Squidward Chair Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the Squidward Chair template, style every box its own way, drop in your own images, then download, copy, or share it.
Click a text box to edit it. Drag to move, corners resize, top handle rotates.
What is the Squidward Chair meme?
Squidward Chair is a two-panel image from SpongeBob SquarePants. In the top panel Squidward eagerly drags a blue lounge chair onto the sand in front of his house, ready to relax. In the bottom panel he trudges back toward his front door with the folded chair under his arm, eyes half closed and shoulders slumped. The pair works as a before-and-after of disappointment: plans made with optimism and then given up on. It is often used like the Drake approval format, with the top panel as the thing you were excited for and the bottom one as giving up.
Origin: Both frames come from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The Paper" from 2000. The two-panel combination took off as a template in 2019.
Also known as: Squidward's Lounge Chair, Squidward Beach Chair.
How to use the Squidward Chair meme
The top box describes what you were looking forward to or setting up; the bottom box is the moment the plan collapses or the reason you quit. Read top to bottom, it should be a tiny story of enthusiasm turning into defeat.
It suits weekend plans ruined by weather, side projects abandoned after a day, gym motivation that fades, or waiting for something that never comes. Squidward's dead-eyed walk back inside sells the giving up, so the bottom caption can be dry and short.
Squidward Chair meme ideas
- waiting for / the pipeline
- setting up for a relaxing weekend / the on-call pager goes off
- january 1st at the gym / january 9th
- planning a beach day / checking the weather
- installing a new game / seeing the 80 GB update
- opening the textbook / closing the textbook
About the Squidward Chair meme template
The Squidward Chair template (squidward-chair) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “waiting for / the pipeline”. Read about its origin on knowyourmeme.com.
Use it from the API
This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:
https://memegenscript.com/images/squidward-chair/waiting_for/the_pipeline.png