DB Cooper after escaping with $200,000
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Each frame is captioned 'DB Cooper after escaping with $200,000'
Overview
This animated meme shows clumsy cartoon character Peter Griffin from Family Guy spinning uncontrollably while falling through a cloudy blue sky, with every frame captioned 'DB Cooper after escaping with $200,000'. The joke plays on the famous unsolved real-life DB Cooper case: in 1971, DB Cooper hijacked a plane, extorted a $200,000 ransom, then parachuted out of the plane over the Pacific Northwest and was never seen or identified again. The meme humorously implies that Cooper never successfully landed safely after his jump, and is still tumbling to his death mid-fall, which explains why he was never found, matching the meme's original title 'And he was never seen again'.
Origin notes
This meme originates from Reddit, specifically a Reddit meme community, with the original title given as 'And he was never seen again'. It repurposes animated footage of Peter Griffin from the American animated sitcom Family Guy to create a joke about the unsolved historical DB Cooper hijacking case.