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List Of Catch PhrasesThis is a list of catch phrases. Please make sure that anything you add to this page is a true catch phrase and not merely a famous quotation. A - "...a flask of weak lemon drink". From Fist of Fun. Included in every list of "What you will need for this week's hobby..." by hobby expert Simon Quinlank.
- "… a thousand points of light…" - delivered by George H. W. Bush, written by Peggy Noonan, possibly cribbed from H. G. Wells' novel Mr. Britling Sees It Through
- "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." - title card at the beginning of each Star Wars film
- "A minor setback." - Evil the Cat from Earthworm Jim.
- "Ah-one, and ah-two..." - Lawrence Welk, directing his musical performers on The Lawrence Welk Show
- "Ain't I a stinker?" - Bugs Bunny
- "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
- "ALVIN!!!" - David Seville, usually yelled in the Alvin and the Chipmunks series.
- "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" - Impressionist comic version of John Wayne's line from Hondo - "A man ought'a do what he thinks is best."
- "And away we go!" - Jackie Gleason on his television programs.
- "(And) it's goodnight from me..." - "And it's goodnight from him!" - Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker respectively in The Two Ronnies
- "And here's what's happening in your neck of the woods." - used by Al Roker on The Today Show to introduce the local weather report
- "And I would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" - Almost every villain from the Scooby-Doo cartoon series. Always said right after the villain's identity is revealed (usually by taking a mask off) 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 catch-phrase 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 now you know... The Rest of the Story." - Paul Harvey
- "And that's the bottom line, 'cause Stone Cold said so!" Stone Cold Steve Austin
- "And that's the way it is..." - Walter Cronkite
- "And until next week, the balcony is closed." - Ebert & Roeper
- "Are we having fun yet?" - 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
- "Asshole!" - Oscar LeRoy of Corner Gas and also Kevin Kline's character in the film A Fish Called Wanda (where it was said as "Asshoooooole!").
- "'Atsa one spicy meata ball!" - US TV advertisement for Alka Seltzer
- "Attica! Attica!" - Al Pacino as Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon, a reference to the Attica Prison riots
- "Ay ay ay!" (followed by various explanations in Spanish) - Bumblebee Man in The Simpsons
- "Ay-carumba!" - Bart Simpson
- "Aye yi yi yi yi!" - Alpha 5
- "Ayyyyyyy!" - Henry Winkler as The Fonz on Happy Days
B - "Baby got back!" - Sir Mix-A-Lot from the song of the same title.
- "Backbackbackbackback...Gone!" - Sportscaster Chris Berman, describing a home run in a baseball game
- "Back to the future!"- Dr. Emmett Brown
- "Badges! We don't need no stinkin' badges!" from the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The actual line was "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
- "Bam!" - chef Emeril Lagasse on his show on Food Network, used when adding an ingredient while cooking
- "Banana-slamma!!" - Donkey Kong in the Donkey Kong Country animated series
- "Banzai, Daniel-san!" - Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid
- "Be seeing you." Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner, Danger Man)
- "Be vewy vewy quiet; I'm hunting wabbits." - 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.")
- "Beef. It's what's for dinner." - Commercials advertisting beef as a meat choice.
- "Beep Beep" - Road Runner in Warner Brothers' Road Runner cartoons (actually "Mheep Mheep").
- "Believe it...or not" - Ripley's Believe It or Not series (book, TV show)
- "Big bucks, no whammies!!" - Contestants on Press Your Luck and Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck
- "Billions and billions" Carl Sagan (he never actually said it, but Johnny Carson did in his impression of Sagan)
- "Bite my shiny metal ass!" - Bender from Futurama
- "Blatherin' Blatherskite!" - Fenton Crackshell's magical phrase that transforms him into GizmoDuck in DuckTales.
- "Blistering barnacles!" - Captain Haddock from The Adventures of Tintin.
- "Bond. James Bond" - James Bond, played by various actors in the James Bond series of movies
- "Boogity! Boogity! Boogity!" - NASCAR Commentator and Legend Darrell Waltrip said at the moment when the green flag waves in a NASCAR race.
- "Book 'em, Danno." - Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O
- "Boo-yah!" - sportscaster Stuart Scott on ESPN, and Ron Stoppable on Disney's Kim Possible and Cyborg from the animated series Teen Titans
- "Boom!" - John Madden
- "BOOM BOOM!" - Basil Brush
- "Brain blast!" - Jimmy Neutron, following the camera zooming in through his head.
- "Brilliant!" - Guinness Stout commercials
- "Bring 'em on" - George W. Bush
- "Bring out your dead!" - Body collector in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- "Bugger." - Unlucky Alf in The Fast Show
- "Buh-za!" - Captain Crandall's battle cry in Teamo Supremo
- "But you don't have to take my word for it." - LeVar Burton in Reading Rainbow
- "By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!" - Captain Planet
C - "Can you hear me, Mother?" (Sandy Powell, radio)
- "Can you hear me now? Good." - Verizon Wireless
- "Can I do you now, sir?" ("Mrs Mopp", radio program It's That Man Again)
- "Cheap as chips" - David Dickinson
- "Cheerio, America!" - Gordon Elliott
- "Chi-ka!" - Skate Lad's battle cry in Teamo Supremo.
