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I'm not sure "frak" qualifies as a catch phrase when it's just a word, and when it's been around for far longer than the recent show. And also was apparently a gaming term somewhere in there as well? A way for the geek kids to shout fuck at each other without getting in trouble with mom upstairs.

I could be mistaken on that last bit. But I seem to recall hearing something along those lines at one point.

Still, good list. And frak is awfully pervasive lately. Well, less so now the show's over. But still, I take your meaning.

I'll shut up now.

Isn't it actually "I want to go to there"?

I thought the genesis of it was some story about how Tina Fey heard her little daughter say it or something and thought it was cute and wanted to use it.

I haven't really heard it used all that much, though it's possible that it has.

I have a number of verbal ticks in which I say a certain line from a movie/TV show almost every time in response to a certain word. None of the above are on that list. It's something I'm working to avoid, since Mrs. Donut has grown a bit tired of them. Shocking, I know.

I think the only "catchphrase" I have been using of late is "Boom. Roasted.", because I don't think it got nearly enough love and I only ever use it when I make a very lame comeback, which occurs more often then I'd like to admit.

Armageddon has been avoided. When I saw the title I just knew "I'll be in my bunk" was going to be on the list and someone was going to have to die.

As for the actual list, I would probably make some choices different but can not really agrue with any you made.

D'oh is still good. It's in the frakking dictionary- the real one, not jut the TV one.

And Frak? Yeah I know, but is it really any worse than Freak or Eff? It did make the show more realistic to have all sorts of cursing and swearing. Firefly used Chinese cursing, and nobody bitched. Or emulated, too frakking hard.

I say we bring back 'Smurf' as an all purpose part of speech. As in "Go Smurf yourself in the smurf with a smurfing sharpened smurf, you smurfing pig-smurfer."

Hee, Spell check recognizes Smurf! That kind of makes my day.

"I'll be in my bunk" will NEVER GET OLD!

OK, #6 is just cruel. Why do you have to be so mean to me?

my co-workers sometimes page famous people through the receptionist (who is russian and obviously a couple frys short of a happy meal) and he will announce it over the pa system... one of their favorite's is Rick James... just to hear people pop up all over and scream "I'M Rick James BITCH!" it kinda never gets old...

"I'll be in my bunk" is quickly getting old. I love Firefly and 'gorram' still sounds fresh, but THE BUNK is being ruined by many. Stop it!

Ok it's a scoatch off track, but...

But I am absa-freakin-lutely *over* these two things:

People sayin ... "Holla!"
People calling the state of California... "Cali"

Dayum, I could just schmack a bey-atch

Michael Bay just outed himself. I, for one, had no idea.

So I heard a gunshot and I walked outside and this bitch was all like, "Oh my god, they killed Kenny." So I walk over there and sure enough there's this dead fucking kid and the sister is standing there over the body with the mother and the sister is fucking hot, I mean HOT. She turns to her mom and says, "Let's hug it out." They do, but all I notice is the fact that their boobs are being pressed together and doing that little squish effect thing. Anyway, after they hug for a little while the mom walks away to talk for to the cops and I wiggle my way over to the hot sister.

"Sucks about your brother." She nods and puts her head on my chest and I start rubbing her back and then her ass. I don't know, my hand just went there on its own accord. Well, she looks at me all teary eyed and recommends we go back to my place. Cue the making out, boob grabbing, and genital fondling.

She starts taking off my clothes and murmurs something about whether or not I'm any good and I reply, "Its going to be legendary." So we get all naked and junk and I'm ready to stick it in and she asks if I have any condoms. "D'oh!" So I'm running around my room, pants around my ankles, looking for some fucking condoms and she just shakes her head. "What the frak?" I collapse and start doing a little temper tantrum and she flat out tells me its not going to happen. "Is that your final answer?" Was the only thing I could get out of my mouth. She sits there for a minute, looking absolutely fantastic might I add, before she tells me I can stick it in her ass. No, really, That's what she said.

So I grab some lube and start working it in there and as soon as it gets about midway down the shaft she's all like, "Hello, Newman!"
I'm like "Newman? Who the hell is Newman? I'm Rick James, bitch!"
When I get done I spit the man juice all over her back and she roles over, gently prodding her asshole and fucking getting semen all over my clean sheets. She looks at me and smiles and then her phone rings. She grabs it from the pocket of her jeans and answers it, then immediately starts crying.

