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James Doakes' "Surprise Motherfucker"

James Doakes' "Surprise Motherfucker"

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Origin: LiveJournal

Added May 02, 2012 at 06:35PM EDT by Derpy Vaz.

Updated Mar 03, 2021 at 05:18AM EST by Y F.

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About

Surprise Motherfucker is a catchphrase associated with James Doakes (played by Erik King), a recurring character from the Showtime television drama series Dexter. Celebrated for its overly confrontational attitude, image macros of Doakes featuring the phrase have been since used on imageboards and forums in response to someone else's comment.

Origin

The phrase "Surprise Motherfucker" was first used on the show Dexter[7] by the character James Doakes[8], played by actor Erik King[9], in the season one episode "Born Free."[19][20] In the episode, the protagonist Dexter Morgan (played by Michael C. Hall) take a trip to the shipping yard to inspect a container that he suspects to be the site of his mother's murder, when Doakes suddenly confronts him by saying “Surprise, Motherfucker.” This episode originally aired on premium cable network Showtime on December 17th, 2006.



Doakes' quote from the scene soon became a memorable one-liner among fans of the show on LiveJournal.[11] It was eventually introduced to a broader audience in December 2008 when a five-second clip of the quote was uploaded onto YouTube and subsequently featured on Reddit[18] in October 2010. As of May 2012, the video has accumulated more than 1.98 million views.

Spread

In December 2008, the first YTMND site[12] featuring Doakes and the sound clip was created on December 28th, 2008. In January 2011, the single serving site SurpriseMotherfucker.com[1] was launched to showcase videos of Doakes' soundbite edited into other movie scenes (shown below). In February 2012, a single-topic Tumblr[5] began curating various images and videos based on the catchphrase.



On January 29th, 2012, the first photoshopped instance (shown below, left) of Doakes and reverse-captioned images of the original stillshot were posted to Tumblr by cranialabattoir[16] and received 21,677 notes. Some of the images featured alternate captions and visual add-ons, replacing "surprise" with other similar sounding words or phrases like “Damn Flies” and “Bowties."


an 29 12 SURPRISE SOME FRIES MOTHAFUCKA DAMNFLIES MOTHAFUCKA SUPPLIES MOTHAFUCKA BOWTIES MOTHAFUCKA MADE PIE MOTHAFUCKA MOTHAFUCKA Tags: Dexter Doakes Surprise Motherfucker anonreblog James Doakes mode of transport   SURPRISE MUTHAFUCKA STAPLES SUPPLIES MUTHAFUCKA SUNRISE MUTHAFUCKA SNAKE EYES MUTHAFUCKA REVISE MUTHAFUCKA Surprise, Muthafucka! James Doakes Dexter

On March 5th, 2012, blogger Corey Branigan posted another set of James Doakes images (shown above, right) to his Tumblr[13], where it accrued over 70,000 notes, as well as a feature post on Uproxx[15] two days later. Similar images can be found under hashtags #suprise muthafucka[4], #surprise motherfucker[14] and #doakes.[17] The Facebook fan page for the phrase has 538 likes and there is also a Quickmeme[3] page based on the still from the Dexter episode.

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Video parodies of Doakes’ quote typically involve editing the audio of the original Dexter scene or placing Doakes' soundbite into other video clips. Edited versions of the Dexter scene began appearing as early as 2009, but the volume of related video results began to grow substantially in January 2011. On YouTube, there are approximately 160 results for “doakes surprise”[10] and 1120 for “surprise motherfucker”[2] as of May 2012.




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STAPLE akes SUPPLIES MUTHAFUCKA Erik King James Doakes Dexter BAPTIZE MUTHAFUCKA memsgenerator.ne Erik King James Doakes Dexter mode of transport SOME FRIES, MUTHAFUCKA James Doakes Dexter
BOWTIES MOTHAFUCKA Erik King James Doakes Dexter REVISE MUTHAFUCKA Erik King James Doakes Dexter glasses vision care MY CREYS MOTHAFUCKA Erik King James Doakes Dexter

Notable Comments


How did you react to the end of Toy Story 3? I CRIED MOTHERFUCKA!!! Guerrillablackdog 7 months ago 24 Hey Doakes, I hate you! "Likewise Motherfucka!" Sergeantspoon 9 months ago 32 What do we need Sgt Doakes sir?! SUPPLIES MOTHERFUCKA!!! Ultimatepanzer 8 months ago 82 walks in the court room "all rise,muthafuckas MUSICHUSTLA 3 months ago 68 Doakes, Look at the sun MY EYES MOTHAFUCKA! MattG601 738 months ago 25 "ls that you Doakes? I didn't recognize you "Disguise, Motherfucker!" Jonereator2 3 months ago 100 What do you want from McDonalds? SOME FRIES, MOTHERFUCKA MattQ94 8 months ago 94 doakes: suprise mothafucka dexter: i was just.... doakes: lies mothafucka dexter: how'd you know? doakes: signs mothafuka dexter: how is turning me in gonna benefit you doakes: imma riise mothafucka hakim071 13 months ago 210 what do u watch in the morning? SUNRISE MOTHERFUCKA!!! roddgk 8 months ago 173 hey doakes, what happened to you at the end of season 2? I DIED, MUTHAFUCKA mrfrelancekiller 8 months ago 159 dexter what you want from kfc? doakes:some thighs mothafucka everynamesused89 3 months ago 111 James Doakes Dexter Morgan text font product

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