About
Carlos is a fictional character from the animated children’s television show The Magic School Bus best known for his many, often bad, pun jokes during the episodes. On the internet, he has become a common character to combine with pun jokes or use as a reaction towards them.
Origin
The Magic School Bus[1] originally ran from September 1994 to December 1997. In the show, a third grade elementary school class is brought along various field trips by their teacher Ms. Frizzle on her magic school bus, teaching the viewers about science along the way. The class contains a wide diversion of nationalities and personalities, one of them being the Mexican-American class clown Carlos Ramon. Carlos was best known for his constant pun jokes about the situation the class is in, always resulting in the other kids groaning “CARLOS!” in unison.
Spread
On September 13th, 2010, a FunnyJunk post[2] containing a screen capture of a 4chan thread featuring the kids and Ms. Frizzle in an abortion of one of the kids managed to gain nearly 1,200 upvotes combined (shown below, left) as of March 19th, 2013. A computer reaction image posted on December 5th, 2012, representing Funnyjunk’s common reaction towards Carlos comments,[3] managed to gain more than 1,000 upvotes as of the same date (shown below, right).
A post made by Tumblr user Boltong on May 8th, 2012, about her in-game experience with the videogame Fallout: New Vegas,[4] quickly turned into a series of back and forth pun jokes between Tumblr users Thegoodoneisbad[5] and Diarrheaworldstarhiphop[6] the next day (shown below, left). A night blogging style post from the Tumblr user Judaara[7] on September 20th, 2012, was replied by a Carlos image macro from Tumblr user Serenitywarrior[8] 2 months later on November 24th in reply to a pun joke about Judaara’s post (shown below, right). As of march 18th, 2013, both post have received respectively more than 11,000 and 131,000 notes.
Additional examples can be found through the Tumblr tag “#carlos-ramon”,[9] searching Funnyjunk for “carlos pun”[10] and searching the 4chan archive, Foolz, for “carlos”.[11]
Search Interest
External References
[1]Wikipedia – The Magic School Bus
[2]Funnyjunk – Magic School Bus Abortion
[3]Funnyjunk – Carlos posts in a nutshell
[4]Tumblr – I’ve Literally Been Playing this Game For Like 10 Minutes
[5]Tumblr – Thegoodoneisbad
[6]Tumblr – Diarrheaworldstarhiphop
[7]Tumblr – What if you hit your alarm clock one morning and it hits you back
[8]Tumblr – Serenitywarrior
[9]Tumblr – #carlos-ramon
[10]Funnyjunk – Search: ‘carlos pun’
[11]Foolz – Search: ‘carlos’