YOUTUBERS REACT TO ELF ON THE SHELF MEME COMPILATION

- "You've heard of Elf on a Shelf.
Now get ready for..."

(slamming table)

You guys are trying to--
you know, it's a trap.

This is a trap.

- You've heard about Elf on a Shelf.

Now here's Lilly on 12 milly.

♪ (dramatic chord) ♪

- (FBE) So today, we are going
to be showing you

a bunch of memes that all stem
from a traditional Christmas tradition

that has gone viral recently.
- Okay.

No clue, whatsoever. (laughing)

- Christmas tradition?
In September?

- I'm Jewish, so I have no idea.

(laughing)

- Elf on the Shelf?

Elf on the Shelf, yeah!

- (FBE) This is the Elf
on the Shelf meme.

- Okay, I've never seen it.

- Oh jeez.
- Oh, yeah.

Oh, I'm all in on this.

- It's got a meme now?
- Yes!

- Elf on a Meme?

- (FBE) So here's a meme
that people say

may have been
the first one to do this.

- "You've heard on Elf on a Shelf,
now get ready for..."

Ash in the trash.

- Ash in the trash?
- Ash in the trash!

Ash in the trash, yes!

So it's things that rhyme?

Turkey on a jerky?

- It's a thing that rhymes
on another thing.

- Is this a thing?

Oh my god, is this something
I'm not gonna understand,

like fidget spinners?

- I've never heard of the saying,
but I think I understand

the idea of rhyming
moderately well, so I'm in.

- (FBE) So this first one
was actually created in 2016,

but wasn't until a few weeks ago
when it started gaining popularity

on Reddit and now it's everywhere,
so we have some more to show you now.

- "You ever heard of Elf on a Shelf?

Nah, man, it's about Shrek on a deck."

(laughing) See, this is gonna be
one of those things

where it's stupid,
but I'm gonna laugh

at every single one of them.

- "Nah, man, it's
about Shrek on the deck."

This is turning me
into a rapper, I think.

- Shrek on the deck.
- Yeah.

- (laughter) Okay, I just laughed.

Something's working here.

- Is this the new meme
that's blowing up?

It's very simple.

I feel like people
are amused so easily now.

- Shrek on a deck! Yes!

I get really excited about this meme.

I don't know why I like it.

- It's just a bunch of rhyming things.

- Mmm, my girl!

"You've heard of Elf on a Shelf,
now get ready for Peach on a beach!"

- "You've heard of Elf on a Shelf,
now get ready for Peach on the Beach."

I want the "Thug Life" sunglasses
to come down over my eyes, like...

♪ La-da-da-da-da ♪

♪ It's the one and only D-O double G ♪

♪ Snoop Dogg ♪

- Should we just be zinging
these out as soon we see the image?

- I can't help it.
- Okay.

As fast as we can get--
we're in a race with each other.

- Solving a riddle.

- Part of of the cleverness
of this meme

is that sometimes it takes
a little thinking to be like,

"What is this and how do I work it
into the context of the meme?"

- "You all know Elf on a Shelf,
but now it's time for Tide on a slide."

Mmmm! All right, all right.

- Tide on the slide.
See, perfect example.

- You beat me to it.
You beat me to that one.

- "Now it's time
for Tide on the slide."

(laughing)

This is like more dad jokes.

- It's cute, but I've
seen better memes, I feel.

My meme standards
are a little higher.

- A little too on the nose.
- They're all on the nose!

- I have never seen so many puns
in a Twitter account than yours.

- I love puns.

- I cannot believe you're
not on board with this meme.

This meme screams you.
- It does.

Maybe I'm just jealous
that I missed out on it.

- "You've heard of Elf on a Shelf,
now get ready for Bane on the plane."

- "You've heard of Elf on the Shelf,
now get ready for Bane on a plane."

- Is that Bane?
Bane on a plane!

I get it.

Oh my god, am I a lame person
that's out of touch?

- I wasn't a Batman fan.

I'm more of a Spider-Man Stan.

- If I saw Bane on a plane,
I'm sorry, you know,

I'm taking the next one.

- That's just a clip from the movie.
- Yeah?

- I like the ones where
they're actually doing the photoshop,

the superimposition.
- I don't know.

I like the simplicity
of just the screenshot.

- That one is amusing.

It does require some thinking.

You need to know
the context of the movie.

That one's a bit tricky.

- And that's what makes it fun.

It's like a little inside joke
in every rhyme.

- "You've seen Elf on a Shelf.
Now get ready for Drake on a steak."

- Drake on a steak.
- (laughing)

- A rare stake.
- That's hilarious.

- I love me some Drake,
and I love me some steak, too.

- Why have I never seen any of these?

Am I asleep?

- It's almost as if this is some
fictional home shopping network,

like, "You're familiar
with the one product.

Now, Drake on a steak!"

- "You've heard of Elf on a Shelf,
now get ready for..."

(slamming table)

You guys are trying to--
you know, it's a trap.

This is a trap.

- "You've heard of Elf on a Shelf,

now get ready for The Rock
on the cock"?

- There's a cock.
Is that what this is?

Is The Rock on a cock?

- Rock on a cock.
Oh yeah!

- Yeah, that's dirty.
- No.

- I wasn't going to say it,
but you said it.