- "Chocolate Milk, Think NesQuik!" - Nesquik Bunny from Nesquik
- "Cleans like a white tornado!" - longtime slogan of Ajax cleanser.
- "Clive, what have you really been doing?" - Clive Pringle's wife on Monkey Dust. Clive often admits to a bizarre sexual practise.
- "Close the door!" - The patrons of Phil's, every week on Murphy Brown
- "Come on down!" - announcer Johnny Olson, and successors Rod Roddy and Rich Fields, on The Price is Right
- "Come on, Snowy" - Tintin from The Adventures of Tintin.
- "Come up and see me some time..." - Mae West
- "Computer says no." - Carol from Little Britain.
- "Cool beans!" - Gosalyn from Darkwing Duck
- "Could be a duffer." - David Dickinson
- "Cowabunga!" - The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (mainly Michaelangelo)
- "Cracks me up." - Eric Peterson as Oscar LeRoy on Corner Gas
- "Crandall, Brenda, and Hector, the governor needs you in his office; you are excused." - Mrs. Woolingantz excusing Teamo Supremo
- "Crikey!" - Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, and Monterey Jack from Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
- "Crocs rule!" - Steve Irwin
- "Cuchi-Cuchi!" - Charo
- "Curse you, Buzz Lightyear!" - Evil Emperor Zurg's defeat phrase in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
D - "_________'d!" - Strong Bad, in which the blank is usually filled by a bizarre method of killing. Usually used in Teen Girl Squad comics.
- "Danger, Will Robinson!" - The Robot from Lost in Space
- "Dangerously cheesy!" - Chester Cheetah from Frito Lay's Cheetos.
- "Definitely." - Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man.
- "DELETED!!" - Strong Bad deleting an e-mail he doesn't like.
- "The devil made me do it." - Flip Wilson as "Geraldine" on The Flip Wilson Show.
- "D'oh!" - Homer Simpson on The Simpsons
- "Did I do that?" - Jaleel White as Steve Urkel on Family Matters
- "Different strokes for different folks." - Sly & the Family Stone, from their 1968/1969 hit "Everyday People"
- "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" - Al Michaels, commentating during the Miracle on Ice*
- "Dodge this." - Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) in The Matrix
- "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 on The Simpsons
- "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" - based on a quotation from philosopher Eric Voegelin
- "Don't mention the war!" - John Cleese as 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!")
- "Don't play ball in the house!" - Carol Brady (Florence Henderson), on The Brady Bunch (She never actually says this)
- "Don't start forest fires!" - Smokey Bear from the United States Forest Service
- "Do you like scary movies?" - the serial killer in the Scream series
- "Drat and double drat!" - Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
- "Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!" - Father Jack in Father Ted
- "Dumbass!" - Red Forman (Kurtwood Smith), 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
E F G - "Gadzooks!" - Bobby Generic, the title character from Bobby's World
- "Garlic bread?" - Peter Kay's impression of his dad. Now found on t-shirts.
- "Ga-roovey!" - Earthworm Jim
- "G'day, mate!" - Mick "Crocodile" Dundee, Australian film character portrayed by Australian actor Paul Hogan
- "Gentlemen, start your engines!" - Auto Racing
- "Gentleman, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"* Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove
- "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 orrff moi laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarnd" - Farmer Palmer, a Viz character
- "Get OUT!" - Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine from Seinfeld
- "GET OVER HERE" - Scorpion in Mortal Kombat
- "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
- "Golly." - Gadget Hackwrench from Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.
- "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 from Peanuts
- "Good moaning." - Officer Crabtree in 'Allo 'Allo!
- "Good morning, Krusty crew!" - Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants.
- "Good morning, Viet Naaaaaaaaaaaam!" - Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam
- "Good news, everyone!" - Professor Hubert Farnsworth in Futurama
- "Good night, and good luck." - Edward R, Murrow's radio and TV signoff
- "Good night, thank you, and may your God go with you." - British comedian Dave Allen's traditional signoff
- "Good night, John Boy" - from The Waltons
- "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!" - Jimmy Durante
- "Good night, Chet." "Good night, David. And good night from all of us at NBC News." - David Brinkley and Chet Huntley on The Huntley-Brinkley Report.
- "Got milk?" - In a popular campaign pro milk all over the world (has become "Got ____?".
- "Great Caesar's ghost!" - editor Perry White in Superman comic books.
- "Great Galaxies!" - Hawkman
- "Great Gods!" - Darkseid
- "Great Golden Aura, amigos!" - Eldorado
- "Great Gotham!" - Batman
- "Great Guardians!" - Green Lantern Hal Jordan
- "Great Hera!" - Wonder Woman
- "Great Krypton!" - Superman
- "Great Lightning!" - Black Vulcan
- "Great Meteors!" - Green Lantern Hal Jordan
- "Great Neptune!" - Aquaman
- "Great Scott!" - Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy. Superman also often says this.
