Good Mor-ning Sunshine

About

Good Mor-ning Sunshine is a memorable quote from a political cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Sack, whose illustration of United States President Barack Obama milking a dried up cow was the inspiration for a series of object labeled images.

Origin

Following the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009, political cartoonist Steve Sack published a one-panel comic of President Obama carrying numerous buckets labeled by different things the government will pay for and a skinny cow labeled "U.S. Treasury." Obama is shown sayin, "Good mor-ning sunshine!" The earliest available of the comic online was published on the blog skol-blog^[1] on March 13th, 2009.

Spread

On May 14th, 2014, Redditor ^[2] davidfillion posted the image on the /r/feedthebeast subreddit. The post received more than 225 points (97% upvoted) and 50 comments in four years.

Four years later, on March 27th, 2018, Redditor^[3] GokuisUnderrated edited the image to feature PewDiePie in Obama's stead and the label "PewdiePie Submissions" on the cow. The post (shown below, left) received more than 2,400 points (98% upvoted).

Several months later, on May 28th, Redditor^[4] Radds published a variation in which Mickey Mouse is Obama and the cow is labeled Star Wars in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post (shown below, center) received more than 65,000 points (87% upvoted) and 5,200 comments.

The following day, Redditor^[5] Bad_For_Education published a version in the /r/2meirl4meirl subreddit. This version featured Obama labeled "Me" and the cow labeled "Using suicide humor to cope with my very real mental health issues." The post (shown below, right) received more than 150 points (97% upvoted) in two days.

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