List of catch phrases Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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• "Ah-one, and ah-two..." - Lawrence Welk, directing his musical performers on The Lawrence Welk Show
• "Allll riiiiiight!" - Glen Quagmire from Family Guy
• "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." - Gloria Swanson as "Norma Desmond" in Sunset Boulevard (often repeated as "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.")
• "Allll-righty, then!" - Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
• "A-L-V-I-N!!!" - David Seville, usually yelled in the Alvin and the Chipmunks series.
• "Always look on the bright side of life" - Eric Idle singing in Monty Python's Life of Brian, a song later released as a single
• "Am I wrong? Am I wrong?" - Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski
• "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?" - from US television advertisements for Calgon (and later spoofed in the movie Wayne's World)
• "And away we go!" - Jackie Gleason
• "And don't call me Shirley" - Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen) in the movie Airplane
• "(And) it's goodnight from me..." - "And it's goodnight from him!" - Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker respectively in The Two Ronnies
• "And I would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" - Every villain from the Scooby-Doo cartoon series. Always said right after the villain's identity is revealed and his or her plan explained. This catchphrase is unusual in that it is characteristic of a type of character rather than a single person. The catchphrase may feature slight variations, like substituting "meddling" with "pesky" or including Scooby Doo himself ("And your dog!")
• "And now for something completely different." - John Cleese in Monty Python's Flying Circus
• "And that's the bottom line, 'cause Stone Cold said so!" Stone Cold Steve Austin
• "And that's the way it is..." - Walter Cronkite
• "Arcadia, Hasshin!" meaning "Arcadia, lift off or full speed ahead" Captain Harlock.
• "Are we having fun yet?" - Comic character Zippy the pinhead
• "Are you free?" - Captain Peacock on Are You Being Served, to various department store workers
• "Are you sitting comfortably?" BBC Radio Children's Hour.
• "As cool as the other side of the pillow." - sportscaster Stuart Scott on ESPN
• "As your attorney, I advise you to [do something]" - Dr. Gonzo to Raoul Duke several times in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• "Asshole!" - Oscar LeRoy of "Corner Gas"
• "'Atsa one spicy meata ball!" -US TV advertisement for Alka Seltzer
• "Attica! Attica!" - Al Pacino as Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon and, later, John Travolta as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever
• "Ay-carumba!" - Bart Simpson
• "Ayyyyyyy!" - Henry Winkler as The Fonz on Happy Days

• "Backbackbackbackback...Gone!" - Sportscaster Chris Berman, describing a home run in a baseball highlight
• "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" - a misquotation from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, appears this way in Blazing Saddles
• "Be seeing you." Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner, Danger Man)
• "Be vewy vewy quiet." - Elmer Fudd
• "Beam me up, Scotty!" - attributed to Captain Kirk in Star Trek (This was never actually uttered. The closest was in Star Trek IV, when Kirk said "Scotty, Beam Me Up.")
• "Beep Beep" - Road Runner in Warner Brothers' Road Runner cartoons.
• "Believe it...or not" Ripley's Believe It or Not series (book, TV show)
• "Big bucks, no whammies, big bucks, no whammies....STOP!" - Every contestant on Press Your Luck
• "Billions and billions" Carl Sagan (he never actually said it, but Johnny Carson did in his impression of Sagan)
• "Bite me, it's fun!" - Mystery Science Theater 3000
• "Bite my shiny metal ass!" - Bender the robot, Futurama
• "Bond. James Bond" - James Bond, played by various actors in the James Bond series of movies
• "Book 'em, Danno." - Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O
• "Boo-yah!" - sportscaster Stuart Scott on ESPN
• "Boom!" - John Madden
• "Brilliant!" - Brilliant Kid in "The Fast Show"
• "Bring it on" - George W. Bush
• "Bugger." - Unlucky Alf in "The Fast Show"
• "Bwwwwhhh..." (while shivering in disgust) - said by every character on The Simpsons whenever a character is the only one to realize something unpleasant or disturbing.

• "Calm down dear, it's a commercial." - Michael Winner on the Esure adverts.
• "Can you hear me, Mother?" (Sandy Powell, radio)
• "Can I do you now, sir?" ("Mrs Mopp", radio)
• "Caaaarlson and Peeters!" - Double H, Beyond Good and Evil
• "Charlie don't surf!" - Lieutenant Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall in the movie Apocalypse Now
• "Cheerio, America!" - Gordon Elliott
• "Chino? Ew!" - Summer Roberts, played by Rachel Bilson, on The O.C (Her character would go on to say "ew!" to many other things in the season; this was her defining statement)
• "Chocolate Milk, Think NesQuik!" - Nesquik Bunny from Nesquik.
• "Cleans like a white tornado!" - longtime slogan of Ajax cleanser.
• "Come on down!", followed by "You're the next contestant on The Price is Right" - said by announcer Johnny Olson and successors Rod Roddy and Rich Fields. The Price is Right is a game show hosted by Bob Barker
• "Come on, Snowy" - Tintin from The Adventures of Tintin.
• "Come up and see me some time..." - Mae West
• "Could be a duffer." - David Dickinson
• "Crikey!" - Steve Irwin
• "Crocs rule!" - Steve Irwin
• "Crumbs, Chief!" - Penfold in Danger Mouse.
• "Crapface" - Homestar Runner
• "Cuchi-Cuchi!" - Charo

