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Shocked Judge Dana Cutler is a viral video and reaction meme from the TV show Couples Court With The Cutlers in which a couple is trying to reconcile but the husband wants confirmation that his wife is no longer involved with the man she made a sex tape with. After an unexpected reveal from a man being interviewed in court, Judge Dana Cutler looks at the wife in shock. The episode aired in 2017, but the clip became a viral reaction GIF and video in mid-2023 on Twitter / X, mostly used to reply or tweet about surprising situations.

Origin

On October 26th, 2017, the first season of the TV show Couples Court With The Cutlers aired episode 36,^[1] titled "Taylor vs Jackson." At a particular moment in the episode, a man who was allegedly having an affair with the woman in court confirmed they had been intimate for the last time on the same morning the court was being held. The reveal was received with shock as Judge Dana Cutler looked at the woman in disbelief. The moment was uploaded to YouTube^[2] by user @CouplesCourt on December 14th, 2018, amassing over 3.8 million views and 72,000 likes in six years (shown below).

Spread

Online, Judge Dana Cutler's reaction became a prevalent meme on X throughout 2023 as meme archive pages uploaded the clip. For example, X user @BritsVault^[3] made a post on January 26th, 2023 (shown below), that amassed roughly 4,000 views and 18 likes in 11 months.

Months later, on November 6th, X^[4] user @mazzypopstar posted a version of the shocked Judge Dana Cutler GIF that included her husband, Judge Keith Cutler, to which the user added the caption, "SHE HAS A HUSBAND AND THEY’RE COUPLE JUDGES?" The post (shown below) amassed over 658,000 views and 21,000 likes in three days.

SHE HAS A HUSBAND AND THEY’RE COUPLE JUDGES? pic.twitter.com/RS1QUXxzpq

— 🐍 (@mazzypopstar) November 6, 2023

On the same day, Judge Dana^[5] then replied to the viral tweet talking about her reaction and claimed that the show was "all real, all unscripted and it is NOT AI." The tweet (shown below) received more than 3,600 likes and 100 retweets in three days.

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