Next thing I know, I’m gettin’ dropped of in a Le Car with a fabric sunroof. In warning Jerry of the dangers of car dealerships, George recounts how his father was "duped" into buying a Le Car: In 1998, Le Car was referenced in an episode of Seinfeld titled The Dealership. An early example of the use of le in the English language was the marketing of the French-made Renault 5 as "Le Car" in North America. Le is the most commonly-used word in the French language and as such, it is commonly associated with French by non-francophones. Tracing the origin of its use in Rage Comics is difficult, but it likely originated with one of the two following comics posted on Reddit sometime in 2009.
The first Urban Dictionary entry detailing the humorous usage of le was uploaded by user ricemond on Dec 4th, 2003. Narrator: Then France is like "shit guys, the missiles are coming, fire our shit!īut I am le tired… Well. Search query volume for "troll science" and "troll physics" began rising in September of 2010, the same month the first comics were submitted to Reddit and 4chan.One of the earliest known notable parody of le can be found in Jason Windsor's flash animation video Ze End of the World posted to Albino Blacksheep on October 30th, 2003. The meme has continued to spread on Memebase and Tumblr under the tag "troll science." As of July 2nd, 2012, a Facebook page for "Troll Science" has accumulated over 27,000 likes.
On January 30th, 2012, the app "Troll Science" was uploaded to the iTunes store, including 90 troll comics for viewing on a mobile device. On December 27th, the tech news blog Geekosystem published a post titled "21 Vital Lessons in Troll Science", featuring a slideshow of notable examples of the comics. Here's His Reaction", in which the New School natural science professor David Morgan explained the fallacies inherent in several troll science comics. On October 25th, the Internet culture blog Urlesque published an article by Will Zweigart titled "We Showed 'Troll Physics' Comics to a Physics Professor. October 17th, YouTuber Cidwel uploaded a video titled "Troll Physics Explained – Today: Infinite Car Power!", showing footage of a functioning magnet car in the Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts. The same day, a thread featuring several troll physics comics was started on the BodyBuilding Forums by member Vorian. The next day, another Tumblr blog was created titled "Fuck Yeah Troll Science." On October 3rd, a thread titled "Troll Physics" was posted on the Newgrounds Forums, where its members were encouraged to create their own versions. On October 1st, the "Troll Physics" blog was created on the microblogging site Tumblr. On September 30th, the website Troll Science was launched, which served as a database for troll science images. Prior to being archived, the thread accumulated over 313 responses, many of which containing additional troll science comics. The earliest known Troll Science thread on 4chan was posted to the /b/ (random) board on September 29th, which began with the picture of the magnetically propelled automobile. On September 13th, 2010, Redditor zarbob submitted a post to the f7u12 subreddit titled "Troll physics again, the magnet helmet", which featured a drawing of a trollface soldier wearing a helmet with a magnet on it, implying that the magnetism would attract any bullets away from the wearer’s body (shown below). The post received only 44 up votes and 4 comments prior to being archived.
The comic featured a drawing of a self-propelled truck powered by two horseshoe magnets facing each other, which would be theoretically impossible based on their placement. While troll science is rumored to have started on 4chan, the earliest known example was submitted to the f7u12 rage comic subreddit in a post titled "Troll Physics" on September 13th, 2010.
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