• "Danger, danger, danger." - Steve Irwin
• "Danger, Will Robinson!" - The Robot from Lost in Space
• "Dangerously cheesy!" - Chester Cheetah from Frito Lay's Cheetos.
• "Definitely." - Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man.
• "The devil made me do it." - Flip Wilson as "Geraldine" on The Flip Wilson Show.
• "D'oh!" - Homer Simpson
• "Did I do that?" - Jaleel White as Steve Urkel on Family Matters
• "Dis is da mighty Favog. Talk ta me!" - The mighty Favog, character on the Jim Henson - Frank Oz puppet series Gorch, appearing on Saturday Night Live during the 1975-1976 season.
• "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" - Al Michaels, reporting during the Miracle on Ice^*
• "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto" - Styx, from the song "Mr. Roboto"
• "Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers" - US conceptual comedy group, the Firesign Theater
• "Don't have a cow, man!" - Bart Simpson
• "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" - based on a quotation from philosopher Eric Voegelin
• "Don't mention the war!" - Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers
• "Don't question me." - Joanna Lumley as Patsy Stone on Absolutely Fabulous
• "Don't panic! Don't panic!" - Corporal Jones in "Dad's Army", while panicking (also famously "Don't panic, Mr. Mainwaring!")
• "Drat and double drat!" - Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races
• "Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!" - Father Jack in "Father Ted"
• "Dumbass!" - Red Forman, the father on US TV show That '70s Show
• "During the war..." - Uncle Albert in "Only Fools and Horses"
• "Dy-no-mite!" - Jimmie Walker as J.J. Evans, Good Times

• "Eat my goal!" - Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge in The Day Today (The phrase was only used once on the show, but has entered British national consciousness through endless playground repeating, and through being sampled by the techno music group Collapsed Lung on a single that used the phrase as its title.)
• "Eat my shorts!" - Bart Simpson
• "Everybody Wang Chung tonight" - song "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung
• "Elvis has left the building" - Al Dvorin announcement over public address after Elvis Presley concert to induce fans to leave
• "ET phone home!" - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial from the eponymous movie by Steven Spielberg
• "Et tu Brute?" - Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare's play of the same name.
• "Excellent..." - C. Montgomery Burns of The Simpsons. Said with a characteristically drawn out "E".
• "Everyone knew her as Nancy" - Paul McCartney?, lyrics to Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles
• "Exit, stage left!" - Snagglepuss, cartoon character of Hanna-Barbera
• "EXTERMINATE!" - the Daleks of Doctor Who

• "F.A.B." - acknowledgement signal in Thunderbirds
• "Fascinating." - Mr. Spock in Star Trek
• "Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy night." Bette Davis in All About Eve (not "a bumpy ride" like widely believed)
• "Feh" - InuYasha from InuYasha
• "Feck!" - Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted
• "Follow your nose!" - Toucan Sam from Froot Loops
• "From the mountains to the ocean, from the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California - good evening." - the late Jerry Dunphy's original opening phrase during KNXT's "The Big News" program aired in Los Angeles in the 1960's. Later in his career, he dumped the first six words of this opener.

• "G'day, mate!" - Mick "Crocodile" Dundee, Australian film character portrayed by Australian actor Paul Hogan
• "Gentlemen, start your engines!" - Indianapolis 500
• "Gentleman, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"* Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove
• "Get away from her, you bitch!" - Sigourney Weaver as Lt. Ellen Ripley in the movie Aliens
• "Get away from me kid, you're bothering me" - US movie star W. C. Fields
• "Get me out of here, Mr. Wizard!" - Tooter Turtle, from various W. Watts Biggers television cartoons
• "Get OUT!" - Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine from Seinfeld
• "Get the butter" - Paul, played by Marlon Brando in the movie Last Tango in Paris
• "Get'm up, Scout" - Tonto, the Lone Ranger's Indian sidekick on the US TV show.
• "Giddy up!" - Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld
• "Giggity giggity giggity!" - Glen Quagmire from Family Guy
• "GIT-R-DONE!" - US stand-up comic Larry the cable guy
• "Go ahead, make my day."^* - Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact
• "Go, go, Gadget ....!" - Inspector Gadget (TV Character). This is how his "gadgets" would be turned on as in, "Go, go, Gadget copter!" for his propeller/helicopter hat.
• "Go on go on go on go on go on go on go on" - Mrs Doyle in Father Ted
• "God'll get you for that, Walter!" - Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay in Maude
• "Ga-aaaaalllleee!" (Golly!) - Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle in The Andy Griffith Show and its spinoff, Gomer Pyle, USMC
• "Good day, eh?" -The McKenzie Brothers, from Canadian TV show, Second City Television
• "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America, from border to border and coast to coast, and all the ships at sea." - American journalist and columnist Walter Winchell
• "Good Grief!" - Charlie Brown
• "Good moaning." - Officer Crabtree in 'Allo 'Allo
• "Good morning, Viet Naaaaaaaaaaaam!" Robin Williams in Good Morning Viet Nam
• "Good news, everyone!" - Professor Hubert Farnsworth in Futurama
• "Good night, John Boy" - from The Waltons
• "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!" - Jimmy Durante
• "Goodnight, you princes of Maine. You kings of New England." - Michael Caine as Dr. Wilbur Larch in "The Cider House Rules"
• "Great Guardians!" - Green Lantern Hal Jordan
• "Great Rao!" - The pre-Crisis Superman
• "Great Caesar's ghost!" - editor Perry White in Superman comic books.
• "Great Scott!" - Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy
• "Greed is good" -Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street
• "Groovy" - Bruce Campbell as Ash in Army of Darkness and used in Duke Nukem 3D
• "Grreat!/Niice!/Coool!" - Louis Balfour in "The Fast Show"

