I need a catchphrase!!!
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"All that meat and no potatoes" ? 1941 Fats Waller tune, double-entendre catch-phrase of the 1940s and 1950s
"All your base are belong to us". Taken from the english version of the Japanese game Zero Wing. Later parodied and became a widespread Internet phenomenon
"And boom goes the dynamite." ? Brian Collins, a Ball State University student filling in for the regular sports reporter on the university's television station, announcing a basket made in an Indiana Pacers basketball game. The video of Collins's television broadcast circulated on the internet, and this phrase in particular became an internet phenomenon.
"As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!" - Scarlet O'Hara from the movie Gone with the Wind
"Aw, hell no!" - Will Smith catch phrase used in many of his movies. Also used frequently by Maya Wilkes from the sitcom Girlfriends
"Aww man" - Tommy Oliver in Power Rangers.
"Ayyyyyy!" the Fonz
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"Bada Bing" From the The Sopranos. While it can mean something that something happens effortlessly, it is also the name of the strip club in the series.
"Bah, humbug!" - Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Indicates frustration or derision.
"BAM!" - Emeril Lagasse from Emeril Live
"Beam me up, Scotty!" - attributed to Captain Kirk in Star Trek (This was never actually uttered. The closest was in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, when Kirk said "Scotty, beam me up.") From the longer phrase "Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life down here!" Used to express frustration and resignation with the ineptitude of the individuals with whom the speaker is interacting or with society at large.
"b-e-a-utiful" used by Jim Carrey in 'Bruce Almighty'
"Believe it!" - Naruto. In the Japanese version, the saying is "Dattebayo!"
"Big bucks, no whammies..." From Press Your Luck. This also occurs in GSN's revival series Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck (often called Whammy! for short).
"Boogity Boogity Boogity!" Spoken by TV personality and former NASCAR racer Darrell Waltrip at the start of a Nextel Cup event which he is an analyst. He often uses the longer "Boogity Boogity Boogity! Let's go racin' boys!" (From 2002 until 2006, also Busch Series.)
"Boom." Spoken by Steve Jobs (Apple Computer CEO) periodically when demoing a clean, simple, new feature in Apple's products, usually during a keynote address.
"Booyahh" - Stuart Scott, anchor of ESPN's Sportscenter
"Bow-chicka-bow-wow!" - Tucker from the machinima series Red vs Blue to indicate a sexual double entendre. It is derived from the usual use of wah wah guitars as music in pornography.
"Buongiorno, principessa!" - Guido (Roberto Benigni) to Dora (Nicoletta Braschi) in Life is Beautiful.
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Can you hear me now? - Catchphrase for Verizon.
"Captain's log..." - various captains in the Star Trek universe, usually as a voiceover of the captain's log to give a quick summary or mention of events, as well as giving insight into the events of the show.
"Come on down!" - The announcer from The Price is Right. Except for in the opening, this is immediately followed by "You're the next contestant on The Price is Right!" (In the opening, since about 1976, the "You're the next contestant..." is replaced by another "Come on down!" after the first three times. After the fourth contestant is called, the words "next contestant" are changed to "the first four contestants".)
"Cowabunga!" - Originally used by Chief Thunderthud on "The Howdy Doody Show," a 1950s children's television program, it was a nonsense word meant to sound Native American. Later it was adopted by Snoopy in the Peanuts comic strip in the 1960s followed by Sesame Street's Cookie Monster in the 1970s In the 1990s The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (especially Michaelangelo) continued to keep the word in popular culture. The phrase was first popular in the California surfer culture, but gained widespread awareness through the comics. Bart Simpson also says"Cowabunga Dude!"
Could this [object] BE any more [description]." Chandler Bing, a character on the sitcom Friends, would often drop snide remarks, typically in response to the actions of his friends. His particular brand of sarcasm was often based on this phrase.
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"Danger, Will Robinson!" - The Robot from Lost in Space
"The devil made me do it." - Flip Wilson as "Geraldine" on The Flip Wilson Show.
"D'oh!" - Homer Simpson in The Simpsons
"Did you get that memo?" - Bill Lumbergh in Office Space - Always said with a special intonation. Used in the US, especially the IT industry, to jokingly refer to information someone has received multiple times or, more vaguely, any unimportant piece of information such as when two people wear the same clothes they may say to someone who dressed differently "did you get that memo?"
"Did ya get that thing i sentcha?" - common phrase used by Peter Potomus on Harvey Birdman
"Did I do that?" - Phrase spoken on the ABC tv show Family Matters by character Steve Urkel (Jaleel White) whenever his clumsiness got the best of him. Usually spoken in a high-pitched nasal voice.
"Different strokes for different folks." - Sly & the Family Stone, from their 1968/1969 hit "Everyday People"
"DO IT!" - Popular catchphrase made popular by peer-pressuring teens in the mini-series UTS: The Stuart Retallack Story.
"Don't have a cow, man!" - Bart Simpson on The Simpsons, an expression that predates the Simpsons by at least a generation
"Don't hate her because she's beautiful". - From an advertising campaign in the 1980s with Kelly LeBrock for Pantene saying "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful". Widely used in the media to describe attractive celebrities.
"Don't Worry About It". - Commonly used catchphrase deriving primaily from overangsted characters in several prime time soaps.
"Dyn-o-mite!" - J.J. (Jimmie Walker) on Good Times
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"Eat my shorts!" - Bart Simpson in The Simpsons
"Eeeeeexcellent!" - Mr. Burns in The Simpsons
"Elvis has left the building!" - Al Dvorin announcement over public address after Elvis Presley concert to induce fans to leave
"Elementary, my Dear Watson" - Ascribed to fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, but in author Conan Doyle's stories, Holmes never actually utters this phrase.
"Engage!" - Captain Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Everybody, remember where we parked." - Captain Kirk, "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." He says this as he and his crew are walking away from a cloaked Klingon bird-of-prey that they landed in the middle of Golden Gate Park in the year 1986.
"Excellent!" - Bill and Ted, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"
"EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"-Daleks in Doctor Who
"Excuuuuuuuuse Meeeeeeeee!" - Steve Martin, Janice Kwo
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"Fascinating." - Mr. Spock in Star Trek
"Follow the money." - Deep Throat, in All The President's Men. Used when describing the root causes of a high-profile scandal.
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" - Rhett Butler in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind; the last words he speaks to Scarlett O'Hara before leaving her.
"Fire in the hole!" - popular phrase used in occasions such as first person shooters like Counter Strike and many many others when throwing grenades, it has become widely used whenever something said or done is supposed (but not guaranteed) to provoke a reaction
"Funny, how?"/"How am I funny?"/"Like I'm a clown, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?"/"What do you mean, 'funny'?" - said by Joe Pesci in a very memorable scene from GoodFellas.
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"Gag me with a spoon!" - uttered by Moon Unit Zappa in a song "Valley Girl" composed by her father Frank Zappa. The term was used among female teenagers in the 1970's San Fernando Valley in California, but gained national usage with Zappa's song. The phrase means "I'm disgusted" or "That's disgusting". Sometimes exaggerated to "gag me with a pitchfork!"
"Game over, man! Game Over!" -uttered by Private Hudson (Bill Paxton) in the movie "Aliens" The phrase is used frequently by videogamers when they are presented with a situation where no victory will be possible.
"Giggity, giggity..." - exclaimed by Glen Quagmire on the TV series Family Guy, often ad infinitum. Often expressed when something can be taken out of context in a sexual manner.
