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About
Milhouse is a character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. In the series he is Bart Simpson’s best friend. He has a crush on Lisa Simpson, although his advances are always rebuffed. He is often the butt of physical and slapstick humor.
Milhouse is not a meme
Milhouse is not a meme is a paradoxical statement and a well-known debate on the imageboard site 4chan about what makes an internet meme and what doesn’t, using The Simpsons character Milhouse Van Houten as an example. Since the birth of the debate on 4chan in 2005, the phrase has been typically used to initiate a chain post of recursive nature. Due to its recurrence over time, “Milhouse is not a meme” is often referred to as a forced meme.
“Everything’s coming up Milhouse”
“Everything’s coming up Milhouse” is a phrase uttered by Milhouse Season 10, Episode 19. It is described by the Urban Dictionary as being synonymous with “Everything’s going well for me”.
There is a level of sardonicism involved with the phrase; assumably because it is associated with one of the unlucky characters in television. When used, the phrase is often used regarding something completely unremarkable (Eg. “Went from a 25% to a 28% in the class I’m failing, everything’s coming up Milhouse”) as evidenced by the Buzzfeed collection of tweets 29 Times Everything Was Coming Up Milhouse. The implication being that the subject is so unlucky the rest of the time even minor positive things are paraded as big accomplishments.