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Think back to when you were 17, when you were cynical kid who was already starting to get discerning about what was funny and what was unfunny. Think of what the ~3yro fad comedy character was at the time, and then think of the guy who was still "doing" the character. He did the character 3 years ago along with other people quoting it while it was fresh in everybody's mind, then after break he was the still doing it for that whole grade, and then the next grade after that he was still doing it.
Now was that guy the funny guy or was he the guy who was desperately trying to be funny.
I don't know how old you are, but stuff really did move a lot slower pre social media. People watched a lot more syndicated TV and stuff, and things were a lot more localized. If your local affiliate aired a 1993 episode of The Simpsons in 1997, for example, it wouldn't be unusual for everyone to be quoting it the next day at school. There was also a semi-popular Ace Ventura animated series a few years after the movies if I recall correctly. I'm not saying Dick isn't an attention whore for dressing up in the first place, just that pop-culture moved at a glacial pace up until the late 2000s.
*Edit* I still remember for example, people re-watching The Water Boy and Happy Gilmore and quoting them in 2001 when I was 17. I remember someone trying to do the Happy Gilmore drive and breaking a golf club on a gym field trip to a golf course around 2001ish and everyone thought it was the funniest shit ever.
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