'When you add 5x the recommended serving of parmesan to your pasta': 25 Memes running toward the finish line

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

May 31, 2026 10:00 AM EDT

Are you ready to cross the finish line of the work week?

The week is almost over. It's time to reflect on our choices. Are you proud of what you did this week? That's a tough question. The week is not enough time. I've always maintained this. It's how we tend to measure things, but it's such a short amount of time. How are we expected to accomplish anything in only 7 days? Count the weekend out. Monday you're just warming up, Tuesday you're cursing all the choices you made in your life, Wednesday maybe you get some stuff done, Thursday you're making plans for the weekend and Friday you're outta there. That doesn't make much room for anything else. How does anyone get anything done at any time? Life moves so fast, that it feels impossible to catch. You're constantly moving from one thing to the next, hoping that you're able to catch your breath in between. But often you can't. Often, the years start coming and they won't stop coming, to quote a certain song from a certain movie soundtrack. And that can be hard to face. But we need little stops along the road to make it all feel worthwhile. Memes can be one of those stops. Memes take us by the hand and lead us into the dimension of fun and funny. They let us know that everything is going to be okay, and that we always have the internet to lean back on. When everything feels hopeless, we can go back to the things that we know to be true. We love memes. We want to look at memes. And we want a whole bunch of them to scroll through. That's exactly what we're here to do today. So let's sit back and scroll through them together.