"Go ahead, make my day." - Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact
"Good Stuff." - Comedic math teacher Ms. MacArthur from the hilarious Canadian sitcom Calc You Lust
"Got your number!" - Taken from a 2004 television commercial for directory enquiries service "The Number", featuring two joggers yelling it to people they come across. Popular in the UK throughout 2005.
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"Groovy." - used by the beatniks of the 1950s to describe especially good jazz music and revived in the 1970s by the disco culture. Later popularized by Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness This and a number of other phrases from these films made their way into the comments of the title character in Duke Nukem 3D. Also used by Mike Myers' character Austin Powers in the Austin Powers films.
"General?simo Francisco Franco is still dead" - from Season 1 of SNL. Said by Chevy Chase on Weekend Updates.
"Gravy" - Ed on Ed, Edd n Eddy.
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"HAAA! I kill me!" - Alf, from the 1980s sitcom by the same name
"Ha Ha!" Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons
"Half an hour later in Newfoundland." - at the end of any network program time-slot announcement on the CBC. This refers to Newfoundland's time zone.
"Hara hetaaa..." - Son Goku in Gensomaden Saiyuki, it means "I'm hungry".
"H'Arsenal!" - Eric Morecambe (originally a quiz answer disguised as a cough, thereafter a random interjection)
"Hasta la vista, baby." - The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Literally in Spanish, hasta la vista means "Until we see each other again", and is a friendly good-bye. However in the context of the film, it was uttered as a final terminal good-bye to an opponent the Terminator was trying to kill. The phrase is now often used by sportscasters during their commentaries to refer to baseballs that have been hit out of the stadium (and will never be seen again).
"Heavens to Murgatroyd!" - Exclamation of Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss.
"Heuu! Heuu! Heuu! Heuu!" - Beverly Hills Cop Beverly Hills Cop. The memorable laugh of Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) everytime something funny happened.
"Henshin a go-go, Baby!" - Used by Joe in Viewtiful Joe to transform into the titular character.
"Here we go!"-Mario
"Hi-ho, Silver, and away!" - Said by the Lone Ranger. Silver was the name of his stallion.
"Holy _____, Batman!" - An exclamation of Robin from the Batman television series. The word after "Holy" was different in every episode, depending on (and referencing) plot circumstances. Examples range from "Holy popcorn, Batman!" to "Holy contributing to the delinquency of minors, Batman!" Actor Burt Ward was given this phrase in non-"Batman" films, such as one B-picture in which he encounters an overly-well-endowed young woman and blurts out "Holy Headlights!"
"Houston, we have a problem." - from the motion picture Apollo 13. It is a paraphrasing of the original quote from Jack Swigert which was "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here." Oft-cited in the business world when a project is not going according to plan.
"How appropriate, you fight like a cow." - Guybrush Threepwood in Monkey Island games, being an Insult swordfighting term, always used in wrong cases by him.
"How you doin'?" - Joey Tribiani's pick up line on the sitcom Friends
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"I have a bad feeling about this" - a catch phrase said by many characters at least once in every Star Wars movie, and Star Wars computer games. It was first used by Han Solo in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
"I am not an animal. I am a human being!" - John (Joseph) Merrick in the movie The Elephant Man. Uttered in the every day world when one is jokingly conveying personal stress or frustration. Often shortened to "I am not an animal. . .I am a man!!!"
"I am not a number, I am a free man!" - Number Six in The Prisoner.
"I didn't do it" This Bart Simpson catch phrase was actually satirical, as he became the star of a TV show when he accidentally destroyed the set during a live episode and uttered those defensive words...causing the fictional ratings of the show to soar.
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto." - misrepresentation of a line of film dialogue spoken by Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz (actual dialogue: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"). Generally invoked as a catch phrase when someone is feeling out of his or her element, in a place very different from home.
"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry When Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is about to shoot his enemy at close range.
"I shouldn'ta done that!" The episodic words of Dave Hood in his There Goes a... children's videotape series, as he caused disasters attempting to do the jobs of the drivers of that episode's kind of vehicle.
"I tell you what." - Hank Hill in King of the Hill
"I wish I knew how to quit you!" - Jake Gyllenhaal as the character Jack Twist speaking to Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain. The catch phrase is sometimes shortened to "I wish I could quit you."
"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." - Johnnie Cochran during closing arguments in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1995. Often misquoted as "If the glove does not fit, you must acquit." In every day usage, "If the {noun} does not {verb}, then you must {verb that rhymes with first verb}." Parodied in a Chrysler commercial in 2005 when rapper Snoop Dogg proclaims "If the ride is more fly, then you must buy."
"If you build it, they will come" - from the mysterious voice to Kevin Costner in the movie Field of Dreams. The actual phrase in the movie was "If you build it, HE (Shoeless Joe Jackson) will come", and referred to the construction of a baseball stadium. Used in the real world to describe any ambitious real estate plan in the tourism industry that requires a large financial investment.
"If you smell what the Rock is cookin'!" - signature catchphrase by The Rock during his time as a WWE wrestler. Synonymous with the phrase, "If you know what I mean", or "If you know what I'm saying."
"I'll be back." - The Terminator, an ad lib by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and later becoming his trademark one-liner in subsequent movies.
"I'd buy that for a dollar!" - Slogan uttered in several fictitious television commercials within the movie RoboCop. Sometimes quoted as "I'll buy that for a dollar!". In every day usage, the phrase means "I'll accept that gladly" [1], however it could also be used when referring to items that are on sale, or when referring to expensive items. The source of this may have been the C. M. Kornbluth satirical story "The Marching Morons", which postulated a future earth with an average IQ of 45 with "Would you buy that for a quarter?" as a catchphrase.
"I have a cunning plan" - Baldrick in almost every Blackadder episode.
"I HAVE FURY!" - The catchphrase of Fawful from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
"I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog too!" -- Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) in The Wizard of Oz *
"I'll rate it" - Catch phrase coined by budding Australian cricketer Stephen Whalan. Now used extensively in many aspects of Australian culture
"I'm a doctor, not a _______" - Dr. Leonard McCoy of Star Trek, protesting any non-medical duties he is given. The phrase can be completed whichever way the requested task would indicate; e.g., when asked to repair a silicon-based life form using cement, McCoy replied, "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer." It was also adopted by The Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager.
"I'm Rick James, bitch!"- Rick James from a skit on Chappelle's Show. Rick James has admitted that this is a phrase he has actually used.
"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." - Stuart Smalley, in the "Daily Affirmation" skits on Saturday Night Live.
"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV." - Peter Bergman (differentiating from his doctor character, Cliff Warner, on All My Children) in Vicks 44 TV commercial
"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" - Mae West
"Is that your final answer?" - Chris Tarrant from the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionare?. Also copied in US version by Regis Philbin
"Isn't that special?" - Church Lady, as played by Dana Carvey in Saturday Night Live. In every day usage, the phrase is a sarcastic way to convey derision or scepticism.
"It's a bird...it's a plane...it's _________!/?" - often said in parody of the introduction to the Superman cartoon.
"It's alive!" - Dr. Frankenstein beholding his awakening monster. Used in the everyday world when one is fixing a malfunctioning electronic machine or device, the power is flipped on, and the device successfully activates.
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." - "Mother Nature" from Chiffon margarine commercials ("...if you think it's butter, but it's not, it's Chiffon").
"It's time to duel!" -Yami Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh!
"I've fallen and I can't get up" - a popular catchphrase of early 1990s popular culture based upon a line from a United States-based television commercial.
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"Jane, you ignorant slut." - Said by Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin during their "Point/Counterpoint" segment on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update".