• "Ha Ha!" - Nelson Muntz in The Simpsons
• "Haaa. I Kill Me." - Alf from Alf
• "Harm can come to a young lad like that!" - Peter Sellers as Bluebottle in the Goons
• "H'Arsenal!" - Eric Morecambe (originally a quiz answer disguised as a cough, thereafter a random interjection)
• "Hasta la vista, baby." - The Terminator,
• "Have mercy!" - Uncle Jesse, Full House
• "He could go all the way!" - Howard Cosell (later Chris Berman) (describing an American football player running for a touchdown with no defenders near him)
• "He's fallen in the water!" - Spike Milligan as Little Jim in the Goons
• "He likes it! Hey Mikey!" - from 1970s US television advertisements for Life cereal
• "He look...like a man" - Miss Swan, a character on Mad TV
• "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" - Exclamation of Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss.
• "Heeeeeeeeerrrreeee's Johnny!" - Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show and made famous outside of the US by Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in the movie The Shining
• "Hello, good evening, and welcome." - David Frost, British TV presenter. (He later changed "evening" to "morning" when presenting on breakfast TV)
• "Hello, houseguests. It's Julie." - Julie Chen, in a customary greeting on Big Brother (USA)
• "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" - Inigo Montoya played by Mandy Patinkin in the movie The Princess Bride
• "Hello Mum I'm on the telly" - Esure adverts.
• "Hello... Newman." - Jerry to Newman on Seinfeld
• "Hello-o-o Nurse!" - The Warner Brothers (and Sister), from Animaniacs.
• "Help control the pet population. Have your dog or cat spayed or neutered." - Bob Barker on The Price Is Right
• "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!" - from Laugh-In
• "Here we go!" - Mario, from Super Mario
• "He's dead, Jim." - Dr. McCoy on Star Trek
• "He's no fun, he fell right over" - US conceptual comedy group Firesign Theatre
• "Hey, lady! Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaady!" - US comedian Jerry Lewis
• "Hey Hey!" - Krusty the Klown from The Simpsons
• "Hey, hey, hey!" - Bill Cosby as "Fat Albert"
• "Hey HEY hey!" - Dwayne Nelson (played by Haywood Nelson) on What's Happening.
• "Hey, How about a nice Hawaiian Punch!" - Punchy from Hawaiian Punch.
• "HEY ABBOTT!" - Comedian Lou Costello, directed at partner Bud Abbott
• "Hi Diddily-Ho" - Ned Flanders from The Simpsons
• "Hi ho Silver, away!" - US TV cowboy character the Lone Ranger
• "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl." - Larry on US tv show Newhart, portrayed by William Sanderson
• "Hi-keeba!" - Mystery Science Theater 3000, accompanying a karate chop or other martial act or commotion
• "Ho Ho Ho" - Santa Claus
• "Holy cow!" - Baseball announcers Phil Rizzuto and Harry Caray, independently
• "Holy crap!" - Strong Bad
• "Holy _____, Batman!" - An exclamation of Robin from the Batman television series. The word after "Holy" was different in every episode, depending on plot circumstances. Examples range from "Holy popcorn, Batman!" to "Holy contributing to the delinquency of minors, Batman!"
• "Houston, we have a problem." - Tom Hanks as Commander Jim Lovell in the motion picture Apollo 13 (This is a misquote of Jack Swigert's actual message to Mission Control, "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here," followed shortly by Lovell's message "Houston, we've had a problem.")
• "How am I doing?" - Ed Koch while he was mayor
• "How 'bout that!" - Baseball announcer Mel Allen
• "How long was I out?" - Latin Lover SCAN
• "How rare." - Weebl and Bob
• "How rude!" - Stephanie Tanner played by Jodie Sweetin on Full House
• "How sweet it is!" - Jackie Gleason
• "How you doin'?" - Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani on Friends, intended as a pick-up line.
• "How queer!" - Arthur Atkinson in "The Fast Show"

