Klasky Csupo was founded in 1982 by Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo and became closely associated with Nickelodeon animation in the 1990s through Rugrats, Aaahh Real Monsters and The Wild Thornberrys. Its closing Splaat logo played after episodes, so a generation learned the robotic name call as a sign the show was over. Online, logo editors and meme makers began applying Content Aware Scale and other distortion effects to classic production logos, and this stretched Splaat variant spread as a nostalgic but unsettling sound for edits, compilations and soundboards.