AboutWhat does the meme depict?

The "Is Mayonnaise an Instrument?" meme features a screenshot from the animated TV show SpongeBob SquarePants. In this image, the character Patrick Star is seen raising his hand to ask a question during a band class scene. The meme typically alters Patrick's query, "Is mayonnaise an instrument?" by replacing "mayonnaise" with other items that clearly are not instruments, or by modifying the entire question to humorously categorize something as something else that it obviously is not.

OriginWho did it first?

The meme originated from an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants titled "Band Geeks," which aired on September 7th, 2001. The specific scene features the character Patrick asking the music instructor Squidward if mayonnaise is an instrument. This scene became widely known and further gained attention when it was uploaded to YouTube by cyberguy91 on August 19th, 2010. The video is available here.^[1]

Origin: 2001