bugs you — even knowing it'll bust your nutbladder.
• Fate/stay night: Archer, the inspiration for the word GAR.
  • Also to learn what happens to people if they are killed. They die.
• A lot of people started watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni because of it's many memes, usually they're Nipah related.
  • YOU'RE GONNA GET TAKEN HOME!!!
  • The infamous gore and laughter scenes are a big seller.
• Code Geass. One Word: Orange.
  • Orange, you say? That is the name of my loyalty.
    • For some, Nina humping on a table or Kallen's "badass mother" line.
    • Also Spinzaku, Emperocket and Sayokopter.
• The day Fullmetal Alchemist fans watched a certain episode, all female officers are required to wear... TINY MINISKIRTS!
  • I LOVE DOGS!
  • IT IS ALL PASSED DOWN FROM THE ARMSTRONG LINE FOR GENERATIONS!
• Watching F-Zero: GP Legend for the galaxy-splitting FALCON PUNCH!
• Neon Genesis Evangelion, for TEH REI!
  • Or that Gainax Ending everyone's talking about.
    • And the original Mind Rape.
  • "I'm so fucked up."
  • And End of Evangelion for teh giant naked Rei and everyone being hugged and turning into Tang.
  • Or the Gendo Pose.
• Macross Frontier for "Nyan nyan, Nyan nyan, ni hao nyan!"
  • I watched it because I'm not an adult, I'm a man!
• Sketchbook for SOU NAN DESS KARR?
• Kuso Miso Technique simply for "yaranaika?".
• Dragonball Z for "it's over 9000!". There are also some who watch just to see if they are, in fact, still on Namek.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica for the Morning Rescue, Meguca and of course Kyubey.
• Watching Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha to learn about the White Devil.
• Bokurano for the infamously depressing plot.
• Mobile Suit Gundam and Zeta Gundam for the Bright Slap. And maybe Gundam Seed dub for the disco guns.

Comic Books

• All-Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder: "I'm the Goddamn Batman".

Fan Fiction

• The only reason to ever read My Immortal is to see just what situations could have prompted some of the more over-the-top memes. Don't be tempted.
• Most people read the Warrior Cats Troll Fic Starkits Prophecy for the same reasons. Like Tigerstar holding up some Jew.

