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Classic Memes From the Golden Age of After-School Reruns

Phil M. Nov 10, 2026 04:00 PM EST

Four in the afternoon used to mean a snack, a backpack on the kitchen floor, and Simpsons reruns you could already quote word for word. I would still trade any meeting for that. Every afternoon around this time I dig up a fresh pile of classic memes from the old internet, picking up where yesterday’s trip through the classics left off. Drop the backpack and scroll.

Cat in a grocery store aisle with a loading icon on its head, no shopping list — Came for milk. Left with four kinds of crackers.
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Classic memes favorite: a grumpy talkative cat on an Airbnb deck revealed to be the host — Save

Homer Simpson asleep at the table, dads who brag about waking early dozing on the couch — Resting his eyes, allegedly.
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Game of Thrones cast sitting on steps outside a garage door like a folk band — Save

Old tweet in our classic memes doing the math on 600 million cats invading Scotland — Save

Krusty the Clown peeking through blinds at the mail carrier hauling a 200 lb dog food bag — I tip her at Christmas. That covers it, right?
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Apple Store column with a hidden door for a fire extinguisher, called a hilariously bad idea — Save

Shrek floating over a psychedelic background in a classic memes deep fry about his toughest battles — Save

Fluffy orange kitten staring at an ice cube on a bed, a fan of thermodynamics — Science, but make it adorable.
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Grima Wormtongue with a fake headline about his X account being based in Isengard — Save

Seventeenth century iron masks for mental illness in one of the classic memes, with a dry reply — Save

Tweet mocking a news site's money tip to reduce your standard of living — Save

Ancient statue behind a thread blaming Ea-nasir for bad copper in an old Volvo engine — Four thousand years and still the worst copper guy.
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Classic memes exchange asking why men are fine doing nothing for their birthday — Save

Text conversation where a man checks the weather before offering to share a photo — Save

Sigourney Weaver in a space helmet from Alien, with a tweet about trouble at your job — The most relatable horror film ever made.
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One of today's classic memes: a post saying neither your judges nor your fans pay your bills — Save

Cat with a cigarette on a night street, too self-aware to enjoy life — Save

Tweet about an Irish server refusing a to-go box and telling the customer to eat it — Save

Classic memes trip through DVD menus from Spider-Man, Finding Nemo and Cars at sleepovers — Nobody touched the remote. Nobody ever touched the remote.
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Facebook post with a pun about calling his girlfriend achoo — Save

Old viral tweet in the classic memes about all his apes being stolen in a hack — Save

World map of an artist's tour plans, with most continents marked no or maybe — My city is in the no part.
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Jack Nicholson driving his family in The Shining in a muscle memory joke from the classic memes — Save

Lisa dancing after leaving a toxic relationship while Marge knows she was the toxic one — Marge has seen things.
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I have a lot of feelings about the DVD menu one, because I was the kid who fell asleep first and woke up to that loop at two in the morning. The copper complaint reply made me laugh harder than ancient history should, and the grocery store cat is me in any store without a list. These are old memes in the best way, mixed with a few viral tweets that aged better than I did. You have seen half of them before, and they still work, which says more about me than about them.

Another round of vintage memes shows up tomorrow afternoon, right around snack time, and I have already set aside a couple of good ones for it. If you need more before then, yesterday’s meme dump is still sitting there, and Friday’s classic memes cover the video store years nicely. If one of these dragged up a memory, pass it to whoever sat next to you on that couch back then, and use the share buttons below to do it.

Game of Thrones cast members sitting on concrete steps in costume, a classic memes favorite about dropping a folk album.

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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.