Hot dog meme, “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this,” from I Think You Should Leave is more relevant than ever.
SlateOn Monday, the president—who admitted just last week that he is deliberately hobbling the U.S. Postal Service—tweeted out an improbable battle cry: “SAVE THE POST OFFICE!” Comedian and writer Mike Drucker paired Trump’s tweet with a picture of a red-faced man, arms akimbo, stuffed into a cheap-looking hot dog costume, with the caption “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.” Drucker’s tweet went viral, but he wasn’t the only one to deploy the meme in this case. I’m just going to take as many suits as I can grab, get back in that random hot dog car, and drive back to Wiener Hall!” Cops arrive, but Hot Dog Guy is not daunted. Robinson’s sketch show, which debuted on Netflix in the spring of 2019, is full of Hot Dog Guys, even when they’re not wearing the costume. Earlier this year, Robinson went viral for a different stunt, when he edited together news footage of “reopening” protesters in Michigan with a cameo of his own, as “angry guy who can’t buy things.” “You can’t buy paint, you can’t buy lawn fertilizer, you can’t buy grass seed!” an actual reopener complains; Robinson spliced in a clip of himself, ranting at the wheel of his car: “Now’s when I start to buy my Halloween stuff!