Memes / Pizza Tower

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Given that Pizza Tower heavily takes inspiration from Deranged Animation cartoons, it's only natural that it would become a Fountain of Memes.

Please add entries in the following format if possible:

• The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] ^ExplanationLike this.
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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• Putting "It's Pizza Time!" and the UI over a video of someone frantically running is an instant meme among Pizza Tower fans.
• Door Stuck!!! ^Explanation In Peppino's Sauce Machine, some fans have gotten a mondegreen from the backing vocals which are hard to make out for some people. It's commonly misheard as the existing Counter-Strike meme "DOOR STUCK!", which has gotten so prevalent that there's actually an official remix of the song using the actual soundbyte!
• Peppino's Peter Griffin pose^Explanation A now-unused taunt animation Peppino used to have in the demos where he rests his hands on his hips and looks smugly at the camera◊ as a Shout-Out to Peter Griffin. Much like how the stock image of Peter that it's based on gets used as a meme, the Peppino version is usually superimposed over somewhere unconventional like Fortnite or to elicit the feel of a low-quality shitpost.
• Peppino kills the Noise^Explanation A scene from Family Guy where Mayor West kills the Noid but with Peppino and the Noise (and Vigilante over Meg) superimposed over it. Originally made as GIF using characters' faces from the pre-release HUD, later turned into a video with SFX from the game. Since the Noise is already an Expy of The Noid and he and Peppino hate each other, this clip is a perfect fit for their relationship in-game.
• "Celeste for Weirdos" ^Explanation Popular Streamer CONEY's description of the game, a description that has utterly baffled both the Celeste and Pizza Tower fandoms. This has somehow snowballed into the two fandoms becoming Friendly Fandoms, creating various forms of Fanon Welding between the games, and opening up the idea that Peppino is actually a trans man.
• Lario ^ExplanationA video featuring an edited version of the characters in the "Gnome Forest" title card with the writing "LARIO" above them, played to a mix of Sneaky Stitch by Kevin MacLeod and Superstar by Young Stoner Life. The joke is so bizarre and nonsensical to the point of fans using it everywhere, often as a no context reply on Twitter, in addition to being turned into various Fanvids that end with Peppino's save file screen Jump Scare, as you can see these three videos.
• GLONTCH ^ExplanationA comic by McPig in which The Noise offers Peppino some "milk" caught on thanks to its unsavory implications and the rather peculiar onomatopeia used for Peppino's drinking. For what it's worth, McPig has said that it isn't any other bodily fluid either.
• "I always hate-a this part. YEOWOWOWOWOW-"^ExplanationBefore Pizza Tower, an anecdote of an internet user's date using their bare hands to pick up a freshly-baked pizza floated around the net for a while. With the game's release, fans repurposed this as exactly something that Peppino would do, and has been lovingly remade in countless mediums and with multiple voice actors. With PhilipBankss being one of the first.
• Peppino's Big Caboose^Explanation A video of a repurposed song explaining the different kinds of angles was remade with Peppino using pizza boxes. It also includes the line "this angle's kinda fat, it's got a big caboose" when referring to an obtuse triangle, which has the singer (and in this case, Peppino) turn around and show off their "Big Caboose". This video rapidly became inexplicably popular among the community, with Peppino having a large caboose becoming borderline Fanon.
• "Special Guest: 'X'" ^ExplanationA crossover-type meme where people make their own title cards for hypothetical crossover Pizza Tower levels, captioned with "Special Guest:" followed by the other character that Peppino is crossing over with. These are based on Fun Farm's title card, which does this with its special guest, Mort the Chicken.
• "I’m not gonna sugarcoat it: [C]" ^ExplanationAlready a popular meme template in the Fighting Game community, the Pizza Tower fandom latched onto it when this video showcased just how powerful the Parry mechanic is during boss fights.
