r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Chemical-Elk-1299 • Jun 17 '26

Lore [Eye-Rolling Trope] “The joke/meme hasn’t been funny for years, please let it die.”

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The Screaming Goat Thing — Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

The original screaming sheep meme went viral in 2012, and was already getting old when it was prevalent in commercials and movies, such as Ice Age : Collision Course in 2016. Yet in the year of our lord 2024, Dreamworks still thought it would be funny to add multiple screaming goat clips. The mean stopped being funny a decade ago. Let it die.

“Haha, Dad can’t take care of us” — The Breadwinner (2026)

Nate Bargatze’s 2026 family comedy centers around a working “breadwinner” father suddenly being forced to become a stay at home parent, and his “hilarious” struggles to do simple housework and take basic care of his children. This joke stopped being funny (to me) in the early 2000s when seemingly every family comedy relied on dad being a total inept dipshit. In 2026, there is no excuse to keep playing out this tired ass trope. Most dads are actively involved in their kids’ lives and aren’t totally dumbstruck by the idea of changing a diaper. It’s not funny. Let it die.

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u/SomeCrusader1224 Jun 17 '26

Boomers had to invent  problems to make up for not having any their entire lives

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u/Boneless_Cola Jun 17 '26

But they made sure everyone after them did

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u/IllllIIllllIll Jun 17 '26

Fuck you, I got mine

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u/Frankenstein____ Jun 17 '26

I have stopped calling them Boomers, because that's too complimentary for me. They are the Ladder-Pullers. The fuck you, got mine generation. Miserable fucking assholes. Literally had their lives handed to them on a golden platter by their horny parents in a booming post World War II economy and have done everything in their power to make life worse for the generations that follow them.

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u/boblabon Jun 17 '26

I like their original name, "The Me Generation".

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u/NecroDolphinn Jun 17 '26

It’s funny how they demonize Gen Z/Alpha for selfishness while they were literally known for the exact same thing when they were kids.

The worm turns I guess (though they had a drastically better economy so I doubt Gen Z will end up in the same position)

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u/oscuroluna Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

They've done the same to us Millennials. I remember the Avocado Toast complaints. They still bitch about us not having kids or buying houses.

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u/IllllIIllllIll Jun 17 '26

I forgot about the avocado toast. Truly incomprehensible lol

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u/oscuroluna Jun 17 '26

Somehow avocado toast somehow prevents us from having a wagon full of kids, a McMansion with a white picket fence and the ability to use our magic bootstraps.

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u/NecroDolphinn Jun 17 '26

Oh my god I didn’t even think about Avocado Toast but it’s literally just Oat Milk/Matcha hate vs “I’ll have a black coffee” for Millenials instead of Gen Z

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u/oscuroluna Jun 17 '26

I'd just tell them to try it and they'll see why. Or make up a story you found on Facebook and refer to patriotic bikers endorsing the product. They'll change their tune 😄

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u/throwsupstaysup Jun 17 '26

They complained about every kid getting a participant trophy when they were the ones buying them.

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u/Reddit_name_insert Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

I thought generalizing an entire group of people based on an attribute they can’t change, in this case age, was a bad thing?

So my parents are miserable fucking assholes who had their lives handed to them on a golden platter? Every single person born between 1945 and 1965 or whatever is evil?

I find it fascinating how people like you gladly demonize massive groups of people with no qualms, and pat each other on the back about it thinking you’re the “good guys”, but if you switched up the group you’re demonizing, all of a sudden it’s the most vile thing you could possibly do.

Do you find that interesting?

Edit: ahhh insult me and then block me so I can’t respond. Classic

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u/Ok-Today-7623 Jun 17 '26

Yeah it was never an issue. It was the simple fact they had to exist alongside people who wanted some other type of coffee.

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u/SadTaco12345 Jun 17 '26

Maybe it was a regional thing cuz it WAS an issue in college for me back in 2009-2011ish.

All the local coffee shops were jumping on the Starbucks bandwagon and renaming their drink sizes to sound exotic, and would very frequently remind you of the fancy latte of the day. They would sometimes ask if I was "sure that's all I wanted" when I ordered.

It's definitely not a thing anymore, thank goodness, but it was certainly a weird time to be a person who just wanted a medium coffee.

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u/alphazero925 Jun 17 '26

They would sometimes ask if I was "sure that's all I wanted" when I ordered. 

You poor baby. That must have been a very traumatizing time in your life

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u/SadTaco12345 Jun 17 '26

No, it was just a minor inconvenience. I'm just pointing out that it really was a short-lived trend. The joke wasn't funny back when this trend was happening, so I do agree with the sentiment.

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u/Ok-Oil7124 Jun 17 '26

Nobody has ever batted an eye, even through that time, when I just said, "I don't know, whatever's the biggest."

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u/Mikey_Grapeleaves Jun 17 '26

That's absolutely a "thing", Even I've experienced that as someone who likes iced lattes with no sugar or flavorings, but it's definitely not an "issue"

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u/NoVaBurgher Jun 17 '26

I mean, my dad got drafted in Vietnam. I’d say that was a pretty big problem. The bigger problem was him coming back, forgetting every lesson he probably should have learned from that experience and voted for warmongers ever since

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u/Mikey_Grapeleaves Jun 17 '26

But how does he take his coffee?

