Member Berries

Member Berries

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Updated Dec 16, 2018 at 02:11PM EST by 3kole5.

Added Oct 24, 2016 at 03:55PM EDT by Don.

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Member Berries are a fictional superfruit that utter nostalgic, homophobic and racist phrases to people while they are being eaten in Season 20 Episode 1 of the animated television series South Park.

Origin

On September 14th, 2016, Comedy Central aired the South Park episode titled "Member Berries," in which the character Randy Marsh is shown eating talking purple berries mention various nostalgic pop culture icons, before asking if he could remember times when there were fewer Mexicans around, gay marriage was illegal and Ronald Reagan's presidency (shown below).



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That day, the @MemberBerries[3] Twitter feed was launched, featuring tweets written from the perspective of the fictional purple berries. Also on September 14th, a Facebook[4] page titled "Member Berries" was launched, garnering upwards of 2,700 likes over the next two months. The following day, a page titled "Member Berries" was created on the South Park Wiki.[10] On September 16th, Urban Dictionary[2] user isblueacolor submitted an entry for "member berries," defining them as "tasty morsels of organic nostalgia." That day, a GIF of the South Park scene was uploaded to 9gag[1] (shown below).


Member no ISIS? Mr. Garrison purple violet balloon

Also on September 16th, Tumblr user TheMeghaMind posted a photograph of an Old Orchard for Kids grape juice bottle with smiling purple grapes with the caption "Member berries IRL" (shown below, left). On September 17th, the Memesallovertheplace Tumblr[6] feed posted a screen capture of the berries with the caption "'Member / Harambe" (shown below).


u Stores, CS OLD ORCHARD for grape REDUCED SUGAR 60 JUICE BLEND DRINK FROM CONCENTRATE 50% LESS SUGAR THAN 100% APPLE JUICE 64 FL 100% DV VITAMINS (1/2 GAL] 1訊 Juice Stan Marsh Kenny McCormick Eric Cartman MEMBER HARAMBE mematic.net South Park: The Fractured But Whole Mr. Garrison Eric Cartman purple text games

On September 26th, Redditor joegofett posted a member berries image macro with the caption "member when / Southparkstudios had all the episodes for free" to /r/southpark,[9] where it gathered more than 8,500 votes (87% upvoted) and 890 comments within one month (shown below, left). On October 1st, a "Member Berries" message board was created on GameFAQs.[5] On October 8th, Tumblr[8] user dirty-south-park-confessions posted a photoshopped screen capture from the 1994 animated film The Lion King while a member berry superimposed over the lion Mufasa and the caption "Member who you are, Simba" (shown below, right).


MEMBER WHEN SOUTHPARKSTUDIOS HAD ALL THE EPISODES FOR FREE COMEDY purple text violet Member who you are, Simba Mr. Garrison Eric Cartman Kyle Broflovski Simba atmosphere orange text sky phenomenon

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[1] 9gag – Could memberberries be a new meme?

[2] Urban Dictionary – member berries

[3] Twitter – @MemberBerries

[4] Facebook – Member Berries

[5] GameFAQs – Member Berries

[6] Tumblr – memesallovertheplace

[7] Tumblr – meghamind

[8] Tumblr – dirty-south-park-confessions

[9] Reddit – member berries

[10] South Park Wiki – Member Berries

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