What is Dole Dippers?

Dole Dippers is a 2015 animated Dole commercial starring a penguin butler serving frozen banana bites to two sunbathing primates, which later spawned a 'Your X, Retard' and 'Your X, Sir' image macro using the penguin and a tray.

Where did Dole Dippers come from?

Animation studio Luma uploaded the commercial to Vimeo on July 28th, 2015, and remix videos began on iFunny and YouTube in late 2016.

What does Dole Dippers mean?

As a meme, the penguin's silver platter stands in for any absurd offering, captioned 'Your [X], Retard' or 'Your [X], Sir' as a mock-formal delivery of a joke item.

How do you use Dole Dippers?

Posters typically layer a 'Your X, Retard' or 'Your X, Sir' caption onto the penguin still, or onto the Fresh Prince Geoffrey Butler tray shot that joined the template in December 2019.

Is Dole Dippers still popular?

The format peaked across late 2017 and early 2019 on Reddit and iFunny, with the Fresh Prince parallel in December 2019 being the latest documented wave.

Dole Dippers

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Published October 25, 2026

In July 2015, animation studio Luma produced a Dole commercial starring a bowtied penguin butler delivering frozen banana snacks to two sunbathing primates by a pool. iFunny and YouTube remixers hijacked the clip through 2016 and 2017, and by January 2019 the still frame of the penguin became a 'Your X, Retard' snowclone on Reddit.

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Overview

Captioned stills of the penguin, platter in hand, carry an absurd substitute item in the 'Your X, Retard' or 'Your X, Sir' slot4. The ape sunbathers are the implied recipient, so the joke lands as a tuxedoed servant respectfully presenting something unwanted or ridiculous5. In mid-December 2019, a shot of Geoffrey Butler from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air carrying a tray slotted into the same template as a sister image for the format6.

Audio-dubbed edits of the commercial run parallel to the still-image track. Loss edits, deep-fried macros and poop remixes of the thirty-second ad gave the Dole clip a second life well before the exploitable still took off, with 2017 posters favoring harsh crunchy filters and the slur caption8.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Vimeo (source commercial), iFunny / Reddit (viral spread)

Date

2015

Luma, the Los Angeles animation studio, uploaded the thirty-second Dole Dippers commercial to Vimeo on July 28th, 20151. The spot shows a tuxedoed penguin servant walking a silver platter of chocolate-covered banana bites to a pair of ape women lounging beside a resort pool6.

How It Spread

iFunny user kong_is_life posted a poop remix of the ad before December 9th, 2016, though the original is lost6. That same December 9th, YouTuber Nick Sexton reuploaded the clip as '🅱️ole 🅱️ippers,' and the mirror collected over 179,000 views across four years2. On September 18th, 2017, YouTuber Alex Kooper added another remix3.

An iFunny poster captioned a still of the penguin with 'Your Dole Dippers, Retard' before October 8th, 20174. Redditor vietcongsurvivor1986 reposted the earliest surviving copy to /r/bonehurtingjuice on October 20th, 20175. YouTuber Dank Conspiracy Nut uploaded a dubbed edit with background ape noises on October 8th, 20177.

Deep-fried and Loss variants followed later that month, with TheButterBread submitting a deep-fried macro to /r/dankmemes on October 19th8 and i_dont_have-reddit posting a Loss edit to /r/lossedits on October 28th9. By January 2019, Reddit users began substituting other absurd items into the 'Your X, Retard' caption, and in mid-December 2019 a tray-carrying still of Fresh Prince's Geoffrey Butler joined the same template6.

Timeline

2015-07-28

Luma uploads the Dole Dippers animated commercial to Vimeo on behalf of Dole.

2016-12-09

YouTuber Nick Sexton reuploads the ad as '🅱️ole 🅱️ippers,' later collecting over 179,000 views.