- This one takes a Christmas rhyme
and turns it a little bit dirty

and I'm like, "Oh,
you shouldn't do that."

It's the magic of Christmas!

- "You've heard of Elf on the Shelf,

now get ready for RuPaul
on the U-Haul."

Oh my god, that's the best one.

- RuPaul on a U-Haul. (laughing)

Okay, I 'stand that one.

I 'stand this meme now.

- (crowing)
- I love this one.

"You've heard on Elf on a Shelf,

now get ready for RuPaul
on a U-Haul."

- This is funny.
- This photoshop.

- Yeah.

- If a rapper put all
of these rhymes in a rap song,

I mean, I think it'd
go platinum, you know.

I feel like I'ma steal this,
and I'ma drop a mix tape tonight.

- I enjoy it.

I'm just gonna say some of these
have made me laugh.

Our friend Sean was
just moments ago telling us

how annoying these were,
but, hey, I'm having fun.

- It's stupid.

- Ooh, that's good.

"You've heard of Elf on the Shelf,

now get ready for Ed Sheeran
on Helen Mirren."

You know, actually,
now that I say it out loud,

there's one too
many syllables in there.

- Wait, is that Ed Sheeran
on Helen Mirren?

- (groaning) Okay, too far.
- Wow.

- Too far.
- Wow.

- This is Ed Sheeran on Helen Mirren.
- Oh. Oh!

- Sheeran on Mirren.
- Wow.

- We're getting real cerebral
with these creations at this point.

- The internet is so weird.

I love it.

- "The best 'You heard
of Elf on the Shelf meme yet.'"

Okay.

"Well, get ready
for socks on the floor."

- "Mom, that doesn't even rhyme."

Aww. I like when parents
try and get involved.

- "Socks on the floor"?

(laughing) It doesn't even rhyme.

See, that's good.
I like that.

That's what my mom would do.

- Oh, the moms.
That's my mom, literally.

She would text me that.

- Props to this mom,
who is up with the hippest of memes.

- Yeah, this is a cool mom.
- Well done, her.

- She not only knows the meme,
but she's subverting

the meme to make fun of her kid.

- I feel like this is gonna
blow over pretty quickly.

- I don't know, man.

Stuff like this stays around forever.

- You know what?
I'm taking it back.

I don't think these are stupid.

These are fun.
It's a puzzle.

It's kinda like a riddle
you got to solve.

- That's what I'm saying.
- It's like a mind game.

You could make a whole book of these.

Get rid of the Sudoku
and just replace it

with Elf on a Shelf Challenge.

- Oh, you know that's
already in the works.

- Our audience did
one of me the other day--

- Wait, really?
- And they put it on Twitter.

So it was a picture of my face--
- Yes.

- And then it was a treble clef
symbol underneath it.

- "Steph on a clef!"
- It was Steph on a clef.

- Oh, that's cute!
- It was great.

- (FBE) While some memes
are more abstract

and harder to understand,
Elf on a Shelf memes

are very simple and ask you
to just rhyme two things,

so what do you think
about the simplicity of this meme?

- I think just people are getting
so easily amused.

- I like how everyone can participate
because it's easy,

but I like that memes require
a little bit of wittiness.

This is a little bit too simple
for my liking.

I think we should have
higher meme standards.

- I think it works because, you know,
kids want to watch the memes.

They want to look at the memes
and, you know, you gotta make it

easy for them to figure out.

- The simplicity works
because it's all inclusive.

Anybody can get
on the Elf on a Shelf meme now.

You don't have to be an Einstein
to get in on this one.

- The fact that this one
is so simple is nice.

You can make abstract memes for days,

but actually making a meme
that everyone can participate in

is sort of refreshing, actually,
and I don't have to go

look up where it came from.

I can just be like, "Oh, I know
the original reference for once."

And I can see it rift on,
and the simpler it is,

the more creative people
can also get with it.

- It's more rewarding
when it's more obscure.

For example, Ed Sheeran
on a Helen Mirren,

you know, there's that sense of reward
when you're like,

"Oh, I know who both
of those people are."

And, yeah, that makes you
want to share it

because you're like, "Do you know
the pop culture knowledge that I know?"

- (FBE) Finally...
- Yes?

- (FBE) ...to end this episode...
- Yes?

- (FBE) ...we have two very talented
graphic designers here,

Brynn and Lindsey.
- Yeah?

- (FBE) So to end this episode,
we want you to make

your own Elf on a Shelf meme.
- (laughing)

- Okay.
- Okay.

- I think we should
do MatPat on a fat cat.

- You've heard about Elf on a Shelf.

Now here's Lilly on 12 milly.

- You've heard of Elf on the Shelf.

Now get ready for Mufasa on mi casa.

Something like that.

- Issa on a pizza.

What?
- (FBE laughing)

- Come on!

- You ever heard of Elf on the Shelf?

Well, get ready
for granola bar in the car.

Nailed it. That's what
I ate this morning.

- How about, um, a pimp
on a shrimp cocktail?

- (laughing) Pimp on a shrimp.
- Pimp on a shrimp.

- I like that.

- Mega64 on a snore.

Okay, and it's-- hear me out.

It's a sleeping old man
snoring, mouth open,

and Mega64 is floating
out his nostrils.

- It's kind of symbolic
of our video content,

kind of where that's headed.
- (laughing) Yeah.

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