# 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. ## Origin The catchphrase comes from Mike Judge's 1999 workplace comedy Office Space[1]. In the scene, main character Peter Gibbons is venting about how much he hates his job at Initech when a female temp worker walks up behind him and singsongs, "Uh oh. It looks like somebody's got a case of the Mondays," in a childish, condescending tone[3]. The moment landed alongside "PC Load Letter" and the printer beatdown as one of the film's most quoted bits, and it moved online almost immediately. The first documented Usenet post using the phrase appeared in 2000, less than a year after the film opened[4]. - **Platform:** Film (Office Space) / Usenet and Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Mike Judge (writer/director of Office Space) - **Date:** 1999 ## 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