Memetic Mutation/Music

In the right context, any chorus/hook of a song can be a breeding ground for Memetic Mutation. Many examples here and whole Meme articles have been further mutated through Misheard Lyrics. Just do a YouTube search for them, you can't miss 'em. See also Stupid Statement Dance Mix and Ear Worm.

Just a warning: this page is a bit outdated. Youtube being Youtube, many of these links are broken, private, or removed.

Kanye West has his own section of memes.

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Please add entries in the following format:

• The name of the song.
  • Meme name: description of meme and how it's used.
    • Source of meme and fandom it relates to in the form of a hot tip.
    • Famous instances (such as the Rick Roll during the Thanksgiving parade).
    • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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• ITS GETTIN' HOT IN HERRREE
  • So take of all yo clothes!
• Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's...
  • Girl you know it's TRUE, ooh-ooh-ooh, we're through...
• A WELL-A EVERYBODY'S HEARD, ABOUT THE BIRD
  • Revived by Family Guy.
• I kissed a girl and I LIKED IT!
  • Those of us who actually lived through the '90s prefer the original (and still the best!): "I kissed a girl, her lips were sweet/She was just like kissing me/I kissed a girl, won't change the world/But I'm so glad I kissed a girl!"
• "Crank That" by Soulja Boy.
  • And for that matter, ANY "Crank That" parody, especially "Kosha Boy", Crank Dat Brigade and "Crank Dat Spiderman".
  • "Bitch I look like Goku is becoming one. Unfortunately.
    • "Bitch I look like Gohan, smokin' up that marijuana" with a goofy Gohan face is popular.
  • Another bizarre, rambling anime song: "Anime", consisting of lyrics like "Lookin' like Death Note" has given us "Anime, Annie-May, I'd fuck dat bitch, any day".
  • YOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
  • I'm so fresh you can suck my nuts!
• III'm...too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it huuurts...
• Crazy Frog. Damn you, Jamster!
• JA RULE SOUNDS LIKE THE COOKIE MONSTER.
• The Rickroll, which can result in either hilarity or infuriation depending on who you do it to.
  • Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi may have killed it. Way to go, Speaker!
  • Good: someone, somewhere, somehow, managed to swap out the movie on Scientology's anti-Chanology propaganda site for a Rickroll.
    • Unfortunately not - they registered a similar domain name and put up a copy of the Scientology site with the only change being that the original video (naming various anonymous as terrorists/hate criminals/part of a conspiracy between the German psychiatrists and the Marcabian invasion fleet) was replaced by Astley.
  • This 16-year-old troper has recently had to explain Rickrolling to his mother, which may indicate it having jumped the shark somewhat. Still not to the extent of Chuck Norris, though.
  • In Family Guy, Brian performs this on-stage in front of a crowd during his time travels with Peter after he fixes the past to preserve his marriage with Lois. However, not really a true Rickroll, as it was probably meant to be played.
  • There's a brilliant one of a Beaker performance on The Muppet Show turned into a rickroll.
  • This troper was always surprised how much the song resembled the theme music for a certain time-travelling robo-buddy. Apparently someone else made a similar connection.
  • LittleKuriboh got married. At the reception, they were expecting Nickelback's "Far Away". What they got was...
  • And now the man is going for an EMA.
    • And has got it.
  • Even Rick Astley himself comments on this strange phenomenon. The results are...interesting, to say the least.
    • ... And then Rick Astley RickRolled the 2008 Thanksgiving Day Parade. Does this mean that RickRolling has Ascended Reality Itself? Yes. Yes it does.
  • MTV used to interrupt some of their programming with, you guessed it, Rick Astley's famous song.
  • Subverted in this xkcd strip.
    • YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
    • Speaking of xkcd, there's an very subtle Rickroll in this strip. At least if you can read sheet music.
    • And... inverted? Zig-zagged? Something'd here.
  • LFG's Richard, in a moment of pure epicness, used a Rickroll as a weapon.
• HEE HEE! AOWW!
  • Back in the 20th century, Michael Jackson is THE most memetic musician alive.
    • Not anymore.
  • Yet his legacy lives on. The proof? There are more MJ impersonators than Elvis.
    • And Elvis himself is an earlier example, of course.
  • CHAMONE!
• "Chocolate Rain" by Tay Zonday, a song with cryptic lyrics about racism, with the phrase "Chocolate Rain" comprising every other line and music that boils down to the same four-line stanza repeated over...and over...and over...
  • ScrewAttack once parodied this in their Shitty-Ass Game of the Year awards to explain just how bad Vampire Rain really was.
    • When nominated for the 360 SAGY: "Vampire Rain...! It's so boring you might kill yourself. Vampire Rain...! It's supposed to be like Splinter Cell. Vampire Rain...! Its gameplay is downright horrible. Vampire Rain...! No redeeming qualities at all!"
    • Winning the 360 SAGY: "Vampire Rain...! Its gameplay is like a bad joke. Vampire Rain...! You gave it over half of the votes. Chocolate Rain...! The song is not half as bad as the game. Vampire Rain...! Will make you want to sell your 360!"
      • Don't forget: Tay Zonday turns into an absolute pimp in Cherry Chocolate Rain, parodying himself and... just being a pimp. No, really. See the video.
  • * I move away from the mic to breathe in.
• Kevin Federline's "Popozao" instantly became the subject of much ridicule due to its silly title (supposedly Brazilian slang for "big ol' butt", according to K-Fed) and odd lyrics, despite never being released as a single. It was parodied quite a bit by Joel McHale on The Soup.
  • And one life-changing spoken word interpretation by Inside the Actor's Studio's James Lipton on Conan O'Brien.
  • And let's not forget the gag dubs swapping Popozao for various other musical memes.
  • Ladies and gents, allow me to present... Muslos de Requeson (Cottage Cheese Thighs). That's the fire.
• Hamsterdance.
• Two words: Numa Numa.
  • This guy started it.
  • Even Chicken Little uses this.
  • When you combine "Dragostea Din Tei" with Everything's Better with Dinosaurs, you get this.
  • The meme was even more of a hit in Latin America and Spain because of the Spanish Gag Dub version by Los Morancos. Fiesta fiesta y pluma pluma gay, pluma pluma gay, PLUMA PLUMA PLUMA GAY!
  • Likewise, in Brazil, a raunchy Portuguese version, "Festa no Apê" (party in my apartment).
  • Heck, it was even played for laughs on NCIS.
  • And sampled by T.I.
• Yesterday was Thursday Thursday, today it is Friday Friday...
  • Don't forget the Bob Dylan version.
  • FRIED EGG FRIED EGG
  • Spoiler: Back seat!
  • Black guy out of nowhere!
• Europe tells us that it's the final countdown.
• Weezer's music video for "Pork and Beans" includes several memes and the people who started them, including Tay Zonday, Chris Crocker ("LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!"), the Dramatic Chipmunk, and several others.
• "The internet is for porn! The internet is for porn! Why you think the 'net was born? Porn! Porn! PORN!"
• Duuuuuuhnuhnuh, duuuuuuhnuhnuh, *Drum beat(x4)*, TAKE EVERYTHING LEFT FROM ME! *Drums* ALL! *Drums* TO! *Drums* BLAME! Duhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuh, duhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuh, DUN, DUN, DUN, DUN!
• Linkin Park's Crawling has become synonymous with Wangst in online communities. Wangsters often find it quoted at them.
  • CRRRRAAAWWWWWLLIIIINGGGG IINNNNN MYYYY SKIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN! THESE WOOOOOUUUUNNNNDSSS THEY WILLLLLL NOT HEEEAAALLLLLLLL... Listen at your risk.
  • WHAAAAAAAT IIIII'VE DOOOOOONE! I FACE MYSEEEELF! TO CROSS OUT WHAT IIIII'VE BEEEECOOOOME!
  • It's like I'm/paranoid lookin' over my back/It's like a/whirlwind inside of my head/It's like I/can't stop what I'm hearing within/It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin....
  • I...become so numb!
• "Without You" (Mariah Carey)
  • "Ken Lee"—Bulgarian woman... interprets a Mariah Carey song in local Idols. Quoth The Other Wiki, "Hasan's extremely broken English, coupled with her yet undeveloped singing abilities, combined to great comic effect (...)"
  • Videos where parts are replaced with Mariach Carey's performance
  • Parodies and remixes in multiple musical styles
• Simple Plan's Untitled. AKA The "HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO MEEEEEE...." song.
• John Petrucci, Guitar virtuoso, has had a few of his video lessons gag dubbed to make him out as an unearthly guitar god capable of impossible time signatures and playing speeds, not to mention time travel and mass murder through music. His gear is as over the top as his skills.
  • John Petrucci? Pfft! Funtwo is way cooler than him!
• When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead? Nobody knows. Particle Man
  • Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone in Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks!
    • No need to be Rude about it.
  • It's been seriously suggested that the Discworld book Reaper Man is in fact a novelization of this song. Not as far-fetched as it sounds, as Pratchett is a big fan of TMBG. It was, after all, this song that gives Foul Ole Ron the first half of his Catch Phrase.

