Oprah You Get A
Where it came from
A 2004 clip from The Oprah Winfrey Show where Oprah surprised her audience by giving every single person a car. She points around the room yelling "You get a car! You get a car! Everyone gets a car!" Became a meme around 2012.
Oprah points dramatically into the audience with both hands, mouth mid-shout. The caption is always "You get a [thing]! You get a [thing]! Everybody gets a [thing]!" — and the thing is usually something awful or mundane. "You get a tax bill! Everybody gets a tax bill!"
The original clip is such peak TV giveaway energy that inverting it — swapping a car for, say, a root canal — produces instant comedy. Oprah looks thrilled no matter what you put in there, which is part of the joke.
Still used, but feels older now. The original event is 20+ years old and the meme is 10+ years old. Retains classic-status goodwill but doesn't hit like it used to.
Search interest, over time
↳ data courtesy of google trends
