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Verizon's $20 Outage Credit Meme

A meme consisting of two parts: a top text overlay stating 'Verizon has announced that it will credit its customers $20 for yesterday's significant outage' and a screenshot from the TV show Arrested Development. In the screenshot, Lucille Bluth (a character from the show) is shown speaking to Michael Bluth, with the overlaid dialogue: 'It's one outage, Michael. What could it cost, twenty dollars?' The meme humorously juxtaposes Verizon's $20 compensation for a significant outage with Lucille's dismissive quote, implying the $20 is trivial relative to the outage's impact.
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Lucille Bluth
It's one outage, Michael. What could it cost, twenty dollars?

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Verizon has announced that it will credit its customers $20 for yesterday's significant outage.

Overview

A meme consisting of two parts: a top text overlay stating 'Verizon has announced that it will credit its customers $20 for yesterday's significant outage' and a screenshot from the TV show Arrested Development. In the screenshot, Lucille Bluth (a character from the show) is shown speaking to Michael Bluth, with the overlaid dialogue: 'It's one outage, Michael. What could it cost, twenty dollars?' The meme humorously juxtaposes Verizon's $20 compensation for a significant outage with Lucille's dismissive quote, implying the $20 is trivial relative to the outage's impact.

Origin notes

The meme originates from Reddit (specifically the Meme community) and uses a screenshot from the live-action TV show Arrested Development. The original scene from the show features Lucille Bluth delivering the line in a different context, which has been repurposed here with an added text overlay about Verizon's outage credit to create a humorous commentary on corporate customer compensation.

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