"Baby...baby...Kenny's dead." I look at her and mouth "Baby?" She gets off the phone and stares at me. "What?" I ask her if she has a boyfriend and if so why she just cheated on him and she smiled and said, "What? We were on a break." Then she gets up, puts on her clothes and walks out the door.

Best. Sex. Ever.

Oh...my vote for most played out catchphrase is "Git R Done."

TSF:

It's a British phrase. Used in many Brit sit-coms. Am I wrong or should you know that already???

Since BWeaves brought up Brit phrases, can we kill Catherine Tate's "I can't be bovvered". I need to murder someone everytime I hear it.

PaddyDog,

As far as I am aware BWeaves was referencing the catch phrase Ricky Gervais' character Andy Milman came up with on Extras. Another catch phrase from the tacky show the character created was "I don't get it".

I was attempting to be "with it". To be "home with the downies", etc...

"Am I bovvered?" shat me in the first place, but manufactured catchphrases usually suck.
Little Britain was a serial offender too, Yeahbutnobutyeahbut got way overdone. Funny once, but every sketch thereafter was an excuse to say the phrase, "I didn't do it" style.

Pardon my sacrilege, but I'm a little over the Fireflyisms with one exception. "I'll be in my bunk" is still an useful and economical way of saying "oh my, what finely sculpted cheekbones/abs/breast/buns/waist/thighs/intellect/personality/wit/character/etc. I shall retreat to a quiet corner and reflect on it with my hand/fingertips/carrot/string/hockeymask/twins/flippers/margarine/chair leg/etc."

It's the unofficial Pajiba sign for "do not disturb for the next ten minutes, subject is at work trying to look busy while entertaining a masturbation fantasy".

"You look like a hot tranny mess" - Christian Soriano from Project Runway or "You're Fired" -- Donald Trump (basically the same guy, right?)

TSF:

See you got me there. I didn't get it!!!

But seriously, I don't think Ricky Gervais invented "are you having a laugh". I'd been hearing it quite a bit before The Office premiered. I could be wrong but I have a memory of Dennis Waterman using it back in the day.

"I want to go to there"
It sounds too dumb for Liz Lemon (and even dumber for Tina Fey)

"We were on a break"
Mostly because I got tired by Rachel and Ross attitude after they broke up

By the way, "That's what she said" doesn't get old for me, specially since my best friend uses it as a joke all the time because Michael Scott is his favorite tv character.

Hello everybody! Skitz here!

Pay no attention to that mistake.

This is Skitz, going away!

So say we all!

Now I will shut up...

Little Britain got old far too fast especially on the catch phrase count but it did involve Matt Lucas who was involved in Shooting Stars which had some glorious catchphrases/words.

Lucas corpsing to his song peanuts is cracking. Calling Jarvis Cocker the "weed in tweed" seems to get used every time anyone mentions tweed and Ulrika Jonsson had to shag the England manager just to stop getting called Ulrikakakakakaka...

Do phrases from shows that have since entered popular usage count or do they have to have repetition in the show???

Yeah, I'm keeping "I'll be in my bunk." And "That's what she said" too....hell, any catchphrase with naughty connotations is all right by meaux!

(thankyouthankyouthankyouforputtingfrakonthelist)

RE: Is he having a laugh?

OK, here goes. It's a pretty common catchphrase in England, and it's been around a long time. However, Ricky Gervais's character Andy Millman's character Ray Stokes uses it as his catchphrase in the show within a show.

Let me explain. No, let me sum up.

Ricky Gervais created the TV show "Extras."
Richy Gervais plays an actor named Andy Millman.
In "Extras" Andy Millman finally makes it big and creates a TV show called "When the Whistle Blows."
The character that Andy Millman plays in "When the Whistle Blows" is named Ray Stokes.
Ray's catchphrase that always gets applause from the live audience in the show within a show is, "Is he having a laugh?" meaning "Is he pulling my leg?" or "Is he joking with me?"

The punchline is, that in "Extras" the catchphrase isn't actually funny and Andy Millman is sick of saying it.

It's a bit meta.

BWeaves The other great thing about the show within the show was that the jokes from that tended to be funnier than most primetime sitcoms anyway. They layers added well to the absurdity of the sitcom especially with the guest stars.

"I'll be in my bunk" and "gorram" both annoy me, but I have to give the edge to gorram, because it sounds and looks so goshdarn stupid. Although with all the overuse of bunkin' it around here, it might overtake the relatively rare gorram.

