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Bacteria's Favorite Direction Biology Pun Meme

This is a 3-panel meme using the iconic elevator fight scene from Captain America: Civil War. In the first panel, Captain America asks the question 'what's a bacteria's favourite direction?'. In the second panel, one of the men in the elevator responds 'what?', and Captain America answers 'yEast'. The third panel shows all the men in the elevator immediately starting to attack Captain America, as an exaggerated reaction to the cringey pun. The joke relies on wordplay: 'yeast', a common microbe often mentioned alongside bacteria in biology, is a perfect homophone for 'east', a cardinal direction.
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what's a bacteria's favourite direction?
what?
yEast

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A pun playing on the homophone between 'yeast' (a microbe) and 'east' (a cardinal direction)

Overview

This is a 3-panel meme using the iconic elevator fight scene from Captain America: Civil War. In the first panel, Captain America asks the question 'what's a bacteria's favourite direction?'. In the second panel, one of the men in the elevator responds 'what?', and Captain America answers 'yEast'. The third panel shows all the men in the elevator immediately starting to attack Captain America, as an exaggerated reaction to the cringey pun. The joke relies on wordplay: 'yeast', a common microbe often mentioned alongside bacteria in biology, is a perfect homophone for 'east', a cardinal direction.

Origin notes

This meme is marked as original content (OC) posted to the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, as confirmed by the provided source metadata. It uses the widely recognized Captain America: Civil War elevator fight scene, a popular pre-existing meme template typically used to depict scenarios where a statement triggers an immediate, hostile collective reaction.

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