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“Only One Business in the Galaxy Gets You This Rich” is a memorable quote uttered by the character Rose Tico (played by Kelly Marie Tran) in the 2017 science fiction opera film Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Online, a screen-capture from the scene has been used in an exploitable featuring the quote as a set up to various jokes about absurd professions.

Origin

On December 14th, 2017, the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released in theaters in the United States. In the film, the character Rose Tico tells one of the film's protagonists Finn (played by John Boyega) "only one business in the galaxy gets you this rich," when discussing the planet Canto Bight's industry of war profiteering.

Two weeks later, on December 28th, Facebook^[1] user Derek Luht posted a screen-capture of the moment above an image from the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. The post (shown below) received more than 2,600 likes in nine months.

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Two days, later a variation of the meme was posted on the /r/CODZombies subreddit. On December 30th, Redditor^[2] duducukier posted the image above of the Call of Duty "double points" image. The post (shown below, left) received more than 865 points (96% upvoted) and 30 comments in two months.

That day, an anonymous 9GAG ^[3] user posted a version of the image with a photoshopped image of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi at a strip club in the bottom panel. The post (shown below, center) received more than 4,900 points in two months.

The following month, on February 23rd, Redditor^[4] Jsherry21 posted the image above a still from a commercial for "Jones BBQ and Foot Massage" in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post (shown below, right) received more than 21,600 points (91% upvoted) and 150 comments.

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