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Mean Girls - Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen

Cady HeronCited 3× on HN, 2017–2022
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comedy · general · evergreen · 2017–2022 on HN

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

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

3 comments from Hacker News

@btown2022-10 · in “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.

@vosper2020-08 · in “P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free”

"a8c" is Automattic (makers of Wordpress) for anyone who was confused. Obligatory "Mean Girls" ;) ▶ this video

@Balgair2017-08 · in “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