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YouTube Performance Memes toc Students in section 102 of ENGL 2720 -- Introduction to Literature; Drama -- were asked for Friday, September 3 to post examples of common or well-known YouTube performance memes. Below, for each example, you'll find both the original video and at least one later re-enactment of it.

=Charlie Bit Me= Ryan Jerving

AMATEUR SOURCE / COMIC RE-ENACTMENT

Original: //Charlie Bit My Finger - Again !//

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Re-enactment: //Charlie bit me 50yrs later//

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Re-enactment: //Charlie bit me Chinese twin girl version// Submitted by Yisha Chen; Ryan Gaulke

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=I Like Turtles= Yisha Chen & Ryan Gaulke

AMATEUR SOURCE / COMIC RE-ENACTMENT

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Re-enactment: //I Like Turtles// media type="youtube" key="ViTlAHhwrbI?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

=Star Wars Kid=

Re-enactment Posted by Greg Meyer et. al.

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=Sweet Child O' Mine= (Who submitted this?)

PROFESSIONAL SOURCE / INTENTIONALLY COMIC SOURCE

Original source: from the movie //Step Brothers//

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Re-enactment / lip sync

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=Charlie the Unicorn=

SEMI-PROFESSIONAL COMIC SOURCE / AMATEUR SINCERE RE-ENACTMENT

Original: //Charlie the Unicorn//

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Re-enactment: //Charlie the Unicorn Reenactment//

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=A Whole New World= (Who submitted this?)

PROFESSIONAL SOURCE / NON-COMIC RE-ENACTMENT

Original: from //Aladdin//:

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Nick Pitera singing A Whole New World.

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=Blood!= Mark Hampton, Sara Emanuele, and Colin O'Meara

AMATEUR SOURCE / COMIC (NON-PERFORMED) REMIX

Original (duplicate): //Blood, It's Not Funny//

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Remix: //Blood Kid "Remix"//

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=Best Cry Ever= Sean Moll

PROFESSIONAL (REALITY) SOURCE / COMIC RE-MIX

Original

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Remix

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=Bed Intruder= (Who submitted this?)

PROFESSIONAL & SERIOUS SOURCE / COMIC REMIX / SERIO-COMIC REMAKE OF COMIC REMIX

Original: //Woman wakes up to find intruder in her bed//

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Remix: //Auto-tuned News: Bed Intruder Song!!!// (see halfway through for acoustic piano version)

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=Afro-Ninja= Kevin Raasch, Katie Hishmeh, Maggie Sugrue

AMATEUR SOURCE / REMIX

Original

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Re-mix

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