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25 Classic Memes for the Drive Home That Somehow Got Longer

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Four o’clock is when the roads fill up with people who all decided to leave early, which means nobody did. Traffic jokes are some of the oldest material online, and they still land because the merge lane has not improved since 2009. This daily dig through classic memes picks up where yesterday’s batch of throwbacks left off, road rage and office pettiness included. Settle in before the drive home.

Blurred speedometer at zero, joking about waiting faster when someone honks in stuck traffic.

Ah yes, the turbo button.

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Young Ron Weasley's tight smile in one of the classic memes about barely knowing someone.
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Six kittens clinging to a plaid couch back after someone yells the floor is lava.

Every one of them committed to the bit.

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Tweet claiming Chicago has the best pizza, shown as a deep baking dish of lasagna.
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Classic memes edit of one man punching another, labeled Jack and the road.
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Tweet about leaving Help Yourself sticky notes on coworkers' food after quitting a toxic job.

Chaos, but polite.

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Close-up side-eye face reacting to a $5.99 shipping fee after a $200 online order.
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MoonPie replying Ok baby to a fiber complaint from a baby, a classic memes standby.
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Old red brick building with a caption admiring brick towns for having some history.
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Lord of the Rings orc actor holding a screaming young fan during a set visit.

Best and worst day of his life, simultaneously.

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Tech headline warning about hackable robot companions, answered with a two for one sale joke.
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Classic memes tweet admitting no medical receptionist has ever seemed to want them alive.
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Dentist lamp shaped like a water buffalo face, plus a reply about creatures inside.

I will never look up at the dentist again.

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Edited man with huge ears looking up, captioned about an upstairs neighbor dropping something small.
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Two photos of sneakers tossed from a balcony, in classic memes about a calm breakup.
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Woman in pearls with a dramatic caption about forgetting to encase the ham in jello.
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Tweet asking why boiling oil during a siege is always a one-time move.

This guy has a siege plan and no retirement plan.

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Post about cancelling an Uber after seeing the driver's gruff profile and photo.
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Classic memes answer to what you bring to a relationship: an old TV warning list.

My dating profile, word for word.

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Tweet joking that cavemen sounded like burned-out club kids after inventing the spear.
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Dad's silhouette in a doorway beside Lego Indiana Jones on TV, called peak 2008 recession.

The 2008 recession had excellent lighting.

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Classic memes subtitle gag: something in Chinese, I don't know what, I'm just the editor.
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Tabby cat napping inside an accordion file folder, called an important document on Tumblr.

Filed under important, obviously.

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Wide-eyed man awake in bed, classic memes reaction to we need to talk tomorrow.
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Waving clown in an antique car, captioned as switching into a lane that merges back.

Waving like he gained something.

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I would love to say I am above the honk-and-wait move, but I did it at a green light last week and the car in front of me was parked. The kittens dodging lava and the cat filed under important documents are the kind of old memes I would rescue from a fire before my tax returns. The dentist buffalo, meanwhile, has watched me lie about flossing for fifteen years and never once blinked. Some of the best memes never age, because the joke was never about the year.

Tomorrow afternoon brings another round of vintage memes and viral tweets, right around the time Friday starts pretending it is the weekend and the parking lot empties out by three. Until then, yesterday’s meme dump is still parked where you left it, and Sunday’s classic memes are built for a slow evening on the couch. If one of these took you back, pass it along with the share buttons below to the friend who sent it to you first, probably in 2014.

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Send it to the friend who’ll laugh the hardest, or post it for everyone.

Posted by Phil M. About the author

Phil co-founded Thunder Dungeon with Roy in 2012 and has been a meme tastemaker ever since, helping turn a page of funny finds into viral photo and video creations, one of the largest meme community apps and a daily home for memes. He's more than memes, too: Phil is an award-winning comedic actor and director whose feature films are on streaming platforms.

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