30 Chemistry Memes Guaranteed to Spark Laughter
These chemistry memes are for anyone who survived organic chemistry, memorized the periodic table or forgot the units on an exam. They play on sodium and chlorine, covalent bonds, benzene rings and amino acids, using favorite formats from Winnie the Pooh to Rick and Morty. Each one has a short caption that explains the joke.
A Boc cockatoo hugging an amine parrot: organic chemistry in bird form.
Fancy Winnie the Pooh: K, Ok, Okay, Potassium.
Water breaks up with an oil molecule: “Is it because I’m fat?”
One Ring to rule them all: the benzene ring of organic chemistry.
Gru’s exam plan: read the question, solve it, forget the units.
Sodium, an explosive metal, plus chlorine, a deadly gas, makes table salt.
What chemistry looks like vs the tangled highway it actually is.
Loki on whether water is an acid or a base.
Morty drinks acetone by accident: “Is this organic?”
Studying organic chemistry looks a lot like drawing zigzags.
Rick and Morty: 10 minutes into labs vs 10 minutes before the end.
Mendeleev’s face when teachers make students memorize the periodic table.
Teachers when you mix salt and water without goggles: “We’re all gonna die!”
Hexagon paving stones before and after organic chemistry.
“I Lu V You” spelled with iodine, lutetium, vanadium, yttrium, oxygen and uranium.
How it started: Cartoon Network. How it’s going: the cyanide ion.
Tree branches that look like a molecule: it’s a chemistree.
Obi-Wan can’t find wood on the periodic table: “Impossible.”
Houses dressed as every metal element, copper and gold, and bismuth.
Fancy Pooh prefers ethane’s skeletal formula.
What do you call an acid with an attitude? A-mean-oh acid.
Thanos learning that H+ is just a proton.
Chem majors and bio majors united by disliking pre-med students.
Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and helium argue about how many bonds they form.
Sodium explodes in water, chlorine was a WW1 weapon, together they oversalt the soup.
Methanol, ethanol and Español.
Covalent bonds share electrons; ionic bonds just hand them over.
Formaldehyde vs casual-dehyde in a Hawaiian shirt.
Ask Google for these formulas and it answers NO, NaBrO, NaH.
SpongeBob levels: dispersion force, dipole-dipole, hydrogen bonding.
Want something darker? Try these comics that deliver dark humor.