Please Explain These Internet Memes to Me

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Could I please have a little background/explanation of some of these clips?

Here are the ones I get:

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[li]0:02-0:05 This is Sparta! (from 300)[/li][li]0:10-0:12 All your base are belong to us (a poorly-translated line from the old video game Zero Wing)[/li][li]0:17-0:18 Charlie bit me (kid’s little brother bites his finger with amusing results)[/li][li]0:18-0:22 Chocolate Rain (Tay Zonday records weird song about the African-American experience)[/li][li]0:22-0:23 Pikachu (rap song about Superman re-done with lyrics about Pikachu)[/li][li]0:23-0:24 Don’t tase me bro! Protestor at a John Kerry speech gets tased by campus security[/li][li]0:23-0:26 Chipmunk (or whatever it is) makes a weird face[/li][li]0:27-0:28 Evolution of Dance (comedian does brief snippets of dances that were popular through the years)[/li][li]0:30-0:32 Iraqi throws a shoe at George W Bush[/li][li]0:33-0:34 Hamster Dance (flash animation of dancing hamsters set to a techno song)[/li][li]0:34 It’s a trap! (Scene from Return of the Jedi)[/li][li]0:35-0:38 Jizz in my pants (song from Lonely Island)[/li][li]0:42-0:44 Leave Britney alone! (distressed fellow shares his feelings about the negative media attention given to Britney Spears)[/li][li]0:44-0:46 Leekspin (someone makes a mashup of an anime character spinning a leek set to a gibberish Scandinavian folk song)[/li][li]0:47-0:50 Leroy Jenkins! (Faked video of a WoW raid gone bad)[/li][li]1:05-1:06 Numa Numa (guy does dance to Romanian pop song on his webcam)[/li][li]1:10-1:12 Song from Pokemon cartoon[/li][li]1:12-1:13 Rickrolling[/li][li]1:13-1:16 Star Wars Kid[/li][li]1:20-1:23 Techno version of The Witch Doctor[/li][li]1:23-1:27 Scene from Wall-E[/li][li]1:23-1:34 Zinedine Zidane head-butts and opponent during the 2006 FIFA World Cup[/li][/ul]

Here’s what I don’t get:
[ul]
[li]Everything else.[/li][/ul]

Thanks!

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The first one is sort of a 4chan mascot. There’s the Techno Viking towards the end. Just some huge guy dancing in the middle of the street and being pissed off at passers-by.

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1:01 to 1:02 IIRC was the training scene from Mike Tyson’s Punchout on Nintendo

1:16 Techo Viking (I always liked watching that one)

1:20 may have been something specific, but it may just have been one of the several videos that went viral simply because it was Bollywood and looked funny to us 'merkins

4

They’re probably all in here somewhere.

Am I the only one for whom the ‘leekspin’ music has a strangely calming and comforting effect? I feel like I could contentedly listen to it for hours, and then die because my brain has atrophied to a point where it can no longer maintain my bodily functions.

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What language is that?

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The girl at the beginning is Boxxy, a girl who posted some hyper videos on youtube, allegedly was a 4channer, and then disappeared. The people of 4chan fell in love/hate with her, some trying to find out who she is and where she went, others trying to spread false information to foul up the first group. Basically, how the collective internet male reacts to a cute girl: insane convulsions.

Then there’s “c-c-c-ombo breaker,” which is something done on forums (started on 4chan, of course) where one poster disrupts an attempt to have a series of sequential posts. Ever see one person post the first line of a song, then another posts the next line, and so on? Someone can disrupt that by posting “c-c-c-combo breaker!” It’s a fighting game term for when someone manages to “break out” of a string of linked attacks (combo) against him.

Then there’s Angry German Kid. He’s an Angry German Kid. That’s all you need to know.

After AYB is “Badger, badger, badger”, an early flash video meme by someone named Weebl. The same guy has a video called Owls, which I kinda love.

Don’t recognize the next one.

“Boom! Headshot!” is something people yell now in online/multiplayer shooters when they manage to shoot an opponent in the head (usually a 1-shoot kill). The term kinda came from that video, of a guy being way too into it.

Some J-Pop/anime thing I dont care about.

I dont recognize the anime bit right before bush shoe-thrower.

“It’s over 9,000!” A clip from Dragon Ball Z that’s kinda funny. Search it on youtube.