• • You're not the boss of me, now, and you're not so big!
• The Ultimate Meme Song. Combines several "popular" memetic songs into one enormous mashup.
• AHHHHHHHH! COME ON FUCKING GUY!
• Oooh, you touch my tra-la-la...oooh, my ding-ding-dong...
  • Mmm, you touch my squadala... oooh, my ding-ding-dodongo...
• Not a meme from a song, but from an artist: Shortly after the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, a story made the rounds that R&B singer Omarion was performing there and had been caught up in the chaos, and asked for his fans to pray for him. This story was proven false (he was in London at the time, but "he wasn't hurt or anything"), and "Pray for Omarion" quickly became a running joke on Fark.com, as it reminded many of Helen Lovejoy's "Won't someone please think of the children?"
  • Pray. For. Mojo.
• "Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger! Mushroom, mushroom! Snake, it's a snake!"
  • Everyone loves Magical Trevor 'cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever.
  • Where can you see lions? Only in Kenya! Lions and tigers, only in Kenya!
  • Narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion, cause they are so awesome...
  • Look at my horse! My horse is amazing!
  • Tell me, have you seen the marvelous Breadfish?
• The music videos of "Rodeo Machine" and "Screw the Plan" by Japanese DJ Halfby have inspired several Nico Nico Douga users to perform their own live action versions, known as "Nakasone Off" (or offline meetings).
• "Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring, BANANA PHONE!"
• What happens when you replay the Foo Fighters hit Best Of You over and over and over again...

