The Duck Song was written by American singer-songwriter Bryant Oden and became widely known through an animated YouTube video released in 2009, in which a duck keeps asking a lemonade vendor for grapes. Its simple story, catchy chorus and gentle humour helped it spread across early YouTube, classrooms and family videos, and later into short-form edits and soundboards. It remains popular because the joke is easy to follow, the melody is instantly recognisable, and the repeated request works perfectly as a running gag.