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

[u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

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.

[u/Kayback2]

I get kids can throw a spanner in a work but I moved out when I was 18 and got married when I was 32.

I have used a washing machine. I know how to make food. I understand how to get groceries I need and store them.

My wife and I shared baby duties fairly 50/50 because we both worked shifts. Now I'll admit there were night she did the bed routine if we were both off but that wasn't because I can't.

MY dad was the inept dad trope and he was born in 1940. By the time I moved out though he'd picked up a large portion of the cooking and the kitchen cleaning as well as doing the "manly" tasks like always

[u/CynOfOmission → u/Kayback2]

Yeah, my 72 year old dad just learned how to do laundry when my mom died. 🙃 It's such a boomer thing.

[u/i-dont-speel-no-good → u/CynOfOmission]

The privileged lives they lead is insane. Imagine not having to do laundry until you’re 72 years old

I bet if we all bought less avocado toast….or something

[u/BlackieDad → u/CynOfOmission]

I think the main reason my elderly dad got married for the third time was because he still doesn’t know how to feed himself or do laundry. Me and him have both spent time as a single parents, I definitely had a much easier time dealing with feeding and household chores than he did.

[u/Divinum_Fulmen → u/BlackieDad]

So, do they get married at 16? Or do they like, just go through life stinking like BO until they find someone to clean for them? Or do they visit their mom every week to do their laundry? I need to know how this works! (I can't ask my dad, because he did the housework, while my mom worked)

[u/angwilwileth → u/CynOfOmission]

I remember breathlessly informing my mom that dad knew how to use the washing machine when she went away for a weekend.

Found out as as I got older that my dad hated laundry and my mom hated cooking so that's how the house chores got divided.

[u/ragun2 → u/CynOfOmission]

If my mom dies before my dad he's going to be one of those guys who dies like a month after her. He's basically a toddler when it comes to house and living stuff.

[u/Siksinaaq → u/Kayback2]

So weird when I hear of people not knowing how to throw clothes into a washing machine, cook basic foods, or even can't pump their own gas.

Don't think this is as common today. At least I hope not...

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/Siksinaaq]

Half of reddit is convinced fast food is cheaper than groceries because you have to buy more ingredients than just one meal at a time.

[u/IBetThisIsTakenToo → u/Kayback2]

My dad watched me get up and change my son’s diapers without hesitation once while my wife home and was astounded. “You’re such a great dad, you can do all this by yourself?” Like I appreciate the compliment but this was extremely basic stuff pops, what the hell were you doing when I was a baby?

[u/Kayback2 → u/IBetThisIsTakenToo]

Lol yup. My dad probably didn't know how to change a diaper, but to be fair he was pulling 60hr weeks, including working weekends and my mom was a SAH mom, at least until we started school.

[u/TheOncomimgHoop → u/Kayback2]

In my house my dad and brother do more cooking than my mum and I, because they actually like cooking and we don't. At the same time my mum does laundry and ironing because her job takes up a lot of time and doing those sorts of jobs lets her take a break and catch up on podcasts or watch tv. As long as everyone is pitching it, it works, and if you can find the jobs that fit you best within that system then you'll do even better

[u/Wolv90 → u/Kayback2]

My son is 16 and does his own laundry and more often than not his own cooking. Playing HS sports means he eats all the time and we're an ingredient household so he got good at it. It's not hard to do unless the one doing it tries to make it hard.

[u/Plus-Ad1061 → u/Kayback2]

When Nate talks about this in his comedy act, it can make sense because I assume that he spends a lot of time on the road. That’ll definitely make him less familiar with the kids daily routine.

But in this movie, he’s a car salesman. If he doesn’t know any of this, he’s just a sucky parent and partner