About

Cheers I'll Drink to That Bro is a reaction image depicting comedian and actor Eric Andre extending his arm and holding a bottle of ranch dressing outwards in a cheersing motion. It’s typically used as a reaction image to show support, confirmation or any positive reaction from the memer who agrees with the above caption or image in the top panel. The quote itself is also commonly used as a catchphrase without the accompanying image.

Origin

The original photo used in the meme is a still taken from Adultswim’s The Eric Andre Show, and the specific episode it comes from is season 2, episode 4, called "Jodie Sweetin; Vivica A. Fox," which aired on October 24th, 2013.

In the sketch “Ranch it Up!” (seen below), Eric Andre is seen walking around The Queen Elizabeth II Garden, a park located in downtown Manhattan, wearing a green crop top, a pink hat and plaid shorts while holding a bottle of ranch dressing and a Wiimote. He approaches several people sitting around the park as he asks them various absurdist questions including if they want a drink of his ranch. At one point, he approaches a man sitting down by himself who Andre dubs “Mellow Mike.” Andre then asks him if he shaves his pubes, has a Brazilian, wants to 69 and is “down to be penetrated” to which Mellow Mike responds “will you just get the fuck away from me and leave me alone.” Andre replies by saying “cheers I’ll drink to that bro.”

The first instance this image and caption appear online dates back to March 29th, 2015, when the Tumblr^[1] page Ranch Me Brotendo uploaded a series of images from the sketch, including the “Cheers I'll Drink To That Bro” snippet.

Spread

In 2016, the still was used as a reaction image to a meme about someone drinking ranch with a straw when Redditor^[2] TouchDownBuritto commented on a post to the r/AdviceAnimals sub with the image and text “Ranch it up.”

The photo spread to other places online in 2017, where it began seeing use as a meme in a more traditional format. A Buzzfeed^[3] article titled “You’ll Only Understand These 17 Things If You Love Listening To Sad Songs” published on February 27th, 2017, features an example of this (seen below) in a screenshot from Twitter user FREDDY.

Other early meme examples can be found on Reddit in 2017, one of which comes from Redditor^[4] LeftRightMiddle that was uploaded to the r/me_irl sub on March 1st, 2017. The post was upvoted 159 times.

Twitter^[5] users also frequently uploaded the still as a reaction image to various tweets. Seen in a reply from user antonio on April 13th, 2017, the image is used to react to a tweet about the release of Harry Styles' self-titled debut album (seen below).

In 2020, several variants of the meme surfaced on Reddit within the r/dankmemes sub and received tens of thousands of upvotes each. One such example was posted by Redditor^[6] mijuzz on February 6th, 2020. The meme (shown below), received over 35,400 upvotes and 59 comments.

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