LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cable subscribers don’t give Comcast and Time Warner Cable good grades when it comes to customer satisfaction. So after Comcast announced its $45 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable Thursday, it didn’t take long for consumers to start venting their frustrations over high prices, spotty service and fears of a monopoly.

The pairing of the nation’s two biggest cable companies spurred a cascade of sarcastic tweets and satirical memes in which people likened the new entity to the killer Death Star battle station from “Star Wars” and the evil Eye of Sauron from “The Lord of the Rings.” Some people recalled a “South Park” snippet in which character Eric Cartman and friends are tormented by cable employees before a logo curiously similar to Time Warner Cable’s own.