33 Hilarious Sci-Fi Memes to Fill Your Nerdy Needs (January 6, 2025)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Jan 6, 2025 8:00 AM EST

I'd like to take this meme list intro to pay tribute to my favorite sci-fi movie of 2024, The Substance. If you haven't seen it, please do, unless you have a weak stomach and a low tolerance for body horror. It begins with an aging exercise video star, Elisabeth Sparkle, whose hypocritical boss thinks she's getting too old for the biz. She's then introduced to "The Substance," a shot she can take to grow a younger, hotter version of herself out of her spine. She can live as her for one week at a time but has to switch back to her old body every other week or else she will suffer consequences. Spoiler alert, she suffers consequences.

It's one of my favorite kinds of sci-fi because it takes something very real in our world- ageism, especially in Hollywood, and takes it to extreme ends. It ends up being a grotesquely sublime parable for aging women.

There is one Substance meme in here, but I won't spoil it for you. But it's full of memes about movies and shows that have taught us a thing or two about being human beings, even if there are no human beings in them. Live long and meme.
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Behind every Paul Atreides is a dad who bought that hood for him at the mall

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Please say sike

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I have become so numb

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On this week's America's Next Top Model challenge

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Has a nice ring to it

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