- "Great snakes!" - Tintin from The Adventures of Tintin
- "Great Wings of Mercury!" - The Flash
- "Greed is good" - Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street
- "Grreat!/Mmm...nice!/Wonnnderful!" - Jazz Club host Louis Balfour in The Fast Show
- "Guess Who?" - Woody Woodpecker
- "Gum-Gum _____!" - Monkey D. Luffy's battle cry in the One Piece manga and anime. The word after "Gum-Gum" was different depending on which weapon Luffy was mimicking. The basic one was "Gum-Gum Pistol!". Other examples range "Gum-Gum Whip!" and "Gum-Gum Cannon!".
H - "Ha! Ha!" - Nelson Muntz in The Simpsons
- "Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha!!" - Woody Woodpecker
- "Ha cha cha!" - Mortimer Mouse in the Mickey Mouse Works shorts. He usually says this when hitting on women.
- "Haaa. I Kill Me." - Alf from Alf
- "Hadoken!" - Ryu from Street Fighter
- "Hakuna matata!" - Timon & Pumbaa from The Lion King (and its spinoffs). Translated, it is Swahilian for "There are no concerns here," hence the song's line, "It means no worries."
- "H'Arsenal!" - Eric Morecambe (originally a quiz answer disguised as a cough, thereafter a random interjection)
- "Hasta la vista, baby." - The Terminator,
- "Have a break, Have a Kit-Kat" - UK TV commercial
- "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.
- "HEEEEEEEY, KIDS!!" - Binky the Clown from Garfield. In Garfield and Friends, he would modify his greeting to suit who it was he was greeting, such as "HEEEEEEEY, CAT!!"
- "Heeeeeeeeerrrreeee's Johnny!" - Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show and made famous outside 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. 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... Jerry." - Newman to Jerry on Seinfeld
- "Hello... Newman." - Jerry to Newman on Seinfeld
- "Hellooo Nurse!" - The Warner Brothers (and Sister), from Animaniacs.
- "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!" - from Laugh-In
- "Here comes the pain!" - Al Pacino, Carlito's Way
- "Here is your first subject. Go!" - Dick Clark, starting the Winner's Circle round on The $10,000 Pyramid
- "Here it is, your moment of Zen." - Jon Stewart's sign-off on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- "Here we go!" - Mario, from the Super Mario series.
- "He's dead, Jim." - Dr. McCoy on Star Trek
- "He's from Barcelona" - from any character on the show Fawlty Towers, used to explain waiter Manuel's odd behavior.
- "He's no fun, he fell right over" - US conceptual comedy group Firesign Theatre
- "He who Koops and runs away lives to Koop another day!" - Bowser Koopa in the Super Mario cartoons.
- "Hey, how're you doing?" - Standard introductory line for the Royal Canadian Air Farce's impression of Brian Mulroney
- "Hey, lady! Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaady!" - US comedian Jerry Lewis
- "Hey Hey!" - Krusty the Klown from The Simpsons
- "Hey! Hey!" - Baseball announcer Jack Brickhouse
- "Hey, hey, hey!" - Yogi Bear and 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
- "Hey, Moe!" - either of the other two of the Three Stooges
- "Hey now!" - Hank from the Larry Sanders Show
- "Hey, it's Old Man Jenkins!" - various characters in SpongeBob SquarePants
- "Hey terrorist! Terrorize this!" - Lisa in
- "Hi Diddily-Ho" - Ned Flanders from The Simpsons
- "Hi yo Silver, away!" - US TV cowboy character in the Lone Ranger
- "Hi, I'm Ed Winchester." - Ed Winchester in The Fast Show.
- "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl." - Larry (William Sanderson) referring introducing himself and his silent brothers on the tv show Newhart.
- "Hi-keeba!" - Mystery Science Theater 3000, accompanying a karate chop or other martial act or commotion
- "Hi, Mr. Man!" - Mindy Sadlier from Animaniacs.
- "Ho Ho Ho" - Santa Claus and Jabba the Hutt
- "Holy cow!" - Baseball announcers Phil Rizzuto and Harry Caray, independently
- "Holy crap!" - Strong Bad
- "Holy Hannah!" - several characters in the Marvel comics
- "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!"
- "Hoping your news is good news, I'm Roger Grimsby." - Newscaster Roger Grimsby's longtime signoff
- "Houba!" - Marsupilami
- "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 'bout that!" - Baseball announcer Mel Allen
- "How'm I doin'?" - Ed Koch, while he was mayor of New York City (1978-1989)
- "How rude!" - Stephanie Tanner played by Jodie Sweetin on Full House. This quote was also used by Jar-Jar Binks.
- "How sweet it is!" - Jackie Gleason
- "How ya diddlin'?" - useless warm-up man Bobby Chariot (Alexei Sayle). Usually followed by no audience reaction, prompting "bloody sod you then".
