"Hooray we did it?"
March 11, 2023 11:00 AM Subscribe
Somehow having trouble jogging my memory for this earworm. I made a little sign at our polling place on Tuesday that said "Hooray you did it" at the end of the voting process (we had a LOT of ballots). And while I can hear this phrase in my head, "Hooray, we did it!" I am having trouble figuring out where I am remembering it from. A game show? One of those little spots at the end of a TV show telling you who the production company was? The Simpsons? Something from when I was a kid? Something more recent? Could use help.
The Googling was not helpful. From it I know...
- It's NOT Dora the Explorer.
- It's not Beck Bennett playing Putin on SNL
- It is definitely specific, not a general "That's just a thing people say sometimes"
- The voices in the earworm are multiple and sound young
- Pretty sure the exact phrasing is "Hooray we did it" though it could also be "Yay we did it." It definitely not "... you did it" or "... they did it"
- My sister remembers the exact same thing, though our media diets are fairly similar so this doesn't necessarily mean it's an older thing
- Could possibly be from a comic strip and then my sister and I developed this patter.
It's possible this is a family-word earworm. Does this ring a bell for anyone else?
The Googling was not helpful. From it I know...
- It's NOT Dora the Explorer.
- It's not Beck Bennett playing Putin on SNL
- It is definitely specific, not a general "That's just a thing people say sometimes"
- The voices in the earworm are multiple and sound young
- Pretty sure the exact phrasing is "Hooray we did it" though it could also be "Yay we did it." It definitely not "... you did it" or "... they did it"
- My sister remembers the exact same thing, though our media diets are fairly similar so this doesn't necessarily mean it's an older thing
- Could possibly be from a comic strip and then my sister and I developed this patter.
It's possible this is a family-word earworm. Does this ring a bell for anyone else?
My first thought was Star Wars (Fisher's voice gets a little high).
Another thought (albeit doubtful, but Reese Witherspoon's voice gets squeaky) is Legally Blonde.
posted by sazanka at 12:03 PM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
Another thought (albeit doubtful, but Reese Witherspoon's voice gets squeaky) is Legally Blonde.
posted by sazanka at 12:03 PM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
Yeah, my first thought was Star Wars after they return from blowing up the Death Star.
posted by bondcliff at 12:13 PM on March 11, 2023
posted by bondcliff at 12:13 PM on March 11, 2023
Your suggestion of the production company tag made me think of the triumphant "I made this!" at the end of the X-Files, which I still get stuck in my head.
But the "hooray" makes me think of Bluey. Here's a compilation of the girls shouting Hooray & variations... there's a "hooray, we did it!" about 15 seconds in.
posted by miles per flower at 12:22 PM on March 11, 2023 [3 favorites]
But the "hooray" makes me think of Bluey. Here's a compilation of the girls shouting Hooray & variations... there's a "hooray, we did it!" about 15 seconds in.
posted by miles per flower at 12:22 PM on March 11, 2023 [3 favorites]
It makes me think of the famous cake that said "Congration You done it", which is a phrase I now say to myself all the time (but only when I deserve it)
posted by moonmilk at 12:42 PM on March 11, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by moonmilk at 12:42 PM on March 11, 2023 [3 favorites]
This is making me think of Bojack horseman, without being able to confirm or pinpoint an episode
posted by Jacen at 1:28 PM on March 11, 2023
posted by Jacen at 1:28 PM on March 11, 2023
Maybe it’s from the end of the Living Books CD-ROM “ Sheila Rae,The Brave”? Something she sings when she makes it back home? I can’t find any way to check but the phrase triggered some memory, from long ago days of early multimedia
posted by jazon at 2:10 PM on March 11, 2023
posted by jazon at 2:10 PM on March 11, 2023
Little Einsteins?
posted by some little punk in a rocket at 4:09 PM on March 11, 2023
posted by some little punk in a rocket at 4:09 PM on March 11, 2023
Joy yelling “Bing Bong, we did it!!” in Inside Out? About 2:15 into this clip . This has also become a popular TikTok sound, if that’s a possibility for where you may have heard it recently. Okay, crying over Bing Bong now! 😭
posted by lakemarie at 4:35 PM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by lakemarie at 4:35 PM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Thank you all so much. I figured it out quite coincidentally. There's a Facebook Live show I used to watch all the time when COVID was keeping more people inside. It's a baseball-themed show where the Fenway Park (Boston MA) organist plays requests from his house where he also has an organ. He played the show for 120 straight days and then weekly for another year+. Since baseball has started up again, they don't do the show regularly anymore and have only done one or two in the last nine months. I'm in a WhatsApp group where the announce when there's going to be a new pop-up episode. There was one this evening.
One staple of the show is playing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" where people are encouraged to sing along and stand and stretch at home. At the end of the song the organist Josh, and his wife, Mary, say "Hooray we did it!" I was just standing in my kitchen, singing along with Take Me Out to the Ballgame at the top of my lungs and then they got to the end and I was like O_O
Thanks so much everyone for trying to help me out here. As per usual, everyone here is so helpful, and as per sometimes, the act of asking the question somehow kind of led to me getting the answer but not how I was expecting.
posted by jessamyn at 4:40 PM on March 11, 2023 [14 favorites]
One staple of the show is playing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" where people are encouraged to sing along and stand and stretch at home. At the end of the song the organist Josh, and his wife, Mary, say "Hooray we did it!" I was just standing in my kitchen, singing along with Take Me Out to the Ballgame at the top of my lungs and then they got to the end and I was like O_O
Thanks so much everyone for trying to help me out here. As per usual, everyone here is so helpful, and as per sometimes, the act of asking the question somehow kind of led to me getting the answer but not how I was expecting.
posted by jessamyn at 4:40 PM on March 11, 2023 [14 favorites]
Follow up, guess I remembered wrong, nothing like that is on the CD ROM soundtrack on Internet Archive
posted by jazon at 4:40 PM on March 11, 2023
posted by jazon at 4:40 PM on March 11, 2023
Is it what I always hear in my head when I say it lately, Jeffrey Bezos?
ETA was so busy finding the link I missed the update. It’s still what’s always in my own head :/
posted by Mchelly at 4:45 PM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
ETA was so busy finding the link I missed the update. It’s still what’s always in my own head :/
posted by Mchelly at 4:45 PM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
Finding Nemo scene, tank fish great escape [yay! we did it! now what?]
posted by Iris Gambol at 4:45 PM on March 11, 2023
posted by Iris Gambol at 4:45 PM on March 11, 2023
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posted by bitteschoen at 11:20 AM on March 11, 2023 [4 favorites]