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A common put-down about how someone ran headfirst into Fashion Dissonance (or something related). Often it's something that is no longer fashionable, or that famously works for someone, but almost no one else. "X" is frequently a time period, but it can be any person, place, or thing. "Y" is typically an unfashionable choice of attire, but also can be just about any object, statement, abstract concept, etc. A similar reformulation is, "Does X know you raided their wardrobe?" Runs headfirst into Totally Radical nowadays. A common variation is to replace "They want their (word) back" with "They said you can keep the (word)" or "Even they don't want (word) back". Compare If I Wanted X, I Would Y; Better by a Different Name. Not to be confused with We Want Our Jerk Back!. For other tropes that use this phrase in their name, see Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back and Russia Called; They Want Alaska Back. |
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Wynonna Earp: Waverly attempts this when shooting a squid-creature in Legends #4. She admits that she is not very good at snappy dialogue. |
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TFWiki.net, in its page for the IDW Hot Rod/Rodimus captioned this image◊ of the character's holo-avatar with, "The '80s called. They want their everything back." |
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Get Fuzzy: "Hilary Clinton called, she wants her manners back!" Another example: "Chuck E. Cheese called. They want their band back." Yet another example: "Voldemort sent an owl. He wants his bad manners back!" |
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And speaking of The Weakest Link, this gem from the half-hour daytime edition with George Gray: |
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On CSI: NY, when Jo is looking at VHS tapes for information on a suspect early in season 9, Danny says “Jane Fonda called. She wants her workout videos back.” |
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Kelso attempted this in the That '70s Show episode "Bye-Bye Basement". Fez walks in wearing a puffy shirt, and Kelso tries to make fun of him, but isn't very successful. |
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Used and then lampshaded on Psych. Gus is upset because Shawn took him away from his poached egg. |
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From Castle: |
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Mission Hill: Done by Andy, while Kevin is concentrating on his homework (by constantly saying "Bling blong"). |
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The Simpsons: Said to Marge, commenting on her hairdo: In a Halloween Episode, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, a mummy and a werewolf try to play the For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself trope but a bully tells them Turner Classics department called asking for the costumes back. |
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Full House: |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Drew did this a couple of times in reference to Ryan's shoes. |
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Back at the Barnyard: In "Dummy and Dummier": |
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Dancing with the Stars |
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Vampirella vs. Fluffy the Vampire Killer: |
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From Atop the Fourth Wall, while Linkara is on the phone with The Cinema Snob. |
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Kyle XY, episode "What's the Frequency, Kyle?": |
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The Rocker |
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The Harry Potter fanfic 30 Minutes II: The Gathering Storm, chapter 8 has this line in Harry's first potions class at Hogwarts, in reference to Professor Snape: |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle Josuke Higashikata (from part 4, not the other one) has a counter move where, if he gets hit while fixing his hair, a small cutscene will play with his opponent insulting his hairstyle. A few characters have insults that fit this trope, but Okuyasu's insult in the English version fits the best. |
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Parodied in the Uncle Grandpa episode "1992 Called". Pizza Steve tells Uncle Grandpa "1992 called, they want their pants back", which turns out to be literally true. |
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Scrubs has J.D. describe an elderly patient as a "neat old lady" and Turk tells him "the 1930s called, they want their lingo back." J.D. goes on to say that the patient has "this incredible energy and...and warmth", to which Turk retorts "Dude, the League of Women Voters called and they want to know where to send your membership info." J.D. replies "You're using that 'somebody called' joke a lot." |
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Rick and Morty: The episode "Raising Gazorpazorp" features Rick use this joke against Jerry. Equally amusing is Jerry's pathetic attempts at a comeback, using the same formula. |
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A variation, from The Breakfast Club: |
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Yin Yang Yo!: Yang loses his emotions, and the first one Yin manages to restore is his sarcasm. He immediately appears as a judge on an American Idol expy, and tells a little girl "a sick cat called, it wants its yowl back". |
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MTV's CGI Spider-Man: The New Animated Series has this in "The Party", as Harry is drinking a martini. |
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Nedroid: "Long distance call" has a punchline remarkably similar to the xkcd example, above. (The very next comic, Scandal of the century", hangs a lampshade on the accidental similarity.) |
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A MADtv (1995) sketch during the California gubernatorial recall, with a confrontation between governor Grey Davis and would-be governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: |
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Skin Horse: When Dr Lee protests that you can't have a subway train that's bigger on the inside, one of the Mad Scientist residents replies "Hey, lady! Euclid called! He wants his geometry back!" When Sweetheart fights giant mutant termites, she comes up with the Lame Comeback "Hey, ugly called! It wants its ugly back!" |
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Analyst Bronies React do their video of Legend of Everfree, and upon reaching the Transformation Sequence: |
