The phrase “feels good man” comes from a comic scene (right) where Pepe is standing up and relieving himself with his pants around his ankles, then is made fun of by a roommate. It went from ‘feels good man,’ to ‘feels bad man,’ to ‘feels sad man.’ It really just became a very early internet emoji.” So they're sitting on the bathroom floor, and one of his roommates walks in on him and interrupts and is like, ‘I'm sorry.’Īfter Pepe comes out of the bathroom, a roommate makes fun of him for peeing with his pants pulled all the way down around his ankles, and Pepe says, ‘feels good man.’ That became a reaction image for people online probably around 2008/2009. He's peeing standing up, but he's pulled his shorts down all the way around his feet. And in that comic, Pepe is going to the bathroom. In issue two of ‘Boy’s Club,’ there's a one-page comic. Pepe’s phrase “feels good man” is also the title of your movie.
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Now when we're catching him in the film, he's 40 and he's trying to figure out how to reconcile this thing that he thought is like long forgotten and his personal history.” Matt created this thing when he was in his early to mid 20s. He explains the name Pepe actually comes from the word “pee pee.” And he basically made it to entertain his friends.” They're reminiscent of the Muppets, reminiscent of “The Neverending Story.” They look like things that are just kind of from the late 80s or early 90s. If you look at the characters that are in ‘Boy’s Club,’ they sort of feel nostalgic like an old discarded toy might. He started drawing the ‘ Boy’s Club ’ comic book while sorting through all those toys. Matt's job was to sort through all the toys that had been donated. And at the time, he was working at the community thrift store in the San Francisco mission. KCRW: How did Matt Furie come up with Pepe the Frog?Īrthur Jones: “Matt created Pepe in the mid 2000s. The film is called “Feels Good Man.” It’s out this Friday on demand. It’s one of the odder sidebars to the story of Trump’s political rise and his brand of populist nationalism.įilmmaker Arthur Jones’ new documentary tells the story of Pepe the Frog and cartoonist Matt Furie’s quest to reclaim his creation from the clutches of racists, trolls, and internet edgelords. The Anti-Defamation League eventually classified Pepe as a hate symbol.
Then the alt-right adopted him and attached him to Donald Trump when he was running for president. For years, the popular internet meme circulated on message boards like Tumblr, Reddit and 4chan. Pepe the Frog is an anthropomorphic cartoon amphibian with exaggerated features and the sarcastic smirk of someone who knows something you don’t.
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