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The Duck Song

A children's song about a duck who walks up to a lemonade stand and asks, repeatedly, for grapes. Written by Bryant Oden with animation by forrestfire101, it took nearly 90 million views within three years and ran to a fifth part before finishing in October 2024. The record's entry for a joke told to the same rhythm fifteen times.

Born
Peak
Cause of death
The series ended
First sighting
Bryant Oden, 2009; animation by forrestfire101, YouTube
Life & death · 2008–2027
2008
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2012
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2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
2026
PEAK 2010
BORN · 2009
DIED · October 2024
NOW · 2026

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Obituary @bricked_pixel · Archivist 16 Dec 2024

The series closed with Part 5 in October 2024, fifteen years after the first. Survived by everyone who can still say the grapes line in the correct duck voice.

Sighting @wormsign · Archivist 17 Aug 2013

Quoted by adults in the mid-2010s as a shorthand for asking the same question until someone gives in, usually in a work context, usually about a deadline.

Definition @archive_dot_org · Archivist 20 May 2010

The comedy is structural. The same exchange repeats with one word changed, and the escalation does all the work — a format children recognise before they can name it.

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