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"Well, Of Course I Know Him. He's Me." is a memorable quote from the film Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope said by the character Obi-Wan Kenobi, which has become a popular punchline for image macros. Online, the line is used to punctuate a joke in which one person admits to something humorous, absurd or offensive.

Origin

The line was first uttered in the film Star Wars: Episode IV-- A New Hope, first released on May 25th, 1977. In the film, the character Luke Skywalker asks his friend and mentor Ben Kenobi if he knows or is related to an "Obi-Wan Kenobi," unaware that they are one and the same. Kenobi responds, "Well, of course I know him. He's me."

The earliest example of the moment being used as an image macro was posted by Redditor ^[1] StapMyVitals on July 14th, 2014 in the /r/shittyreactiongifs subreddit. The Redditor posted the scene in a gif in the thread "MRW the police are appealing for information about a local flasher."

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Three years later, on April 1st, 2017, the Star Wars Instagram ^[2] account @starwars.humor shared a version of the scene with Senator Palpatine's face photoshopped over Obi-Wan's with the caption "When someone asks you about the Senate." The post (shown below, left) references the I Am the Senate meme and received more than 3,400 likes in eight months.

On July 30th, another Star Wars Instagram,^[3] @starwarsonly, posted another variation, captioning the moment with a conversation between a woman and her neighbor, in which the neighbor turns out to be a registered sex offender. The post (shown below, center) received more than 6,100 likes in six months.

In September 2017, MemeCenter^[4] user Ice posted a variation with the caption "When the police ask if you know the local rapist." The same post (shown below, right) was later shared on the /r/OTMemes^[5] subreddit on December 19th, received more than 2,100 points (89% upvoted) within 24 hours.

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