Meme Countdown!

Pop culture, by the numbers. (1 of ?)

Here’s a little idea I had: see if I could find fun or interesting memes for each number, counting down from 100. I could only get about fourteen or fifteen of these in an email-friendly format, but if reaction is positive, I’ll continue it next week. Little explanations follow each meme, but they’re easy to skip if you grasp the picture without help.

This Skyrim skill tree bit indicates—often sarcastically—that someone is a master of disguise.

A scene from Hollow Zero that the memer can use to indicate someone’s under pressure (themself or someone else).

Nostalgia for an old startup tune.

No pop culture here, just a celebration of French’s odd way with numbers.

“Apparently the human body can only accept 96 peeps” (Malcolm in the Middle)

The statement is true-ish, but that’s a different kind of “New England highway.”

Knowledge of The Simpsons and Japanese not required.

Here’s a somber one—but still what most people associate the number “93” with.

(That’s an actual quote from the game Runescape, prompting a bunch of “92 is half of 99” jokes.)

Mountain goats can scale almost any mountain surface, it seems.

This was already a pretty solid meta-joke about Hugh Jackman, altered by the poster to be about Robert Downey, Jr.

This one needs no explanation.

“88” has an unfortunate Nazi connection online; I prefer some Back to the Future nostalgia.

“The Bite of ’87” from Five Nights at Freddy’s, only one violent event in the eponymous pizza parlor’s cursed existence.

Tomorrow: Crossword history intersects with the Emu War!