- "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 - "I am a genius! Hehehehehe!" - Hanamichi Sakuragi in the Slam Dunk anime (variations include: "I am basket-ball genius Hanamichi Sakuragi! Watch my heroic play!")
- "I am Col. Spigot... perhaps you've heard of me?" - Colonel Spigot's introductory phrase in TaleSpin.
- "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 serious, and don't call me Shirley." - Leslie Nielsen's doctor character in the movie Airplane! in response to the question: "Surely you can't be serious?"
- "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 The Empire Strikes Back
- "I AM ZIM!" - Zim from Invader Zim (Richard Steven Horvitz popularizd the catchphrase)
- "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." - from US television advertisements for Alka-Seltzer
- "Ice, ice, baby!" - Vanilla Ice
- "I coulda been a contender" - Terry Malloy, played by Marlon Brando in the movie On the Waterfront
- "I didn't get where I am today by..." - CJ, Reggie's boss in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, followed by any inexplicable action that Reggie has just performed.
- "I did not...have...sexual...relations...with that woman...Miss Lewinsky." - President Bill Clinton
- "I don't believe it!" - Victor Meldrew in BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave
- "I don't get no respect." - Rodney Dangerfield (and Jabberjaw)
- "I don't know how you did it, Gadget, but you did it." - The Chief, from Inspector Gadget
- "I don't know if that's such a good idea!" - Chuckie Finster, from Rugrats, usually said after Tommy Pickles mentions one of his ideas
- "I don't step on toes, Little John, I step on necks!" - Chuck Norris in Missing In Action III
- "I don't think so, Tim." - Al Borland (Richard Karn) on Home Improvement
- "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 have a bad feeling about this..." - any main character in each Star Wars episode
- "I hate Mondays..." - Garfield
- "I hate that hedgehog!" - Dr. Robotnik of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. He usually said this at the end of episodes of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, but also occasionally said it in the Saturday morning cartoon and the comic books.
- "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 have to know this stuff if I'm going to be a ________________ someday." - Jean from Teamo Supremo. Whenever she said this, she would have a different occupation in the blank.
- "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 like swords." - Fighter, 8-Bit Theater
- "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 love to dive around in it like a porpoise, and burrow through it like a gopher, and toss it up and let it hit me on the head!" - Scrooge McDuck, on swimming in his money bin.
- "I pity the fool!" - Mr. T
- "I put a shock to your system!" - Static in Static Shock
- "I see... dead people" - Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense
- "I think I took the wrong turn at Albuquerque" - Bugs Bunny
- "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'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 my wife is watching, I'll be coming straight home after the meeting." - Steve Smith as Red Green on The Red Green Show
- "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 know what you want, then your enemy will want it too." Christophe Lambert as Vercingetorix in Druids.
- "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 do it again as many times as I want!" - Pierre Tremblay in Ninja Champion
- "I'll get me coat." - Bloke in restaurant/pub on The Fast Show, right after realising he's just made a terrible blunder
- "I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog too." -- Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz *
- "I'll get you next time, Gadget, NEXT TIME!" - Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget.
- "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 nick anything, man! I'm a geezer, mate, I'm a little bit whoo, and a little bit whee, you know?" and countless variations - Dodgy guy from The Fast Show
- "I'll rip your bloody arms off" - Aunty Jack (played by Grahame Bond) from the Aunty Jack Show (Australian TV 1970's)
- "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 Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until next time." - Newscaster Bill Jorgensen's longtime signoff on WNEW-TV and WPIX
- "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 going ghost!" - Danny Phantom
- "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 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 dead Yet" - Old Dying Man in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- "I'm not fat, I'm big boned" - Garfield the cat, also Eric Cartman in South Park
- "I'M READY!" - SpongeBob SquarePants
- "I'm Rick James, bitch!" - Dave Chappelle as Rick James on the US TV program Chappelle's Show
- "I'm smaaarter than the average bear!" - Yogi Bear
- "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
- "In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight, Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!" - Green Lantern (Hal Jordan era)
- "I suppose that, by doing what you did, you only led it to the thing itself that made you do what you did..." - Wild Waters
- "Inconceivable!" - Wallace Shawn as Vizzini in The Princess Bride
- "Is that a chicken joke?!" Jo Anne Worley on Laugh-In
- "I'm the king of the world!" - Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in "Titanic"
- "I'm waiting!" - 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, in the French version, "answer" is replaced by "word")
- "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 depends on what your definition of 'is' is." - Bill Clinton in testimony about the Monica Lewinsky affair. Its catchphrase usage presumes the phrase to be comically legalistic and evasive.
- "It felt like the kick of a mule!" - several superheroes in Marvel comics after they received a strong blow
- "It is fate." - Christophe Lambert as Vercingetorix in the movie Druids. He says that to justify the massacres of war.
- "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 was on the line!" - John McEnroe
- "It's alive!" - Dr. Frankenstein beholding his awakening monster
- "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 a good thing." - lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, assessing any of her many accomplishments.