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In "Freddy Krueger vs Wolverine": |
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The Order of the Stick, "The Test of the Mind": |
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Sinfest: Fantasyland called; they want their king back. The '50s called, they want their hairstyle back. |
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Joueur du Grenier: In the fourth episode of the narrative Let's Play for the Captain Tsubasa game, after yet another physics-defying goal... |
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In a story where he has Wolverine hostage, Deadpool taunts Daken like this ("It was 1986. It wants its hair..."). When he says "back", Daken has already chopped off his hand. |
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The title character of Frazz once took a long bike ride on a chilly day, ending up with only the lower half of his legs windburned. |
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Cat Tales: Hugo Strange appears on the makeover show FAB!, and one of the show's team uses this line: For a variant, there's also the line "Somewhere in Minnesota an encyclopedia salesman is missing his sport coat…" |
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xkcd Confronts this trope with Fridge Logic. And again, the literal version. |
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When the Rickroll became the subject of an episode of React, one Youtuber said "2006 called, they want their punchline back." |
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Subverted in American Dad! when Stan sees Steve wearing a ludicrously oversized shirt: |
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The Nostalgia Critic: A variation occurs in the video where The Nostalgia Critic and The Angry Video Game Nerd review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Making of the Coming Out of Our Shells Tour. In the review for Chicken Little, during the cringe-worthy classroom intro scene, the Critic gets a call... |
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Unwinder's Tall Comics: Jeggly Shaper uses this punchline a lot, much to Unwinder's annoyance. But this time, she winds up meaning it literally: |
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Stuffed: Manticore is informed by Yeti that the latter is currently training Dragon in the art of being a dangerous creature...while Dragon is engaging in a cheerful conversation with a butterfly. |
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Subverted in The Venture Bros. episode "The Invisible Hand of Fate": |
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In Case 5 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, when Apollo and Dhurke get lost in a very deep cave with no apparent way out: |
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Archer: Played with (takes on a new meaning when you consider Archer's Ambiguous Time Period): Upon learning how slow a rigid airship can be: After seeing Cyril's pocket watch: |
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From an episode of The Jerry Springer Show that made it into the ads on at least one channel: |
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The Seinfeld episode "The Comeback" has this joke as a plot point: as George Costanza is stuffing his face with shrimp cocktail at a board meeting, a coworker tells him "Hey, George! The ocean called; they're running out of shrimp." note Even if he weren't eating all that shrimp, the insult still would've worked as a statement regarding George's height. It's not until long after the encounter that George comes up with his own response: "Yeah, well, the jerk store called; they're running out of you!" None of George's friends are impressed with the comeback ("There are no jerk stores!") and give him some other insults of the same nature he could use instead (i.e. "The zoo called; they want you back by 6.") George instead saves his comeback up all episode, flying all the way out to Akron, Ohio where the coworker had since moved, finding out where the guy works, and even going so far as to recreate the original scenario where the first putdown had been used so that he could spring it. He wasn't prepared for a comeback to his comeback. "What's the difference? You're their all-time best seller." A flummoxed George responds by saying he had sex with the other guy's wife (which was Kramer's suggested retaliation), only to find out that his wife is in a coma. After George is back in New York, he thinks of another comeback on the drive home from the airport and turns the car around again. |
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Degrassi: The Next Generation Episode "It's Raining Men": Another good example is the Wild Teen Party episode where Manny asks an increasingly drunken Emma: "Does Mexico know you've taken all of their tequila?" |
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asdfmovie has a variant in its 11th movie. |
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The Office (US), episode "The Merger": |
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In one episode of Will & Grace, Grace arrives at Will's office sporting a long, black leather coat; Will quips, "Terrific. Everybody from The Matrix called. They want their coat back." |
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Teen Titans (2003): In "Revved Up", Ding Dong Daddy taunts Cyborg with "The junkyard called! They want their scrapheap back!". |
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30 Rock. Jack uses this line a lot on Liz. In one episode, the writers discover that recordings of Jack's voice are being used for a Synthetic Voice Actor, which they prove by asking it to say the following line: |
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The Recess episode, "To Finster With Love" ends with T.J. antagonising Ms. Finster by asking if she's wearing her own shoes or if she mugged a clown on the way to school. |
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CollegeHumor takes this literally by having a personification of "The '90s" actually call someone to say they want their outfit back. |
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In Episode 3 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, during Hugh O'Conner's breakdown and "confession" that he used a body double during the mock trial so he could kill Prof. Courte, the entire courtroom believes he's insane and not a genius: |
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Esther from Orphan gets this from a classmate about her old-fashioned, frilly dress. "Oh, look. Little Bo Peep texted me. She wants her outfit back." |
