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  • Rainbow Magic:
    • The franchise is named after the Rainbow Fairies.
    • Each series has seven books.
      • More recent series only have four books.
    • The main characters are two girls named Rachel and Kirsty, who are friends with the fairies.
  • Ramona Quimby:
    • She has an older sister named Beatrice who gets nicknamed Beezus.
    • She once mistook a raw egg for a boiled egg and made a mess.
    • She knows a boy named Howie Kemp.
    • She once wore her pyjamas to school under her clothes.
  • Ranma ½:
    • It's about a guy who can turn into a girl when splashed with cold water.
    • He does martial arts.
    • He has a harem and is tangled in a Love Dodecahedron.
    • There's a panda.
  • Ready Jet Go!
    • Jet is an alien who conveniently looks like a human. His home planet is Bortron 7
    • Only three human kids named Sean, Sydney, and Mindy know he's an alien.
    • Jet's other family members are all named after vegetables.
    • Jet's mom Celery takes Sean and Sydney to space to teach them about the planets and stars.
      • Mindy joins them eventually.
    • EXCELSIOR!
    • BOOYAH, SCIENCE!
    • THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, IT'S THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.
  • Red Dead Redemption
    • The series is set during The Twilight Of The Old West.
    • The second game is a prequel to the first game.
    • Arthur has tuberculosis.
    • Dutch has a plan.
    • John Marston unexpectedly dies at the end of the first game, and is replaced as protagonist by his son Jack.
    • There's a strange, mysterious guy around who makes cryptic comments and might be God or the Devil.
    • Everybody hates Micah.
    • Abigail used to be a prostitute.
  • Resident Evil
    • An evil corporation called Umbrella engineered a zombie-making virus.
    • Raccoon City gets destroyed.
    • The voice acting in the first game was incredibly terrible.
    • Barry's lines were especially bad, including the immortal "You were almost a Jill Sandwich!" He also calls Jill "the master of unlocking."
    • Resident Evil 4 was incredibly popular and changed the Survival Horror genre.
    • One of the main villains is a blond guy named Wesker who wears sunglasses.
    • All the buildings the main characters end up in have elaborate locks that usually require weird stuff like crests and medals to open.
    • There's a really tall noble vampire lady named Lady Dimitrescu.
  • Richard Nixon
    • Presided over Watergate, in which some of his supporters broke into the Watergate complex.
    • Resigned from the Presidency because of Watergate.
    • "I am not a crook".
    • "Expletive Deleted".
    • Went to Red China, and only he could go there.
    • Known as "Tricky Dick".
    • Made the VSign gesture.
  • Rick and Morty
    • An alcoholic scientist and his anxious grandson have weird adventures.
    • To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand it.
    • Rick turns himself into a pickle.
      • I'm Pickle Rick!
  • Ride to Hell: Retribution
    • It's one of the worst video games in all of existence.
    • The game offensively portrays women as nothing more than sex objects.
    • The game was initially going to be an open-world game, but was changed into a linear game mid-production.
    • There were going to be more Ride to Hell games, but they were cancelled after how badly Retribution was received.
  • Rio
    • After the movie's release, the main character's species went extinct in the wild in real life.
  • Robotech
  • Rocky series
    • Runs up some steps and punches the air.
      • Gonna Fly Now!
    • Adrian!
    • "Eye of the Tiger"
    • Mickey dies.
    • Apollo Creed dies.
    • Rocky fights Mr. T.
    • Rocky fights a Soviet Russian guy.
    • The movies are numbered with Roman numerals: II, III, IV, V, except the last one which is Rocky Balboa.
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Romeo and Juliet
    • It's a love story.
    • They commit suicide at the end.
    • "Star-cross'd lovers".
    • "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" Often quoted without the initial "O"; frequently cited as though "wherefore" meant "where" rather than "why".
    • "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
    • Mercutio snarks even unto death.
