Morshu

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Morshu is a shopkeeper NPC from the 1993 Philips CD-i game Link: The Faces of Evil whose stiff FMV animation and nasal 'mmmm' pause made him a fixture of YouTube Poop edits from mid-2008 onward. The character saw waves of revival through iFunny GIFs in 2015, Twitter reposts in 2019, and 3D artist Hoolopee's viral RTX Morshu render in January 2021.

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Overview

Morshu is a shopkeeper NPC from the 1993 Philips CD-i game Link: The Faces of Evil who became a fixture of YouTube Poop edits1. He appears in a single scene where players buy lamp oil, rope, and bombs from him in exchange for rupees2. His two lines of dialogue and stiff FMV animation made him ideal source material for YouTube Poop editors from mid-2008 onward3.

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The character is recognizable for his rotund frame, drooping mustache, hooded robe, and the nasal 'mmmm' sound he makes when pausing between words5. His signature line is 'Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little, mmmm, richer,' delivered in a tone that made him ideal for absurdist audio remixes2. The uncanny visuals and stiff animation, byproducts of a failed Nintendo-Philips partnership in the early 1990s, fed directly into the joke1.

How It Spread

YouTube Poop editors picked up Morshu's cutscenes in mid-2008. YouTuber Xaragon64DS posted one of the earliest known Morshu poops on July 21st, 2008, and the video pulled over 71,800 views in the years that followed3. WLB91 followed with an August 18th, 2008 edit that reached more than 228,400 views, and a September 14th, 2008 poop by CPT hit over 431,600 views over the same span. Editors chopped up the 'mmmm' soundbite to reconstruct pop songs and other audio, turning it into a modular sample.

Around 2015, a GIF of Morshu from one of his cutscenes started circulating on iFunny for reaction-caption purposes. The character got a boost in 2018 when a sped-up version of the GIF paired with Verbalase's Cartoon Beatbox Battles audio, captioned 'trying to explain,' made the rounds on YouTube2. Twitter picked up the GIF on October 31st, 2019, when user @5dollarlongfoot posted a Hazbin Hotel joke built around it that hit over 1,300 retweets and 4,900 likes6. In February 2020, iFunny users started pairing the GIF with Thanos Beatbox audio, and Reddit's r/okbuddyretard latched on soon after, pushing Morshu GIF captions to the top of the subreddit through late February 2020.

The largest single spike came on January 22nd, 2021, when 3D artist Hoolopee released 'MORSHU RTX ON,' a hyper-realistic Blender recreation of the shop cutscene1. The video pulled over 1.8 million views in six days, and Hoolopee's Twitter announcement drew over 500,000 views, 55,000 likes, and 13,000 retweets in the same period1. GameRant covered the render on January 25th, 2021, praising the accuracy of the animation and comparing the uncanny quality to the depiction of Ganondorf in Breath of the Wild 21. Musician Jeff Lindblom rode the wave with 'Morshu's Paradise,' a parody of Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise' built entirely from Morshu's voice lines2.

How to Use This Meme

Morshu edits typically fall into two buckets. The first is audio remixing, where editors sample the 'mmmm' and Morshu's chopped-up syllables to reconstruct pop songs, meme audio, or absurd dialogue. The second is the GIF-caption format, where the looping GIF of Morshu is paired with a caption in which he refuses to give something to someone until they meet an impossible condition, mirroring the 'come back when you're a little richer' structure5. Beatbox edits, RTX-style 3D renders, and Source Filmmaker recreations became common variations after Hoolopee's 2021 video set a bar for higher-effort remakes1.

Fun Facts

- The Zelda CD-i series exists because a Nintendo-Philips deal for a Super Nintendo CD add-on fell through, leaving Philips with the rights to make Zelda games without Nintendo's involvement2

- Morshu has only two lines of dialogue in the entire game2

- There is a real esoteric programming language named after Morshu, where variables are instantiated by lines lifted from his dialogue4

- Hoolopee's RTX Morshu video pulled over 1.8 million views in six days, five years after the character's 2015 GIF revival1

- The character's shop is in the Goronu area of the game, where he sells bombs, rope, and lamp oil for rupees5

Derivatives & Variations

MORSHU RTX ON by Hoolopee, a hyper-realistic Blender recreation of the shop cutscene released January 22nd, 2021[1]

Morshu's Paradise by Jeff Lindblom, a parody of Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise' built from Morshu's voice lines[2]

Morshu esolang, an esoteric programming language whose commands are drawn from Morshu's dialogue, with variables instantiated by sentences like 'Lamp oil. It's yours'[4]

Thanos Beatbox Morshu edits, popularized on iFunny in February 2020 and later remade in RTX style after Hoolopee's render[1]

Frequently Asked Questions

Morshu

2008characterclassic

Morshu is a shopkeeper NPC from the 1993 Philips CD-i game Link: The Faces of Evil whose stiff FMV animation and nasal 'mmmm' pause made him a fixture of YouTube Poop edits from mid-2008 onward. The character saw waves of revival through iFunny GIFs in 2015, Twitter reposts in 2019, and 3D artist Hoolopee's viral RTX Morshu render in January 2021.

