Like the bus that hit Regina George! Twitter users turn to Mean Girls, White Lotus, and The Parent Trap to illustrate their fabulous fall plans – and the delta variant intent on destroying them
- Twitter users are referencing pop culture with funny memes about how the contagious delta variant will derail their plans for autumn
- Memes have included Miss Congeniality, Jeopardy, The Nanny, This is Us, Schitt’s Creek, the Fyre Festival, and Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift
- Kerry Washington, Jameela Jamil, and Josh Gad have joined in the trend
With vaccination rates climbing in countries like the US, the UK, and Canada, many COVID-conscious people have been excitedly embracing a return to normalcy.
But as the delta variant spreads the virus at higher rates — and breakthrough cases strike fear in the hearts of the vaccinated — some people are predicting that their big plans for autumn are about to be derailed.
Many, though, are facing impending doom with a sense of humor, and have taken to Twitter to share memes about the delta variant’s threat of their social lives.
Thousands of Twitter users have turned to pop culture for photos that illustrate the fabulous fun they had in mind for fall — as compared to the havoc-wreaking force of delta.
Even celebrities have joined in the fun, with Kerry Washington, Jameela Jamil, and Josh Gad offering up their best takes on the trend.
Twitter users are sharing memes that illustrate their fabulous fall plans — and the delta variant coming to derail them, like Annie and Hallie did to Meredith’s plans to marry their dad in The Parent Trap
Most are using pop culture references, like how Mike Richards was named as Alex Trebek’s Jeopardy host replacement over fan favorite LeVar Burton
One compared delta to Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman who destroyed a painting of Jesus while attempting to destroy it
Another compared it to Kanye West crashing Taylor Swift’s VMA acceptance speech
Fans of HBO’s White Lotus appreciated this meme about Armond, the manager of the resort, standing in the way of Shane’s dreams of the Pineapple Suite
Grace Hart certainly did damage to Kathy Morningside in Miss Congeniality
It doesn’t take a million Mean Girls re-watches to know that a school bus took out Regina George
Ja Rule certainly had big plans for Fyre Fest — and while the botched festival derailed itself, this infamous photo of the cheese sandwich people ate helped make it a major story
Moira Rose’s fabulous The Crows Have Eyes premiere plans were seriously messed up by a crow stunt
Diane Chambers was at the altar with Frasier Crane in Cheers when she realized she wasn’t over Sam Malone
Kerry Washington herself shared a meme about her character in Little Fires Everywhere throwing a wrench in the Richardsons’ lives
Parasite fans couldn’t help but laugh at this reference to a dramatic scene near the end of the film
Poor Baroness von Schraeder had Captain von Trapp locked in until Maria came along
This is Us fans laughed until they cried at this meme of Jack Pearson and the Crock-Pot that killed him
If there’s any hope to be taken from this meme, Angelina Jolie — i.e. delta — eventually left Brad Pitt
Watch out C.C source! Miss Babcock never had a chance with Mr. Sheffield, but as far as she’s concerned, that was Fran Fine’s fault
Some of the memes were a bit more literary and high-brow, like this one with Julius Caesar and swords
Jameela Jamil shared a meme from her show The Good Place — and the evil Shawn
The poor ‘I’ in Pixar was crushed — literally — by the lamp that took its place
When Felicity chopped off her locks in the WB drama bearing her name, it was a national incident
Gilmore Girls fans have never forgiven April for popping up and telling Luke Danes he was her father
Thomas J’s tragic end in My Girl hit close to home for this meme
Ashlee Simpson’s music career was never the same after her SNL lip-syncing snafu
Josh Gad offered his own take on the meme with Emmett Brown from Back to the Future
Book lovers appreciated this meme with Edgar Allen Poe and the floorboards presumably hiding the Tell-Tale Heart