when someone says something really stupid or obvious that ruins a good joke, everyone but the person who killed the joke goes to sleep. this makes the person who made the killing comment realize that they are an idiot and that they should leave the country.
(someone just got teabagged in march madness '06, this happens when someone tries to defend a dunk under the basket)
kid 1 - hahahaha march madness 06 is so funny cuz on half of the dunks, someone gets balls in their face
kid 2 - hahahahahaha yeah i know! like half the defenders get teabagged when they try to play defense on a dunk!
An idea that seems great must pass a good night's sleep to be truly great.
Marijn called Joris with a supposedly good idea, just before the nightset, so they could perform the sleep-on-it test. Turns out: next morning it seemed AWESOME. To the moon!
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!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.