IS SOMEONE GETTING THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST

• • In other news, FRAN TIC TIICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TIK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK
• WHEN I WAS
  • A YOUNG BOY
  • MY FATHER
  • TOOK ME INTO THE CITY
  • TO SEE A MARCHING BAND
  • A YOUNG WARTHOG
  • WHEN I WAS THE BEST
  • WIN HOURS
  • I PLAYED THE SILVER BALL
• Since you mentioned The Who: YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (Won't Get Fooled Again)
  • "I think I hear a Hunter!"
• You spin me right round baby, right round. Like a record baby...
  • You spin my head right round, right round... When you go down, when you go down down...
• Yasuri Yamileth's song, whose backstory is made of Poe's Law. Somehow the clip was discovered by a Venezuelan blogger, and suddenly the whole thing grow to memetic proportions in all Latin America and Spain. Spawned an awful lot of parodies, the more memorable was the one who featured drunk men in drag using Gillette razors, after one of the most memorable lines of the song.
• Not music specifically, but the cover of The Beatles' album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Also, Abbey Road and, to a lesser extent, A Hard Day's Night.
  • "PAUL IS DEAD". (Miss him, miss him...)
  • Four young Liverpudlian lads came to America in 1964, and in just a few years, they changed everything forever!
  • The Beatles are an important part of American musical and cultural heritage.
  • This meme is crazier than Paul's solo career!
    • Fuck you, John.
  • Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine...
    • Number eight... *belch*... number eight... *belch...
• Super Junior: SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY NAEGA NAEGA NAEGA MEONJEO NEGE NEGE NEGE PPAJYEO PPAJYEO PPAJYEO BEORYEO BABY
  • From the same song: DAN DAN DAN DAN...
  • HOW TO KEEP RUBBING LOVING YOUUUU?
• Gwen Stefani. "This shit is bananas."
  • Bee Ay Enn Ay Enn Ay Ess.
  • Hey baby, hey baby, HEY!
• "I Don't Want You Back" (a.k.a. "fuck you, you ho") and the response song. For that matter, any song that has a response song could be considered a meme.
• If you're Israeli, you've heard the song "Rotze Banot" (I Want Girls) and/or its various response songs, such as "Rotza Banim" (I Want Boys) and "Rotze Mitzvot," the pious version.
• Sex (sex!) over the phone! Sex, over the phone!
• What what, in the butt?
  • Mama Luigi Leaves The Stove On.
• If you've seen Internet people going "Piiipe wrench fiiight", that's from "Take On Me Literal Version", which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
  • I walk onto a terrace where I think I'm alone/But Arthur Fonzarelli's got an army of clones...I WHIP MY HEAD TO THE RIGHT!
  • Magic photo dance, dunununununuh...
• FREEEEEEEEBIIIIIIRD
  • In Finland the equivalent joke is "Soittakaa Paranoid!" ("Play Paranoid!", requesting the song by Black Sabbath), first orginated as a joke by a reporter for a local music magazine, since then spiraled out of control. At least two notable bands have also recorded songs called "Paranoid" to have something to play if someone cracks the joke.
  • The original memetic joke/heckle request was The Allman Brothers Band's Whipping Post, which is even longer than live performances of Free Bird, and would use one entire side of an LP. Not that it isn't good. The album the Ur Example appears on placed on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time at number 49.
• Victorian example: The refrain of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I am the Captain of the Pinafore" ("What, never?" "No, never!" "What, NEVER?" "Well, hardly ever!") was so parroted in its day that a newspaper editor had to specifically ban it among his staff. "I never want to see that joke again," he said... with predictable results.
  • The meme's still going strong, having appeared on The Simpsons and in Simon the Sorcerer.
  • I am the very model of a Modern Major-General. I've information animal, vegetable, and mineral. I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
• "Yakety Sax", also known as the Benny Hill theme, makes anything funny.
  • I feel HORRIBLE for laughing at that video. But I can't stop. HALP!
  • But can it make Kamina's death or Kittan's death funny?
    • The answer to that? Yes, yes it can.
  • What about the death of Jesus then?
    • . . . Sorry, still funny.
• Electric Six want to take you to a gay bar.
  • Flying viking kittens want to start a war! A nuclear war!
  • Hikaru and Kaoru want to start a nuclear war at the gay bar! Gay bar!
  • Even Bush and Blair are into it!
• So I phoned up the Tally Man, asking him to tally me bananas. Turns out that yes, we have no bananas.
• Jonathan Coulton. "Baby Got Back."
  • I like big butts and I can not lie/You other brothers can't deny/That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist/And a round thing in your face...
  • All we want to do is eat your brains...
  • Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.
• Alanis Morissette's version of "My Humps."
  • And then there's the original...
    • And Peaches gets in on the act, with "My Dumps"...
  • Alanis doesn't understand the word "ironic".
• Speaking of the Black Eyed Peas...
  • Gotta get that! BOOM BOOM POW!
    • Gotta get that SHAM WOW NOW~!
  • Let's get it started!
    • I think you mean Let's get Retarded! The first lines after the intro make absolutely no sense in the edited version - in what context could "let's get it started" be disrespectful?
      • "Let's Get It Started" was the more commonly heard version of the song and thus became the memetic version.
  • Pump it! Louder!
    • To the point that Dick Dale, the Sampled Up artist, sings part of it (how much is criticism, is up to you).
  • SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP, SHUT UP!
  • NONONONO DON'T PHUNK WITH MY HEART
  • Pinoys should remember this one...
  • NONONONO BABY NONONONO DON'T LIEEEE....
  • [?] Where is the love?
  • SWITCH UP!
• "Spartans! What is your occupation?" "Remixer!"
• Enjoy your G Major AIDS and nightmares.
• Mmmusic mmmemes? You want it? It's yours, my friend.
• What Is Love? Oh baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more...
• G! R! DOUBLE E! N! Leaves!
  • We did it! Kyuu! Kyuu! Kyuu! Osu! Osu! Osu! Osu! .... Ah!!!
• Dragon Force (video game) is the hardest metal known to man! Harder than DIAMONDS!
  • Being awed by their pure awesomeness!
• Hello? Caramelldansen, the Speedycake remix?
• The song "Futari no Mojipittan" from Namco's Japanese word-puzzle game Kotoba no Puzzle has proven quite popular, ranging from The Idolmaster covers to Xenosaga remixes (which have themselves been appropriated) to Touhou homages.
• The chorus to Ai Otsuka's "Sakuranbo" has been set on loop to dancing Fate Stay Night characters.
• Moskau, Moskau - Wirf die Glaesser an die Wand - Russland ist ein schoenes Land - Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, hey!
• When the pimp's in the crib ma, drop it like it's hot. Drop it like it's hot. Drop it like it's hot.
• A weird, pre-internet version: 867-5309 was, for a time, considered by the phone company in the US to be completely unusable. (Since then, a plumbing company has taken up the 888 (toll-free) version, and licensed the music to boot.) Still a bad idea to use it for residential purposes, though.
  • Damn you, Tommy Tutone!
  • This Troper lives near that plumbing company. It's based in Lynchburg, Virginia.^[1]
    • A quick google search (the internet is not just for tvTropes - or porn!) shows that it was at least one time the national number for Ben Franklin Plumbing - but per their site that's no longer the case.
    • BEEEEEN IS THE PUNCTUAL PLUMBER, EIGHT SIX SEVEN FIVE THREE-OH-NIIIIINE!
• Popular Bhangra song from India, Tunak Tunak Tun.
  • The Mondegreen video gets this too. In your yard I am the Ferengi man, very odd and chunky!
  • Another popular Bhangra song, "Mundian To Bach Ke", Original and Jay-Z'd.
• FRANTIC-TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK
  • The "Enter Sandman" riff has also become pretty memetic.
  • Or any nonverbal sound that came out out James Hetfield's mouth after ... AJFA, at which point he decided he was a southern rocker rather than a Bay-area thrasher.

"YEAH! Yeah! OOO! Ha-how! YEAH-hah!!!"

