Today's The Day
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About
"Today's the Day" is a memorable quote uttered by the starfish character Peach in the 2003 computer-generated animated film Finding Nemo. Online, people have used images of the moment as a reaction image.
Origin
On May 30th, 2003, Pixar released the film Finding Nemo in the United States.[1] In the film, Peach the starfish (voiced by Allison Janney) expressed their excitement for their tank to be cleaned by saying, "Today's the day" (clip below).
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On February 26th, 2012, Tumblr [3] tumblegags shared a series of GIFs from the scene. The post received more than 106,000 notes in seven years (shown below, left).
On March 8th, 2016, a GIF the moment was uploaded on Tenor.[2]
On August 12th, 2018, iFunny [4] user YourNeighborhoodFriendly shared a captioned image macro of the moment. They captioned the image, "When you are on the verge of mental collapse and something of a minor inconvenience happens." In a little more than one year, the image received more than 59,000 upvotes and 445 comments (shown below).
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] IMDB – Finding Nemo
[2] Tenor – Todays The Day! – Finding Nemo GIF
[3] Tumblr – tumblegags' Post
[4] iFunny – YourNeighborhoodFriendly's Post
