Here We Go Go Go Go on an Adventure

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Here We Go Go Go Go on an Adventure is a song from the animated PBS series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (based on the Dr. Suess books) in which the Cat in the Hat is singing while flying with two children in the thing-a-ma-jigger. The song is sung every episode of the show. It trended as a meme on TikTok via a viral TikTok sound starting in mid-2023. Additionally, a video of a British kid singing the "Here We Go Go Go Go on an Adventure" song went viral, inspiring more memes and memetic usage.

Origin

PBS' The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!^[1] originally aired on September 6th, 2010, with its first episode titled, "Show Me the Honey/Migration Vacation."^[2] In the episode's first few minutes, the Cat in the Hat takes the two children protagonists on a ride in the thing-a-ma-jigger while singing a song that starts, "He we go go go go on an adventure. The thing-a-ma-jigger is up and away!" On January 14th, 2018, YouTuber^[3] Baby Bear Games And Fun uploaded the song from the first episode, receiving roughly 781,200 views and 5,500 likes in five years (shown below).

Despite a 2010 origin, the song didn't become a prevalent meme until the year 2023. This started on June 17th, 2023, when TikToker^[4] @plucsnk posted a video that referenced rapper Lil Tecca and the X If They Were a Good Band meme, gaining roughly 3.3 million plays and 428,400 likes in 19 days (shown below).

Spread

Going into late June 2023, various TikTokers used the TikTok sound^[5] of @plucsnk's video.^[4] For instance, an early iteration was posted on June 18th, 2023, by TikToker^[6] @lgfmemeztwo who wrote in text overlay, "people in 2016 without cable when this started playing on the tv," earning roughly 293,100 plays and 46,600 likes in 18 days (shown below, left). On June 22nd, 2023, TikToker^[7] @moonknightcult posted a video using the song that referenced the OceanGate Titanic Submarine Incident, gaining roughly 2.2 million plays and 468,200 likes in two weeks (shown below, right).

British Kid Singing "Here We Go Go Go Go on an Adventure"

On June 24th, 2023, TikToker^[8] @_flossinator_ posted a video of a Fortnite concert in which he was singing the "Here We Go Go Go Go on an Adventure" song in a British accent. The video received roughly 3.4 million plays and 411,300 likes in 12 days (shown below, left). Soon after the video's upload, others used its TikTok sound.^[9] For instance, on June 29th, 2023, TikToker^[10] @captain_ravioliii used the sound for a Grimace Shake related meme, gaining roughly 768,600 plays and 143,000 plays in one week (shown below, right).