Also called Waiting at the Computer · Computer Skeleton Waiting · Still Waiting Meme
A man waits at a monitor and becomes a skeleton in the next panel. Name the thing that is supposed to happen soon, then let the unchanged computer and dramatic aging show how long it feels.
The two panels exaggerate a delay by keeping the person in place while an impossible amount of time seems to pass. It is useful when a short wait has no visible end.
A stalled progress message can make the joke by itself. Repeating exactly the same status in both panels shows that the system has made less progress than the person waiting.
The figure is Walter Donovan, played by Julian Glover in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, released in 1989. CreatorSet identifies the morphing-skeleton meme with that character’s transformation. The computer monitor is part of the meme edit. [1] [2]
A Star Citizen version was archived by Know Your Meme in May 2017. That record shows the waiting format in use by then; it does not identify the creator or first publication of the computer montage. [3]
Use the dark space above the monitor on the left of each panel. Keep the man’s face and the matching skeletal face unobstructed.
The first caption can quote a promised wait time. The second can repeat a frozen status, admit you are still waiting, or quietly question that promise.
Original captions to try with this template.
The unchanging number makes the time jump especially frustrating.
A precise-sounding promise loses its meaning after enough waiting.
The request remains exactly as unfinished as it was at the start.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Confirms the 1989 film and Julian Glover’s role as Walter Donovan.
Identifies the meme’s transforming figure as Walter Donovan from The Last Crusade.
Records a Star Citizen variation uploaded in May 2017, without establishing the first computer edit.
