Comically Large Spoon

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"Your favourite food..?" "Ice cream..." "... and item you want to bring with you?"

Patriots Act: can I take away some of your rights? BabyBoomers: only a spoon full

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Category: Meme Status: confirmed Year: 2013 Origin: Vine Region:

Type: Viral Video

Tags: vine king bach ice cream spoon comically large spoon only a spoonful juicybignutjr _the_caped_baldy

About

Comically Large Spoon, also known as Only a Spoonful, refers to a viral Vine by Vine user King Bach in which he pulls out a comically large spoon upon being told that he can only have a spoonful of ice cream. Starting in late May 2020, the Vine regained through GIF captions and humorous edits.

Origin

On June 6th, 2013, Vine^[1] user King Bach (KingBach) uploaded a comedy sketch in which he asks his friend if he can have some of his ice cream (shown below). After the friend responds "only a spoonful," King Bach pulls out a comically large spoon. The sketch received over 36,500 likes, 31,500 revines and 1.9 million loops in seven years. A June 23rd, 2013, YouTube^[2] reupload received an additional 2.8 million views in the same period.

- Hey, dog, can I get some ice cream?
- Only a spoonful!

Spread

Prior to its major meme popularity in May 2020, the Vine has been referenced in memes multiple times. For example, on February 18th, 2019, Redditor^[3] rctony posted an ironic demotivational poster referring to the spoon as "poop spoon" that received over 11,300 upvotes in six months (shown below). Starting on May 15th, 2019, iFunny^[4] novelty account PoopSpoon has been repeatedly reposting the meme. Prior to October 27th, Instagram user juicybignutjr posted a meme based on an extensive explanation of the joke (original post no longer available). An October 28th, 2019, iFunny^[5] repost of the meme received over 29,300 smiles in nine months and was featured on the platform (shown below, right).

THE POOP SPOON USED ONLY WHEN THERE IS A LOT OF POOP

Starting in mid-May 2020, the Vine regained popularity through GIF captions in which referenced the video. For example, on May 11th iFunny^[6] user _The_Caped_Baldy posted the earliest found such meme, gaining over 490 smiles in one month (shown below, left). On May 20th, Instagram^[7] user robloxmemepage posted a meme following Pickler Rick, Funniest Shit Ever structure which received over 2,400 likes in three weeks (shown below, center). On May 24th, 2020, Twitter^[8] user @TheChiefSosa posted a You Can't Do This to Me GIF caption which gained over 2,000 retweets and 6,900 likes (shown below, right).

Me when I ask my friend for some ice cream and he says only a spoonful but I forgot to bring my comically large spoon to his house

SO HIS FRIEND REPLIES WITH "ONLY A SPOONFUL" bloxmemepage AND KING BACH PULLS OUT A VERY LARGE SPOON. HONESTLY SOME HILARIOUS S--- MAN.

When you tell your friend he can only have a spoonful of ice cream and he pulls out a comically massive spoon Oh, you can't do this to me.

In late May and June 2020, the Vine maintained notable popularity in meme communities online, primarily on Twitter, iFunny, /r/okbuddyretard and Instagram.