- Hey, you, my name is Thomas TomSka Ridgewell.
- I'm Elliot Gough.
- And I'm Eddie Bowley.
- And welcome back to.
- CONTENT!
- It's a show.
- Is it?
- Can't prove that. No evidence.
- Well, boys, here we are.
Except we're not here, we are all in separate places
because of COVID-19.
- No I'm not, I can touch you! Look.
- You cannot touch me, get off.
Ah, dad, not again!
I've just spent the past few hours,
'cause I've got nothing else to do, researching memes.
And I've also been working with the lovely people
that have been keeping me company
on my very low-fi Twitch streams
to come up with a pretty hefty quiz
all about thos memes.
So boys, are you ready to play
So You Think You Can Meme?
- I think I can meme.
- Yaas, queen.
- What are your team names?
You're teams now.
- Elliot.
- Your team is Elliot.
- Yes.
- Eddie, what's your team name?
- I will go with Team Not Elliot.
- I like that a lot. (burps)
- Either way, I feel a bit of pride
if I win or lose.
- Your self-esteem is that low
that just any mention is worthy.
- If you'd like to play this game along at home,
feel free to just scream answers at your monitor
and if you get it right, give yourself a point.
If you get it wrong, though,
throw yourself down the stairs.
Alright, boys, for this first round,
we're gonna be going over some meme facts.
- Macts.
- I'm gonna ask y'all some questions
and you've gotta tell me, which is the answer
to the question, that's how quiz works.
Elliot! - Yes!
- First question for you. - Me!
- In 2015, a video of the appropriately named Ethan Brown
went viral, featuring him covered
head to toe in peanut butter.
But in what year was the video originally filmed?
Was it 2004, 2013, 1999 or 2007?
- 1999.
- Elliot, you've made a fool of yourself,
I'm gonna hand this over to Eddie,
if you'd like to try and steal the point.
- No!
- 2007, 2013, or 2009.
In which case I'll go with 2003.
- That was not an option.
- 2004!
- A point for Eddie Bowley, yes.
The peanut butter baby is now probably
about 16 or so years old.
And I don't like that.
Right, Eddie?
- Yes.
- Pepe, an expressive and highly emotive frog
who somehow became an icon for the alt-right
originates from which webcomic?
"Ctrl+Alt+Del", "Eat My Paint",
"The Perry Bible Fellowship", or "Boy's Club"?
- "Boy's Club".
- [Tom] You are correct, it is "Boy's Club"!
- Yay!
- Elliot Gough. - That's me!
- Another famous amphibian, Kermit the Frog
is well known for sipping tea
and dishing out hot takes.
But exactly what tea has he been known to drink?
Green tea, PG Tips, Twinings, or Lipton's?
- Lipton's!
- A point for you, Elliot Gough!
And nothing for Gretchen Wieners.
Eddie Bowley? - Yes?
- Who is the Zodiac Killer?
Is it Ted Bundy, Tom Cruise, Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush?
- Ted Cruz is the meme,
but I suspect the actual killer was Ted Brundy.
- No, you are wrong, it is definitely Ted Cruz.
Everyone knows this and you've let him get away.
- Hey, why didn't I get a chance?
- Because...
Elliot, what do you think the answer is?
- I think it's Ted Cruz.
- [Tom] You are correct, and you get the point!
- Wow!
- Wow, a point for Elliot, well earned.
I am new at this, okay?
Elliot, the cryptid Slender Man entered our realm
in 2009 and has gone on to inspire horror movies
and even an attempted murder.
But where exactly did he come from?
Was it Creepypasta, Something Awful,
Marble Hornets, or Lonelygirl15?
- That is actually quite interesting,
'cause I'm actually between two there,
but I'm not sure where it originally came from.
I'm gonna guess that it came from Marble Hornets.
- What was your other guess?
- My other guess would be Creepypasta.
- I can tell you that you are wrong.
- Okay.
- Eddie.
- Creepypasta.
- You are also incorrect.
The correct answer was Something Awful, the forums,
it was part of a Photoshop competition.
And someone created the character
in the background of an image
and then the world went mad.
- Eddie, while the internet may appear
to be a lawless, chaotic place,
it is allegedly bound by certain unbreakable rules.