The girl who stares into the camera is a YT user called MRirian. Japanese-obsessed weirdos are in love with her because her eyes are humongous, like an anime character. Japanese weirdos love her even more. She’s tried to cater to this audience by learning a little japanese.

Those blue pokemons are called Mudkips. There’s a meme of “So I heard you like mudkips?” Basically, the joke is that someone would like pokemon so much they’d bring it up to a stranger.

Then it’s Lonelygirl15, a phenomenon a few years ago where this “girl” posted a bunch of videos, at least 2 or 3 per week, that after a while started to develop a plot. It got insanely popular, with people trying to find out if they were really video blogs or a produced stunt. When it hit the apex of popularity, it was revealed to be a fictional production. This became apparent about the time a secret cult that wanted to kill her neighbor/boyfriend came into the picture. They tried to capitalize on this by having sponsored product placement of some kind of sour gum. Then they really shot themselves in the foot and killed off the main character, probably because the girl (Jessica Rose, an actress) got the idea that she was going to be famous so she went off to hollywood land where she appeared on one season of an ABC Family teen drama and then disappeared.

“Nigga stole my bike” is a joke about Punchout. In the game, the running guy is the boxer who’s training, and the guy on the bike is the trainer, riding a bike to keep up with him. By adding the words “nigga stole my bike” to the tune of the game’s music, it makes it seem like the trainer is just some black guy who stole the other guy’s bike, so he’s trying to chase him down.

The “Nooooooo” thing is from some dumb Adult Swim show, Metalpocalypse or someething.

Afte Numa Numa is something from “Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney” a Nintendo DS game from Japan where you’re a lawyer or some nonsense. When an objection is made, a small bit of fanfare in anime style is had.

Peanut butter jelly time is one of the oldest memes out there. Give it a google.

Right after that is a clip from the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon. Don’t know the significance.

After Star Wars Kid is a guy called “techno viking,” a not-as-popular meme, but one of the earliest.

“The balls are inert” is also from Dragon Ball Z. It’s funny because… balls.

Some corny Bollywood dance scene that hit the tubes a while ago.

After that I’m mostly lost. There’s the “O RLY?” owl, which is kinda self-explanatory, and a half-second shot of “Weegi”.

Most hyper-popular memes get documented here: http://knowyourmeme.com/

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It’s Finnish; here’s the whole thing on YouTube.

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I was wondering who the hell that Boxxy girl was.

0:16-0-17 - Caramelldansen. I don’t recognize the anime characters, but it was very popular for a while to do animations of various anime characters doing this dance to a speeded-up German pop song. It’s still popular at anime conventions, mostly performed by random cosplayers and other con attendees gathered in hallways and what not.

0:23-0:26 - Dramatic Prairie Dog (formerly known as Dramatic Chipmunk.) It’s a clip taken from some Japanese teen-girl pop group’s TV show. I’ve seen the original clip. Their guest was an animal trainer who put the rather frightened prairie dog on a table for the girls to ooh and aah over.

The clip between “It’s a trap!” and “Jizz in my Pants” is from Dragon Ball. It’s Vegeta, having measured Goku’s power levels, shouting “It’s OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!1!!!”

The girl doing Leekspin is Orihime Inoue from Bleach (she usually looks prettier.) The song is called “Ieva’s Polka.”

0:54-0:57 - The little blue guys are Mudkips, from Pokemon. There was a fad not that long ago of asking “So I herd u like mudkips?” on 4chan, if I’m not mistaken - everyone with a brain got sick of it fairly soon. One of my favorite pieces of fanart seen at a con is Sephiroth, the villain of “Final Fantasy VII,” impaling a Mudkip with his sword and replying, simply, “No.”

The girl after the Mudkips is LonelyGirl15. She did a series of YouTube videos which led to a lot of speculation until it was revealed she was an actress working from scripts written by the guy who was filming the clips.