• "I am Erica Kane!" - Erica Kane, played by Susan Lucci on All My Children
• "I am not a crook." - President Richard Nixon on his involvement in Watergate
• "I am not a number, I am a free man!" - Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner TV series.
• "I am outta here!" - Dennis Miller
• "I am unanimous in this!" - Mrs Betty Slocombe, played by Mollie Sugden, on Are You Being Served TV series
• "I am your father!" - Darth Vader (voiced by actor James Earl Jones) in
• "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." - from US television advertisements for Alka-Seltzer
• "I coulda been a contender" - Terry Malloy, played by Marlon Brando in the movie On the Waterfront
• "I didn't really do it" - Ivan Dobsky, the meat packer murderer from Monkey Dust, followed by a reason why he admitted to the crime, usually some hideous form of torture.
• "I did not...have...sexual...relations...with that woman...Miss Lewinsky." - President Bill Clinton
• "I don't get no respect." - Rodney Dangerfield (and Jabberjaw)
• "I don't believe it!" - Victor Meldrew in BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave
• "I hate the itching. But I don't mind the swelling..." - David Letterman
• "I have a cunning plan." - Baldrick (Tony Robinson) in Blackadder
• "I have the power!" He-Man from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, right after transforming.
• "I like you. And when Eric Von Zipper likes someone, they stay liked." - Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) in various '60s beach-party movies
  • "Eric Von Zipper adores you. And when Eric Von Zipper adores somebody, they stay adored." - alternate version
• "I know nothing! Nothing!" Sergeant Schultz (John Banner), from Hogan's Heroes
• "I love it when a plan comes together." - Hannibal Smith (played by George Peppard) on The A-Team
• "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" - Lieutenant Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall in the movie Apocalypse Now
• "I pity the fool!" - Mr. T
• "I see dead people" - Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense
• "I tawt I tawt a puddy tat!" - Tweety Pie.
• "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." - Rick's last lines in "Casablanca"
• "I tought I taw a putty tat" - Tweety Bird, usually referring to Sylvester the cat. Always followed up by "I did! I did taw a putty tat!"
• "I want that one" - Matt Lucas as 'disabled' Andy in Little Britain after being asked which item he wants whilst shopping or browsing for a library book, and choosing things at random without looking what they are.
• "I'd buy that for a dollar!" - A catchprase from Robocop's fictional world.
• "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." - Johnnie Cochran during closing arguments in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
• "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy" Steve Smith as Red Green on The Red Green Show after building one of his inventions on handy-man corner.
• "If you build it, they will come" - the mysterious voice to Kevin Costner in the movie Field of Dreams
• "If you smell... what The Rock... is cookin'!" - The Rock
• "I'll be back." - The Terminator^*, later becoming actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's trademark one-liner in subsequent movies
• "I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog too." -- Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz ^*
• "I'll harm you!" (spoken in a dweebish voice) - Stinky (played by Joe Besser), a neighborhood brat dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, in The Abbott and Costello Show
• "I'll splat 'em Uncle Scooby" - Scrappy Doo
• "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. In parody, often erroneously preceded by "Dammit Jim!", which of course was never heard on the original Star Trek.
• "I'm a laydee" - Emily Howard from Little Britain
• "I'm Buster Bunny" (Buster Bunny) and "I'm Babs Bunny" (Babs Bunny) - Buster and Babs Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures.
• "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not! - Chevy Chase as the "newscaster" of the Weekend Update segment of NBC's Saturday Night Live
• "I'm free!" - John Inman in Are You Being Served (the feed line is "Are you free, Mr Humphries?")
• "I'm glad you asked me that question." - Jim Hacker in "Yes, Minister"
• "I'm gonna eat you little fishie/chickie" - The Cat's taunting song in Red Dwarf before playing with the food.
• "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." - Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in "The Godfather"
• "I'm Gumby, dammit!" - Eddie Murphy as Gumby on the US TV program Saturday Night Live
• "I'm hunting wabbits! Heh heh heh heh heh." - Elmer Fudd
• "I'm Jon Swoon!" - Monkey Dust
• "I'm Julian, and this is my friend Sandy!" - Kenneth Williams in Round the Horne
• "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
• "I'm not fat, I'm just big boned" - Eric Cartman in South Park
• "I'M READY!" - Spongebob Squarepants
• "I'm Rick James, bitch!" - Dave Chappelle as Rick James, Chappelle's Show
• "I'm smaaarter than the average bear!" - Yogi Bear
• "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." - HAL 9000 in ^*
• "I'm so sorry, he's from Barcelona!" - Basil Fawlty about Manuel in Fawlty Towers
• "I'm the only gay in this village!" - Daffyd Thomas on Little Britain
• "I'm walkin' here!"* - Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy
• "Is that a chicken joke?!" Jo Anne Worley on "Laugh-In"
• "I'm waaiiting!" ((Sonic)) the hedgehog.
• "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" - Mae West
• "Is that your final answer?" - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (UK and US versions)
• "Isn't that special?" - Church Lady, as played by Dana Carvey in Saturday Night Live
• "It all depends what you mean by ..." - C.E.M. Joad, philosopher broadcaster.
• "It stinks!" - Jay Sherman, animated protagonist of animated US TV show The Critic, as a response to various satirical treatments of movie scenes, during the opening credits.
• "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood..." - Mr. Rogers, aka the late Fred Rogers, on the PBS television show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• "It's clobberin' time!" - The Thing, aka Ben Grimm, of the Fantastic Four comic books
• "It's-a me, Mario!" - Super Mario
• "It depends what the definition of is is - misquotation of the grand jury testimony of US President Bill Clinton on August 17, 1998 during the Starr investigation.
• "It's a gift...and a curse" - Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk on Monk, referring to his obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• "It's deep and I don't think it's playable." - Keith Olbermann, calling a home run on SportsCenter 1992-97
• "It's gotta be the shoes." - Spike Lee from Nike Air Jordan commercials.
• "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." - "Mother Nature" from Chiffon margarine commercials.
• "I've fallen and I can't get up!" - Mrs. Fletcher, from the LifeCall Personal Emergency Response Systems commercials
• "I've got a bad feeling about this..." - various characters in the Star Wars series of films

• "Jinkies!" - Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo cartoon series
• "Just say no." - U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan, spearheading her anti-drug campaign

• "Keep your stick on the ice." - Steve Smith as Red Green on The Red Green Show
• "Kiss my grits!" - Flo on Alice
• "Klaatu, barada, nikto!" - Alien Klaatu's message to robot Gort to not destroy the human race, delivered posthumously by 'Helen Benson', in the US science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still.

