Here Comes Pacman

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Here Comes Pacman is a viral video clip pulled from The Bloodhound Gang's 2001 music video for 'Mope,' in which a 3D-rendered Pac-Man offers crack cocaine to two acquaintances before lighting up himself and dancing to a remix of his own theme. The clip drifted through YouTube reuploads for years before spawning a wave of Replacement Remix edits in 2017.

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Overview

The heart of Here Comes Pacman is a short sketch anchored by the awkward drug-offering exchange, then Pac-Man's giggling dance to a warped version of the arcade theme1. Editors leave the low-poly 3D visuals untouched and swap the audio, treating the footage as a Replacement Remix template popular on YouTube. Recognition comes from the chirpy dance, the stiff animation, and Pac-Man's specific hand-gesture invitation.

The tone leans absurdist shock-comedy rather than pointed satire. Common variations include pitch-shifted vocals, harmonized layers stacked over the theme, and pirate or celebrity soundboards dubbed across the dialogue. The phrase itself has drifted well outside the meme's orbit, with Urban Dictionary cataloging an unrelated slang usage for keyboard crud under the same name2.

Origin & Background

Platform
Music video / YouTube (viral spread)
Creator
The Bloodhound Gang
Date
2001

The scene started in 2001 inside The Bloodhound Gang's music video for 'Mope,' a track built on samples of Falco's 'Rock Me Amadeus,' Metallica's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' and Pac-Man's own arcade theme, where a Pac-Man cameo drops the crack line1. On July 6th, 2006, YouTube user haakor uploaded a fan re-edit that swapped the first two lines of dialogue and passed 695,000 views, giving the 3D model its standalone home online3. haakor claimed the underlying video dated back to 2001, though its actual pre-YouTube origin is unclear.

How It Spread

The clip mostly sat dormant until June 2015, when Tumblr user phalania reblogged it captioned 'here come dat boi!!,' feeding the parallel Dat Boi wave breaking on Tumblr that summer3. That crossover reintroduced the Pac-Man footage to a younger audience unfamiliar with the Bloodhound Gang video.

YouTube edit activity kicked off on January 6th, 2016, when YouTuber moozey posted a harmonized cut of the scene at over 17,000 views, and 2017 delivered a broader Replacement Remix wave: YouTuber Flutter's May 31st, 2017 pitched-down edit crossed 26,000 views, the SiIvaGunner-adjacent channel VvvvaVvvvvr built out a 'Pacman Smoking Crack' playlist of over 80 audio edits, a screeching Pac-Man clip broke 160,000 views, and a pirate-dubbed version cleared 113,0003.

Frequently Asked Questions

Here Comes Pacman

2001viral videoclassic

Here Comes Pacman is a viral video clip pulled from The Bloodhound Gang's 2001 music video for 'Mope,' in which a 3D-rendered Pac-Man offers crack cocaine to two acquaintances before lighting up himself and dancing to a remix of his own theme. The clip drifted through YouTube reuploads for years before spawning a wave of Replacement Remix edits in 2017.

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Overview

The heart of Here Comes Pacman is a short sketch anchored by the awkward drug-offering exchange, then Pac-Man's giggling dance to a warped version of the arcade theme1. Editors leave the low-poly 3D visuals untouched and swap the audio, treating the footage as a Replacement Remix template popular on YouTube. Recognition comes from the chirpy dance, the stiff animation, and Pac-Man's specific hand-gesture invitation.

The tone leans absurdist shock-comedy rather than pointed satire. Common variations include pitch-shifted vocals, harmonized layers stacked over the theme, and pirate or celebrity soundboards dubbed across the dialogue. The phrase itself has drifted well outside the meme's orbit, with Urban Dictionary cataloging an unrelated slang usage for keyboard crud under the same name2.

Origin & Background

Platform
Music video / YouTube (viral spread)
Creator
The Bloodhound Gang
Date
2001

The scene started in 2001 inside The Bloodhound Gang's music video for 'Mope,' a track built on samples of Falco's 'Rock Me Amadeus,' Metallica's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' and Pac-Man's own arcade theme, where a Pac-Man cameo drops the crack line1. On July 6th, 2006, YouTube user haakor uploaded a fan re-edit that swapped the first two lines of dialogue and passed 695,000 views, giving the 3D model its standalone home online3. haakor claimed the underlying video dated back to 2001, though its actual pre-YouTube origin is unclear.

How It Spread

The clip mostly sat dormant until June 2015, when Tumblr user phalania reblogged it captioned 'here come dat boi!!,' feeding the parallel Dat Boi wave breaking on Tumblr that summer3. That crossover reintroduced the Pac-Man footage to a younger audience unfamiliar with the Bloodhound Gang video.

YouTube edit activity kicked off on January 6th, 2016, when YouTuber moozey posted a harmonized cut of the scene at over 17,000 views, and 2017 delivered a broader Replacement Remix wave: YouTuber Flutter's May 31st, 2017 pitched-down edit crossed 26,000 views, the SiIvaGunner-adjacent channel VvvvaVvvvvr built out a 'Pacman Smoking Crack' playlist of over 80 audio edits, a screeching Pac-Man clip broke 160,000 views, and a pirate-dubbed version cleared 113,0003.

Frequently Asked Questions