Call Me An Ambulance Dad Joke Pun Meme

Grammar-based pun about the double meaning of the phrase 'call me an ambulance'

This is a 2-panel corny pun meme. The top panel depicts a woman lying unconsciously on a paved outdoor surface, with a man leaning over her looking concerned, overlaid with text reading 'Call me an ambulance' -- a phrase typically used to mean the speaker is asking someone to call emergency medical services on their behalf. The bottom panel shows the same man smiling playfully, with overlaid text reading 'You're an ambulance.', which plays on the ambiguous grammar of the original phrase: the request can also be interpreted as asking to refer to the speaker by the name 'an ambulance', forming the silly dad-joke style punchline.

This meme uses a popular long-circulated pun format paired with a stock photo of a man assisting an unconscious woman. It was shared on the X (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme, as sourced from the account's RSS feed. This pun format has been remixed with various different visual contexts and shared widely across social media platforms for many years.