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[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Did you even watch the movie? They explain it right away!

Someone "blew it up" and the resulting explosion launched it into space.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I've only watched the musical from the Simpsons.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doctor Zaius, Doctor Zaius...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Can i play the piano anymore?
Of course you can!
I couldn't before!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🎶 I was wrong. It was Earth all along. 🎶

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Yes, you finally made a monkey out of meeeee!!!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always thought that was silly. How did it stay so intact?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, this is a misunderstanding. This is just an unusual rock formation. It has nothing to do with the actual statue, that still stands on Earth.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh, kinda like Mt Rushmore. Nature truly is remarkable.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait, that’s not Mega Maid?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She's gone from suck to blow

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That's an even better line. Very nice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Oh shit, there goes the planet.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🤮

jk i love the fren*h

William of Normandy was my granpappy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

no.. no.. only me. not even any of the ancestors in between

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago

It's actually still earth and the protagonist time travelled.

They travelled to the past when only the upper half of the statue was built.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

It was a different statue that looked the same. Just a coincidence. It's not that deep.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Buy why is it human? I'm just happy they fixed this oversight in the (vastly superior) 2001 remake with the Lincoln Memorial.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Just a coincidence, it was actually shaped by erosion

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to think this whole thread is just whimsical, but I have to know for sure - y'all get that it's future Earth, right?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s the ocean after global warming. They're really in Las Vegas.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No! They did it! They blew it up!

And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen?

And then the birds took over and ruined their society.

And then the cows. And then...I don't know, is that a slug, maybe?

Noooo!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They sold it, to pay for the debts after the stock market crash of 2025.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean copper is an expensive metal these days. Probably make mint selling Lady Liberty for scrap.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately she’s hollow, like a shitty chocolate easter bunny.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Everyone forgets that the planet of apes is actually las vegas, if the camera where to go a little more to the left we would see a eiffel tower as well

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These themed hotels are getting out of hand

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

🎵Oh my God, you're so wrong.

It was Earth, all along.🎵

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I love you, doctor Zauis!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (6 children)

GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

I like how the only thing left of fucking New York City is made of iron and thin sheets of copper.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

For reasons not directly related to the movie, I just so happen to have this on hand.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So… in the novel… it IS actually a different planet and obviously the Statue of Liberty is not there.

You likely already know this but the statue in the movie is a convenient symbol for change over time which is relevant to the book. No spoilers.

Anyway… read the novel! It’s great.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This is either satirical or the biggest WHOOSH I've seen so far this year.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Sold to aliens for scrap by a bankrupt country (for 10 hamburgers, which is approximately 10 hamburgers in todays hamburgers).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Actually it was the French aliens that transported them on their spaceship

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

What they don't explain is how everything else is gone, and even the entire coastline is different, but somehow the upper half of that particular copper statue has somehow survived

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It turns out, that on their planet, the apes have made an exact replica of the statue of liberty

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

A wizard did it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The bigger plot hole is that this is not consistent with any global warming or giant earthquake. Rising sea levels would not have a beach and rocky formation right next to statue of liberty. And a crazy violent earthquake that would move land and rock well above the statue of liberty and right next to it, would have knocked the statue over.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I hate.. Every ape I see, from chimpan-a to chimpanzee, you'll never make a monkey out of meee.

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