"I'm Tired Of This Grandpa," sometimes paired with the response "That's Too Damn Bad," is a catchphrase pulled from a flashback scene in the 2003 Disney film Holes1. In the shot, a young Louise Walker whines the line at her grandfather Charles "Trout" Walker while forced to dig in the desert, and Trout snaps back with the retort3. The appeal is the whiny, defeated delivery, which fits almost any post about being stuck doing something tedious.

The joke works in two formats. Older versions stack two screencaps from the flashback, the girl's complaint on top and Trout's dismissal below, with custom captions swapped in over the dialogue2. After the clip's audio hit TikTok, the same setup moved to short-form video, usually with a creator lip-syncing the line while gesturing at whatever chore they've been roped into3.

The template typically pairs the audio with footage of the poster being pulled into an activity they don't want to do. A common convention is to lip-sync the "I'm tired of this grandpa" line while gesturing at the task, then cut to another person (often a spouse or friend) delivering "That's too damn bad." Image macro versions often stack the two screencaps from the film with new captions swapped in for the original dialogue2.