Time cards with a French-accented narrator have been a running gag in SpongeBob SquarePants since the show began in 1999, marking absurd jumps like a few moments later and two thousand years later. The Portuguese version, heard as dois anos depois, spread through Brazilian edits, WhatsApp videos and meme compilations as a shorthand for an exaggerated wait. Its humour comes from treating a mundane delay like an epic passage of time, so creators keep reusing it for school, work and gaming stories where almost nothing has changed.