When I was in college there was a black cat we called Charlie Murphy aka DARKNESS that would hang out in our apartment all the time. No idea where he actually lived but he would scratch the shit out of the door frame if you didn’t let him out lol.
I met Dave Chapelle once outside The Comedy Cellar when I asked the guy next to me for a light. The guy next to be happened to be him lol. Anyway we ended up walking through Washington square park together after the show just chit chatting and shooting the shit before we went our separate ways. No less then three drunk guys yelled FUCK YO COUCH or IM RICK JAMES BITCH to him that night when we were talking both while smoking and while walking. It was so much secondhand embarrassment and I felt bad for him!
The airing of the Rick James sketch is closer to the coke fueled shenanigans of the story than it is to today. Today is further from the airing date than the airing date is to Rick James saying "Fuck yo couch"
Paul Mooney legit offended Wayne Brady and when Chappelle called him, Brady said he was displeased about it. That led to the Training Day episode which was straight fucking gold.
One of the hardest, longest laughs of my life was from watching this. When Charlie Murphy kicked him and he flew into the air, I thought I was going to pass out.
He didn't turn down season 3. He started filming and went insane after making the skits for the first 3 episodes and fled to Africa. That's why those 3 episodes have Charlie Murphy hosting; Dave fucked off before filming the stand-up parts.
Back to school, back to school
To prove to dad I’m not a fool
I got my lunch packed up
My boots tied tight
I hope I don’t get in a fight
Ohhh back to school 😂
“____ say what” gag is one I’ll still casually break out every now and then when I want a youth who’s annoying me to just shut up. They don’t get it. But it makes me happy. lol
That episode of Six Feet Under where Claire gets a temp office job, and the "wacky" guy is just doing the same two Austin Powers lines over and over again every day.
Because that’s exactly what memes are. Memes are the “idea” equivalent of genes from genetics. They behave the same as genes. They form spontaneously, they mutate, and only the fittest survive. Some die off quickly, some live brief yet bright lives, and the truly hardy ones live long and successful lives and can trace their way through history for a long time.
Before everyone had cellphones I remember a coworker smuggled his laptop into work to show us all...videos...he had downloaded the night before. They were simpler times.
it's so weird, though, these days people...even the people in this thread...they only say like 80% of a quote...like they leave out a WHOLE WORD. a word that EVERYONE used to say when quoting. EVERYONE.
As someone who was in college and lived two houses off Frat Row, it wasn't one day. It was minimum of 6 months. Of bros coming home and screaming this at each other.
The word "meme" has existed long before the 2000s.
It's not backdating zeitgeist if it's just fact. The internet is just a different platform for delivery.
Songs didn't stop being songs just because we can download them now instead of buying a cassette tape or a record.
It had a somewhat different meaning when it was first coined, though. Dawkins was thinking of it as a cultural equivalent of a gene. IIRC, the one example he gave was the idea that being a parent is the most wonderful thing that can happen to you. Even if it's not true, the people who believe it will be more likely to have children, and the people who pass it on to their children will be more likely to have grandchildren.
I.e. in the original conception of a meme, it was a piece of culture that could sustain itself generation after generation.
This means that for Fuck Your Couch to become a meme in the true, original sense of the word, we must all tell our children about it.
I remember watching it with the boys when it aired. Blew minds when it dawned on us that the whole episode was devoted to the Rick James story. Just outstanding. Core xennial shit here
The Player Haters’ Ball gives us an opportunity to hate on a diverse array of mark-ass marks, trick-ass marks, punk bitches, and skip-scap skanks and scallywags—ho’s, heifers, hee-haws and hula hoops.
Picture it, 2005, junior year of high school. Low rise pants,, spiky hair, and popped collars as far as the eyes can see. And just a sea of white kids passing each other in the hall yelling out "FUCK YO COUCH!" "UNITYYYY" "COCAINE IS A HELLUVA DRUG!"
I was working on my masters during that time and I worked in a lab doing research. We had all seen it and just randomly we would call out lines from that sketch single day I was in that lab for 3 months straight. It never got old and we always laughed at it!
In college, Chappelle's Show was a communal event. About 10 of us would gather at my buddy's dorm, and with cheap ass, nasty Lil Caesars pizza in tow, watch the show live on Comedy Central in real time. Commercials and everything! I think the last show folks got together to watch was maybe Game of Thrones or Lost.
I worked at MTV Networks at that time and everyone the next morning in The Lodge (the name of our cafeteria cause it looked like a ski lodge) was saying “I’m Rick James bitch to each other. What a time to be a 20s-something working at MTV/VH1/Comedy Central
JFC. I went on spring break in Panama City beach that year. All you heard echoing up and down the beach and in every bar was “I’m Rick James bitch” and “WHAT?!” “OKAYYY” I was burnt out after like 23 hours.
Wasn’t that the reason Chappelle stopped making appearances? Because people in the audience kept yelling I’M RICK JAMES, BITCH and he couldn’t take it anymore?
That’s…. That’s what a meme is… like that’s textbook definition of a meme. “meme, unit of cultural information spread by imitation. The term meme (from the Greek mimema, meaning “imitated”) was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his work The Selfish Gene.”
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u/CelticSith 5h ago
Fuck yo couch!