The Godfather Meme Generator
Your mate asks if you can help with "a small favour". Forty minutes later you are holding a sofa on a staircase, and he is saying "just a bit to the left" about a wall.
Someone you haven't spoken to since school messages "hey, long time!" You know exactly how this ends. A week later there is a link to a skincare scheme, and the dignity is gone.
The group chat finally needs your opinion on the restaurant. You give it. Nobody replies. Three hours on, they book the other place and say thanks anyway.
A colleague you barely know asks for "a quick favour" and a reference. He brings biscuits to your desk next Monday. You are now somehow on his side in everything.
Why it caught on: the picture is Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in *The Godfather*, the 1972 film of Mario Puzo's novel, in a tuxedo with a red rose, hands open as if weighing up a request. People caption it with the film's best-known line, "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse", and bend it to anything: polite threats, favours, and birthday wishes to a boss. The dignified, slightly weary pose lets any small thing sound like a matter of respect.
Best The Godfather posts
- fuck mafia!
- Go fuck yorself / Fuck fucking mafia
- "God father"? / Search God's fuckin' mother. :-)))
- You made me an offer / I couldn't refuse!
- If Facebook wants your opinion / They’ll give it to you
- I'll make your meme / an offer you cannot refuse
- you come to me, call me a nerd / and ask for words of affirmation?
- Happy birthday / Boss Lady
- "Bonferroni" / Italian accent require!
- you come to me with another scam account / on this day… the day of my dog’s 4th birthday?
- You disrespect my cat / you disrespect the whole family
- You Come into My house / and disrespect my people?
- *Shot at, beat up, stabbed* / *Dies in a garden by a heart attack*
- WHO'S THIS / FAGGOT
- you come to me on the day of my daughter's balloon animal birthday party / and ask me to make a snake
- Trivialities and Disclaimers / Always come in small fonts!
- You come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding / And ask for a new folder structure?
- TOO MANY CANDLES ON YOUR CAKE? / FUHGEDDABOUDIT!
- I'm the only deputy here / Show some respect
- They made him / an offer he couldn't refuse