--- title: Congressman's Move Is Making People Nostalgic for Sitcoms description: Rep. Mark Meadows has unwittingly received the full meme treatment by simply turning and smiling. canonical: https://time.com/5728624/mark-meadows-reactions/ author: Rachel E. Greenspan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-14T20:03:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:03.190Z og:title: Congressman's Turn-and-Smile Move Is Making People Nostalgic for '90s Sitcoms og:description: Everywhere you look og:url: https://time.com/5728624/mark-meadows-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9486c07d9b1f02a/698a0605b3fce3085c0c5dd0/mark-meadows-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Amb. 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Mark Meadows (R-NC) attend the first House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearing in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 13, 2019. Sarah Silbiger—Getty Images by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Nov 14, 2019 8:03 PM UTC Rep. Mark Meadows has unwittingly received the full meme treatment by simply turning and smiling. The North Carolina Republican flashed a smile when the C-Span camera caught his hallway phone call during the impeachment hearings on Wednesday. > [](https://twitter.com/gwmacgillivray/status/1194709068339961857) The Congressman was clearly enjoying the moment, which was shared by Roll Call video journalist Graham MacGillivray, and viewed more than 400,000 times as of Thursday afternoon. Matt Whitlock, senior advisor for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, opted to give it the clip a remix by setting the Congressman’s slow turn and big smile to different theme songs. “This would be a perfect shot for a sitcom opening credits sequence,” he said on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1194718968138928129) The first choice was the _Full House_ theme song, followed by _Family Matters, Step by Step_ and _Growing Pains_ known for their character introductions. See the various musical stylings below. > [](https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1194721955531968514) > [](https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1194728390542188550) > [](https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1194752425980256256) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5728624/mark-meadows-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5728624/mark-meadows-reactions/"},"headline":"Congressman's Turn-and-Smile Reaction Is Everywhere You Look","datePublished":"2019-11-14T20:03:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:03.190Z","description":"Rep. 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