Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Second Life

As time goes by, you’ll notice that the media from your younger days seems to distort in a strange, self-referential way, much like Grandpa Simpson’s classic “It’ll happen to you!” meme fits here. This iconic meme, spawned from a show now largely recognized by the younger generation as an endless source of memes, originated from a scene that originally targeted Gen-Xers with nostalgia for the 1970s. The character in question was lamenting about being cool in the ’50s, but the real humor actually intended was a nod to the ’40s nostalgia.






