# 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:** 9
**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 9, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/161 "2021-12-09T16:21:09Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Any time someone says “Hi, everybody!” I can’t help but respond by loudly saying “HI, DR. NICK!” Any time I cut myself, I exclaim – in my best Dr. Nick voice (which is pretty good) – “Ah, blood!” There is a very early Mel Brooks narrated short film called, “The Critic,” where he blasts an animated bit: “I think it’s symbolic of junk!” Any time I hear **symbolism** , that’s out of my mouth PDQ. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PramR5oxn50/hqdefault.jpg "Mel Brooks - The Critic (1963)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PramR5oxn50) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/162 "2021-12-19T21:39:00Z")
So much to reMEMEber! > [@snfaulkner](#): > > Pretty much my whole personality is based around opportunistic quotes… I’m sure i annoy and/confuse/enrage most people. But the ones who get it, love it. and really… > [@silenus](#): > > For me, it’s more along the lines of “What **won’t** trigger a catch-phrase response?” Yep. Me. Anyhoos: > [@snowthx](#): > > When exiting the bathroom: “Do NOT, go in there! WHEW!!”… For that, my trigger situation is: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ndSp1zM_8cY/maxresdefault.jpg "Superhero Party - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndSp1zM_8cY&t=576) > [@terentii](#): > > From _ **Fernwood/America 2-Night** _ : > Hey, if we can’t kid each other, who can we kid? Yup - a definite go-to if someone took umbrage to something I said. (Loved how that line was _eventually_ spoken in chorus by the time an individual _started_ to say it.) > [@Telemark](#): > > Any mention of lotion brings “It puts the lotion on its skin”. For me, any lotion reference recalls, weirdly: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRIMwkvrt00&t=11) > [@WildaBeast](#): > > So now whenever I hear the word “phenomenon”, I have to respond “do dooo do do do”. Raises hand as well - almost Pavlovian. > [@Jophiel](#): > > …I can’t hear the word illusion without going into Arrested Development mode. “I do _Illusions_ ” Yeah, another definite hand-raiser. > [@outlierrn](#): > > whenever anybody says ‘can I ask you a question?’ I respond with ‘you just did’. A major peeve - my repsonse is “Will it be better than the one you just asked?” > [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Two from Bill Murray movies: For me, it’s the _SNL_ lounge lizard Nick Winters belting out “_STAR WAAAAAARRRRRRRRSS_”, which is how I refer to the movie. > [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > Yep, followed immediately by getting misty-eyed thinking of the subsequent scene with Whoopi G. and Worf’s parents: “Why did you never give him prune juice?” For Whoopi, she always reminds me of ruining the phrase “I swear on X’s grave”. In _The Player_, a misgiuded eyewitness points out (what the characters and us viewers all know to be) the incorrect suspect in a police line-up, and then reinforcing her decision by swearing on her mother’s grave. In what I thought was the best line in the film, Whoopi asks her, as she leaves, “Where the fuck is your mom buried?” A couple of my own: If someone’s taking too long to make a decision, I’ll get all David Byrne on them with a [Decide! Decide! Make up your mind!](https://youtu.be/9czARZgw8Cc?t=430) For buzzkills: [Oh, you’re no fun any more.](https://youtu.be/S6mlQu83XTQ?t=10) If I acknowledge the wisdom of someone’s comment (especially in figuring out a problem), I’ll sometimes go “DAT sounds logi-cuhl!” Can’t rememeber which cartoon it was from - from some Sylvester the Cat-like character, IIRC. Heh, another ID I’ll require… When asserting that it’s my choice in a matter, I’ll sometimes go “that’s my prer-_rog_-a-tive”, voiced by a very gruffly-voiced character from a film that I _think_ is _The Love God_ but only 70% sure on that. Heh, curious how this thread somehow gained (well, so far) four times the traction as [this one.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-words-phrases-that-remind-you-of-songs-movies/850652) Not that I’m expecting threads on more or less the same subject to be the same length, of course, but yeah - certainly a sizable enough discrepancy here for head-scratching. Probably not too hep or something, because there were one or two unattributed quotes in this thread that I had no clue where they came from. ---
**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 19, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/163 "2021-12-19T22:46:40Z")
If something is a revelation to me, I’ll say “aha!” like the lion in Big Top Bugs. It’s ah _ha!_’, where the second emphasized syllable is spoken with a guttural growl. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/164 "2021-12-19T23:08:56Z")
Whenever I watch an episode of Star Trek (especially TNG or DS9) with my mother, sister, or best friend, we like to trigger the end of the episode as quickly as possible. “There’s a mysterious signal coming from this planet.” “I suppose we’d better investigate.” Us: “Let’s not.” _end of episode_ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/165 "2021-12-19T23:20:56Z")
Nobody’s mentioned mine yet, in 164 posts? Inconceivable! ---
