MAR10 Mario Day Pun Meme Using Woman Yelling at Cat Format
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The meme plays on a homophone pun where the date abbreviation MAR10 (March 10) is pronounced identically to Mario, the famous Nintendo character, using the popular woman yelling at cat template to highlight this joke.
Overview
This two-panel meme combines a photo of a milk jug expiration date with the viral 'Woman Yelling at a Cat' meme template to deliver a pun about Mario Day. The top panel displays a white plastic milk jug with a printed 'BEST BY MAR10' expiration date, where 'MAR10' is the standard abbreviation for March 10. The bottom left half of the second panel shows a yelling blonde woman (Taylor Armstrong from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) pointing aggressively, labeled 'MARCH 10TH'. The bottom right half shows the unimpressed white cat Smudge sitting at a dinner table, labeled 'MARIO'. The core joke is a homophone pun: 'MAR10' (spoken as 'March ten') sounds exactly like 'Mario', the iconic Nintendo video game protagonist, leading to March 10 being widely celebrated as 'Mario Day' online.
Origin notes
This meme repurposes the extremely popular 'Woman Yelling at a Cat' meme template, which originates from a 2011 episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (for the shot of Taylor Armstrong) and a 2018 Tumblr post of the cat Smudge. This specific iteration was shared on the X.com (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme, and variations of this MAR10 pun meme are circulated widely across social media every March 10 to celebrate Mario Day.