I'll take a potato chip and EAT IT! (2007)

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I’ll Take a Potato Chip and EAT IT is a YouTube Poop fad based on a memorable scene from Death Note, a popular TV anime series. In this scene, Light Yagami (the main character) grabs a potato chip out of the bag and takes a dramatic pause to utter “I’ll take a potato chip… AND EAT IT!” before taking a bite at it. Played out in slow motion, the friggin’ potato chip shatters into sparkling dust.

Death Note & Potato Chips

Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a Japanese manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The story centers on Light Yagami, a college student who turns into a ruthless vigilante after finding the Death Note, a supernatural book that can literally kill people. Chasing the trail of Light’s serial murders is a mysterious detective only known as L, who installs hidden cameras in Light’s room to monitor his moves. But well aware of the surveillance, Light manages to plot his next murder by hiding his tools inside a bag of potato chips. whaaaaaaat.

Origin & Spread

The Youtube Poop fad began just prior to the making its US debut on October 20, 2007.

On July 4th, 2007, Youtube user YasashiiYuki uploaded “Epic Potato Chip Eating Death Note Live Action”, using a scene taken not from the Anime, but from the recently released Japanese Live Action Death Note film. The clip has been viewed over 80,000 times.

On December 8th, 2007, Hikaripop uploaded a video titled “Anime Poop – LIGHT TAKES A POTATO CHIP.”

The most influential instance of Death Note YTP surfaced on December 27th, 2007, a five second soundbite of “I’ll Take a Potato Chip …and EAT IT” excerpted from the original scene:

While it is not an example of YouTube Poop per se, the exploitable clip served as a jumping board for many YTP derivatives that followed on YouTube. As of January 2010, it has been viewed over a million times and ranked the #6 Top Favorited and #20 Top Rated video in the Education category.

Other YTP Videos

On August 26th, 2007, Youtube user HurricaneFaFniR uploaded “Death Hotel Note,” a Legend of Zelda Poop using the English Dubbed audio from the Death Note live action film’s trailer.

Days later, on August 29th, another Death Note Youtube Poop was made.

I’ll Take A Potato Chip….And OM NOM NOM NOM

On February 27th, 2008, infamous YTP artist Walrusguy uploaded “YTP DEFINITELY A GOOD SEASON FOR POTATO CHIPS,” further spreading the meme to his considerably large audiences. The original upload has been taken down, but a copy has been made available via WalrusguyMemorial.

Light Takes a Potato Chip While I Play Unfitting Music:

Light Doesn’t Have Enough Rupees For A Potato Chip:

Kimi Aru (They Are My Noble Masters) will take a potato chip and eat it!:

I’ll Take a Potato Pill and EAT IT!:

I’ll Take a Pen …and EAT IT:

Compilation of “Potato Chip” All in One:

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27 Comments

Goomba
May 18, 2009 at 08:04PM UTC , Goomba wrote:

kikinak
Jun 02, 2009 at 08:09AM UTC , kikinak wrote:

mmmm… chips…

Flyer3232
Jun 12, 2009 at 06:20PM UTC , Flyer3232 wrote:

There is a Youtube Poop of this meme uploaded by Walrusguy, and other Death note memes, entitled “It’s a Good Season for Potato chips”

Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIwCLi_enUY Uploader is different due to Walrusguy getting OWND by Viacom

OctopusGuy
Jul 04, 2009 at 11:43AM UTC , OctopusGuy wrote:

It#s certainly been used in alot of places, and it’s referenced alot, but not enough to become a meme, quite yet.
Give it a few months. Or a thread on 4chan.

Chris Menning
Sep 04, 2009 at 05:05PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Flyer3232 mentioned WalrusGuy 2 months ago, before I had really studied YTP enough to know why WalrusGuy was a big deal. I’ll see what I can do to fix up this entry.

Chris Menning
Sep 04, 2009 at 09:00PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Here’s the really intersting part:
Youtube Poops that used Death Note as a source actually appeared BEFORE the series had even aired on American television.
I would venture to say that Adult Swim might have chosen to air it because of the Youtube Poop fad.

Chris Menning
Sep 04, 2009 at 10:58PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Upon closer inspection, the YTP “potato chip” fad didn’t really start until after it was already on Adult Swim. There were other Death Note Poops, but that’s because the franchise was already widely successful as a manga, Japanese dubbed anime, and a few Japanese Live Action motion pictures.

The “potato chip” scene was even a common joke amongst fans of the film and anime in Japan right from the start.

But the fact that this is a simple character trait that was pulled out of context makes it interesting to me.

I’ve compiled some pretty hefty notes on this today, but I still can’t determine if the Potato Chip constitutes a meme, or just a simple fan reaction that reflects the popularity of the larger franchise.

Chris Menning
Sep 04, 2009 at 11:02PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

I’ll dump my notes here in the comments for now:
Death Note

Some notes from Wikipedia:


Death Note was first serialized in 108 chapters by Shueisha in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006.

