Also called I Bet He’s Thinking About Other Women · He’s Probably Thinking About Other Girls · What Is He Thinking About
A woman looks toward her partner while he faces away. Give her a serious guess about his thoughts, then reveal the trivial question actually keeping him awake.
The joke depends on a mismatch between an anxious interpretation and an unrelated thought. The audience can read both minds even though the characters cannot.
The original format often uses romantic suspicion, but your setup can be any mistaken guess. The actual thought might be about a game, tomorrow’s lunch, or a tiny unresolved mystery.
This template belongs to the “I Bet He’s Thinking About Other Women” format, which uses pictures of couples in bed with two contrasting internal monologues. A documented Spanish-language example appeared on Twitter on December 17, 2016. [1]
Spanish compilations followed in early 2017, and English variations spread that summer. The format uses more than one couple photograph; its circulation date does not establish when this particular photo was taken. [1]
Put the woman’s interpretation on the left and the man’s actual thought on the right. The light bedding below them gives both captions room without covering their expressions.
Make the right-hand line specific. A small, oddly persistent question is funnier than a generic claim that he is thinking about something else.
Original captions to try with this template.
The serious-looking silence is about a possible lost save rather than the relationship.
The expected emotional conversation turns out to be a refrigerator inventory.
A missing item of laundry occupies the space imagined to hold a much larger worry.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Documents the Spanish-language format and its English spread across multiple couple photographs.
