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Good Morning Sunshine or Good Mor-ning Sunshine is a memorable quote from a political cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Sack, whose illustration of United States President Barack Obama milking a dried-up cow was the inspiration for a series of object-labeled images and an exploitable meme format.

Origin

Following the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009, political cartoonist Steve Sack published a one-panel comic of President Obama carrying numerous buckets labeled with different things the government will pay for and a skinny cow labeled "U.S. Treasury." Obama is shown saying, "Good mor-ning sunshine!" The earliest available archive of the comic online was published on the blog skol-blog^[1] on March 13th, 2009.

Spread

On May 14th, 2014, Redditor ^[2] davidfillion posted the image on the /r/feedthebeast subreddit. The post received more than 225 points (97% upvoted) and 50 comments in four years.

Four years later, on March 27th, 2018, Redditor^[3] GokuisUnderrated edited the image to feature PewDiePie in Obama's stead and the label "PewdiePie Submissions" on the cow. The post (shown below, left) received more than 2,400 points (98% upvoted).

Several months later, on May 28th, Redditor^[4] Radds published a variation in which Mickey Mouse is Obama and the cow is labeled Star Wars in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post (shown below, center) received more than 65,000 points (87% upvoted) and 5,200 comments.

The following day, Redditor^[5] Bad_For_Education published a version in the /r/2meirl4meirl subreddit. This version featured Obama labeled "Me" and the cow labeled "Using s*icide humor to cope with my very real mental health issues." The post (shown below, right) received more than 150 points (97% upvoted) in two days.

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