The 'This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years' meme originates from Christopher Nolan’s 2014 sci-fi epic, Interstellar. In the scene, Joseph Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey) laments a minor delay on Miller’s Planet, where time is drastically dilated compared to Earth. The line became an internet sensation as a way to describe small, accidental actions that lead to disproportionately long waiting times. It is frequently applied to scenarios like accidentally restarting a computer, missing a highway exit, or getting stuck in a long loading screen, humorously equating these mundane errors to decades of lost time in deep space.