I never got sick of hearing Joey say "How *you* doin'?" but I have gotten very sick of douchebags who are about as suave as Joey (which is to say not remotely) and nowhere near as charming (but just as imbecilic) saying it as though it is the abracadabra of getting into girls' pants. It's just plain lazy.

Another Friends verbal tick (not really a phrase) that makes me cringe is the addition of "so" as an adverb to every single sentence. It may be correct but it is still completely inane.

Finally, any reference to the Soup Nazi.

Television phrases I use and love:

"And knowing is half the battle."

"(Insert substitute for 'Jem') is truly outrageous."

"Holy (insert noun phrase, i.e. 'flying monkey balls'), Batman!"

"I'm Larry, this is my brother Daryl, and this is my other brother Daryl."

"Good night, John-Boy."

"You rang?" in Lurch-voice.

"You've got spunk. I hate spunk."

and

"Even weirdos are cute when they're babies," from the Muppet Family Christmas.

I think "That's what she said!" has looped around for me and become funny again. Crucially, you need to say it in as over-the-top a voice as possible, possible while giving the double-finger-gun point and making an expectant face at the person you've just said it too, waiting for their raucous laughter. The longer you can maintain the pose, the funnier it becomes. But maybe that's just me.

I know it's a movie catchphrase and not a TV catchphrase, but I can see myself growing to hate "That's a bingo!" very soon.

Wait, "I'll be in my bunk" is from a tv show? I thought it was something someone said one day & everyone at Pajiba started using it.

I won't stop saying "frak" until I have another psuedo-curse word to replace it.

I'm kinda surprised "Bleurgh" (or however you want to spell it - blurg, blergh) from 30 Rock isn't on here. I say that all the time. It's the new "ugh."

Come on man, how could you Fuggetaboutit? There are few words that make my skin crawl more.

I'll actually always have a soft spot for "Hello Newman" though.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Ally McBeal. I remember when I went back and watched the DVDs, I kept saying "Bygones" for weeks.

And it's Deistbrawler for the win!

Posted by: Lauren at September 14, 2009 7:50 PM
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Well, that took long enough. I thought I was going to have to be the one to state the obvious.

Frak you! Get the frak out of here with your frakkin' "frak is a catchphrase' noise!

Also, Gemeinderat, 'lachs' is salmon, not trout. Just saying.

Here's another forgotten "gem" which has had an unwelcome return:

"Ah Pity da Fool!"

just wait 'til the A-Team movie is released...

I like "that's what she said" b/c it's supposed to be stupid and ridiculous. You're not even supposed to use it in a believable context anymore, it's just silly. Nothing wrong with silly.
I second whoever said "that's hot" or "you're fired" needs to be added.
I will also add another form of of the catchphrase "how YOU doin"...a la Wendy Williams. I want to claw at her eyes and smother her with her weave, I hate her so. She is a blight on society and has been ever since I first heard her on Philly radio, and now she's on tv. I hated her then...I LOATHE her now. I want to murder her in the face. Any catchphrase that comes out of her mouth should automatically be banned.

There seems to be some serious cases of hipster envy going on here these days. Besides are they really the ones watching The Office? Seems to me that would be cubicle drones.

Personally, I have grown tired not of a ctachphrase but a catch-action. If I see one more commercial with Caruso removing those dumb-ass sunglasses and uttering some trite pun, my head will explode.

I still derive ironic enjoyment from "That's what she said." And, like BSlim, I remember its origins before The Office.

And don't take away "I want to go to there." Tina Fey's trance-like manner is brilliant.

I KNEW IT! I knew Skitz was Michael Bay! (does the I Was Right Dance)

Who uses "We were on a break!" in real life? I mean, don't get me wrong, I hated it on the show and I wanted to punch everyone around me whenever I heard it, but as far as the definition of the list, I don't think it fits.

I remember the first time I heard "That's what she said". It was hilarious then and still can be when used properly; that was 32 years ago.

Two of my favorites are from Get Smart:
"Missed it by that much!" and "Would you believe...?"

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I tend to use Dale Gribble's "shh-shh-shah" on a regular basis, often to accentuate an accomplishment.
Maybe not a catchphrase, just onomatopoeia, but, whatevs.

Michael Scott has used all of these phrases! ROFL!!!!

D'oh is more than a catchphrase it's just.. D'oh.

a more polite 'damnit!' when you screw up.

but some of these... 'that's what she said' did the office invent this? Because i clearly remember people saying it well before 'the office' existed. (side note: what is the sppeal of the show? Is the british version better than the usa version? I hope so cuz it's just NOT funny. steve carrell can be... But he's not in the office)