Weatherman Al Roker reprimanded his fellow Today Show cohosts over a meme joke while trying to get through the weather forecast. On the Monday, November 18, episode of the 3rd Hour of Today, Roker’s regular weather segment came after a discussion about AI and agriculture between hosts Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin, and Carson Daly. Melvin explained that the average age of an American farmer was close to 60 years of age and made a hand motion that reminded Daly of a prolific meme, which became a bit that carried into Roker’s forecast, much to his annoyance.
Roker gets irritated by the ‘6-7’ meme
Melvin made an up-and-down gesture with his hands that made Daly say, “I don’t know, is it 6-7 though?”
Noticing where Daly was taking the conversation, Melvin repeated the motion and replied, “Yes, it is! It’s 6-7!”
Guthrie laughed and tried to steer the conversation back to the topic at hand while poking fun at them inserting the 6-7 meme into a serious discussion. “Oh my gosh, are you covering agriculture for CNBC?” she said to Melvin. “I’m impressed.”
Roker followed up the segment by relaying the weather across America and noted that the temperatures around Nashville, Tennessee were estimated to be anywhere from the 60s to the low 70s. That’s when Guthrie laughed in the background, prompting the 81-year-old meteorologist to say, “Pardon?”
Savannah responded, “6-7. 6-7 degrees.”
Unamused, Roker told his fellow cohosts that they couldn’t let this meme run through the whole show. “You guys got to stop this. Really, you can’t, you are jumping the shark on this one.”
Savannah agreed and apologized while defending herself. “I live with an eight-year-old boy, what can I say?” she said, referring to her son, Charley.
While the 6-7 meme started from a song named “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla, it has since spread without having a fixed meaning. It’s been connected to basketball players who are 6’7″, people making jokes about getting a 67 on a test, and a running in a South Park episode where the kids are brainwashed by the 6-7 meme.
