#stephen memes

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Restaurant violence/Outback Stabhouse

Also called: Breakfast stabbings

Related meme: The Disc Only mall

Series of origin: Disc Only Podcast

Explain the joke: During episode 2 of the Disc Only Podcast, Jerod and Stephen began exchanging stories about incidents at breakfast restaurants: Jerod going to a Waffle House and “almost getting stabbed” because the manager pulled out a knife to kick out some unruly customers, and Stephen knowing about someone ACTUALLY getting stabbed at a Denny’s.

In episode 5, after a callback to the breakfast stabbings conversation, Stephen lamented how long it’s been since he’s been to a restaurant, saying that he’d risk being stabbed just to go to one. After Jon quickly disagreed, Stephen began constructing scenarios in which someone may agree to get stabbed for food, to see how Jon would react to them.

Jon stated that his favorite type of place to go out to eat was a steakhouse, so Stephen set his hypothetical scenario at a ridiculously fancy 5-star steakhouse, with scientists on-hand to ensure everything is safe, and the food is free. But the catch is, in order to eat there, you’d have to get stabbed. Jon maintained that even a free 5-star steak from a steakhouse wasn’t worth being stabbed, though Stephen, Tom, and Jerod continued to discuss the hypothetical steakhouse, soon named Outback Stabhouse, in which you can get stabbed instead of paying.

Videos of origin:

Breakfast stabbings: https://youtu.be/kRShPgJH9f0

Outback Stabhouse: https://youtu.be/0Unq8EAAaH0

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Peggy

Sub-memes: AHWEE!, Oh lawd she coming, October 5th, 2033

Channel of origin: StephenPlays

Explain the joke: During Extra Life 2018, chat had put enough money towards the game Amazing Island to get it played. Stephen, Mal, and Dan were all experiencing the game for the first time, their only knowledge of it coming from chat (including Stephen’s friend, Thomas, who had played it before), mostly hyping up the questionable quality of the game.

When naming the human player character, Stephen looked to chat for suggestions. Thomas suggested Peggy, though Stephen decided on Fargothia, with a promise to Thomas that the first monster would be named Peggy.

After a series of baffling questions and unnecessary, long-winded explanations, the game generated a bipedal creature with white, orange, and black coloring. Going through the customization options, Stephen was surprised by several of the things the game let him do, including removing the monster’s eyes and adding a single “cute” wing to its tail. There were also several options to pick from for the creature’s voice, each with a higher pitched variant. The higher-pitched “Cutie” voice was the clear choice for Peggy, with Stephen and chat imitating it with “AHWEE!”

Before ending the Amazing Island segment, Stephen jumped into a racing minigame with Peggy to see her in action. As soon as the race started, though, Peggy’s incredible speed surprised everyone, and she got to the finish well before her opponent. The combination of her extreme speed and unsettling appearance led to several comments of “Oh lawd she coming!”

Amazing Island proved to be so popular that only two games were played before it returned to the top of the donation list to be played again. When loading in Peggy for the second round of Amazing Island, because Stephen had previously messed with his GameCube’s internal clock, the memory card gave Peggy’s creation date as October 5th, 2033. It was declared a prophecy that on that date Peggy would be born. Mal set a reminder on her phone to be reminded of Peggy on that date, and Stephen encouraged the viewers to do the same.

Video of origin: https://youtu.be/3ZEOAWZulz4

Other significant videos:

The Prophecy: https://youtu.be/kgeKL2NkI2I

Memorable Moments: https://youtu.be/TV0Ed8Wbhdg , https://youtu.be/pgsh71kIPE8

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Stephen names characters (Two different, though related, memes)

Meme 1: Big Friend

Meme 2: Fat Goofy

Channel of origin: StephenPlays

Explain the joke: Due to a combination of Stephen’s lack of pop culture awareness and his notoriously poor memory, Stephen has a hard time remembering the names of various characters. He’ll often come up with his own names or descriptions, which will occasionally catch on and often be used in lieu of their actual names.

During a game of Broken Picturephone, Stephen was given a phrase including “Harry Potter” and “ hand puppets”, so he drew hand puppets of who he identified as “Harry Potter and his Big Friend”, only remembering the name Hagrid after someone else said it.

When Stephen started his First20 of Kingdom Hearts 3, he admitted to not knowing much about Kingdom Hearts OR Disney. When Pete made his first appearance, Stephen had no clue who he was, calling him Fat Goofy despite knowing he’s not Goofy.

Video of origin - Big Friend: https://youtu.be/llmLjmT8hFs

Video of origin - Fat Goofy: https://youtu.be/ZfrCYwyFTtM

Memorable Moment video - Fat Goofy: https://youtu.be/9gzQbRp0WRM

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I HAD A LAMP!

Also called: The most important item in Four Swords, Purple Link: Keeper of the Lamp

Channel of origin: The Runaway Guys

Explain the joke: While exploring a fire-filled dungeon in Four Swords Adventures, the group was given a variety of items to pick from, with Stephen deciding to take the lamp. Even though the lamp appeared to be useless in a dungeon filled with fire, Stephen figured that if the game offered it as a choice, it must be used at SOME point before the end of the level. It wasn’t, and Stephen got voted as the least helpful because of it. After the lamp became necessary in a later level, Stephen declared it the most important item in the game, often picking it when given a choice of items.

Video of origin: https://youtu.be/m-_mWob3wHk

Memorable moment video: https://youtu.be/-y5auXldSYU

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All Hail the Mighty Lamp

Also called: All hail the magic lamp, Tabitha’s lamp shrine

Channel of origin: StephenPlays

Explain the joke: In Stephen’s Sims playthrough, he ended up placing a chair facing only a random floor lamp, declaring Tabitha the in-game reason for that particular choice “because she’s insane.” While left to free-roam, Tabitha sure enough sits in that specific chair to apparently admire the lamp. After suggestions from the comments, Stephen fills the house with copies of the lamp, then later builds an underground chapel dedicated to the lamp, deciding Tabitha worships the lamp in her insanity.

Video of origin: https://youtu.be/wNlielH3XNU

Other significant videos:

Appearance of the lamp shrine: https://youtu.be/aE6Ms6ByloI

Memorable moments lamp montage: https://youtu.be/Sf2K9Hd8CXo

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Teeth/No teeth

Also called: Stephen’s teeth obsession

Channel of origin: Tom Fawkes

Explain the joke: During the food-themed Gourmet Race stage in Custom Smash, both Tom and Stephen noted that Jon’s character for the first round, Daisy, didn’t look like she had any teeth in her portrait. Stephen decided he’d only play as toothless characters for the rest of the matches on Gourmet Race, and acted disappointed whenever anyone else picked characters with visible teeth, leading to some debates on weather certain characters had teeth or not. Stephen (and Tom) continued to comment about characters’ teeth or apparent lack thereof in later episodes of Custom Smash, culminating in a Custom Smash stage based around the meme.

Video of origin: https://youtu.be/gJFxs257pLw

Episode themed around the meme: https://youtu.be/Pl_JXRYVbFQ