• "Leapin' lizards!" - comic strip character Little Orphan Annie
• "Leggo my Eggo!" - advertising phrase used in the sale of Eggo frozen waffles since the 1960s.
• Let me at 'em Uncle Scooby" - Scrappy Doo
• "Let's play two!" - Ernie Banks
• "Let's see what you could have won!" Jim Bowen in Bullseye.
• "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get." Tom Hanks as the title character in Forrest Gump
• "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." Macdonald Carey, intoning the tagline on every episode of Days of Our Lives since 1966.
• "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once" - Michelle of the resistance, in 'Allo 'Allo. Pronounced "Lissern varry carfully, Ah shall say zis only wernce"
• "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" - various cast members of US TV show Saturday Night Live, at end of first sketch, before the opening credits
• "Live long and prosper." - Mr. Spock on Star Trek, and every Vulcan since.
• "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls" - from Laugh-In
• "Lookin' good!" - Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez on Chico and the Man
• "Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaiiin!" - Team Rocket, the villains of the Pokémon Anime. Used every time Team Rocket has failed at a plan and is invariably sent flying into the distance.
• "Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit..." -- Steve McCrosky (Lloyd Bridges) in the movie Airplane This would be followed by a drug of some kind. "Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue."
• "Luvvly Jubbly!" - Del Boy in "Only Fools and Horses"

• "Make it so." - Captain Picard
• "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" - Eve Plumb as "Jan Brady" on The Brady Bunch*
• "Master of my domain" - Jerry Seinfeld
• "May the Force be with you!" - Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Sir Alec Guiness in the movie Star Wars
• "Missed it by that much." - Maxwell Smart, Control Agent 86, as played by Don Adams in Get Smart
• "Mission Accomplished" - George W. Bush
• "Most illogical" - Mr. Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy in the TV series Star Trek
• "Move it, move it, move it!" - Sergeant Carter (Frank Sutton) in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C, later mimicked by Captain Harris (G.W. Bailey) in the Police Academy series
• "Mr. Anderson..." - Agent Smith addressing Neo throughout the Matrix series
• "Mrs. Peel, We're Needed" - From The Avengers; Heard or rather seen in almost every color episode with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
• "My name is Micah Wright. I'm a former Army Ranger." - Micah Wright
• "My name's Bond. James Bond." - James Bond
• "My, Oh, My!" - Dave Niehaus, Seattle Mariners broadcaster, used when a great or unexpected play is performed, or a home run hit. Also used by fellow Mariners broadcasters Rick Rizzs and Ron Fairly

• "Naff off!" - Fletcher in "Porridge"
• "Nanoo, nanoo" - Robin Williams as Mork from Ork in Mork and Mindy
• "Nice to see you, to see you - nice!" - Bruce Forsyth
• "Need some wood?" George W. Bush during the second U.S. presidential election debate 2004
• "No, no, no, no, no...yes!" - Jim Trott in "The Vicar of Dibley"
• "No offence!" - No Offence in "The Fast Show"
• "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" - British TV comedy group Monty Python
• "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!" - Bart Simpson on Butterfinger commercials.
• "No Problem!" - ALF
• "No relation!" - Buster and Babs Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures
• "No wire hangers EVER!" - Faye Dunaway, playing Joan Crawford in the movie Mommie Dearest
• "Norm!" - a loud collective cry from patrons and employees to Norm Peterson, George Wendt's character in the sitcom Cheers, when he'd enter the bar
• "Not that there's anything wrong with that." - Jerry Seinfeld
• "Not The One. Not The One." - Zathras, character on Babylon 5 TV show
• "Nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more" - Eric Idle from Monty Python

• "O-tay!" - Buckwheat in the Our Gang comedies. Later spoofed by Eddie Murphy on the US TV program Saturday Night Live
• "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" - Rick the bartender, played by Humphrey Bogart in the movie Casablanca
• "Of course!" - Rupert Giles played by Anthony Stewart Head in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, said whenever he reaches a conclusion about something.
• "Of course you realize this means WAR!" - Groucho Marx in Duck Soup, later adapted by Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and other Looney Tunes characters, always after being insulted three times.
• "Oh, bother." - Winnie the Pooh's typical expression when things are not going well
• "Oh, boy..." - Samuel Beckett (played by Scott Bakula) in Quantum Leap
• "Oh, FECK!" - Father Ted, played by Dermot Morgan
• "Oh, Matron!" Kenneth Williams again, this time in Carry On films, to Hattie Jacques
• "Oh...my...Gawd!" - Janice, recurring character in Friends.
• "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" - "You bastards!" - Stan and Kyle in South Park
• "Oh right, yeah." - Father Dougal in "Father Ted"
• "Oh, Yeah!" - Kool-Aid Man from Kool-Aid.
• "Ooh...I'm being ha-RASS-ed!" - Frank Spencer (Michael Crawford) in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
• "Okay, Devious, Don't Move!" - Michael Palin in Monty Pythons Flying Circus
• "OK, I love-ya, Bye-bye!" - Mindy Sadlier from Animaniacs.
• "Okilie Dokilie" - Ned Flanders from The Simpsons

