Before 2003, hearing the word 'pirate' tended to conjure images of skulls, planks and booty (of the golden variety), but ever since Pirates of the Caribbean rocketed to success, it's hard to think about pirates without imagining squid-faced captains, the Black Pearl and of course, the beloved Captain Jack Sparrow. Pirates of the Caribbean reimagined the idea of pirates, birthing a fantastical world of upside down seas, mermaids and the walking dead (and this was before zombies were hip). The world of Pirates is epic and insane—or in other words, perfect meme material. From Jack Sparrow's cocky confidence to the borderline kinky scenes involving Davy Jones's tentacle beard, these films have led to an entire host of hilarious memes, and we assembled our favourite 15 for your viewing pleasure.

Here are 15 Pirates of the Caribbean memes that will definitely make you laugh.

15 Student loans: Take what you can, give nothing back

Anyone who's ever attended college on the dime of student loans knows how true to the mark this meme is. While other countries around the world offer free university educations, it seems ridiculous that students in North America have to go into debt during their university years just to pay for a decent education. Then, when the grueling years of study finally end and students are able to enter the workforce to pay their own bills, a large sum of that money has to go towards paying off debt. Although it would be nice to be able to channel the pirates' who-gives-a-crap attitudes in this meme and just shrug off debt like Jack Sparrow shrugs off his responsibilities, this probably isn't the best approach, given the whole student loan default thing (basically, what happens when you can't pay your student debt—you do not want it to happen).

14 Do you know what is hentai?

Although a pirate captain with a slimy tentacle beard who sails the high seas with an army of man-monster hybrids isn't exactly in the realm of normal, it wasn't in the unique realm of eccentricity reserved for hentai—until now. Equal parts disturbing and hilarious, this meme has forever changed the way we look at Davy Jones. To be fair, though, Jones did use his tentacles in some hentai-adjacent ways throughout the series, like stuffing them down the throats of his enemies. But this was less so for pleasure, and more so to...well, kill them in the most horrible way possible (isn't Davy Jones a peach?). Either way, good luck seeing him in the movies and not thinking about hentai from now on.

13 Who summoned me?

Anyone who's ever been part of a fandom is familiar with this feeling. Your ears become as sensitive to the name of your nerdy obsessions as they are to your own birth name, acting as little radars scanning your surroundings for any hint of its mention as you go about your day. Whenever someone in your vicinity says its name, even if you're smack in the middle of a conversation with someone else, you can't help but perk up your ears and eavesdrop for awhile to find out what they're saying about your fandom. And sometimes, if they're dumping on beloved characters or dissing your favourite story arcs, you have to actively fight against the urge to drop in on their conversation like a vengeful Kraken.

12 A true Pirate of the Caribbean

Any fan of Pirates of the Caribbean has gone through that phase where they wished they could join in on Will, Jack and Elizabeth's whimsical world of pirating. Between Tortuga, the period costumes and the epic soundtrack that would officially become the background music to your life (bless you, Hans Zimmer), there's not much to dislike about the fantasy world of Pirates of the Caribbean. But alas, there is still hope for becoming a pirate of the Caribbean. No, we don't mean trying to Inception yourself into the minds of Disney writers. There's a much easier way to piratehood than that. Indeed, you can do it on vacation. Just illegally download something while around the sea south of Florida, and there you have it—you're a pirate of the Caribbean, matey.

11 Voldemort + tentacles = Davy Jones

Fantasy series sure seem to like using pale, slimy white dudes as their villains. In Harry Potter, the central antagonist, Voldemort, is as white as Paul Ryan, with skin so pale that you can see the redness of his veins bulging beneath it (given the ghost-like appearance of Lucius and Draco Malfoy, it seems that Voldemort's lackeys often have the paleness thing going for them as well). In comparison, minus the whole tentacle beard thing, Davy Jones, the villain of Pirates of the Caribbean, looks startlingly similar, with pale skin, a flattened nose and a protruding brow that seems to add permanent shadows to his eyes. There's just something inherently creepy about pale, slimy, flat-nosed dudes that the writers seem to be picking up on (we wonder what it could be?).

10 Google knows its captains

Some names feel naked without their prefaces. People tune into watch Dr. Oz, not Mehmet Oz, and there's a reason the movie isn't called Euphegenia Doubtfire (yeah, that's Mrs. Doubtfire's first name). Like these people, the name Jack Sparrow simply feels naked without the title of "Captain" introducing it. "Captain" is the salt to Sparrow's pepper, the sugar to his spice. It's not merely his title, but at this point, it's become an integral part of his name and identity. Even when he's lacking a ship or any crew to speak of, Jack Sparrow is still a captain, like a man down on his luck is always a human. Captain is simply Jack Sparrow's species, and there's no getting away from this. Even Google seems to know it.

9 But why is the rum gone?

Above even his hat and the Black Pearl, there's one thing that Captain Jack Sparrow can never go without: rum. Even when he's stranded and left for dead on an island, rum is still his priority, even over food and water. So, we're willing to bet that Jack would kill for the ability to turn water into rum (sorry Jesus, but wine isn't good enough for Captain Jack Sparrow). Even if he had to trade his ship, crew and jar of hearts, there's no way Sparrow wouldn't jump on the opportunity to have endless access to rum. He lives in the Caribbean, after all, so such a spell would basically provide him with an ocean's worth of of the liquor. Never again would he have to ask, "But why is the rum gone?"