What is the second rule of the internet?
Thou shall not take the Lord's name in vain,
If it exists, there is porn of it,
We do not forgive, we do not forget,
You do not talk about /b/.
- It is the fourth option.
We do not talk about /b/.
- You are correct, however,
you have now talked about /b/
and you're going to 4chan jail.
Also known as the real world,
'cause if you're not at 4chan, you're doing great.
- Yay?
- I'm very proud of you,
you have a nice, fat cock. (laughs)
- Oh, is that my prize?
- Yeah!
- A nice, plump chicken.
- Elliot Gough. - Yes.
- What was it that user Titanium-Gecko
posted in 2005 that was shortened into the initialism NEDM?
Did it stand for, Never Ever Date Men,
Not Even Doom Music,
No Emos Drink Milk,
or No Energy, Didn't Masturbate?
- The second one.
- You are indeed correct.
- I don't have any context for this,
I've just heard that phrase before.
- In 2005, a video was posted of a cat,
I believe getting burnt alive,
and the user put doom music alongside it.
And another person, Titanium-Gecko basically said
that not even doom music can justify such brutality.
Eddie? - Yes.
- Wait, what song is this?
Is it We Are Number One,
is it All Star,
is it Sandstorm,
or is it Brodyquest?
- Is it We Are Number One?
- It is not. Elliot?
- Sandstorm?
- You are correct.
It is, and it goes like this.
(he sings a measure of Sandstorm)
Elliot. - It's me!
- "Two Girls One Cup" was a controversial one-minute video
that featured two young women eating
and vomiting poop into each other's mouths.
But don't worry, it was only a trailer
for an hour-long porno titled what?
"Hungry Bitches", "Two Girls One Cup",
"Shit Sisters", or "Eating For Two"?
- I like all of those options.
I wanna go with "Hungry Bitches".
- [Tom] You are correct.
- [Elliot] I like that,
I like that they have a sense of humour.
- I believe it was Brazilian.
And, I can't remember, either the creator went to jail.
- Oh!
- Or had to pay like a hundred thousand dollar fine
for creating such filth.
Alright, Eddie. - Yes.
- Rage comics and reaction images
serve as some of the earliest
and most recognisable memes on the internet,
many of which are traced from the faces of celebrities.
But which of these celebrities
has not been traced into a reaction meme?
Is it Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jackie Chan,
Chuck Norris, or Nicholas Cage?
- Chuck Norris.
- You are very correct, good job, Eddie.
- Good job, Eddie!
- Yeah!
- You have Neil deGrasse Tyson,
watch out, we got a badass over here,
you have Nicholas Cage's, you don't say,
and you have Jackie Chan's,
my brain is full of fuck.
- Eddie, that's offensive!
(Eddie laughs)
- I can tell you so far that Elliot
is winning with five points
and Eddie is trailing behind with four.
- Ooh!
- We all love memes,
and you know what we love memes? (laughs)
Alright, fellas, one of the strongest points of memes
is how quotable they are.
And today we're gonna test your meme literacy
with whether or not you can finish the quote.
So, you can buzz in when you think you have the answer,
Elliot your sound is this.
And Eddie, your sound is this.
Finish that quote.
None pizza.
- Left beef!
- You are correct, way to go, little buddy!
None pizza left beef is a 2007 meme
in which someone ordered a custom Domino's pizza
with nothing on it, except for beef
on the left-hand side.
Aw, fuck.
- I can't believe you've done this.
- You are correct!
Unfortunately we will never know what Peewee28
was going to say, as he was so brutally assaulted.
It is Wednesday.
- My dudes!
- Very good.
Fun fact, the original version of it
is actually an image of a frog on Tumblr.
The Vine is merely appropriating his assertion
that it is indeed Wednesday.
I like singing, I like dancing.
- I like trains.
- Very good.
One of my own in there
because I'm a narcissist.
Fun fact, it was originally gonna be I like dinosaurs,
but I decided suicide by train was funnier.
Somebody toucha.
- My spaghet!
- A point for Eddie Bowley.
Eddie, for a bonus point,
can you guess the year of which this meme originated?
