The Simpsons "Drive A Car Like This" Gag
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About
The Simpsons "Drive A Car Like This" Gag or Black Guys Drive A Car Like This But White Guys Drive A Car Like This refers to a reaction image and image macro meme inspired by a scene from The Simpsons episode "Homer and Apu" in which a Black comedian does a stand-up bit where he leans back and says, "Black guys drive a car like this, yeah, but white guys, see, they drive a car like this," while crouching forward. The joke inspired a meme that comments on superficial observational humor and jokes about perceived differences where none actually exist.
Origin
The "Drive a car like this" gag appears in The Simpsons season 5, episode 13, titled "Homer and Apu," which aired on February 10th, 1994. In the episode, Homer watches a Black stand-up comedian joke about how white people drive carefully, while Black people drive relaxed and reclined, mimicking exaggerated swerving.
The clip was reposted to YouTube[1] by the channel T on September 12th, 2013, where it gathered over 1 million views in 12 years.
Comedian: Yo, check this out. Black guys drive a car like this…
[leans back while miming holding a steering wheel, and does a baritone scat. Audience laughs]
Comedian: Yeah, but white guys, see, they drive a car like this…
[leans forward while miming holding the wheel, and does the scat with a nasally voice. Audience laughs]
Homer: [laughing] It's true! It's true! We're so lame!
A January 3rd, 2014 repost of the bit in GIF form by Tumblr[2] user @trynsave gathered over 100,000 notes in 11 years.
Spread
On February 12th, 2015, the Instagram[4] page @thesimpsonsig reposted the gag, gathering over 12,000 likes in 10 years.
On April 29th, 2015, an unknown Imgur[3] user uploaded a version of the meme that jokes about Analytic vs. Continental Philosophers, gathering over 6,000 views in 10 years.
On March 27th, 2017, Redditor[7] GKit11 posted a version of the meme to the subreddit /r/Simpsons to joke about a photo of Donald Trump driving a truck compared to Barack Obama, gathering over 16,000 upvotes in eight years.
On November 22nd, 2019, an unknown Redditor[5] posted a joke about the substandard print of The Simpsons on Disney+, gathering over 2,000 upvotes in six years.
On October 6th, 2024, X[6] user @dj_laundryy posted the images from the "Black people drive like this" gag to Twitter to joke about a tweet that called for a difference between "Black queerness" and "White queerness," gathering over 30,000 likes in four months.
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![ONE OF THE [MANY] DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ME & MY HUSBAND](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/413/151/8a0 "Momlife Comics One Of The Many Differences Between Me And My Husand")
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External References
[3] Imgur – Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy
[4] Instagram – thesimpsonsig
[5] Reddit – /r/The Simpsons
[6] Twitter / X – dj_laundryy
[7] Reddit – /r/TheSimpsons
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