The 'Put That Cookie Down' meme originates from the 1996 holiday film 'Jingle All the Way,' featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Howard Langston. In this high-stress scene, Howard screams the line into a telephone upon discovering his neighbor, Ted, is eating his wife's homemade cookies. The combination of Arnold's thick Austrian accent and his aggressive delivery of a relatively mundane instruction made the scene an instant classic. Online, it is frequently used to humorously scold people for breaking diets, indulging in bad habits, or whenever someone needs to be told to stop what they are doing immediately.