The 1990 cyberpunk action film Total Recall tells the story of a construction worker named Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who one day discovers that all of his memories have been falsely implanted into his brain, and he has no idea who he truly is. After receiving a message from himself in the past, pre-memory wipe, Quaid learns that he has to go to Mars to seek out a woman named Melina who works in a bar/brothel called the "Last Resort."

Once Quaid arrives in the Last Resort, he sees that many of the people here have been mutated from radiation and have some unusual anatomy. He asks about Melina and learns that she's currently busy with another customer, but then, in a now-infamous moment, another friendly sex worker named Mary (Lycia Naff) suggests to Quaid that perhaps she could keep him company instead. As she does so, she proudly opens her shirt, revealing that she has three breasts. Quaid politely declines, saying he'll wait for Melina. Mary calls Quaid "Earth slime" and storms off.

Mary might not have been Quaid's type, but apparently, a decent chunk of film fans disagreed with him, believing that this woman's atypical anatomy was indeed worth a second look. Despite being completely incidental to the larger plot, this silly sexy gag quickly became one of the most memorable images from that film, and as such, it was, bizarrely enough, one of very few elements that carried over to the 2012 remake.