Do you feel the shiver down your spine? It’s spooky, scary skeleton time. Everyone has one friend or family member who becomes a pumpkin during the month of October. This meme showcases the tragic transformation and the metaphorical loss of loved ones into a squash-like form for 30 days. The meme also highlights the tendency of companies to shove pumpkin time down consumers’ throats until they have Stockholm syndrome. This is a mid-level, capitalist Tom Hanks-Instagram-Halloween meme. This meme gets 15 pumpkins out of the pumpkin bin at Superstore.

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Ahren Klaassen-Wright