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Popular TV Shows Fumbling Their Endings

This meme uses the classic medieval fantasy knight round table template, where multiple armored stern knights stand around a round table pointing their swords toward the center. Text at the center reads "FUMBLING THEIR ENDINGS", each sword is labeled with the name of a famous TV show: Umbrella Academy, The Boys, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Stranger Things. The joke references the widespread viewer criticism that these popular high-profile TV shows have poorly received, disappointing final seasons or endings that are notable enough to be studied as media failures.
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FUMBLING THEIR ENDINGS

Overview

This meme uses the classic medieval fantasy knight round table template, where multiple armored stern knights stand around a round table pointing their swords toward the center. Text at the center reads "FUMBLING THEIR ENDINGS", each sword is labeled with the name of a famous TV show: Umbrella Academy, The Boys, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Stranger Things. The joke references the widespread viewer criticism that these popular high-profile TV shows have poorly received, disappointing final seasons or endings that are notable enough to be studied as media failures.

Origin notes

This meme was shared on the Reddit Meme subreddit as stated in the provided source information. It was created using the Mematic mobile meme editing tool, as confirmed by the "made with mematic" watermark located at the bottom left corner of the image. It leverages a widely used existing fantasy art meme template to express common audience frustration with declining writing quality of hit TV series in their final runs.

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