While there are many things that bother me about the internet, there is one common occurrence that drives me especially nuts. That common occurrence would be misinformation. While I could go into the more serious aspects of this tremendous problem, I'm going to focus on misinformation presented through quotes. Specifically, putting quotes on pictures of characters from a TV show/movie who did not say the lines presented. Not only is this deceitful, its just plain annoying.
This may not seem like much of a big deal, but it causes confusion, and through this confusion, other people will relay this false information and eventually someone will be extremely embarrassed because they are so, so wrong.
For an example of this annoyance, I have one that I see very often on Pinterest:
This scene depicts the lovely Julie Andrews in "Mary Poppins" giving Mr. Banks some awesome sass. It's just too bad that this scene NEVER HAPPENED. Honestly, if I saw this once, I wouldn't be nearly as bothered by it, however, I see it all the time. Occasionally it's just the picture by itself, however, most times it is accompanied by comments of how this is such a great scene from the movie or a comment on Tumblr about how she "silenced every white straight boy jokes about women." Great in concept, however, this interaction was not between Mary Poppins and Mr. Banks.
Here's the real scene:
This is a scene from the "Doctor Who" episode "The Idiot's Lantern." Our amazing tenth Doctor played by the equally amazing David Tennant had this interaction with the character of Mr. Connolly, definitely putting him his place. This scene spoke of the negativity of stereotypical gender roles and, as it is such a relevant and important message of equality between genders, especially displayed through something as simple as housework, I would hate for it to continually be accredited to the wrong source.
Another occurrence of quotes from one show appearing on a different show is this:
This shows the characters of Sam and Dean Winchester from "Supernatural" having a conversation that is actually very likely to happen between them, however this quote is stolen from another show. This meme is one that I do not see nearly as often as the Mary Poppins one, but it still pops up on Pinterest every now and then. I will admit, that I did believe it happened because Dean did make a similar comment to Sam dissing his exercising, but alas as I mentioned above, this is fake.
Here's the real scene from "Parks and Recreation":
In this scene, Anne Perkins is complaining to Chris Traeger about exercising. This is one of the best things that Anne ever said and I hate for it to be accredited to anyone else.
Whoever made these images attributing quotes to the wrong sources very likely did not do it to purposely present misinformation. They most likely created them to be funny or showcase a scene that fans would love to have happened. However, there is a type of meme with wrongly accredited quotes going around known as a "troll quote," like the one featured below:
This one features a "Star Wars" quote accredited to Albus Dumbledore ("Harry Potter") featuring a picture of Patrick Stewart who played both Dr. X in the "X-Men" franchise and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Quite the annoyance, I would say, to anyone that just loves any of the above mentioned films/television shows. Which, of course, was the point of this meme and the many others like it.
Alright, my rant and explanation is coming to a close. I hope to have informed and enlightened readers about the problems of falsely accredited quotes. So, my message is basically don't believe everything you see on the internet, even if it has pictures to back it up.