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Sneed's Feed & Seed (Formerly Chuck's) is a joke and innuendo from the animated television series The Simpsons. The questionable validity of the punchline and confusing nature of the joke's structure has turned it into a tool for trolling and memes referencing the original quip, which uses the scene from the show as an exploitable in photoshops and other edits. After spreading to 4chan, "Sneedposting" became a widespread shitposting format to reference Sneed's Feed & Seed.

Origin

The original scene comes from the fifth episode of season 11 of The Simpsons titled "E I E I (ANNOYED GRUNT)," which aired on November 7th, 1999.^[2] In the scene, Homer parks outside the titular farming supply store "Sneed's Feed & Seed" (underneath in parenthesis reads "Formerly Chuck's") before being berated by two men (seen below).^[1]

The first internet reference to Sneed's Feed & Seed comes from an episode capsule text document written on March 27th, 2000, by Benjamin Robinson on the Simpson's Archive^[4] website (shown below). In the post, Robinson detailed the hidden innuendo in the title by pointing out the correlation of "Sneed, feed and seed" all ending with the suffix "-eed," meaning Chuck's former ownership would imply the "-uck" suffix instead — leading to the store formerly being "Chuck's Fuck & Suck" if following the initial starting letters.

Spread

The earliest archived discussion of Sneed's Feed & Seed comes from a thread created by The Straight Dope user The Great Zamboni_on April 17th, 2003 (shown below).^[5]

4chan Revival and Sneedposting

On June 12th, 2012, an anonymous user posted a picture of the Sneed's Feed & Seed sign to 4chan's /co/ board. This is the oldest post referencing the meme that was captured by the archiving website DesuArchive^[6] (shown below).

When the joke became a frequently discussed topic on 4chan, several users began referencing Sneed's Feed & Seed in the form of shitposting known as "Sneedposting." On September 14th, 2017, YouTuber^[7] Real Human Bean uploaded a video mocking such Sneedposts, receiving over 186,000 views, 5,000 likes and 670 comments in roughly three and a half years (seen below, left). On September 22nd, 2017, another YouTuber^[8] by the name of Sneed's Feed & Seed (Formerly Chuck's) uploaded "The Sneedposters' Song" to their channel, receiving nearly 40,000 views, 1,000 likes and 128 comments in roughly three and a half years (seen below, right).

On November 12th, 2017, Redditor ChavaF1 posted about the scene on the /r/TVDetails^[9] subreddit and pointed out the joke, receiving 625 upvotes and 20 comments in six months.

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