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Classic Memes From Back When the Toy Catalog Was the Whole Internet

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Somewhere around the first week of November, the big toy catalog used to show up, and I circled half of it in pen like I had a budget. Nobody got me the go-kart. If you are new, this is a daily dig through the classic memes, the old favorites I refuse to let die, picking up from yesterday’s trip through the classics. No circling required, just scroll.

Bird landing on its own page in a field guide, paired with pointing Leonardo DiCaprio.

He has never been prouder of anything.

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One of the classic memes about elementary school, a finger tracing a painted cinderblock wall.
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Professor tweets a student email asking if sources from the late 1900s are acceptable.

The late 1900s. I need to lie down.

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Rambo firing a machine gun of five-star ratings for a quiet Uber driver.
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Blair Waldorf yawning in two Gossip Girl stills, a classic memes pick captioned me 24/7.
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USB stick plugged into a wall outlet captioned you wouldn't download a house.

We would if we could, officer.

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Classic memes tweet comparing old five dollar food truck tacos to today's eighteen dollar ones.
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Star Trek cosplayers gathered around a fallen red shirt at a Renaissance Faire.
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Ballpoint pen shown whole and then fully taken apart after my brain said do it.

The spring lives in the carpet now.

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Dating app chat in these classic memes where a microwave pickup line backfires.
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Tweet questioning someone whose parents, ex and ex best friend are all narcissists.

Detective work: one suspect remains.

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Drawing of someone miserable on the toilet, with a commenter noticing the lid is closed.
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Classic memes Tumblr post listing ridiculous fake quotes from Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Tweet comparing hungry girls to a spider-like horror monster crawling through a basement.
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Tape measure with numbers rewritten in permanent marker, asking how to erase it.
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Classic memes tweet about a pedicurist complimenting feet that get likes online.
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Tweet about commenting obviously AI on photos of happy couples, over a smiling couple.
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Gas station at sunset with the caption crash out diva, you deserve it.
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Bank app showing an estimated net worth of $1.76 beside a scenic mountain trail.

Even the bank app is being polite about it.

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Classic memes tweet showing a Doom-style house as a landlord's $1600 rental listing.
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Drawing of a raccoon wizard with a staff, captioned I overthink yet still don't understand.
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Denim kimono with a leather belt on a mannequin, called a jimono in a tweet.

Canadian tuxedo, international edition.

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Masked clown sitting at a table in classic memes about giving friends mental health advice.
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Tumblr post about sending friends a photo of a totaled, upside-down car as a reaction.
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Classic memes tweet calling a Christmas tree farm and power line story a Hallmark plot.

She falls for the lineman by act three.

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The professor email hurt me personally, because I still think of the 1990s as about ten years ago and I will not be taking corrections. I have taken apart more pens in meetings than I have finished projects, and I have never once found the spring afterward. These old memes hold up better than my knees do, and the viral tweets about rent and tacos somehow got more accurate with age. Some of the best memes are just people noticing prices before the rest of us were ready to.

Another round of vintage memes lands tomorrow afternoon, same dusty shelf, same questionable taste, and I will be at the front of the line, still mad about the go-kart. If you somehow need more, Monday’s meme dump is still fresh, and the vault edition from last week has a few I forgot I loved, including one I have apparently been quoting wrong for fifteen years. If one of these got a real laugh out of you at your desk, pass it along with a share button below, the way we used to forward chain emails, minus the curse.

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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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