Catchphrase | Character | Series | First appearance | Notes |
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"Aaay!" | Fonzie | Happy Days | 1974 | [49] [50] [51] |
"And that's the way it is." | Walter Cronkite | CBS Evening News | 1963 | [49] [50] |
"Ay caramba!" | Bart Simpson | The Simpsons | 1988 | |
"Baby, you're the greatest" | Ralph Kramden | The Honeymooners | 1955 | [49] [50] |
"Bam!" | Emeril Lagasse | Emeril Live | | [49] [50] |
"Bang, zoom, straight to the moon" | Ralph Kramden | The Honeymooners | 1955 | [51] |
"Bazinga!" | Sheldon Cooper | The Big Bang Theory | 2007 | [49] [51] |
"Bite my shiny metal ass!" | Bender Rodriguez | Futurama | | |
"Blam!" | Bitch Pudding | Robot Chicken | | |
"Book 'em, Danno!" | Steve McGarrett | Hawaii Five-O | 1968 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" | Coach Taylor | Friday Night Lights | 2006 | [49] [51] |
"Come on down!" | Johnny Olson | The Price is Right | 1972 | [49] [50] |
"Cut it out" | Joey Gladstone | Full House | | [49] |
"Damn you, vile woman!" | Stewie Griffin | Family Guy | | |
"Danger, Will Robinson" | Robot | Lost in Space | 1965 | [49] [50] [51] |
"De plane! De plane!" | Tattoo | Fantasy Island | 1977 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Deal… or no deal?" | Howie Mandel | Deal or No Deal | 2005 | |
"Denny Crane" | Denny Crane | Boston Legal | | [50] |
"Did I do that?" | Steve Urkel | Family Matters | | [49] |
"D'oh!" | Homer Simpson | The Simpsons | 1988 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." | David Banner | The Incredible Hulk | | [50] |
"Dude." | Hugo "Hurley" Reyes | Lost | | [49] |
"Dy-no-mite!" | J.J. Evans | Good Times | 1974 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Eat my shorts" | Bart Simpson | The Simpsons | 1990 | [49] [52] |
"Elizabeth, I'm coming!" [note 1] | Fred Sanford | Sanford and Son | | [49] [50] |
"Everybody Lies" | Dr. Gregory House | House | 2004 | [49] [51] |
"Gee, Mrs. Cleaver" | Eddie Haskell | Leave it to Beaver | | [50] |
"Giggity-giggity-goo!" | Glenn Quagmire | Family Guy | | |
"God'll get you for that" | Maude | Maude | 1972 | [49] [50] |
"Good night, and good luck" | Edward R. Murrow | See It Now | | [50] |
"Goodnight, everybody!" | Yakko Warner | Animaniacs | | |
"Good night, John Boy" | | The Waltons | 1971 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Have Mercy" | Jesse Katsopolis | Full House | | [49] |
"Heh-heh" | Beavis and Butt-Head | Beavis and Butt-head | | [50] |
"Hello there, children!" | Jerome "Chef" McElroy | South Park | | |
"Here it is, your moment of Zen" | | The Daily Show | 1996 | [50] |
"Here's Johnny" | Ed McMahon | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1962 | [49] [50] |
"Hey now!" | Hank Kingsley | The Larry Sanders Show | | [50] |
"Hey hey hey!" [note 2] | Dwayne Nelson | What's Happening!! | | [50] |
"Hey hey hey!" | Fat Albert | Fat Albert | | [50] |
"Holy (whatever), Batman!" | Robin | Batman | | [50] |
"Holy crap!" | Frank Barone | Everybody Loves Raymond | | [49] [50] |
"How rude!" | Stephanie Tanner | Full House | 1987 | |
"Homey don't play that!" | Homey the Clown | In Living Color | | [50] |
'How sweet it is!" | Jackie Gleason | The Jackie Gleason Show | | [50] |
"How you doin'?" | Joey Tribbiani | Friends | 1994 | [49] [50] [51] |
"I know nothing!" | Sgt. Schultz | Hogan's Heroes | | [50] |
"I love it when a plan comes together" | John "Hannibal" Smith | The A-Team | 1982 | [50] [53] |
"I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl ..." [note 3] | Larry | Newhart | | [50] |
"I'm listening" | Frasier Crane | Frasier | | [49] |
"I'm ready!" | SpongeBob SquarePants | SpongeBob SquarePants | 1999 | |
"I'm Rick James, bitch!" | Dave Chappelle as Rick James | Chappelle's Show | 2004 | [49] [50] |
"If it weren't for you meddling kids!" | Various villains | Scooby Doo, Where Are You! | 1969 | [50] |
"Is that your final answer?" | Regis Philbin | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 1999 | [49] [50] [51] |
"It's a good thing" | Martha Stewart | Martha Stewart Living | | [49] |
"It’s morphin’ time!" | Various characters | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | 1993 | |
"Jane, you ignorant slut" | Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin | Weekend Update / Saturday Night Live | | [49] [50] |
"Just one more thing..." | Columbo | Columbo | 1971 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Kiss my grits!" | Flo | Alice | 1976 | [49] [51] |
"Ladies… please." | Howie Mandel | Deal or No Deal | 2005 |
"Legendary" | Barney Stinson | How I Met Your Mother | 2005 | [49] [51] |
"Let's be careful out there" | Sgt. Esterhaus | Hill Street Blues | 1981 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Let's move people" | Sasha | Bratz | 2005 | |
"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" | | Adventures of Superman | 1952 | [49] |
"Live long and prosper" | Spock | Star Trek | 1966 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Make it so" | Jean-Luc Picard | Star Trek: The Next Generation | 1987 | [49] |