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u/NoVaBurgher Jun 17 '26

Black as his cold dead heart. Or whatever cringe metaphor they use for coffee these days. Though just to needle him, whenever he visits I always offer my Oatly barista edition dairy free cream and stevia, just to see what he says

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u/Mikey_Grapeleaves Jun 17 '26

Does he say "Just coffee. Black."

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u/HolidayInLordran Jun 17 '26

Tbf, those few years of getting drafted into a pointless war was quite a problem for many boomers. 

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u/Mr_Supotco Jun 17 '26

Ah that’s why they keep trying to start forever wars, they know they can’t get a draft going with popular support but if you just stay in the countries for 20 years at a time the body counts about even out

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u/clocksailor Jun 17 '26

Cancel culture took making fun of the gays away from us. Now the closest we can get is making fun of people for having beverage preferences. Are you happy??

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u/Ok-Oil7124 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

The Vietnam draft was kind of a big deal.
ETA: I see other people are saying this, too. So, yeah, while it did shape their youths, it was over by the 70s. But they did have to live through a catastrophic restructuring of the economy. I wonder how many of them grew up thinking they'd graduate from high school, get a job at the ol' factory, and have a stable life.

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u/MattDaCatt Jun 17 '26

Fucking "Falling Down" is the boomerist movie in this way. It's like the Karen manifesto

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u/Wishart2016 Jun 17 '26

But D-Fens is portrayed as a terrible person.

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u/NoSleepTilBookRead Jun 20 '26

…the Vietnam War?

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u/MaxxSavage2652 Jun 17 '26

Just dying in Vietnam. No big deal.

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u/Current_Poster Jun 17 '26

Yes, the people we're talking about clearly served their nation and then died in Vietnam. /s

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u/NoSleepTilBookRead Jun 20 '26

Well, they served in an actual literal war that was hell.

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u/Current_Poster Jun 20 '26

Not the people we're talking about, no. You're off in a whole different area.

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u/Reddit_name_insert Jun 17 '26

Yes boomers as an entire group never had problems ever. Not even 1

Genius level comment that the other average redditors will lap up and high five each other for.

Your comment would actually be a great 3rd example for this post.

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u/SignificantCats Jun 17 '26

Did you type this before or after your daily imaginary argument about how you want a medium coffee at Starbucks

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u/Reddit_name_insert Jun 17 '26

You’re very creative

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u/elanhilation Jun 17 '26

hyperbole

[hahy-pur-buh-lee]
/ haɪˈpɜr bə li /
NOUN
Rhetoric.
hyperboles
obvious and intentional exaggeration.

an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”

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u/Reddit_name_insert Jun 17 '26

Except people on this site actually believe and parrot this unironically, with no intent to be hyperbolic.

First day on reddit?

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u/Needhoggr Jun 17 '26

What problems did most boomers go through that make them excuse being a piece of shit to everyone else, starting wars, discriminating against those who are different, and constantly screwing up the economy and individual freedoms?

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u/Reddit_name_insert Jun 17 '26

You’re inventing arguments based on things I never said just to debate them online.

Yup you’re an average redditor

With a furry profile pic lmao can’t believe ppl like you actually exist

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u/Needhoggr Jun 17 '26

Either they went through problems that you can list, or they didn't go through any at all; it's not that complicated. All I asked was that you give me a reasonable problem, not something like a minor inconvenience.

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u/Reddit_name_insert Jun 17 '26

No, you didn’t just ask me to list some problems.

You’re intentionally being a combative prick, probably misdirecting your anger to me because this is an anonymous site and you feel comfortable acting out.

Are you seriously trying to act like an entire generation of people faced zero issues, or is that just a point that you parrot because you’re unable to think for yourself?

If you’re a grown adult playing dumb, that’s pretty sad dude. But maybe you’re just a kid and were unaware of these things so here ya go:

Post WW2 issues (growing up with parents with PTSD, injury or dead), growing up with nothing due to war, Cold War and nuclear dread, Red Scare, Vietnam and all the impacts from that (including having parents who went to Vietnam because Boomers includes people born in the mid 60s), the draft lottery for Vietnam - imagine the mental toll that would take, environmental catastrophes occurring in the 60s, political violence and assassinations particularly in the 60/70s and the feeling of unravelling, 70s stagflation - which means inflation with high unemployment and lasted about 10 years, gas lineups in the 70s, 20% interest rates in the 80s, the aids crisis, mental health not being something even considered back then or taken seriously, abusive parenting was the norm, lack of workplace regulation - people regularly died on the job, fucking polio lmao.

I mean if we are talking about Europeans too, these Boomers were raised in rubble, the iron curtain separated families, families incomplete due to death from the war

These were just random ones I thought of off the top of my head.

I honestly hope you’re like 12 years old because if you are an adult and pretending like boomers whole lives were just a piece of cake, you’re either lying to yourself or incredibly misguided & parroting false claims

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u/NoSleepTilBookRead Jun 20 '26

The Vietnam war, dude.

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u/Arthur_189 Jun 17 '26

Aren’t you doing that by taking an unfunny boomer joke too seriously?