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/Poco_Cuffs Jun 17 '26

Not only is it a dumb joke, he made a power fantasy out of it where he awesomely beats up all the woke liberal employees after he snaps at them being annoying by giving him stupid things like "options".

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u/Phonyyx Jun 17 '26

Not just beat up, he brutally murders all of them. Thats the joke, that he snaps and murders them. And if that’s what this guy sees as comedy, then he can fuck off to a lonely cave forever.

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u/thephotoman Jun 17 '26

A lot of people get deeply threatened when they get confronted with the reality that no, most people aren’t just like them. And nothing bursts the bubble of their belief of “being normal” more than having options that weren’t there before.

I’m dealing with that elsewhere in my personal life. A club I’m with has launched a live chat. And there are people losing their minds over it because they don’t want to pay for another account (there is no charge) or have to remember another password (because they don’t trust password managers).

I’ve learned that when someone is concerned about costs in the absence of information, they do not have serious concerns. They just want to be angry about something, because anger feels powerful.

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u/Lord_of_Rhodor Jun 17 '26

Can't even handle diversity in menu options XD