The line comes from RoboCop, the 1987 science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Villain Clarence Boddicker, played by Kurtwood Smith, says it to wounded gang member Bobby during a police chase, moments before Bobby is thrown from the back of a van onto a patrol car. The scene became one of the film's most quoted moments for its dark humour. Online, the isolated question is reused as a setup for falls, launches, and sudden ejections in edits and memes.