Why Can't You Just Be Normal Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the Why Can't You Just Be Normal 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 Why Can't You Just Be Normal meme?
Why Can't You Just Be Normal is a two-panel scene from the horror film The Babadook, with its captions printed on the image. In the top panel a haggard mother twists around in the driver's seat and shrieks the title question at him. In the bottom panel her young son in the back seat answers with a full-body scream, captioned "*Screams*". The meme turns it into a frustrated plea met with pure chaos: the mother is anyone begging for ordinary behavior, and the screaming kid is the person, pet, device or bug that refuses. The irony that she is screaming too is part of the joke.
Origin: The scene is from The Babadook, a 2014 Australian horror film written and directed by Jennifer Kent, about a widowed mother struggling to cope with her troubled young son.
Also known as: Babadook Just Be Normal, Screaming Kid in Car, Why Can't You Be Normal Meme.
How to use the Why Can't You Just Be Normal meme
The question and the scream are already printed on the image. The first text box runs along the top, over the mother, and labels who is asking. The second sits beside the screaming boy and labels who or what is screaming, or how.
The joke is in the pairing, so make the kid something with a known chaotic streak: a printer, a cat at 3 a.m., autocorrect, your brain before sleep, a teammate who picks the off-meta hero. Writing the second box as a sound effect in asterisks (*screams in javascript*) fits the existing caption.
Why Can't You Just Be Normal meme ideas
- me asking my code / *screams in javascript*
- me, to my printer / *prints only in cyan*
- me, to my cat / *zoomies at 3 a.m.*
- me trying to sleep / my brain replaying 2014
- the squad / the teammate on the off-meta hero
- me typing my name / autocorrect
About the Why Can't You Just Be Normal meme template
The Why Can't You Just Be Normal template (just-be-normal) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “why can't you just be normal? / *screams in javascript*”. 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/just-be-normal/why_can't_you_just_be_normal~q/*screams_in_javascript*.png
