The line comes from Gex, the first game in the Crystal Dynamics platform series starring a wisecracking gecko who travels through a television-themed world. Short, sarcastic one-liners were a signature part of the character, and this one survived as fans ripped and shared individual voice clips from the game online. Because it is only about a second long and works without any context, it has kept circulating in gaming edits and meme soundboards, where it sums up a moment of being caught off guard by something nobody explained.