Tyriq Withers and Daniel Kaluuya recreate famous meme during air travel shutdown

As reported by TheWrap, the pair, explaining they were headed back to Los Angeles before being deplaned due to the nation-spanning cluster-fuck, started out by answering Meadows’ questions innocently enough before Withers segued seamlessly into a refrain no doubt familiar to meme-literate viewers all over the greater Oregon area. “I just want to thank God for FAA really protecting us, post-blue wave as well,” Withers said before noting, “But I feel like it’s really upsetting me and my home girl ’cause if you can’t go to the airport, where the hell can you go?”

Kaluuya was clearly taken by surprise by his pal quoting the “If you can’t go to Bella Noche, where the hell can you go?” viral interview from 2015, in which an also fabulously named woman tore into the person who’d just shot up a New Orleans night club. Doubling over out of frame in laughter, the Nope star quickly recovered enough to thank the hard-working airport employees and other workers not named Sean Duffy or Markwayne Mullin who were no doubt having a terrible night. “But I feel grateful ‘cause it could have happened any other way,” Kaluuya told Meadows, “Think about how many lives were probably saved because of that decision.”

After adding a seemingly sincere, “I feel good, man. I’m like, ‘We’re out here. I’m in Eugene, Oregon,'” Kaluuya responded to Withers’ call to “Throw the ‘O'” by throwing up a hand-signed ‘O’ for Oregon as the game Meadows smiled along. Presumably Withers and Kaluuya, along with their fellow stranded plane-mates, finally found their way back home once the long cross-country nightmare mercifully ended later that night.