- "It's clobberin' time!" - The Thing (aka Ben Grimm) of the Fantastic Four comic books
- "It's-a me, Mario!" - Super Mario
- "It's a new car!" - The announcer on The Price Is Right, originally Johnny Olson, later Rod Roddy and Rich Fields
- "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 over, til its over" - Yogi Berra
- "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." - "Mother Nature" from Chiffon margarine commercials.
- "It's plungin' time!" - Dirk Drain-Head, Super Mario's favorite comic book superhero.
- "It's Shake 'n' Bake, and I helped!" - from a Shake 'n' Bake commercial, said by a little girl in a Southern accent.
- "It's uncanny!" - several characters in the Marvel comics
- "I've fallen and I can't get up!" - Mrs. Fletcher, from the LifeCall Personal Emergency Response Systems commercials
- "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 want to be a pirate!" - Guybrush Threepwood in the Monkey Island video games
- "I want to be caliph instead of the caliph!" - Iznogoud
- "I went to college!" - Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants. He says this when refusing to admit defeat
J K L - "Leapin' lasagna!" - Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
- "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 get dangerous!" - Darkwing Duck
- "Let's play two!" - Ernie Banks
- "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 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 (even after the actor's death).
- "Listen, kiddo. . ." Kim Hughes (Kathryn Hayes), As the World Turns
- "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. (The standard response is "Peace and long life.")
- "Look at me, look at me" - Kath (Jane Turner) normally to Kim (Gina Riley) in Kath and Kim
- "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 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."
- "Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaiiiiin!" - Team Rocket's phrase of defeat in the Pokmon anime. They usually say this when being blasted into the sky. In other manners of defeat, they occasionally modify the phrase.
- "Lucharan!" - often said on Mucha Lucha!, usually to start a wrestling match.
- "Luvvly Jubbly!" - Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses
M - "Make it so." - Captain Picard
- "Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity." - from the opening sequence of Ben Casey
- "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
- "Meka leka hai meka hiney-ho!" - Jambi on Peewee's Playhouse
- "M'enfin!" - Gaston Lagaffe (this untranslatable expression means "Oh, come on!" and "What the heck?" at the same time)
- "Meowth! That's right!" - Meowth's tag line for Team Rocket's motto in the Pokmon anime
- "Mine?! Mine!?" - seagulls, "Finding Nemo"
- "Missed it by that much." - Maxwell Smart, Control Agent 86, as played by Don Adams in Get Smart
- "Mmmmm ... ____!" - Homer Simpson on The Simpsons (then he says any food or drink's name he just heard showing pleasure and appetite)
- "Mmmmmmrrrrh." - Marge Simpson on The Simpsons
- "Mmm'kay?" - Mr. Mackey on South Park. Added to the end of a sentence.
- "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 colour episode with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
- "Mulder, it's me." "The X-Files" - Scully's start to every phone call to her partner.
- "My arse!" - Jim Royle, The Royle Family
- "My eyes/leg!" - Said by a random character frequently in SpongeBob Squarepants
- "My name is Drake. John Drake." - Danger Man (1960)
- "My name is Manuel Calavera, and I am your new travel agent..." - Manuel Calavera to Celso Flores in Grim Fandango
- "My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games." - Reginald Fils-Aime
- "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
- "My spider sense is tingling!" - Spider-Man
- "Myuu!" - Tamago the turtle in Love Hina
N - "Naa!" - The Fat Slags, Viz characters
- "Naff off!" - Fletcher in Porridge
- "Nanoo, nanoo" - Robin Williams as Mork from Ork in Mork & Mindy
- "Ni!" - Knights who say Ni in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- "Nice to see you, to see you - nice!" - Bruce Forsyth
- "Neither did I, but I guess I do!" - Rope Girl from Teamo Supremo. She usually says this in respone to someone else saying they didn't know she could do what she just did.
- "Need some wood?" George W. Bush during the second U.S. presidential election debate 2004
- "Never mind" - Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) SNL
- "No matter!" - Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh
- "No but yeah but yeah but yeah no but yeah no but yeah..." - Vicky Pollard (Matt Lucas) in Little Britain
- "No, no, no, no, no...yes!" - Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley
- "No offence!" - No Offence in The Fast Show
- "No one else has the punch!" - Punchy from Hawaiian Punch
- "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" - British TV comedy group Monty Python
- "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!" - Bart Simpson on Butterfinger commercials.
- In Butterfinger BB commercials, the phrase was modified to "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger BBs!"