  • The Room
    • It's generally considered the best worst movie ever.
    • "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 NAWT! Oh hai, Mark."
    • "Cheep-cheep-cheep-cheep-cheep-cheeeeep!"
  • Rugrats:
    • An incompetent psychologist named Lipschitz.
    • Tommy owns a screwdriver.
    • The babies stray off without their parents noticing.
    • Grandpa Lou loves the number 15 and uses silly exclamations.
    • There is a bully named Angelica who owns a doll named Cynthia.

    S 
  • Sailor Moon
    • It's about a girl who turns into a magical girl warrior after removing a bandage from a cat.
    • Her friends are named after the planets in the solar system.
    • Two of them are lesbians, but they were made "cousins" for the North American market.
    • Sailor Moon has a boyfriend named Tuxedo Mask who doesn't do anything except throw a rose and leave.
    • She's really bad in school and regularly gets poor test grades.
  • Samuel L. Jackson
    • Snakes on a Plane
      • "I have HAD it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!"
    • Pulp Fiction
      • Does he LOOK... Like a BITCH?!
      • Say what again. SAY WHAT AGAIN! I DARE YOU! I DOUBLE DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKER! SAY WHAT ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME!
      • Ezekiel 25:17
    • The Incredibles
      • Honey? Where's my Supersuit!
      • WHERE! IS! MY! SUPER! SUIT!
      • YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS, WOMAN!
    • Spiral (2021)
      • "You wanna play games, motherfucker? Alright. I'll play."
  • Samurai Jack
    • A samurai named Jack fights an Eldrich Abomination named Aku.
    • It ended, and was revived many years later.
    • "Gotta get back, back to the past, Samurai Jack!"
    • "EXTRA THICK!"
  • The Sandlot
    • It's about baseball.
    • Babe Ruth is mentioned a lot.
    • The Sultan of Swat…The Titan of Terror.
    • There's a scary dog.
    • :You're killing me, Smalls.
  • Saw
    • "I want to play a game."
    • Sawing your own limbs off.
    • The Reverse Bear Trap.
    • Jigsaw.
      • The dead guy in the underground bathroom in the first movie was actually a perfectly alive Jigsaw all along.
    • Billy the Puppet.
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Scott The Woz:
  • Seinfeld:
    • It's a show about nothing.
    • Four friends in New York get into trouble a lot and have petty arguments.
    • "A Festivus for the rest of us!"
    • "No soup for you!"
    • "Hello, Newman."
    • "Not that there's anything wrong with that!"
  • Sesame Street:
    • Elmo speaks in third person, and there's a doll of his that likes to be tickled.
    • There's a character named Oscar who lives in a garbage can.
    • There's two guys named Ernie and Bert.
    • There's a bird.
    • There's a monster who eats cookies and sang about them.
    • There was a character named Mr. Hooper, who died.
    • It's an Edutainment Show and is "brought to you" by letters and numbers.
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • The Shining:
    • Creepy twins.
    • Blood rushing out of an elevator.
    • "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Typed out over and over again.
    • The husband breaks open a door with an ax and yells "HERE'S JOHNNY!!"
  • Shrek
    • "Somebody once told me..."
    • There's a green ogre named Shrek and a donkey named Donkey.
    • It parodies fairy tales.
    • Ogres are like onions. They have layers.
    • The second movie has Puss in Boots and the Fairy Godmother who sings "Holding Out for a Hero".
  • Silent Hill
    • Pyramid Head.
    • James killed Mary.
    • The air raid siren is bad.
    • P.T. was cancelled.
  • Simon's Cat:
    • The cat points at his mouth when hungry.
    • Simon is a Butt-Monkey.
  • The Simpsons
    • "D'oh!"
      • ”Woo hoo!”
    • Homer strangles his son in Crosses the Line Twice fashion.
      • Why, you little...!!!
    • They're yellow with wacky hair.
