The trailer for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run! dropped this week, the third feature film adaption of the long-running beloved animated Nickelodeon series. In this installment, SpongeBob Squarepants and Patrick are on the search for Gary, who has apparently been snailnapped! However, the fanfare over the trailer was quickly overshadowed by one cameo in particular—Keanu Reeves as a sage named Sage.
Because, as Keanu matter-of-factly explains in the trailer, “I’m made out of sage and I am a sage, so it works out pretty well.”
Between his other scene-stealing cameo in Always Be My Maybe, box office success of John Wick Chapter 3, the triumphant return of Bill and Ted, and even the happy reception to his public debut with girlfriend Alexandra Grant … If there were any doubt whatsoever that 2019 was the year of Keanu, this would have certainly tipped the scales.
So given the current obsession with all things Keanu, it should come as little surprise that it didn’t take long before the internet turned his brief SpongeBob movie trailer cameo into an entire-ass meme.
Some Twitter users mashed up Keanu’s various cinematic appearances throughout the year, from SpongeBob and his Toy Story 4 character Duke Caboom to his role in the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, and so on.
https://twitter.com/RedMakuzawa/status/1195112244901638144
Keanu Reeves has been the only consistently good thing about 2019 pic.twitter.com/iteEdm79Ec
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) November 14, 2019
What a year for Keanu pic.twitter.com/8JHHgqRjbS
— 9GAG ❤️ Memeland (@9GAG) November 15, 2019
Keanu Reeves has made in so much appearances lately that it’s crazy. pic.twitter.com/Qyz5z1llIG
— Raz: The Last Artist (@raz_back) November 14, 2019
One user perfectly encapsulated Keanu’s ongoing popularity with the following tweet. Yes, Reeves could star in just about any blockbuster project, yet he chooses to be a sage in SpongeBob.
https://twitter.com/tonystrnge/status/1195136436800040962
Because, as it turns out, Keanu actually apparently actually loves SpongeBob??
https://twitter.com/bbkeanu/status/1195095178446426112
At any rate, over on Reddit, Sage Keanu naturally has since populated the r/Memes subreddit. Users took screengrabs of the SpongeBob trailer to make jokes about everything from video games causing violence to the proliferation of actually good childhood nostalgia that’s come out in the past week—such as the new trailers for the Sonic the Hedgehog and Scooby-Doo movies.
He is the messiah!
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Alright, maybe the movie isn’t so bad
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It really was
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Reddit right now
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And of course, Sage Keanu naturally drew comparisons to the creepy baby sun from Teletubbies.
I know this is a dead meme
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He has grown
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Thankfully, as far as we’re aware, there are no Teletubbies revivals currently in development. Sometimes dead is better.
You have been visited by Keanu TumbleReeve. RT for good luck #SpongeBobMovie pic.twitter.com/5v5qmiWyRW
— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) November 15, 2019
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