# A "What's this line from?" challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [September 15, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065 "2026-09-15T02:30:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/1 "2026-09-15T02:30:24Z")
I’m pretty sure I didn’t dream this. It would have been on a TV show, most likely a comedy, probably mid-60s to early 70s. It was a man saying “Squeezy go sleepy” and I think the context was rendering someone unconscious without actually knocking them out. It might have been the character’s catch phrase. Google was no help. And no, it wasn’t Spock. Maybe it was a sitcom spoofing Star Trek? Does this ring any bells? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/2 "2026-09-15T11:48:46Z")
The phrase doesn’t ring a bell, but there was a TV show called “Quark” in the late 70s with Richard Benjamin that was a sci-fi spoof and there was a character who was sort of a Spock knock-off. Does that help at all? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/3 "2026-09-15T11:56:15Z")
No, it would have been before 1973 when I left home - I remember saying it with my sibs. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/4 "2026-09-15T12:47:17Z")
At a guess, it sounds like an _Of Mice And Men_ parody. Maybe Loony Tunes? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jPdHaNr0OAY/hqdefault.jpg "Kiss him and love him and squeeze him and hug him and call him George.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPdHaNr0OAY) Or one of [the others](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndCallHimGeorge) listed on TVTropes ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/5 "2026-09-15T12:56:44Z")
The closest thing I can think of was an episode of [The Lucy Show “Lucy and Pat Collins”](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0637455/reference/) in which \*real-life celebrity hypnotist Pat Collins puts Mr. Mooney by saying something like “Nighty-night snooky-ookems.” (It’s been half a century since I would have seen it, so I don’t recall the exact keywords.) \*To the extent that ‘hypnotism’ as presented is real. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/6 "2026-09-15T15:34:46Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > The closest thing I can think of was an episode of [The Lucy Show](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0637455/reference/) I’m pretty sure this was a series because I feel like the line was recurring. I can try asking my sibs - maybe one of them will remember. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/7 "2026-09-15T15:39:53Z")
It really sounds like you guys misheard the actual line or are just remembering it differently from what was actually said. That’s really common with tv shows we watched as kids. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/8 "2026-09-15T15:57:32Z")
Are you saying my 72-y/o brain has been deceived by my teenage self? I’m deeply crushed! 😢 I did send an email to my sibs. I doubt the youngest will have any memory, but maybe, just maybe one of the others will offer vindication! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/9 "2026-09-15T17:39:06Z")
Did anybody in your house watch professional wrestling? It sounds like the sort of thing they might come up with. . . ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/10 "2026-09-15T20:56:12Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Squeezy go sleepy **Get Smart** had an evil character named Siegfried, and Max was always pinching peoples’ necks to knock them out. Was it possibly “Siegfried go sleepy”? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whats-this-line-from-challenge/1033065/11 "2026-09-16T00:31:25Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Did anybody in your house watch professional wrestling? No, definitely not that. And it was squeezy, not Siegfried - more likely to endear the juvenile mind.