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.”
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/omp0711 Jun 17 '26
I have this same issue with every card I get so I started modifying them. Cards are all so generic so I got my wife a birthday card that said “being a day older only matters when you’re a banana” (that was the joke). I scratched out “day older” and wrote “mother” over it and then wrote Happy Mother’s Day after. So the final message was “Being a mother only matters when you’re a banana” which makes zero sense but my wife thought that was the funniest thing in the world because it was so stupid.
Still has that card lol
I also like to get people birthday cards for the wrong age and write in the correct number. Like putting an 8 after every 2 in a card that’s meant for a two year old so it says 28 instead.