30 Gen X Memes For 80s Kids And 90s Teens Who Were More Daria Morgendorffer Than Cher Horowitz

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jul 17, 2023 12:30 PM EDT

I've praised Generation X for their angst time and time again. I don't know if another generation in our lifetime will ever have such an angry and disaffected young generation accompanied by incredible art. Today, I want to praise Gen X for their comedy. Gen Xers lived their teen and young adult lives in the golden age of movie and TV comedies. These days, there are practically no mid-budget comedy movies. We Gen-Zers are watching movies that either cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, movies churned out by Netflix every week that nobody watches, or A24 movies. That's it! Gen Xers had incredible blockbusters like Star Wars and Indiana Jones, mid-budget comedies like Romy and Michele's High School Reunion and White Chicks, and incredible auteur directors like Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino. If you're a proud consumer of movies made for and by Gen Xers, then these Gen X memes are a perfect fit. 

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    Television - Unless you were there in 1982, you can't even imagine how baller this setup was. 2000 #20:00 NITON CANISER
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    Food - WHEN YOU'RE SO BAD AT CATCHING SMURFS leffe AGINT YOU'RE FORCED TO FIND A NEW JOB
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    Food - This sandwich Summertime tastes like in the 80s
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    Organism - Look what I found I think it would make a cool necklace 8 E (I)
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    Smile - When will schools start teaching about the great scientific minds of the 1980's? B Whe
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    Font - Meanwhile, Back in the 80s... when things were normal. ANT CAVE
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    Clothing - Crille @crilleacree Follow I am #GenX. I have the patience of Job. I sat for hours just waiting for my favorite song to play on the radio so I could hit record on my cassette player only to have the DJ talk over it so I'd have to wait even longer to try again. I can do nothing for days and be ok.
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    Nose - Lord James Alvarez @ObscureGent. Follow Boomers: People are too sensitive and need to toughen up Millennials: People need to care more and help each other out Gen X: Die Hard is a Christmas movie
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    Facial expression - AnonOps United @AnonOpsUnited2. Follow #GenX and proud Watching these two as a kid was one of the main reasons our generation grew up to be so sarcastic... 6:07 PM Mar 14, 2023 Backtothepast O
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    Font - ...AND ONE DAY WE SAID, "THIS WILL BE THE LAST COIN!! 01950 START AND IT WAS. HOUSANDS m
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    Forehead - Them: Why did you block me? Me: We get to choose who we let into our weird little_worlds.
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    Food - 00 1.00 Sma 1.00 Birthday 1.00 1.00 $1.00 Birthday Birthday sathday 75 153 SLO 1.00 Birthday $1.001.00 327 Birthday My 09 1.00 1.00 $1.00 1.001.001.00 JENNY WAS AT WAL-MART
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    Watch - Got that thang on me I dare somebody to try me today MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS
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    Cosmetics - IF THE 80'S HAD ASMELL. DRAKKAR NOIR EAU DE TOILETTE TAPORISATEUS NATURAL SPEAT Guy Laroche
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    Adaptation - KIDS TODAY ARE SOFT. I DIED ONCE WHEN I WAS FIVE, AND MY MOM MADE ME WALK IT OFF.
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    Human - WHAT DID U ENJOY MOST ABOUT SATURDAY AS A KID? BIL (CARTOONS) (KUNG FU) (SOUL TRAIN) (PLAYING OUTSIDE
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    Font - My biggest regret is that I rocked down to electric avenue, but never took it higher. It haunts me.
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    Font - I am gunna tell my kids... LIC .these wires went to the fridge, for the ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard dispenser.
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    Plant - History teacher: can anyone tell me a important medieval battle? me:
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    Water - FOX MULDER: Over 20 reported killer whale attacks in the month of May. The whales worked in tandem. Do you know what this means, Scully? DANA SCULLY: No. FOX MULDER: The attacks were orca-strated. Scully? Did you hear me? They were or- DANA SCULLY: I'll be in the car, Mulder.
    via Righteous Memes from Generation X
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    Kitchen appliance - It's 1973 and Mom is so happy! She says her new oven color is so pretty its NEVER going out of style!
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    Font - F 5318008. W ANS ELSI MATE EL-240S SHARP It's an older code, sir, but it still checks out
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    Jaw - YOU WILL TOUCH THE HEARTS OF MANY PANDA EXPRESS
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    Organism - Someone: bites the dust Queen: There is another
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    Automotive parking light - WOODGRAIN GE 35 398221 EA THE BLING OF THE 80'S!
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    Plant - When Genz tries to out-slang Genx in a work situation: No cap your marketing copy isnt slap is too cheugy, and drip hits different because main character snatched the skrrt so say less OK boomer Genz Dudical gaffled my digits and rationed a sixer got super belige and totally sketchitarian so everyone was all "whatever we're all gonna die who cares" and bailed for a rager. Genx
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    Cat - Nick Castle, who played Michael Myers in the original Halloween, has a cat named Michael Meowers. Nick Castle OG Shape @ncastlez Feb 16, 2019 We just got a new cat from the pound. We got him to do some killin'! Mouse killin'. I've named him MICHAEL MEOWers. M
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    Liquid - R. I. P. YOU WERE MY STAPLE AT MANY CONCERTS.. (DAM PHONES) BIC
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    Sky - Jason Eisener @jasoneisener Thought that was Freddy Krueger for a second. SEOR AZ S.H RICA 1950
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    Forehead - Yes it is. My dear doctor, especially for a man who doesn't exist So it's about a shadowy world? Even for a man who doesn't exist? 9
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