About
“Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen” is a memorable quote uttered by the character Regina George in the 2004 teen comedy film Mean Girls when discouraging her friend Gretchen from using the slang term “fetch.” The quote inspired the creation of an image macro series using the snowclone template “Stop trying to make X happen / It’s not going to happen.”
Origin
In a scene in Mean Girls, released on April 30th, 2004, the character Regina George (played by Rachel McAdams) scolds her friend Gretchen Wieners from using the term “fetch.”
Gretchen: “That is so fetch!”
Regina: “Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It’s not going to happen!”
On January 27th, 2013, Redditor TrueWarrior submitted an image macro mocking Internet Explorer’s constant attempts to make itself the default web browser using a screen capture of McAdams in Mean Girls (shown below).