Film

• 300: Let's just leave it at Punctuated! For! Emphasis!! and Tonight, We Dine in Hell!.
• Scanners is primarily remembered, and watched to this day, for the exploding head scene.
• Many, many people watched There Will Be Blood because of the milkshake meme (it's right at the end, so the poor schlubs had to sit through the first 99% of this stunningly excellent film to get round to it, the poor bastards).
  • And Jonny Greenwood fans.
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: "GIVE ME YOUR FACE!!!"
• There are such "classics" as Animal House, or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, or Miracle on 34th Street. These are movies that if you haven't seen them, you're missing part of the zeitgeist. When someone says, "Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" and you correct them, you expose yourself as the Real Life version of a Noob. The only way to correct this is to go back and engage in remedial culture exposure.
  • Even older classics like Casablanca and Citizen Kane as well.
• Planet of the Apes: You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to Hell!
  • "Take your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"
• The Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal Lector has some memorable lines himself, but a couple of Buffalo Bill's have more of that meme status:
  • "It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again!"
  • "It places the lotion in the basket"
  • "Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard."
• Snakes on a Plane: "I have had it with these muthafucking snakes on this muthafucking plane!" It's been on ever before the movie comes out.
  • Hell, it was floating around the internet before it was even in the script. Which is how it got in the script. Just proves that not all blatant fanservice need be sexual.
    • Not to mention that the title was the only reason Samuel L. Jackson, and everyone else for that matter, was interested in the part at all.
    • In many ways the film is itself the film version of the meme rather than the other way around. Upon release actually watching the film itself was unnecessary and probably best avoided.
• On a similar note, "I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch!" from X-Men 3, which was added to the script after it became a youtube meme.
• I Am Legend... also, I was saving that bacon. I was saving it!
  • "DAMMIT FRED!"
• The Princess Bride: You Keep Using That Word and don't know who the hell is the Dread Pirate Roberts? Really, go watch it (or read the book).
  • Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die.
  • "Mawige. Mawige is what bwings us here togevuh today. Mawige."
    • "Wuv--twoo wuv..."
• "Requiem for a Dream": "Ass ta ass!"
• Aversion: No one watched Star Wars because it was A TRAP!!!!
  • I have a bad feeling about this.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father.
  • Episode III: POWER! UNLIMITED....POWER!
  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...!
    • DO NOT WANT....
• Star Trek II: The wrath of KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• A Few Good Men - "You want answers?" "I want the TRUTH!" "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
  • On the subject of Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces seems to be remembered nowadays almost exclusively for the diner sequence, namely "I want you to hold it between your knees."
    • Bah, I deride your truth-handling abilities! - Sideshow Bob
• Watching Balls of Fury to find out what "Have your grandma pull the car around" could possibly mean.
• Troll 2, OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!
  • GARBAGE DAY!
• The Room: "You are TEARING ME APART, Lisa!"
  • "I did not hit her, it's not true, it's bullshit! I did not hit her. I did NAAHT... Oh, hai Mark".
  • "What a story, Mark!"
  • "Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!"
• Suburban Commando for "I was frozen today!"
• Street Fighter for Raul Julia.
  • OF COURSE!
  • Or Zangief
    • "QUICK! CHANGE ZE CHANNEL!"
• Pulp Fiction for either Samuel L. Jackson's speech, John Travolta dancing or someone getting his brains blown out by accident.
• Titanic for the "king of the world" or "I'm flying" bits.
• Recent comic book movies like Iron Man (IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!), Superman Returns (WRONG!) and The Dark Knight (Why...so... serious?)
  • Even the old ones. KNEEL. BEFORE. ZOD.
    • OF COURSE!
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back for Jay's rap.
• The Lord of the Rings for "MY PRECIIIOOOOOUUUUSSSSS...." and "YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!"
  • They're taking the hobbits to Isengard.
  • One does not simply ______ into Mordor.
  • Shaaare the Looooad...
• Pirates of the Caribbean for Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy?
  • I got a jar of dirt~!
  • Why is the rum gone?
• Most viewers no longer watch Point Break past the midway point where Keanu Reeves fires his gun into the air and goes "Ah-agh!"
• Soylent Green is people!
• Labyrinth for any number of reasons:

"You remind me of the babe." "What babe?" "The babe with the power." "What power?" "The power of Hoodoo." "Hoodoo?" "You do." "Do what?" "Remind me of the babe." "What babe?" And so on... No, I said "'allo", but that's close enough." Hey, lady! Where you goin' with a head like that! And, of course, David Bowie's crotch.

• The first Twilight movie just to see Edward sparkle.
• History of the World Part One for the Spanish Inquisition.
  • Also, it's good to be the king.
• The Wicker Man (2006 remake): Nicolas Cage getting stung by bees.
  • No, not the bees!
  • Bear punch!
  • How'd it get burned? (how'd it get burned? how'd it get burned?)
• Some people only watched the ending of Gone with the Wind because frankly my dear, they don't give a damn.
  • If you watch a four-hour movie just for the last line, you've got dedication.
• Finding Forrester for the famous, website-inspiring line You're The Man Now Dog!
• Hitler is furious that people have watched Downfall because of the Gag Subs of his ranting Villainous Breakdown.
• Inglourious Basterds: "We're gonna be doin' ONE THANG and ONE THANG ONLY! Killin' Natzies."
  • • "NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN!!!!!!!!"
    • "Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!"
  • "That's a BINGO!"
  • The Bear Jew, and to a lesser degree, Hugo Stiglitz.
    • Both of which were averted in the actual movie. It was almost all Aldo's show, and Landa's. All but a taste of the badassness all happened offscreen or was implied. Tarantino you mad bastard. Shoshanna was a clear third runner up, but the fact her plan and Aldo's didn't intersect completely, and she got screwed by sheer bad luck skewered her contribution mildly. Also, BJ didn't seem very bear-y, at least to this troper, so he really has to wonder about that nickname...
    • Wonder no more - BJ Novak didn't play Donnie Donowitz, aka The Bear Jew. Eli Roth did. Novak played Utivich, who is the last man standing with Aldo at the end of the movie.
      • Only people with insufficient pop cultural knowledge would assume that BJ And The Bear were the same person.
• Army of Darkness: "This... is my BOOMSTICK!"
  • "Hail to the King, baby!"
• Friday the 13 th: Arrow through the throat.
  • The Final Chapter has the Incredible Crispin Glover Dance.
• Tropic Thunder: "You never go full retard".
  • "I know who I am! I'm a dude playing the dude disguised as another dude!"
• Con Air was Vindicated by History to a certain extent over fascination with matters of putting bunnies back in boxes and questioning how to live without you.
• The Family Man and "I WANT THAT CAKE!"
• A Cry In The Dark (AKA Evil Angels): Four words: "DINGOES ATE MY BABY!"
• No one makes memes like Gaston!
• Fight Club: The first rule about Fight Club is you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!
• American Psycho: For the "Oh my God, it even has a water mark." And also for the Huey Lewis and The News.
• Network "I'M/WE'RE MAD AS HELL, AND I'M/WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
• The Usual Suspects "And like that... puff he's gone."
• The Lorax": "How Bad Can I Be?"
• Strozek: the dancing chicken.

