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Ford Owners When They Leave Their Door Open

This is a humorous meme mocking Ford car owners. The top of the image displays the Ford brand logo alongside the text 'owners when they leave their door open'. Below the text is a heavily blurred clip of Elmo from Sesame Street wearing headphones and energetically DJing on a set of turntables, conveying the joke that Ford vehicles have an extremely loud, high-energy, EDM-sounding door-open warning chime that feels like a dance music 'banger' when the door is left ajar.
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Ford owners when they leave their door open

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This is a humorous meme mocking Ford car owners. The top of the image displays the Ford brand logo alongside the text 'owners when they leave their door open'. Below the text is a heavily blurred clip of Elmo from Sesame Street wearing headphones and energetically DJing on a set of turntables, conveying the joke that Ford vehicles have an extremely loud, high-energy, EDM-sounding door-open warning chime that feels like a dance music 'banger' when the door is left ajar.

Origin notes

This meme is a remix of the popular viral Elmo DJing Sesame Street clip, paired with a long-running automotive joke about the notoriously loud door alert chime installed in Ford vehicles. Per the provided additional information, this meme was originally shared on Reddit in the r/Meme subreddit, with the original poster titling the post 'Its a banger I'm afraid'.

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