"Just say no" - U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan, spearheading her anti-drug campaign and best known in the UK as a song by the cast of children's television programme Grange Hill with the same message
"Jam on it!" - Chanted by Cozmo-D in the song 'Jam On It', by Newcleus.
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"Kaze no you ni hayaku!" - Samurai in the Super Friends cartoon series. This mystical incantation means in Japanese "As fast as the wind!"
"Klaatu barada nikto" - from the 1951 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day The Earth Stood Still. The phrase "Gort, Klaatu barada nikto" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from attacking. Also memorably used in Army of Darkness, the third film in the cult classic Evil Dead trilogy, by Bruce Campbell.
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!" - Captain Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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"Leapin' lizards!" - comic strip character Little Orphan Annie
"Let's roll" - phrase allegedly spoken by United Airlines Flight 93 passenger and 9/11 victim Todd Beamer and overheard via cellphone by his wife Lisa; later used by George W. Bush and others to signify American determination in the months after 9/11
"Let's-a go!" - video game character Mario, usually used at the start of a level.
"Let's be careful out there" or "And, hey - Let's be careful out there" - Phrase popular in the 1980's originating from the television series Hill Street Blues and used mostly in a falsely concerned humorous mocking sense.
"laissez les bon temps rouler"- french for "let the good times roll", This is usually used to describe the fun spirit of New Orleans
"Let's mosey!" - Final Fantasy VII character Cloud Strife
"Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get." - Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
"Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!" - Guybrush Threepwood in Monkey Island games.
"Loves it" - Socialite Nicole Richie
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"May the Force be with you!" - attributed to Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Sir Alec Guinness in Star Wars although Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and General Dodonna (Alex McCrindle) were the only characters in the film to say the line. The closest Guinness came to saying it was "The Force will be with you, always."
"Make it So" - Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart in the TV seriers ' ' Star Trek: The Next Generation meaning "Do it."
"More cowbell!" - part of a line spoken by Christopher Walken in a Saturday Night Live sketch about the recording of Blue ?yster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper."
"Most illogical" - Mr. Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy in the TV series Star Trek
"Moumentai!" - as spoken by Terriermon from Digimon Tamers, this catch phrase means "no problem!" in Cantonese.
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"Nanoo, nanoo" - Robin Williams as Mork from Ork in Mork and Mindy
"...Not!!!" - Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) of Saturday Night Live skit-turned-movie Wayne's World - used to negate some statement they just made which they don't actually believe. Unwittingly anticipated in an episode of the 1950s TV series The Adventures of Superman, when Jimmy Olsen asked Perry White for some ridiculous favor, and Perry responded, "Definitely...NOT!" A terminal not for sarcastic negation appears in Pigs is Pigs, a 1905 humorous story by Ellis Parker Butler, in which a comic Irish character says: "I wonder do thim clerks know Misther Morehouse? I'll git it! Oh, yes! 'Misther Morehouse, two an' a quarter, plaze.' 'Cert'nly, me dear frind Flannery. Delighted!' Not!"
"No problem!" - Alf, from the 1980s sitcom, ALF.
"No problemo" - Spoken by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
"No whammy, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy...STOP!" - from the game show Press Your Luck, frequently uttered by contenstants.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that." - Jerry Seinfeld. Normally used as a follow-up, detracting phrase when one realizes they have just uttered a faux pas, which suggests they are being judgemental. Often a back-handed observation of political correctness. Used in the Seinfeld episode "The Outing," each time George or Jerry deny that they're gay.
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"OBJECTION!" - Phoenix Wright.
"Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." - The common end to any of Dennis Miller's infamous Rants.
"Off you go." - Simon Cowell to bad auditioners during the early stages of American Idol
"Oh, behave!" - Austin Powers to his models
"Oh, bother!" - Winnie the Pooh's typical expression when things are not going well. A very old-fashioned, triple-G rated expression. The ship's captain in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore, musically asserts, "Though 'bother it' I may / occasionally say / I never use a big, big 'D'!"
"OH MY GOD!" - Catchphrase for Extreme Championship Wrestling play-by-play commentator Joey Styles, who usually uttered the phrase when a wrestler would do something harmful or dangerous (Which was often in ECW).
"Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" - Signature catchphrase in the cartoon South Park by the characters Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski whenever their friend Kenny McCormick is killed in an over-the-top or humorous way, which would happen in every episode of the series, up until the end of the fifth season, when Kenny was "permanently" killed off for good (he later returned at the beginning of the seventh season, although he's now killed very rarely). It was parodied in an episode where a person finds a penny on the street: "Oh my God, I found a penny! You bastard!" In fact, the catchphrase is frequantly parodied within the show, starting in the second episode of the first season.
"Oh boy..." - Sam Beckett's usual phrase before the main title rolls of Quantum Leap.
"Oh, the humanity!" - originated in a live radio broadcast in which the Hindeberg crashed. Has since become a catchphrase for melodramatically awful things.
"OH YEAH!" - yelled by Kool-Aid Man whenever he leaps through a wall and parodied in the first episode of Family Guy. Also used by former pro wrestler Randy Savage in interviews as well as in Slim Jim commercials.
"Only in America!" - term coined by professional boxing promoter Don King. Commonlu used to deride the excesses of the Americans.
"OH... MY... GOD!" - Janice (Friends character)'s greeting when ever she sees Chandler Bing
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"Page Two!" - radio commentator Paul Harvey. (The "a" in "page" is given a longer stress than usual.) Normally used to express smug impatience when attempting to change the subject of a conversation. Harvey himself merely used it as a verbal cue for the next commercial break.
"Permission to speak, sir." - Corporal Jones in Dad's Army
"Play it again, Sam!" - attributed to Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, in Casablanca, though never actually spoken in the film. Condensed from Ingrid saying to "Sam" (Dooley Wilson), "Play it, Sam!" and Bogie saying, "You played it for her, you can play it for me; if she can stand it, so can I... Play it!" ("It" was "their song", As Time Goes By) "Play it again, Sam" was said in the 1946 Marx Brothers' movie A Night in Casablanca but very few people attribute the quote to it.
"...Priceless." - MasterCard slogan, after listing the prices of commodities that lead to something sentimental that can not be bought
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"Resistance is futile" - The Borg in Star Trek. Predated by "Resistance is useless" in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"Respect my authority!" - Eric Cartman from South Park. In the TV show, Cartman pronounced "authority" as "authoritaw/authoritah," and often it is repeated with a similar pronounciation.
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"Say hello to my little friend!" - Tony Montana in the 1983 gangster film Scarface played by Al Pacino.
"Schwing!" (also "sha-WING") - Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as Wayne and Garth in Wayne's World (both on Saturday Night Live, and the subsequent movies). Said in reaction to a 'fox' or 'babe', though generalized to be used in reaction to anything attractive. Sometimes accompanied by thrusting up with the hips and pulling arms in. Meant to simulate an erection. The sound of this word is somewhat similar to that of a sword being drawn.
"Screw you guys, I'm going home!" - Eric Cartman of South Park to anybody (usually Kyle Broflovski) whenever he's proven wrong or annoyed.
"Seacrest... OUT." - Ryan Seacrest's attempt to manufacture himself a catchphrase. It backfired, and is largely disdained and parodied - consider Meet the Fockers, when Gaylord Focker's last words before passing out from sodium pentathol are "Fokker... out". The phrase also appears in Seacest's cameo in Mind of Mencia.
"See you later, alligator" - Bill Haley's recording of "See You Later, Alligator" popularized the featured catchphrase.
