Also called Monkey Puppet · Side-Eye Monkey · Pedro
Someone asks a question, and suddenly eye contact feels dangerous. Use the monkey’s sideways glance for an awkward silence, a guilty reaction, or an attempt to look uninvolved.
The two pictures show a puppet looking in different directions. Read from left to right, the glance becomes a small attempt to escape attention without moving away.
The joke often puts the viewer in the uncomfortable position of knowing the answer. One caption creates the problem; the other explains why the monkey would rather look elsewhere.
The puppet comes from the Japanese children’s television show Ōkiku Naru Ko and is known as Pedro in its Spanish-language version. [2]
Peruvian creator Daniel Flores made the awkward glance while assembling a comic from television screenshots. The puppet’s eyes only looked straight ahead, so he erased and redrew them in Photoshop. He told Know Your Meme that he posted the finished comic to a University of Lima Facebook group on May 5, 2016. [1]
Put the question or awkward situation under the left face. Use the right panel to identify the person trying to stay out of it.
Keep both pairs of eyes visible. The glance supplies the reaction, so a short admission or label is enough to finish the joke.
Original captions to try with this template.
Original artwork by Daniel Flores (eye edit)
The answer is visible, but the person responsible hopes nobody will ask them.
Original artwork by Daniel Flores (eye edit)
The notes become the guilty participant in a meeting that is already starting.
Original artwork by Daniel Flores (eye edit)
The person who began the activity is the least ready for it.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
The creator explains how and when he made the eye edit.
Identifies the television puppet and its Spanish-language name.
