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Wow, there is a Malcolm version of this meme!
Here the template.
It should have them going in opposite directions
Yeah, but it’s shot from the driver’s point of view. If one panel was flipped they’d be going in the same direction.
It can still be from the drivers point of view. This just makes more sense to me...
No, this doesn't work for me. I imagine myself standing in the middle of the road where the camera would be. If I look left and right and see these two cars, it means they're going in the same direction.
Exactly. I prefer yours I think
It was the OG version
As I can find the other similar template with Page aired in 2020, and was memed instantly:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/vanya-and-five-drive-by-each-other
The oldest meme using this template I can find is from 2021, even though the episode aired in 2005. So as a meme this is the newer.
I lived through the ancient times, I was there, the MITM one came well before.
I seem to recall a gif version too, with Malcolm and his mom reacting in split screen
Checked it with multiple reverse image search engines, and I can't find it anywhere before 2021. It was posted that time related to the other drive-by meme, I guess someone saw the new meme, and remembered Malcolm had a very similar scene 15 year earlier, searched the episode and made the screenshot.
2005 was before these kind of labeled reaction memes even existed. Know Your Meme has 3 Malcolm memes documented, all of them started to spread more than a decade after they aired:
So even if this scene was used as a gif before 2021, its usage as a meme should came after the Umbrella Academy version was known