Okay, Get In

About

Okay, Get In is a quote from SpongeBob Squarepants paired with an image of SpongeBob and Patrick standing in front of an open casket. The image has been used in various meme formats to make a point about something unpopular, with the poster implying that said thing needs to die.

Origin

On October 2nd, 1999, the SpongeBob Squarepants episode "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost" premiered in the United States.^[1] In the episode, Spongebob and Patrick believe they have killed Squidward and are being haunted by his ghost because his body was never put to rest. Squidward attempts to use this knowledge to his advantage, but is soon accosted by the pair as they devise a plan to help his "ghost" move on. At one point, the pair presents Squidward with an open casket and instructs him to get in (shown below).

Spread

The scene started seeing use in memes starting on November 23rd, 2014,^[2] when a GIF mashing the clip up with Five Night at Freddy's characters appeared on Imgur (shown below, left). On December 17th, 2017, a communism variation of the scene appeared on /r/FULLCOMMUNISM,^[3] gaining over 460 points (shown below, right).

Recent examples have used the scene as a reaction image. On August 20th, 2019, Redditor Beast_92597 posted a meme with the image about Spider-Man to /r/BikiniBottomTwitter, gaining over 3,400 points (shown below, left). On August 5th, Instagram user acnemom posted it in reference to Joe Biden, gaining over 270 likes (shown below, right). Jokes were covered by Memebase.^[4]

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