Jody

Playing NHL online has always been a notoriously laggy experience, but sometimes a game would be running well until the Good Dudes started to gain the upper hand, then it would lag like crazy. The Good Dudes saw this pattern and it was postulated that the user we were playing was lag switching (a process which involves quickly resetting or disconnecting and reconnecting the router, modem, or internet connection to hammer the servers with lag). This running-well-then-lag-out-of-nowhere pattern seemed to happen like clockwork when the Good Dudes had control of the puck. The Good Dudes were baffled; how could the opponent be playing the game and lag switching at the same time?

In typical Good Dude fashion, the imaginations ran wild thinking of what exactly was going on at the other player's house. It was decided that the player had his little brother, Joey, sitting by the router ready to pull the plug on the router whenever his older brother screamed at him. Someone misheard the name Joey as Jody, and began using the latter name in imaginative dialogue involving the two brothers. "NOW, JODY! NOW!!!" the older would brother would yell, and Joey/Jody would start mashing on the router reset button.

It is unknown whether the Good Dudes won that initial match against Jody's brother or not, but the meme endures to this day. Whenever unexpected lag or lag in general strikes a Good Dude in online gaming, Jody is to blame, prompting the lamentations, "Oh god, Jody!", or simply, "Jody!!!"