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36 of the Funniest Closed Caption Fails You Need to See

36 of the Funniest Closed Caption Fails You Need to See

It's not usually intended, but sometimes captions add an extra layer of entertainment to a show. Check out these closed caption fails that made us laugh out loud.

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January 24, 2019
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You can probably think of a time when both the sound and captions were on, only for funny captions to steal the show. Be it the timing, the descriptions, or the actual mistakes in the captions, these snafus can lead to lots of laughs. And we can all stand to laugh a little bit more.

1. Aloof and intellectua…l all at the same time.

Image of Ted Bundy Tapes on Netflix with captions on the screen

2. Ron Swanson knows a good joke when he hears one.

Image of Ron Swanson with a caption

3. If we had to sum up Canada in one image, we probably would have chosen differently.

a cartoon with a caption of "canada" on the screen

4. “Yo, Mr. White! I don’t like how intense this scene has become!”

A still from Breaking Bad with the caption "intensity intesifies"

5. People (and ponies) continue to use this classic insult to this day.

An image of a my little pony with a caption "well your mom"

6. Wait a minute, does this mean Santa only rents his reindeer for Christmas Eve? What about the other 364 days of the year?

Two men in christmas outfits next to trees with the caption "Read off the rent those reindeer"

7. Kids have it so rough. Always being told to wait until they’re older to do cool things.

A woman looks at the camera with the caption "too young to buy sheep today"

8. This is why cooking is difficult for so many people.

A woman is cooking with a caption that reads "I realize how good I smell after being down in there"

9. Now that’s funny.

Michael Bluth from Arrested Development with the caption "hysterical laughing" and "forced laughing"

10. Oh no, not that!

A man with the caption "He's been shot full ofhaloperidolhalyperidol"

11. Wait for it…

Mickey Mouse with the caption "parents and their families half and and anyhow going and and and"

12. Nearly as effective as Rosetta Stone!

Image of a cartoon with the caption "These symbols mean stuff in Japanese"

13. Gordon Ramsay is so skilled at swearing that he’s capable of doing it via censored mouth blur and closed captioning.

Gordon Ramsay with a caption that reads "bleep"

14. Can you hear it?

A large group of people stand together with the caption "Intel bong"

15. Sobs + tears…carry the two, equals…nope, we’re just as confused as you are.

Image of Spock in Star Trek with the caption "sobbing matheatically"

16. Not a scene from “Edward Scissorhands”.

A man in a dining room with the caption "scissorhands"

17. Is there anything more rock and roll?

Four men in leather jackets with the caption "you started back in the mid-seventies at what an elephant i've got a lot of sheet"

18. Variety is the spice of life, after all.

Image of a man and a woman arguing with the caption "various italian hand gestures"

19. Coming soon: “James and the Giant Peach”, the sequel.

A puppet of Harry Potter and a potato with the caption "well grandmother hopelessly from those I want to live in orange"

20. Rest assured, Portlandians were furious about this development.

Image of an alien with the caption "portland apple juice has been delayed"

21. Sometimes there are no words for what you’re trying to express.

Image of a man in scrubs with the caption "Makes 'I don't know' sound"

22. When you’ve got pizza on the brain, it’s all you can think about.

A man holding pizza boxes with the caption "sometimes pizza times it sometimes it sometimes it sometimes pizza times pizza"

23. How cute would it be if those business ants had little suits and ties?

SpongeBob with the caption "what we're going to do business with ants"

24. His singing voice is terrible, though.

Image of a man screaming with the caption "screams in perfect pitch"

25. Someone is brushing very aggressively.

Image of cartoon monkeys with the caption "bloodshed"

26. And here we were thinking Pokemon only said their own names.

Pokemon cartoon with the caption "peach you at first hated going your bro give mom"

27. Is that so?

Baseball players with a caption "drafted out of jail 2008. He'll be followed by Crawford."

28. Thrash metal fans would argue there is no other kind.

The cartoon Adventure Time with the caption "epic thrash metal"

29. To be fair, the unknown is pretty scary.

Two images of the same woman screaming with captions that read "cellphone rings" and "screams loudly out of fear of the unknown"

30. We all know someone who laughs like this.

Characters from Friends laughing with the caption "machine-gun-fire-like laughter"

31. Onomatopoeia at its finest!

Cartoon of fighter jets with the caption "pew pew! pew! pew pew!"

32. It’s the most important meal of the day, after all.

Images of two people talking with the captions "You mean we can't even go out for breakfast?" "You'll thank me when it's Wednesday" "Whatever that means" and "Dean randomly dies in the shower"

33. Could you tell us more about the origin of this name?

A mugshot of a man with the words "firstname lastname" under the image

34. These are going to require my full attention.

Image from Napoleon Dynamite with the caption "[looks at nachos] I'm busy"

35. Plums – the most versatile fruits out there.

Image of two people with the caption "I did my job with a plum"

36. Dogs do make some pretty strange sounds.

Two images of the same man who is mad. The caption reads "(snarls like a dog)" and "(snarls not like a dog)"

Have a funny caption fail that we should add to our list? Tell us in the comments.

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