Do You Have Two Minutes to Talk
About
Do You Have Two Minutes to Talk is a series of exploitables based on a scene from the American television comedy police-centric sitcom Brooklyn 99. In the meme, people replace a line from the series, in which Jake (played by Andy Samberg) goes under cover and asks a stranger if they have "two minutes to talk about the environment." Online, people replace the "environment" with other things people generally do not want to talk about.
Origin
On November 15th, 2015, the Brooklyn 99 episode "The Mattress (season three, episode seven) aired in the United States.[1] In the episode, the protagonist Jake, an undercover police officer, approaches a woman on the streets and and asks if she has "two minutes to talk about the environment."
The following month, on December 13th, Tumblr [2] user anachronistique posted a series of screen captures from the scene. The post (shown below) received more than 450,000 notes in two-and-a-half years.
Spread
On May 6th, 2018, Redditor [3] FurrAndLoaving the series of screen captures on the /r/brooklynninenine subreddit. The post received more than 12,000 points (95% upvoted) in two days. The following day, Redditor[4] mtrld posted the image /r/MemeEconomy, received more than 20,000 points (91% upvoted) and 200 comments in 24 hours.
That day, Redditors on the /r/dankmemes subreddit began posting variations of the meme, adding jokes about the video game Fortnite, [5] anime, [6] Ugandan Knuckles [7] and more.
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Search Interest
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External References
[1] IMDB – ""Brooklyn Nine-Nine" The Mattress":https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4371310/
[2] Tumblr – anachronistique's Post
[3] Reddit – One of my favorite scenes : brooklynninenine
[4] Reddit – I think there's a lot of potential in this meme if you changed the last sentence of the third panel
[5] Reddit – You could infiltrate the KGB with this
[6] Reddit – I don’t want to hear about your Narutos
[7] Reddit – Invisible man
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