Talk:Patch (episode)

Why did my "real life reference" get deleted? The phrase "awkward..." is used in other pop-culture movies! I believe it was first said in the movie Hoodwinked. (Not the word itself, but using it as a funny phrase by itself.) People walk around saying it all the time. Enough I think to include it. - SoundWave 00:16, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

*facepalm* It's a friggin real word that is used often enough in modern day events. IT DOESN'T GO INTO THE REAL WORD REFERENCES. And as a matter of fact, awkward wasn't first used in Hoodwinked. Escargon 00:24, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

I'm not talking about the word itself, I'm talking about the way people say it in that funny voice. I know the word has been used many times before, but some movie or something in the last few years had obviously made it into a popular thing to say when something awkward or embarrassing happens. (Like if someone falls over, someone else says "awk-ward...", and everyone laughs because they just said a pop culture "meme".) If an episode of Transformers said "Live long and prosper" I'm sure we would reference that even though those are all existing words. This seems like a popular enough catch phrase to reference. - SoundWave 00:39, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

No, live long and prosper is a specific enough reference. Saying it like that is not a specifc pop culture reference. Escargon 00:43, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

Read the 5th and 7th description on this article: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=awkward

And read this yahoo answers that was posted 2 years ago: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111226105333AAhwFAq and how about this: http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/833855.html No one seems to be able to figure out where it started, but it's obviously a very "pop culture" phrase. i just gave you 3 pices of evidence that its not just me. The show's writers probably put that in there because it is a popular phrase.

1. Sign your posts.

2. It's a popular phrase. IT'S NOT A REFERENCE.

3. Please refrain from putting it in the RWR section again. Escargon 01:00, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

1. I signed my posts all times except the last time. (I forgot.)

2. Leave it in there if you want, I only thought it would make the article better, and more entertaining. (After all Transformers is supposed to be FUN!)

3. I only put it in the RWR section once. (Quit acting like I vandalized the entire article.)

(Ps, I request this wiki makes a "courtesy" article.) - SoundWave 01:11, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

It doesn't make the article better. It doesn't make it more fun. And we aren't making a courtesy article. Escargon 01:14, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

I didn't mean the "courtesy article" joke literally, if you had explained nicely or neutrally like Sabrblade did, your reason might have made more sense. I'm getting tired of you being rude to me for some reason everytime I edit something on this wiki, you dont own it so quit acting like it. Maybe you could take into consideration what other users want, or nicely explain why thier wrong. - SoundWave 02:13, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

The fact that the word is "used in many other pop-culture movies and shows in this context" (as you wrote) is what makes it not a reference. A reference pertains to something specific. But since you yourself noted how ubiquitous the phrase is, it can't refer to any one thing in particular, thus negating it being a reference to anything. A reference to nothing is not a reference. --Sabrblade 01:18, 19 October 2013 (EDT)

Well, okay, thanks for at least answering something that made sense. - SoundWave 02:13, 19 October 2013 (EDT)