    • Starts with an angelic choir singing the name of the show while the camera sweeps past clouds down to the town below.
    • The father is a stupid guy named Homer who eats doughnuts and drinks beer.
    • Bart says, "Ay Carumba!" and "Eat my shorts!" and rides a skateboard.
    • There is a non-canon Halloween special called “Treehouse of Horror” each year.
    • The show's opening always ends with a Couch Gag.
  • Singin' in the Rain:
    • Used a bunch of old songs.
    • A man, well, sings in the rain.
    • A man hugs a lamppost.
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Skylanders
  • Smile (2022)
    • Trauma is where a weird smiling thing lives.
    • A cat dies in it.
  • Smile PreCure!:
    • It's known as Glitter Force in English.
    • Miyuki is Cure Happy, Akane is Cure Sunny, Yayoi is Cure Peace, Nao is Cure March, and Reika is Cure Beauty.
    • Yayoi is Prone to Tears.
    • Nao has a lot of siblings.
  • Snagglepuss
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
    • SEGA! (Shouted at the start of some games, including the first.)
    • Stars a super-fast hedgehog.
      • He's blue.
      • He wears red shoes.
    • The villain is a fat guy in a hovering arm chair.
    • His heyday was in the mid-nineties with a spotted history since then.
      • Got too many bloody friends in later games.
    • Was once kissed on the mouth by a human princess while dead.
    • Gotta go fast!
    • The drowning music.
    • All modern Sonic games are bad.
    • In the live-action film, Sonic originally got a realistic design so disliked by the fanbase that they went back and changed it to be more accurate to the games.
  • South Park
    • The animation looks like construction paper cutouts.
    • The main characters are four VERY foul-mouthed boys who wear winter clothing.
    • They Killed Kenny over and over again.
  • Soviet leaders (written from a Russian perspective, not every point may be relevant for Western users):
    • Vladimir Lenin
      • The leader of the proletarian revolution.
      • Spoke to people while standing on an armoured car.
      • Wore a cap.
      • Carried a log on a subbotnik.
      • Was a mushroom and a radiowave.
      • Dissolved into mold and linden honey.
    • Joseph Stalin
      • Was a Georgian, spoke with a thick accent.
      • Had moustache.
      • Smoked a pipe.
      • Loved to shoot people or send them to GULag, also starved a lot of people to death.
      • Won the World War II.
    • Nikita Khrushchev
      • Period of his rule is known as "Thaw era"
      • Denounced Stalin's cult of personality.
      • Slammed his shoe on a desk and promised to show Kuzka's mother to everyone.
      • Built "khruschovkas".
      • Planted corn everywhere.
    • Leonid Brezhnev
    • Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko
      • Both were old, sick and died quickly.
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
      • Was the first (and last) president of USSR.
      • His wife Raisa was a first lady.
      • Tried to ban alcohol.
      • Started "perestroika" and "glasnost".
      • Destroyed USSR.
      • But thanks to him Russia got Pizza Hut.
  • Soylent Green
    • is people!
  • Spider-Man
    • "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility."
    • The original theme song - "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does Whatever a Spider Can."
    • The upside-down kiss in the first movie.
    • He shoots webs and can swing around the city with them.
    • He lives in New York.
    • "My spider-sense is tingling!"
  • Splatoon / Splatoon 2
    • "You're a kid now, you're a squid now, YOU'RE A KID YOU'RE A SQUID YOU'RE A KID YOU'RE A SQUID YOU'RE A SQUID-"
    • The main playable factions are squid/octopuses that can assume humanoid and feral forms at will.
    • They also shoot their own ink at each other with lots of unlikely weapons, including gardening hoses and huge paint rollers.
    • Also, it's set in the distant future where humans are extinct.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants
    • "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"
    • SpongeBob's signature laugh.
    • SpongeBob works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab fast food restaurant, run by the greedy Mr. Krabs, and loves making and eating its signature sandwich, the Krabby Patty.
