Welcome to Eltingville Trivia-Off / Okay Fatass

About

Welcome to Eltingville Trivia-Off, also known as Okay Fatass or Two Geeks Trivia Battle, is a series of phrasal template memes using an image of two geeky characters from the Adult Swim pilot Welcome to Eltingville, Bill Dickey and Josh Levy, having a "trivia-off" by rapid-fire asking each other trivia questions. The meme involves writing dialogue for each character in the way of trivia questions about niche, nerdy topics. It was popularized on X, formerly Twitter, in early September 2023.

Origin

On March 3rd, 2002, Adult Swim aired a pilot for the animated series Welcome to Eltingville, an adaptation of Evan Dorkin's comic Eltingville. The show was not picked up for a full-season order. In the pilot episode, the characters Bill Dickey and Josh Levy get into a trivia battle at a comic book store over a rare Boba Fett action figure (shown below).^[1]

On September 3rd, 2023, X^[7] user @NoReferences posted the clip of the trivia-off, garnering over 20,000 likes in five days. On September 6th, X^[2] user @BeatGh0st posted a screenshot of the trivia battle scene from the pilot along with a caption representing back-and-forth dialogue between the two, as if having a trivia battle, about who created the manga series The Rapeman and what pronouns Christine Weston Chandler goes by, garnering over 100 likes in two days (shown below). This is the earliest known version of the meme.

Spread

The meme spread across X over the course of September 2023, inspiring several notable examples. On September 6th, 2023, X^[3] user @spumdonor posted a version featuring Ren & Stimpy trivia questions, garnering over 350 likes in two days. On the same day, X^[4] user @reitard4 posted a version featuring Skibidi Toilet trivia questions, garnering over 15,000 likes in the same span of time (shown below).

On September 7th, X^[5] user @EXE_Criticism posted a version of the meme featuring Sonic.exe trivia questions, garnering over 8,000 likes in a day (shown below, left). On the same day, X^[6] user @viperwave posted a version of the meme featuring Chris-Chan trivia questions, garnering over 61,000 likes and 5,200 reposts in the same span of time (shown below, right).

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