When a piece of media uses a part of their past (an era, setting, etc) in order to gain more positive reactions from its fan-base through nostalgia and familiarity. This reaction stays until the novelty wears off & the fans gets tired of it.
"Billie Piper is the new Doctor Who!"
"Oh my god, when will they stop bringing back old characters? This is just The Green Hill Effect happening again!"
"Oh my god, when will they stop bringing back old characters? This is just The Green Hill Effect happening again!"
by tha_drug June 3, 2025
Get the The Green Hill Effectmug. Da annoying dual-pitch "Beeeeeee-yuhhhhhhhh!" dat you hear when some dumba** motorist roars past you while engaging in an "extended honk". Okay, okay --- so maybe he's "just trying to be friendly" by saying hello to a familiar face by the roadside (you), but as gas-station attendant Dale says in the Red Green Show episode, "Hurricane Doug", it's far more cheerful/polite and less startling/grating on the eardrums to just briefly "tap the hooter" a couple times as you go by.
And incident of Doppler-effect horn-blowing can be even more annoying and emotionally draining (i.e., it can become a Droppler effect sometimes) if you either (1) do not recognize whoever it was who honked at you, and so you are left to wonder "who that might have been" and/or if he possibly mistook you for someone else while your back was turned, or (2) don't have a clue as to the driver's reason for honking at you, and so you are left to wonder what you might have been doing that caused him to either notice or be upset with you. Plus of course if there are one or more other people in your immediate vicinity at the time, you may even be unsure if said extended honk was actually "untended for you", or if the driver was noisily "addressing" someone else nearby --- or all of you in general --- instead of you personally.
by QuacksO July 20, 2019
Get the Doppler-effect horn-blowingmug. Apparently not as effective as I am at getting your cohorts to see reason and abandon you. Bwahahahahaha!
by Hym Iam March 11, 2023
Get the Effectivemug. When someone hypes something up so much that when you actually experience it, it doesn’t meet up to your expectations.
Seylah was telling me that the movie she saw was the best movie she ever watched in her entire life but when I watched it I got the sushi effect.
by 5164! July 23, 2022
Get the Sushi effectmug. Adam Osbourne, founder of Osborne Computers which made the first successful portable computer, made announcements about new computers that were still in the prototype stage. So people stopped buying their existing product, Osborne Computing failed by 1985, and they became a footnote in computer history. This blunder is how the "Osborne effect" got its name.
After announcing their next-gen gaming console too early, the company experienced the Osborne effect, as sales of their current model plummeted and fans lost interest.
by Emotional Cruiser November 5, 2025
Get the Osborne effectmug. Receiving a ball and chain gag during a bachelor party in embarrassing fashion and puking from the pressure.
The reality of getting married finally hit him so hard during his bachelor party it caused The Wifey Effect.
by imthejoe April 10, 2011
Get the The Wifey Effectmug. 