The clip is tied to the long-running I'm in danger meme associated with Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons, the cheerfully oblivious Springfield schoolboy. A still of Ralph smiling on a bus circulated for years as a reaction image for people who had wandered into trouble, and the spoken version later spread through meme pages, short videos and soundboards. Adding very much stretches the familiar line for extra comic effect. It remains popular because almost any everyday disaster, from a bad grade to a broken car, fits the delivery.