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SpongeBob and Squidward’s Boulder Parodies is a series of photoshopped images and video parodies based on a scene from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants in which Spongebob and Squidward come upon a boulder and Spongebob says "It's not just a boulder… it's a rock!"

Origin

In the episode “Pizza Delivery,” which aired August 14th, 1999,^[1] SpongeBob notices a giant rock that he claims the "pioneers" drove for miles. Squidward is incredulous at this claim and tries to tell SpongeBob to forget about the pioneers, saying that there are none left because of their unusual traveling methods. However, he quickly changes his mind after SpongeBob runs him over with the rock and he chases after him for a ride. With the giant rock, they drive it all the way to the customer's house.

Spread

Parodies of the scene began appearing roughly around the beginning of 2013. One of the earliest-known parodies of the scene, posted to Funnyjunk^[2] on January 6th, 2013, has Spongebob making a pun, saying "It's not just a boulder… It's Iraq!" (shown below, right). This joke was copied in a parody by YouTuber on June 21st, 2016 that gained over 1.1 million views (shown below, left).

Another popular strand of joked made puns with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. For example, a video parody by YouTuber thing. made the joke, gaining over 20,000 views (shown below, left). An edit posted by Facebook page WWE Memes making the joke was posted September 7th, 2013, gaining over 1,100 likes (shown below, right).

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