Mr. Krabs "Give It Up For Day 23"

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Mr. Krabs "Give It Up For Day 23" refers to a montage scene from SpongeBob SquarePants showing the effects of keeping the Krusty Krab open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. During the montage, the character Mr. Krabs is seen ringing a bell and crying, "Day 23! Give it up for day 23!" The scene has been used as an image macro and in video remixes to illustrate something going on for so long that it is driving the poster crazy.

Origin

The scene comes from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Fear of a Krabby Patty," which aired May 6th, 2005.^[1] In the episode, the Krusty Krab has decided to remain open 24/7. This leads to a montage of SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs getting progressively more tired and mentally unstable over several weeks. During the montage, Mr. Krabs rings a bell and cries "Day 23! Give it up for day 23!" The scene was uploaded by YouTuber Bri Bilecki on July 14th, 2015, gaining over 530,000 views in eight and a half years (shown below).

Spread

The scene has been adopted by the SpongeBob fandom as a time-specific meme, as some social media users and gimmick accounts have posted it on the 23rd of every month. For example, on May 23rd, 2016, Redditor Logan4457 posted the image to /r/spongebob^[2] to celebrate it being the 23rd of that month, gaining over 280 points in nearly eight years (shown below, top).

The novelty Twitter account @giveupforday23^[3] reposted the clip on the 23rd of every month from March 2021 to July 2023, gaining over 4,000 followers in roughly three years (example shown below, bottom).

The clip has also been used to express exhaustion on something taking a long time. For example, on April 5th, 2020, it was posted to /r/BikiniBottomTwitter^[4] by a deleted Redditor marking the 23rd day since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic national emergency in America, gaining over 180 points in roughly four years (shown below, top).

In a May 19th, 2023, upload, YouTuber temp6t used the meme to satirize a seemingly endless battle between one of their Pokémon and one of their opponent's in a video that gained over 860,000 views in seven months (shown below, bottom).

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