The moment The Bachelor Season 23 had been building toward finally happened: Colton Underwood jumped the fence. It was everything we hoped for and more, because we didn't know we were going to get Chris Harrison standing with his hands in his pockets calmly saying, "He just jumped the f---ing fence."
Colton's graceful exit into the wilderness of Portugal came after Cassie, the woman he's hopelessly in love with, told him, "I love you, but I'm not, like, in love with you." Despite his reassurances that it was OK she felt like that and he would wait for her feelings to catch up, she said that though she wished she felt certain she wanted to be with him, she didn't, so she left. After a few moments alone in his room, Colton walked out, pulled off his mic, and disappeared into the darkness.
And then Bachelor fans released the cathartic memes they had been waiting to share all season -- just an incredible bounty of hilarious jokes about the episode. Bachelor Nation really outdid itself. Here are some of my favorite fence jump sequence memes.
The best subcategory is screenshots of Cassie's "what have I gotten myself into" expression with captions narrating her thoughts.
When you just wanted to do paid partnerships on Instagram and he caught feelings #thebachelor pic.twitter.com/3DVNMc6kR8
— PAblonde (@philablonde) March 5, 2019Use my code NOTHEREFORTHERIGHTREASONS to get 30% off your next FabFitFun Box.#TheBachelor pic.twitter.com/dO6q293TYE
— Han (@HanBan_3) March 5, 2019When you flirted because you were bored and now they wanna get serious #TheBachelor pic.twitter.com/wuJQewTfXC
— Shade West (@Tatyannah_k) March 5, 2019And there were some incredibly accurate ones involving Dumb and Dumber, of all things.
#TheBachelor
Taysia: Cassie is here for the wrong reasons and she's not ready
Kirpa: Cassie is not ready
Cassie's Dad: She's not ready
Cassie: I'm not ready
Colton: pic.twitter.com/oU7EJw26VC
The Ladies: Cassie isn't ready.
Cassie's Dad: Cassie isn't ready
Cassie: I'm not ready
Colton:#TheBachelor pic.twitter.com/Vv8JTX80My
That format produced some of the night's best jokes.
hannah b: i'm in love with you
caeylnn: i'm in love with you
hannah g: i'm in love with you
tayshia: i'm in love with you
cassie: eh idk
colton: cassie🥰🥰🥰 #TheBachelor
Demi: Cassie's not ready
Tayshia: Cassie's not ready
Katie: Cassie's not ready
Kirpa: Cassie's not ready
Cassie: I'm not ready
Colton: #TheBachelor pic.twitter.com/OibN9y8WnI
And there were some good random ones, too.
have you seen our man #TheBachelor pic.twitter.com/8ca9FTIwg9
— Lexa (@virgobiitch) March 5, 2019When your dog runs away and the entire family has to go search the neighborhood for it #TheBachelor pic.twitter.com/NPpvq93f9E
— kate bockholt (@katebockholt) March 5, 2019Chris trying to figure out how to unlock the fence #TheBachelor pic.twitter.com/qxEx0ycNb2
— Memphis ️ (@DespainMemphis) March 5, 2019And this is the perfect use of this classic meme format about ignoring red flags.
Colton when he was warned time and time again about Cassie #thebachelor pic.twitter.com/yqRgYry7X6
— D (@trapsouldee) March 5, 2019The Bachelor continues tonight at 8/7c on ABC, followed by the season finale Monday and Tuesday at 8/7c on ABC. Episodes are available to stream on Hulu.
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