# Best. Thread Title. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551 "2002-04-19T17:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/1 "2002-04-19T17:22:24Z")
This is sort of a GQ, but hardly worth bothering them about. When did this phrase (i.e. Best. Super Bowl. Ever., Best. Survivor. Ever.) come into common usage? ---
**Author:** ![kuroashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@kuroashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuroashi)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/2 "2002-04-19T17:25:06Z")
About five seconds after “The Mother of All Thread Titles” ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/3 "2002-04-19T17:27:17Z")
I think it’s from the Simpsons. The Comic Book Guy was always saying “Worst. Episode. Ever.” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/4 "2002-04-19T18:36:45Z")
Must assume Lorne Greene Battlestar Galatica pose… best, death, ever ---
**Author:** ![Solomon7t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Solomon7t](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solomon7t)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/5 "2002-04-19T20:26:32Z")
Worst. Phrase. Ever ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/6 "2002-04-19T21:37:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Why A Duck \* > **This is sort of a GQ, but hardly worth bothering them about.** Hey, it ain’t no bother. We like questions like that. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/7 "2002-04-22T02:01:06Z")
Yep. I can confirm as well that it’s a Simpsons reference. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/8 "2002-04-22T13:03:41Z")
I don’t know about “best” but “most read” thread title ever would be either **Does this make me a lesbian?** or **What I did to win a wet t-shirt contest**. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/9 "2002-04-22T16:29:09Z")
Oh come on, 7 replies with 359 views? Hardly the most read title. Now where did you say that lesbian thread was? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/10 "2002-04-22T16:35:53Z")
Why don’t you take a poll of “Best Thread Title Ever?” That would generate some VERY readable responses. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/11 "2002-04-22T16:48:26Z")
I’m pretty sure that’s been done before. That and the “Thread Titles Guaranteed to Get You Banned/Piss the Mods Off” were pretty funny IIRC. I’d post links, but that would require a search, and it IS lunch time (meant as a commentary on board speed, not duck laziness). ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/12 "2002-04-22T17:37:25Z")
I absolutely cannot remember now where I read this, but apparently Comic Book Guy’s catchphrase comes from a critic who wrote “Worst Episode Ever” as the title of a review of a Simpsons episode. Matt Groening took it, ran with it, and it’s come into popular usage since then. Now that I think of it, I believe that I read that story on the SDMB somewhere. Off to search! ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-thread-title-ever/104551/13 "2002-04-22T17:43:01Z")
I absolutely cannot remember now where I read this, but apparently Comic Book Guy’s catchphrase comes from a critic who wrote “Worst Episode Ever” as the title of a review of a Simpsons episode. Matt Groening took it, ran with it, and it’s come into popular usage since then. Now that I think of it, I believe that I read that story on the SDMB somewhere. Off to search!