The line comes from Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, where Squidward Tentacles, voiced by Rodger Bumpass, regularly clashes with SpongeBob and Patrick. The show has aired since 1999 and its exaggerated reaction clips became meme staples. The quote circulates on soundboards and in meme edits where creators blame cartoonish disasters on someone else. It endures because the performance is unmistakably Squidward: bitter, theatrical, and instantly quotable. Fans lift it for blame edits because six seconds of his rage says what a caption cannot.