"Shhhhh!" - (woman at the cinema) in (Gracie Films)
"Shocked, shocked to [discover something]!" - In Casablanca, Claude Raines as Capt. Renault says Rick's must be closed down, because he is shocked, shocked to find gambling is going on there! He is then presented with his gambling winnings. In everyday usage, the phrase is best used to convey that someone is displaying hypocritical shock, but people also use it to refer to a sense of shock that may be sincere but still seems naive because it is caused by a well-known, if lamentable, phenomenon.
"Showtime!" - The Big O - Generally said as a Battle Cry in competitive events.
"Show me the money!" - Key phrase of fictional pro football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s Academy Award winning role); repeated loudly by Tom Cruise as the title character in Jerry Maguire
"Sit!" (Also: "Sit, boy!")(the japanese is "osuwari") - Kagome Higurashi's command word forcing InuYasha to be forcefully grounded by a magic amulet around his neck in InuYasha.
"Sorry about that, Chief!" - Secret Agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) in Get Smart, immediately after yet again injuring/impeding/insulting his boss.
"SPOOOOON!!" - The battle cry of The Tick, an invulnerable cartoon/comic book hero. He isn't very creative, so when looking for a catch phrase, he comes up with "spoon" because he's holding one in his hand. Thereafter uses this as his battle cry/catch phrase when fighting villainy in The City.
"Splee!" - Waffle from Catscratch. It's his way of saying "hooray!"
"Stifle yourself!" - Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker to Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker in the 1970s sitcom All in the Family.
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"Take this job and shove it." - From the 1977 hit song "Take this job and shove it" written by David Allan Coe and sung by Johnny Paycheck. A movie by the same name was released in 1981. Used in the every day world to describe one's dissatisfaction with one's vocation or employer.
"Thank you, sir! May I have another?" - Uttered by Kevin Bacon's character in the comedy movie Animal House (his first mainstream role) when being painfully spanked as part of a fraternity initiation rite. In the real world, the phrase is used as an ironic or sarcastic way to describe any personal difficult situation to which the victim would not wish to be subjected again.
"That's hot." - Socialite and heiress Paris Hilton
"That's just my opinion...I could be wrong." - The common end to any of Dennis Miller's infamous Rants.
"The British are coming! The British are coming!" - Paul Revere, while riding his horse through Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts is attributed with saying this, but never did. The actual quote is "The Regulars are coming!", to warn the townspeople of the British invasion during the American Revolutionary War. Revere said "the Regulars" instead of "the British" because at the time, most colonists considered themselves to be British. Only later in the Revolution would all hopes of reconciliation be exhausted, thus leading to independence. In modern times, the phrase has been used by the American media as a humorous way to describe favorably the importation and adoption of British celebrities, fashion, styles, and music, such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones and David Beckham. It was also used in a Schoolhouse Rock episode in the 1970s.
"The buck stops here" - United States president Harry S. Truman
"The butler did it!" - Originated by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Also used in the 1985 film Clue (film), based on the classic Parker Brothers game, which includes 3 different possible endings, the true one being "What Really Happened" in which the butler, Wadsworth (played by Tim Curry) is guilty of the last of the six murders. It is now used to satirise murder mysteries in which the least likely person is guilty. It is sometimes augmented by saying how and where (i.e. "in the kitchen with the candlestick").
"There goes the neighbourhood."
"These aren't the droids you're looking for." Originally used in Star Wars Episode IV by Obi-Wan Kenobi. Later used in MTV's short lived cartoon series Undergrads by main character Nitz. Often used comically by Star Wars fans when having failed to convince someone of something, they resort to Jedi mind tricks.
"This looks like a job for Superman." Spoken by Clark Kent in the original Superman animated cartoon series produced by Fleischer Studios in the early 1940s. In the real world, humorously refers to any mildly difficult problem that is probably solvable by the speaker.
"Throw another shrimp on the barbie" - Erroneously quoted variation of a Paul Hogan line in a series of Australian Tourist Board commercials on American television. The actual line is "I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you."
"Thundercats HO!" - Battle cry of the popular 80's cartoon Thundercats.
"TIMMEH!" - Catchphrase of wheelchair-bound, mentally handicapped South Park character Timmy, who's only able to say his own name
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz (1939) Very often misquoted as "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto". This is often said in a context where the sayer feels like he is unexpectedly in a place far away from home.
"Transform!" - Catch phrase of the stylish 80's cartoon Transformers.
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"Vodka martini. shaken, not stirred" - James Bond
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"Whammy!" -exclamation used by Pierre McGuire, a TSN hockey analyst.
"Waaaassssssuuuuuup?!?" - exclamation heard ad-nauseum on a series of Budweiser beer TV advertisements. This expression has circulated henceforth in various arenas of communication.
"Whaddaya want? Wicker?" - winner of a catch phrase contest on the Late Night with David Letterman television show
"What a country!" - used by Russian-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff to indicate delight or bafflement about something typically American
"What you see is what you get." - Flip Wilson as "Geraldine" on The Flip Wilson Show (see also WYSIWYG)
"What we have here is... failure to communicate" - Strother Martin, as Captain of Road Prison 36 in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke
"What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" - Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson in Diff'rent Strokes
"What's up, Doc?" - Bugs Bunny
"When monkeys fly out of my butt" - Wayne's World
"Where's the Beef?" - Clara Peller in commercials for Wendy's
"When I say run, run!" - The Second Doctor, in Doctor Who
"Wikki, Wikki, Wikki, Wikki...shut up!" - sung by Munchkins in the song 'Jam On's Revenge', by Newcleus.
"Will the real ________ please stand up?" - said by every host of To Tell the Truth just before one of three civilian challengers distinguishes him/herself from the two impostors. Later adopted by Eminem for his song "The Real Slim Shady."
"Why me? Why all the times me?" - used by Reg Roach at the end of every episode in the show Roboroach
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"Yada, yada, yada" - "and on and on and on". Possibly comes from the Norwegian for "yeah, yeah." Made popular by Seinfeld.
"Yeah but, no but, yeah but . . . " made famous by Vicky Pollard played by Matt Lucas in Little Britain.
"Yes! You are correct, sir!" - Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live, doing an impersonation of Ed McMahon from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. In an interview by Time magazine on Oct. 19, 1998, McMahon claims not to recall ever actually uttering the phrase.
"You ain't seen nothin' yet!" - Originally Al Jolson, later re-popularised by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The phrase came from the first words heard on the track of the partly-spoken, partly-silent movie The Jazz Singer. Jolson's actual first spoken words were, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
"You are the weakest link. Goodbye." - Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link (also George Gray on the syndicated version and international versions). In a TV interview, Robinson said that the clipped "G'bye!" originated from her aunt, who would abruptly end a conversation with "G'bye!" when she grew tired.
"You like me, you really like me!" - Erroneously quoted variation of a speech given by Sally Field upon receiving the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of "Norma Rae" in the 1980 movie "Places in the Heart." The actual quote is: "I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"
"You look maaahvelous!" - Billy Crystal in parody of Fernando Lamas on Saturday Night Live
"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" - Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver
"You're going to Hollywood!" - The American Idol judges to good auditioners who make it to the next round.
"Yowza, Yowza, Yowza!" - Richie Cunningham from American television comedy Happy Days. Colloquial, emphatic variation on "Yes Sir", dating back several generations at least. In every day usage, indicates jubilation or surprise.
"You're Fired!" - Donald Trump in the television show The Apprentice
"You're Fired!" - Made popular first in the movie "A Bug's Life" by two Pill Bugs, Followed later by Donald Trump as noted above. Wrestling personality Vince McMahon also uses the phrase, albeit with much more passion and snarling.
