# And The Tiger Poster Zoobooks TV ads from the 1990s and early 2000s teased kids with a free Tiger Poster you had to call in to receive, and plenty never got one. In April 2012, YouTube channel BravaCentauri uploaded the full commercial, which turned into a copypasta that reached 1.1 million views as grown kids used it to joke about the lost freebie. By 2020, animator SaberSpark was running Bernie Sanders edits begging Zoobooks for the poster. ## Origin Zoobooks animal magazines aired television ads throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, each closing with the Tiger Poster as the sign-up incentive. YouTube channel 90's Video Girl uploaded an older version of the commercial on April 4, 2021, which it dated to 1995 and which uses different wording than the copypasta version[2]. The commercial that became the copypasta was uploaded by YouTube channel BravaCentauri on April 29, 2012, and the video reached roughly 1.1 million views over the following decade[1]. - **Platform:** YouTube (source ad) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown (sourced from Zoobooks TV commercials; copypasta spread from a 2012 BravaCentauri YouTube upload) - **Date:** 2012 ## Overview The copypasta reproduces the ad narrator's exact pitch, closing with the title line "and the Tiger Poster," which online posters quote back at each other for the punchline[1]. Jokes center on nostalgia and perceived betrayal, since many kids who called the 1-800 number never received their poster, or aged out of the Zoobooks demographic before they could buy a subscription themselves[4]. Posts typically combine screenshots or clips of the ad with captions about still waiting on the mail decades later[5]. Variations include Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking" edits aimed at Zoobooks[6] and short tweets testing whether anyone else even remembers the offer[3]. The humor lands on specificity: the Zoobooks magazine line still exists, but the Tiger Poster bonus does not, so the bit works as both ad trivia and shared childhood grievance. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is And The Tiger Poster? It is the closing line of Zoobooks TV ads from the 1990s and 2000s, now used as a copypasta and tweet format for joking about a childhood freebie that never arrived in the mail[1]. ### Where did And The Tiger Poster come from? The quoted copy traces to a Zoobooks commercial uploaded to YouTube by BravaCentauri on April 29, 2012, which later reached about 1.1 million views[1]. ### What does And The Tiger Poster mean? It plays on nostalgia and a sense of betrayal for kids who called the Zoobooks hotline but never received the promised Tiger Poster[4]. ### How do you use And The Tiger Poster? Posters typically share the ad clip or quote the final 'and the Tiger Poster' line alongside captions about still waiting, often as Bernie Sanders edits or customer-service story threads[6]. ### Is And The Tiger Poster still popular? It got a fresh wave of attention around 2020 through SaberSpark's thread and Bernie edit[6], and the BravaCentauri upload reached around 1.1 million views[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8EvnM2XUTI]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtYlzMmtGws]() 3. [https://mobile.twitter.com/saberspark/status/638569677589999616]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/and-the-tiger-poster]() 5. [https://twitter.com/medwardsva/status/1125149816097529857]() 6. [https://twitter.com/saberspark/status/1235004886355529729]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/and-the-tiger-poster Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library