# Stuff I know about only because of the memes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-know-about-only-because-of-the-memes/930855 "2021-01-19T08:50:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-know-about-only-because-of-the-memes/930855/1 "2021-01-19T08:50:16Z")
I’ve never seen a single episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” but I can make a Pepe Silvia complex-conspiracy reference as if I have. I’ve never played “Skyrim” but between the jokes about arrows to the knee and the videos of cheese wheels rolling downhill, I feel like I’ve seen a lot of it. I haven’t seen the movie “Downfall” but I’ve seen Hitler’s closing rant approximately 47,913 times. I would probably not know the Eric Andre show exists at all, if not for the endless “why would X shoot Y” jokes that have spun out of it. There’s probably a hundred more examples like this. What are yours? ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-know-about-only-because-of-the-memes/930855/2 "2021-01-20T02:03:05Z")
I’ve never watched _Community_, but I’m well acquainted with the “Guy carrying pizza enters a burning room” meme. Never watched _The Office_ (sacrilegious, I know), but I’ve seen the “Corporate needs you to find the differences …” and the “Michael Scott shaking hands with Ed Truck” memes pop up a lot. I’m only barely aware of the existence of the TV series _Narcos_, but I see the “Sad Pablo Escobar” mashup all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-know-about-only-because-of-the-memes/930855/3 "2021-01-20T02:55:49Z")
I do not, in fact, have an opinion on mudkips. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-know-about-only-because-of-the-memes/930855/4 "2021-01-20T05:34:30Z")
Not memes exactly, but enough people on Tumblr like Leverage, that if I ever get around to watching it, I’ll be able to quote half the show ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-know-about-only-because-of-the-memes/930855/5 "2021-01-21T04:24:21Z")
I’ve never seen The Office but I know about “that’s what she said”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-know-about-only-because-of-the-memes/930855/6 "2021-01-21T04:32:21Z")
While The Office popularized it, it existed decades earlier. I recall it from college in the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-know-about-only-because-of-the-memes/930855/7 "2021-01-21T08:56:02Z")
Never watched _Real Housewives of Beverly Hills_, only know it from half the “woman yells at cat” meme. Similarly, I’ve never seen _American Chopper_, but only the “2 dudes yelling” meme. I had to look both of those origins up for this post.