--- title: Jennifer Garner Is As Puzzled By Her Oscars Face As You Are description: The Love Simon actress stopped by Ellen to try and explain the face that was memed a thousand times during the Oscars canonical: https://time.com/5202901/jennifer-garner-talks-oscars-face-on-ellen/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-16T14:35:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:26.873Z og:title: Jennifer Garner Is As Puzzled By Her Oscars Face As You Are og:description: Garner can't explain the most-memed moment of the 2018 Oscars og:url: https://time.com/5202901/jennifer-garner-talks-oscars-face-on-ellen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9efd427df8b03a0/69892b02ab6d7729286b21b1/jennifergarneronmemeonellen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1493 og:image:height: 840 og:image:alt: JenniferGarneronMemeonEllen og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Garner Is As Puzzled By Her Oscars Face As You Are twitter:description: Garner can't explain the most-memed moment of the 2018 Oscars twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9efd427df8b03a0/69892b02ab6d7729286b21b1/jennifergarneronmemeonellen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Garner Is As Puzzled By Her Oscars Face As You Are > Sponsored content. 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The brief moment when she made that facial expression was captured forever on the internet thanks to fast-acting Twitter users who screen-grabbed the image and sent it out across the web as people speculated about the root of Garner’s realization. > [](https://twitter.com/bobbyfinger/status/970500799284555777) While Garner [responded to the meme](http://time.com/5187506/jennifer-garner-shocked-face-oscars-meme-response/?iid=sr-link1) on Instagram, adding her own suggestions like, “Congrats to _Shape of Water!”_, before her face falls, “Maybe I should date a fish?” The internet hasn’t had enough of the meme, though, so Ellen DeGeneres asked the actress about why she made the facial expression when she stopped by her show. Sadly, the _Love Simon_ actress had no idea. “I wish I did,” she replied. “I wish I had a better story about it.” Instead all she has is “regret, regret, regret” over the viral moment. Garner admitted that she kind of wishes the whole meme would go away. “I can’t even look at it. I can’t!” Garner said on Friday’s episode. “It’s too embarrassing.” That said, Garner admitted that the spontaneous moment just might happen again. “I mean, it could happen any minute,” she said, laughing and recreating the now-famous look. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5202901/jennifer-garner-talks-oscars-face-on-ellen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5202901/jennifer-garner-talks-oscars-face-on-ellen/"},"headline":"Jennifer Garner Is As Puzzled By Her Oscars Face As You Are","datePublished":"2018-03-16T14:35:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:26.873Z","description":"Garner can't explain the most-memed moment of the 2018 Oscars","url":"https://time.com/5202901/jennifer-garner-talks-oscars-face-on-ellen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9efd427df8b03a0/69892b02ab6d7729286b21b1/jennifergarneronmemeonellen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9efd427df8b03a0/69892b02ab6d7729286b21b1/jennifergarneronmemeonellen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"JenniferGarneronMemeonEllen","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5202901/jennifer-garner-talks-oscars-face-on-ellen/","name":"Jennifer Garner Is As Puzzled By Her Oscars Face As You Are"}}]}] ```