Live-Action TV

• Saturday Night Live has several of them: Happy Fun Ball or More Cowbell, for instance.
  • And recent ones by Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island.
• Only watching CSI: Miami... *puts on sunglasses* for Horatio's awesome one-liners.
  • YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH!
• If you want to cross off the most memes on your list for a single source, Monty Python's Flying Circus is probably your best bet. The show will give you "spam, spam, spam, spam," "this is an ex-parrot," "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition," "nudge nudge wink wink say no more," "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay," "My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels," "Burma!" and possibly some others you've been struggling with. Of the films, Life of Brian will give you "the People's Front of Judea," "what have the Romans ever done for us," "Blessed Are the Cheesemakers, "he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" and "I'm Brian and so's my wife!" Holy Grail will give you swallows and coconuts, "Not Quite Dead," "Unexplained Recovery," "help help I'm being repressed," "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries," the killer rabbit, and "Ni!" Meaning of Life, oddly, probably won't give you anything, unless you've encountered "every sperm is sacred." Even so, you ought to be satisfied.
  • Meaning of Life does have Mr Creosote and the "wafer-thin mint".
    • "Fuck off, I'm full!"
  • Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour...
  • I didn't even eat the salmon mousse!
• Getting into Doctor Who just to find out what the heck a Time Lord is.
• Watching The A-Team just so you can understand the Mr. T vs. meme.
• The Mighty Boosh; I'm Old Greg!
• Chapelles Show is a perfect example of a show people watch so they can quote it with their friends.

Music

• After watching Caramelldansen, you look for Popotan (game or anime) and want a Vocaloid. The last one because of YouTube's related videos feature.
• Listening to Nightwish's Ghost Love Score because of the Epic Maneuver meme.
  • Or because a Critic used it.
  • Getting into Nightwish by way of the Lord Of The Rings (abridged) video.
• Watching the video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" just because people keep trying to make you.
• Going to a Dragonforce concert because of the one song of theirs in Guitar Hero. These days this seems to be a considerable portion of their listeners, or at least people who talk about them publicly.
  • Even earlier than that, because a snippet of one of their songs makes watching Chairman Kaga bite into a bell pepper even more incredibly awesome.
• Listening to Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" for "mmm whatcha say". Made mainstream by by its use in The OC episode "The Dearly Beloved", the SNL parody "The Shooting" thereof, and the "Dear Sister" recursive parodies on video sharing sites. Then made old meme by Jason Derulo's "Whatcha Say" that samples mainly the memetastic bits.
• Benny Hill chasing (or being chased by) women to the tune of "Yakety Sax".
• Listening to the song Chased Through the Woods by Waking the Cadaver for the "SHREDDED WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT!"
• Watching the music video for Stick Stickly by Attack Attack! to see the guitarist's "Crabcore" stance.
• Getting Erasure's greatest hits because you played Robot Unicorn Attack and--Always I wanna be with you and make believe with you and live in harmony harmony OH LOVE~
• Listening to Lost Horizon's "Highlander" to belt that "Face Melter".
• Listening to "In The Air Tonight" for the drum part. So you can turn the volume way up seconds before.
  • Similarly, listening to "Won't Get Fooled Again" so you can turn the volume way up just before YYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
• Listening to any song used in a "Dew Army" page on YTMND.
• Buying Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" in case you ever need to channel John Cusack in Say Anything.
• Watching the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 for Moldova's Epic Sax Guy.
• Weird Al's A Complicated Song, y'know, in the bathroom.
• Insane Clown Posse wonders how fuckin magnets work.

