The Perry The Platypus meme has devolved to this

[SmokeSAS]

If you can get people to recognize your character by simply looking at 2 colors and then a sudden introduction to a third, I think you just won the entire entertainment industry.

[siennahartle]

Congratulations for creating the two most recognizable characters ever created, Perry the platypus and the minions!

[deedleboi]

It’s like a pattern in our brain that goes off when we see that color

[bannana]

Somehow this still hits as hard, that wouldn't be doable if he hadn't made this joke iconic to begin with.

[zhiracs]

We've done it! We broke comedy down to its bare essentials!

[KingJeans]

"oh, it's just a 1d platypus.
Wait, 1D PERRY THE PLATYPUS!!!"

[Tyrex_Productions]

Dan has created a series so impactful that it has changed the way our pattern-seeking brains work

[Lightmagician]

It's like how the "lost meme" was boiled down to a couple of lines

[Never_heart]

The only meme to successfully achieve the level of reduction experienced by Loss

[Hd]

Would Doof think his house is Perry if his hat goes on the floor of his house? Would be a hilarious episode where there’s just these hats everywhere.

[schaynegeorge]

I showed this to my 8yo and cut it off before you popped in. She said and I quote "It's Perry!" I mean it's A+ character design if a kid can be shown surrealist memes and pick it out.

[amokriinprolgiid]

You know you've created an amazing joke when you can break it down this far and people still get the joke. It's a thing of beauty.

[jairog]

a set of colored pencils
Draws fedora
PERRY THE SET OF COLORED PENCILS

[HosheaManein]

"Evolution, can you give me pattern recognition?"
"To avoid predators?"
"Yeeees."


1 million years later

[PERCENTGOBER]

A platipus?
*puts on a fedora*
A platypus with a fedora?
*puts on a second fedora*
PERRY THE PLATYPUS WITH A FEDORA?!?!?!

[FractalParadox]

you know the meme is here to stay when it's most recent iteration is some version of a 4 panel comic about miscarriage

[greenmind]

This has somehow hit a stage past "deconstructed" XD. But its honestly deserved, I'm currently studying engineering, and P&F played a solid role in that.

[Dr.Wrektem]

"REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM" Dumbledore said calmly

[jakej.]

absolutely surreal; isn't it. even Loss needs shapes to make a meme you just need colours.

[KBPLAYSEVER]

Next thing you know it’s “a orange and teal atom? Parry the orange and teal atom!”