- It's 'cause it's in kind of Technicolour,
I'm assuming it's like 50s to 60s,
I'll go with 58?
- [Tom] The correct answer was 1939.
- I was off by a bit.
- Just a tad.
Alright, here's a question that Elliot,
you're gonna have to try your absolute hardest
to beat Eddie on as it is as old as him.
All your base.
- Are belong to us!
- Whey! Very good.
Fun fact, that meme is from a poorly translated
1989 Japanese game, "Zero Wing".
Let's pivot from the distant past
to the relatively recent present.
So, there I was.
- Barbecue sauce on my tittes.
- That is a point for you, Elliot.
For a bonus point,
where does this meme originate?
And I don't mean where was it popularised,
but where does it originate?
- I'm gonna go YouTube?
- The answer is, it is a quote
from Orange is the New Black,
season one episode five
that was quoted in a Vine.
I didn't know that until researching this video, so.
I play Pokemon Go.
- Every day!
- Ooh, I'm gonna give you a half a point for that
as the correct quote is everwy day.
- Shut up!
(laughter)
- That is a song perfectly encapsulating
the popularity of Pokemon Go
from Misha from the Czech Republic.
He's still making songs, he just released
a song about the Coronavirus, and you know what?
It ain't half bad.
Road work ahead?
- Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does!
- That's a point for you, Eddie Bowley.
Fun fact about this video, it is funny.
Final quote to finish, boys.
Two bros chilling in a hot tub.
- Five feet apart
because they're not gay?
- I'll allow it, it is five feet apart
'cause they're not gay, a bonus point
if you can tell me who created that Vine.
- [Elliot] Anthony Padilla from Smosh.
- Wahey, I'm impressed, I didn't know that.
So, that is two points for Elliot.
- Huh?! - I know. I know.
Alright, so the scores as they are,
is Elliot is in the lead
with 11 and a half points.
Eddie trailing tragically behind with just seven.
- Fuck!
- I know, I'm honestly a little disappointed,
I don't think I can love you anymore.
Get your phones out because it's time
to attach a quote to that meme.
Elliot. - Yes!
- [Tom] Give me the quote that associates with this meme.
- [Elliot] Guess I'll die.
- That's a point for you Elliot,
you handsome little boy.
Fun fact about this is a photograph of Mike Baldwin
taken in 2009, so he likely has died.
- What a fun fact.
- Thank you, I worked pretty hard on it.
Eddie. - Yes.
- What's this meme trying to say?
- [Eddie] Ah shit, here we go again.
- There we go, that's a point for Eddie,
the handsomest Eddie I've ever known.
Alright, Elliot, we're gonna ramp up the difficulty
a little bit.
- Hit me with it, hit me with your best shot.
- [Tom] What's this meme say to you?
- Stonks!
(laughter)
No, no, that's a different one!
No, I know what it is!
- Elliot, you know what?
I will give you one more chance.
- Oh, come on!
- I will not, just 'cause Eddie's so sad.
Eddie, what's this quote say?
- [Eddie] It's free real estate.
- You are very correct.
For a bonus point, who is it free real estate for?
- It's a sketch from the "Tim and Eric Show",
and it's like, they're giving away free houses or something,
I can't remember who to.
- They're giving away one free house,
only to one person.
- No, I don't know.
- It is, you have to be called Jim Boonie
to get the free real estate.
Eddie, what does this mean?
♪ Why the fuck you lyin' ♪
That's a good point for Eddie.
Fun fact about this meme, it is using the instrumentals
of "Too Close" by the R&B group Next.
Elliot. - Yep?
- [Tom] What's the meme?
- Hmm. - Hmm.
- [Elliot] He's not just saying aliens, is he?
- He is saying aliens.
That is the quote, the quote is aliens.
That is, I believe Giorgio, or (stammers)
from the show "Ancient Aliens",
in which he explains that everything was aliens.
Eddie. - Yes.
- [Tom] Give me the, give me some words!
- [Eddie] Oh my God, they were roommates.
- That's a point for Eddie, you know,
you did, you sounded like him, that was good.
Fun fact about this meme, allegedly,
allegedly, the woman in the video came forward
and said that the conversation
was indeed about two roommates
that turned into gay lovers.
Elliot? - Yep.
