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Lee Brice's All-American Halftime Show Performance and I Just Wanna Kiss My Fish refers to memes about country singer Lee Brice's performance at Turning Point USA's All-American Halftime Show, a livestreamed halftime show hosted in protest of Super Bowl LX's halftime show for featuring Bad Bunny as its headlining performance. The performance became the subject of reactions and memes in early February 2026, including memes that mishear the lyrics "I just wanna catch my fish" as "I just wanna kiss my fish."

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On February 8th, 2026, Turning Point USA hosted the All-American Halftime Show, a halftime show meant to compete with Super Bowl LX's halftime show, which was protested by some conservatives because of Bad Bunny's performance. The livestream garnered over 21 million views on the TPUSA YouTube^[1] channel in three days.

During the show, country artist Lee Brice sang his song "Country Nowadays." At the 59:30 timestamp, Lee Brice sings, "I just wanna catch my fish."

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Lee Brice's performance became the subject of reactions and memes over the following days.

On February 8th, 2026, X^[2] user @ChrisRGun posted the clip of Brice singing "I just wanna catch my fish," writing, "this is exactly the type of stuff I thought would be too on the nose to be believable but it’s real," garnering over 2,100 likes in three days.

On February 9th, X^[3] user @UweBollocks quoted a post of xQc reacting to the performance, making fun of the lyrics, garnering over 42,000 likes in two days.

Later that day, Redditor u/Tun-Tavern-1775 posted the clip to the /r/CrappyMusic^[4] subreddit with the title, "Genuinely curious, who is this and why does he want to kiss his fish?" garnering over 2,700 upvotes in two days.

On the same day, TikToker^[5] @freedomforge_ posted an edit comparing the two shows, garnering over 3.7 million views in two days.

On February 10th, TikToker^[6] @woozado posted an edit of the clip captioned, "son who watching ts," garnering over 235,000 views in a day.

On February 11th, X^[7] user @doulbedoink posted the clip of Brice singing, "I just wanna catch my fish," under the caption, "Fisherman dialogue in Pokemon games after you one-shot their 4 magikarp," garnering over 5,000 likes in under a day.

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