# do you have catch phrases, song lyrics, movie quotes you cannot not say when certain things happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974 "2020-01-26T01:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/181 "2020-03-03T21:26:44Z")
Inspired by _ **Corner Gas** _: “Shielded by the power of my supreme indifference.” ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/182 "2020-03-03T21:53:57Z")
> [@K364](#): > > "That’s the second biggest [insert some ridiculously big thing] I’ve ever seen.” That’s one of my favorites. I can’t believe I didn’t think of it. I taught it to my kids when they were little. When I notice anything extreme in any aspect, I say it’s the SECOND most thing. Big, small, old, smelly, ugly, loud, whatever. It goes right over many people’s head, which is even funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/183 "2020-03-04T14:25:07Z")
Two from Charles Schulz: I oughta slug you (when someone does something offensive) and _SIGH_ (whenever appropriate). And Calvin’s “What did I do to deserve this? Whatever it was _I’m Sorry_” ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/184 "2020-03-04T17:02:30Z")
Inspired by Charlie Brown: “ **Of course** I’m going to my high school reunion. But first I’m going to flap my arms and fly to the Moon.” ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/185 "2020-03-04T17:07:06Z")
Watching any documentary on Canada’s wildlife: “Ah, the Majestik Møøse!” ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/186 "2020-03-04T17:27:51Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Inspired by Charlie Brown: > > “ **Of course** I’m going to my high school reunion. But first I’m going to flap my arms and fly to the Moon.” My favorite Charlie Brown line: (If I do something stupid/clumsy and end up on my back on the floor/ground and if someone’s nearby, I’ll say–) “I think I’ll just lay here until the first snow comes and covers me up.” ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/187 "2020-03-04T17:42:36Z")
When confronted by any bizarre foreign custom: “Ils sont fous, ces Romains!” (Without Googling, where is it from and what does it mean?) ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/188 "2020-03-04T17:53:41Z")
When I want to edit something here but the server fails and I lose the window: “Oh, thank you God! Thank you so bloody much!” :mad: ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/189 "2020-03-05T04:08:02Z")
> [@cieskokid](#): > > “you can’t do that, Bo, you’re just a white punk from the suburbs!” [“Repo Man” quote, right? the only movie I’ve EVER heard the “I blame society” line actually used] Actually the line goes: OTTO: That’s bullshit You’re just a white suburban punk, like me. DUKE But it still hu-hur [_purges blood and dies_] El DeLuxo, who’s seen _ **Repo Man** _ so many times he’s lost count and \*still \*thinks it’s the best movie of the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/190 "2020-03-07T19:56:01Z")
I say this so often I forgot it’s from Planes Trains and Automobiles. Just after ‘Those are not pillows!’ When there is an embarrasing silence/moment and/or the subject needs to be changed quickly - ‘What about those bears?’ MiM ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/191 "2020-03-07T22:08:50Z")
I frequently use “Well, they can’t all be winners, can they?” from Bad Santa. And if someone asks me whether my wife and I have kids I might (depending on who I’m talking to) break out with “No, thank the fuck Christ!” And anytime the subject of money comes up, I can’t help but blurt out “I like money!” from Idiocracy. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/192 "2020-03-08T00:22:09Z")
> [@Made\_in\_Macau](#): > > I say this so often I forgot it’s from Planes Trains and Automobiles. Just after ‘Those are not pillows!’ Same here with ourselves and another couple. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/193 "2020-03-08T00:37:35Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Whenever someone says _Dammit_, I always add a _Janet_. I’ve done it so much that the girlfriend and the oldest kid have picked up the habit. We do that! Remember the show _Coupling_? Whenever we say “apparently” it is always the way Susan said it. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/194 "2020-03-08T00:48:23Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > We do that! > > Remember the show _Coupling_? Whenever we say “apparently” it is always the way Susan said it. I always say “eventually” the way Manuel on \*\*\*Fawlty Towers \*_said it: “Even-tu-al-lee.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/195 "2020-03-08T01:35:37Z")
When somebody says, “Hey, we made it thru the day without [bad thing] happening, I think or say a line from _City Slickers_.\*\* City slicker Billy Crystal rides his horse up next to that of badass cowboy Curly, played by Jack Palance. Crystal says, “Hi Curly, kill anyone today?” Curly then uses the line I borrow, which wipes the grin off Crystal’s face: “The day ain’t over yet.” ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/196 "2020-03-08T01:55:04Z")
My “catch phrase” is a tedious string of muttered obscenities, hopefully subvocalized. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/197 "2020-03-29T00:26:43Z")
Every time I approach it - “Take me to the middle of the George Washington bridge!” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QQBb3s2_5Kk/hqdefault.jpg "Network (1976) - George Washington Bridge (with English subtitles)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBb3s2_5Kk) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/198 "2020-03-29T01:11:44Z")
Whenever I see any of my coworkers in a hat “That’s the ugliest hat I’ve ever seen. Did you get a free bowl of soup with that? Looks good on you though” -Caddyshack ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/199 "2020-03-29T02:19:14Z")
Someone just posted a story on Facebook about the announcement of West Virginia’s first coronavirus death being, um, a bit premature (the patient was not actually dead) - which led inevitably to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68&t=0m50s). ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/200 "2020-03-30T22:56:33Z")
When there’s a noise too loud to talk over which abruptly stops, it’s either “…until the handle breaks off and you have to get doctor to pull it out” (Wayne’s World) or “…covered in piss.” (Phoenix Nights) At any point that a milkshake is mentioned, an excruciatingly long and drawn out reference will be made to the number of boys we’ll inevitably now find in the yard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974.md?page=11)