I honestly don’t remember if Jude Law’s character dies at the end of the movie version of the ‘Da Vinci Code.’ I think in the book he kills himself because he wants to be kind of like Jesus and then the other good pope guy gets to be pope and everyone thinks Jude Law sacrificed himself for humanity. But in the movie, maybe Jude Law had an anti-self-immolation clause in his contract, so they couldn’t write that scene exactly how it happened in the novel.
I think he lived.
But, whatever, the important thing is that Jude Law is now the pope in a new HBO series ‘Young Pope.’ Whether it’s a continuation of the Dan Brown story, who knows.
[UPDATE: I was thinking about Ewan McGregor in ‘Angels & Demons.’ I messed that up kinda bad.]
And, really, neither of those things are important. What’s important is that Twitter has become aware of the absurdly simple premise.
“A young pope? Hmmm that’s a
(•_•)
( •_•)>??-?
(??_?)
juvenile concept.”
The social network is now doing what it does best. Mocking the ever-loving heck out of it.
TEEN 1: Church is so boring.
— anne t donahue (@annetdonahue) January 5, 2017
TEEN 2: It’s so out of touch.
THE YOUNG POPE approaches pulpit: “Some…BODY once told me–”
TEENS: HOLY SHIT
https://twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe/status/817009883056746498
Young Pope was into Calvinism before John Calvin had even heard of Martin Luther
— bernieflash (@bearflash) January 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/goblincavern/status/817099910248103945
The mocking sprawled into another whole meme, throwing the phrase ‘Young Pope’ into whatever song lyrics made both the most and least amount of sense.
COMIN OUTA MY CAGE
— jonny sun (@jonnysun) January 5, 2017
AND IVE BEEN FEELIN JUST FINE
GOTTA GOTTA BE
YOUNG
BECAUSE I AM THE
POPE
https://twitter.com/Joe_Hunter/status/817093902318600195
despite all my rage
— Mike… Byhoff? (@mbyhoff) January 5, 2017
i am still just a pope of young age
🎶Young Pope!
— chris person (@Papapishu) January 5, 2017
there’s no need to feel down
I said, Young Pope!
pick yourself off the ground
I said, Young Pope! 🎶
https://twitter.com/ShutUpAndrosky/status/816525943745355776
https://twitter.com/ericeidelstein/status/816849461620207616
https://twitter.com/RachelCraves/status/817095009098928128
If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you son / I got 99 problems and the pope is young
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) January 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheAliciaKraft/status/816879083212697600
https://twitter.com/ericeidelstein/status/816862673338068992
he’s a young pope
— Xena Worrier Princess (@marianbull) January 5, 2017
he loves his Father
loves Jesus
and the Vatican too
If you are wondering if just about everyone went for the lowest hanging fruit, well, scroll here.
Of course, like any internet argument eventually evokes Nazis, any Twitter meme must come back to this.
What’s up with all these Young Pope tweets? Like did a 3yo boy climb into a pope enclosure and Young Pope ended up getting shot and killed?
— Beverly Tweetmaker — Top 69% on OnlyFans (@BvrlyTweetmaker) January 5, 2017
‘Young Pope’ premieres on HBO on Sunday, Jan. 15, which should be just enough time for everyone to forget this ever happened.
