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SpongeBob Driving Crazy is a reaction image meme based on a SpongeBob SquarePants comic book cover inspired by Ed Roth's Rat Fink hot rod art showing SpongeBob driving a boat with his tongue out and his eyes bulging from his head while Mrs. Puff holds onto the back of the engine. The comic was released in April 2011.

The image was popularized as a meme throughout late 2025 and early 2026, including as a spam reaction image in TikTok comment sections. Some prominent examples of the meme as an image macro include a version captioned, "200 pounds horse meat," and a version captioned, "The typa shi mfs put on the cover of extremely sour candy."

Origin

On April 13th, 2011, SpongeBob Comics issue two, titled "Caution: Student Boater," was released.^[1] The cover features artwork inspired by Ed Roth, known for his Rat Fink hot rod art.

On March 30th, 2023, YouTuber^[2] TheDoooTooo posted a video where they play Picture Cards Online with friends, a game in which a phrase with a blank space is given and an image must be provided to complete the phrase. At the 14:42 timestamp, a card is revealed showing a meme using a low-res crop of the SpongeBob comic cover captioned, "200 pounds horse meat." The video gained over 1.2 million views in three years.

TheDoooTooo posted the isolated meme on his X^[3] / Twitter account on July 1st, 2023, garnering over 3,300 likes in the same span of time.

Spread

On September 7th, 2025, a post was made to the /r/MatPatEffect^[4] subreddit sharing the origin of the SpongeBob meme, garnering over 2,100 upvotes in four months.

In October 2025, a meme using the same image of SpongeBob, comparing the image to the packaging of sour candies, started spreading online.

For example, on October 21st, 2025, Facebook^[5] user SpongeBob Memes posted the meme, garnering over 700 reactions and 90 likes in three months.

On October 24th, Instagram^[6] user i_have_no_memes96_v2 posted the meme to over 10,000 likes in three months. The meme appears to have originated from TikTok, although it is unclear who created it.

On December 30th, 2025, Redditor fakename1998 made a post on the /r/Robzombie^[7] subreddit sharing the image under the caption, "White Zombie album covers be like," garnering over 530 upvotes in a month.

On January 11th, 2026, X^[8] user @chumblings posted two images of SpongeBob driving, as well as a similar piece of art, writing, "what is this genre of art called," garnering over 95,000 likes in about two weeks.

On January 13th, X^[9] user @foahstrailer posted a selection of a Stranger Things fanfiction that references the 67 meme next to the SpongeBob meme, writing, "how i felt reading this," garnering over 2,200 likes in 10 days.

On January 19th, 2026, TikToker^[10] @yikesss.nella posted a video of herself laughing, captioned, "When I open the comments to a video and it's all pictures of SpongeBob driving," garnering over 106,000 views in four days.

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