YMMV / The New Yorker

• Just Here for Godzilla: Plenty of people read the magazine primarily for the cartoons.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The phrase "back to the old drawing board" originates with a 1941 Peter Arno cartoon from the magazine.
  • "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" comes from a 1993 Peter Steiner cartoon.
  • In an episode of Seinfeld, Elaine gets a job with The New Yorker after complaining that one of their cartoons doesn't make sense. When she tells Jerry, they parrot the magazine's then-current advertising slogan: "The New Yorker?" "Yes, The New Yorker."
  • In 2006 a blogger facetiously suggested that any New Yorker cartoon could be captioned with the phrase "Christ, what an asshole!" The expression has since become a standard rejoinder in online comments sections.
  • In 2015, a designer suggested another "universal" caption: "Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some of the older staff and readership reacted this way after Tina Brown took over as editor-in-chief in 1992 and gave the magazine a makeover, incorporating more photography, increased coverage of celebrity culture and hot-button political issues, and more provocative cover art.

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