Memes / Lucky Star

You're out of touch, I'm out of time
But I'm out of my head, When you're not around

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• The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme.[[/labelnote]] ^Explanation Like this.

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• "Motteke! Sailor Fuku" is known as the second "Hare Hare Yukai" due to its catchyness and crazy addictive dancing, which is one of the many reasons why Lucky Star/Haruhi mashups are so common. The actor joke at least was canonically acknowledged ^Explanation Episode 16 has a maid cafe segment where Konata dressed up as Haruhi and perfectly imitates her voice..
  • I buy sausage.^Explanation A popular mutation of the opening line to the show's theme song. The lyric in question is actually "Aimai san-senchi".
• Konata, for her time, was the Queen of Memes:
  • Asobitai! ^Explanation In one episode, Konata is sitting, bored, and declares she wants to play.
    • Asobitai, desu!
    • A Soapy Tie^note among a number of others
  • "Miyuki-san, GOOD JOB!" ^Explanation After Miyuki accidentally turns off the lights to a cafe, Konata acts accordingly.
  • "Timotei... Timotei... Timotei!" ^Explanation Konata smooths down her long hair as she mimics a Timotei commercial.
  • On a related note, because of the reference, the shampoo itself has also become memetic (thanks mostly to YouTube).
  • "A flat chest is a STATUS symbol! Extremely rare and VALUABLE!"^note A joint meme with SHUFFLE!
  • FUKKEN SAVED, often associated with image of Konata pressing the Enter key.
• The show was already memetic before it even premiered thanks to two original Japanese commercials for the show in which an Off-Model Konata makes strange humming noises throughout. It has even been (half-jokingly) called the most accurate trailer ever.
  • Rrrr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-...
• The series itself has become memetic, due to its super cute characters and their cute-sounding voices becoming mixed into songs, usually put together with a Kirby song.
• One of the big draws of South Park is hearing elementary school students use the Cluster F-Bomb. Now, why can't this same concept apply to chibi / Moe anime high school girls? Yes, even if a lot of the ones on YouTube are done by the same guy, Lucky Star / South Park match-ups were incredibly common.
  • Family Guy has become popular as well for this series. Peter Griffin works pretty well as Konata.
• "BITCHIN'!"^Explanation Konata's reaction in a dub episode.
• Paffendorf was used for videos featuring footage from this series, with many imitations:
  • Mega Man (with the Robot Masters): here.
  • Mega Man X: here.
  • Reborn! (2004): here.
  • Vocaloid: here.
  • Kingdom Hearts: here.
  • Bleach: here.
• I can't believe they're talking about food for almost ten minutes! Man, I'm hungry. ^Explanation Episode 1, after the opening, kicks off the series with a 6-7 minute segment consisting of the girls talking about food with some cutaways where they hold said food.
• Oh~Tamura-saaan! What does yaoi mean?^Explanation Yutaka Kobayakawa suddenly and innocently asks this question to Hiyori Tamura.
  • *GASP!* Th-that depends on which one you mean!
• Various people on YouTube have created AMVs edited to Mario Brothers music. It's probably the most popular Lucky Star AMVs out there!
• Lucky Spin!!!
• They don't call it the Anime version of Seinfeld for nothing.
• "Oh!" "Ooh!" "Uah!" "No!" "Yes." ^Explanation This is from the static-electricity-related scenes in episode 11.
  • "SUTORANGAAAAA!"
• Also, Tsukasa. Just... Tsukasa.
• Akira's "NEEEEE???!!" in the 8th Lucky Channel segment.
• Since Emiri "Kagami" Katou played the notorious Kyubey, crossover Fan Art was inevitable. (Caution: NSFW ads.)
• For whatever reason, the show attracted a lot of spooky art in the Japanese fandom. Of note are "Sadakonata" and "Spookasa", the former a one-eyed demon made up of Konata's hair and the latter any drawing of Tsukasa that can, well, spook you.
• "Out of Touch Thursdays"^Explanation The song "Out of Touch" by Daryl Hall & John Oates syncs incredibly well with Lucky Star's opening, and for this reason the video gets posted every Thursday by dedicated fans. Now gone full circle since Triple-Q decided to mash the OP vocals with "Out of Touch's" instrumental track.
• Card Crusher. ^Explanation From a Japanese TV sketch involving a man crushing a business card in front of the woman who gave it to him, while looking at her with a ridiculous expression on his face, was turned into a meme when someone did a comic strip version with Kagami and Konata from Lucky Star. An example of Values Dissonance, as the exchanging of business cards is a fairly big deal in Japan, with its own set of social mores.
• Anything involving Anime Tenchou and his antics.^Explanation A recurring side character throughout the series is the mascot and store manager of Animate Japan voiced by Tomokazu Seki, whose sole goal is to get Konata (or "Legendary Girl A" as he calls her) to buy his product, only to fail in the process. His exaggerated Hot-Blooded behavior and overreactions and tendency to reference multiple other anime manga have made him somewhat of an Ensemble Dark Horse. By extension, his various coworkers (including The Danza of Tomokazu Sugita) also fall in this category as they are just as wacky, determined, and exaggerated as he is when it comes to getting Konata to purchase their product.
  • FEINTO DESHITA! AAAAAAAAAA!!!^Explanation In Episode 13, Tenchou and his coworkers (voiced by the cast of Sgt. Frog as a Casting Gag) seemingly manage to get Konata to pick up an item only for her to return it immediately. In response to this, the observing coworker (voiced by Joji Nakata) immediately belts out that it was a feint, causing Tenchou to emit an exaggerated yell in anguish.

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