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Rhymes With Grug, also known as It Rhymes With Grug, refers to a phrasal template about The Croods character Grug and one of his quotes from the 2013 animated film in which he invents many things and says that their names rhyme with Grug. In mid-2025, Grug memes spread en masse on TikTok, centering on memes that falsely claimed events, inventions and other words rhymed with Grug. The obvious contradiction carried the punchline. The snowclone typically used is "I call it X, rhymes with Grug" or "I call it X (it rhymes with Grug)." The meme spread during a rise in The Croods content in 2025, including The Croods Running meme. Both trends used the same TikTok sound, which was the main theme of the movie.

Origin

On March 22nd, 2013, the animated film The Croods was released in American theaters.^[1] In one scene, the character Grug is inventing things. He says, "I call it a rug, rhymes with Grug. And this one, I call it a ride, rhymes with Grug" (YouTube^[2] upload shown below).

Currently, the first known meme to use Rhymes With Grug as a punchline was a video shared by YouTuber^[4] madoxthepsychic on February 13th, 2020, which showed a deep-fried meme reading, "Good job, Grug," after playing the Rhymes With Grug scene. Over five years, it received over 1,100 views (shown below).

Spread

Heading into 2020, a minor animation meme trend about the Rhymes With Grug scene spread on YouTube.^[5]

On August 5th, 2020, YouTuber^[3] MrMrMANGOHEAD shared a YouTube Poop with the Rhymes With Grug scene, gaining over 406,300 views and 13,000 likes in five years (shown below).

Rhymes With Grug became a major meme trend in 2025, when it spread en masse on TikTok. The trend seemingly started with a video from TikToker^[6] @bryan..200, shared on May 3rd. The video showed him dancing to a Jersey Club remix of The Croods main theme, with a text caption reading, "How I feel after using my own method to solve the maths problem (it rhymes with grug)." The video gained over 67,200 likes in three days (shown below).

In the following days, TikTokers shared one-photo slideshows that included a Rhymes With Grug meme, often about edgy subject matter. For instance, on May 4th, 2025, TikToker^[7] @lilbiggefatmonke posted an iteration with a caption reading, "I call it vehicular man slaughter 'cause it rhymes with Grug," gaining over 158,500 likes in two days (shown below).

On May 5th, TikToker^[8] @gabe_again shared an iteration about drunk driving, gaining over 16,600 likes in a day (shown below).

Also on May 5th, 2025, TikToker^[9] @mashed_onions posted an AI image of Grug with a low taper fade, akin to the Imagine If Ninja Got a Low Taper Fade meme. In a day, it received over 45,400 likes (shown below).

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