The anime series aired in Japan from October 3, 2006, to June 26, 2007.
Death Note was slated to make its North American television premiere in Canada on YTV’s Bionix programming block on September 7, 2007;50 however, the show was removed from the schedule at the last minute.
The Canadian premiere was pushed back to October 26, 2007, at 10:00 p.m., when it finally premiered. Death Note premiered in the U.S. on October 20, 2007, at 11:30 p.m. on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim

July 4th, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ1ePqEfp0g
YasashiiYuki took a clip from the Death Note Movie.

Death Hotel Note
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NRWH-N0x4
by HurricaneFaFniR on August 26th, 2007

Youtube Poop – Death Note Finale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sO5RrmH8VU
August 29th, 2007

Anime Poop – Light takes a potato chip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g91pm_4dhlU
Hikaripop December 08, 2007

I’ll take a potato chip – and eat it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoy1QKxGQs&feature=related
December 16th, 2007 posted by gray0xZC

  1. - Most Discussed (All Time) – Education
  2. - Most Responded (This Week) – Education
  3. - Most Responded (This Month) – Education
  4. - Most Responded (All Time) – Education
  5. - Top Favorited (All Time) – Education
  6. - Top Rated (All Time) – Education
    The fact that the video was classified in Education, and that a number of Death Note copycat crimes took place in many US schools may have influenced the video’s popularity

This Youtube Poop was originally uploaded by WalrusGuy. This is a reupload.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIwCLi_enUY

We can confirm that WalrusGuy did upload it on February 27th, 2008
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:U7Tv7U4vI8IJ:www.casttv.com/video/kgla1u1/youtube-poop-definitely-a-good-season-for-potato-chips-video+walrusguy+%22definitely+a+good+season+for+potato+chips%22&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

“Death Note”
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22Death%20Note%22&cmpt=q

“take a potato chip”
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22take%20a%20potato%20chip%22&cmpt=q

ThatDutchLad
Nov 08, 2009 at 06:01PM UTC , ThatDutchLad wrote:

CheatMasterK
Dec 28, 2009 at 11:14PM UTC , CheatMasterK wrote:

Anyone know what the original Japanese line was? I’m curious.

Chris Menning
Jan 04, 2010 at 07:30PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

This dipity timetube points to an earlier instance of the chip scene in december of 07 http://www.dipity.com/timetube/YouTube_Potato_Chip

Chris Menning
Jan 04, 2010 at 08:33PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Ready to confirm.

koobaxion
Jan 13, 2010 at 05:31AM UTC , koobaxion wrote:

CONFIRM

this is totally a meme, and i am suprised we did not have it

Pumpkinbot
Jan 17, 2010 at 07:43PM UTC , Pumpkinbot wrote:

I’d have to say +1 confirm. I’ve seen it all over the place. :P

failer
Jan 30, 2010 at 10:46PM UTC , failer wrote:

+3.14159 confirm!!!!!!!

Pedobear Approved
Feb 01, 2010 at 04:34AM UTC , Pedobear Approved wrote:

Approved. ;D

Just Use Your Imagination!
Feb 02, 2010 at 07:22AM UTC , Just Use Your Imagination! wrote:

I’ll leave a comment… AND EAT IT!

Xenomorph42Q
Feb 02, 2010 at 06:32PM UTC , Xenomorph42Q wrote:

Might want to slap the NSFW tag on or delete/edit the picture of /b/ thread, there’s an image of a dude taking a massive shit in there.

Joeflims
Feb 02, 2010 at 09:18PM UTC , Joeflims wrote:

Light Yagami isn’t the antagonist, he’s the protagonist.

Get your characters right.

Troyrandom5
Feb 03, 2010 at 02:35PM UTC , Troyrandom5 wrote:

I’ll take The Game… AND LOSE IT!

AstroturfJones
Feb 04, 2010 at 12:07AM UTC , AstroturfJones wrote:

Oh man, it’s about time this was added.

sobaz92
Feb 04, 2010 at 01:42AM UTC , sobaz92 wrote:

YIKES. I did not see the shit thing in the /b/ thread. I apologize.

Anonymous Crunch
Feb 05, 2010 at 12:46AM UTC , Anonymous Crunch wrote:

I’ll take a tip from Michael Jackson…. and Beat It!

Pentan
Feb 05, 2010 at 07:24PM UTC , Pentan wrote:

Hmmm, I watched it in Japanese so I didn’t have this problem. Thank god, I can’t stand dubs, stupid stuff like this happens.

Maya
Mar 03, 2010 at 02:22AM UTC , Maya wrote:

+1 confirmed,

+1 from the potato chip, too :D

Tomberry
Mar 03, 2010 at 02:49AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

Maya, this one is also already confirmed.

theweirdkid41
Mar 05, 2010 at 01:52AM UTC , theweirdkid41 wrote:

DAMMIT, HE GOT ME!

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