the original 500 cigarette scene is from the Orville Seth mcfillin's parody of Star Trek whilst it became a Meme here and there over the past couple of years it wouldn't see true mainstream success until this year when it was made into a YouTube poop by reduced to clear on the 21st of May and is since only continued to grow exponentially as a phenomenon 500 cigarettes the idea that two aliens would discover some of Earth's most famously addictive cancer candies and immediately smoke 500 of them with without understanding the consequences is a great bit it comes from season 2 episode 11 if you want to check out the full thing in a sense the meme has become similar to the 1 million beers Trend you take a mundane object and turn it into a ludicrous number knowing fully the end result would mean death but laugh in the face of it 1 million beers and 500 cigarettes are both nonse to punch lines designed to disarm the audience they're both unexpectedly High numbers and would surely kill that being said this scene is certainly a commentary on Humanity's ability to self-destruct when we like something we want more and more of it even if we know it's extremely unhealthy and especially if that product has addictive substances inside of it years of studies and evidence that cigarettes kill us are abundant and yet they're still one of the most heavily consumed products in the world as such when a species with zero knowledge of this product finds it and immediately deems it delicious they're in for a world of hurt and it's fun to see a mirror held up to the very real world issue of rampant addiction that being said 500 cigarettes Revels in the tone of its own delivery the manner in which B is so distin disly asks the synthesizer for just so so many cigarettes after trying only one is perfect for digital culture as it's easy to understand as well as being Ultra excessive 500 cigarettes on that note for the sake of YouTube this video is in no way an endorsement for smoking please do not go out and smoke 500 cigarettes it would not be good I think in short 500 cigarettes rise to the top after languishing online for the past couple of years is a somewhat predictable moment as it follows in the footsteps of memes like 1 million beers but it certainly puts its own spin on the too much of One Thing theme by utilizing pre-existing footage from the Orville what meme would you guys like me to give a lesson in next let me know in the comments below and remember like And [Laughter] subscribe or El