![Bowling Alley Screen When You Get a Strike bowling pin wearing sunglasses standing on a canon with a lit matchstick](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/029/770/cover2.jpg)
Bowling Alley Screen When You Get a Strike
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About
Bowling Alley Screen When You Get a Strike refers to a series of memes referencing celebration animations typically shown on TV screens at bowling centers when a player manages to score a strike. The trend received significant spread on Reddit in mid-May 2019.
Origin
On May 6th, 2019, YouTube user KeyZ posted a video titled "1700s Sea Shanties 10 Hour" showing a 3D-animation of a pirate holding a microphone and dancing next to a boombox, with the video gaining over 130,000 views in two weeks. On May 9th, 2019, YouTube user A Guy (previously Kraken Gaming) commented "The screen at the bowling alley when you get a strike", with the reply gaining over 690 likes in one week.[1]
![The screen at the bowling alley when you get a strike Kraken Gaming 1 week ago The screen at the bowing alley when you get a strike 1 692 aji REPLY](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/863/8cc.jpg)
Spread
On May 20th, Redditor apoplax used the joke in a post to /r/dankmemes subreddit which gained over 32,500 upvotes in 19 hours (shown below).[2]
![Arrr no good nobody meme about the bowling alley screen when you get a strike with a picture of a 3d pirate dancing by a boombox](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/867/00c.png)
In the following hours, multiple similar memes were posted in /r/dankmemes and other subreddits. For example, on the same day Redditor paxton99 made a post which gained over 29,400 upvotes in 15 hours (shown below, left).[3] On May 21st, 2019, Redditor JamesBald007 posted a version of the meme which garnered over 40,600 upvotes in seven hours (shown below, right).[4]
![nobody meme about the bowling alley screen when you get a strike with picture of a 3d gorilla next to a person nobody meme about the bowling alley screen when you get a strike with picture of a 3d gorilla next to a person](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/868/254.png)
![nobody meme about the bowling alley screen when you get a strike with trippy 3d art nobody meme about the bowling alley screen when you get a strike with trippy 3d art](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/877/097.jpg)
Related Memes
NSFW Bowling Animation
NSFW Bowling Animations refers to a series of NSFW and offensive animations that parody stereotypical animations that play at bowling alleys when a player gets a spare or a strike. In April 2022, one particular animation in which a bowling ball ejaculates inside a bowling pin with a strong enough force to send it flying into other pins and knock them down achieved notoriety on social media, with users making memes and jokes referencing it.
![Bowling P--- Animation SFW Frame #2 Nice! Wow! wyerfromeZ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/341/438/348.jpg)
![Bowling P--- Animation SFW Frame #3](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/341/439/b16.jpg)
![Bowling P--- Animation SFW Frame #4 STRIKE!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/341/440/9d9.jpg)
![Bowling P--- Animation #2 SFW Frame #1](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/341/442/326.jpg)
![Bowling P--- Animation #2 SFW Frame #2](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/341/443/147.jpg)
Various Examples
![Horrid 3D models nobody: bowling ball screens when you get a strike:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/869/82b.jpg)
![Strike nobody: The screen at the bowling alley when you get a strike:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/870/c50.jpg)
![This is my favorite format Nobody: Bowling alley tv's when u get a strike: it](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/874/c3f.jpg)
![WHAT’RE YOU DOING IN MY BOWLING BALL Nobody: The bowling alley screen when you geta strike:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/879/17b.jpg)
![people of the bowling alley unite! Nobody: the screen at the bowling alley when we get a strike:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/880/13b.jpg)
![A Critical Hit!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/494/878/840.png)
Search Interest
External References
[1] YouTube – Kraken Gaming's Comment
[2] Reddit – Arrr no good
[3] Reddit – thicc gorilla
[4] Reddit – Striiiiiike
Top Comments
Nymanator
May 21, 2019 at 09:46AM EDT
Kommando_Kaijin
May 21, 2019 at 12:12PM EDT in reply to