That's My Purse!

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About

"That's my purse!" is a quote spoken by King of the Hill character Bobby Hill before kicking an assailant in the testicles. The phrase, as well as the scenes in which it is used from the original episode, are frequently parodied or appropriated, often in the form of YouTube Poops.

Origin

On November 11th, 2001, King of the Hill aired the first episode of its sixth season, titled "Bobby Goes Nuts".^[1] In the episode Bobby Hill enters into a woman's self-defense class where he learns to attack an assailant by kicking them in the groin and screaming the phrase. Later in the episode, Bobby employs this tactic against bullies.

Spread

On September 9th, 2009 YouTuber DurhamrockerZ uploaded a YouTube Poop titled "Booby Goes Nuts" (shown below, left).^[2] As of August 2015 the video has over 1.3 million views. On January 24th, 2010 YouTuber metalcoatbts uploaded a parody trailer for "Bobby Goes Nuts" (shown below, right).^[3]

On December 31st, 2012 the YouTube channel for New Baltimore Club Music #Shakeoff uploaded a video titled "Mario x SirPhresh- Thats My Purse I Dont Know You! (King Of The Hill)" featuring samples from the episode (shown below, left), which received 4,910 as of September 2015.^[4] On July 28th, 2013, YouTuber PyterodactylCrew uploaded a video called "Thats My Purse (Remix)" (shown below, right), which has been viewed 4,204 times in the same time span.^[5] As of September 2015 a search for "that's my purse" on YouTube returns over 42,000 results.^[8]

In addition, posts featuring GIFs or drawings of the saying are popular on the microblogging platform Tumblr.^[6] On Instagram, the hashtag #thatsmypurse has 1,397 posts as of September 9th, 2015.^[7]