The clip comes from Familie Backeljau, the Flemish sitcom that aired in Belgium in the mid 1990s and became a cult favourite for its exaggerated everyday characters. Goeiedag meneer is a standard polite Dutch greeting, but in the show's broad comic style it stuck as a recognisable, overly formal hello. Short excerpts later circulated on Flemish forums and soundboards, where the two second line survived on its own as a meme greeting. It is still used because the courtesy sounds sincere and absurd at the same time.