# Case Of The Mondays Case Of The Mondays is a catchphrase from the 1999 film Office Space used to describe a bad mood at the start of the work week. It jumped from cult movie quote to Usenet slang within a year of release and stuck around on Reddit and consumer goods for more than two decades. ## Overview Case Of The Mondays describes the tiredness, irritability, and general dread that hits people returning to work after the weekend[1]. The line works as a joke because it captures a very specific office archetype, the aggressively cheerful coworker who dismisses real frustration with a scripted piece of small talk. Urban Dictionary later logged it as "a fictitious disorder associated with the tiredness, irritability or distractedness that comes from returning to work after the weekend"[2]. The phrase is almost always used with an eye roll attached, either mocking the person who says it or mocking the coworker it is being said about[2]. ## How It Spread Usenet archives return roughly 902 hits for the phrase, showing steady message-board use through the early 2000s before Urban Dictionary added its first definition in 2004[2][4]. On Reddit, thousands of posts pair the line with a photo or short vent explaining why the workday is unwanted, with at least five threads clearing 1,000 upvotes[5]. A running Reddit joke plays on the double meaning, suggesting that if there were a beer named Mondays, everyone would want a case of it[5]. The phrase also broke out of message boards and onto merchandise, with American Greetings selling a themed ecard[6] and Etsy hosting a wide market of Office Space quote prints built around the line[7]. Musicians picked up the name too. A band called A Case of the Mondays released their first record in 2012, and several other SoundCloud acts still use the name for their projects[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Case Of The Mondays? It is a catchphrase describing the bad mood, tiredness and irritability people feel returning to work on a Monday[1]. ### Where did Case Of The Mondays come from? The line was first spoken by a temp worker in Mike Judge's 1999 film Office Space, aimed at main character Peter Gibbons[3]. ### What does Case Of The Mondays mean? Urban Dictionary defines it as a fictitious disorder tied to the crankiness of returning to work after the weekend[2]. ### How do you use Case Of The Mondays? People typically caption a photo or vent about a rough Monday with the line, often mocking the chipper coworker who would say it unironically[5]. ### Is Case Of The Mondays still popular? The catchphrase is a classic reference from Office Space that stuck around through 902 Usenet posts, thousands of Reddit threads, ecards and prints[4][6]. ## References 1. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Case%20Of%20The%20Mondays]() 2. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/quotes/]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AB9zPfXqQQ]() 4. [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/case$20of$20the$20mondays]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/case-of-the-mondays]() 6. [https://www.americangreetings.com/]() 7. [https://www.etsy.com/listing/office-space-case-of-the-mondays-movie-quote-print]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/case-of-the-mondays Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library