Stop Staring At Me With Them Big Ol' Eyes

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"Stop Staring At Me With Them Big Ol' Eyes" is memorable quote by the Flying Dutchman from an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. The meme has been the subject of multi-panel image macros, in which the first panel features a character with their eyes wide open, the text instructs them to stop staring with those "big ol' eyes," and in the final panel, they are seen squinting.

Origin

The phrase "Stop Staring At Me With Those Big Ol' Eyes" is said by the Flying Dutchman to SpongeBob (shown below), in the season two episode "Your Shoe's Untied,"^[1] which first aired on November 2nd, 2000.

Spread

On March 13th, 2013, YouTuber AMReed8 posted the above clip, entitled "STOP STARING AT ME WITH THEM BIG 'OLE EYES!" Within four years, the video has received more than 120,200 views.

On November 9th, 2015, Redditor Kirble_Konnection^[3] posted an image (shown below) from the video game Five Nights at Freddy's in which the characters are photoshopped to have bigger eyes. The post received more than 50 points (92% upvoted).

On November 11th, 2016, a user of the ascii art board on the anonymous message board 4 channel made reference to the meme. In the comic, an ascii cat is told "stop staring at me with those big ol eyes." The cat complies.

On March 3rd, 2017, Tumblr user Ryuukibap^[4] posted a variation with the character Orisa from Overwatch. Within three months, the post has received more than 17,000 notes.