The clip comes from Tommy Boy, the 1995 road-trip comedy starring Chris Farley as Tommy Callahan, the well-meaning heir to an auto-parts company, alongside David Spade. Farley's outsized physical comedy made the film a cult favorite long after its release, and short dialogue moments from it circulate widely on soundboards and in meme edits. Creators reach for this quit moment much like it was at this moment he knew frames a doomed realization: it marks the point where trying stops and walking away becomes the joke.