"All that meat and no potatoes" ? 1941 Fats Waller tune, double-entendre catch-phrase of the 1940s and 1950s
"All your base are belong to us". Taken from the english version of the Japanese game Zero Wing. Later parodied and became a widespread Internet phenomenon
"And boom goes the dynamite." ? Brian Collins, a Ball State University student filling in for the regular sports reporter on the university's television station, announcing a basket made in an Indiana Pacers basketball game. The video of Collins's television broadcast circulated on the internet, and this phrase in particular became an internet phenomenon.
"As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!" - Scarlet O'Hara from the movie Gone with the Wind
"Aw, hell no!" - Will Smith catch phrase used in many of his movies. Also used frequently by Maya Wilkes from the sitcom Girlfriends
"Aww man" - Tommy Oliver in Power Rangers.
"Ayyyyyy!" the Fonz
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"Bada Bing" From the The Sopranos. While it can mean something that something happens effortlessly, it is also the name of the strip club in the series.
"Bah, humbug!" - Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Indicates frustration or derision.
"BAM!" - Emeril Lagasse from Emeril Live
"Beam me up, Scotty!" - attributed to Captain Kirk in Star Trek (This was never actually uttered. The closest was in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, when Kirk said "Scotty, beam me up.") From the longer phrase "Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life down here!" Used to express frustration and resignation with the ineptitude of the individuals with whom the speaker is interacting or with society at large.
"b-e-a-utiful" used by Jim Carrey in 'Bruce Almighty'
"Believe it!" - Naruto. In the Japanese version, the saying is "Dattebayo!"
"Big bucks, no whammies..." From Press Your Luck. This also occurs in GSN's revival series Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck (often called Whammy! for short).
"Boogity Boogity Boogity!" Spoken by TV personality and former NASCAR racer Darrell Waltrip at the start of a Nextel Cup event which he is an analyst. He often uses the longer "Boogity Boogity Boogity! Let's go racin' boys!" (From 2002 until 2006, also Busch Series.)
"Boom." Spoken by Steve Jobs (Apple Computer CEO) periodically when demoing a clean, simple, new feature in Apple's products, usually during a keynote address.
"Booyahh" - Stuart Scott, anchor of ESPN's Sportscenter
"Bow-chicka-bow-wow!" - Tucker from the machinima series Red vs Blue to indicate a sexual double entendre. It is derived from the usual use of wah wah guitars as music in pornography.
"Buongiorno, principessa!" - Guido (Roberto Benigni) to Dora (Nicoletta Braschi) in Life is Beautiful.
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Can you hear me now? - Catchphrase for Verizon.
"Captain's log..." - various captains in the Star Trek universe, usually as a voiceover of the captain's log to give a quick summary or mention of events, as well as giving insight into the events of the show.
"Come on down!" - The announcer from The Price is Right. Except for in the opening, this is immediately followed by "You're the next contestant on The Price is Right!" (In the opening, since about 1976, the "You're the next contestant..." is replaced by another "Come on down!" after the first three times. After the fourth contestant is called, the words "next contestant" are changed to "the first four contestants".)
"Cowabunga!" - Originally used by Chief Thunderthud on "The Howdy Doody Show," a 1950s children's television program, it was a nonsense word meant to sound Native American. Later it was adopted by Snoopy in the Peanuts comic strip in the 1960s followed by Sesame Street's Cookie Monster in the 1970s In the 1990s The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (especially Michaelangelo) continued to keep the word in popular culture. The phrase was first popular in the California surfer culture, but gained widespread awareness through the comics. Bart Simpson also says"Cowabunga Dude!"
Could this [object] BE any more [description]." Chandler Bing, a character on the sitcom Friends, would often drop snide remarks, typically in response to the actions of his friends. His particular brand of sarcasm was often based on this phrase.
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"Danger, Will Robinson!" - The Robot from Lost in Space
"The devil made me do it." - Flip Wilson as "Geraldine" on The Flip Wilson Show.
"D'oh!" - Homer Simpson in The Simpsons
"Did you get that memo?" - Bill Lumbergh in Office Space - Always said with a special intonation. Used in the US, especially the IT industry, to jokingly refer to information someone has received multiple times or, more vaguely, any unimportant piece of information such as when two people wear the same clothes they may say to someone who dressed differently "did you get that memo?"
"Did ya get that thing i sentcha?" - common phrase used by Peter Potomus on Harvey Birdman
"Did I do that?" - Phrase spoken on the ABC tv show Family Matters by character Steve Urkel (Jaleel White) whenever his clumsiness got the best of him. Usually spoken in a high-pitched nasal voice.
"Different strokes for different folks." - Sly & the Family Stone, from their 1968/1969 hit "Everyday People"
"DO IT!" - Popular catchphrase made popular by peer-pressuring teens in the mini-series UTS: The Stuart Retallack Story.
"Don't have a cow, man!" - Bart Simpson on The Simpsons, an expression that predates the Simpsons by at least a generation
"Don't hate her because she's beautiful". - From an advertising campaign in the 1980s with Kelly LeBrock for Pantene saying "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful". Widely used in the media to describe attractive celebrities.
"Don't Worry About It". - Commonly used catchphrase deriving primaily from overangsted characters in several prime time soaps.
"Dyn-o-mite!" - J.J. (Jimmie Walker) on Good Times
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"Eat my shorts!" - Bart Simpson in The Simpsons
"Eeeeeexcellent!" - Mr. Burns in The Simpsons
"Elvis has left the building!" - Al Dvorin announcement over public address after Elvis Presley concert to induce fans to leave
"Elementary, my Dear Watson" - Ascribed to fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, but in author Conan Doyle's stories, Holmes never actually utters this phrase.
"Engage!" - Captain Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Everybody, remember where we parked." - Captain Kirk, "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." He says this as he and his crew are walking away from a cloaked Klingon bird-of-prey that they landed in the middle of Golden Gate Park in the year 1986.
"Excellent!" - Bill and Ted, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"
"EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"-Daleks in Doctor Who
"Excuuuuuuuuse Meeeeeeeee!" - Steve Martin, Janice Kwo
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"Fascinating." - Mr. Spock in Star Trek
"Follow the money." - Deep Throat, in All The President's Men. Used when describing the root causes of a high-profile scandal.
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" - Rhett Butler in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind; the last words he speaks to Scarlett O'Hara before leaving her.
"Fire in the hole!" - popular phrase used in occasions such as first person shooters like Counter Strike and many many others when throwing grenades, it has become widely used whenever something said or done is supposed (but not guaranteed) to provoke a reaction
"Funny, how?"/"How am I funny?"/"Like I'm a clown, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?"/"What do you mean, 'funny'?" - said by Joe Pesci in a very memorable scene from GoodFellas.
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"Gag me with a spoon!" - uttered by Moon Unit Zappa in a song "Valley Girl" composed by her father Frank Zappa. The term was used among female teenagers in the 1970's San Fernando Valley in California, but gained national usage with Zappa's song. The phrase means "I'm disgusted" or "That's disgusting". Sometimes exaggerated to "gag me with a pitchfork!"
"Game over, man! Game Over!" -uttered by Private Hudson (Bill Paxton) in the movie "Aliens" The phrase is used frequently by videogamers when they are presented with a situation where no victory will be possible.
"Giggity, giggity..." - exclaimed by Glen Quagmire on the TV series Family Guy, often ad infinitum. Often expressed when something can be taken out of context in a sexual manner.
"Go ahead, make my day." - Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact
"Good Stuff." - Comedic math teacher Ms. MacArthur from the hilarious Canadian sitcom Calc You Lust
"Got your number!" - Taken from a 2004 television commercial for directory enquiries service "The Number", featuring two joggers yelling it to people they come across. Popular in the UK throughout 2005.
