Tree Fiddy

Tree Fiddy

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About

"Tree Fiddy" is a catchphrase associated with a story about the Loch Ness Monster originally told in an episode of the animated television series South Park. In the context of forums and imageboard sites, the phrase serves as the anti-climactic punchline in bait-and-switch stories that abruptly end with Loch Ness Monster begging for $3.50.

Origin

The phrase originated from a South Park episode titled “The Succubus” aired on April 21st, 1999. In the episode, the parents of the character Chef tell stories about encountering the Loch Ness Monster, who constantly begs the couple for $3.50.


Chef's dad: It stood above us looking down with these big red eyes…

Chef's mom: Oh it was so scary!

Chef's dad: And I yelled, I said "What do you want from us monster?!"
And the monster bent down and said "I need about treefiddy." [silent pause]

Kyle: What's treefiddy?

Chef's dad: Three dollars and fifty cents.

Chef's mom: Treefiddy.


Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that is considered a cryptid since there is no empirical evidence supporting its existence. Sightings have occurred at Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands where people often describe the creature as bearing physical similarities to a plesiosaur, an extinct order of aquatic reptiles from the Mesozoic era.



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The top rated Urban Dictionary[8] definition for "tree fiddy" was submitted on May 6th, 2003:

tree fiddy: The amount of three dollars and fifty cents
God Dammit Loch Ness Monster, I ain't gonna give you no tree fiddy.

The first YTMND[7] was created on May 3rd, 2004, which contained a screenshot of Chef's parents with the audio from the South Park episode. Since then, several other YTMNDs[6] have been created using the same audio. On November 13th, 2004, the website treefiddy.com[16] was launched, which features a paypal button asking for users to donate $3.50. The phrase is commonly used on the Body Building[11] forums with some users complaining about its over-saturation. On November 13th, 2010, a greentext story was posted to a "model rage stories" 4chan[15] thread that used the phrase as the punchline (shown below).


>S >knock on front door its a girl scout selling cookies i ask her what type of cookies she has >she says thin mint, samoas graham crunch etc. >i say "how about a graham crunch" >she goes "i need about tree fitty. it was about that time that i noticed this cute little girl scout was about 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era

The meme has since spread to the art-sharing website deviantArt[3], FunnyJunk[10] and Tumblr under the tag "#tree fiddy."[2] Several Facebook[4] pages have been created referencing the catchphrase including "Tree Fiddy"[12] which has over 2,000 likes, "God Damnit Loch Ness Monster, I ain't gonna give you no tree fiddy!"[13] which has over 1,800 likes and "I need about Tree Fiddy…."[14] which has over 1,500 likes as of January 30th, 2012.

Notable Examples


Dad! The Loch Ness Monster Is at the Door! What He Want? About Tree Fiddy 0O Tree Fiddy?! This imageboard requires ABOUT TREE FIDDY need about $3b0 I need about tree fiddv. Wonder who that could be? knock knock Imma eed about tree fiddy Uuuu CHANGE I NEED ABOUT TREE FIDDY GOD DAMN IT.LOCHNESS MONSTA I AIN'T GⅣIN。YNO TREE FIDDY! Politifake.org

Notable Videos

The audio file of the dialogue from the South Park episode has made its way into several YouTube Poop videos and music remixes.

Search Interest

External References

[1] Wikipedia – Loch Ness Monster

[2] Tumblr – #tree fiddy

[3] deviantArt – tree fiddy="tree+fiddy"

[4] Facebook – tree fiddy

[5] Body Building Forums – I'm sick of people saying bout tree fiddy

[6] YTMND – search – tree fiddy search – tree fitty

[7] YTMND – tree fitty

[8] Urban Dictionary – tree fiddy

[9] Reddit – The_Loch_Ness_Monsta

[10] FunnyJunk – tree fiddy

[11] Body Building Forums – tree fiddy

[12] Facebook – Tree Fiddy

[13] Facebook – God Dammit Loch Ness Monster, I ain't gonna give you no tree fiddy!

[14] Facebook – I need about Tree Fiddy….

[15] Chanarchive – model rage stories via WayBack Machine

[16] Treefiddy – gimmie treefiddy

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