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Shut Up and Take My Money!

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Shut up and take my money — web-brand shoes

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Shut up and take my money — web-brand shoes

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Shut Up and Take My Money variant: Shut up and take my credit card — Tic Tac Fatties — Shut up and take my credit card — Tic Tac Fatties
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Shut up and take my credit card — Tic Tac Fatties
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Shut Up and Take My Money variant: Shut up and take my badges — Shut up and take my badges
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Shut up and take my badges
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A real life giant Robot Chicken
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ROSES ARE RED WATCH THIS PLOT THICKEN / SOME GUY MADE A REAL GIANT ROBOT CHICKEN / SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
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Terminator Game
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New Terminator Game Announced For PC, PS4, Xbox One / SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MO... / MAYBE I’LL KEEP MY MONEY
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"WhaT aBoUT yOuTUbE pReMIuM?!?!"
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Youtube viewers every time they see an ad: / AH’M KEEPIN’ ME MONEY!
Scrooge McDuck substitution
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Damn it. Take my money
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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
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Fry in a blue-and-yellow vault-style outfit holds a bag of bottle caps: “SHUT UP AND TAKE MY BOTTLECAPS!” — Cash is out. Bottle caps are in.
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The Fallout-style outfit and bottle caps transplant the impatient customer into a different fictional economy. The joke needs no new sales pitch: even after the currency changes, the buyer is just as eager to surrender all of it.
Futurama-based fan edit with game-character/currency references
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Fry redrawn in a green pointed cap and tunic holds a pouch: “SHUT UP AND TAKE MY RUPEES!” — A green hat does not improve the budget
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The Zelda-style costume and rupees make the reference in two strokes. It is still Fry’s demanding expression, now dressed for a shop where a fistful of dollars would be the wrong payment method.
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Fry redrawn with Luigi’s green L cap, moustache and overalls holds a sack of gold coins: “SHUT UP AND TAKE-A MY COINS!” — Luigi would also like to skip the explanation
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The redraw crosses Fry’s pose with Luigi’s outfit and a Mario-style coin economy. Even the extra “take-a” participates in the costume change, while the urgent offer to pay stays intact.
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About & sources

Fry waves a fistful of cash to interrupt a warning: a cartoon about impulsive buying becomes an enthusiastic response to a desirable product or idea.

Date

Futurama’s Attack of the Killer App, aired July 1, 2010; Know Your Meme reports a captioned blog image the following day.

History

Know Your Meme dates the Futurama episode to July 1, 2010 and reports that German technology blog Crackajack included a captioned Fry image in a post the following day. The selected year marks that television-to-image-macro transition, not the later 2011 subreddit or the original creation of the character. In the scene, Fry dismisses warnings about an eyePhone’s reception and battery life; online reuse often expresses eager approval instead. This is a source-attributed chronology, not an independently verified first-ever use. The preview shows Fry extending a fistful of bills above the caption “SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.” It is a representative captioned cartoon still, not playable preservation of the episode or a blank editing template. The television artwork belongs to its rightsholders; attribution and private research display do not establish permission for public reuse.

Know Your Meme — Shut Up And Take My Money! (origin and spread)

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