"Make it work" | Tim Gunn | Project Runway | | [49] |
"Makin' whoopee" | Bob Eubanks | The Newlywed Game | | [50] |
"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! | Jan Brady | The Brady Bunch | | [49] [50] |
"Mom always liked you best" | Tommy Smothers | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | | [50] |
"Mother of Pink!" and "Chop chop!" | Burdine Maxwell | Bratz | 2005 | |
"Na-Nu, Na-Nu" | Mork | Mork & Mindy | 1978 | [49] [51] |
"Never assume ..." | Felix Unger | The Odd Couple | | [50] |
"Nip it!" [note 4] | Barney Fife | The Andy Griffith Show | | [50] |
"No soup for you!" | The Soup Nazi | Seinfeld | 1995 | [49] [50] |
"Norm!" | | Cheers | 1982 | [50] [51] |
"Now cut that out!" | Jack Benny | The Jack Benny Program | | [50] |
"Oh my God, they killed Kenny" [note 5] | Stan Marsh | South Park | 1997 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Oh, my nose!" | Marcia Brady | The Brady Bunch | | [50] |
"Open the case!" | Howie Mandel | Deal or No Deal | 2005 |
"Oww! My nose!" | Kaycee | Bratz | 2005 | |
"Pow! Right in the kisser!" | Ralph Kramden | The Honeymooners | 1955 | |
"Resistance is futile" | Borg | Star Trek: The Next Generation | | [49] [50] |
"Ruh-roh" | Astro (and Scooby-Doo) | The Jetsons / Scooby-Doo | | [49] |
"Say good night, Gracie" | George Burns | The Burns & Allen Show | | [50] |
"Schwing!" | Wayne and Garth | Wayne's World / Saturday Night Live | | [50] |
"Screw you guys, I'm going home!" | Eric Cartman | South Park | | |
"Shut up, Meg." | Peter Griffin | Family Guy | | |
"Smile, you're on Candid Camera" | | Candid Camera | | [50] |
"Sock it to me!" | | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | 1968 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Space, the final frontier ..." | Captain Kirk | Star Trek: The Original Series | 1966 | [50] |
"Stifle!" | Archie Bunker | All in the Family | 1971 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Suit up!" | Barney Stinson | How I Met Your Mother | | [50] |
"Tell me what you don't like about yourself" | Dr. McNamara and Dr. Troy | Nip/Tuck | | [50] |
"Thank you veddy much" | Latka Gravas | Taxi | | [49] |
"That would be so cool! So cool" | Arthur Kensington Jr., "The Nerd" | Robot Chicken | | |
"That's hot" | Paris Hilton | The Simple Life | | [50] |
"That's what she said!" | Michael Scott | The Office | | [54] |
"The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat" | Jim McKay | ABC's Wide World of Sports | | [49] [50] |
"The Tribe has spoken." | Jeff Probst | Survivor | 2000 | [49] [50] |
"The truth is out there" | Fox Mulder | The X-Files | | [50] |
"This is the city ..." | Joe Friday | Dragnet | 1951 | [50] |
"This tape will self-destruct in five seconds." | | Mission: Impossible | 1966 | [49] |
"To the Batmobile!" | Batman | Batman | 1966 | [49] |
"Two thumbs up" | Siskel & Ebert | At the Movies | | [50] |
"Up your nose with a rubber hose" | Vinnie Barbarino | Welcome Back, Kotter | 1975 | [50] [51] |
"We are two wild and crazy guys!" | Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd as Czech playboys | Saturday Night Live | | [50] |
"Welcome to the O.C., bitch" | Luke Ward | The O.C. | | [50] |
"Well, isn't that special?" | The Church Lady | Saturday Night Live | | [49] [50] |
"We've got a really big show!" | Ed Sullivan | The Ed Sullivan Show | | [50] |
"We've got a situation." | Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino | Jersey Shore | | [49] |
"What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" | Arnold Jackson | Diff'rent Strokes | 1978 | [49] [50] [51] |
"What you see is what you get!" | Geraldine Jones | The Flip Wilson Show | | [50] [51] |
"Who loves ya, baby?" | Kojak | Kojak | 1973 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Why you little…!" | Homer Simpson | The Simpsons | 1988 | |
"Will you accept this rose?" | | The Bachelor | | [49] |
"Works for me" | Rick Hunter | Hunter | 2004 | |
"Would you believe...?" | Maxwell Smart | Get Smart | 1965 | [50] [51] |
"Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub" | Rick Sanchez | Rick and Morty | 2013 | [55] [56] |
"Yabba dabba doo!" | Fred Flintstone | The Flintstones | 1960 | [49] [50] |
"Yada, yada, yada" | Elaine Benes | Seinfeld , episode "The Yada Yada" | 1997 | [49] [50] [51] |
"Yeah, that's the ticket" | Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar | Saturday Night Live | | [50] |
"You eediot!" | Ren Hoek | Ren & Stimpy | 1991 | [50] |
"You look mahvelous" | Billy Crystal as Fernando | Saturday Night Live | | [49] [50] |
"You big dummy!" | Fred Sanford | Sanford and Son | 1972 | [57] |
"You got it, dude!" | Michelle Tanner | Full House | 1987 | |
"You made a great/bad deal!" | Howie Mandel | Deal or No Deal | 2005 | |
"You rang?" | Lurch | The Addams Family | | [50] |
"You're fired!" | Donald Trump | The Apprentice | 2004 | [49] [50] |
"You've got spunk ..." | Lou Grant | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | | [50] |
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