8 But you have heard of me?

In the age of social media and internet fame that we live in, many would argue that fame is preferable to anonymity, no matter its form. Even if you become infamous for a terribly autotuned song about how fun Fridays are (yeah, remember Rebecca Black?), most would view that as better than not having been recognized at all. Apparently, Jack Sparrow shares this belief. As long as his name is recognized, it doesn't matter what it's recognized for (i.e. being the worst pirate ever). In fact, we're willing to bet that Sparrow would be willing to accept being known as the Magikarp equivalent of pirates (yeah, that bad), so long as it meant people recognized his name. So much for being the very best. Jack Sparrow wants to be the very worst, like no one ever was.

7 Collecting your jar of hearts

When Christina Perri first sang her song about heartbreak and jars of hearts, she probably never imagined that people would take it so literally. But if trolling people with memes isn't the internet's job, then we're not sure what is. And to be honest, this one was just too easy. In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Jack Sparrow literally carries around a jar with a heart in it throughout a good portion of the movie. The heart is Davy Jones's, and Sparrow manages to acquire it to gain the upper hand in a long-term feud between he and Jones. So, it seems that Perri's question of "Who do you think you are?" is less rhetorical than it seems at first glance. He's Jack Sparrow, Christina—Captain Jack Sparrow.

6 Madness, or politics?

As applicable as this was when Pirates of the Caribbean first came out, it has only become more relevant throughout the last couple years. No one ever claimed that politics was straight-forward or honest, but rarely has it reached the level of madness that it has in the last election cycle. Instead of policy, candidates debated mean nicknames and the attractiveness of their wives, and rather than governing, leaders now engage in name-calling and Twitter rants. So, as insane as the politics of your pirate lives may seem, Jack and Elizabeth (and remember, they were written with the express purpose of seeming crazy), we're willing to bet that the politics of 2016 and 2017 would be a fair match. Seriously, you can't write this stuff.

5 Rum, Forrest, Rum!

Few joys compare with the beauty of memes that combine two favourite fandoms. Although the characters of Forrest Gump and Captain Jack Sparrow couldn't be more different, with Forrest leaving legacies of joy wherever he goes, and Sparrow reliably making everything worse for everyone involved almost all of the time, they complement each other nicely in this meme. With Jack representing scheming savvy and Forrest the epitome of innocent morality, they're almost like polar opposites. But we're pretty sure that even Captain Jack Sparrow wouldn't be able to corrupt the innocent goodness of Forrest Gump. If Forrest ever were to drink rum, we're pretty sure it would be in the form of an accidentally ingested rum chocolate ball. After all, you never know what you're gonna get.

4 Three dimensions, one eye

Although he's not the member of his crew missing an eye, Captain Jack Sparrow can be mighty blind sometimes (matey blind?). Either way, we wouldn't exactly be disappointed without the option of watching Pirates of the Caribbean in three dimensions. Although there is a certain joy that comes with watching the undead sail the high seas, it's not totally necessary to have those undead popping out of the screens at us. Watching a giant Kraken eat Jack Sparrow alive is good enough—we don't need those tentacles reaching for us as well. We can take a 3D Pua the pig from Moana and we're happy to see all the dimensions of Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy, but when it comes to skeletal spectres and tentacle beards, the fewer dimensions, the better.

3 Pilates of the Caribbean

We wondered how the the cast members of Pirates of the Caribbean always stayed in such good shape. Although chasing after multitudes of undead seafaring pirates, fleeing from the reaching tentacles of giant Krakens and engaging in multiple sword fights while swirling around in whirlpools is probably more than enough for the regular pirate to stay in shape, Jack, Will and Elizabeth's fitness reaches a level that we doubt can be achieved through regular pirating alone. Alas, it seems that pilates can make washboard abs out of even the most infamous rum-belly known to pirate-kind. Plus, we're pretty jealous that they get to do pilates on the white sand beaches of the Caribbean Sea rather than the mirror-lined classrooms of the local gym. We're willing to do the embarrassing contortions, but do we really need to see ourselves doing them?

2 On Stranger Tides

Although these stranger Tides aren't quite as intimidating as those faced by Jack Sparrow in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, there's still an unmistakable element of villainy to them. Whether they're sneaking in and usurping the rightful place of Gain or Seventh Generation next to your washing machine or trying to take on the role of both the detergent and the fabric softener (egads!), there's something unmistakably nefarious about those fake moustaches. Given the liberal view Jack Sparrow takes towards hygiene throughout the Pirates of the Caribbean series, we doubt he'll have to deal with these stranger Tides, but if he ever takes an interest in greater cleanliness (doubtful), he'll have to keep an eye out for moustache-clad laundry detergent (there's a sentence we never thought we'd be typing).

1 Tantalizing tentacles

Ah, hentai humour never gets old. Although we know from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (and the PG-13 rating) that this is certainly not the way this scene went, it will be hard not to think about tentacles in strange places after seeing this meme. Between the mildly disgusted look on Jack Sparrow's face and the intimidating stare on Davy Jones's, it does seem like the perfect set-up for hentai. We have to wonder how many hentai films have been inspired by the mine of hentai material that is Davy Jones the tentacle-bearded-captain, and whether the writers had any idea how their squid-faced character would go on to be perverted in grade-A fashion by the lovely people on the internet.