About

Is There A Doctor On This Flight? is a dialogue snowclone which grew popular on Twitter in late 2019 which people use as a vehicle to make self-deprecating jokes about their profession. In the snowclone, a flight attendant asks if there's a doctor on the flight, and then a father nudges the person posting saying "That should've been you." The dad then makes a joke, telling the poster to go and see if a thing relating to their job will help.

Origin

On November 22nd, 2019, Twitter account @thedad^[1] posted the first iteration of the joke, using "YouTuber" as the profession in the punchline. The tweet gained over 10,000 retweets and 59,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

Over the following week, others posted their own variations on the format. Some popular examples include a post by @colesevn, who gained over 130 retweets and 1,800 likes (shown below, left). User @Sererano__ tweeted an example in which she turned out to be useful, gaining over 590 retweets and 8,300 likes (shown below, right).

Others inverted the premise of the joke for humorous effect. For example, Twitter user @_sashayed posted an example where the father was supportive of the child, gaining over 570 likes (shown below, left). User Slammy_P posted an example which made it appear as though a group of friends was making fun of someone for making a typo, gaining over 120 retweets and 790 likes (shown below, right). Jokes were covered by Twitter Events.^[2]

Various Examples

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