- "Nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills!" - Chris Berman
- "No one laughs at Mr. Fish!" - Mr. Fish
- "No problem!" - ALF
- "No relation!" - Buster and Babs Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures after they tell their names (which have the same surname)
- "No sir, I don't like it!" - Mr. Horse from Ren and Stimpy
- "No wire hangers EVER!" - Faye Dunaway, playing Joan Crawford in the movie Mommie Dearest
- "None shall pass!" - The Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- "...Noooo..." - Megatron in Beast Wars
- "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
- "Now that's comedy!" - Slappy Squirrel from Animaniacs
- "Nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more" - Eric Idle from Monty Python
O - "O-tay!" - Porky and 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
- "Oh, behave!" - Austin Powers to his models
- "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, doctor!" - Sportscaster Jerry Coleman's typical expression after a great play. Was also Red Barber's famous exclamation on Mutual Radio after Brooklyn Dodger Al Gionfriddo's 1947 World Series catch, robbing Joe DiMaggio of a home run
- "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, my NOSE!" - Marcia Brady, after the infamous "The Subject Was Noses" episode of The Brady Bunch
- "Oh no what a personal disaster!" - Ray (Rob Newman) from the Mary Whitehouse Experience
- "Ohhhh... pickles!" - Twinkle in Higglytown Heroes
- "Oh right, yeah." - Father Dougal in Father Ted
- "Oh, that Henny Youngman." - From Laugh-In
- "Oh the pain, the pain of it all" Dr Smith (Johnathan Harris) from Lost in Space.
- "Oh, yeah!" - Kool-Aid Man from Kool Aid
- "Oh yeah! Cartoons!" - Various characters, usually appeared at the end of every short film on Nickelodeon's animation showcase; Oh Yeah! Cartoons
- "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer incorporated!" - Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams) in the opening credits of Laverne & Shirley
- "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.
- "Okey-doke!" and "Okey-dokey!" - Spanky in the Our Gang comedies.
- "Okilie Dokilie" - Ned Flanders from The Simpsons
- "Onigiri!" - Zoro Roronoa from One Piece. Means "demon slice!"
- "Only you can prevent forest fires!" - Smokey Bear from the United States Forest Service
- "Ouch time!" - Captain Tarpals in The Phantom Menace
P - "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." -- The Wizard of Oz in The Wizard of Oz *
- "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. The real quote is "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By."
- "P-p-p-p-pleease!" - Roger Rabbit
- "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
- "Putney says the Bormann 6 girl is got to have soul! Got to have soul!" - sycophantic ad agency executive in US film Putney Swope
Q R S - "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." 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 (both on Saturday Night Live, and the subsequent movies)
- "Scooby-dooby-doo!" - Scooby-Doo. Usually howled at the end of every episode. Actually, it's a piece of scat singing from Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night".
- "Screw you guys, I'm going home." - Cartman from 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
- "Sh-sh-sha!" - Dale Gribble on King of the Hill
- "Shazam!" - comic book character Captain Marvel
- "Shazbot!" - Robin Williams as Mork from Ork, Mork & 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
- "Silly old bear!" - Christopher Robin in Winnie-the-Pooh
- "Simply en fuego." - sportscaster Dan Patrick on SportsCenter
- "Slaaaaaammm dunk!" the late Los Angeles Lakers announcer "Chick" Hearn
- "Slam-a-lam-a DING DONG!" Sportscaster Joe Buck in a Budweiser commercial
- "Smell ya later!" - Gary Oak making his exit in the Pokmon video games
- "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."
- "So... yeah" - Eddie Izzard
- "Sock it to me," followed by a bucket of water to the face, Laugh-In, originally from the Aretha Franklin song "R.E.S.P.E.C.T."
- "So lots of people are gonna die?" - Jar-Jar Binks
- "So not the drama." - Kim Possible
- "Sorry about that, Chief!" - Maxwell Smart, Control Agent 86, as played by Don Adams in Get Smart
- "So you are the great responsible of all this?" - Bruce Baron in Ninja Champion
- "Speeew!" - Skippy Squirrel from Animaniacs
- "Spoon!" - Comic character the Tick
- "Spring into action!" - Topato Potato, WIGU
- "Ssssmoking!" - Jim Carrey in The Mask
- "Stand and deliver" - John Cleese as Monty Python character Dennis Moore
- "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.)
- "Stupid dog!" - Eustace expressing his distaste for the title character of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
- "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 (later Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, and Richard Karn) 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
T - "Ta ta ta ta da DAAAAA! PUPPY POWER!" - Scrappy-Doo
- "Take a bite out of crime!" - McGruff the Crime Dog from The National Crime Prevention Council.
- "Take care of yourself, and each other." - Jerry Springer, first as a newscaster at WLTW-TV, then on The Jerry Springer Show
- "Tea, Earl Grey, hot." - Jean-Luc Picard's favourite order to a nearby replicator for his favourite beverage in
- "Teamo, scramble!" - Captain Crandall's battle command in Teamo Supremo.
- "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
- "Ten-thousand thundering typhoons!" - Captain Haddock from The Adventures of Tintin
- "Th-Th-Th-That's all, folks!" - Porky Pig
- "Thank you kindly" - Paul Gross as Benton Fraser in Due South
- "Thank you very much" (spoken in a timid, accented voice) - comic Andy Kaufman's shy foreign stage persona, and as Latka Gravas in Taxi
- "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 just prime." - Optimus Primal on the Beast Wars show
- "That's more meat for me" - Liz Ellis, Australian Netballer.
