Iconic scene from Amazing Horse animation with gray horse, man in top hat, and woman in chef's hat.

Amazing Horse

2009Flash animation / viral songclassic

Published March 24, 2026

Also known as: Get on My Horse · Shut Up Woman Get on My Horse

Amazing Horse is a viral flash animation created by Weebl's Stuff, released in September 2009, featuring a catchy loop about a man's magical horse that "tastes just like raisins." The absurdist earworm spread rapidly across the early web, spawning dedicated fan sites, acoustic covers, and a copyright dispute that played out on public forums2. With its sticky melody and quotable nonsense lyrics, the animation became one of the defining viral loops of the late 2000s flash era3.

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Overview

Amazing Horse, a short, looping flash animation in which a crudely drawn gentleman introduces his horse to a woman. The horse, it turns out, is no ordinary steed. Stroking its mane turns it into a plane, tugging its "winky" turns it back again, and its lemonade comes from a questionable source4. The whole thing plays out over an infectious, repetitive tune that burrows into your brain and refuses to leave.

The animation follows Weebl's signature style: simple character designs, absurd humor, and music that loops perfectly so viewers can't tell where it ends and begins1. The song's lyrics are deliberately ridiculous, cycling through the horse's impossible abilities while the characters dance in a hypnotic back-and-forth.

Origin & Background

Platform
Weebls-Stuff.com (original), YouTube (viral spread)
Creator
Mr Weebl
Date
2009

On September 29, 2009, Weebl's Stuff uploaded the Amazing Horse animation to YouTube3. Weebl (real name Jonti Picking) was already well known in the flash animation community for creating "Badger Badger Badger" and other looping web cartoons. The video collected over 8.7 million views and 8,100 comments on YouTube over the following eight years3.

The animation originally appeared on Weebls-Stuff.com before its YouTube upload1. Like most of Weebl's work, it was built in Flash and designed to loop endlessly, making it perfect for the kind of "leave this open in a browser tab" viewing that defined early internet humor.

How It Spread

The animation took off almost immediately. On October 12, 2009, Kevin Padillac registered the domain ShutUpWomanGetOnMyHorse.com, hosting the flash embed without any advertisements and driving traffic directly to Weebl's creation1. That same day, a user called "Denied" launched GetOnMyHorse.com, which wrapped the animation in ads and claimed credit for the work3.

Weebl discovered the site after Denied posted about it on the Digital Gangster forums, where Denied's profile described him as "owner of the groundbreaking getonmyhorse(dot)com."2 Weebl responded directly in the thread: "If you're going to steal my work then don't stick a load of ads on the page because that's just taking the piss." He went on to explain that he didn't mind ShutUpWomanGetOnMyHorse.com since they hosted the file themselves and ran no ads, but GetOnMyHorse.com was "leeching" the file without even paying for hosting2.

On October 26, 2009, the flash animation was uploaded to Newgrounds3. The very next day, it earned the Newgrounds Review Crew Pick, a Daily Feature award, and Weekly 2nd Place1.

Cover versions started appearing quickly. YouTuber Cira Las Vegas uploaded an acoustic guitar cover on November 9, 20093. The chuckcardinale YouTube channel followed with their own cover on January 13, 20103. On March 5, 2010, Weebl himself released an official jazz version of the song, which picked up 1.7 million views and 1,400 comments over the next seven years3. In the jazz version, the horse plays saxophone instead of piano4.

The meme crossed language barriers too. On March 3, 2013, Brazilian YouTuber Canal Nostalgia uploaded a Mario-themed parody of the animation3.

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