• • GIMME FUE, GIMME FAI, GIMME DABAJABAZA! FUEL!!
  • MASTER! MASTER!
    • Haven't you heard? JAMES HETFIELD IS THE TABLE!!!
• I put the words to-ge-ther while do-ing what?! See Manipulative Editing.
• I Edit TV Tropes While Playing... Unfitting or Fitting Music?
• I know! I'll go to the convenience store!
  • There are several parodies of "Konbini Store", but the above-linked Katawa Shoujo version is, by far, the most popular.
    • More popular than Brawl's or Sonic's?
• 7:00 in the morning and the rays from the sun wakes me. I'm stretching and yawning in a bed that don't belong to me.
• "Every morning when I wake up there's a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's four-post bed..."
• The Angry Video Game Nerd: ASS!
• The Hare Hare Yukai dance.
  • And its spiritual successor, the もってけ!セーラーふく dance.
  • And its American cousin, the Single Ladies dance.
    • Beyonce's Single Ladies video has become quite memetic, and has been done over by by random people, pop stars, and even babies.
    • That's beacuse it's ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME! OF ALL TIME!
• INTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR! I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THEATRE!
• Kalluri Vaanil. Kalluri vaanil kaayndha nilaavo? My loony bun is fine Benny Lava!
  • Interestingly, this version of the song has an extra part of the lyrics that's not in the music video. We'd better get Buffalax to "translate" that too!
• A popular YTMND meme is setting images of What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome? images to part of Nightwish's Ghost Love Score. (Epic Maneuver!)
• "Tin roof...rusted!" had no meaning in B-52's Love Shack. It's now taken on the meaning implied, that of a pregnancy out of wedlock.
  • But it wasn't a rock... it was a rock lobster!
• ナイト・オブ・【TVTROPESWIKI】
• RED ZONE from Beatmania IIDX 11. Here's a sample(r) video.
  • And this is what happens when Japanese memes start taking over Western ones.
• I like to move it move it, I like to move it move it, I like to move it move it, you like to...
  • MOVE IT!
• "No, my first name ain't baby... it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty!"
• I see a little silhouetto of a man...
  • Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango...
    • Mama... just killed a man/Put a gun against his head/Pulled my trigger, now he's dead....
      • Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality....
        • Easy come, easy go, will you let me go? Bismillah!
          • NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
          • LET HIM GOOOO!
          • MAGNIFICO-O-O-O-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....
        • Beelzebub has the Devil put aside for me...
          • For meeeeeee...
            • FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
  • Also "Don't Stop Me Now" due to the Unfitting Music craze.
  • We...are the champions...my friend...
  • WE WILL, WE WILL, ROCK YOU! * BOOM BOOM CLICK*
  • BICYCLE BICYCLE BICYCLE I want to ride my...
  • "It's on random!"
    • I'M BURNIN THROUGH THE SKYYYYYYY, TWO HUNDRED DEGREES THAT'S WHY THEY CALL ME MISTAH FAHRENHEIIIIIT, I'M TRAVLIN AT THE SPEED OF LIIIIIIIGHT
    • I'M GONNA MAKE A SUPERSONIC MAN OUTTA YOU
  • Just gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme... fried chicken!
• AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! WILL ALWAYS! LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!
  • Back when that song was first released, it got that much airplay you could make the IIIIIIII last for an hour just by switching radio stations every few seconds: "AND IIIIIII" * click* "IIIIIIIIIII" * click* "IIIIIIIIIII!!!!"
• Brazil's most famous Musical Meme... for now
  • There's another, which foreigners might even understand due to ripping off a famous song.
• While we're in Brazil, a video about a band cancelling an autograph session. Highlights include the fans calling themselves "Restart Family", and angry kids saying "I'll complain a lot in Twitter!" and "puta falta de sacanagem!" (a self-contradictory phrase that's along the lines of "a great lack of fuck-up").
• SALSA ELATE ME!
• "Shine on, you crazy diamond": originally a darkly ironic plea to a bandmate they knew was beyond help, it's become just a way of declaring someone Crazy Awesome.
  • Shine on, you crazy shippers...
  • "We don't need no education..." While the song was simply Pink further shutting himself off from the world, students around the world have since used it as an anti-school anthem.
  • "Ha ha, charade you are!", thanks to Eric Cartman's use of the phrase.
• I hope you knew Fred Durst packs a chainsaw...
  • Alright, partner. Keep on rollin' baby. You know what time it is.
    • CHOCOLATE STARFISH!
  • I'LL EAT YOU ALLLLIIIIVVVEEEE!!!!!
• What, no Weird Al? I've got just one thing to say: "They've got allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters, trash compactors, juice extractor, shower rods and water meters..."
  • Excuse me? Aren't you forgetting something? Namely, to DARE TO BE STUPID! DARE TO BE STUPID!
  • Kinda makes me white and nerdy!
• A Czech song, Jozin z Bazin (English translation here), became a meme popular in Poland in early 2008. Its sudden popularity culminated with the original performer (Ivan Mladek) coming to Poland to sing a new, Polish version of the song at a concert.
  • It got covers. Here's a fast, metal variant by Dawid Mika.
• It's Peanut Butter Jelly time!
• What I'm pretty sure is a purely Australian example Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again? by the Angels:
  • "Am I ever gonna see your face again?"
  • "No way! Get fucked! Fuck off!"
  • In a similar vein, "For twenty-four years, I've been living next door to Alice..."
    • ALICE! WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE?!
• I'M ON A BOAT!
  • And I jizz! In! My pants!
    • Last night I saw a film. As I recall, it was a horror film.
    • When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense, I...
  • We love the Chroni- what? -cles of Narnia!
  • LIKE A BOSS!
  • "Hide and Seek", by Imogen Heap, became a meme after Andy Samberg, on Saturday Night Live, parodied its usage on The OC.

Ooh, watcha say? Ooh, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did.

• • D* ck in the box!
  • Now back to the good part!
  • Doesn't matter had sex.
• Lady Gaga: P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face!
  • Try, as this troper did, substituting "f" sounds for the "p"s. It gets even better.
    • Ascended thanks to Kid Cudi's single "Make Her Say", which samples the acoustic version and apparently was, at first, going to be titled "Poke Her Face," until Executive Meddling feared the Moral Guardians would go after the label and made them change the title.

I make her say/Oh oh oh oh/when I/P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face.