New Media

• Ever saw that macro of crustaceans gathering around a bag of Doritos? Those are giant isopods.
• This very wiki has its memes, making noobs get deeper in, for example after getting a Bridget dropped on them.
• Any common YouTube Poop material (such as the CD-i games and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) after watching YouTube Poop.
  • Also, sometimes it draws attention to the material even when viewers of said YTP may have seen the material elsewhere. For example, some might have seen ads involving Billy Mays without particularly paying much attention to them, and started paying closer attention to such ads after their being parodied in YTP.
• Becoming a Troper just so you can edit this website and adding your examples.
• In Linkara's review of All Star Batman and Robin, he introduces the part involving the line "I'm the Goddamn Batman" by saying: "And here it is. The moment of truth. The moment everyone remembers this comic for." After he reads the line, he says, "Ladies and gentlemen... we have... an Internet meme!!"
  • He later posted a video saying that he would not review any more non-terrible comics merely so people could hear him recite a meme.
    • Although, it should be noted that he did recite the two most commonly requested memetastic lines from the requested stories: "Sandra Brown, you have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!" and The Joker's Silver Age "Boner" Caper. ("Boner. Boner boner. Boner boning of boner. Bonerboner. Erect Penis.")
  • Obscurus Lupa specialises in this trope, reviewing both Gymkata and Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, among others.
• Many people watch Chuggaaconroy's Let's Play of Pikmin solely to find out who this Steve guy everyone is talking about is.

Theatre

• Avenue Q, because of The Internet Is for Porn song.
  • As well as "If You Were Gay" and "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist".
• Older Than You Think:

"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations." — Orson Welles

Video Games

• Playing NES Pro Wrestling for "A Winner Is You".
• Playing NES Tag Team Wrestling for the Strong Bads
• Playing Portal even when you know that the cake was a lie, to find out what all the fuss about the Companion Cube is about and for the ending song.
  • Playing Team Fortress 2 after hearing too much need for dispensers and songs completely composed of the word "bonk".
    • Or because you heard it was America's #1 war-themed hat simulator.
  • Half-Life 2 for putting the can in the trash or Father Grigori.
  • Garry's Mod using Half-Life 2 maps for putting the Combine in the trash, in can form (use of mods is, of course, required).
• Some people have definitely played Zero Wing for All Your Base Are Belong to Us.
  • Zero Wing is one of the most downloaded games on Emulation sites, despite the actual gameplay being very average (but still workable for the genre).
    • Your Mileage May Vary. Others may have been introduced to it because of the meme, but enjoyed its actual style (especially the music) once they got into it.
• CROSS†CHANNEL: NANACA+ CRASH!!.
• The World Ends With You why is everyone saying "zetta"?
  • SOHCAHTOA.
  • Stupid zeros!
  • Crunch! I'll add it to the heap!
  • Though only said once, What the factor?
  • Sine! Cosine! Tangent!!
  • You're outta your vector.
  • Prepare to be iterated.
  • By the way, this is all coming from one character.
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Fission Mailed.
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Time Paradox!
    • Let's not forget about the classic "Snake? Snake! SNAAKE!"
• Playing World of Warcraft, stemming entirely from exposure to Leeroy Jenkins! Or, failing that, because your friends haven't been seen in public for weeks.
  • Or because of the South Park episode.
  • Or because of The Guild.
• Playing Disgaea just to see the Memetic Badass CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF EARTH!! and how he came to be. Oh, and Prinnies, dood! Also because you're loli for Etna.
• Playing Phoenix Wright just to hear OBJECTION! ,HOLD IT! ,TAKE THAT!
  • Accompanied with epic finger pointing.
• Playing Super Robot Wars (either Alpha or OG) to see why Real Men Ride Each Other.
• Restarting Castlevania Symphony Of The Night just to learn once more about the true nature of humanity.

"WHAT IS A MAN?! [glass shatters] A miserable little pile of secrets!"