- "That's the Second Largest _____, I have ever Seen" - Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), later taken by Guybrush Threepwood from Monkey Island
- "That's you that is!" - "History Today" from the Mary Whitehouse Experience
- "This is gonna be excellent!" - Bowser Koopa in the Super Mario comic books
- "The horror! The horror!" - Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando in the movie Apocalypse Now
- "The butler did it!" - a catchphrase that doesn't come from anywhere but that was created to satirise murder mysteries
- "The money was just resting in my account!" - Father Ted in Father Ted
- "The Old Gun in the ______ Trick" - Maxwell Smart (Don Adams)
- "The plane! The plane!" - Herv 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 tiger is in you!" - Tony the Tiger in The French version of the Frosted Flakes cereals ads
- "The tribe has spoken." - Jeff Probst on Survivor
- "The Yankees Win….Theeeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeees ... " - Radio Voice of The New York Yankees, John Sterling
- "There are limits to my patience, but you mustn't go too far!" - Fred Williamson in Jean-Marie Pallardy's White Fire
- "There can be only one!" - the Highlander films and series.
- "There is no spoon." - child in "the Matrix". Later repeated by Neo.
- "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. Often repeated as an incantation against an unpleasant situation.
- "There's no place like home. I mean no place, child." - Marla Gibbs, sung in the theme to 227, in an updated spin on The Wizard of Oz catch phrase.
- "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 grrreat!" - Tony the Tiger from Kellogg's Frosted Flakes.
- "This is an exhibition, not a competition, please folks - no wagering." - David Letterman before "Stupid Pet Tricks"
- "This is Bob Barker, reminding you to help control the pet population by having your pets spayed or neutered" - Bob Barker in The Price is Right
- "THIS is London." - Edward R. Murrow opening his wartime CBS Radio reports from the British capital. Also used (without emphasis) as the hourly ID for the BBC World Service
- "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 'Today' on NBC." - The traditional cue to commercial often used on The Today Show.
- "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 once again proves my theory that Germans love David Hasselhoff" - Norm MacDonald
- "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!"
- "Those were our people today, that's Holmes tonight" - Paul Holmes's regular sign-off line on his long-running New Zealand TV show Holmes
- "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
- "Tonight I dine on turtle soup." - Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He only said this line in one episode of the original cartoon, but he said it in several of the video games.
- "Top of the world, ma!" - US actor James Cagney in movie White Heat (1949)
- "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939) Very often misquoted as "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto". This is often said in a contest where the sayer feels like he is unexpectedly in a place far away from home.
- "Tra-la-laaaaa!" - Captain Underpants
- "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 V W - "Wakey WAAAAA-key!" - Billy Cotton
- "Wanna buy a duck?" - Joe Penner, 1930s comedian
- "Watch it, sucka!" - Aunt Esther (LaWanda Page) from Sanford and Son
- "Watch my chops!" - Corneil from Corneil and Bernie.
- "Wax on, wax off" - Mr. Miyagi, played by Noriyuko 'Pat' Morita in the US movie The Karate Kid.
- "We are in (number of the current year)... you are still in front of the TV and us inside, good evening!" (Nous sommes en 2005 et vous croyez toujours ce qu'on vous dit la tlvision, bonsoir!) - P.P.D. the puppet in the French satiric show Les Guignols de l'Info
- "We are in trou-ble!" - Tootie Ramsey (Kim Fields) from The Facts of Life
- "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
- "Welcome to my underground lair!" - Dr. Evil in
- "Well, excuuuuse me!" - Steve Martin
- "Well, excuuuuuuuse me, princess!" - Link from The Legend of Zelda animated cartoon.
- "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" - Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel (note: "nice", not the mis-remembered "fine")
- "Well, isn't that cute...BUT IT'S WRRRROOOONG!!! - Hollywood, from 2 Stupid Dogs, always shouting to the dogs whenever they don't do something right for him.
- "Well, thank you very much, Jerry!" - Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life
- "We're On A Mission From God" - Blues Brothers
- "We're doomed! Doomed!" - Private Frazer in Dad's Army. Also said by C-3P0 in Star Wars and its canon universe
- "We're gonna need a bigger boat" - Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) in Jaws
- "We really wanna see those fingers" - Shooting Stars
- "What...A...Cartoon!" - Various characters, usually appeared in the opening sequence to every short film on Cartoon Network's animation showcase; The What-A-Cartoon! Show
- "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 TV commercials, mostly in 2004, retired in 2005
- "What do you think of the show so far? - voice Rubbish!" - Eric Morecambe
- "What do you want?" Morden in Babylon 5
- "What me worry?" Alfred E. Neuman, mascot of Mad magazine
- "What is it, Snowy!" - Tintin from The Adventures of Tintin.
