You can see You Can See Everything everywhere
Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos founder and convicted fraudster, has become a meme machine
Some movies leave you with a memorable line.
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movies → see → line
You Can See Everything
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You → see → Everything
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's movie about Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos founder and convicted fraudster, has become a meme machine, powered by the film's most unnerving visual signature: close talking.
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movie → convict → signature
Online, the answer has been to turn the pauses, the proximity, the dead-serious eye contact and that discomfort into a format.
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answer → turn → format
You Can See Everything sells out theatres, and people can't stop talking about it
Loved You Can See Everything?
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You → see → Everything
The latest take came on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where Jamie Lee Curtis played Holmes and Fallon took on Fielder.
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Fallon → come → Fielder
They delivered a shot-for-shot remake of of one of the film's most intense exchanges.
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They → deliver → exchanges
With tense music underneath, Fallon mirrored Fielder's measured questions and subtle expressions while Curtis held Holmes's wide-eyed stare and repeated her lines, including, "I'm engaging with you as a human being."
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I → mirror → being
The pair stayed in character until Fallon walked away and Curtis broke the tension.
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Curtis → stay → tension
The spoof quickly won over viewers online, with fans calling it Emmy-worthy and some saying Fallon looked so much like Fielder they briefly thought it was him.
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it → win → Fielder
This Hour Has 22 Minutes borrows the film's close-talking tension for a parody negotiation between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Has → borrow → Trump
As Trump insists he isn't lying, Carney asks, "So you won't try to make Canada the 51st state?"
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Canada → insist → ?
Trump promises he won't, then admits, "I lied."
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I → promise → ?
Their face-to-face exchange spirals into an absurd argument about truth and trust, with Carney struggling to follow Trump's shifting story.
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Carney → spiral → story
The joke made its way to Washington Square Park in New York City, where dozens gathered for a Holmes and Fielder lookalike contest.
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dozens → make → contest
Organized by comedian Maddy West and a friend, the event drew more than 200 registration responses.
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event → organize → responses
The winners were Nicole Travolta, an actor and comedian who has been impersonating Holmes since 2022, and Joe Sivick, whose resemblance to Fielder was convincing enough to briefly fool one of the organizers.
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resemblance → impersonate → organizers
Fans react online
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On platforms including X, Instagram, TikTok and Reddit, users have also been reacting to Holmes and Fielder's real-life exchanges, even making parodies of their own.
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users → include → own
One Reddit user reimagined the film as You Can Eat Anything.
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You → reimagine → Anything
Other memes transplant the film's dead-serious dialogue into everyday situations.
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memes → transplant → situations
One X user posted, "It's finally fall, we're going apple picking with my college friends next Sunday at 1 pm."
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we → post → pm
A user on Reddit re-shared this one, which said, "My cat telling me she hasn't been fed yet.
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she → re → me
Why would I deceive you?
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I → deceive → you
There's no reason for me to do that."
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me → be → that
A reddit user re-shared this meme that says, 'My cat telling me she hasn't been fed yet.
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she → re → me
Why would I deceive you?
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I → deceive → you
There's no reason for me to do that.'
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me → be → that
The film's reach extends beyond social media.
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It took in more than $15 million US during its opening weekend, the second-largest opening weekend for a non-musical documentary in domestic box office history, behind only 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11.
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It's also currently the highest-rated movie in Rotten Tomatoes history, currently sitting at 97 per cent fresh.
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The audience response has also prompted A24 to mount an ambitious Oscars campaign, seeking consideration for You Can See Everything in categories including best picture and best director — an unprecedented push for a feature documentary.
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You → prompt → documentary
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