Fans of 90 Day Fiancé likely are also fans of the hit show’s many popular spinoffs on both TLC and Discovery+. The series is about Americans and their fiancés from other countries who are visiting the U.S. on K-1 visas, meaning they have 90 days to marry or else return to their home country. It’s an unusual situation with some unusual people, so the franchise’s many seasons and episodes practically meme themselves.

Fans are passionate about the show, so it’s no wonder why there are hundreds if not thousands of memes about its many iconic characters. In a sea of 90 Day Fiancé memes, some stand out as the best among the rest.

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Updated Oct. 4, 2021 by Paul Ciampanelli: Anyone who expected the 90 Day Fiancé franchise to slow down even a little bit couldn’t have been more wrong. With the debut in 2021 of the Discovery+ streaming platform, the franchise has only spun off more iterations of its formula. The 90 Day Fiancé shows just keep coming, and so do the memes.

Every 90 Day Fiancé Couple

90 Day Fiancé’s premise elicits a certain reaction from the uninitiated. It’s something along the lines of, “Isn’t that the show about lonely, unattractive men marrying foreign women who use them for money or a green card?” That’s a gross oversimplification, obviously. Many of the couples on the show are genuine, lovely and sweet.

Some of the couples, though, are problematic, to put it softly. This meme uses the predatory relationship between Uncle Fester and Debbie in Addams Family Values to illustrate that, sometimes, at its worst (or best, depending on the viewer’s outlook), 90 Day Fiancé is exactly what its detractors say it is.

Iconic Love Story

This simple meme comes from a Reddit user, and it’s a tribute to one of 90 Day Fiancé’s most iconic couples of all time. Way back in season 2, the pairing of Danielle from the U.S. and her fiancé, Mohamed from Tunisia, elevated the show to a new level of cringe, resetting the bar for what the series could be.

As one of the most shocking couples from 90 Day Fiancé, Danielle and Mohamed’s marriage is one of the earliest to continue outside of the core series into its many spinoffs. It’s the kind of proverbial car crash from which fans couldn’t turn away. This photo really says it all: the way Danielle literally clings to Mohamed, his dead-eyed gaze of misery and regret. Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand episodes.

Therapy, Not Entertainment

What is it about 90 Day Fiancé that’s so addictive to its fans? Like reality TV in general, the show reflects the best and worst in people. It appeals to humans’ fondest wishes and basest impulses. It makes viewers cheer for its subjects when they succeed, but it also invites them to judge failure.

Some viewers of 90 Day Fiancé and its many spinoffs enjoy the show because it’s nice to watch people fall in love. Others like to jeer at those whom they see as losers. For most, the show is a therapeutic outlet for both instincts, because humans are vast and contain multitudes. All that said, this meme definitely rallies those who prefer to jeer, because Betty is widely loathed by fans.

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He’s 30, He Should Have A House

It’s reductive and cruel to paint the women of 90 Day Fiancé as “gold diggers,” especially when there’s a certain amount of financial stability that’s advisable for anyone to achieve before entering matrimony, regardless of where they come from. For a variety of familiar reasons, though, some of the couples on the show aren’t well established financially.

Of course, millennials know all too well that achieving home ownership is more and more out of reach than it was for previous generations. Thus, when Deavan’s mom put it so plainly on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way that her daughter’s fiancé should “already have a house” and a “huge savings account” at age 30, a lot of millennial viewers suddenly felt very attacked.

TLC: A Wild Ride

90 Day Fiancé airs on the TLC network. Some of its fans may not realize what the channel’s initials actually stand for. It originally was called The Learning Channel, and it was indeed developed by NASA, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health, to provide purely educational programming. It’s kind of like how A&E (Arts & Entertainment) originally focused on the arts, or how Bravo was created to broadcast theater performances.

Times certainly change. Networks are businesses, so they have to turn a profit. On a long enough timeline, it seems, all these highfalutin TV channels bend to the whims of their viewers. They give the people what the people want. And TLC viewers want 90 Day Fiancé (plus Dr. Pimple Popper, 1000-lb Sisters, and all the best shows on TLC), and plenty of it.

