About

Mr. Krabs Admiring His Painting By The Fireplace refers to an exploitable meme featuring Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants sitting by a fireplace and admiring a painting or piece of artwork. The image comes from season 4 of the animated children's show in an episode where Mr. Krabs turns the Krusty Krab restaurant into the Krusty Towers Hotel. The screengrab is often edited to show Krabs admiring an image instead of the original still, where Krabs can be seen admiring a plaque that reads, "We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request." The meme is sometimes referenced in the form of emojis that constitute the image, such as 🦀🪑🔥🖼️.

Origin

The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Krusty Towers" took place in the show's 4th season. The episode saw Mr. Krabs turning his restaurant the Krusty Krab into the Krusty Towers. At one point during the show, Mr. Krabs sits down by his fireplace to admire a plaque that reads, "We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request" (shown below).^[1]

The earliest known notable post where the aforementioned image is edited to show Mr. Krabs admiring a painting is a September 12th, 2022, post by iFunny^[2] user @Tohru_Adachi. The meme shows Mr. Krabs admiring a tweet from the time Ninja's Twitter account was hacked and posted "KEEMSTAR is a bald retard," gathering over 4,000 smiles in two years (seen below).

Spread

On September 12th, 2022, Redditor /u/ARandomInternetLad posted the earliest known template for the meme to /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial.^[3]

On September 13th, 2022, X^[4] account @G2esports posted a version of the meme showing a tweet by @CarlosR, gathering over 3,000 likes in two years (seen below, left). On June 24th, 2023, iFunny^[5] user @KaiserXeno posted a version of the meme that gathered over 6,000 smiles in a year (seen below, right).

On May 30th, 2024, a version of the meme was posted to the Chargers' official Instagram, where it gathered over 14,000 likes in three months ^[7] (seen below, left). On June 27th, @itsSirJules^[6] posted images showing streamer Ninja, Mr. Krabs, a fireplace, and a chair in reference to the original meme. The post gathered over 40,000 likes in a month (seen below, right).

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