Upvote for the Haruhi reference cringe or not.
It’s no better or worse than going with the usual Egon quote about collecting fungus, molds, and spores. That’s how nerds find each other, one of them fires off a signal flare, revealing their location and putting themselves in danger, and other misfits sit next to them at lunch so they can all get hazed together.
I never realized that when I was thrown into a locker, it was actually a giant allegory for a ā€˜gathering the group’ montage.
When you put your ego in front of the fourth wall, anything bad that happens can be a lot funnier.