We Are Number One

Examples

A tall Doge comic imagines a son asking his father for music from his youth; We Are Number One lyrics bring back an emotional memory.

Your childhood music is now dad music

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Credit & details

A future family road trip promotes an internet earworm to a cherished old song. The joke begins with the ridiculousness of calling this dad music and ends with a surprisingly tender reminder that silly shared things can become real memories. This tall comic can be opened at full size.

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A job-interview caption asks for a favourite meme; the answer is grass growing in the shape of the numeral 1 between paving stones.

The number one is growing between the bricks

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Asked to describe a favourite meme, the speaker supplies a very literal number one. The music reference is outsourced to a small patch of grass: once you recognise the title, an ordinary pavement becomes a silent punchline.

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Robbie Rotten is caught in a net beneath a record-scratch freeze-frame caption asking how he ended up in this situation.

The villain has some explaining to do

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The instructor has become the demonstration of what not to do. Adding the familiar retrospective voice-over turns a failed villain lesson into the opening scene of a very embarrassing life story.

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About & sources

A television villain’s musical lesson becomes material for mashups and edits that change the song whenever a particular word or moment recurs.

Date

Robbie Rotten’s musical villain lesson in LazyTown, later remixed online.

History

The selected 2016 marks the online remix wave, not the creation of the television song. Know Your Meme dates the LazyTown episode Robbie’s Dream Team to October 2014, then describes a Facebook clip in July 2016, SoundCloud and YouTube remixes that September, and word-replacement edits that November. These dates are attributed to that retrospective history rather than independently established first-ever occurrences. The source also documents a December 2016 livestream performance by the original cast; the fan edits and original television performance are different artifacts. This representative television still is not playable preservation of the song, episode or any remix. No video or audio is hosted. The song, recording, characters and image retain their respective rights; private display and attribution do not clear public reuse.

Know Your Meme — television origin and 2016 remix wave
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