Also called Yes This Is Dog · Dog on the Phone · Chien au téléphone
A black dog listens to a phone in four pictures, moving from an open-mouthed look to closed eyes. Write a short call that starts politely and ends with unwelcome news.
The changing expression supplies the reaction to a conversation we cannot hear. The last picture can stand for disappointment, resignation, or a wish for the call to end.
Four panels give you room for a greeting, a question, a reveal, and a final response. The words can stay simple because the face carries the change in mood.
The earlier Yes, This Is Dog meme used a black Labrador with a telephone receiver in a frame from the 1984 film Pejzaži u magli. Know Your Meme documents that caption on Tumblr in October 2011. This four-photo smartphone collage is a different image; the film date and early Tumblr post belong to the predecessor, not these photographs. [1]
Read the pictures left to right across the top, then across the bottom. Put one short line on the chest in each panel, clear of the eyes and phone.
Use the first two lines to establish the call, the third to reveal the problem, and the closed-eye picture for the final response. Dog-related details can work, but an ordinary customer-service call fits too.
Original captions to try with this template.
The expected walk becomes a reason to end the conversation.
The third line changes a promising delivery update into a problem.
The last line implies enough time on hold to recognize the music.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Documents the earlier single-frame telephone meme, which uses a different image from this collage.