• Eversion, for the increasingly horrible universe the game is set in.
  • Relatedly, Deceased Crab's Let's Play of the game for the phrase "Stop your cheery lies!"
• You probably wouldn't expect Kingdom Hearts to have something like this, but it does. Got it memorized? No, the second game is for TOTALLY OWNING YOU LAMERS.
  • As if!
  • KINGDOM HEEAARTS! Fill me with the power of DARKNESS!
  • Get up on the Hydra's back!
• "DAYTONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" (USA)
• Final Fantasy IV - "You Spoony Bard!" Thankfully, that quotation is early in the game.
• Sengoku Basara. Not only did many people watch the anime solely for Date Masamune's Gratuitous English and Motorhorse, many people went on to play the games simply so they could hear more.
  • "YUKIMURA!" "OYAKATA-SAMA!"
• The Touhou Project is so memetic it got its own page, and has an exponentially increasing number of fans coming for the precious thing, Tsurupettan or Nine-ball; which then make more memes, draw new fans in and so on.
  • U. N. Owen Was Her? and it's horrible mutilation the McRoll should be added to the list.
• "You are dead, dead, dead..." from Total Distortion.
• "You're Winner!" Really, the meme is the only reason to even touch Big Rigs Over the Road Racing.
• Left 4 Dead: "roses arte red, violets are blue, you suck"; "I hate memes."; "PILLS HERE!"
• Left 4 Dead 2: "Cool story, bro"; "I ever tell you about the time when me and Keith..."
• Hotel Mario: "If you need instructions on how to get through the hotels, check out the enclosed instruction book."
  • You know what they say; all toastas, toast TOAST!
• "BITCHES AND WHORES" led many to discover Persona 4.
• Final Fantasy I has "I, Garland, will knock you all down!". And of course, picking a party of Fighter, Black Mage, Thief and Red Mage.
• Some people played Mass Effect because of Har-ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
  • While others played Mass Effect 2 because "SIR Isaac Newton IS THE DEADLIEST SON OF A BITCH IN SPACE!"
• Some claim the main point of Dragon Age is Alistair's dialogue.
  • Swooping is bad.
  • I like big boats. I cannot lie.
• Downloading Yume Nikki, just to see UboaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
• Sinistar is old, difficult and annoying to play but returned to for the "RUN, HOWARD" and the "BEWARE: I LIVE."
• Zork: Would any contemporary gamer even consider trying some antiquated, text-only interactive adventure game, if not for the chance to be Eaten By a Grue?
• Playing Guilty Gear only for Bridget.
  • or Faust
• In this era, there are exactly two reasons for playing The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games. One is Bile Fascination. The other is seeing where all those YouTube Poop jokes came from.
  • "Mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for!"
  • "Mmmmmm...richer"
• Mortal Kombat: "Fatality!", "Get over here!"/"Come here!", "Finish Him!!", "Flawless Victory!", etc.
• Playing Metroid: Other M to see the Mysterious Black Dude ("Remember me?") and find out who he is and why we should remember him.
• Playing Moonbase Alpha to abuse its text to speech feature. "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"
• FUS RO DAH!
  • I'd play more, but I took an arrow to the knee.
• Playing Bad Dudes to see if you're a bad enough dude to rescue the president, who's been kidnapped by ninjas.
• Action 52, for the Cheetahmen music.
• Playing Star Fox to Do a Barrel Roll!
• Most people only play The Great Giana Sisters, and the remake, these days because it's infamous for being a Super Mario Bros. clone.
• I am the Great Mighty Poo!

Western Animation

• South Park: "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!."

Step 1: Watch the episode "Gnomes" to understand this meme. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!

• The 1967 Spider-Man cartoon has seen a surge in popularity, after it was realized that its bizarre, exaggerated animation made for great reaction images.
• The Super Mario World cartoon. Six words and a sound: "That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario! *Wheeze*"
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: "SnooPING AS usual, I see!"
• Watching The Simpsons Movie for Spider Pig.
• Futurama: Memes do not work that way! Good night! (There are many ways they do work, though.)
• Learning about Candle Jack from Freakazoid.
• Many people start watching My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic for the memes, but end up as genuine fans.
• The Dover Boys: A classic cartoon I never heard of! I'll watch it! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW! (It even led to a meme for the above! Confound those ponies, they drive me to drink!)
• Disney's Robin Hood attracts a lot of its latter-day audience because it originated the Hamsterdance tune.
• Street Fighter: Yes! Yes!

...pation!