Greatest thing since sliced bread
"Groovy." - used by the beatniks of the 1950s to describe especially good jazz music and revived in the 1970s by the disco culture. Later popularized by Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness This and a number of other phrases from these films made their way into the comments of the title character in Duke Nukem 3D. Also used by Mike Myers' character Austin Powers in the Austin Powers films.
"General?simo Francisco Franco is still dead" - from Season 1 of SNL. Said by Chevy Chase on Weekend Updates.
"Gravy" - Ed on Ed, Edd n Eddy.
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"HAAA! I kill me!" - Alf, from the 1980s sitcom by the same name
"Ha Ha!" Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons
"Half an hour later in Newfoundland." - at the end of any network program time-slot announcement on the CBC. This refers to Newfoundland's time zone.
"Hara hetaaa..." - Son Goku in Gensomaden Saiyuki, it means "I'm hungry".
"H'Arsenal!" - Eric Morecambe (originally a quiz answer disguised as a cough, thereafter a random interjection)
"Hasta la vista, baby." - The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Literally in Spanish, hasta la vista means "Until we see each other again", and is a friendly good-bye. However in the context of the film, it was uttered as a final terminal good-bye to an opponent the Terminator was trying to kill. The phrase is now often used by sportscasters during their commentaries to refer to baseballs that have been hit out of the stadium (and will never be seen again).
"Heavens to Murgatroyd!" - Exclamation of Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss.
"Heuu! Heuu! Heuu! Heuu!" - Beverly Hills Cop Beverly Hills Cop. The memorable laugh of Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) everytime something funny happened.
"Henshin a go-go, Baby!" - Used by Joe in Viewtiful Joe to transform into the titular character.
"Here we go!"-Mario
"Hi-ho, Silver, and away!" - Said by the Lone Ranger. Silver was the name of his stallion.
"Holy _____, Batman!" - An exclamation of Robin from the Batman television series. The word after "Holy" was different in every episode, depending on (and referencing) plot circumstances. Examples range from "Holy popcorn, Batman!" to "Holy contributing to the delinquency of minors, Batman!" Actor Burt Ward was given this phrase in non-"Batman" films, such as one B-picture in which he encounters an overly-well-endowed young woman and blurts out "Holy Headlights!"
"Houston, we have a problem." - from the motion picture Apollo 13. It is a paraphrasing of the original quote from Jack Swigert which was "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here." Oft-cited in the business world when a project is not going according to plan.
"How appropriate, you fight like a cow." - Guybrush Threepwood in Monkey Island games, being an Insult swordfighting term, always used in wrong cases by him.
"How you doin'?" - Joey Tribiani's pick up line on the sitcom Friends
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"I have a bad feeling about this" - a catch phrase said by many characters at least once in every Star Wars movie, and Star Wars computer games. It was first used by Han Solo in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
"I am not an animal. I am a human being!" - John (Joseph) Merrick in the movie The Elephant Man. Uttered in the every day world when one is jokingly conveying personal stress or frustration. Often shortened to "I am not an animal. . .I am a man!!!"
"I am not a number, I am a free man!" - Number Six in The Prisoner.
"I didn't do it" This Bart Simpson catch phrase was actually satirical, as he became the star of a TV show when he accidentally destroyed the set during a live episode and uttered those defensive words...causing the fictional ratings of the show to soar.
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto." - misrepresentation of a line of film dialogue spoken by Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz (actual dialogue: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"). Generally invoked as a catch phrase when someone is feeling out of his or her element, in a place very different from home.
"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry When Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is about to shoot his enemy at close range.
"I shouldn'ta done that!" The episodic words of Dave Hood in his There Goes a... children's videotape series, as he caused disasters attempting to do the jobs of the drivers of that episode's kind of vehicle.
"I tell you what." - Hank Hill in King of the Hill
"I wish I knew how to quit you!" - Jake Gyllenhaal as the character Jack Twist speaking to Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain. The catch phrase is sometimes shortened to "I wish I could quit you."
"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." - Johnnie Cochran during closing arguments in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1995. Often misquoted as "If the glove does not fit, you must acquit." In every day usage, "If the {noun} does not {verb}, then you must {verb that rhymes with first verb}." Parodied in a Chrysler commercial in 2005 when rapper Snoop Dogg proclaims "If the ride is more fly, then you must buy."
"If you build it, they will come" - from the mysterious voice to Kevin Costner in the movie Field of Dreams. The actual phrase in the movie was "If you build it, HE (Shoeless Joe Jackson) will come", and referred to the construction of a baseball stadium. Used in the real world to describe any ambitious real estate plan in the tourism industry that requires a large financial investment.
"If you smell what the Rock is cookin'!" - signature catchphrase by The Rock during his time as a WWE wrestler. Synonymous with the phrase, "If you know what I mean", or "If you know what I'm saying."
"I'll be back." - The Terminator, an ad lib by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and later becoming his trademark one-liner in subsequent movies.
"I'd buy that for a dollar!" - Slogan uttered in several fictitious television commercials within the movie RoboCop. Sometimes quoted as "I'll buy that for a dollar!". In every day usage, the phrase means "I'll accept that gladly" [1], however it could also be used when referring to items that are on sale, or when referring to expensive items. The source of this may have been the C. M. Kornbluth satirical story "The Marching Morons", which postulated a future earth with an average IQ of 45 with "Would you buy that for a quarter?" as a catchphrase.
"I have a cunning plan" - Baldrick in almost every Blackadder episode.
"I HAVE FURY!" - The catchphrase of Fawful from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
"I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog too!" -- Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) in The Wizard of Oz *
"I'll rate it" - Catch phrase coined by budding Australian cricketer Stephen Whalan. Now used extensively in many aspects of Australian culture
"I'm a doctor, not a _______" - Dr. Leonard McCoy of Star Trek, protesting any non-medical duties he is given. The phrase can be completed whichever way the requested task would indicate; e.g., when asked to repair a silicon-based life form using cement, McCoy replied, "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer." It was also adopted by The Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager.
"I'm Rick James, bitch!"- Rick James from a skit on Chappelle's Show. Rick James has admitted that this is a phrase he has actually used.
"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." - Stuart Smalley, in the "Daily Affirmation" skits on Saturday Night Live.
"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV." - Peter Bergman (differentiating from his doctor character, Cliff Warner, on All My Children) in Vicks 44 TV commercial
"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" - Mae West
"Is that your final answer?" - Chris Tarrant from the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionare?. Also copied in US version by Regis Philbin
"Isn't that special?" - Church Lady, as played by Dana Carvey in Saturday Night Live. In every day usage, the phrase is a sarcastic way to convey derision or scepticism.
"It's a bird...it's a plane...it's _________!/?" - often said in parody of the introduction to the Superman cartoon.
"It's alive!" - Dr. Frankenstein beholding his awakening monster. Used in the everyday world when one is fixing a malfunctioning electronic machine or device, the power is flipped on, and the device successfully activates.
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." - "Mother Nature" from Chiffon margarine commercials ("...if you think it's butter, but it's not, it's Chiffon").
"It's time to duel!" -Yami Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh!
"I've fallen and I can't get up" - a popular catchphrase of early 1990s popular culture based upon a line from a United States-based television commercial.
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"Jane, you ignorant slut." - Said by Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin during their "Point/Counterpoint" segment on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update".
"Just say no" - U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan, spearheading her anti-drug campaign and best known in the UK as a song by the cast of children's television programme Grange Hill with the same message
"Jam on it!" - Chanted by Cozmo-D in the song 'Jam On It', by Newcleus.
