# "Ocean Man" by Ween "Ocean Man" is a 1997 Ween track from the album The Mollusk that got a second life when it played over the closing credits of the 2004 SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Nearly a decade later, Viners grabbed the song's chirpy opening line as a punchline for shitpost edits, and by 2016 it had turned into one of the platform's signature audio memes. ## Origin Ween released "Ocean Man" on June 24, 1997 as the second single from their sixth studio album, The Mollusk[3]. The song reached a much wider audience when Stephen Hillenburg licensed it for the final scene of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in 2004, playing over SpongeBob's celebration after being named manager of the Krusty Krab 2[3]. The connection between the band and the show ran deeper than a single sync. Ween guitarist Mickey Melchiondo, aka Dean Ween, later recalled that Hillenburg had first contacted the band because The Mollusk itself inspired his "Bugs Bunny on the ocean floor" cartoon pitch, and Ween wrote the SpongeBob track "Loop de Loop" for the show before it ever aired[1]. - **Platform:** SpongeBob Movie (source), Vine / iFunny (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview The joke lives on the first four seconds of the song, where Gene Ween sings the line "Ocean man, take me by the hand" in a nasal cartoon voice[1]. Edits typically cut in the audio at the exact moment of a visual reveal, usually something aquatic, weightless, or absurd enough that the sincere delivery reads as a punchline[3]. A text version circulates alongside the video edits: the lyrics padded out with wave, dolphin, and shell emojis, posted whenever someone wants to derail a thread with cheerful nonsense[3]. Together the two formats let "Ocean Man" work as both a punchy Vine sting and a wall-of-emoji copypasta. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is "Ocean Man" by Ween? It's a 1997 song by the band Ween that turned into an audio meme after Viners and iFunny users edited its cartoonish opening line onto shitpost clips[3]. ### Where did "Ocean Man" by Ween come from? The song was released on June 24, 1997 as the second single from Ween's album The Mollusk, and it reached most fans through the closing scene of the 2004 SpongeBob SquarePants Movie[1][3]. ### What does "Ocean Man" by Ween mean? As a meme, the phrase points to the sing-song opening line "Ocean man, take me by the hand," used as an ironic punchline for aquatic, floaty, or absurd visuals rather than for its literal lyrics[3]. ### How do you use "Ocean Man" by Ween? The common conventions are to cut the song's first few seconds over a visual reveal in a short video, or to paste the lyrics padded with wave and dolphin emojis, the format Redditor A_Soggy_Cactus popularized on r/copypasta in August 2016[3]. ### Is "Ocean Man" by Ween still popular? It settled into classic status after the 2016 Vine peak, with the copypasta and short edits still resurfacing whenever the SpongeBob-Ween connection gets discussed, most visibly around Stephen Hillenburg's 2018 tribute coverage[1]. ## References 1. [https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/ween-spongebob-squarepants-mollusk]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5f53EFQIAE]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ocean-man]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5m_XtCX3c]() 5. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ocean%20Man]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/ocean-man Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library