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Actually I'd argue against the meme point. That scene was clearly a homage to the CSI YEAHHHHH thing, but it only felt like a reference. It wasn't forced, and it was played in such a way that it was funny in it's own right.

Meanwhile, Omniverse used the 'can i haz cheezburger' meme at least twice. And that aged those episode to all hell. At least the CSI YEAAAHHHH thing can still be funny if done right, which I feel like it was here. Between the audio gags, the fact that this is Ben trying to make himself seem as bad-ass as possible (it is his cut-away daydream after all), and the fact he keeps using plastic glasses, then giving us three reasons why those don't work:
 * they melt on Heatblast
 * Wildvine is a cyclops
 * Four Arms has four eyes

Honestly, even if this show focuses on a more comedic tone it has proven to me that it is self aware enough to pull it off. This reboot fully understands, if nothing else, the anatomy of the aliens and gives us plenty of gags based around them. In the bank scene Heatblast burns more money in the background just by being near it than he saves from the robbers.

In fact writing that sentence made me realise Ben was nothing but a detriment in that scene. Which I think works pretty well as a joke given that they were trying to make a super hero movie at the time.