    • SpongeBob and his starfish best friend Patrick Star have a habit of annoying their octopus neighbor Squidward Tentacles whenever the opportunity strikes.
    • The evil Plankton keeps trying and failing to steal Mr. Krabs' secret formula for Krabby Patties and ruin his restaurant.
      • His wife is a computer named Karen.
    • Sandy Cheeks is a squirrel who lives underwater and loves karate.
    • Gary is SpongeBob's pet snail who meows like a cat.
    • SpongeBob always fails to get his boating license from Mrs. Puff.
    • Mr. Krabs' daughter is a teenage whale named Pearl.
    • "Is this the Krusty Krab?"
      • "No! This is Patrick!"
    • "Is mayonnaise an instrument?"
      • "No, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument."
    • "Once, there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end."
    • "My leg!"
    • "I'm a goofy goober, yeah!"
    • "[Number] [time] later..."
  • St. Elsewhere
    • The entire show is implied to be taking place in the imagination of an autistic boy named Tommy Westphall.
  • The Stanley Dynamic
    • Stars two brothers, one live-action and one animated.
  • The Stanley Parable
    • UNFUNNY!?
  • StarCraft
  • Stardew Valley
    • Farming simulator.
    • You inherit the farm from your grandpa.
    • You're fighting against an evil MegaCorp.
    • The entire game, from programming to art to music, was made by one person.
    • There's 12 characters you can marry.
  • Starfield
  • Star Fox
    • "Do a barrel roll!"
    • "Can't let you do that, Star Fox!"
    • "Help me Fox!"
  • Star Trek
    • "Beam Me Up, Scotty!."
    • "Uh dun't haf the par!"
    • "She canna take much more captain!"
    • Spock / A character with pointy ears
      • "Fascinating."
      • "Live long and Prosper"
      • Vulcan salute
    • KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
    • The ensign with the Red Shirt will always die.
      • Unless it's TNG or later, in which case the ensign in the mustard-coloured shirt will die.
    • "To boldly go where no one has gone before."
    • "He's dead, Jim."
      • Bones is a doctor, not another profession more relevant to the situation at hand.
    • "We are Borg. Resistance is Futile."
      • "You will be assimilated."
    • One of the captains is Patrick Stewart / "that bald guy."
      • "Engage!"
      • "Make it so."
    • There's Klingons on the starboard bow.
      • It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
    • Captain Janeway is a redheaded, coffee-drinking lady.
    • The most controversial episodes involve Spock having his brain stolen and Paris and Janeway having lizard babies.
    • Picard tells Wesley to "shut up".
    • Enterprise has a pop song as its theme, and more underwear scenes than the other series.
    • Tasha Yar was killed by a tar monster and slept with Data.
  • Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure:
    • It's about space travel.
    • Stars Hikaru the human, Lala the alien, Fuwa the puffball, and Elena and Madoka the humans.
  • Star vs. the Forces of Evil
    • Star is a magical princess from another dimension who fights monsters using her magic wand.
    • The monsters aren't actually evil.
    • The fandom is infamous for its Ship-to-Ship Combat.
      • Starco is the most popular ship.
      • Starco eventually became canon.
    • A lot of people hate the last episode.
  • Star Wars
    • "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."
      • Wall of text scrolling off into the distance.
    • "Use the Force, Luke."
      • "May the Force be with you."
    • "I am your father."
    • There are warriors using light swords, one of which is a cyborg.
    • Darth Vader wears a black helmet that helps him breathe. Heavily.
    • The droids C-3P0 and R2-D2.
    • You Have Failed Me for the last time.
    • "I have a bad feeling about this."
    • "It's a trap!"
    • Jar Jar Binks, who is apparently the only character in the prequels.
    • "These aren't the droids you're looking for."
    • "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
    • Numerous aspects of the sequel trilogy didn't go over well with a lot of fans.