- [Tom] Here's a meme.
- Oh no!
- Is this the round where Eddie takes the lead back?
Let's find out!
- [Elliot] Have you got a grape?
- [Tom] I can't, I'm not gonna give you that, Eddie?
- [Eddie] Hey, you got any grapes?
- That's a point for Eddie.
"Have you got a grape?", was nice,
but not what I was looking for.
Fun fact about "The Duck Song",
it has never officially gone gold or platinum
despite having over 400 million views on YouTube.
And I can only imagine how many copies it has sold.
So logically, it's outperformed
"The Muffin Song" a billionfold.
That's an exaggeration, but at least four times.
Eddie. - Yes?
- What's that meme.
- [Eddie] ORLY?
- How do you spell it?
- O-R-L-Y.
- Very good, that is a point for Eddie.
The Oh Really Owl has devastatingly been made obsolete
by the far inferior quoting
of just saying R/ThatHappened.
Elliot. - That's me.
- [Tom] What's the meme?
- What part of it?
- The best part.
- [Elliot] Disgusting!
- You are correct, disgusting is indeed
what I was looking for.
For a bonus point Elliot,
which one of them did the shit?
- Oh, the little sister.
- That is good, the two points for Elliot.
- She made a little video coming out.
Being like, no I did the shit.
- She did, she proudly admitted having done the shit.
- It was me that done the shit.
- Eddie? - Hmm?
- [Tom] Wah, meme.
- [Eddie] Then perish.
- Very good, point for Eddie.
For a bonus point, who is perishing?
- I don't know, I don't know.
Oh...
- The correct answer was a furry
as this is part of a text role-play conversation
between someone Uwu-ing, and Mr. Obama.
- Oh!
That's nice. - Let me just tally up
these scores here.
The scores as they stand are
Elliot is still just in the lead
with 15 and a half points,
Eddie just trailing behind with 14.
He is catching up, Elliot, you should be afraid.
- I'm always afraid of Eddie catching me.
- (laughs) Well, why?
Alright, boys, I'm about to show you an image of a meme,
only the silhouette of that meme, however.
You have to tell me what that meme is.
First to buzz in gets the meme.
Y'all ready, boys?
- Sure.
- I am ready to buzz.
- [Tom] Elliot,
you came through first.
- Oh shit, waddup, it's dat boi!
- It is dat boi, Elliot, I'm so proud of you!
Elliot for a bonus point,
where is one of the first places
dat boi was ever found?
- Oh wow, Reddit?
- Nope, it was an AP physics textbook.
- What were they trying to teach?
- I actually have no idea
what he was doing in that book.
Here's a fucking meme.
- It's fat Bugs Bunny, but I don't know what the meme is.
- I'm looking for the meme's real name.
- Yeah, that's the issue.
I know what it is, I just, I'm blanking on a meme.
- I'm afraid to say that if you buzz in
and get the answer wrong, I will deduct a point.
- Whoa, that wasn't added. - Ooh!
- That wasn't added before!
- I'm sorry, but I have to stop you
from hoarding the points. - No!
You can't add rules later on!
- I just did, it's my quiz!
I'm looking for the meme's name, my friend.
- I don't know, I'm passing.
- Unfortunately the correct answer was Big Chungus.
And I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to
take a point away from you.
Alright, fingers on boobies, my little friends,
here comes a meme.
- Troll face!
- Troll face is correct.
I'm about to throw a hot meme at you.
You've gotta tell me what it is
we're looking at here.
- It's the funniest shit I've ever seen,
it's Pickle Rick!
- I'm afraid to tell you, you are wrong.
You are looking not at Pickle Rick,
but Larry the Cucumber.
- Oh!
(laughter)
Allow me to show you what Pickle Rick actually looked like,
and you'll see how much of a fool you have been.
(laughter)
Coming up with a fresh new meme, lads.
Y'all ready for this?
What's that meme?
- It's doge.
- It is doge, you are correct,
and also quite handsome.
What are we looking at here, boys?
- It's Long Cat!
- Point for Eddie, very good.
It is Long Cat.
Where's Long Cat from, for an extra point.
- I don't know, Finland?
- It was Japan, I'm afraid.
