What a Country Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the What a Country 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 What a Country meme?
What a Country shows Dr. Nick Riviera from The Simpsons standing outside his clinic in a scorched lab coat and torn trousers, arms spread wide, while firefighters hose down the building behind him. At his feet lies a blown-apart canister of ether marked inflammable. He has just learned the hard way that "inflammable" means the same as "flammable", and instead of being upset he reacts with pure wonder: "Inflammable means flammable? What a country!" The meme borrows that delighted confusion for any absurd rule, contradiction or surprising fact.
Origin: The line comes from The Simpsons episode "Trilogy of Error" (2001), in which Dr. Nick's clinic catches fire after a mix-up over the word inflammable.
Also known as: Dr. Nick What a Country, Inflammable Means Flammable.
How to use the What a Country meme
The top box is the baffling discovery, phrased as a question in Dr. Nick's style: "X means Y?" or "you can just do X?" The bottom box is almost always "what a country!", sometimes swapped for a city, company or game to fit the joke.
It lands on real contradictions: English spelling rules, tax forms, airline fees, software settings with confusing names, or sports rules that make no sense. The sillier the fact and the more sincere the amazement, the better.
What a Country meme ideas
- inflammable means flammable? / what a country!
- you pay to check a bag but carry-on is also extra? / what a country!
- a 'quick sync' takes an hour? / what a company!
- "literally" can mean "figuratively"? / what a language!
- the patch notes say 'fixed bugs' and added new ones? / what a game!
- a tie in football counts as a point? / what a sport!
About the What a Country meme template
The What a Country template (country) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “Inflammable means flammable? / What a country!”. Read about its origin on youtube.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/country/Inflammable_means_flammable~q/What_a_country!.png
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