51 Light Bulb Jokes: 2022 – The Year of the Multiverse and Corn

In 2022, our reality felt like it was splitting into a multiverse. We were obsessively guessing five-letter words on Wordle, listening to a kid talk about why “Corn” is the most beautiful thing, and watching Tom Cruise prove that movie stars still exist with Top Gun: Maverick. It was the year of the “Gentleminions,” the rise of “BeReal,” and the moment everyone realized that AI (DALL-E) could paint a picture of a light bulb in the style of Van Gogh in three seconds. The humor of 2022 is wholesome, chaotic, and increasingly surreal.

The 2022 Top 10: Corn and Chaos

1. The Corn Kid: “I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing! It’s a bulb! It has the juice! (Wait, that’s electricity).”
2. The Wordle Addict: One, but it takes them six tries. ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (G-L-A-S-S).
3. The BeReal User: One, but they only have 2 minutes to do it, and the photo shows them looking exhausted on a ladder while the front camera catches their messy living room.
4. The Gentleminion: One, but they have to go to the hardware store wearing a full tuxedo and acting incredibly polite.
5. The Doctor Strange (Multiverse): Infinite. In one universe, the bulb is a pizza. In another, it’s a paint splatter. In this one, it’s just out.
6. The Maverick (Top Gun): “Don’t think, just screw!” One, but they do it while flying a ladder at Mach 10.
7. The DALL-E AI: “Here are 4 variations of an astronaut changing a light bulb in a cyberpunk kitchen made of waffles.”
8. The Stranger Things 4 Fan: One, but they have to play “Running Up That Hill” on a loop to keep Vecna away from the socket.
9. The Elden Ring Player: None. They’ve been trying to reach the socket for 60 hours but keep getting “You Died” by a moth living in the lamp.
10. The House of the Dragon Fan: One, but it leads to a 20-year civil war over which brand of bulb should be used.

The Full 2022 Archive (Extended List)

11. The Harry Styles (As It Was) Fan: “You know it’s not the same as it was… especially now that it’s dark.”
12. The Lizzo (About Damn Time) Fan: “It’s about damn time! I’ve been sitting in the dark for three days!”
13. The Glass Onion Detective: One, and the solution is so obvious it’s hidden in plain sight (right in the middle of the room).
14. The Elvis (Movie) Fan: One, but it takes three hours and involves a lot of shaking hips and “Thank you very much.”
15. The Wednesday Addams Fan: She doesn’t change the bulb. She prefers the darkness, but she will do a stiff, rhythmic dance next to the ladder.
16. The Turning Red Fan: One, but they turn into a giant red panda as soon as they get frustrated with the socket.
17. The Batman (2022): He just stands in the corner for three hours while it rains. The bulb is “Vengeance.”
18. The Morbius Fan: “It’s Morbin’ time! (to change the light bulb).”
19. The Scientist: “We saw the deepest images of the universe with James Webb, yet I still can’t see where I put the spare bulbs.”
20. The Librarian: “Silence is a book, but darkness is the cover.”
21. The Gym Teacher: “If you can’t reach the bulb, do 10 sets of ‘ladder-climbers’!”
22. The Chef: “I’ll change it, but it must be butter-boarded.”
23. The Optimist: “This is great! Now I don’t have to look at my crypto portfolio!”
24. The Pessimist: “The bulb is out. Just like the global supply of common sense.”
25. The Pro-Wrestler: One, but they have to ‘Acknowledge’ the tribal chief first.
26. The Detective: “The bulb didn’t burn out; it was ‘quiet quitting’.”
27. The Tourist: “Is this the room where the ‘Corn’ video was filmed?”
28. The Reality Producer: “Can we get the bulb to enter its ‘villain era’?”
29. The Bodybuilder: “I’m not changing the bulb, I’m ‘testing the structural integrity’ of the house.”
30. The Sailor: “A dark room is just a sea with no Wi-Fi.”
31. The Poet: “The filament’s death is a silent scream in a glass bottle.”
32. The Bus Driver: “Mask up your socket! No, wait, that was last year.”
33. The Ghost: “I liked the old bulb. It had a more ‘analog’ vibe.”
34. The 2022 Legend: One, but they do it while wearing a ‘Cargopants’ and ‘New Balance’ sneakers.
35. The Starbucks Fan: “One Venti-Watt, oat milk, extra hot, no foam.”
36. The Black Adam Fan: “The hierarchy of light in this room is about to change.”
37. The Smile (Movie) Fan: They just stand on the ladder and smile creepily at you until you leave the room.
38. The Everything Everywhere Fan: One, but they have to use hot dog fingers to screw it in.
39. The Avatar: Way of Water Fan: One, but it takes 13 years to arrive and the light is incredibly blue.
40. The Puss in Boots (Last Wish) Fan: One, but he’s down to his last life and very careful on the ladder.
41. The Barbarian (Movie) Fan: Don’t go into the basement to find the bulb. Just don’t.
42. The “Little Miss” Meme: “Little Miss Can’t Change Her Own Light Bulb.”
43. The “He’s a 10” Meme: “He’s a 10, but he leaves the burnt-out bulbs in the socket for months.”
44. The “Negative Canthal Tilt” Critic: “That bulb has no ‘hunter eyes’. It’s over for that light fixture.”
45. The ChatGPT Early User: “Write a poem about a light bulb in the style of a pirate.”
46. The Midjourney User: “One, but the bulb has 7 fingers and is glowing in 16k resolution.”
47. The Lensa User: “I don’t need a light bulb, I have 50 AI-generated avatars of me as a cosmic warrior!”
48. The Pink Sauce Chef: One, but the bulb is mysteriously pink and the nutrition label is wrong.
49. The “It’s Corn!” Singer: “I can tell you all about it! I mean, look at this thing!”
50. The Stray Player: One (a cat), but it just knocks the bulb off the table and meows.
51. The 2022 Icon: One, but they do it while listening to ‘Unstoppable’ on TikTok and wearing a ‘Coastal Grandmother’ outfit.