'Respect my authoritah!' is Eric Cartman's signature line from South Park, first barked when he briefly became a police officer in the 1998 episode 'Chickenlover.' The French dub turned it into 'Respectez mon autorité,' and the dubbed shout became its own meme across French-speaking TikTok and YouTube edits. Like another shouted catchphrase that became a reaction staple, it thrives because the joke is instantly legible: petty authority, performed with total seriousness. Two decades on, creators still reach for it whenever someone demands respect they have not earned.