**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 19, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/166 "2021-12-19T23:26:21Z")
Oops, that should be “Acrobatty Bunny” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/167 "2021-12-19T23:39:32Z")
I do not think that word means what you think it means. Any time someone starts out with “So…” and leaves it hanging too long, my wife jumps in with “buttons on your underwear”; I jump in with " a needle pulling thread". ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/168 "2021-12-19T23:41:16Z")
Perfect segue to 🎵 “Tea, a drink with Jan and Fred!” 🎵 ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/169 "2021-12-20T15:56:37Z")
A late friend of mine would always append someone saying “So…” with “A needle pulling thread.” ---
**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 21, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/170 "2021-12-21T17:12:25Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > If I acknowledge the wisdom of someone’s comment (especially in figuring out a problem), I’ll sometimes go “DAT sounds logi-cuhl!” Can’t rememeber which cartoon it was from - from some Sylvester the Cat-like character, IIRC. Chumley the Walrus on _ **Tennessee Tuxedo** _. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/171 "2021-12-21T19:08:02Z")
When I’m playing an online game with my friend with a map to explore and one of us mentions a dead end the reply is often “Did you have to say _dead_?” ala Scooby Doo Where are You? Honorable mention to “Can’t get out that way!” from Star Wars A New Hope. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/172 "2021-12-21T19:09:33Z")
Very often, when contemplating something I really should do but really don’t want to, I channel Bart Simpson: “I can’t promise I’ll do it…I can’t promise I’ll try…but I’ll try to try!” ---
**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 21, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/173 "2021-12-21T19:11:05Z")
Conversely, “Trying is the first step toward failure.” —_Homer Simpson_ ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/174 "2021-12-21T22:00:17Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Chumley the Walrus on _ **Tennessee Tuxedo** _ . Ah yes, right, and the way he talked, like that. Not sure why I’m conflating it with [this,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZ8DbQ6Hl4) though. (sounds way less Chumley-like, though, which I thought that’s the way it’s said) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/175 "2021-12-21T23:20:22Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > … My brother and I looked wide eyed at each other. We’d heard it in the song hundreds of times and it finally clicked. At the beginning of “Bring Back Pluto” by… Atmosphere? (eta: Nope, Aesop Rock!) there’s a snippet of a high schooler with a Bronx/Italian accent saying “ **This is my friend Tony. He’s pretty cool, although he’s not always so smart** …” [[check it out, the whole song’s great]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4_SH0pgQfw) Having a friend, and a student, named Anthony meant that he got that a lot. But it reeeally bothered me that I could never find the original source of the soundbite… and it’s fourteen years old at this point! Well, suddenly last year, on my hundredth googling of _“This is my friend Tony”,_ there was a hit! An old Health Film (shown in schools?), featuring topics like safe sex and drugs … …I guess Tony wasn’t too smart about _those._ . Another mystery I can cross off my bucket list (along with “Late one night in grade school, did I really see a few minutes of [Coronet Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqjw6gLDeLU&t=5s)? Does anyone else remember this?”). ---
**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 21, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/176 "2021-12-21T23:51:10Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Another mystery I can cross off my bucket list (along with “Late one night in grade school, did I really see a few minutes of [Coronet Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqjw6gLDeLU&t=5s)? Does anyone else remember this?”). Did you see my contribution to the “Best TV Theme” thread this afternoon, or is this just synchronicity (a remarkable coincidence) in action? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/177 "2021-12-22T00:21:00Z")
Whenever someone says “Good idea” I channel God in _Holy Grail_. “Of course it’s a good idea!” Unfortunately all to often at work I hear “Do you know who I am?” I have to resist the incredibly strong urge to say “This is not a game of who the fuck are you.” That’s from Eddie Izzard. ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/178 "2021-12-22T00:33:30Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Whenever someone says “Good idea” I channel God in _Holy Grail_. “Of course it’s a good idea!” Whenever _any_thing goes wrong, I channel Basil Fawlty: “Oh, thank you, God, thank you so very much!” ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301/179 "2021-12-22T00:48:22Z")
I save Basil for when things go totally pear-shaped. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZOoyxjqWav0/hqdefault.jpg "Fawlty Towers Spiffing") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOoyxjqWav0) ---
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