• Pizza Tower Humor ^ExplanationThanks to the very wacky, goofy and pretty extensive sfx the game has, it's become common for fans to make either short compilations of different memes, scenes and etc. but placing in the music and sound effects from Pizza Tower. Think of it as being in the same vein of "X but with HL1 sound effects" memes.
• Extra Laps^ExplanationA popular Self-Imposed Challenge involves players being chased by Pizzaface while running a full lap to the exit, and with the popularity of the mod that grants a third lap with the aforementioned info, fans began theorycrafting about even more laps not unlike Undertale: Last Breath's extra phases.
• "Noise is calling, pick up phone, Noise is calling, pick up phone..."^ExplanationAn unused track in the OST of a strange ringtone sung by the Noise, who is already a Fountain of Memes.
• National Pizza Tower AUs. ^ExplanationA trend among artists to redesign the cast of Pizza Tower to fit the cuisine (and stereotypes) of their home countries, like Poland or Australia.
• The Noise plush ^ExplanationA bootleg plush toy of the Noise◊ became a popular meme due to his goofy appearance, mainly his gawping mouth.
• Pizza Tower is my favourite gamezing! ^ExplanationA strange video with Mort the Chicken gameplay and Pizza Tower GUI became popular due to how bizarre it is, with similar videos being made after it, such as one based on a popular Pizza Tower mod known as ScoutDigo.
• Pizza Tower characters screaming ^{Explanation (spoilers)}Originating from a Garry's Mod animation of Peppino and most of the bosses prolongedly screaming in terror at the word "BOO", which is actually a trap set by Fake Peppino to lure everyone close so he could blow them up. The screaming part is starting to see widespread use as a sort of reaction, usually to either terrifying situations in other media or to the fandom's more unfavorable sides.
• Recreating the Pizza Tower Intro ^ExplanationMore than a few animators have made near shot-for-shot remakes of the intro of the game, either in a different artstyle or with a different series or characters
• Cardiac Arrest ^{Explanation (spoilers)}Due to the animation looking similar to a heart attack, people on the Pizza Tower wiki change "Pizzahead faking death" to "Pizzahead faking cardiac arrest". This became a meme in the wiki.
• Strike a Taunt ^ExplanationOriginating from this video, which features Peppino taunting to the beat of the Oregano Desert secret theme. People have since done this in game, with multiple gimmicks, such as doing it in the co-op mod, adding the supertaunt at the end, using Pizzelle from the popular fangame Sugary Spire, and someone even went as far as making a (sadly now defunct) Scratch game out of it.
• Pizzahead's Life Unexpectancy^{Explanation (spoilers)}On May 5th, 2023, YouTube animator Zeurel posted a video titled 'The President's Life Expectancy', which is an animation created for one of Lythero's highlight videos on Shadow the Hedgehog, namely The Orange Gamecube. Many people noticed the resemblance between the president in the video and Pizzahead, along with the 'Expectancy' part of the title being part of Pizzahead's boss theme 'Unexpectancy'. This caused people to do things like reanimate it with Pizza Tower characters.
• Peddito and The Doise ^{Explanation (spoilers)}Two Palette Swaps of Peppino and the Noise created by Robby1scool in 2020, which became popular in the community. The Doise was later added as a third boss when playing as the Noise. The characters saw resurgence in popularity due to how the fight ends, with Peddito coming in and straight-up killing the Doise. Rematching him reveals his dead body as the Noise gets a free P-Rank, and he stays dead even during the Boss Rush.
• I'm Coming ^{Explanation (spoilers)}A reaction image taken from the Noise's second judgement on the file select screen with the "Psycho" Pizzaboy face. Used when one finds some content of another's post questionable. At least one user on r/PizzaTower has replaced the 'o' with a 'u'
• zuperpizzatowerartizt^ExplanationA Twitter/X account that creates Pizza Tower comics in MS Paint that went viral in 2024 due to their Stylistic Suck and Surreal Humor nature
  • The Noise on a spitroast ^ExplanationThis comic depicting The Noise putting himself on a spitroast and angering Peppino, went especially viral, resulting in many people redrawing the comic and even a mod replacing The Noise's firemouth TV HUD.

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