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25 Classic Memes From the Era When Your Furby Talked at Night

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Every 90s kid had one toy that came alive at night, and for a lot of us it was a Furby talking to itself in a dark bedroom. I still sleep facing the door because of that. Yesterday’s trip through the old gadgets warmed things up, and this daily dig through classic memes is pure late afternoon comfort food. Batteries removed for safety.

Plate of golden mozzarella sticks with marinara, about suddenly being good at math

Suddenly I'm a math teacher.

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Classic memes tweet imagining restaurant owners deciding to ask if you've been here before
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Frodo saying keep your secrets when an American friend gives the temperature in Fahrenheit
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Tiger striped Furby staring out a window after hearing a recording of your voice

Furby has been staring like this since 1999.

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Classic memes tweet saying companies pretend working only for money is somehow unethical
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Stick figure Sauron poking a dwarf lord ring and saying c'mon, do something
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Tweet about recreating a dream poster of a golden retriever reading a book called Bones

Dream come true, low budget edition.

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Classic memes post of Simpsons Chief Wiggum in a gator costume labeled the Argonian Maid
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Two cats sheltering together under an abandoned umbrella on wet grass in the rain

Two cats, one umbrella, zero complaints.

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Classic memes before and after crypto: veiny hand driving a truck, then a city bus
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Tweet about medieval herbalists waiting on delayed supplies, with a ginger root in Fortnite reply
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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison over a fact about answering phones with ahoy

Ahoy would have made every call better.

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Classic memes tweet warning people will make an iMessage sticker out of you
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Woman glaring in a bar as the wife hearing you are tired after 14 hours
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Tumblr post about every mythology having a trickster god who causes problems on purpose

Every family group chat has one.

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Classic memes Tumblr post joking about bringing Wonder Bread to an unusual party
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Tweet about making a stunning spreadsheet and waiting for coworkers to open it

Viewed by: nobody, yet.

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Classic memes photo of Blossom dancing, about Midwest girls when Get Low comes on
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Tweet about ordering a black morphsuit on Amazon and getting an unsettling notification
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Shirtless slap fight meme captioned as Nurse Joy healing your Pokemon at the Pokemon Center

Healing, aggressively.

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Classic memes Reddit post about a job application asking hockey or basketball
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Neighborhood app comment thread where a man reports that his neighbor Bill is rude
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Cowboy silhouette at sunset who does not concern himself with monthly chest pains

The cowboy also skips his checkups.

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Classic memes skeleton screaming after forgetting headphones and facing the world's noise
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Hideo Kojima credited as voicing Hideo Kojima, then answering no to doing it again

Contract negotiations: concluded.

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The Furby staring out the window is the most accurate picture of hearing my own voicemail greeting that has ever existed. These old memes keep coming back because the jokes were about things that never changed, like splitting mozzarella sticks or making a spreadsheet nobody opens. I made one last week with conditional formatting and everything, and I am still waiting on the little icons. Kojima declining to voice himself again remains one of the best memes of all time, and I respect a man who knows when to walk away.

Tomorrow afternoon brings more vintage memes and viral tweets from the archive, same time as always, right around when the afternoon coffee wears off. Until then, today’s meme dump has the Monday morning jokes, and Saturday’s sick day classics are still good for a sniffle. If one of these sent you straight back to a toy box or an old forum, pass the post along to the friend who still owns a Furby and keeps it in a drawer, just in case. Bring snacks, but count the mozzarella sticks before anyone else does.

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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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