The Japanese word desu is a copula: a word that links the subject of a sentence with the verb. A close English approximation of this would be the words to be and all related linking-verbs such as to be, will be, was, is, are, etc.
Other Japanese copulas are da, de, wa, na, and more. The form desu is essentially the same as da except that it is used in a polite or proper context, such as the practice of adding usted in Spanish.
See the Wikipedia link in the header for more info on copulas.
The character Suiseiseki from the anime series Rozen Maiden ends every sentence with desu. Many people have found her obsessive need to be polite, even in cases where it may or may not be grammatically correct, to be peculiar, desu.
Image macros using the word desu or images of Suiseiseki are used commonly on 4chan by fans of anime (sometimes referred to by the derogatory term weeaboo), and by those mocking them, desu.
There are even “combo-videos” where you can hear hundreds of unique utterances of
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