Squidward Tentacles is the grumpy neighbor from Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, which premiered in 1999 with Rodger Bumpass voicing the character. His scream appears across many episodes whenever Squidward suffers a humiliating accident, and isolated clips of it spread through early YouTube poops and meme compilations before landing on modern soundboards. Like any classic shocked sound, it works because the pain is cartoonish rather than real. Editors now trade it alongside the goofy yell as a go-to reaction for fails, pranks and jumpscare bait.