Goo Goo Gaga I Want Milk

About

"Goo Goo Gaga I Want Milk" is a line of dialogue spoken by Jordan Peele playing "Baby Forest Whittaker" in a 2012 sketch from Comedy Central's Key and Peele. The scene, depicting Peele with a baby's body standing in a dark doorway and speaking the line as if out of breath, was the subject of video edits in 2020, with users often taking the clip of Peele and placing it in new situations as an exploitable.

Origin

On March 20th, 2012, the season finale of the comedy sketch show Key and Peele, titled "Landlord," aired on Comedy Central.^[1] In the final sketch, Peele plays actor Forest Whittaker as a baby, an effect pulled off by imposing Peele's head over a child's body. The sketch portrays baby Forest as a strange, creepy and ultimately demanding baby who manipulates his babysitter, played by Keegan-Michael Key (shown below).

At timestamp 0:38, baby Forest Whittaker introduces himself to the babysitter by walking into a dark doorway and saying in an adult, out-of-breath voice, "Goo goo gaga, I want … I want milk." The isolated clip was uploaded to YouTube^[2] by sinkhole.mp3 on August 18th, 2020, garnering over 80,000 views in nine months (shown below).

Spread

On September 20th, 2020, YouTuber^[4] "sir.peppa" posted a video using a cutout of Peele saying the line over Minecraft footage, making it look like he's asking a cow for milk (shown below). The video gained over 2.4 million views in eight months. On the same date, YouTuber^[5] "・グスマンカルロス・" posted the unedited clip, garnering over 3.4 million views in the same span of time.

On August 13th, the clip was uploaded by TikToker^[8] @karsonbass, garnering over 1.3 million views in nine months. The original sound has been used over 9,700 times since, many attached to videos of animals with funny expressions on their faces (examples shown below, left and right).^[9][10]

On October 16th, YouTuber^[6] and Instagram^[7] user @Leaderofmoosey posted a new version of the meme using Attack on Titan footage, garnering over 47,000 views on the former and 1,000 likes on the latter in seven months (shown below). On October 26th, YouTuber^[3] "gaming with kade and more" uploaded the unedited clip of the scene, garnering over 2 million views in seven months.

On April 1st, 2021, YouTuber^[11] AHMED Shaf posted a new version of the meme using footage from Regular Show, garnering over 8,300 views in a month (shown below).

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