Reed Kavner

Videogum Inside Jokes, Memes, etc.

lindsayrobertson:

werttrew:

A preliminary list of inside jokes, catchphrases, snowclones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone) and memes that are prevalent on Videogum.

))<>((  //Back and forth. Forever. Reference to a scene from You, Me, and Everyone We Know (see clip). A child gets involved in a creepy discussion with someone online, and the symbol ))<>(( represents the child’s saying he wanted two people to “poop back and forth. Forever.” Gross, I know! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoJo81lujk

2012.  The impending disaster that the Mayans correctly predicted will destroy us all and our cynical, profane Western ways in 2012. Gabe frequently and rightly points out our impending destruction of which we, corrupt and decadent as we are, should be looking forward to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

Andrew, don’t interrupt! Spoken in reply to trolls or overly-zealous nitpickers. From an edited clip (see link) about kids explaining how to use the web and one of the kids, Andrew, speaks over another child.  http://videogum.com/archives/webjunk/old_videos_explaining_how_to_u_096881.html

Bad idea jeans // good idea jeans. A tag given to bad ideas or good ideas. From an old Saturday Night Live sketch: http://www.hulu.com/watch/10310/saturday-night-live-bad-idea-jeans

Because ______ (EG, because jokes//because feminism). Frequently used sentence structure, omitting “of” for humorous effect.

Because that’s something that people do. A variation of this is often used to express sarcastically something that is, in fact, NEVER done by real people. http://videogum.com/archives/soap-operas/gossip-girl-all-the-world-is-l_059052.html

And it goes on and on and on. Amazing.

Brilliant. Not to be Professor Lists or anything, but he missed “Kids ________ the darndest things.”