# Help Identify this random line from a TV show or movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 11, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-random-line-from-a-tv-show-or-movie/692843 "2014-07-11T12:46:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-random-line-from-a-tv-show-or-movie/692843/1 "2014-07-11T12:46:55Z")

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So I distinctly remember watching TV (or a movie, but I’m about 90% sure it’s TV) and the main character (pretty sure it’s a guy) was bitching about how he isn’t rich because Jimmy Buffet stole his song “Wasting away again in PinaColadaBurg”

Literally that’s all I got. Does anyone else remember this?

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-random-line-from-a-tv-show-or-movie/692843/2 "2014-07-11T12:49:46Z")

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[Club Dread](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYr3j5qiPr8).

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**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-random-line-from-a-tv-show-or-movie/692843/3 "2014-07-11T13:06:22Z")

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Oh man really?

This floors me because If you would have asked me I would have sworn up and down I’ve never seen that movie in my life.

Thanks though!

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-random-line-from-a-tv-show-or-movie/692843/4 "2014-07-11T13:36:01Z")

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> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#):
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> This floors me because If you would have asked me I would have sworn up and down I’ve never seen that movie in my life.

I’m guessing you watched a minute or two while channel surfing and never bothered to note what it was, so it never registered on your mental “I’ve seen it” list.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-random-line-from-a-tv-show-or-movie/692843/5 "2014-07-11T14:19:26Z")

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And then again, if you’re like me anyway, somebody else quoted the line without proper credit and you just imagined seeing the movie/TV part of it.

There has to a clinical term for that sort of “passed on memory” phenomenon or else somebody would have remembered that “it doesn’t do anything; that’s the beautiful part” (or whatever it is) thing we all know we have all heard or seen before.

I mean if “meme” has a meaning we all can quote, and it’s common knowledge, why is it we can’t name those other things that get called “memes”? (There’s a thread in progress that demonstrates this very issue.)