• "Permission to speak, sir." - Corporal Jones in Dad's Army
• "Pine Valley isn't exactly the corner of Hollywood and Vine." - Erica Kane on All My Children. Originally said in the show's first episode, it has become oft-quoted in flashback sequences and later in Erica's life.
• "Play it again, Sam." - attributed to Rick the bartender in the movie Casablanca. Actually spoken in the Marx Brothers comedy A Night in Casablanca.
• "Presented for your approval..." - US TV host Rod Serling on the Twilight Zone
• "Pretty sneaky, sis." - from 1970s US television advertisements for the game Connect Four

• "Que?" - Manuel in "Fawlty Towers"

• "Read my lips; no new taxes" - US president George H. W. Bush
• "Release the hounds" - Mr. Burns from The Simpsons
• "Resistance is futile" - The Borg in Star Trek
• "Rosebud!" - mysterious last word of Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles' movie, Citizen Kane

• "Satisfactory. Most satisfactory!" - Doctor Beaker in Supercar
• "Say good night, Dick." "Good night, Dick." Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Laugh-In
• "Say good night, Gracie." "Good night, Gracie." George Burns and Gracie Allen, The Burns and Allen Show
• "Say 'ello to my l'il fren!'" - Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino in the movie Scarface
• "Say the secret woid and the duck comes down" - Groucho Marx, on You Bet Your Life
• "Schwing!" - Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as Wayne and Garth in Wayne's World
• "Scooby-dooby-doo!" - Scooby Doo. Usually howled at the end of every episode.
• "Screw you guys, I'm going home." - Cartman in South Park
• "Seacrest...OUT!" - Ryan Seacrest, American Idol and On-Air with Ryan Seacrest
• "See the USA in your Chevrolet..." Dinah Shore singing this title tune as part of a series of live Chevrolet television commercials in her show, The Dinah Shore Show
• "Serenity now!" - Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza on Seinfeld
• "Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n Roll" - Ian Dury
• "Shazam!" - comic character Captain Marvel
• "Shazbat!" - Robin Williams as Mork from Ork, Mork and Mindy
• "(Shhhh!) Be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits! HAaAaAaAa!" - Elmer Fudd
• "Shaza-u-m!" - Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle in The Andy Griffith Show and its spinoff, Gomer Pyle, USMC
• "Shoes for industry!" "Shoes for the dead!" - US conceptual comedy group The Firesign Theater
• "Show me the money!" - Tom Cruise as the title character in Jerry Maguire
• "Shut it!" - Detective Inspector Jack Regan, The Sweeney
• "Shut up, Eccles!" - Eccles from The Goon Show
• "Sit on it!" - rude (but broadcast-acceptable) insult from '70s TV sitcom Happy Days (usually directed to Anson Williams's character, Potsie)
• "Skip to the end!" - Simon Pegg as Tim Bisley in Spaced
• "S.I.G." ("Spectrum is green") - acknowledgement signal in Captain Scarlet
• "Simply en fuego." - sportscaster Dan Patrick on SportsCenter
• "Slaaaaaammm dunk!" the late Los Angeles Lakers announcer "Chick" Hearn
• "So fetch!" - Gretchen Wieners, played by Lacey Chabert, in the movie Mean Girls. Her "friend" told her later "Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen. It's not going to happen."
• "Sock it to me," followed by a bucket of water to the face, Laugh-In
• "Sorry about that, Chief!" - Maxwell Smart, Control Agent 86, as played by Don Adams in Get Smart
• "Spe-e-ew!" - Skippy Squirrel from Animaniacs
• "Spoon!" - Comic character the Tick
• "Stella!!" - Stanley Kowalski, played by Marlon Brando in the movie A Streetcar Named Desire
• "Stifle yourself!" - Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker on All in the Family
• "Stone me, what a life!" - Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour
• "Stop messin' about!" (nasal) - Kenneth Williams in Hancock's Half Hour and elsewhere
• "Stupid boy!" - Captain Manwaring about Frank Pike in Dad's Army ("A Stupid Boy" is also the title of series creator Jimmy Perry's autobiography.)
• "Suit you, sir" - Paul Whitehouse and Mark Williams as the Suit-You Tailors in The Fast Show
• "Super-de-duper!" - children's TV show character Barney the Purple Dinosaur;
• "Surf or fight"- Lieutenant Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall in the movie Apocalypse Now
• "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" - Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle in The Andy Griffith Show and its spinoff, Gomer Pyle, USMC
• "Survey says!" -- Spoken by the host, Richard Dawson on the game show Family Feud to reveal the answer.
• "Sweet ____ of ____!" - (i.e. "Sweet Lion of Zion!") cartoon character Hermes Conrad of the animated series Futurama
• "Sweetie darling." - Jennifer Saunders as Edina Monsoon on Absolutely Fabulous

