(I Can Break) These Cuffs (2007)

Background

American television show “Cops” follows various police officials as they do their job. The show started 1989 and has yet to be cancelled. Though the show has encountered plenty of characters over it’s run but one character stuck out.

On February 17th, 2007 an episode entitled “Tough Takedowns Special Edition” we meet a black man with dwarfism who had been previously arrested for solicting money. Officer Evan Rosenthal saw him waving down cars and wanted to see if he was back solicting. The man fled and Officer Rosenthal had to chase him. Eventually the man was put in handcuffs and he gave a strange response to being handcuffed.

Y T M N D fad

The line really took off on YTMND. The first site was called I CAN BREAK THESE CUFFS and it was created by user Nitros14 on the 1st of May 2007. Alas, the fad didn’t catch on until mcroix created You can’t break those cuffs in June of the year after the first site. The first parody was you CAN break those cuffs by sghawkeyes.

Notable sites

http://thismanisamidgetifyoudidntknow.ytmnd.com/

http://cuffs.ytmnd.com/

http://icanbreakethisstockade.ytmnd.com/

http://ibrokethesecuffs.ytmnd.com/

http://thesecuffs.ytmnd.com/

http://crustmnd.ytmnd.com/

Or watch many of them one after another here. (Embedding disabled)

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