because it was the only time they ever wore gloves to go Do Crimes. and all i can think of was the conversation that led up to this one useless purchase of the Crime Gloves That Make Us Bad Guys.
“Dean. DEAN. Seriously? We don’t need fucking gloves to look like criminals. If we’re gonna be stealing stuff and letting alarms go off and LETTING OURSELVES GET CAUGHT we’re gonna look plenty illegal. We don’t… we just don’t need the gloves, man.”
and then Dean did what he does every time he has an opportunity to act or dress like a cowboy, you know that thing he does?? he dove in head-first and fucking. insisted. “No no. I’m not getting caught looking like a DUMBASS criminal, Sam. If we’re gonna get caught, we’re gonna get caught looking the part – looking like professionals.”
“Okay, well, setting aside the fact that professionals don’t get caught, we’re also like board-certified graverobbers so what’s the storyline, Dean, do we have graverobbin’ gloves? Do we have pretty, clean gloves for being jewel thieves and nasty dirt gloves for our side kink or what??”
and Dean’s face is like. aghast. “Don’t make it crass. Don’t make it gross. We’re professionals.”
“Do you have professional murder gloves, Dean? Do you have professional parking ticket gloves because we’ve got like nine hundred of those. This is the fucking stupidest thing I’ve done in my life. We’re gonna botch this three times before we actually manage to get caught. Because we’re professionals but to look like the type of professionals that get caught, I’m gonna have to sit still in one place for seven minutes. I’m gonna sit there for seven minutes and have to– like, ‘Oh, no! It’s the cops! Oh, no! Don’t arrest me!’ and shit and it’s gonna be humiliating.”
“I’m buying you mittens instead of gloves. Does that make you feel better? Yours don’t have fingers, so I’m the one who has to do the safe cracking. You’re the lookout who got us in trouble. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. You get mittens with that shitty attitude.”
“I was literally like three weeks away from having a bachelor’s degree and now I’m gonna have crime mittens. I’m gonna sell you for toilet paper when we’re on the inside.”
I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.
But this… This is something else.
The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.
For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?
….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE
it is a YMCA reference – that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here
ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start – the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)
this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)
“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)
‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)
and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)
which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)
(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)