The clip comes from La Familia P. Luche, the Mexican sitcom created by Eugenio Derbez that premiered on Televisa in 2002 and built its humour around the chaotic P. Luche family. Short, quotable exchanges from the show later circulated far beyond television as shared audios, stickers and reaction clips across Latin American social media. Tomala papa survived because the phrase is easy to recognise, easy to repeat and useful far outside its original scene, especially in WhatsApp conversations where a familiar television line can stand in for a whole joking reply.