Car Salesman Slaps Roof Of Car Meme Template

“Slaps Roof of Car” is a phrasal meme format, rather than a movie or real-event reference. Know Your Meme traces the familiar wording to a September 30, 2014 tweet by @OBiiieeee joking that a salesman slaps a car roof and says it can fit a large amount of spaghetti. In later image versions, the salesman pitches an absurd amount or kind of something as though it were an impressive capacity or feature. The familiar illustrated salesman and buyer image is associated with an illustration YourMechanic published in 2016, itself based on an earlier stock photo. This catalog image is a wide drawn variant of the same basic sales-pitch scene. Its humor comes from pairing confident sales language with an implausible, trivial, or knowingly overhyped claim; the “[X]” can be an object, workload, habit, or abstract concept.

A wide 800×450 illustration shows a suited car salesman gesturing toward a white car while a potential buyer leans in to look. In this particular drawing the hand is extended beside the car roof; an actual slap is not clearly depicted. The effective manual layout has two caption boxes: slot-1 at the upper left, and slot-2 at the lower right over the people/car area.

Use the two boxes as one mock sales pitch. Slot-1 (upper left) introduces the product, situation, or start of the salesman’s pitch; slot-2 (lower right) supplies the punchline claim, preferably in the recognizable “this bad boy can fit so much [X] in it” shape. Make [X] comically excessive, unexpected, or at odds with the ordinary thing being pitched. The two lines should refer to the same product or situation. This actual drawing shows a salesman gesturing beside a car; captions need not literally describe a roof slap.

1. Upper-left caption: introduce the product or mock sales pitch, optionally naming the salesman’s action.
2. Lower-right caption: deliver the exaggerated capacity or feature claim about that same product or situation.

• Mocking a product pitch that exaggerates an ordinary feature
• Describing an overloaded app, process, schedule, or shared document as if its capacity were a selling point
• Self-deprecatingly boasting about how much clutter or work a person has accumulated
• Turning a mundane object into an absurdly capable “product”

• Keep the two captions about one product or situation; slot 2 must complete or exaggerate the pitch from slot 1.
• Make the claimed capacity or feature absurd, unexpected, or knowingly overhyped; a straightforward factual product description loses the joke.
• Do not swap the setup and punchline roles.
• Do not add a third caption; this template has two text boxes.