--- title: "Family Guy ‘brick wall’ line from 2000 nears 10 million views in JomJom412’s Backrooms remix" url: https://badiyaa.com/family-guy-hallway-brick-wall-backrooms-meme/ published: 2026-11-02T06:35:00+00:00 modified: 2026-11-02T06:35:00+00:00 section: Offbeat publisher: Badiyaa --- # Family Guy ‘brick wall’ line from 2000 nears 10 million views in JomJom412’s Backrooms remix Brian Griffin's hallway directions from a June 2000 episode, set to the Backrooms 'No Signal' music, became October's animation meme; the full version has 253,000 likes since October 11. A 26-year-old Family Guy gag about a dog giving directions has become the animation meme of October 2026. “You’re Walking Down the Hallway (FULL Version),” posted by animator JomJom412 on October 11, had climbed to 9,919,250 views, 253,000 likes and more than 6,300 comments by the morning of Monday, November 2. The clip is a rhythm remix of a few seconds of Brian Griffin dialogue from “Let’s Go to the Hop,” the fourteenth episode of Family Guy’s second season, first aired on Fox on June 6, 2000. In the creator’s own words, the line runs: “You’re walking down a hallway, take a left! You keep walking… You take a right, then a left, BRICK WALL!” What turned a throwaway joke into a chant was the music underneath it. JomJom412 set the dialogue to the track used on the “No Signal” screen of Backrooms “Everything Must Go TV” videos, part of the online horror world built around endless empty rooms, and cut it like a Rhythm Heaven minigame. ## From a 2000 toad-licking episode to a 2026 earworm The episode itself was never about hallways. In “Let’s Go to the Hop,” written by Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman and directed by Glen Hill, Peter poses as a teenager called “Lando Griffin” to stop kids at Meg’s school from licking toads. The hallway speech is a side bit in that anti-drug plot. The original broadcast drew 5.70 million US viewers, and Fox canceled the show at the end of that season before fan demand and DVD sales revived it. One commenter on the new video, whose remark drew more than 12,000 likes, argued that the clip proves how much more expressive the early seasons were, pointing to the front-facing shot of Brian that the modern show would never attempt. Another, with 5,600 likes, compared the directions to what happens when tourists ask a local where a landmark is. ## How the meme spread: a timeline - **September 29, 2026:** JomJom412 posts the original short remix of the Brian lines over the Backrooms music on YouTube and TikTok. By his own account he made it for fun after bingeing the show from season one. The short alone has since passed 5.8 million views on YouTube and 7.6 million on TikTok, with more than 897,000 TikTok likes. - **Early October:** Within about a week the sound becomes a trending animation meme, with other artists drawing their own characters walking, turning and hitting the wall. - **October 11:** Requests for a longer cut pile up, and the full version goes live. The description asks for 10,000 likes before a release on music stores; an edit added later reads “FASTER THAN I EXPECTED.” - **Mid October:** An instrumental version follows and passes 600,000 views, a Spanish audio track is added, and a three-hour loop by another channel collects 278,000 views. - **November 2:** The full version sits just under 10 million views, three weeks after upload. ## The Backrooms explained, for anyone who missed it The horror half of the mash-up is younger than most of its fans think. The Backrooms began on May 12, 2019, when an anonymous 4chan user posted a photo of a yellow, windowless, carpeted room and asked for pictures that felt “off.” A reply invented the idea of slipping out of reality into millions of square miles of empty rooms humming with fluorescent light. The photo was eventually traced in 2024 to a hobby shop in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, taken during a renovation in 2002. Fans built “levels” and “entities” on Reddit and wikis, Kane Parsons turned it into a found-footage YouTube series in 2022 that has drawn more than 190 million views, and A24 released his feature film version on May 29, 2026. That is why Brian’s hallway fits so neatly. The Backrooms are all corridors, corners and dead ends, and the “No Signal” screen is a staple of fan-made Backrooms television parodies. A dog from a 2000 sitcom telling you to turn left, turn right and walk into a brick wall is, accidentally, a perfect Backrooms script. JomJom412 says the full version was also a test of new visual styles and apologizes in the description for delays on other planned videos. For now his count stands at 323,000 subscribers, and the next milestone, 10 million views, is less than 81,000 views away. ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: The Backrooms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms) - [Wikipedia: Family Guy season 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy_season_2) *Image: PattayaPatrol, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. [How we work](https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/).*