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Ethan Slater Dancing as SpongeBob, also known as Ethan Slater Singing "Bikini Bottom Day," refers to memes and jokes inspired by a viral video from the 2017 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade that features actor and singer Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants in SpongeBob The Musical on Broadway. The clip shows Slater dressed in brown pants, a yellow shirt and suspenders, singing, "This kind of day / couldn't get much better / but it keeps on trying," while wriggling his hips. The video went viral on Twitter / X in November 2025, seven years after it was initially released, as it was used as a reaction GIF and GIF caption meme format.

Origin

On November 24th, 2017, the YouTube^[1] channel BroadwayTVArchive posted a clip of actor and singer Ethan Slater reprising his role as SpongeBob SquarePants and singing the song "Bikini Bottom Day" as part of the 91st Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The video gathered over 1.2 million views in eight years.

On November 17th, 2025, X^[2] user @boboomf posted a clip from the aforementioned performance, showing Ethan Slater singing, "This kind of day couldn't get much better but it keeps on trying," before doing SpongeBob's classic "Nyahahah" laugh. The post gathered over 20,000 views and 400 likes in 10 days.

Spread

On November 24th, 2025, X^[3] user @boboomf reposted the aforementioned video, gathering over 41,000 likes in two days.

Also on November 24th, X^[6] user @dykellisto quoted the post, writing, "do you think ariana ever asks him to do the laugh," gathering over 11,000 likes in two days.

On November 25th, 2025, X^[4] user @boboomf posted a GIF version of the Ethan Slater Dancing meme, gathering over 6,000 likes on a post that read, "spongeboq tin pants guy ok!" The tweet was in reference to the "SpongeBob Big Guy Pants Ok" song and meme.

That same day, X^[5] user @rogersterlings reposted the Ethan Slater dancing video with the caption, "this is what don draper saw during zou bisou bisou," gathering over 80,000 views and 3,000 likes in a day.

Also on November 25th, 2025, X^[6] user @whatsappauntie tweeted, "Told my coworker her baby daddy was being creepy to me and now she hate me," gathering over 7,000 likes in a day.

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