A bit of a tangent, but I was watching one of the more recent Scooby-Doo movies. In the middle of the 'toon someone calls the meddling kids "you meddling kids," to which Velma responds "this is the first time we've been called 'meddling kids' before we solved the mystery."
This is why MAD Magazine went out of business: everything is so aware of its own tropes these days, there's no need for an outside perspective to point them out or make fun of them.
A bit of a tangent, but I was watching one of the more recent Scooby-Doo movies. In the middle of the 'toon someone calls the meddling kids "you meddling kids," to which Velma responds "this is the first time we've been called 'meddling kids' before we solved the mystery."
This is why MAD Magazine went out of business: everything is so aware of its own tropes these days, there's no need for an outside perspective to point them out or make fun of them.
- Joe