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We Just Got 8 Free Pizzas is a series of memes, including video edits, based on a scene from the sitcom TV show The Middle in which the character Frankie Heck (played by actress Patricia Heaton) walks into the room with eight pizzas and announces, "We just got eight free pizzas," followed by Brick Heck (Atticus Shaffer) dancing and laughing in celebration. The scene originates from 2017's season 8, episode 22 and became the subject of video edits on TikTok in mid-March 2025. The meme takes inspiration from SueTok memes, which were popularized on TikTok in January 2025. Some versions of the meme combine it with references to the "Frank Heffley schizophrenia" meme. Variant memes like You're Gonna Love Our Pizza, which also centered on Brick Heck, surfaced in late March 2025.

Origin

On May 9th, 2017, season 8, episode 22 of The Middle, titled "The Final Final," aired.^[1] In the episode, the wrong address number is put on the Heck family's house, which ends up benefiting them in a variety of ways. In one scene, the family is sent eight free pizzas. Frankie Heck comes into the room with the eight pizzas and announces, "We just got eight free pizzas," and her son Brick celebrates.^[2]

On February 16th, 2025, TikToker^[7] @_thomasbae_ posted an edit of the scene featuring distorted audio and visuals, garnering over 1.1 million views in a month. This is the earliest known example of the meme.

Spread

The trend continued to spread over the following days, inspiring further edits and memes. On March 15th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @alex_bauw posted an edit of the scene featuring distorted audio and visuals and multiplying and looping the footage of Brick dancing several times, garnering over 7 million views in three days.

On March 16th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @matthew._fox posted a meme reenactment video set to the scene's audio in which he recreates Brick's dance, garnering over 990,000 views in two days.

Later that day, TikToker^[5] @not_spife posted an edit that combines the "eight free pizzas" meme with the Frank Heffley Schizophrenia memes, garnering over 3 million views in two days.

On March 17th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @dehskajhsh posted an image macro of Brick sitting and staring forward, captioned, "How it feels to be on 8 free pizzas when everyone else is on frank heffley schizophrenic," garnering over 170,000 views in under 24 hours.

Related Memes

SueTok

SueTok, also referred to as Sue Heck Lobotomy Core or I Won a Contest, is a viral series of extremely edited, filtered and bass-boosted videos on TikTok that revolve around the character Sue Heck (played by actress Eden Sher) who's the daughter in the American sitcom The Middle. A majority of the content on SueTok is a clip from the 16th episode of season 2, titled "Hecks on a Plane," in which Sue is seen coming home after winning a contest, followed by disdain from her family. She screams, "Oh my god! I won a contest!" in the clip. SueTok aesthetics can be attributed to YouTube Poops or the 2020s aesthetics of lobotomy and brainrot content. Its visuals could also be described as deep-fried or moldy with added CapCut effects and filters like those used by Cookie King or Jeremiah Springfield. The SueTok trend started in early 2025.

You're Gonna Love Our Pizza

You're Gonna Love Our Pizza refers to a series of absurd meme videos using a quote from The Middle character Brick Heck (Atticus Shaffer) saying, "You're gonna love our pizza." The meme built on the We Just Got 8 Free Pizzas meme and SueTok.

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