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Cilla’s Surprise Surprise refers to an exploitable video meme based on a clip from the 1980s of British TV presenter Cilla Black singing "Surprise Surprise." The moment became a viral TikTok sound and photoshopped video in mid-2023, as people added funny captions in content about a surprising event.

Origin

On July 30th, 2012, YouTube^[1] user @Oban277 posted a video titled "Cilla's Surprise Surprise," which shows a rare clip of the full version of the song "Surprise Surprise" that aired on episode 1 sometime in 1986. The clip (shown below) amassed over 736,000 views and 8,600 likes in eleven years.

Spread

Almost a decade after the clip was posted on YouTube, TikTok^[2] user @igreenscreenthings posted on September 28th, 2023, a green-screen version of Cilla's Surprise Surprise (shown below, left), which amassed more than 2.2 million plays and 61,000 likes in five months. On October 18th, 2023, TikTok^[3] user @the.witches.cauldron posted the green-screened Cilla video paired with the caption "When he thinks you're lightning candles to set the mood, but you're actually about to sacrifice him." The post (shown below, right) received more than 612,000 likes in four months.

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