The 'Brock’s Jelly Doughnuts' meme stems from the English dub of the Pokémon anime, specifically the episode 'Primeape Goes Bananas.' In an attempt to localize the show for Western audiences, 4Kids Entertainment famously had Brock refer to traditional Japanese rice balls (onigiri) as 'jelly-filled doughnuts.' This blatant contradiction between the visual and the dialogue became a legendary example of unnecessary and awkward cultural censorship. Today, the meme is used to highlight moments of obvious gaslighting, poor translations, or situations where someone is trying to pass one thing off as something completely different. It remains a staple of the Pokémon fandom and internet subculture as a whole, representing the absurdity of early 2000s anime editing.