Mussum was the stage name of Brazilian comedian Antônio Carlos Bernardes Gomes, a beloved member of the comedy group Os Trapalhões that dominated Brazilian television in the 1970s and 1980s. His characters were famous for mangling Portuguese by adding is to word endings and for his love of cachaça, which he called mé. Decades after his death in 1994, short lines like this one circulate as WhatsApp audios and soundboard clips in Brazil, kept alive because his delivery alone makes an ordinary request sound funny.