- "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 the sitch?" - Kim Possible
- "What's this? It's got a good beat!" - Embarrassing Dad from the Mary Whitehouse Experience
- "What's up, Doc?" - Bugs Bunny
- "Whazzup?" - Budweiser ad campaign
- "Where's the Beef?" - Clara Peller in commercials for Wendy's
- "When a ninja accepts a mission, he must either succeed or die" - rule of the ninjas in Ninja Thunderbolt
- "When I say run, run!" - The Second Doctor, in Doctor Who
- "Where's me washboard?" - Arthur Atkinson in The Fast Show
- "Where's my Willy?" - Ethel Skinner (Gretchen Franklin), from EastEnders
- "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
- "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows hahahaha....!" Frank Readick Jr (and others) as The Shadow, a radio drama broadcast from 1930-54. Orson Welles' version went, "(evil laughter) The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay - the Shadow knows..."
- "Who other than the more bastard of the sons of whores can know what happens in the head of those sons of bitches?" - Conrad Nichols in Afghanistan Connection
- "Who loves ya, baby?" - Kojak (Played by Telly Savalas)
- "Who you gonna call?" - theme phrase from Ghostbusters.
- "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't cha come up sometime, and see me?" - US movie star Mae West (note: not the mis-remembered "Why don'tcha come up and see me sometime")
- "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
- "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
- "Wingo!" - Dale Gribble on King of the Hill
- "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should!" - in commercials in the 1950s and 1960s, for Winston cigarettes.
- "With great power, comes great responsibility." - Spider-Man who got this quote from his uncle Ben Parker
- "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?" - The Fourth Doctor, in Doctor Who
- "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.
- "Wuh-pa!" - Rope Girl's battle cry in Teamo Supremo.
Y - "Y'done good." - Joe Don Baker in Eischied
- "Yabba-dabba-doo!" - Fred Flintstone
- "Yada yada yada." - various characters on Seinfeld
- "Yak Shamash" -Borat
- "Yatta!" - a song by the Japanese group Green Leaves; later popularized by the Flash animation 'Irrational Exuberance' by Veloso. Also a quote by Chun-Li when she wins a fight.
- "Yeah, baby!" - Mike Myers as Austin Powers in the Austin Powers movies
- "Yeah, but no, but, yeah..." - Vicky Pollard in Little Britain
- "Yeah, I know!" - Andy Pipkin in Little Britain
- "Y'ello, you got your guv." - Governor Kevin answering the telephone in Teamo Supremo.
- "Yes!" - Sportscaster Marv Albert after a successful basket.
- "YEEEEEESSSSSS!" - A recurring character on The Simpsons whose name is never given. The first time he appeared, he explained that he said it that way because he had a stroke.
- "...Yeessss..." - Megatron in Beast Wars
- "Yes, minister." - Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister
- "Ying tong iddle i po" - The Goons (later a song title)
- "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker." - Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard
- "Yo Adrian!" - Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky
- "Yo Joe!" - GI Joe
- "Yo quiero Taco Bell!" - Taco Bell Dog from Taco Bell commercials
- "Yoink!" - said by characters on The Simpsons when they snatch something out of another character's hands.
- "You ain't seen me, right?" - The Fast Show
- "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" - Originally Al Jolson, later re-popularised by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan
- "You get a big delight in every bite of Hostess Cup Cakes" - Hostess cupcakes ads
- "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 and international versions)
- "You bet your sweet bippy." - from Laugh-In
- "You better work, bitch!" - from the song "Supermodel (You Better Work)" by singer RuPaul. (Popular primarily in the gay community)
- "You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay..." - Bill Saluga as Raymond J. Johnson, Jr.
- "You cannot be serious!" - John McEnroe
- "You cannot pass!" - Gandalf, "The Fellowship of the Ring"
- "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 can put it on the board -- YES!" - Sportscaster Ken (Hawk) Harrelson after a Chicago White Sox home run
- "You doidy rat!" - U.S. actor James Cagney
- "You dozy little twonk Rodney!" - Del Boy
- "You dumb babies!" - Angelica Pickles, from Rugrats
- "You forgot Poland"- George W. Bush, the actual line being "Well, actually, he forgot Poland" (about John Kerry)
- "You know you want me, baby!" - Crow T. Robot's choice for his catch phrase, from Mystery Science Theater 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 likey?" - Patton Chase on Quintuplets
- "You look maaahvelous!" - Billy Crystal in parody of Fernando Lamas on 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 wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world, KISS!" - Gene Simmons at the beginning of the live KISS albums Alive!, Alive II, Alive III, and Alive IV
- "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
- "Your attention please, ladies and gentlemen..." - Bob Sheppard, public-address announcer of the New York Yankees and football's New York Giants, introducing a player change or special announcement
- "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
- "...you're no Jack Kennedy." Lloyd Bentsen, to Dan Quayle during the 1988 Vice Presidential debate (full sentence was "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.", but most times it's repeated the first word is omitted)
- "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" -
- "You stupid woman! Can't you see...", followed by an improvised explanation - Ren Artois on 'Allo 'Allo!, after his wife has again caught him with another woman
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