Main character of the 2023indie game Pizza Tower. Peppino Spaghetti is an Italian chef and presumed war veteran running a failing pizzeria and capable of beating the absolute shit out of anybody with his cartoonish, superhuman abilities fuelled by his anxiety and rage.
"Dude, my friend just told me they're $950 in debt and a giant floating pizza with a face told them that they have 24 hours before the pizza drrrropllllets hit their fucking house, they're just like Peppino I wish I was them"
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!