The 'Muffin Song' and the 'I Baked You A Pie' sequence originated from the viral 'asdfmovie' YouTube series created by Thomas 'TomSka' Ridgewell. The pie gag first appeared in asdfmovie2, featuring a character excitedly asking for the flavor of a pie, only for the punchline to be 'pie flavor' as a smaller pie emerges. The character of the suicidal muffin debuted in asdfmovie6 and became so popular it received a full-length music video in 2018. These memes are staples of internet surrealism, often used to highlight absurd logic, recursive jokes, or to parody dark humor in a minimalist, stick-figure art style.