Dexter's Laboratory premiered on Cartoon Network in 1996, created by Genndy Tartakovsky, following a boy genius with a secret lab and his sister Dee Dee. Short voice lines from the show have circulated for years on soundboards and in meme edits because Dexter's formal, accented speech makes even mundane lines memorable. This hungry declaration became a reusable reaction clip online, shared in short videos and chats whenever someone wants to announce they need food in the most dramatic way possible.