• "Ta ta ta ta da DAAAAA! PUPPY POWER!" - Scrappy Doo
• "Take care of yourself, and each other." - Jerry Springer, first as a newscaster at WLTW-TV, then on The Jerry Springer Show
• "Tell me about the rabbits again, George!" - Abominable snowman Hugo and a variety of dim-witted characters from various Looney Tunes cartoons, based on rabbit-obsessed simpleton Lennie, who never quite says this, in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men
• "Th-Th-Th-That's all, folks!" - Porky Pig
• "Thank you very much" (spoken in a timid, accented voice) - comic Andy Kaufman's shy foreign stage persona
• "That's a damn fine cup of coffee." - Kyle MacLachlan as Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks
• "That's a terrible word... [word]" - Lois Griffin from Family Guy
• "That's a winner!" - Baseball broadcaster Jack Buck, spoken after St. Louis Cardinals victories
• "That's it!" - Pesto the Pigeon from Animaniacs.
• "That's more meat for me" - Liz Ellis, Australian Netballer.
• "The horror! The horror!" - Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando in the movie Apocalypse Now
• "The money was just resting in my account!" - Father Ted in "Father Ted"
• "The plane! The plane!" - Hervé Villechaize as Tattoo in Fantasy Island
• "The power is yours!" - Captain Planet. Always said right before he disappears into the rings of the Planeteers.
• "The tribe has spoken." - Jeff Probst on Survivor
• "There can be only one!" - the Highlander films and series.
• "There you go." - McCloud (played by Dennis Weaver)
• "There you go again." - former President Ronald Reagan during the 1984 Presidential debates held with his opponent, Walter Mondale
• "There's no place like home..." -- Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie). Often repeated as an incantation against an unpleasant situation.
• "They think it's all over, ...it is now!" - Kenneth Wolstenholme commentating on the 1966 World Cup final^*
• "They don't like it up'em. They do not like it up'em." - Corporal Jones (played by Clive Dunn) in the British sitcom Dad's Army
• "They pelted us with rocks and garbage" - self-conscious catch phrase used satirically by David Letterman on Late Night with David Letterman.
• "They're gr-r-reat!" - Tony the Tiger from Frosted Flakes.
• "This is an exhibition, not a competition, please folks - no wagering." - David Letterman before "Stupid Pet Tricks"
• "This is nothing!" - Stanley Motts in Wag the Dog, after anything goes wrong, often followed by a humorous anecdote about a time something went worse.
• "This is true." - Mabel Thomas (a character on What's Happening, played by Mabel King), said in an attempt to impart her wisdom on her children.
• "This looks like a job for Superman." Clark Kent (the old Superman cartoon series).
• "This time, next year, we'll be millionaires!" - Del Boy in "Only Fools and Horses"
• "This was no boating accident" - erroneously but commonly quoted variation of a protest by Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss, in the movie Jaws. The actual quote is "Well, this is not a boat accident!"
• "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."
• "Thufferin' thuccotash" - animated character Sylvester the cat
• "To be the man, you gotta BEAT the man!" - Ric Flair
• "To boldly go where no man has gone before" - opening of Star Trek TV series
• "To the moon, Alice!" - Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners
• "Top of the world, ma!" -US actor James Cagney in movie White Heat (1949)
• "Transform and Roll out!" - Optimus Prime in Transformers
• "Tune in tomorrow — same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!" - The narrator from the Batman television series. Always said at the cliffhanger end of an episode where Batman and Robin risk death in a trap set by the featured villain.

• "U can't touch this!" - US hip-hop musician MC Hammer
• "Uma…Oprah, Oprah…Uma." - David Letterman while hosting the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony.
• "Up, up and away!" - Superman (the old cartoon series)
• "Up your nose with a rubber hose." - John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino, as well as the other "Sweathogs", on ''Welcome Back, Kotter
• "Use the force, Luke" -- Star Wars

• "Verrrrrryyyy interesting." - Arte Johnson on Laugh-In
• "Victory is mine!" - Stewie Griffin on Family Guy (or King Arthur in the Black Knight scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
• "Vodka martini, shaken not stirred" - James Bond

