I Love Your Accent, Say It Again
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I Love Your Accent, Say It Again is a quote from Dexter's Laboratory in which the protagonist accidentally forces himself to only say "Omelette du Fromage" in a French accent. A girl character says "I Love Your Accent, Say It Again," to which he replies "Omelette du Fromage." In 2018, Black Twitter users began parodying the moment by changing Dexter's line to various black slang.
Origin
The moment comes from season one, episode nine of Dexter's Laboratory, "The Big Cheese," which aired December 4th, 1996.[1]
Spread
The scene began seeing parodies on Twitter in September of 2018. One of the earliest tweets was by user @Cooli_MF, gaining over 250 retweets and 530 likes (shown below, left). On October 31st, 2018, Twitter user @DJMays5 posted a variation that gained over 330 retweets and 700 likes (shown below, right).
On November 7th, BET[2] covered the meme, focusing particularly on examples which had "hood" slang. For example, user @crvzyash2 tweeted an example that gained over 510 retweets and 1,000 likes (shown below, left). User @PrhymeVIP tweeted an example that gained over 190 retweets and 360 likes (shown below, right).
Various Examples
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Nov 09, 2018 at 12:15PM EST