Why is that the one thing that sticks?
Because it's true! As an example: a couple of summers ago, me and two other techs were working a 6 week contract at a place that we all hated. They had severely overestimated the amount of work they would have for us, so we wound up spending a lot of time sitting around with nothing to do. The manager of the project didn't want to look bad, so she kept trying to find things for us to do that we felt were outside of our scope. One day, she was standing at the door to my cube, asking me to help out with watching the problem queue, and she finished up by saying "If you could help out with that, that'd be great, mm-kay?" I didn't think anything of it until one of the other techs came over after she left and pointed out she had been talking just like Lumberg!
Once the three of realized we were working in the "Office Space" office, we got along there much better!