I was reminded of another one when NPR was reporting on something in Turkey today: Any mention of Istanbul will get a response of “not Constantinople” from me.
God, she was cute.
I’m sure I won’t be the last of the Farty Towels referencers when mentioning that if I’ve either learned something surprisingly quickly, or at other times required patience to do so, I’ll go “But I learn, Mr. Fawlty, I learn!”
I used to admonish folks with a sharp, Sybil-like “Basil!” (or when I wanted to placate - a grovelling “Sy-bil…”)
On the first episode of Angie Tribeca there was a humorous conversation where everyone started their lines with “All due respect”.
So, when someone starts a line with says “all due respect” I act like they just said something funny.
I found the dialogue from the show…
Tribeca: With all due respect, sir, this is stupid. I don’t want a partner. I don’t need a partner.
Atkins: All due respect, Tribeca, but you’ve got your head up your ass. You’re getting a partner.
Geils: All due respect, Lieutenant, but I feel very disrespected right now.
Atkins: All due respect, Detective, but I’m in charge here!
Tribeca: All due respect, no one cares about your feelings.
Geils: All due respect, you make a horrible first impression!
Whenever someone says the phrase “Spanish Inquisition”, my body involuntary tenses to throw a punch, as it typically does when someone quotes Monty Python in my presence without my consent.
Note, I have no problem with Monty Python itself, just the people who quote from it. Like… dude, it was 50 years ago. I laughed at it in the 80’s and now I’m over it. Everyone who’s going to laugh at it has already laughed at it. If you’re still doing it in 2021 you’re just an annoying tool.
On “Flash” whenever someone urgently says “Flash!” (which happens a lot of course) I have an urge to add “ah, Savior of the universe”
Oh, and pretty much any situation calls for a bit of Partridge
e.g. any minor injury results in
“I’ve pierced me foot on a SPIKE!”
Yeah, I get that way when people quote Aristotle, Shakespeare, or the Bible, FFS. Those people are all dead, sheeple. Move on! 
Two possibilities:
“It’d be easier to train a monkey!” (A phrase I use often when editing shitty translations.)
and
“So sorry. He’s from Barcelona.” (Or substitute any other place that’s appropriate.)
Whenever a Discover Card commercial comes on, I say, “Yeah, like I’d be seen with a Discover card.”
Why, yes, that’s Lisa Kudrow.
(No one ever gets it.)
Hardly anybody gets it, but…
When someone asks,“Aren’t those the [blank] that…?” I usually reply, “No, that’s them balsams.”
(See A Christmas Story.)
us too!
I understand. I’ve got a friend to whom damn near everything is a set-up for a Simpson’s quote. Usually, the older episodes, from 25 to 30 years ago. I get what you’re saying when you say, “Everyone who is going to laugh at it has already laughed at it.”
Yes, exactly. I can’t say the word “winter” without a theatre kid jumping from behind a bush saying “IT’S THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT” just like the Python weirdos waiting for someone to say the word “parrot” or “argument.”
'Twas synchronicity indeed!
By the way, it WAS a great theme song… which in my case was stuck in my grade-school head until the internet came along and I knew I hadn’t imagined the show.
I wish the episodes that were filmed were available somewhere, along with scripts of the ones that weren’t. If any series deserves a revival/reboot, it’s Coronet Blue.
Another one from “A Christmas Story”, if it hasn’t already been mentioned. Whenever a package gets delivered that has “FRAGILE” on the box, I have to say “Fra-GEE-lay! It must be Italian!”
I mentioned this somewhere else on the Board: We had just moved into a new residence. Fellahs from her new job came to help us unload the moving truck. One of them picks up a box marked You-know-what, turns to show the other guys and a dozen people holler, “Fra-Gee-lay!” all at once. Sweet!
In the old Super Friends cartoon, Brainiac wears these incredibly short shorts kind of like Robin. There was a commercial many years ago on Cartoon network featuring members of the Legion of Doom talking at a meeting requesting Lex Luthor provide them with the equipment necessary to defeat the Super Friends. Brainiac saying something like, “All I want is a decent pair of pants.” Followed by Solomon Grundy saying “Solomon Grundy want pants too!” Whenever I hear someone say they need a pair of pants I automatically think, and sometimes say aloud, “Solomon Grundy want pants too!”
This is my response to FRAGILE: (the bolded part). Here’s a bit of context.
Capt. Spaulding (Groucho) : [to Jamison] So, you just omitted them, eh? You just omitted the body of the letter, that’s all. You’ve just left out the body of the letter, that’s all. Yours is not to reason why, Jamison. You’ve left out the body of the letter.
[pause]
Capt. Spaulding : All right, send it that way and tell them the body will follow.
[swings his switch indignantly]
Horatio Jamison : Do you want the body in brackets?
Capt. Spaulding : No, it’ll never get there in brackets. Put it in a box. Put it in a box and mark it, uh…“fragilly.”
Horatio Jamison : Mark it what?
Capt. Spaulding : Mark it fragilly. F-R-A-G… Look it up, Jamison, it’s in the dictionary. Look under “fragile.” Look under the table if you don’t find it there.
From Animal Crackers. Love that movie!