We need more cowbell- [Throws script.] Oh come on, that's all you got for me?! How old is that joke, man? "We need more cowbell..." What we need are better writers!
— Elite Tauren Chieftain (E.T.C.), Heroes of the Storm
Dragonborn: What is this!? Do you think this is FUNNY!? SHUT UP! You're like the 26 millionth person to type this fucking joke into the internet! Do you think people CARE!? No you dumbass! And why would you WANT them to!? You wanna be "friends" with the shit-smeared Mongoloids that like this stupid fucking meme garbage!? Let me warn you, if you ever type that fucking sentence again, I'll know. And next time, I will fucking EAT. YOUR. LIMBS! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!? YOU PUTRID FUCKING CUNT!!!
Commenter: I...I used to be a putrid fucking cunt... BUT THEN I TOOK AN ARROW TO THE--
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Commenter: I...I used to be a putrid fucking cunt... BUT THEN I TOOK AN ARROW TO THE--
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— psychicpebbles
on the Arrow to the Knee joke from Skyrim
on the Arrow to the Knee joke from SkyrimI'd like to think there's a secret government prison camp for the type of person who sees 387 ripoffs of All Your Base and decides to make a 388th.
— Seanbaby
There is a point where this needs to stop and we've clearly passed it
— On Advice Dog image macros
I formally apologize for the Arrow in the Knee reference in Borderlands 2.
You can't keep a meme alive by just repeating it over and over. You have to do something different with it or have it infrequent enough that nobody minds the reference.
The strongest incentive we have to develop faster-than-light travel is that it would let us apologize [for our transmitted memes] in advance.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow contains a Portal reference. That is literally all you need to know. It's attempting to jump on a bandwagon so late that the band has completed three sell-out world tours and sold their wagon to a scrap dealer. It's not even a clever reference; a note found on a dead character ends with the words "the cake is a lie". There's no contextual sense, it's just thrown in there like a random zombie wearing Groucho Marx glasses. [...] If a game has a Portal reference, whatever purpose it serves, it tells you everything you need to know about the absolute wankers who had creative control of the thing.
— Benjamin "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Zero Punctuation
The probe delivers your content to a lab. A technician scrutinizes. If he finds just one sauce joke, the entire YTP will be rejected.
Chadwick Boseman, he personally asked me to ask y'all to stop asking him to say "Wakanda Forever" out on the streets. Y'all taking this forever thing a little too seriously.
— Michael B. Jordan, 2018 MTV Movie Awards
Linkara: Batman is rich.
Nostalgia Critic: A BAT-CREDIT-CAR-wait, what?
Linkara: He is rich, and has funneled that money into his crime-fighting enterprises through shell companies and false identities.
Nostalgia Critic: I don't get what you're...
Linkara: And being someone who prepares for multiple eventualities, as demonstrated in both comics and TV, wherein he's actually utilized his money to solve a situation, or bought something that he wouldn't usually carry with him, which would include, say, diapers for a rescued baby, or coffee to keep himself awake, plus his tendency to accessorize his crime-fighting tools to fit his motif, from something understandable, like a fearsome vehicle, to something silly, like his projectiles resembling a bat, and the aforementioned usage of shell companies to acquire items, what exactly is so ridiculous and anger-inducing... about a BAT. CREDIT. CARD?!
I hope you weren't expecting baked desserts, because I don't do that anymore.
— GLaDOS, Poker Night 2
Can we get a like on this video for Back lives matter and can you leave a comment on how annoying this meme is? That's my role in this whole internet ecosystem. I produce bad and annoying memes. Uh! No wonder the toy review community hates me!
—Jobby the Hong, Revoltech Optimus Prime Amazing Yamaguchi Review
Some memes, like some genes, achieve brilliant success in spreading rapidly, but do not last long in the meme pool.
— Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
