Move aside OK Boomer memes at least for now as the flight attendant meme takes over. In some rare instances, a passenger or more can sometimes get ill on a flight and cabin crew have to make an announcement requesting emergency medical assistance which is necessary to deal with minor incidents or major ones such as panic attacks, fainting or nausea to strokes or heart attacks respectively.
The flight attendant memes started when Laura Gao, a product manager at Twitter and also a comic imagined her father roasting her when a frazzled flight attendant asks if there is a doctor on board during an in-flight medical emergency.
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Product Manager to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “let’s have a follow-up meeting" helps
— Laura Gao ✌️ (@heylauragao) November 26, 2019
This tweet format became a template for even more memes revolving around people’s non-mainstream jobs and pressure from your family to be in better careers like medicine.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: we have a passenger who needs medical attention, is there a doctor on this flight?
MY IMMIGRANT MOM (pointing at me): my son could’ve been one if he had applied himself instead of disappointing the family
— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) November 30, 2018
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a social media influencer to help, are they?
Me: Dad there's a medical emergency happening
Dad: Go see if “being super excited to partner" helps
— Adam J. Kurtz (@adamjk) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a journalist to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “finding a second source" helps
— A$AP JOURNO (@lostblackboy) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a cinematographer to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “moody lighting" helps
— Jackson Hayes (@jacksonhvisuals) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a YouTuber to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if "what up guys" helps
— The Dad (@thedad) November 22, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Me: Yes, I have a PhD in Computer Science
Dad: *nudging me* not a real doctor tho are you?
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not an MD. That’s what they’re asking for
Flight attendant: this gentleman needs to install Adobe Acrobat on his laptop— Stu (@StuFlemingNZ) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Young Adult Author to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency
Dad: Go see if saying “now kiss” to the distressed woman and the flight attendant helps
— Tehlor Kay Mejia (@tehlorkay) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a contemporary artist to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “capturing the Zeitgeist" helps
— Ya halo passwordnya (@yatapikan) November 27, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a cryptotrader to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “buy bitcoin" helps
— WHALEBOT (@CryptoWhalebot) November 25, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Graphic Designer to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if the “Fibonacci Spiral" helps https://t.co/pxCCaBQ0OL
— 🦇 Dreadful Sanity 🦇 (@DreadfulSanity) November 27, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a dancer to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “plié relevé” helps
— M A R T I N A✨ (@martusolnaf) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a graphic designer to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “proper kerning" helps
— Felix Schlater (@felixschlater) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a UPS driver to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go see if throwing a box into a garage door helps
— Sweatpants Cher 🔶 (@House_Feminist) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a sports marketer to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if throwing them a t-shirt helps
— Chris Grosse (@Chris_Grosse) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a twitter lame joke account to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “what’s BOFA” helps
— Dr. Bucky Turkeytope (@BuckyIsotope) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Software Dev to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “StackOverflow" helps
— Luke Skywalker (@Brandon_Hinds) November 27, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a law prof to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening now
Dad: Go and see if a 25,000-word essay no one will read helps
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 27, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Journalist to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “call a doctor for comment" helps https://t.co/PASjjQMW4N
— geoffrey mohan (@LATgeoffmohan) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Content Strategist to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “on brand storytelling" helps https://t.co/rWD8hdcfp6
— Mel 🦉🍂 (@melissavandew) November 26, 2019
The New York Times got in on it
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a crossword columnist to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “witty commentary" helps
— NYTimes Wordplay (@NYTimesWordplay) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* go tell them
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Psychotherapist to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “how is your relationship to your mother" helps
— ill will (@FrghalFaker12) November 27, 2019
Well,
*makes self-deprecating PM joke during Thanksgiving week thinking coworkers won't see it*
*Tweet goes viral* pic.twitter.com/C7DNLUxFa5
— Laura Gao ✌️ (@heylauragao) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: *donning scarf, hat, bow tie, question mark umbrella* I’m ready
— Ben Werdmuller (@benwerd) November 26, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Poet to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if reading Sonnets helps
— Kahlil Libran (@JeanDmello) November 27, 2019
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Copywriter to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if a tagline helps.
— 3MuskerBeards (@kenyan_parody) November 27, 2019
Flight Attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Dad: *looks at me proudly*
Me: *raises hand*
Flight Attendant: We have a person in need of urgent medical assistance…
Me:
Dad:
Me:
Dad:
Me: I’m not that kind of doctor
— David Steppenbeck, PhD (@dsteppenbeck) November 27, 2019