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Oswald on The Drew Carey Show won a wrestling tournament, and the trophy is, well... |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Space Children", Mike's reaction to the title of the short film Century 21 Calling is "Ooh, they want their little gold jacket back." |
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In Spiritfarer, when Anthony gets bored with talking to Stella about Beverly, he says, "The Renaissance called, they want their hat back." |
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Firefly of "Firefly Says" manages to turn this around and burn the one who used it on her: |
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Unskippable about Vincent's cape in Dirge of Cerberus: |
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Subverted in The Good Place when Trevor runs into Michael wearing a fedora and a trenchcoat. |
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In Regular Show, using this phrase will literally send Y back to X. The whole plot of the episode "Prank Callers" was that Mordecai and Rigby, the lead characters, have cell phones from the 1980s. When they get a call that says, "The '80s called, they want their cell phones back!", since the two were holding the phone, they went back to the '80s. This was used at the end of the episode, where the two call their boss and (since they now know it's possible,) send the recliner he's sitting in back to the 1970s. |
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In an episode of Hannah Montana, Miley and Jackson are making fun of each other's messed up hair from an earlier fight they had in the morning which damaged the bathroom. Miley sarcastically encourages Jackson that he is finally tall enough to ride the bumper cars while Jackson uses this trope. |
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A variation occurs in the video where The Nostalgia Critic and The Angry Video Game Nerd review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Making of the Coming Out of Our Shells Tour. |
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Unity (Finmonster) gives us this quip by Link at Balthazar Bratt during the first fight with the Syndicate. |
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From DeceasedCrab's Let's Play video of Rose & Camellia: |
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Joan of Arcadia, episode "No Bad Guy": |
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Saturday Night Live: One skit from the early '90s consisted entirely of idiots doing variations of this joke at each other. Another one featured a parody of The Weakest Link in which Anne Robinson's shtick devolved into nothing but insults. This was basically the catchphrase of David Spade's "Hollywood Minute" segments from a mid-'90s Weekend Update. For example, Spade said of Skeet Ulrich, "Johnny Depp called; he wants his DNA back." |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Rohan, seeing that Josuke is protecting himself from the effects of Rohan's Stand, Heaven's Door, by keeping his eyes shut, decides to press Josuke's Berserk Button to get him to open his eyes. |
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Sometimes used by either Stacey London or Clinton Kelly on What Not to Wear to mock some of the outdated or unusual fashion choices made by the subjects of their show. |
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One Foxtrot story arc had Paige's pink glitter pen accidentally put in the washer, causing it to bleed on Peter's sweatshirt. |
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Spider-Man: In one story, Peter is going undercover at a club for Vampire Vannabes. He dresses in what he thinks is appropriate goth-gear, only for an Edward Cullen lookalike to taunt "The nineties called, they want their vampire back!" "Hitler called, he wants his look back." That was Aunt May from Ultimate Spider-Man. At J. freaking Jonah freaking Jameson. |
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Said to Joe Dirt about his mullet, "1976 called. They want their hair back". |
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In one Zits strip, Connie looks at Jeremy's room and says "The landfill called. It wants its reputation back". |
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In SpongeBob SquarePants, Squidward gets one in when talking to a dour old woman in a frumpy black dress. |
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Epic Rap Battles of History uses this a few times. In Mr. T vs. Mr. Rogers: In "Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg": In "Freddy Krueger vs Wolverine": |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_bc8b07 |
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Also, the first image caption from the top fown for the article for Bulkhead actually reads, "Crumplezone called, he wants his head back." |
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| Transformers: Animated |
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How to Be Indie: In "How to Put Your Best Foot Forward", Indy is wearing her brother's AJ's hand-me-down shirt that is way too back for her. Marlon says "The Western hemisphere called. It wants its shirt back". |
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In the first chapter of Spiders and Magic: Rise of Spider-Mane, Spider-Man is summoned to Equestria to fight a dragon, who happens to talks with a very deep voice. |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_bd520783 |
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Without a Trace: In "Two of Us", a girl disappears on prom night. The last person to see her handed her a glass of alcohol laced punch, and then added more alcohol at her urging. She then downed the whole cup in a single draught, causing him to remark: |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_bf3a0285 |
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Graham Stark on LoadingReadyRun spent $130 just to pull off the joke more effectively. |
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DesuDesBrigade: Professor Otaku does a Let's Play, saying, "Sky walker? Luke called. He wants his name back." |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_c24126ca |
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| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_c2e1c580 |
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Chandler responds to Ross' new leather pants by informing him, "Tom Jones called, he wants his pants back." |
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| Tom Jones (Music) |
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Marvel vs. Capcom 3: If Iron Fist ends up facing Chun-Li, he will say "Daughters of the Dragon called, they want their everything back." |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_c42e88f5 |