• • I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me...
  • Let's have some fun, this beat is sick, I wanna take a ride on your disco stick...
  • and how could anyone miss RAH RAH AH AH AH...ROMA ROMA MAH...GAGA OH LA LA
    • I'M A FREE BITCH, BABY.
    • I WANT YOUR LOVE AND I WANT YOUR REVENGE! YOU AND ME COULD WRITE A BAD ROMANCE!
    • (Ra)2 + (ah)3 + (Roma)2(ma) + (ga)2 + oh + (la)2
  • CAUGHT IN A BAD ROMANCE!
  • Leather Pants?
  • Telephone: Let's make a sandwich!
  • Born This Way: It doesn't matter if you love him or capital H-I-M.
    • Ooh, there ain't no other way, baby, I was born this way
    • No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life. I'm on the right track, baby, I was born to survive.
  • Judas: Oh-oh-oh-ohoo I'm in love with Juda-as, Juda-as...
    • Judas Juda-a-a, Judas Juda-a-a, Judas Juda-a-a, Judas GAGA
• The music video for OK Go's "Here It Goes Again", famously performed as an elaborate dance routine on treadmills.
  • And the same band's "This Too Shall Pass", consisting of an elaborate Rube Goldberg Device.
• Who wears short shorts?
  • I WEAR SHORT SHORTS!!!
    • They're comfy and easy to wear.
• While not music per se, Kanye West's now-infamous interruption of Taylor Swift at the VMA's has reached meme status. Various Image Macros would like you know something along the lines of "Yo TV Tropes, I'm happy for ya and Imma let you finish, but Encyclopedia Dramatica has one of the best meme databases OF ALL TIME."
  • According to Know Your Meme's statistics, within days Kanye's outburst was one of the most well-known mainstream memes of all time, far surpassing other celebrity outbursts like Christian Bale's.
    • Yo, Kanye West, I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Chuck Norris had one of the best memes of ALL TIME!
      • To quote President Obama: "He is a jackass."
  • There's already an entire website dedicated to the aformentioned Image Macros. The internet has probably never seen anything become a meme so fast.
  • Kanye is such a meme font, he has its own meme page!
• El Chombo, a Panamanian rap and reggaeton singer and producer, is probably one of the most memetic Latinamerican artists
  • Ualuealuealeualeualuealealeualualeaue...: a clip of Adam Wast!Batman from having being drugged by villains in the first episode of the series with the audio changed to a loop of the fist verse of Chombo's song Chacarron Macarron. Said song was memetic enough by itself due to being pure gibberish.
  • Combine the unusual-sounding song "Dame tu cosita" with a video of a weird animation of a CGI martian dancing to it and internet penchant for non-sensical challenges, and you have the Dame Tu Cosita Challenge, the phenomenon of people dancing to the song with the martian steps that sweeped several social networks in 2018. Somehow this version of the song and accompanying dance craze managed to get into Just Dance Unlimited. Even El Chombo himself was weirded by this one.
  • In truth the whole series of Chombo-produced albums titled "Cuantos de la Cripta", lit. "Tales from the Crypt" (don't be confused with the series of the same name), due to their idiosincratic intros and earm-worm songs
• Lil' Jon's YEAH!, thanks once again in part to Dave Chappelle's portrayal of him (though one would say he wasn't too far off on the frequency of Jon's usage of the word).
• Gordon Downie, of The Tragically Hip, had his arms bitten off by a killer whale.
• Who's the black private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks?
  • Shaft!
    • You daaaaaamn right.
  • He's a bad mother-
    • Shut your mouth!
      • But I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft!
        • I can dig it.
• I was working in the lab, late one night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight, for my monster from his slab began to rise, and suddenly, to my surprise...
• And the man in the back said "Everyone attack!" and it turned into a Ballroom Blitz.
• It was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people-eater!
• Oh no! There goes Tokyo! Go go Godzilla!
  • And while we're on the subject of Blue Oyster Cult, "Don't Fear the Reaper" needs more cowbell.
• TurningJapaneseIThinkI'mTurningJapaneseIReallyThinkSo... nanana naa naa na naaaa...
• Ooga ooga ooga chaka ooga ooga ooga chaka!
• Old-school Johnny Cash meme: "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die."
  • "But I blinked, and missed it."
• DEY SEE ME ROLLIN', DEY HATIN
  • And rolling their eyes 'cause I'm so white and nerdy!
  • They see me trollin', they hatin'...
• Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba/Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí...
• SHOES
• Rihanna: You can stand under my umbrella/(Ella ella eh eh eh)/Under my umbrella/(Ella ella eh eh eh)
  • Take it take it, baby baby, take it take it, love me love me.
  • BUM BUM BEE DUM BUM BUM BEE DUM BUM.
• I never really knew that she could dance like this, She makes a man want to speak Spanish, Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa...
  • Shakira! Shakira!
  • Whenever, wherever...
    • Lucky that my breasts are small and humble, So you don't confuse them with mountains!
      • Le ro le le lo le, Le ro le le lo le!
      • Waka waka eh eh
• Akon's Lonely. Especially the chipmunk part.
  • I WANNA MAKE LOVE RIGHT NA NA NA....
• Jai ho! BAILA! BAILA!
  • You are my destiny...
• Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena, Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena, Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena, Heeeeey Macarena, AAAhAA!
• Try listening to Flo Rida's "Low" and Ludacris's "Get Back" without picturing Les Grossman dancing.
• I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world..
• I'm blue, da ba dee da ba dai..
• I'M THE SCATMAN!
• Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo No. 5.
• Ya ya ya coco jamboo, Ya ya yeah, Put me up, put me down, Put my feet back on the ground..
• Collipark, Bubba Sparxxx, BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY ROCKIN' EVERYWHERE!
  • Strangely enough, Epic Movie renewed interest of this song.
• Hey how you doin lil' mama lemme whisper in your ear...
  • You. Might. Like. Our Penises.
• Black dress... with the tights underneath...
  • DO THE HELEN KELLER AND TALK WITH YOUR HIPS!
• WHO LET THE DOGS OUT! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF WOOF!
• Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini!
• Sarah Silverman's fucking Matt Damon!
  • Jimmy Kimmel's fucking Ben Affleck!
• Do the Lambada with me!
• Bate forte o tambor Eu quero e tic tic tic tic tac...
  • Vai ralando na boquinha da garrafa! É na boca da garrafa
• The La Bamba, by the late great Ritchie Valens.
• Tying in with Live Action TV, there's Ashlee Simpson's impromptu "hoedown" after her appearance as a musical guest on an October 2004 Saturday Night Live when she was caught lip-synching.
• Tarzan And Jane, anyone?
  • There's also this video
• Anyone remember The Spice Girls? If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends, / Make it last forever friendship never ends....
  • YO, I'LL TELL U WHAT I WANT, WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT!
  • "If you wanna do my mother... you gotta buy her a benz..."
  • Every single girl reading this probably still instinctively remembers the memetic dance: "Stop right now! Thank you very much! I need somebody with a human touch! Hey you, always on the run! Gotta slow it down, baby! Gotta have some fuuuuun!"
• Britney Spears. HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME!
  • Oops...I DID IT AGAIN!
  • It's Britney, bitch.
    • LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
• Any triumphant running sequence must have Chariots of Fire played in the background. Listen and imagine.
• SHAKE THAT LAFFY TAFFY!
• Jamiroquai's Canned Heat became popular again once it was associated to Napoleon Dynamite dancing.
• How did you know? I LOVE THIS SONG!
• BLACK METAL IST KRIEEEEGGGGG
• M-M-M-MY SHARONA!
  • M-M-M-My Bologna!
• It's tricky to rock a rhyme! To rock a rhyme! That's right, on top! It's tricky! Tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky!
• GIRLS ON FILM!
  • When all we see... IS A VIEW TO A KILL!!
