(CNN) -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's attempt to spread the festive cheer turned into a turkey after social media users mocked his new Christmas card.
Blair issued his annual Christmas card on Monday. It features a photo of him, with a forced grimace on his face, standing next to his wife Cherie alongside the caption 'Season's Greetings.'
The unnatural-looking smile quickly became the source of online derision, with Twitter users quick to compare the image to a range of gurning icons, from Count Orlock from 'Nosferatu' and 'Friends'' Chandler Bing.
Other users decided to do their own version of the card.
Some took the opportunity for some -- admittedly outdated -- political satire. User @GeneralBoles superimposed Blair's successor Gordon Brown's face onto Blair's and tweeted 'Come on Tony, it's my turn,' a reference to Brown waiting for Blair to step down as prime minister and repeatedly telling him, 'It's my turn now.'
Others took the culture route, with @Rowland72James superimposing the couple's faces onto Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, while @garboy photoshopped their faces onto the notoriously unsmiling Grant Wood painting 'American Gothic.'
When asked about the card, a spokesperson for Blair's office told CNN: 'We do not 'officially' release the card, cards are sent to their friends and colleagues, which doesn't seem to me to be that unusual a process let alone one which merits such interest.'
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