Bitches Love Smiley Faces
Published August 16, 2026
Bitches Love Smiley Faces is a catchphrase from a 2006 episode of the animated Adult Swim series The Boondocks, delivered by Ed Wuncler III as texting advice. The line became a snowclone template ('I sent that bitch an X, bitches love X') that spread through hip-hop forums, humor blogs, and Tumblr across the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Overview
Bitches Love Smiley Faces is a catchphrase from a 2006 episode of the animated Adult Swim series The Boondocks1 that grew into a widely-used snowclone template: 'I sent that bitch an X, bitches love X'4. Users swap in any object or gesture, and the joke lands on the absurd self-assurance of the pickup logic behind it.
The classic image macro version pairs the phrase with stock photographs of a man leaning back smugly at a desk beside a woman smiling at her computer, framing the smiley face text as an unreasonably effective flirting move. In the original scene, teenage character Ed Wuncler III delivers the boast with complete deadpan conviction3.
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The format is fill-in-the-blank: 'I sent that bitch an [item], bitches love [item].' The joke typically works when the noun is either wildly inappropriate, like a subpoena or eviction notice, or absurdly mundane, like a slice of toast. Image macro versions often pair the phrase with the original desk stock photos or a screenshot of Ed Wuncler III from the show1.