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Overview

Morshu is a shopkeeper NPC from the 1993 Philips CD-i game Link: The Faces of Evil who became a fixture of YouTube Poop edits1. He appears in a single scene where players buy lamp oil, rope, and bombs from him in exchange for rupees2. His two lines of dialogue and stiff FMV animation made him ideal source material for YouTube Poop editors from mid-2008 onward3.

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The character is recognizable for his rotund frame, drooping mustache, hooded robe, and the nasal 'mmmm' sound he makes when pausing between words5. His signature line is 'Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little, mmmm, richer,' delivered in a tone that made him ideal for absurdist audio remixes2. The uncanny visuals and stiff animation, byproducts of a failed Nintendo-Philips partnership in the early 1990s, fed directly into the joke1.

How It Spread

YouTube Poop editors picked up Morshu's cutscenes in mid-2008. YouTuber Xaragon64DS posted one of the earliest known Morshu poops on July 21st, 2008, and the video pulled over 71,800 views in the years that followed3. WLB91 followed with an August 18th, 2008 edit that reached more than 228,400 views, and a September 14th, 2008 poop by CPT hit over 431,600 views over the same span. Editors chopped up the 'mmmm' soundbite to reconstruct pop songs and other audio, turning it into a modular sample.

Around 2015, a GIF of Morshu from one of his cutscenes started circulating on iFunny for reaction-caption purposes. The character got a boost in 2018 when a sped-up version of the GIF paired with Verbalase's Cartoon Beatbox Battles audio, captioned 'trying to explain,' made the rounds on YouTube2. Twitter picked up the GIF on October 31st, 2019, when user @5dollarlongfoot posted a Hazbin Hotel joke built around it that hit over 1,300 retweets and 4,900 likes6. In February 2020, iFunny users started pairing the GIF with Thanos Beatbox audio, and Reddit's r/okbuddyretard latched on soon after, pushing Morshu GIF captions to the top of the subreddit through late February 2020.

The largest single spike came on January 22nd, 2021, when 3D artist Hoolopee released 'MORSHU RTX ON,' a hyper-realistic Blender recreation of the shop cutscene1. The video pulled over 1.8 million views in six days, and Hoolopee's Twitter announcement drew over 500,000 views, 55,000 likes, and 13,000 retweets in the same period1. GameRant covered the render on January 25th, 2021, praising the accuracy of the animation and comparing the uncanny quality to the depiction of Ganondorf in Breath of the Wild 21. Musician Jeff Lindblom rode the wave with 'Morshu's Paradise,' a parody of Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise' built entirely from Morshu's voice lines2.

How to Use This Meme

Morshu edits typically fall into two buckets. The first is audio remixing, where editors sample the 'mmmm' and Morshu's chopped-up syllables to reconstruct pop songs, meme audio, or absurd dialogue. The second is the GIF-caption format, where the looping GIF of Morshu is paired with a caption in which he refuses to give something to someone until they meet an impossible condition, mirroring the 'come back when you're a little richer' structure5. Beatbox edits, RTX-style 3D renders, and Source Filmmaker recreations became common variations after Hoolopee's 2021 video set a bar for higher-effort remakes1.

Fun Facts

- The Zelda CD-i series exists because a Nintendo-Philips deal for a Super Nintendo CD add-on fell through, leaving Philips with the rights to make Zelda games without Nintendo's involvement2

- Morshu has only two lines of dialogue in the entire game2

- There is a real esoteric programming language named after Morshu, where variables are instantiated by lines lifted from his dialogue4

- Hoolopee's RTX Morshu video pulled over 1.8 million views in six days, five years after the character's 2015 GIF revival1

- The character's shop is in the Goronu area of the game, where he sells bombs, rope, and lamp oil for rupees5

Derivatives & Variations

MORSHU RTX ON by Hoolopee, a hyper-realistic Blender recreation of the shop cutscene released January 22nd, 2021[1]

Morshu's Paradise by Jeff Lindblom, a parody of Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise' built from Morshu's voice lines[2]

Morshu esolang, an esoteric programming language whose commands are drawn from Morshu's dialogue, with variables instantiated by sentences like 'Lamp oil. It's yours'[4]

Thanos Beatbox Morshu edits, popularized on iFunny in February 2020 and later remade in RTX style after Hoolopee's render[1]

Frequently Asked Questions