# Do you have anything that automatically triggers a "favorite catch phrase" from TV or the movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301 "2021-12-01T17:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/81 "2021-12-03T01:48:34Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Is that anything like “[Push the button, Max!](https://youtu.be/R3Igz5SfBCE?t=69)” ? And, “pull the lever, Kronk!” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_L5Z5z5w4s) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/82 "2021-12-03T02:10:29Z")
In City of Heroes, players will talk in chat about badges. Since I’d rather level my toons as quick as possible, I don’t give a shit about badges, so I’ll quote from Blazing Saddles: “I don’t need no steenking badges!” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/83 "2021-12-03T02:23:45Z")
Whenever someone needs more light, I often respond with "Aziz, light!"from The Fifth Element. I was at an outdoor convention some years ago by the campfire at night when someone asked for some light so they could see to cut up more firewood. The resulting chorus of “Aziz, LIGHT!” was glorious. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mvwd13F_1Gs/hqdefault.jpg "The Fifth Element - Aziz Light!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvwd13F_1Gs) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/84 "2021-12-03T02:38:46Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > In City of Heroes, players will talk in chat about badges. Since I’d rather level my toons as quick as possible, I don’t give a shit about badges, so I’ll quote from Blazing Saddles: “I don’t need no steenking badges!” _Blazing Saddles_??? ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/85 "2021-12-03T03:25:09Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _Blazing Saddles_ ??? Um, possibly _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VqomZQMZQCQ/hqdefault.jpg "We don't need no stinking badges!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/86 "2021-12-03T03:43:00Z")
When I’m playing D&D, any time we are in a scenario to purchase something, I get an urge to say “Ten for that? You must be mad!” Reference: [Life of Brian - scene 7 - "We're supposed to haggle" - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51_Qs8tq5c8) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/87 "2021-12-03T04:02:13Z")
I used to call a control on a machine at work a “main stem stop wow”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/88 "2021-12-03T04:14:54Z")
Whenever my wife overrules what we’re going to do next, my standard reply is a sarcastic “_I_ know: let’s do what _you_ wanna do.” ala Jim Carey. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/89 "2021-12-03T05:05:17Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > When I see someone fall down I’ll say, “He’s no fun, he fell right over.” Of course nobody gets it. We do that one for cats who fall down and roll over when you pet them. > [@](#): > > We don’t need no stinking badges! I once had a job where I made badges. If I had a dollar for every time I heard that … I’d have a lot of dollars. I can’t resist “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K” whenever I pass one. (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/90 "2021-12-03T05:05:45Z")
Yes, _Blazing Saddles_. He is quoting the **mis-quote** said in BS. Sorta. The correct phrasing is “We don’t have to show you no stinking badges!” Which _isn’t_ said in TotSM. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/91 "2021-12-03T08:01:09Z")
Dear me! Are there really people at this site who have never seen _ **Blazing Saddle** _s?!? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e1lyNt5km8U/hqdefault.jpg "BLAZING SADDLE "We don't need no Badges"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lyNt5km8U) And yes, I was the only person in the cinema who got the joke and laughed. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/92 "2021-12-03T08:12:49Z")
Another one from _ **Fernwood/America 2-Night** _: Whenever I hear some contemporary Top 40 songstress wailing “Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo!” _ad_ _nauseam_, I automatically launch into Debbie Dunbar’s “Las Vegas Lounge Act”: “Oh, baby. Baby, baby. Oh, baby. Baby, baby. Oh, baby. Baby, baby. Oh baby…”. (My daughter hates it when I do that!) Any time I hear some obnoxious commercial plugging something like sanitary napkins, I say “Don’t you just love beautiful feet?” Which really was the cold opening of a commercial back in the day. “Don’t you just love beautiful feet?” was right up there with “The heartbreak of psoriasis!”; “The pain … the _itch_ … of hemorrhoids!”; and “Painful rectal itch!” As far as I’m concerned, they’re all interchangeable. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/93 "2021-12-03T08:30:58Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Any time I hear some obnoxious commercial plugging something like sanitary napkins, I say “Don’t you just love beautiful feet?” Which really was the cold opening of a commercial back in the day. I used to work in a warehouse, where I’d pile maybe 3000 to 3500 cases of empty beer bottles a day on pallets, which were returned to the brewers, for washing, sterilization, and reuse. It was physical, exhausting, work, and it left me tired at the end of the day. One day, towards the end of the shift, a co-worker hollered out, “C’mon Spoons, you’re lagging!” To which I responded, in a calm voice, just like on a current certain TV ad for a feminine douche, “You know, Buddy, some days, I just don’t feel fresh.” That got a big laugh from my co-workers. It’s been my go-to ever since, when somebody says, “Hey Spoons, you’re slowing down.” Note that the above occurred over thirty years ago, and at my age nowadays, I’m allowed to slow down. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/94 "2021-12-03T14:25:12Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _Blazing Saddles_ ??? > [@Railer13](#): > > Um, possibly _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ ? Would you accept _UHF_? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gx6TBrfCW54/maxresdefault.jpg "We Don't Need No Stinking Badgers!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54) ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/95 "2021-12-03T15:49:56Z")
When I do something unusually stupid, I will say I’m “as sharp as a bowling ball” or, of course, “sooooper genius”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/STeVTzWelns/hqdefault.jpg "Wile E Coyote, Super Genius") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STeVTzWelns) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/96 "2021-12-03T16:14:57Z")
For me, it’s more along the lines of “What **won’t** trigger a catch-phrase response?” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/97 "2021-12-03T16:49:50Z")
^ That’s why you became a teacher, isn’t it? Where else could you do that all day long and it seems normal? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/98 "2021-12-03T17:09:10Z")
Busted! 😃 I even have a catch phrase for when the kids don’t get the catch phrase I just used: “Sometimes, they’re just for me.” Which I believe I stole from Johnny Carson back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/99 "2021-12-03T17:40:11Z")
We use a variation on that one: “Fine. Let’s just do ALL the things that _YOU_ wanna do!” in the most sarcastic Jim Carrey voice. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/100 "2021-12-03T18:17:51Z")
“I just do 'em. I don’t explain 'em” when someone doesn’t get the joke. Red Skelton used to say it when a joke fell flat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301.md?page=6)