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There is a meme created from the _Death Note_ manga which details a character
yelling at Matsuda and instructing him to swim. (A similar meme was created as
a GIF from the anime.)

![The swimming GIF from the anime](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2WoAB.gif)  
(And a link to the manga version, since it's quite large:
[Clicky](https://i.stack.imgur.com/489xt.jpg))

I can't imagine this is the actual dialog for this scene, just based on what's
going on. What are they actually saying, and what chapter/episode is this
event from?


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What is the actual dialog for this Death Note swimming meme?


This is a rather famous scene from episode 37 of Death Note. Parodies of the
scene have become fairly common, including a [Know Your Meme
page](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/matsuda-you-idiot). For an example, [this
video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2iwsIvwU_Q) has clips from the scene
set to "Native Faith", the extra boss theme from Touhou 10. Misheard or
altogether wrong lines from this scene are also common, as is the case in this
particular GIF. Here's the original video; as a warning, it contains **major
spoilers**.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxXJgfR4FWs>

As for what's going on in the scene, again, it's very spoilery, but here's a
description. It does not involve swimming.

> Yagami Light has just been found out as Kira, the serial murderer, who
> possesses a Death Note, a notebook with which he can kill anyone by writing
> their name in the book. Matsuda, a police officer, had a friendly
> relationship with Light (as well as looking up to Light's father the police
> chief), so discovering that Light was the criminal they were searching for
> all-along, and was responsible for his own father's death (as well as many
> others), was fairly shocking. Light, on the other hand, at this point has
> succumbed completely to his insane delusions of grandeur, and as he has no
> more tricks up his sleeve, he attempts to persuade the officers who have
> caught him to join forces with him, but comes off just looking even more
> insane. As a result of all of this, the scene is rather dramatic.


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