An Australian legend who barked like a mad dog on national television has returned to the spotlight after recreating the iconic performance 14 years on.
Ray Graham became an international sensation in 2010 after a television interview with A Current Affair about rabid dogs that were “terrorizing” his local area.
After telling the reporter the dogs “came bounding” to his home in western Sydney, Mr Graham began becoming agitated and barking furiously.
Footage of his enthusiastic impression of the dogs has been viewed tens of millions of times online and earned him the nickname “barking dog man.”
While the attention has died down for Graham, images of him recreating the iconic quote at what appears to be a family event were posted on social media on Sunday.
Even though 14 years have passed since the original video, several people who saw the live print still burst out laughing.
Social media users also applauded his commitment to impersonation, saying he “still got it”, while others declared him an “absolute Australian icon”.
Others noted that his wife played her role “perfectly,” looking just as surprised in the video as she did during the original segment.
Graham became an international sensation in 2010 after impersonating a mad dog in an interview with A Current Affair alongside his wife (both pictured).
“Barking Man is still my ringtone to this day,” one person said.
“The barking dog man meme is still huge,” said a second.
“This has been ingrained in my head for about 15 years,” a third shared.
A fourth said they remembered watching the segment when it first aired.
“My partner and I were talking and we stopped to listen and look at each other in disbelief at what we had just seen,” they wrote.
Others wondered how many times he had “brought this out at a family party.”
“Please tell me he does this at every family function,” said one user.
“You know he’s done this over 50 times for them,” said another.
Australia’s iconic ‘barking dog man’ has recreated iconic personification 14 years on
Graham told Daily Mail Australia in 2019 that he is regularly stopped to take a selfie or record a video after the images have been viewed hundreds of millions of times after going viral online.
In 2019, he told Daily Mail Australia that he still gets stopped regularly for a selfie.
“Now they don’t notice me as much on the street, but it still happens,” he said.
‘Just the other week I was shopping with Kerry and these two guys started chasing us and we thought they were going to mug us, but all they wanted was just a photo!
“They always want to take a photo and sometimes I bark at them; they love that.”
“Everything has been positive, there have been no problems, but it has definitely changed my life.”
It’s not the only time he’s recreated the iconic moment, as he quoted the phrase in an endorsement of a Liberal candidate in Bennelong.