1:02-1:04 - The animated long-haired guy is from the show Metalocalypse, which runs on Adult Swim.
1:05-1:06 - The Numa Numa guy is named Gary Brolsma. The song Numa numa comes from is called " Dragostea Din Tei" and is sung by O-Zone.
1:07- “Objection!” is from the video game “Phoenix Wright,” about a lawyer. Who would have thought people would want to play a video game about a lawyer?
1:08 - “Peanut Butter and Jelly Time.” I forgot who sings this song. They also forgot the animated dancing banana that usually accompanies the song.
1:09 sounds like the Super Mario Bros. character is saying “penis.”
The song after that is the first English-language theme song of Pokemon.
1:18-1:19 - Guy in a turban whose name I forget singing a song called “Tunak Tunak Tun.” Look it up, the video’s pretty trippy.
Not sure what Wall-E was doing running over a bug.
The clip before Zidane was from Yu-Gi-Oh, a remix of Yugi shouting “It’s time to duel!”

Near the end is the “O RLY?” owl. Someone thought it would be funny to put the letters “O RLY” (oh, really?) on a picture of an apparently surprised owl.

Dam, I can’t believe I know so many of these. I really should get out more.

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No, actually. I love it, and plan on DLing it if amazon has it.

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The clip from the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon is an edit of a scene in which Robotnik says “Snooping as usual, I see?” shortened so that it sounds like he’s saying “penis.” Sometimes referred to as “Robotnik’s Penis” or “Pingas” (“Snooping as usual, I see?”), it’s popular in “YouTube Poops,” bizarre edits of material which infrequently involve nonsene. The very final clip (after the O RLY? owl) is also from a popular YouTube Poop fodder, the opening sequence of the video game Hotel Mario, which has extremely poorly animated cutscenes. (The one shown here shows Luigi about to say a popular line often used in Poops, “I hope she makes lotsa spaghetti!”) I’ve heard the sound clip used at 1:26 (“What the fu…BOOM hoooooo-aaah!”) in a number of Poops, but I am unsure of its origin. It may be connected to the Wall-E clip- the implication seems to be that Wall-E caused a nuclear explosion by stepping on a cockroach.

The clip at 0:28 is from an anime based on the video game F-Zero, in which Captain Falcon punches an enemy while shouting his catchphrase “Falcon Punch!” (as made famous in the Super Smash Bros. games).

The clip at 1:20 is from a Scandinavian band called Cartoons’s cover of David Seville’s Witch Doctor. Although I’ve seen the video before, I’ve never seen it as an Internet meme.

At 1:33 is the Longcat. I know nothing about him other than he is a cat who is long.

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Actually, the verse they use for leekspin is the 5th “verse” which is actually just scat. The rest is Finnish.

Anyway some others I don’t think have been IDed:
Boom Headshot is from pure pwnage said by Doug anytime he headshots someone in an FPS, never watched anything from them so I can’t say much more. I think it’s a fictional series, so they weren’t making fun of a guy getting too into it so much as supporting a parody. I’m not certain on that though.

The one preceding it was about “the best paladin of the world” named “Athene” who was a parody of online game players who get too into it and think they’re hot stuff because of it. It get’s really… surreal later in the video - see for yourself.

Swedish, actually.

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Oh, one more -

The really short clip between the Spiderman thing (which I don’t know what it is) and Leave Britney Alone comes from this ventrilo harassment, where someone recorded one of their members in an internet communication program the day before and decided to come back later and screw with them by playing that clip over and over. Incidentally Ventrilo harassment is also where the WHAT THE FUCBOOM meme you see later after Wall-E steps on the bug comes from as well.

(Also, sorry about all the "actually"s in the last post, didn’t mean to sound so condescending :smack:)

Also, I think I was wrong on the scat part, leekspin usually uses the scat verse, but it sounds like regular verse in the compilation vid.

Oh and the Objection meme from Phoenix Wright has a REALLY fun internet utility to play with I discovered last night. Here’s the main page.

It can insert text over it, so fun to play with.
OBJECTION!
One of the pics at the end was Raptor Jesus, which is basically a raptor head superimposed upon robes that look like the ones the traditional picture of Jesus wears. He’s often seen in a town, burning it with laser vision with a caption along the lines of “Raptor Jesus is really not happy.”

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I meant to write that YouTube Poops frequently involve nonsense, not infrequently. Well, you know what they say- all toasters toast toast!

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A toast to the toaster’s toasted toast!

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Mah boi, this toast is what all true warriors strive for!

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My toaster only toasts bread.

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Does your waffle maker cook waffles or does your waffle maker cook waffle batter?

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No. No, you’re not.

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The spider man thing is Dr. Octogonapus. It’s basically that one tiny clip played over and over and over again.

Which means the only one we haven’t found is the Atim one.

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OBJECTION!