Who said well that escalated quickly

If a problem escalates, it means it gets worse. If it escalates quickly, it means it gets worse quickly. If two people meet and then get married ten days later, you could say "That relationship escalated really quickly.

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Add a Comment. View More Comments. The latest from KYM. Loss is a meme that's outlived its lifespan, but somehow gets funnier whenever it reappears. Yes, it's escalated quickly, too. But why did this quote spike in the summer of ? Anchorman was released in , and its sequel, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , wasn't in theaters until Know Your Meme, the closest the internet has to an encyclopedia of internet memes , says the earliest popular usage outside of the Will Ferrell comedy came in a webcomic from I Heart Eddit.

In April , YouTube user Niamh Joyce posted an excerpt from the film that begins with the actual phrasing of the line, "Boy, that escalated quickly.

The video is five years old, but its earliest comments date back to four years ago, which would place its viral success somewhere in , alongside the trend in popularity of the quote. Also in , around the time of the success of Niamh Joyce's video, Know Your Meme reports that an image macro of the phrase, "Well, That Escalated Quickly," along with a screen-capture from Anchorman , began to appear regularly on forums and blogs like Reddit and Tumblr. It's fascinating to compare the interest in "Well, that escalated quickly" with other popular quotes from Anchorman.

Below, we have "That escalated quickly," which is generic enough to be used in a variety of situations, paired with "I love lamp," which is non-sensical and specific to the film from which it came. The takeaway seems to be, off this comically limited data, that a movie in-joke, has a moderate but lasting popularity. But a broader line can gain traction in popular usage by a larger audience.

So we test that theory, and compare both lines with three more popular lines from the film, one specific and two broad. Blue is "That escalated quickly;" red is "I love lamp;" yellow is "I'm in a glass case of emotion;" green is "Don't act like you're not impressed;" and purple is "I immediately regret this decision. Okay, so we try popular lines from other films. Blue is "That escalated quickly;" red is "You talking to me;" green is "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn;" yellow is "I am your father;" and purple is "May the force be with you.

The consistent flatness of the older quotes — "You talkin' to me" and "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" — appear to represent a general cultural awareness of the quotes, similar to "I love lamp.