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"You had ONE job!"

Last posted Aug 06, 2012 at 12:35PM EDT. Added Aug 06, 2012 at 08:19AM EDT
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Been seeing this phrase around, sometimes as a macro, and sometimes as title / caption for a fail picture. Any thoughts?

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Last edited Aug 06, 2012 at 08:21AM EDT

Now that is not going to be easy to trace…

One of the earliest instances seems to be the 2001 version of Ocean's Eleven. From Wikiquote:

[in a safe heist]
Basher: All right chaps. Hang on to your knickers.
[He triggers the bomb, and the safe door cracks open. Laughing, Basher dances into the vault – and the alarm goes off]
Basher: Oh leave it out! You tossers! You had one job to do!

I dunno if that can really be stated as the origin, though.