9-1-1 is preparing to return with Season 9, and some social media users are having fun at the show’s dramatic expense.

The long-running series, which will return on Thursday, October 9 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC , released an intense teaser for the upcoming season, featuring what appears to be an apocalyptic dilemma for the first responders.

Social media has been playfully taking jabs at the acting depicted in the teaser, including parodies and hilarious comments about the actors’ reaction to the apparent end of days.

The clip features Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie Han looking up at the sky, and Eddie Diaz ( Ryan Guzman ) taking off his sunglasses to look at the apparent meteors falling.

Howie Han ( Kenneth Choi ) and Evan Buckley ( Oliver Stark ) appear next, as Evan

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