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The Duck Song

You might remember it as Duck Song lemonade stand

Funniest videos on the internet21 of 30

2010·The social era·funny·Uploaded by songdrops

A children's song animation with a durable catchphrase and hundreds of millions of views.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
Duck Song lemonade stand
First known
2010
Format
Video
Era
The social era
Made by
Written and sung by Bryant Oden
Uploaded by
The animated video was made by Forrest Whaley, then fourteen
Origin
Origin not yet established
Available
Playable from the source

What this wasThe story

A duck walks up to a lemonade stand and asks the man running it whether he has any grapes. He does not. The duck comes back the next day and asks again, and the day after that, until the man threatens to glue him to a tree — at which point the duck asks whether he has any glue, and then whether he has any grapes.

Four sequels between 2009 and 2024, a children’s book, a Christmas version and a live-action remake. Bryant Oden has described it as a rare combination of a catchy tune, an old joke and a good main character rather than anything he engineered.

Why it matteredWhat changed

A children’s song built on an old joke, animated in Microsoft Paint by a fourteen-year-old, has been watched 684 million times.

TimelineIn order

  1. Posted

    Oden posts the song with its lyrics.1

  2. Posted

    Whaley’s animated version is posted.1

  3. Remixed

    A sequel is released. A third follows in 2010.1

  4. Came back

    A fourth is released, fifteen years to the day after the animation.1

The version you rememberNot the same thing

The version people rememberThe animated video

Drawn in Microsoft Paint by a fourteen-year-old, and posted two months after the song.1

The originalA lyric video

Posted by the songwriter on 21 January 2009.1

More from hereIn this collection

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

The version shown here is a later copy, posted by the creator to YouTube.

Where it came fromWhat we know

Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.

View the creator's copy on YouTube

No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.

Uploaded by songdrops. Who made it has not been established — an account that published an upload is not necessarily its creator.

When
28 July 2010.

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SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — The Duck Song

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