About

"What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets" is a LOLcat image macro series based on pictures of cats looking disappointed or unamused (because you forgot the chicken nuggets). Also see: X is not amused.

Origin

The earliest known instance of the "Chicken Nuggets" caption can be found in a YouTube video uploaded on September 21st, 2006, featuring an image of Serious Cat, a well-known LOLcat that became popular around the same time, and a voicedub ranting about the absence of chicken nuggets.

Spread

Throughout 2006, the phrase became closely associated with with Serious Cat image macros on 4chan^[1], as well as spawning a variety of animated videos on YouTube^[2]. The macro series continued to propagate through LOLcat hubsites like Cheezburger^[3] and LOLcatz^[4], while the phrase became a topic of discussion on forums like Yahoo Answers^[5], Something Awful^[6] and eBaums World^[7]. There is also a Facebook Page^[8] dedicated to the animated YouTube video, though it has a limited number of followers.

Video Derivatives

On May 5th, 2010, YouTuber piepuppy89 posted a short cartoon featuring a boy and Serious Cat in the style of Japanese animation short series Mameshiba^[9]:

On July 16th, 2010, YouTuber dn3633 uploaded a dramatic version of piepuppy89's "What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets" video, featuring the soundtrack from the 2002 British horror film 28 Days Later:

Search Interest

External References

^[1] SWFchan – What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets

^[2] YouTube- Search Results for What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets?

^[3] Cheezburger – What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets?

^[4] LOLcatz – What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets

^[5] Yahoo Answers – What is this supposed to mean? It's of a cat and it says 'What do you mean you forgot the chicken nuggets?'

^[6] SomethingAwful Forum – Sometimes, I wish I had the courage to talk to my own wife / Posted on 9/27/2009

^[7] eBaums World – Internets = Serious Business

^[8] Facebook – What do you mean you forgot the chicken nuggets

^[9] Wikipedia – Mameshiba