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Smudge Cat Uses Jesus Water To Wine Excuse For Alcohol With Police

This is a 6-panel edited meme. Panel 1: A uniformed police officer standing outside a car asks the driver, 'Sir, what's in the bottle?'. Panel 2: The driver is revealed to be Smudge the famous white meme cat, holding a bottle covered in a brown paper bag, replying 'It's just water.'. Panel 3: The officer responds, 'Let me see that.'. Panel 4: The officer takes the bottle and drinks from it. Panel 5: The officer reacts, stating 'This is wine.'. Panel 6: The cat looks completely unbothered and smug, saying 'Praise lord. Jesus has done it again.'. The joke leans into the well-known biblical story of Jesus turning water into wine, using it as an absurd, silly excuse for the cat lying about the bottle containing alcohol instead of water, leaning into Smudge's signature deadpan expression.
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Sir, what's in the bottle?
It's just water.
Let me see that.
This is wine.
Praise lord. Jesus has done it again.

Overview

This is a 6-panel edited meme. Panel 1: A uniformed police officer standing outside a car asks the driver, 'Sir, what's in the bottle?'. Panel 2: The driver is revealed to be Smudge the famous white meme cat, holding a bottle covered in a brown paper bag, replying 'It's just water.'. Panel 3: The officer responds, 'Let me see that.'. Panel 4: The officer takes the bottle and drinks from it. Panel 5: The officer reacts, stating 'This is wine.'. Panel 6: The cat looks completely unbothered and smug, saying 'Praise lord. Jesus has done it again.'. The joke leans into the well-known biblical story of Jesus turning water into wine, using it as an absurd, silly excuse for the cat lying about the bottle containing alcohol instead of water, leaning into Smudge's signature deadpan expression.

Origin notes

This meme is shared via RSS from the X (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme. It is a remixed edit combining two pre-existing viral assets: footage of a police officer interacting with a driver during a traffic stop, and the widely recognizable Smudge the Cat character from the popular 'Woman Yelling at Cat' meme format. It spread widely across social media platforms including X, Reddit, and Instagram for its lighthearted, silly joke combining a biblical reference with relatable humor about lying about having alcohol.

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