I Pulled a Sneaky on Ya

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"I Pulled a Sneaky on Ya" is a memorable quote uttered by Steve Ross on the television series The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. Online, people use a screenshot of Ross saying the line as the punchline to captions about small tricks.

Origin

On September 28th, 1993, the episode "Mountain Lake Falls" of The Joy of Painting aired in the United States. In the episode, Ross's son Steve Ross hosts and says the line, "I pulled a sneaky on you." On December 3rd, 2016, the video was uploaded to YouTube. The post received more than 5.7 million views in two years (shown below).

Spread

On March 19th, 2018, a Redditor ^[1]^[2] who has since deleted their account posted the image in the /r/2meirl4meirl (shown below, left). They captioned the image, "When someone asks you how you're doing and you don't want to admit you're depressed so you just say 'I'm fine.'" The post received more than 2,100 points (99% upvoted).

Over the next few months, Redditors on various subreddits, including /r/dankmemes, ^[3] /r/deadbydaylight^[4] and more posted variations of the meme (examples below, center and right).

When someone asks you how you're doing and you don't want to admit you're depressed so you just say "I'm fine" See, U pulled a sneaky on ya.

When you ask for a water cup and fill it with Sprite instead l pulled a little sneaky on ya

Various Examples

What's that?! I pulled a little sneaky on

When you ask a Roman Catholic friend to come to "Mass" with you but bring them to Divine Liturgy I pulled a little sneaky on ya

When they ask you why you look so sad all the time and you hit them with "ah I'm just tired" see l pulled a sneaky on ya.

when thor throws his new axe at yoiu but it didn't kill you so you snap your fingers and wipe out half the universe See pulled a sneaky o n ya

Search Interest

External References

^[1] Reddit – 2meirl4meirl

^[2] CollegeHumor – 11 Memes That Are Doing Just As Well As You Are – CollegeHumor Post

^[3] Reddit – Got em

^[4] Reddit – /r/deadbydaylight

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