Love the Mess

Much like Marie Kondo from Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, fans of 90 Day Fiancé just love mess. No matter what’s going on in the show, there’s bound to be some total disaster happening, and that’s true if a season has just started, if it’s just about to end, and especially if audiences are smack dab in the middle.

Whether viewers are settling in to watch Jenny attempt to find love again or to see Deavan just trying her best, there’s a guaranteed mess ahead.

Jenny, Jenny

Jenny is an interesting case for 90 Day Fiancé because the man she was going all the way to The Other Way to meet, Sumit, was actually already married, and Jenny was his mistress. Another added layer to all of this is that Jenny is actually older than Sumit’s mother, which just makes the whole thing that much more chaotic.

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Sumit’s parents really summed it all up when they dropped this line about their lives, their hopes, and their dreams, making them instantly relatable to all the viewers watching at home.

The Struggle Is Real

Waiting for another season of someone’s favorite series in the 90 Day Fiancé canon is sometimes torturous. Though many fans like all the different runs and spinoffs of the show, some are more particular and only enjoy shows like 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way.

Luckily, The Other Way isn’t going away anytime soon. Season 3 of everyone’s favorite show about Americans going to other countries to torment their loved ones (and be tormented by them in return) is airing in the fall of 2021.

Michael, Please

Michael and Angela are two cast members of the 90 Day Fiancé franchise who are regulars, as much as any couple can be regulars on these shows, having appeared in multiple seasons of both 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days and the original series.

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One thing all audiences know about Michael and Angela on 90 Day Fiancé is that they’re often all over each other and very touchy-feely. Sometimes, they go a little too far, and the PDA happens in front of people such as Michael’s own mother. It’s unfortunate, but it’s also highly meme-able.

Charlie’s Speech

Fans instantly sought to meme Charlie Potthast after he gave an awkward speech at his sister Elizabeth’s wedding to Andrei. Though it’s no secret that Elizabeth’s family has some misgivings about her relationship with Andrei, they largely attempt to pull through for her (and for the ratings on the show).

Many fans found something relatable in Charlie’s expression and delivery during his wedding speech, leading to memes such as this one.

Poor Rose

Anyone who has watched any piece of the 90 Day Fiancé franchise knows that Big Ed and Rose are a tragic couple. In fact, anyone who’s read any articles, news or synopses about the franchise knows that Big Ed and Rose are an iconic trainwreck.

The fault really doesn’t lie with Rose but with Big Ed, a notorious jerk who doesn’t get along with anyone or anything except his dog (and even then, it’s iffy). Poor Rose thought she’d be getting a better life for herself and her son, Prince, but Big Ed’s life for her has been far from it.

The Cost Of Living

One thing that the couples on 90 Day Fiancé all have in common is that they don’t seem to understand how expensive the visa process will end up being. Many of those who appear on the show are just regular Joes like the rest of the viewers at home and are always shocked by how much it costs to bring someone to America, or vice-versa. Inexplicably, it always seems to be some big surprise to the fiancé’s on the show when everything is as expensive as it is.

Not Awkward At All

After Colt and Larissa broke up, Colt was left wide open for some other woman to swoop in and be weird with him and his mother, a spot filled by none other than Jess. As Colt has proven himself to be quite strange time and time again, it’s no surprise that Jess is somewhat strange as well.

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The two of them often get along better than Colt did with Larissa and her explosive personality, but the chemistry seems to flick on and off. Sometimes, Colt and Jess are really into each other, but sometimes they share awkward, weird cousin-hugs like the one in this meme.

Ulterior Motives

Not to shatter anyone’s illusions, but sometimes people who appear on the 90 Day Fiancé shows aren’t actually in it to see their fiancés or to be on television. Sometimes, those who appear on the show are doing so incidentally, just because they were trying to get into some sort of reciprocal relationship, perhaps involving money, and things escalated to a point beyond that.

One thing is for certain: Viewers can often tell which couples are really in love and which couples are made up of someone trying to use their partner for money or something else.

True Love

Though some couples do have ulterior motives, some are scheming, some don’t like each other, some are using each other, and some just straight-up are unlikeable, there are some relationships that viewers just love to love.

When the Americans on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way go the other way and visit the countries their partners live in just to see their partners and visibly fall in love with them all over again for the first time, well, it’s enough to bring tears to even the most skeptical of viewers’ eyes.

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