“Alerte au gogole” meme: meaning, origin and epic card

What does the “Alerte au gogole” meme mean?

The line works like a fake siren: it is announced with exaggerated urgency to flag, in a parody tone, that something foolish has just been said or done. The humour comes from the gap between the emergency tone and the trivial cause. The word “gogole” is an old French slur against people with intellectual disabilities and is now considered hurtful, so the phrase is mostly quoted as a nod to the show rather than as a verdict on anyone.

Where does the “Alerte au gogole” meme come from?

The line comes from the French-language version of South Park. Widely shared clips on YouTube tie it to episode 12 of season 10, titled “Go God Go” in English, which first aired in the United States on 1 November 2006 on Comedy Central. That episode opens a two-part story that ends with “Go God Go XII”. In French, the scene was clipped, captioned and passed around under the title “Alerte au gogole”, then reused in sound edits and comedy videos.

1. 1 November 2006The South Park episode “Go God Go” airs for the first time on Comedy Central.

How to use the “Alerte au gogole” meme

• Quote the line dramatically to call out a blunder among friends.
• Post the clip in reply to an absurd message.
• Drop the phrase under a video where everything goes wrong.
• Use the alarm in a parody sound edit.

The “Alerte au gogole” card in MyMemeCards

Number	No. 1351
Rarity	Epic
Collection	Memes FR pack
Fame	50/100 · #753 of 3512
Recycle value	20 MemeCoins (60 in Shiny)
Suggested by	@madimaxx

How to get the “Alerte au gogole” card

Every pack holds 5 meme cards, the first 3 of them Common; Alerte au gogole comes out of the Memes FR pack as an epic card. The pack odds say what each rarity weighs.

Your first pack is free and needs no account. After that a new free pack lands every 10 minutes, up to 3 waiting for you. You can also buy the card with MemeCoins on the market, bid for it at auction, or trade it — and a double recycles into 20 MemeCoins.

The reprint of the “Alerte au gogole” card

The “Alerte au gogole” card was reprinted as Legendary (No. 3,513). A reprint is the same meme printed again, with a number of its own and a higher rarity than its first printing, which was epic. Its face reads “Reprinted card · Higher rarity”.

Every printing is dealt in the packs of the Memes FR pack, each at its own rarity: the higher it is, the rarer the card is to pull. Copies of the first printing already pulled stay as they are, and any printing counts toward completing a set.

MyMemeCards reprints a meme when it deserves more than the rarity of its first printing, such as a classic that became iconic after it came out: the reprint gives it a place among the most sought-after cards without taking anything from the players who already had it.

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