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The Nightcap: 25 Late Night Memes for an October That Forgot to Get Cold

Roy R. Oct 10, 2026 09:00 PM EDT

It is the middle of October and I am still sleeping with a fan on, which feels like a lie I’m telling the calendar. Every year I pull out the good hoodie early, and every year I end up sweating through it at a pumpkin patch. The Nightcap is a fresh round of late night memes every evening, and Thursday’s Nightcap is still up if you need a warmup. Here’s tonight’s.

Man guiding an elderly man with a walker who insists October used to be cold — He's right and I'm sweating.
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Facebook post about stuttering three times at a drive thru and driving away hungry — Save

Huge yellow wooden fish leaning on a bedroom wall, with a plea to make it less scary — The fish stays. The fish has rights.
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Ryan Gosling grinning while wake surfing, captioned about finally getting eight hours of sleep — Save

Reddit post of a city builder game where traffic ignores a curvy fun bridge — Save

Monkey floating underwater, captioned as being too shy to ask for help, late night memes — Me at every group project.
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Harry Potter feast compared with a sad small breakfast plate, captioned as inflation — Save

Egg with a tiny human face tucked into a bed after sending a risky text — Read at 11:42.
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Feet in split toe tabi boots on a red floor captioned about the lord being my shepherd — Save

Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes asking why would I deceive you, about side mirrors — Save

Woman embracing a humanoid robot, captioned as celebrating passing the semester with a chatbot — Save

Facebook group post about trying an unusual home remedy with swim goggles — Save

Tweet joking that a regular guy cannot handle attending a renaissance faire — Save

Tweet joking that being bald on Easter makes you look like one of the eggs — Save

Amazon package left beside a headstone, captioned as an order that arrived too late — Save

Edgy collage of men, a wolf, flames, and a dinosaur over gothic lettering — Save

Group chat where someone keeps arguing about pizza after a friend reports a car crash — Save

Tattoo of a realistic dog face on a cartoon dog body next to a sketch — Save

Humidifier shaped like a nuclear power plant model releasing mist on a table — Save

Smiling boy feeding slices of bologna into a DVD player at home — This was me with a VCR in 1996.
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Nathan Fielder leaning in intensely, captioned as a DMV employee demanding old paperwork — Save

Pixelated retro game nightclub storefront captioned as the first club I ever went to — Save

Armored knight raising a fist and sword, captioned it is what it is til it aint — Save

Loki laughing and denying he knows someone, about a phone ignoring wet fingers, late night memes — Every single time I'm cooking.
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Barn sign warning not to let the horse see the bucket, with his wide eyed photo — He will scream. Respect it.
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Late night memes for a warm October Saturday

My plan is to stay up too late scrolling and then act shocked when I’m tired tomorrow. If you’re doing the same, grab some fall memes for a season that still hasn’t fully shown up, or save the can’t sleep memes for when it’s 2am and you’re still here. The Morning Commute brings more memes of the day first thing tomorrow, and the Nightcap is back tomorrow night. If something in here got you, send it to the friend who keeps swearing they’re going to bed soon.

Giant yellow wooden fish with a wide staring eye propped against a bedroom wall, a fittingly odd pick for late night memes

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Posted by Roy R. About the author

Roy has been one of the internet's meme tastemakers for more than a decade. He and Phil started Thunder Dungeon in 2012 by posting the stuff they found funny, and it grew into viral photo and video creations, one of the largest meme community apps and one of the best sites for daily meme content. If you've spent any time online, you've probably laughed at one of his memes.