Okay, this is a lot to process. The video below aired during the “MAD” sketch show on Cartoon Network, and it is a dizzying assault of memes. At its core, it’s a battle between the new Thundercats and Dogfort characters, but along the way there’s a lot of impact font and lolcats and ragetoons and other memes. It all makes perfect sense to me, but normal people — that is, people who don’t spend 12 hours a day on Tumblr and Reddit and Uproxx — will be absolutely baffled by it.

But that’s all moot. I’m just posting the video because Lobster Dog was finally on TV, as a cloned foot soldier in the Dogfort army. Oh man, can you imagine a platoon of Lobster Dogs? I can. I dream about it every night.

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I’ve always thought the whole “take a picture from a TV show or movie and then write a funny line over it in Impact font” meme was pretty simple, but I’ll also be the first to admit that I get a kick out of it every time. In this case, the meme du jour is Gloria Pritchett (the beloved Sofia Vergara) quotes from “Modern Family,” as introduced to us last week by our colleagues at Buzzfeed.

Adding to their effort made me realize that TV has been especially boring this summer, with my highlights coming from my daily DVR reruns of “Parks and Rec” and “Archer.” Then again, I still have every episode of “Wilfred” to watch, so I’m just being lazy. Wait, where was I? Oh yeah, September 21 and the new season of “Modern Family” can’t come fast enough, so enjoy the best of our favorite voluptuous Colombian actress and her hilarious lines in the meantime.

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As I’ve said before, the Nyan Cat meme doesn’t particularly appeal to me, but this video of the “Star Trek” crew encountering the 8-bit poptart space cat made me chuckle. There’s just something about William Shatner’s dramatic reaction and Leonard Nimoy’s subtle eyebrow raise that gives the silly little animation some gravity. At the same time, it makes “Star Trek” more enjoyable for me than ever before. I guess the show just needed more cats.

That’s why I’d make a great studio executive. My notes for every TV show would be a sheet of loose leaf paper with a single handwritten demand: “MORE CATS.”

[gabrielramos via bunnyfood]

For as much time as I spend on the internet, I’ve never been particularly captivated by Nyan Cat (aka Pop Tart Cat), the 8-bit animation of a cat with a pop tart body that craps rainbows as it floats through space. Nevertheless, this IS still the internet, and the internet still loves cats, so here’s a live-action Nyan Cat that appeared on French TV, woefully devoid of pop tart body. Those French can’t get anything right besides cheese and first ladies.

On the following pages, I’ve got a crash course in Nyan Cat meme history, including the original YouTube video, Mexican Nyan Cat, and the day that changed America: Nyan-Eleven. People aren’t gonna like that one.

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Hey guys, Fox’s “Breaking In” is totally hip to the intarwebs! They know what memes are! In fact, in one episode, one of the characters says, “Boom goes the dynamite!” Ooohhh, and they have plans to maybe use Leeroy Jenkins in the future.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to be pandered to, and I’d certainly like it if more people understood my Lobster Dog tee-shirts (yes, plural), but I’m going to need something a little fresher and more creative than just repeating Internet catch phrases. Play “Breaking In” off, Keyboard Cat.

…and what the hell is up with this guy’s eyebrows?

[whatevs]