The line comes from a long-running television commercial for Pace Picante Sauce, in which cowboys sitting around a campfire react with disbelief when they learn the picante sauce they are tasting was made in New York City. One of them delivers the order to get a rope, and the deadpan moment became one of the most quoted lines in American advertising. The clip later spread online as a short reaction sound, shared whenever someone says something that deserves a mock punishment, and it still works because the reference is instantly recognizable to viewers who grew up with the ad.