It probably seems sorta 'duh'-like to mention this, but it's really hard to outcool someone on that person's terms.  You can't imagine someone being cooler than The Fonze, for example, by trying to mimic him.  It just looks pathetic.  You aren't going to usurp the original, and in the meantime you lose the chance to know who and what you are.  Observers pity you, and not in a good way.