It's a cat, where else is it going to be from?
- Only in Japan!
- Alright, boys, y'all ready for a hot new meme?
Who's that?
- That's Gizmo!
- [Tom] Ah, you are correct,
you successfully saw through the trick question.
- [Elliot] The Baby Yoda trick.
- It was the old Baby Yoda trick!
Who's this?
- It's the Philosoraptor.
- That's a point for Eddie!
Last one, everybody.
What are we looking at here?
- It's badger, badger, badger!
- That's a point for Eddie,
the ugliest Eddie I've ever met.
You both performed equally badly in that round
with two points each, making the current scores
17 and a half points for Elliot
and 16 points for Eddie.
Alright, boys, welcome to Real or Fake Meme.
Arguably the most high stakes round in this game.
I will be presenting you with either a meme
or just the results of a random word generator
and you have to correctly identify
if it is a real meme or a fake meme.
If you get it correct, you get a point.
If you get it wrong, you lose a point.
Elliot. - Yes!
- Is this a real meme or a word generator?
Ceiling Cat.
- That is a real meme.
- [Tom] You are correct, that is a point for you.
- It watches you masturbate.
- That is the fun fact I have written down here.
- Yeah! (Tom laughs)
- Eddie. - Yes.
- Virgin Medicine.
- That's a fake meme.
- You are correct, that is a fake meme.
The brutal results of a word generator.
Elliot. - Yes?
- Is the following a real meme or a fake meme?
Craft Brag.
- Fake meme.
- You are correct, Craft Brag is just some words.
Craft Brag could be a valid term
from the Pinterest community, I don't know.
Eddie. - Yes.
- What is your verdict on Nonsense Sphere?
- That is a fake meme.
- You are correct, Eddie,
that is indeed a fake meme.
One could argue that this hell hole of a planet
we live on is indeed a nonsense sphere,
but not a real meme yet.
- Not yet.
- Thus far, you've all been doing great,
you've all been pegging each other level.
However, you know, someone's gonna slip up
or else Elliot's got this in the bag.
Speaking of, Elliot.
- Yes!
- Lemon Party. Real or fake meme?
- That is a real meme.
- You are correct!
Eddie. - Yes.
- Object Gun.
- That's fake.
- You are correct, Object Gun is a fake meme.
Elliot. - Yes?
- Left Shark, real or fake?
- That is a real meme.
- It is a real meme, in 2015 sharks stood
either side of Katy Perry,
but for some reason we don't give a shit
about the right one.
Eddie. - Mhmm?
- Freedom Frog.
- I wanna go with fake meme.
- You are correct, devastatingly,
the Freedom Frog is not a real meme.
Although he is the meme we need.
Elliot. - Yes.
- Blue Waffle.
- That is also a real meme.
- You are correct, that is a real meme.
And in the year 2011,
a gynaecologist determined that it was either
a photograph of a mutilated vagina
or a Photoshopped vagina.
Please don't Google it, though.
And Eddie. - Yes.
- Meat Spin.
- That's a real meme.
- You are correct, Eddie,
Meat Spin is indeed a real meme.
I'm so proud of you boys!
- Yay, you spin me right round, baby.
- Yep. Fun fact about this meme, we have all done it.
- It is, yeah, I have, yeah.
- (laughs) Yeah.
- On a hot day, really cools your partner down.
- It sure does!
Right, so, here we are with the final scores.
Eddie, you're coming in with a hot, very much legal, 21.
But Elliot is leading the way
with a bold and brazen 23 and a half.
Elliot truly is more than just memes.
Well, guys, I want to say thank you so much
for playing my game,
of which I've already forgotten the name.
How did you do if you were playing along at home?
Did you get the memes right,
or did you have to throw yourself down the stairs?
If you did the latter, I suppose you're not commenting.
So, for every view this video has
but doesn't have a followup comment,
can only assume those people are sadly no longer with us.
Righty-ho, hippity hoppity who,
here's my favourite fan art of the week
and here are the most recent videos.
Did you know that #CONTENTs come out every Tuesday?
They do, even in quarantine.
So I will see you next Tuesday.
Quack.
- Quack, quack, quack,
quack, quack, I'm a duck. (Eddie quacks)