# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 162
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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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anything-that-automatically-triggers-a-favorite-catch-phrase-from-tv-or-the-movies/955301)._