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Flash-in-the-Pan Fad
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Fashions come and go, and new technologies become obsolete, but this is ridiculous. Fiction likes to take the natural rise and fall of trends and parody it by cranking up the speed. Anything at all—a style of clothes, a book, a new diet, a must-have gadget, whatever—can be completely unknown one week, then the hottest topic in the world next week... and then Deader Than Disco the week after that. Heck, sometimes this rise and fall happens in mere days. And it's practically a Stock Joke now that as soon as you buy a computer, a new model will come out and make yours obsolete. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Memetic Mutation is often a Real Life example: the internet moves quickly enough that trending topics can become Discredited Memes in one day, or even shorter. Often overlaps with the Trend Aesop. See also Anyone Remember Pogs?, when the flash-in-the-pan fads are reminisced and ridiculed in retrospect. Examples: |
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King of the Hill: Parodied by the super-trendy Katt Savage, who makes it her life's calling to be ahead of the pop-culture curve and has a storage room full of fads that stopped being cutting-edge. It leaves her a Stepford Smiler on the verge of a breakdown. Played for Drama on the episode "Born Again to be Wild", wherein Bobby becomes part of a radical Christian youth group that is essentially The Moral Substitute skater punk rocker gang. Bobby associating religion with "radical" heightens his love of God but Hank, ever the Fantasy-Forbidding Father, comes to detest the group because he's afraid Bobby will eventually grow bored of the skater fad and ditch religion altogether as a result. |
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Scootertrix the Abridged: In episode 11, everypony besides Twilight is suddenly wearing a "winter vest" (with a matching arm band), and will eagerly talk at length about how great these vests are. Twilight isn't interested at all, but she eventually decides to buy a vest anyway, just to stop everyone from bugging her. But when she goes to buy one, Rarity refuses to sell one to her because the vests are already out of fashion. | |
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Exaggerated in Arthur with "Woogle" collectibles, a craze that annoys Arthur to the point that he says that clicking the bubble-top of a metal bottle cap would be just as fun. Cue the next trend: bottle cap clicking. | |
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An episode in Phineas and Ferb has the boys set up a platypus-themed restaurant they call "Chez Platypus". Word of the "trendiest restaurant" spread into the entire Tri-State Area and people quickly went in line to the Fletchers' backyard, even Dr. Doofenshmirtz and his date. At the end of the day, a badger-themed restaurant opened up in the street, the patrons promptly bailed, and the restaurant was sold to someone who wishes to expand it to a chain. In the episode "Run Away Runway", Phineas and Ferb set up a fashion line based on their Limited Wardrobe. Within seconds everyone is wearing it, until an army of Doofenschmirtz clones inadvertently turn his Limited Wardrobe into a craze. until the next episode, anyway. |
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One FoxTrot storyline had Paige and Nicole debating whether to steal a popular CD from the music store, since they don't have enough money to buy it. Paige insists they should just wait until they can buy the CD, but Nicole counters that they need the album now, because the band will be completely passe by the end of the week, if not sooner. | |
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Pearls Before Swine: In the January 22, 2016 strip, Rat buys the Smartphone 6, which just came out that very day. Then the store announces that the Smartphone 7 ("All new features! Faster! Bigger!") is coming out tomorrow. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy takes this Up to Eleven in the episode that centers around short-lived fads. The kids spend the day coming up with new fads every few minutes, and the Eds desperately try to figure out how to keep up with them. | |
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Similarly, Pantera mercilessly and angrily criticizes trends in their song "The Great Southern Trendkill". | |
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Discussed in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Game". As the Enterprise crew become obsessed with playing a holographic video game, Robin Lefler thinks, "It's a fad. This week it's popular, next week we won't even know it existed." But she's wrong, and The Game turns out to be both highly addictive and capable of mind-controlling anyone who plays it. | |
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