When you do something a second time and like it better because it can no longer disappoint you the way it did the first time.
1."I just watched Batman V Superman again."
"How was it?"
"Not as terrible as I remember."
"I think you're under the phantom menace effect."

2. "Wow, sex is so much better the second time!"
"Phantom menace effect my friend, phantom menace effect."
by flashwildecard January 8, 2017
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