  • Speaking of, I dare you not to fill in the blanks: Her name is _______ and she ___________________________.
• Taaaaake oooooon meeeeee... Take! On! Me!
• From the deceased Cuban singer Celia Cruz: AZÚCAR!!!
  • LA VIDA ES UN CAR-NA-VAL!!!
• In general, upbeat Latin American songs are a breeding ground for memes. José Luis "El Puma" Rodrí­guez's themes are such Ear Worms that they've been memtic ever since The Seventies. A good example is "Pavo real" ("Peacock"), with its incredibly catchy chorus: CHÉVERE CHÉVERE CHÉVERE CHÉVERE CHÉVERE CHÉVERE - UH!
  • And also the song dedicated to him by his friend Sandro de América... ¡Ese es MI AMIGO EL PUMA!
    • Now in chewing gum ad form!
    • Sandro himself was extremely memetic and hammy. His very eccentric dancing has been imitated and copied ever also since The Seventies, and his songs are just as Ear Wormy as El Puma's. Rosa rosa tan maravillosa, como blanca rosa, como flor hermosa...
  • In some places, the most memetic chorus from El Puma was Agarense de las manos/Unos a otros conmigo. It still pops on people of certain age in situations where a holding hands in a group is required.
• Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake. And then there's this: Ladies and gentlemen, your childhood has been slaughtered.
  • One of my teachers bought that Album. For the sole purpose of lending it to a friend. For the sole purpose of, a week later, asking him to bring the sexy back.
• You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
• Remixing songs to the first part of Ageha thanks to GentleMentleMen.
• CallOnMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! CALL! ME! CallOnMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Although most people remember the video more clearly.
  • The song has also been assimilated into the Spengbab/Skoadwad meme as seen here.
• CRABCORE.
• Jesus Christ... Superstar... Burning 'round the corner on a Yamaha!
• Three Dog Night: Jeremiah was a bullfrog. He was a good friend of mine.
• A popular MS Paint comic on 4Chan features a man attempting to Murder the Hypotenuse to the tune of Mastodon's "Blood and Thunder": Animated here.
• Ooh eeh ooh ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang...
  • Also, try "chipmunking" a song.
• They're coming to take me away, haha, they're coming to take me away, hoo hoo, hee hee, haa haa...
  • They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard..gard, gard gard.
• Stop! Hammer Time.
  • Can't touch this.
  • Mormons believed in Mormon Jesus! Lucifer the devil had a billion tons of children!
• YO Vanilla! Kick it one tiiiime Boyeeeeeee
• Dragon Force (video game) "Through Fire And Flames"
  • THROUGH THE FIRE AND THE FLAMES WE CARRY OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! DEER NA NEER NEER DEER NA NEER NA NEER NEER DEER NA NEER NA NEER NEER DEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERRRRRR
• Wake up in the mornin' feelin' like P. Diddy...
  • This troper would like to interject here with a public service announcement that it is, in fact, not wise to attempt to brush one's teeth with a bottle of Jack.
    • Of course, how potentially harmful it is depends on exactly how you interpret those lyrics. Does one attempt to brush their teeth by dumping a bottle of jack on their tooth brush? Or does one attempt to put toothpaste on the bottle of Jack?
  • Dear Ke$ha, It's hard to describe the pain of a deeply infected dental nerve. To get an idea, put your hand in a bowl full of ice cubes. Hold them there for 90 seconds. Now imagine that pain in your jaw, every minute of every hour, bright and searing, washing out everything. You can't party all night. You can barely stand up. There's only the pain. So, some friendly advice: when you wake up in the morning, before you brush your teeth with a bottle of Jack, brush them with actual toothpaste.
  • Stop ta-ta-talking that blah, blah, blah...
  • The party don't start till I walk in...
  • Grass grows, birds fly, brutha, I hurt people!
    • YOU WILL HELP ME CAP MY POINT!
• Move, bitch, get out the way, get out the way bitch get out the way...
• "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!"
• III LOOOVEEE YOOOUUUUUUUUU... JEEESUS CHA-RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSTTTTTTT...
  • Semen stains the mountaintops...
• You think X is a Concept Album? I'll give you a concept album you'll never forget!
  • You'll have Superman for president, let Robin save the day...
• Small Latin American one: LA GUITARRA DE LO-LO
• Glenn Danzig's shopping list, anyone?
• Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video.
• "And this is MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER ~ !"
• Eduard Khil, Russian singer. A.K.A The Trololo-guy.
  • His singing has been dubbed over various movie villains such as Saruman and Voldemort.
  • And then some pharmaceutic company in Venezuela went and released this ad for its headache medicine. "Dol dol dol" indeed.
    • Which goes into Harsher in Hindsight as he has passed away. :(
• Microsoft Songsmith generates music to accompany vocals, so naturally people started feeding it vocal tracks from famous songs to see what it would spit out. Weezer - "Buddy Holly" comes out as a slow piano track, Billy Idol - "White Wedding" comes out as a county track with a banjo, Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train" comes out as a polka, etc.
• Waking the Cadaver is best known for the SHREDDED WHEAT!!!!!! meme. The band hasn't commented on this, but considering vocalist Don Campan's notorious lack of sense of humor, they may or may not be amused.
• EHH YEAA EHH, IT'S A PARTY IN THE USA!!!!
• I was gonna submit to TV Tropes, but I got high... I was gonna make a funny joke, but I got high... Now they got me banned as a spybot and I know why... Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high...
  • DAHDAHDAHDAH-DAHDAHDAH
• Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" has become a Stock Parody on the Internet. Examples include "We Didn't Start The":
  • "Flamewar"
  • "This Website" (YTMND specific)
  • "Star Wars"
  • "The 80s"
  • "Video Games"
  • "YuGiOh Abridged"
  • The Simpsons Did It, sort of. Explained briefly here.
  • You can't fight the Homestuck
  • Autism. Wish I could find the video. Best I can do for now.
  • We also didn't built the TARDIS. ^{[dead link]}
• GEE GEE GEE GEE BABY BABY BABY
  • Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!!
• Call me Mr.Flinstone, I can make your bed rock girl...
• Upside, inside out! She's livin' la vida loca!!
• "KMFDM SUCKS!" has long been adopted by fans as an ironic catchphrase.
  • Primus has had an identical catchphrase almost from the group's inception in the late 80's, due to Les' deflecting of any and all compliments towards the group with a nonchalant, "Nah, we suck."
• Dr. Wily Stage 1 & 2 from Mega Man 2. It was made into the J-rock song Omoide wa Okusenman .
  • OKKUSENMAN!! OKKUSENMAN!!
  • With devestatingly memorable English Lyrics
• * BAWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO* I AM IRON MAN!
  • * DA~NA~NA~NA~NA~, DANANANANA NA-NA-NA*
• JAM Project can make ANYTHING awesome.
  • ANYTHING.
• THE ONE THAT WILL TAKE ME TO MY END, I'M WAITING FOR THE RAIN, TO WASH WHO I AM, I'M PLAYING THE GAME.
• ERRY DAY I'M HUSSLIN' HUSSLIN' HUSSLIN' HUSTLE-HUSSLIN' HUSSLIN' HUSTLE~^[2]
  • Via Katt Williams.
• FRONTIER PSYCHIATRIST!
  • That boy needs therapy!
• I can't believe nobody has mentioned JOSH.
• Nobody can understand the lyrics to the song "Bandages" by Hot Hot Heat. No exceptions.^[3]
  • SANDWICHES ON MY PLATE WHEN I EAT MY LUNCH. SANDWICHES, SANDWICHES, SANDWICHEEEES~
  • "That's what you're saying? I always wondered what the lyrics were to this song..."
• FUCKING MAGNETS! HOW DO THEY WORK?
  • MAGIC EVERYWHERE IN THIS BITCH
  • I'VE SEEN SHIT THAT'LL SHOCK YOUR EYELIDS
    • THIS SHIT WILL BLOW YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN' MINDS
  • FUCKIN' RAINBOWS
  • IT'S JUST THERE IN THE AIR
  • I FED A FISH TO PELICAN AT FRISCO BAY / IT TRIED TO EAT MY CELLPHONE, HE RAN AWAY
    • LIKE WHAT'S WITH ISLANDS, GET MORE LAND! WHAT'S WITH DESERTS, GET LESS SAND!
      • ASS DAN'S KID'S LOOK JUST LIKE ASS DAN...
        • I'M GONNA LIVE FOREVER!!!

