Sometime in the middle of last decade a photo of Jerry, clipping his fingers at the tip of a fedora, got into the hands of the internet. And then the internet did what it always does. It took something worth nothing and gave it purpose.



"It was taken by a photographer that does headshots at his studio," Messing told BuzzFeed News. "There was extra film left in the roll so I decided to do that one for the fun of it."

Yes, Jerry's biggest contribution to the cultural zeitgeist wasn't his acting; it was a photo taken at the end of a long day of headshots – an homage to the Belushi-Aykroyd Blues Brothers – that was then swallowed by the internet and spat out onto the desolate plains of men's rights activist forums, Reddit, 4Chan, and, eventually, pop culture.