A popular subject of memes, mostly involving the cartoonish faces he makes, is what curmudgeonly clarinet playing neighbor of Spongebob Squarepants, who is an octopus in spite of his name?

The term meme was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (author of "The God Delusion"). He conceived of memes as the cultural parallel to biological genes and considered them as being in control of their own reproduction.