About

"Local Man Ruins Everything" is an image macro meme taken from the television show The Simpsons. The meme involves photoshopping someone's image into the newspaper article under the headline "Local Man Ruins Everything."

Origins

The meme originated from an episode of The Simpsons titled "Jaws Wired Shut," which first aired on January 27th, 2002. The episode features a framed newspaper article with a picture of Homer Simpson under the headline "Local Man Ruins Everything." The image first appeared online when Redditor oopsifell posted it to the r/Simpsons^[1] subreddit on February 4th, 2013.

Spread

The image was added to the r/Simpsons Reddit on February 7th, 2014, by Redditor cayal3.

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Florida Man

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