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"Kaze no you ni hayaku!" - Samurai in the Super Friends cartoon series. This mystical incantation means in Japanese "As fast as the wind!"
"Klaatu barada nikto" - from the 1951 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day The Earth Stood Still. The phrase "Gort, Klaatu barada nikto" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from attacking. Also memorably used in Army of Darkness, the third film in the cult classic Evil Dead trilogy, by Bruce Campbell.
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!" - Captain Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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"Leapin' lizards!" - comic strip character Little Orphan Annie
"Let's roll" - phrase allegedly spoken by United Airlines Flight 93 passenger and 9/11 victim Todd Beamer and overheard via cellphone by his wife Lisa; later used by George W. Bush and others to signify American determination in the months after 9/11
"Let's-a go!" - video game character Mario, usually used at the start of a level.
"Let's be careful out there" or "And, hey - Let's be careful out there" - Phrase popular in the 1980's originating from the television series Hill Street Blues and used mostly in a falsely concerned humorous mocking sense.
"laissez les bon temps rouler"- french for "let the good times roll", This is usually used to describe the fun spirit of New Orleans
"Let's mosey!" - Final Fantasy VII character Cloud Strife
"Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get." - Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
"Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!" - Guybrush Threepwood in Monkey Island games.
"Loves it" - Socialite Nicole Richie
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"May the Force be with you!" - attributed to Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Sir Alec Guinness in Star Wars although Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and General Dodonna (Alex McCrindle) were the only characters in the film to say the line. The closest Guinness came to saying it was "The Force will be with you, always."
"Make it So" - Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart in the TV seriers ' ' Star Trek: The Next Generation meaning "Do it."
"More cowbell!" - part of a line spoken by Christopher Walken in a Saturday Night Live sketch about the recording of Blue ?yster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper."
"Most illogical" - Mr. Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy in the TV series Star Trek
"Moumentai!" - as spoken by Terriermon from Digimon Tamers, this catch phrase means "no problem!" in Cantonese.
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"Nanoo, nanoo" - Robin Williams as Mork from Ork in Mork and Mindy
"...Not!!!" - Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) of Saturday Night Live skit-turned-movie Wayne's World - used to negate some statement they just made which they don't actually believe. Unwittingly anticipated in an episode of the 1950s TV series The Adventures of Superman, when Jimmy Olsen asked Perry White for some ridiculous favor, and Perry responded, "Definitely...NOT!" A terminal not for sarcastic negation appears in Pigs is Pigs, a 1905 humorous story by Ellis Parker Butler, in which a comic Irish character says: "I wonder do thim clerks know Misther Morehouse? I'll git it! Oh, yes! 'Misther Morehouse, two an' a quarter, plaze.' 'Cert'nly, me dear frind Flannery. Delighted!' Not!"
"No problem!" - Alf, from the 1980s sitcom, ALF.
"No problemo" - Spoken by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
"No whammy, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy...STOP!" - from the game show Press Your Luck, frequently uttered by contenstants.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that." - Jerry Seinfeld. Normally used as a follow-up, detracting phrase when one realizes they have just uttered a faux pas, which suggests they are being judgemental. Often a back-handed observation of political correctness. Used in the Seinfeld episode "The Outing," each time George or Jerry deny that they're gay.
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"OBJECTION!" - Phoenix Wright.
"Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." - The common end to any of Dennis Miller's infamous Rants.
"Off you go." - Simon Cowell to bad auditioners during the early stages of American Idol
"Oh, behave!" - Austin Powers to his models
"Oh, bother!" - Winnie the Pooh's typical expression when things are not going well. A very old-fashioned, triple-G rated expression. The ship's captain in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore, musically asserts, "Though 'bother it' I may / occasionally say / I never use a big, big 'D'!"
"OH MY GOD!" - Catchphrase for Extreme Championship Wrestling play-by-play commentator Joey Styles, who usually uttered the phrase when a wrestler would do something harmful or dangerous (Which was often in ECW).
"Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" - Signature catchphrase in the cartoon South Park by the characters Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski whenever their friend Kenny McCormick is killed in an over-the-top or humorous way, which would happen in every episode of the series, up until the end of the fifth season, when Kenny was "permanently" killed off for good (he later returned at the beginning of the seventh season, although he's now killed very rarely). It was parodied in an episode where a person finds a penny on the street: "Oh my God, I found a penny! You bastard!" In fact, the catchphrase is frequantly parodied within the show, starting in the second episode of the first season.
"Oh boy..." - Sam Beckett's usual phrase before the main title rolls of Quantum Leap.
"Oh, the humanity!" - originated in a live radio broadcast in which the Hindeberg crashed. Has since become a catchphrase for melodramatically awful things.
"OH YEAH!" - yelled by Kool-Aid Man whenever he leaps through a wall and parodied in the first episode of Family Guy. Also used by former pro wrestler Randy Savage in interviews as well as in Slim Jim commercials.
"Only in America!" - term coined by professional boxing promoter Don King. Commonlu used to deride the excesses of the Americans.
"OH... MY... GOD!" - Janice (Friends character)'s greeting when ever she sees Chandler Bing
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"Page Two!" - radio commentator Paul Harvey. (The "a" in "page" is given a longer stress than usual.) Normally used to express smug impatience when attempting to change the subject of a conversation. Harvey himself merely used it as a verbal cue for the next commercial break.
"Permission to speak, sir." - Corporal Jones in Dad's Army
"Play it again, Sam!" - attributed to Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, in Casablanca, though never actually spoken in the film. Condensed from Ingrid saying to "Sam" (Dooley Wilson), "Play it, Sam!" and Bogie saying, "You played it for her, you can play it for me; if she can stand it, so can I... Play it!" ("It" was "their song", As Time Goes By) "Play it again, Sam" was said in the 1946 Marx Brothers' movie A Night in Casablanca but very few people attribute the quote to it.
"...Priceless." - MasterCard slogan, after listing the prices of commodities that lead to something sentimental that can not be bought
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"Resistance is futile" - The Borg in Star Trek. Predated by "Resistance is useless" in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"Respect my authority!" - Eric Cartman from South Park. In the TV show, Cartman pronounced "authority" as "authoritaw/authoritah," and often it is repeated with a similar pronounciation.
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"Say hello to my little friend!" - Tony Montana in the 1983 gangster film Scarface played by Al Pacino.
"Schwing!" (also "sha-WING") - Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as Wayne and Garth in Wayne's World (both on Saturday Night Live, and the subsequent movies). Said in reaction to a 'fox' or 'babe', though generalized to be used in reaction to anything attractive. Sometimes accompanied by thrusting up with the hips and pulling arms in. Meant to simulate an erection. The sound of this word is somewhat similar to that of a sword being drawn.
"Screw you guys, I'm going home!" - Eric Cartman of South Park to anybody (usually Kyle Broflovski) whenever he's proven wrong or annoyed.
"Seacrest... OUT." - Ryan Seacrest's attempt to manufacture himself a catchphrase. It backfired, and is largely disdained and parodied - consider Meet the Fockers, when Gaylord Focker's last words before passing out from sodium pentathol are "Fokker... out". The phrase also appears in Seacest's cameo in Mind of Mencia.
"See you later, alligator" - Bill Haley's recording of "See You Later, Alligator" popularized the featured catchphrase.
"Shhhhh!" - (woman at the cinema) in (Gracie Films)
"Shocked, shocked to [discover something]!" - In Casablanca, Claude Raines as Capt. Renault says Rick's must be closed down, because he is shocked, shocked to find gambling is going on there! He is then presented with his gambling winnings. In everyday usage, the phrase is best used to convey that someone is displaying hypocritical shock, but people also use it to refer to a sense of shock that may be sincere but still seems naive because it is caused by a well-known, if lamentable, phenomenon.