In memory of Ass Dan - 1981-2010

• ALLLLLLLLWAAYS, I WANNA BE WITH YOU, AND MAKE BELIEVE WITH YOU, AND LIVE IN HARMONY HARMONY OH LOVE~
• [X person] is the G.O.A.T.!^[4] (coined by LL Cool J to describe...himself)
• Hey! Bum bum bum... Got any GRAPES?
  • Then he waddled away bum bum till the very next day.
  • Got any GRAPE CHAPSTICK?
    • Actually we do.
• What Would My Momma Do Uh oh, uh oh.
• You can keep your sodding coffee in a proper copper coffee pot. When I say 'ooh', you say 'long'!
• Pretty much anything the Beastie Boys do transforms into a meme in a matter of hours:
  • INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY PLANETARY I Nteerr GALLAAACTIC
  • YOU GOTTA FIGHT! FOR YOUR RIGHT! TO PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT-----AAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!
  • GIRLS! Yeah all I really want is GIRLS!
    • GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS!
• I wish I was special.
  • Radiohead But I'm a creeeep, I'm a weeeeirdoooooo...
  • Also: YOU DON'T REMEMBER, YOU DON'T REMEMBER, WHY DON'T YOU REMEMBER MY NAME?!?
  • Everything...everything...everything...everything...
  • Thom Yorke's dancing in "Lotus Flower", viz.
• Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma...CHAMELEON!
• HEY, HEY
  • YOU, YOU
    • I DON'T LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND
    • GET OFF OF MY CLOUD
    • GET INTO MY CAR
    • IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
• HE'S CLIMBIN' IN YO WINDOWS
  • Hayley Williams, Ethan Luck, and Jordan Pundik would like to get in on it.
• ALL I WANNA DO IS * BANG* * BANG* * BANG* * BANG* AND * click* * ca-CHING* AND TAKE YOUR MO-NAY.
• KOMPRESSOR DOES NOT DANCE!
• Surprisingly, Technotronic has not been mentioned on this page as yet. POMP UP DA JAYAM! POMP IT UP! POMP IT UP! YO, POMP IT!
  • THIS BEAT IS! THIS BEAT IS! THIS BEAT IS TECHNOTRONIC!
• "I am the lizard king...I can do anything!"
  • "Come on baby, light my fire!"
  • "Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you. Mother? I want to...BAAAAAAABY! Come on, yeah!"
• PARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARD

PARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARD PARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARDPARTYHARD

