Bad Joke Eel

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About

Bad Joke Eel is an advice animal image macro series featuring a close-up photograph of a Moray eel with various captions delivering unfunny puns and jokes, very similar to Lame Pun Coon.

Origin

The photograph^[1] (shown on left) was originally taken by Jeffrey N. Jeffords while scuba diving in the Philippines for his site, Dive Gallery.^[2] The first known image macro instance (shown on right) was posted via AdviceAnimals subreddit on January 12th, 2012. The thread^[6] reached the frontpage of Reddit and the image has been viewed over 400,000 times in the first four days.

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Prior to becoming associated with the title "Bad Joke Eel" on Reddit, the same image was used as a punchline for the phrase "That's amore" by a commenter on FARK^[3] forum on October 13th, 2009 and in an image macro on the humor site So Much Pun^[4] on January 25th, 2011. The series shares similar characteristics with several image macros including Lame Pun Coon and Chemistry Cat.

Spread

The Quickmeme entry^[5] for "Bad Joke Eel" was created on the same day of original Reddit post, spawning over 700 instances on the site in four days. A variety of derivative instances were soon posted on a number of internet humor blogs like I Can Has Cheezburger^[9], Sad and Useless^[8], Tastefully Offensive^[11], FunnyJunk^[12] and BuzzFeed^[10] among others. Additional image macros has been posted on various Tumblr blogs^[13], which can be tracked with the hashtag #Bad Joke Eel.