Category talk:Episodes about real life pop-culture fads

I'm not too happy with how this category has turned out so far. You see, the problem I have is that it's tough to tell exaaaactly when it's about "a pop culture FAD" and not just about something that's popular. It's hard to explain what I mean. But basically:

Dances With Smurfs, Jared Has Aides, Major Boobage, The China Probrem, The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers, Tsst and Whale Whores aren't actually about their respective franchises as FADS, just as franchises themselves.

So should these be taken off the list?