    • Anakin hates sand.
    • Baby Yoda, who singlehandedly saved toy sales.
  • Steven Universe
    • It's about a bunch of sentient gemstone alien women.
    • All of Steven's powers are tied to his emotions.
    • Steven's Gem guardian Garnet is really a permanent fusion of two star-crossed non-binary, feminine-presenting lesbians, Ruby and Sapphire.
      • She sings "Stronger Than You"
    • Steven's late mother Rose Quartz was really the assumed identity of Pink Diamond, the deceased member of the ambiguously evil Great Diamond Authority from whom Steven and his Gem friends protect Earth.
    • Lesbian space rocks.
    • All the bad guys get redeemed.
    • There's a guy named Ronaldo who is widely disliked.
  • Studio Ghibli
  • Street Fighter:
  • Suicide Notes From Beautiful Girls
    • Stars a girl named June.
    • Delia's dead. Or is she?
  • Suite Pretty Cure ♪:
    • Themed around music.
    • Stars Hibiki/Cure Melody and Kanade/Cure Rhythm.
    • There's a cat mascot called Hummy.
  • The Sunny Side Up Show:
    • Chica can only speak in squeak.
    • Birthdays were celebrated through cards and wishes delivered by a cardboard mailman. Oh, and they sang a birthday song.
    • It aired live from 9AM to noon.
  • Superman
    • "Up, up, and away!"
    • "Faster than a speeding bullet; more powerful than a locomotive; able to leap tall buildings In a Single Bound."
    • "Look, up in the sky: It's a bird! It's a plane!..."
    • "This looks like a job for Superman!"
    • Vulnerable to Kryptonite.
    • "The Man of Steel"
    • Last son of the destroyed planet Krypton.
    • His secret identity is Clark Kent, thanks to a pair of glasses. The fact that his birth name is Kal-El is also well known, but not as ubiquitous.
    • Girlfriend - Lois Lane; best friend - Jimmy Olsen; archenemy - Lex Luthor; cousin and sidekick - Supergirl
    • In order of "everybody knowsness": Superstrength; flight; invulnerability; X-Ray vision; heat vision; superspeed; telescopic vision; superbreath; super hearing.
  • Super Mario Bros.
    • "It's a-me, Mario!"
    • The other brother's name is Luigi (known to some as "Green Mario").
    • Good at jumping.
    • Eats shrooms.
    • Stomps on turtles and little brown things.
    • Overalls and a stache.
    • Enters green pipes.
    • The princess is in another castle.
    • Collects coins. Trades one hundred for green mushrooms.
    • Hits bricks and blocks marked "?" from underneath with his head (though he actually hits them with his fist most of the time.)
    • The 1-1 music.
    • In Odyssey, his hat gets destroyed then possessed by a hat ghost and he can capture things.
    • In Sunshine, he uses a water pack to spray things and fly around.
    • "Let's-a go!"
    • In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Bowser plays a love ballad about Peach.
  • Super Smash Bros.
  • Sym-Bionic Titan
    • It was cancelled.
    • "Shake it, bake it, booty quake it!"

    T 
  • Tamagotchi
    • It's a series of virtual pet toys that was massive back when it originally released in the 90's.
    • Its mascot, Mametchi, is a simplistic yellow humanoid creature with a black cap and vaguely cat/rabbit-like ears.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    • The turtles are named after Renaissance artists.
    • They live in the sewers.
    • They are trained by a mutant rat.
    • They like pizza.
  • Teen Titans Go!
    • YOUR NEW FAVORITE SHOW!
    • It's Denser and Wackier than the comics and the original show.
      • The main characters are a lot meaner.
    • Cartoon Network runs a lot of reruns for it.
    • Slade's return was offscreen.
    • There's an episode where Cyborg and Beast Boy say nothing but "waffles".
    • Robin shakes his booty in 3D.
    • It has the most episodes out of any Cartoon Network show.
