Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2023 here. If you’re interested in reading other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.

Memes That Remind You of A Favourite Book or Show

I think I might be old, everyone! In thinking about this week’s topic I have arrived at that awful possibility. I must admit, although I have heard the word ‘meme’ used and seen it written all about the internet, I really didn’t understand what they were.

Perhaps my nephew was right when he presumed my first next-door neighbour was a T-Rex.

Upon researching this post, I discovered the ‘meme’ in all its humourous glory; I found a few that remind me of my favourite book and TV show (because I googled with specificity).

Favourite Book (A Christmas Carol)

If I relate to anyone from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, it’s Fred. He’s so excited about Christmas – and if anyone is full of the spirit of the holiday season, it’s him.

Favourite TV Show (Doctor Who)

Doctor Who has been my favourite show for as long as I can remember – even going back to its original run (see, I am old… although I was watching the repeats in the early 90s and not the original broadcast, which began in 1963).

There have been many great companions over the years, like Sarah Jane Smith, Ace, Rose Tyle and Clara Oswald – but my favourite, without doubt, is poor Donna Noble.

When Catherine Tate first tuned up at the end of ‘Doomsday’, I wasn’t sure she’d be a good fit for Doctor Who (although I am a fan). Still, I was proven wrong in just a few moments of watching her perform the character. Since then, Catherine Tate and David Tennant have become one of the best Doctor/Companion combinations, in my opinion. Her whole story arc is so sad, and that ending… I can’t wait to see them return together in the three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials this year, the first of which is due to air any day now at the time of writing… I hope it’s good…!

Anyway, with those two being comedy gold when they’re on screen, the first meme is from the season four episode ‘The Unicorn and the Wasp’. It really made me chuckle when I came across it.

This next one is just funny. The meme references the episodes Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, which make up a two-parter in which humans were collected up and ‘saved’ by the library, leaving an interactive facsimile of only their faces on a white oval display attached to a plinth. Poor Donna gets ‘saved’.

Well, another post down. This year is rattling by so fast that I think I might end up with whiplash by the end.

I’m curious to see what some of you offer as your favourite memes. I wonder if many of you use them often, or will any of you be using them for the first time, like me?

Anyhoo, as always, thank you for dropping by and checking out my post. It means the world.

Until next time,

George

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