The routine comes from Eddie Murphy's 1983 stand up special Delirious, where he recalls the ice cream man arriving in his neighborhood and the brutal hierarchy it created among kids. Murphy acts out both the lucky child with a cone and the envious friends left empty handed, turning a small summer memory into a larger joke about bragging. Clips of the performance circulated for decades on television reruns, DVDs and later social media, where the chant became a reusable meme for gloating and food envy.