" Shine On, You Crazy Diamond" from Wish You Were Here (1975). The song itself. note Originally a darkly ironic plea to former bandmate Syd Barrett, who they knew was beyond help, it's become just a way of declaring someone Crazy Is Cool.
Many of their album covers, especially The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.
Comparing many of the controversial things that Donald Trump said to lyrics from "In the Flesh".
"Ha ha, charade you are!" Explanation A lyric from "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" from Animals.
"Album X syncs perfectly with Movie X." Explanation Inspired by a phenomenon known as "The Dark Side of the Rainbow", where it was claimed that The Dark Side of the Moon syncs perfectly with The Wizard of Oz. This has led fans to jokingly claim that the band's other albums synchronize with other movies.
"Seamus (That's the dog)." Explanation A reference to "Seamus" from Meddle. The titular dog is a Memetic Badass among fans.
"Animals is so underrated tbh." Explanation This sarcastic remark is used to mock fans who believe this, despite Animals being among the band's most popular albums
"Dragged down by the stone."/STONE STONE STONE STONE... Explanation A lyric from "Dogs", notable for the echo of the word "stone". The quote is frequently referenced, and sometimes paired with the Moai emoji, which fans jokingly say looks like Roger Waters
YEESHKUL! Explanation In a recording of the band's concert at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1973, someone (possibly the taper) yells this nonsense word several times. Floyd fandom has been speculating for years about what it means, to the point where it was used as the name for a significant... uh, website. You can look it up yourself.
"I'll have pie....but without the crust..." note Spoken by drummer Nick Mason in a scene set in the Abbey Road commissary in the performance/documentary film Pink Floyd - Live At Pompeii. It has become a humorous meme among the Floyd fandom. Nick Mason seems to be associated with two things...hating pie crust & epic mustaches.
Roger Waters looking like a horse.
And also a Moai
"Pink Floyd of course." Explanation David Gilmour jokingly telling Adrian Maben, the director of Live at Pompeii, what the film is about in the interview footage.
Roger firing the keyboard player.
"The oysters are good, aren't they?" Explanation Roger Waters in the making-of footage in the Live at Pompeii director's cut, while the band is eating lunch.
"Another Brick in the Wall": "We don't need no education..." note While the song was simply Pink further shutting himself off from the world, students around the world have since used it as an anti-school anthem.
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!note The spoken-word coda to "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", which gained notoriety for how odd it sounds out of context. The line has since become popular to quote in reference to the song as a result.
BUT IN THIS TOWN IT WAS WELL KNOWN WHEN THEY GOT HOME AT NIGHT THEIR FAT AND PSYCHOPATHIC WIVES WOULD THRASH THEM WITHIN INCHES OF THEIR LIVES!note Sometimes quoted when talking about women getting upset.
"We live in a society" [20 minute guitar solo] Explanation A Shallow Parody of the band's style during the Roger Waters era's peak, riffing on Waters' focus on bleak, borderline nihilistic themes in his lyrics and the inevitable stereotype of Progressive Rock being loaded with excessively-long solos. Initially started out of a minor Hype Backlash towards the band before being quickly-coopted by fans as a form of Affectionate Parody.
ANTISEMITE! Explanation A twitter video posted by Roger Waters featuring a memorable moment of him pointing at the camera and yelling "ANTISEMITE!" quickly became the target of parody among fans, often shorting the clip to say things such as "ANT!" or "TEA!", followed by an instrumental riff from a Pink Floyd song
My balls. Explanation A lyric from "Mother" which became a meme within the fanbase thanks to both the obvious word choice and the noticeable pause before it.
Roger's website access. Explanation In 2020, Roger posted a lengthy rant slamming David for taking away his access to the band's website and social media accounts, which was widely mocked by the fanbase as being petty and embarrassing.
Happy 78th Birthday to Roger Waters. Explanation A social media post on the band's pages was posted on Roger's birthday with this text alongside a very low quality image of Roger himself, which seen as a dig against him by the fanbase. Many parodies of the image were made.
The Dark Side of the Moon (Roger's Version) Explanation Roger announced that he recorded his own solo version of the band's album, with the the internet referencing Taylor Swift's "Taylor's Version" series of re-recorded albums in response .
"I like your pride shirt."Explanation A comic in which a woman mistakes a man's The Dark Side of the Moon tee shirt for a gay pride shirt. The comic caught on among Pink Floyd's LGBT Fanbase, who poked fun at its queerphobic undertones (as homophobes occasionally claim that the pride flag "appropriates" rainbow imagery) by either replacing the design on the shirt or jokingly calling the cover for The Dark Side of the Moon a pride symbol. The fact that the rainbow on the album cover and the rainbow on the pride flag have identical color schemes only heightens such jokes.