"Showtime!" - The Big O - Generally said as a Battle Cry in competitive events.
"Show me the money!" - Key phrase of fictional pro football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s Academy Award winning role); repeated loudly by Tom Cruise as the title character in Jerry Maguire
"Sit!" (Also: "Sit, boy!")(the japanese is "osuwari") - Kagome Higurashi's command word forcing InuYasha to be forcefully grounded by a magic amulet around his neck in InuYasha.
"Sorry about that, Chief!" - Secret Agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) in Get Smart, immediately after yet again injuring/impeding/insulting his boss.
"SPOOOOON!!" - The battle cry of The Tick, an invulnerable cartoon/comic book hero. He isn't very creative, so when looking for a catch phrase, he comes up with "spoon" because he's holding one in his hand. Thereafter uses this as his battle cry/catch phrase when fighting villainy in The City.
"Splee!" - Waffle from Catscratch. It's his way of saying "hooray!"
"Stifle yourself!" - Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker to Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker in the 1970s sitcom All in the Family.
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"Take this job and shove it." - From the 1977 hit song "Take this job and shove it" written by David Allan Coe and sung by Johnny Paycheck. A movie by the same name was released in 1981. Used in the every day world to describe one's dissatisfaction with one's vocation or employer.
"Thank you, sir! May I have another?" - Uttered by Kevin Bacon's character in the comedy movie Animal House (his first mainstream role) when being painfully spanked as part of a fraternity initiation rite. In the real world, the phrase is used as an ironic or sarcastic way to describe any personal difficult situation to which the victim would not wish to be subjected again.
"That's hot." - Socialite and heiress Paris Hilton
"That's just my opinion...I could be wrong." - The common end to any of Dennis Miller's infamous Rants.
"The British are coming! The British are coming!" - Paul Revere, while riding his horse through Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts is attributed with saying this, but never did. The actual quote is "The Regulars are coming!", to warn the townspeople of the British invasion during the American Revolutionary War. Revere said "the Regulars" instead of "the British" because at the time, most colonists considered themselves to be British. Only later in the Revolution would all hopes of reconciliation be exhausted, thus leading to independence. In modern times, the phrase has been used by the American media as a humorous way to describe favorably the importation and adoption of British celebrities, fashion, styles, and music, such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones and David Beckham. It was also used in a Schoolhouse Rock episode in the 1970s.
"The buck stops here" - United States president Harry S. Truman
"The butler did it!" - Originated by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Also used in the 1985 film Clue (film), based on the classic Parker Brothers game, which includes 3 different possible endings, the true one being "What Really Happened" in which the butler, Wadsworth (played by Tim Curry) is guilty of the last of the six murders. It is now used to satirise murder mysteries in which the least likely person is guilty. It is sometimes augmented by saying how and where (i.e. "in the kitchen with the candlestick").
"There goes the neighbourhood."
"These aren't the droids you're looking for." Originally used in Star Wars Episode IV by Obi-Wan Kenobi. Later used in MTV's short lived cartoon series Undergrads by main character Nitz. Often used comically by Star Wars fans when having failed to convince someone of something, they resort to Jedi mind tricks.
"This looks like a job for Superman." Spoken by Clark Kent in the original Superman animated cartoon series produced by Fleischer Studios in the early 1940s. In the real world, humorously refers to any mildly difficult problem that is probably solvable by the speaker.
"Throw another shrimp on the barbie" - Erroneously quoted variation of a Paul Hogan line in a series of Australian Tourist Board commercials on American television. The actual line is "I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you."
"Thundercats HO!" - Battle cry of the popular 80's cartoon Thundercats.
"TIMMEH!" - Catchphrase of wheelchair-bound, mentally handicapped South Park character Timmy, who's only able to say his own name
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz (1939) Very often misquoted as "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto". This is often said in a context where the sayer feels like he is unexpectedly in a place far away from home.
"Transform!" - Catch phrase of the stylish 80's cartoon Transformers.
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"Vodka martini. shaken, not stirred" - James Bond
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"Whammy!" -exclamation used by Pierre McGuire, a TSN hockey analyst.
"Waaaassssssuuuuuup?!?" - exclamation heard ad-nauseum on a series of Budweiser beer TV advertisements. This expression has circulated henceforth in various arenas of communication.
"Whaddaya want? Wicker?" - winner of a catch phrase contest on the Late Night with David Letterman television show
"What a country!" - used by Russian-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff to indicate delight or bafflement about something typically American
"What you see is what you get." - Flip Wilson as "Geraldine" on The Flip Wilson Show (see also WYSIWYG)
"What we have here is... failure to communicate" - Strother Martin, as Captain of Road Prison 36 in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke
"What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" - Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson in Diff'rent Strokes
"What's up, Doc?" - Bugs Bunny
"When monkeys fly out of my butt" - Wayne's World
"Where's the Beef?" - Clara Peller in commercials for Wendy's
"When I say run, run!" - The Second Doctor, in Doctor Who
"Wikki, Wikki, Wikki, Wikki...shut up!" - sung by Munchkins in the song 'Jam On's Revenge', by Newcleus.
"Will the real ________ please stand up?" - said by every host of To Tell the Truth just before one of three civilian challengers distinguishes him/herself from the two impostors. Later adopted by Eminem for his song "The Real Slim Shady."
"Why me? Why all the times me?" - used by Reg Roach at the end of every episode in the show Roboroach
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"Yada, yada, yada" - "and on and on and on". Possibly comes from the Norwegian for "yeah, yeah." Made popular by Seinfeld.
"Yeah but, no but, yeah but . . . " made famous by Vicky Pollard played by Matt Lucas in Little Britain.
"Yes! You are correct, sir!" - Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live, doing an impersonation of Ed McMahon from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. In an interview by Time magazine on Oct. 19, 1998, McMahon claims not to recall ever actually uttering the phrase.
"You ain't seen nothin' yet!" - Originally Al Jolson, later re-popularised by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The phrase came from the first words heard on the track of the partly-spoken, partly-silent movie The Jazz Singer. Jolson's actual first spoken words were, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
"You are the weakest link. Goodbye." - Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link (also George Gray on the syndicated version and international versions). In a TV interview, Robinson said that the clipped "G'bye!" originated from her aunt, who would abruptly end a conversation with "G'bye!" when she grew tired.
"You like me, you really like me!" - Erroneously quoted variation of a speech given by Sally Field upon receiving the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of "Norma Rae" in the 1980 movie "Places in the Heart." The actual quote is: "I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"
"You look maaahvelous!" - Billy Crystal in parody of Fernando Lamas on Saturday Night Live
"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" - Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver
"You're going to Hollywood!" - The American Idol judges to good auditioners who make it to the next round.
"Yowza, Yowza, Yowza!" - Richie Cunningham from American television comedy Happy Days. Colloquial, emphatic variation on "Yes Sir", dating back several generations at least. In every day usage, indicates jubilation or surprise.
"You're Fired!" - Donald Trump in the television show The Apprentice
"You're Fired!" - Made popular first in the movie "A Bug's Life" by two Pill Bugs, Followed later by Donald Trump as noted above. Wrestling personality Vince McMahon also uses the phrase, albeit with much more passion and snarling.
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TONY MONTANA said:
General and I now have A.A. :+signs8-1
How about
"Follow the money."
If you gonna be posting picks that is the good one. I might use it.
"Follow the money."
If you gonna be posting picks that is the good one. I might use it.