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| Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game) |
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The Doctor Who analysis blog TARDIS Eruditorum: A Psychochronography in Blue has a photo caption for K-9 and Company reading "The 1980s called. They said you can keep their bloody title card." |
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The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: "ANNUAL Transmission", 2005 calls and wants his shirt back... and maybe a second chance? |
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Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show This Abridged Series will probably single-handedly turn this into a Dead Horse Trope. "Spoof Movie no Jutsu" |
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| Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show (Web Video) |
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| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_ca377980 |
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From Li'l Gotham, some playful ribbing between Colin and Damian. |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_ca377980 |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The dub provides this line when Rex and Weevil (literally) run into Grimo, the first bad guy of Season 4: And in Season 5, just before Joey's duel against the pink-haired Zigfried: |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_cb6abea3 |
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Criminal Minds, episode "Seven Seconds": |
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The Small Folk invokes the trope in its prelude fiction, thus acknowledging that some of the popular subcultures parodied by the game's "cliques" are a little dated. |
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At the end of Ocean's Eleven: "Ted Nugent called. He wants his shirt back." |
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| Ocean's Eleven |
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The title character of Big Nate engages in this on occasion, as shown with the page image. |
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In League of Legends, Ryze's Season 6 rework adds this line when he taunts an opposing Aurelion Sol: |
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Ponies One Half, chapter twelve: "Sonic called. He wants his theme song back!" It Makes Sense in Context. |
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Kimmy of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt finds a creative way of coming back to this: |
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The Infinite Loops (Mega Man Loops): Variant in the fourth Battle Network chapter, where two of the Admins indulge in this: |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_d861bfb |
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On NCIS: New Orleans, LaSalle finds a picture of Percy in a yellow, feathery bridesmaid dress. |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_db88afd0 |
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| NCIS: New Orleans |
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In The Wotch, after Miranda suddenly disappears when no one's looking at her, Jason remarks, "Batman called; he wants his exit back." |
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In an episode of Happy Endings: Dave has this line, which only he thinks is any good. |
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Ace Attorney: In Case 5 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, when Apollo and Dhurke get lost in a very deep cave with no apparent way out: In Episode 3 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, during Hugh O'Conner's breakdown and "confession" that he used a body double during the mock trial so he could kill Prof. Courte, the entire courtroom believes he's insane and not a genius: |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_e5feb1e |
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In a mock behind-the-scenes episode of Family Guy in which Peter gets fired and David Spade gets brought in to play his replacement, at a script read one of his first lines is, "the decade called, they want their object back". |
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From a special episode of American Idol: |
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Subverted (but to make it funnier) in How I Met Your Mother. Marshall wants to wear some really tacky pants they called "Joey Buttafuoco pants". Ted says, "Bel Biv Devoe called, even they don't want those pants back." |
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Breaking Bad, in "One Minute", after Hank beats up Jesse so badly sending him to the hospital, Jesse's lawyer Saul Goodman mocks the bruises on Jesse's face. |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_f0c816fb |
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The first image caption from the top down on the article for Crumplezone actually reads, "Trap-Jaw called, he wants his head back." |
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| Transformers: Cybertron |
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Frasier: Frasier, to Niles: "Niles, I've got news for you — Copernicus called and you are not the centre of the universe!" Frasier's comment to the teenage daughter of one of his dates in "Can't Buy Me Love". |
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Friends Chandler tries it, but screws it up (a Throw It In, as Matthew Perry actually messed up the line): Chandler responds to Ross' new leather pants by informing him, "Tom Jones called, he wants his pants back." Chandler sees Joey making an umpteen amount of jars full of spaghetti sauce so Chandler asks if Italy called and said they were hungry. |
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| Friends |
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In the review for Chicken Little, during the cringe-worthy classroom intro scene, the Critic gets a call... |
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| Chicken Little |
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| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_fcd184c3 |
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Weapon Hex: Gavrill Kinney/Speed Weasel is a snarky hyperactive child. |
| X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_fcd184c3 |
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Left 4 Dead Comic: Kenny Rogers' balls called. They want their hair back from your face... |
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| Left 4 Dead (Video Game) |
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