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Mean Girls - Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen

Cady Heron
Comedy
YouTube
Cited on HN 3 times, 2017–2022, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN uses it purely as a joke reference when something is being forced or a pun on 'fetch' fits.

The 'Stop trying to make fetch happen' scene clip from the film Mean Girls.

3 jokes · Comedy

3 Hacker News comments

From the HN archive; up to 20 kept per video, favoring different commenters. Recommendations first.

@Balgair Aug 2017 Makes a joke
on HN thread Hacking Voting Machines at Defcon
I dunno. The constant barrage of: "BlockChains, but for Cancer!" just seems ... derivative now. Like the 'Uber, but for dogs' was this time last year. Everyone knows these hacker-coins are a scam, the last one with them looses their shirt. Yeah, the ideas are kinda cool, but, nah man. Like, from Mean Girls : "Gretchen, stop trying to make 'Fetch' happen, it's not gonna happen" [this video]
@btown Oct 2022 Makes a joke
on HN thread Raft Is So Fetch: The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through Mean Girls
But the entire premise of the scene [this video] is that the act of telling someone to "stop trying to make fetch happen" is toxic and mean-spirited, and if someone actually does want to make "fetch" happen, they should be encouraged to do so. And if your "fetch" is the normalization of Mean Girls as a valid lede for didactic technical discourse, then you go Glen Coco.

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