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
    • Kamina and his impossibly cool shades.
      • He dies in episode 8.
    • "Don't believe in yourself. Believe in me who believes in you!"
    • Galaxy-sized mecha.
    • "JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?"
    • "Mine is the drill that will pierce the heavens!"
  • Them!
    • People are terrorized by giant ants.
  • Theodore Roosevelt
    • Fought at the battle of San Juan Hill
    • Had the Panama Canal built
    • Inspired the Teddy Bear
    • "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick"
    • He went on an expedition in South America after his presidency that didn't go well.
  • Thomas & Friends
    • It's about talking trains with static faces.
    • Ringo Starr and George Carlin have narrated for it.
    • One train named Henry went into a tunnel, and then was bricked up in it forever.
    • The trains' boss is a fat guy named Sir Topham Hatt/The Fat Controller.
    • "Really Useful."
    • "You have caused confusion and delay."
  • They Live!
    • "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
    • Sunglasses that give you total insight on everything.
  • The Three Musketeers
  • Titanic (1997)
    • The boat sinks.
    • "I'm the king of the world!"
    • "Jack, I'm flying!"
    • The old lady throws the diamond overboard.
    • The song "My Heart Will Go On"
    • Jack dies.
      • Some viewers argue that he could actually have survived if he tried.
  • Top Gun
    • Goose dies.
  • The Toy Castle
    • Stars toys that come to life at night.
  • Toy Story
    • Toys come to life when nobody is looking.
    • The main characters are a sheriff doll named Woody and a space ranger doll named Buzz Lightyear, who are owned by a kid named Andy.
    • "To infinity, and beyond!"
    • In the first movie, Woody is jealous of Buzz, Buzz thinks he's a real space ranger, and a kid named Sid tortures toys.
    • In the second movie, there's a cowgirl doll named Jessie and an evil prospector doll.
    • In the third movie, the toys have to escape from a daycare run by an evil teddy bear, and in the end Andy gives the toys away.
    • In the fourth movie, Woody leaves Buzz and there's a living spork.
  • Transformers
    • It's about robots that can turn into cars.
    • Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots.
      • He dies in the 1986 movie.
    • The franchise is divided into generations.
  • Troll 2
    • They're eating her... and then they're going to eat me... OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
    • You don't piss on hospitality!
  • Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure:
    • Mermaids!
    • Stars Manatsu, Sango, Minori, Asuka, and Laura.
  • Turning Red
    • A Chinese-Canadian girl turns into a red panda when she gets emotional.
    • AWOOGA!
    • "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! STOP MOVING LIKE THAT!".
    • Mei draws suggestive drawings in her notebook.
    • Did not talk about 9/11.
  • TV Tropes
  • The Twilight Saga
  • The Twilight Zone (1959)
    • "There's something on the wing!"
    • "It's a cook book!! It's a cook book!!"
    • "Your next stop... The Twilight Zone."
    • "Submitted for your approval..."

    U 
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • Eliza crossing the ice
  • Undertale
    • Sans will give you a bad time.
    • You don't have to kill anyone.
    • You're an asshole for even playing it, apparently.
    • It fills you with DETERMINATION.
    • Sans has a brother named Papyrus who says "NYEH HEH HEH!", makes spaghetti and is annoyed by Sans' puns.
      • You can date him.
    • There's an evil flower named Flowey who tricks you into touching his "friendliness pellets".
      • "In this world, it's kill or be killed".
    • There's a goat lady named Toriel who makes pie and wants to adopt you.
    • There's a lesbian fish who throws spears at you.
    • There's a robot with sexy legs.
    • There's a guy called Gaster who is not actually in the game, but is still apparently behind everything.

    V 
  • VeggieTales
    • Considered to be the only good Christian cartoon.
    • Bob and Larry are actually fruits.
    • "Oh where, is my hairbrush?"
    • Larry has an alter-ego named Larryboy.
