The line comes from Le Dîner de cons, the 1998 French comedy directed by Francis Veber, where Jacques Villeret plays François Pignon, an unwitting guest invited to dinner so others can mock him. The film became a lasting favourite in France and was later remade and staged internationally. Short clips of its dialogue circulate on French soundboards and social media, and this phrase survived because it sums up Pignon's world in three seconds, a mix of innocence, surprise and a plan that is clever but uncomfortably twisted.