Keyboard Cat

A frame from Charlie Schmidt's home video of his orange tabby, Fatso, in a light blue shirt, "playing" an electric keyboard while Schmidt worked the paws from out of shot. He filmed it in the mid-1980s and put it on YouTube in 2007. The meme took off in 2009, when Brad O'Farrell spliced the clip onto the end of a blooper with the line "Play him off, Keyboard Cat," and the cat became the internet's way to usher any embarrassing moment off stage. The fuzzy VHS look is part of the charm: this is about as sharp as the original gets.