    • "Allow us to introduce ourselves"
    • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything.
  • Victor and Valentino
    • Victor and Valentino are brothers.
    • They live in Monte Macabre, Mexico.
    • There's also a grandma.

    W 
  • Wander over Yonder
    • There's an evil green-skinned woman named Lord Dominator.
      • She's the bad guy.
  • WarGames
    • "Shall we play a game?"
    • "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play"
    • "How about a nice game of chess?"
  • Wars of the Roses
    • There's a Yu-Gi-Oh game based on the wars.
    • Fought between the Lancasters (Red roses) and Yorks (White roses).
  • West Side Story
    • "I like to be in America!"
    • "I've just met a girl named Maria"
    • "I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty."
    • The two sides are the Sharks and the Jets.
    • Fighting involves walking along snapping one's fingers.
    • It's Romeo and Juliet.
    • When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way.
  • Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
    • It was cancelled.
    • It has a 1970s aesthetic.
    • In the first season, Robot had a text-to-speech voice.
  • Wheel of Fortune
    • You spin a big wheel with cash values on it to guess letters on a big board.
    • "Can I buy a vowel?"
    • Vanna White's gesture when the puzzle appears on the board.
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory:
    • There is a competition to find gold tickets.
    • Five lucky winners win a tour of a candy factory.
    • Pure Imagination
    • A girl turns into a blueberry.
    • "Oompa Loompa Doompety Do"
  • Winston Churchill
    • "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
    • "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
    • "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it!" (said in response to Lady Nancy Astor, who told him: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!")
    • "See some of you there"
    • This is nonsense up with which I shall not put!
    • "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.” (After Bessie Bradock complained he was "disgustingly drunk.")
  • Wonderful Pretty Cure!
    • Stars Komugi, Iroha, Yuki, and Mayu.
  • Wonder Pets!
    • The phone, the phone is ringing
    • This is sewious!
  • World of Warcraft
    • Some players play it an awful lot.
    • It's a social game; you meet up with other real-life people to take down bad guys.
  • World War II
    • The Germans lost...
      • ...thanks to the Russian winter.
    • France surrendered.
    • America stayed out until Pearl Harbor.
    • Japan was nuked.
      • and surrendered.
      • except for some guys.
    • Paved the way for the Cold War.
    • Hitler.

    X 
  • The X-Files
    • Mulder believes in the paranormal and Scully doesn't.
    • Their nemesis is an old man who smokes.
    • The old man who smokes is actually Mulder's biological father.
    • The theme tune.
    • Scully has red hair and is a scientist.
    • The phrases "The truth is out there" and "I want to believe" pop up a lot.
    • Involves aliens.
    • Mulder's sister was abducted by aliens when they were children.
  • X-Men

    Y 
  • Yakuza
    • It's about Japanese gangsters.
    • A lot of shirtless men have dramatic martial arts fights, usually on top of a tall building.
    • There's a ton of Mood Whiplash at play, with the main story usually being dead serious but the substories being wacky.
    • Rubber bullets.
    • Yume.
    • Daigo's generally always in danger.
    • Majima is awesome.
  • Yandere Simulator:
    • The creator did some sickening things.
    • You play as a Yandere.
    • It's been in development for ten years, and it's still nowhere near completion.
    • The aim of the game is to murder ten different students, all of whom are female and have a crush on the same incredibly average guy.
    • The love interest is an obvious self-insert of the creator.
    • There's a red-haired girl named Info-Chan.
    • You can take panty shots of female students as a form of currency.
    • It's banned on Twitch.
  • Yes! Pretty Cure 5:
  • Yogi Bear
    • It's about a bear who likes to steal pick-a-nick baskets.
    • He lives in the Jellystone National Park.
    • He's always in the ranger's hair.
    • He has a sidekick named Boo Boo.
    • He has a girlfriend named Cindy.
    • He's smarter than the average bear.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!

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