Mr Krabs is the money-loving crab who runs the Krusty Krab in SpongeBob SquarePants, the Nickelodeon animated series created by Stephen Hillenburg that premiered in 1999. His hurried, scuffling walk became a recognisable piece of the show's cartoon sound design, and short clips of it were later shared on soundboards and in meme edits where creators needed an instant cue for greed, sneaking, or cheapness. It sits alongside other SpongeBob clips like the SpongeBob sad song in meme edits, and it endures because the walk alone tells viewers who is coming before he speaks.