• "Watch it, sucka!" - Aunt Esther (LaWanda Page) from Sanford and Son
• "Watch my chops!" - Corneil from Corneil and Bernie.
• "We are… two wild and crazy guys!" (spoken in a faux Czechoslovakian accent) - the Festrunk Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin) from Saturday Night Live
• "Well, excuuuuse me!" - Steve Martin
• "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" - Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel (note: "nice", not the mis-remembered "fine")
• "Well, thank you very much, Jerry!" - Margo Leadbetter in "The Good Life"
• "We're doomed! Doomed!" - Private Frazer in "Dad's Army"
• "We're gonna need a bigger boat" - Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) in "Jaws"
• "What a country!" - Yakov Smirnoff
• "What are we gonna do tonight, Brain?" "The same thing we do every night, Pinky. TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!" - Pinky and the Brain
• "What are you eating today" - Arby's Oven Mitt from Arby's
• "What do you think of the show so far? - [throws voice] Rubbish!" - Eric Morecambe
• "What do you want?" Morden in Babylon 5
• "What me worry?" Alfred E. Neuman, mascot of Mad magazine
• "What is your major malfunction?" Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket
• "What we have here is a failure to communicate.", also as "What we've got here is... failure to communicate." - Strother Martin as "Captain, Road Prison 36" in Cool Hand Luke
• "What you see is what you get." - Flip Wilson as "Geraldine" on The Flip Wilson Show (see also WYSIWYG)
• "What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" - Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson in Diff'rent Strokes
• "What's it going to be then, eh?" - Alex, A Clockwork Orange
• "What's up, Doc?" - Bugs Bunny
• "Whazzup" - Budweiser ad campaign
• "Where's the Beef" - Clara Peller in commercials for Wendy's
• "When I say run, run!" - Doctor Who as played by Patrick Troughton
• "Where's me washboard?" - Arthur Atkinson in "The Fast Show"
• "Where's the outrage?" - 1996 U.S. presidential candidate Bob Dole
• "Which was nice..." - Patrick Nice in "The Fast Show"
• "Who are you?" Kosh in Babylon 5
• "Whoa!" - Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, in the movie "The Matrix". This cry of astonishment was included in most TV ads for the film. This catch phrase was first uttered by Joey Russo, played by Joey Lawrence, on Blossom.
• "WHOOMP, there it is." - Tag Team.
• "Why don'tcha come up and see me sometime" - US movie star Mae West
• "Why me? Why me all the time?" - Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) in Beach Blanket Bingo and other '60s beach-party movies
• "WHY YOU LITTLE...!" - Homer Simpson, just before strangling Bart
• "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should!" - in commercials in the 1950s and 1960s, for Winston cigarettes
• "Woah!" - Crash Bandicoot
• "Won't you be my neighbor?" - Mr. Rogers, aka the late Fred Rogers in PBS television's Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
• "Woo-hoo!" - Homer Simpson
• "WOOOOO!!" - Ric Flair
• "Worst. ... Ever." - Comic Book Guy, commenting on something that he didn't like (ex. episode, cross-over).
• "Would you like a jelly baby?" - Doctor Who as played by Tom Baker
• "Would you believe..." - Maxwell Smart, Control Agent 86, as played by Don Adams in Get Smart
• "Wowsers!" - Inspector Gadget
• "Wubba, Wubba, Wubba." - Downtown Julie Brown, MTV VJ.

• "Y'done good." - Joe Don Baker in Eischeid
• "Yabba-dabba-doo!" - Fred Flintstone
• "Yak Shamash" -Borat
• "Yeah, baby!" - Mike Myers as Austin Powers in the Austin Powers movies
• "Yeah, I know!" - Andy in "Little Britain"
• "Yes!" - Sportscaster Marv Albert after a successful basket.
• "...Yeessss..."Megatron in Beast Wars
• "Yes, minister." - Sir Humphrey in "Yes, Minister"
• "Ying tong iddle i po" - The Goons
• "Yippee-ki-yay, motherf**ker." - Bruce Willis as John McClane in the Die Hard movies
• "Yo Adrian!" - Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky
• "Yo Joe!" GI Joe
• "Yo quiero Taco Bell!" - Taco Bell Dog from Taco Bell
• "Yoink!" - said by every character on The Simpsons when they snatch something out of another character's hands.
• "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" - Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan
• "You are live on Channel 4 - please do not swear." - Davina McCall's customary greeting to the housemates on Big Brother (UK).
• "You are the weakest link. Goodbye!" - Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link (also George Gray on the syndicated version)
• "You bet your sweet bippy." - from Laugh-In
• "You better work!" - from the song "Supermodel (You Better Work)" by singer RuPaul. (Popular primarily in the gay community.
• "You cannot be serious!" - John McEnroe
• "You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Nathan Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson in the movie A Few Good Men
• "You can't see the join." - Eric Morecambe, alluding to Ernie Wise's fictional hairpiece.
• "You doidy rat!" -US actor James Cagney
• "You forgot Poland"- [[George W. Bush
• "You know you want me, baby!" - Crow T. Robot's choice for his catch phrase, from Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episode 822
• "You like me, you really like me!" - Sally Field after winning a second acting Academy Award for "Places in the Heart." What she actually said was, "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 in Saturday Night Live
• "You plonker/dipstick/wally!" - Del Boy in "Only Fools and Horses"
• "You silly moo!" - Alf Garnett to wife Else in Till Death Us Do Part
• "You silly twisted boy, you." - Peter Sellers as Hercules Grytpype-Thynne in the Goons
• "You sunk my battleship!" - from 1970s US television advertisements for the game Battleship
• "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?"^* - Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver
• "You will be assimilated." - The Borg in Star Trek
• "You wouldn't let it lie!" - Bob Mortimer in Vic Reeves' Big Night Out
• "You'll like it, not a lot, but you'll like it!" - magician Paul Daniels
• "You're deth-pecible." - Daffy Duck
• "You're fired." - Donald Trump in The Apprentice
• "You're gonna need a bigger boat" - police chief Martin Brody played by Roy Scheider in the movie Jaws
• "You're my wife now!" Papa Lazarou in The League Of Gentlemen television series
• "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) in The Italian Job^*
• "You're soaking in it!" - "Madge" (Jan Miner) from long-running US television advertisements for Palmolive
• "You've all done very well!" - valueless words of managerial encouragement from the doddering Young Mr. Grace in Are You Being Served
• "Your mission, should you choose to accept it" -

• "Zathras understand. No, Zathras not understand, but Zathras do. Zathras good at doings, not understandings." - Zathras, character in TV show Babylon 5
• "Zoinks!" - Shaggy in Scooby-Doo
• "Zooty zoot zoot!" - Supposed catch phrase of Rebo and Zootie, characters on TV show Babylon 5, played by US magicians Penn and Teller

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