• • Party Party Party/I wanna have a Party/I need to have a Party/You better have a Party...
• Bye, bye Miss American Pie/Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry/Them good old boys were drinking whisky and rye singin' 'This'll be the day that I die/This'll be the day that I die'.
  • My, my, this here Anakin guy, maybe Vader someday later now he's just a small fry...
• JUST A SMALL TOWN GIRL!
  • LIVIN' IN A LONELY WORLD!
• I THROW MY (x) UP IN THE AIR SOMETIMES, SAY'N EEEEEYOOOOH (shit that rhymes with "eyoh") For example:
  • I THROW MY SKITTLES IN THE AIR SOMETIMES, SAY'N EEEEYOOOH TASTE THE RAINBOW
• Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars...
  • Can we pretend tha- NO!!!
• Some sadistic bastard made this: Bang! Bang! Bang-Bang-Bang-Bang!
• WITH THE LIGHTS OUT, IT'S LESS DANGEROUS, HERE WE ARE NOW, ENTERTAIN US HIT THE LIGHTS OUT, AT THE STEAKHOUSE, HERE WE AWH NOW, EATING TABLES
  • WELL WE DON'T SOUND, LIKE MADONNA! HERE WE ARE NOW, WE'RE NIRVANA! A GA-ROCK BAND, FROM SEATTLE! WELL IT SURE BEATS, RAISING CATTLE! YEAH *Riff and riff and riffriff* *Moooooooo!*
• YOU DO THE COMBINATION PIZZA HUT AND TACO BELL
• I WHIP MY HAIR BACK AND FORTH
• TELL ME WHYYYYYY WHY MUST I CRY WHY MUST I CRY WHY MUST I CRY WHY MUST I CRY
• Let's hear it for Nu Yok Nu Yok Nu Yooooook. The streets will make you feel brannu, the lights will inspaya yu.]
• I woke up this morning with a bad hangover and my penis was missing again.
  • De-tach-a-ble Peeee-niiiiiiissss...
• A dark version of this. Gackt's decade old joke about being a 496 year old vampire has been quoted out of context for so long that even presumably legitimate news sources have treated this as a serious belief of his. He has since corrected this at the Nemuri Kyoshiro press conference, where he released his actual age to the public so the joke would die. It hasn't.
  • Also, within the fandom, his love of Hyde, "fiyaa" and his unceasing use of the word dakishimete in nearly every song he has ever written are memes.
    • "I need joh fiyaa fiyaa fiyaa to keep me wahm / I gah too fill za fiyaa / Tu keep me wahm, I gah to feel it...fiyaaaaaa!!"
• Family Guy brought back William Shatner's infamous Rocket Man performance with Stewie singing it, and repostings of Shatner's version have gone viral.
• IT'S SO COLD IN THE D, HOW THE FUCK DO WE SUPPOSE TO KEEP PEACE?!"
  • In a similar vein, the Pardon Me roundabout parodies derived from this.
• The campy direct-to-home-video Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movies were long forgotten until one shameless Youtube user slowed down the ."Gimme Pizza" song from a sleepover episode, spawning dozens of parodies.
  • WHIPPED CREAM POURING LIKE WATERFALLS!
• Jesus is a friend of mine, Jesus is my friend. J-J-J-Jesus!
• MMM-BOP BA-DOP BA DOO-BOP, BA-DEE-BEE-DOP, BA-DOO-WOP BA-DOP-BOP-DOO, YEAH YEAH.
  • Please enjoy the rest of your day. The harder you try to get it out of your head, the worse it gets.
• Fuck your Honda Civic, I've a horse outside
  • It was only last month (December 2010) that Irish Facebook users seemed to be constantly liking pages to do with this song. It was actually unusual when you looked at the pages your friends liked, and it WASN'T anything to do with 'Horse Outside'. Seems to be mostly over now, though. Mostly.
• Two words: Hot Limit. Three more words: We Drink Ritalin.
• OHH SAAY CAAAN YOU SEEEEEEEE. BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT. This came from the 2011 Superbowl, when she somehow skipped a whole verse in the national anthem, and tried to make up for it by holding out her notes.
• "You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul..."
• "I have no idea what a Justin Bieber is, but it..." was probably coined by Farkers in response to everybody and their daughter hyping the kid up like crazy.
• It turns out that even the noise community has them. Two common one among The Gerogerigegege's fanbase: SENZURI! and ONETWOTHREEFOUR!!!
  • Among Sutcliffe Jügend's fanbase: SHOW ME YOUR FUCKING TITTIES!
• SOMALIA EGYPT SOMEWHERE
• The Passenger Of Shit song "Staple Tapeworms On My Penis" has caught on quite well within the YouTube Poop community.
• "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE?!!! ("I wanna rock!")
• Particle Man, Particle Man...
• "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium/And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium/And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium/And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium..."
• STOP!...CONTINUE!
• One from The Seventies: VIVIIIIIIIR ASI ES MORIR DE AMOOOOOOOORRRRR!!
• Another one from The Seventies: Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs/Blocking up the scenery and breaking my mind/"Do this", "don't do that"/Can't you read the siiiiigns?
• "Jeremy spoke in claaaaaass todaaaaaaaay!"
• Then I think of you and the world's all right by me/Just one look at you tells me that it's gonna be/A lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
• "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" by Harry Chapin spawned "Harry, it sucks!", which was the reaction of Harry's brothers Tom and Steve to the first two endings Harry wrote for the song.
• Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste...
• I was listening to a couple of these songs with the volume on full blast. A bunch of them were so bad that my mom got scared and said "You're moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "Fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought, naw, forget it, yo holmes to Bel-Air. I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and said to the cabbie "Yo holmes smell ya later." Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
  • The lyrics get used an awful lot ^{[dead link]} in jokes a lot ^{[dead link]} .
  • The music itself gets remixed with almost everything. It's gotten "anything goes with the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme" status.
• ...for you and me: JOO-JOO JOO-JOO JOO-JOO JOO-JOO JOO-JOO, I can feel it coming in the air tonight... night... night... Oh lawd.
• The Eurovision Song Contest is a Fountain of Memes in its own right, but special mention goes to Epic Sax Guy.
• When you download mp3s, you're downloading COMMUNISM!^[5]
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
  • "...and a partridge in a pear tree." ^[6]
• Look at the size of that fucking duck! Come back here, you stallion duck! He's not afraid at all!
• MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark, All the sweet, green icing flowing down, Someone left the cake out in the rain, / I don't think that I can take it, Cause it took so long to bake it, And I'll never have that recipe again, oh no!
  • Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark...
• Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!
  • Note that this song is a cover by UTAU Momone Momo, and the original version was around for nearly a year before nyan cat came into being.
• EVERYDAY I'M SHUFFLIN'
  • I'm running through these hoes like I'm Drano!
  • Now STOP...hatin' is bad.
  • I'm sexy and I know it.
• Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the... FLOOR!
  • ONE! Nothing wrong with me! TWO! Nothing wrong with me!
• Dubstep, known by detractors (and even some fans) as "WUBWUBWUBWUUUUB".
  • Rebecca Black's "breakout" song, Music/Friday, is no longer hosted on the net. However, the Dubstep version is. Consequently, a minor trope has emerged, as created by that version, of not allowing lyrics to finish their lines before insertiWUBWUBWUBBADAWUBBADAWUBWUBWUBWUB.
  • And now... Matt Wiggins saying "WUBWUBWUBWUB" put through a dubstep filter... It was termed "Wubstep"
• Lately the song "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5 has been quite popular for videos.
• HOLY MOTHER F*CK IT'S AN ICE-CREAM TRUCK!
• JAMES HETFIELD IS A TABLE!!! Courtesy of The View off of Lou Reed and Metallica's album Lulu
• The Clash "Louie Louie":
  • Try listening to this song and:
    • Not picturing a frat party.
    • Understanding a goddamn thing this guy is singing.
• GONNA BAKE A MOTHERFUCKING PIZZA TONIGHT
• LETS DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL! DING DING DING DADING DING DADING DING DING DING DING DADING DINGDADING DING
• Not a specific song, but Cronos' stage banter from one particular Venom show became somewhat memetic by his sheer hamminess: Someone was amused enough by what they were hearing to bootleg the stage patter (no, not the whole set, just the stage patter), and it spread pretty far for being pre-internet. The Beastie Boys sampled a bit of this bootleg at the end of "Mark On The Bus" ("'cos you're wild, man! WIIILD!") and would also reference it in "Dedication" ("This one's for Newcastle, where Venom come from").
• And we're banned from Argo, ev'ry one ...
• NUGGET BISCUIT NUGGET IN A BISCUIT
  • DIP IT ALL IN MASHED POTATOES!
• Britney Spears fans are quite inventive:
  • Godney, The New Thing, various quotes from her songs and statements.
  • The Holy Spearit has since taken off as a Fan Name for her.
  • Hold It Against Me has already become memetic.
    • Many mutual fans of Lady Gaga and Britney have coined the term "If I was born this way, would you hold it against me?" to answer back to dedicated fans from either artist as they get pretty tired of having to defend the fact that it's okay to like them both.
  • Due to frequent leaks by the Brit-camp these events are always called Britmas by her fans.
• You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all around.
• Promise by Hirose Kohmi. Two words: GET DOWN.
  • It originated after a Niconico video posted it playing over a glitch in Golden Eye 1997 that makes the characters look like they're dancing.
  • Next was this video and every example after that follows the exact same formula.
• Open the door! Get on the floor! Everybody walk the Dinosaur!
• Drone metal band Sunn O))) has a sound that is often compared to the sound of a refrigerator.
• Everything except country and rap.^[7]
• Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen usually has its lyrics altered as such.

Hey I just met you
And this is crazy
But [long and drawn-out run-on sentence filled with fangirling]
So call me maybe.

• Rage Against the Machine FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
• The X Will Not Be Televised!

1. ↑ However, I don't have the company's exact name on me; a commercial for it airs only on WSET (coincidentally a Lynchburg-based TV station), and I don't typically watch that channel. I'm on my computer (editing TV Tropes articles) when it airs, and I'm scared I'll risk a Mondegreen by adding it here.
2. ↑ Rick Ross' "Hustlin'".
3. ↑ Except those who find them perfectly intelligible.
4. ↑ Greatest of All Time
5. ↑ Making fun of the obsession with Digital Piracy Is Evil. Also, many fans are convinced the record companies just do this because we might like an independent artist.
6. ↑ Used to cap off a particularly bizarre Long List and lampshade how silly it sounds.
7. ↑ Stock response of someone being asked what their favorite type of music is. You've probably encountered it at least once.