# 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:** 11
**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:** [April 3, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/201 "2020-04-03T17:45:45Z")
When somebody is talking about the weather and says, “It’s windy,” I always think but almost never say out loud, “Everyone knows it’s Windy.” 🎵 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RsY8l0Jg3lY/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AGaBIAC6AKKAgwIABABGGIgZShMMA8=&rs=AOn4CLArxyOgp6LDCDt5RWC9zvEN1tAE2g "The Association - Windy - 1967") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsY8l0Jg3lY) ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/202 "2020-04-04T02:39:38Z")
> [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > “Everyone knows it’s Windy.” 🎵 > > [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RsY8l0Jg3lY](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RsY8l0Jg3lY) Figures, no harpsichord player on stage. I can’t see or hear 'chicken parmesan" without out internally also hearing football legend Peyton Manning singing “Chicken parm, you taste so good” to the tune of Northwestern Mutual’s super catchy jingle. I’m not the only one, here’s a ten hour loop! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9fjZrKP0VCM/maxresdefault.jpg "Chicken Parm you taste so good 10 HOURS!!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fjZrKP0VCM) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/203 "2020-04-04T13:12:24Z")
I go to Renaissance Faires. On entering the gates I must quote Firesign Theatre “Forward, into the past!” No one has yet recognized this, and everyone who hears me believes that I am witty. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/204 "2020-04-04T16:10:21Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I go to Renaissance Faires. On entering the gates I must quote Firesign Theatre “Forward, into the past!” > > No one has yet recognized this, and everyone who hears me believes that I am witty. Did you say it in Catherwood’s voice? “Forrrward, into the passsssst…” _“Gee, I hope he gets back before all his dry ice melts.”_ (if I were within earshot, I’d’ve said that line to you in a falsetto, like… Betty Jo Bialoski! You know, _Nancy)._ (from Firesign’s [Nick Danger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwG5c9IsgbA&t=2s). Best old radio homage ever…) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/205 "2020-04-07T01:27:57Z")
When somebody mentions big feet, I always quote the line from _Pee-wee’s Playhouse_ about Cowboy Curtis: “You know what they say. Big feet… Big shoes.” (The pause kills.) Like DrFidelius’ Firesign Theatre line, most people don’t know it, so I get credit. PS: My brother went to college ---
**Author:** ![Tinmansd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinmansd/32/3618_2.png) [@Tinmansd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinmansd)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/206 "2020-04-11T01:48:42Z")
When something gets knocked over, it’s compulsory. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/207 "2020-04-11T16:12:01Z")
Whenever the family and I are rready to leave someplace, someone has to ask, ‘Shall we?’ and the only proper answer to that is - ‘Let’s.’ ---
**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:** [April 11, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/208 "2020-04-11T17:44:23Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > Whenever the family and I are rready to leave someplace, someone has to ask, ‘Shall we?’ and the only proper answer to that is - ‘Let’s.’ I go “Good bye!” a half-dozen times in my best Laurel-and-Hardy voices, accompanied by “Oh, that’s a good idea!” ---
**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:** [April 11, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/209 "2020-04-11T18:09:43Z")
When served something awful (after Ralphie on _ **The Simpsons** _): “Ohhhhh, it tastes like **burning**!” Or (after Steve Allen): “Hm! Not bad!” [_Pause_] “Not good…” My favorite Ralphie-ism, the perfect _non-sequitur_: “My doctors says I wouldn’t have nosebleeds so often if I didn’t stick my fingers up there!” ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/210 "2020-04-11T19:06:40Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Sometimes in the car I’ll pause in mid-sentence and say “Cows!” just like Danny DeVito in “Throw Momma From The Train”. Me too, but now I picture [Queen Elizabeth.](https://media.giphy.com/media/2xCxniEYIMzba/giphy.gif) ---
**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:** [April 13, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/211 "2020-04-13T13:23:13Z")
“How many (of something)?” - “Too many to count, mutha 'uckers”. At any mention of something being flipped: - “_I’m_ the motherflippin’” ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/212 "2020-04-13T20:41:49Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > My favorite Ralphie-ism, the perfect _non-sequitur_: > > “My doctors says I wouldn’t have nosebleeds so often if I didn’t stick my fingers up there!” I’ve never worked up the nerve but I always thought this would be funny to say as the doors open on an elevator you expect to be occupied. To phone or companion: “So anyways, my doctor says…” ---
**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:** [April 13, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/213 "2020-04-13T21:52:54Z")
My response to any bullshit claim (in the voice of Beverly Hofsteder): “I see.” My response when anybody on TV addresses the audience with, e.g., “Hi! I’m Andrew Wommack!”: “Hiya, Andy!” My response when a TV commercial claims “… And it costs **no more**!”: “No more than **what**?” ---
**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:** [April 19, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/214 "2020-04-19T20:44:31Z")
> [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](#): > > “How many (of something)?” > > - “Too many to count, mutha 'uckers”. My answer to this question is, “More than I need, but less/fewer than I want.” I had thought it originated when someone asked Charlton Heston how many guns he owned. However, I just went searching but couldn’t find an attribution to anybody. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/215 "2020-04-20T20:45:09Z")
Whenever it works: “That’s Capricorn, is it?” ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/216 "2020-05-09T22:33:33Z")
A couple of things I say all the time https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/embed-twit/3fd41047-d853-4377-8e75-d7c45d54dbcd https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/embed-twit/a7ee12b0-963f-42fc-841c-59a3c01ee06a ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/217 "2020-05-12T22:27:55Z")
Any golfing outing is generally peppered with Caddyshack quotes. If someone knocks a ball into a sand trap, it’s guaranteed that someone will say, ‘Nice shot! Right on the beach!’ Or if someone is teeing up, you’ll hear “He’s a Cinderella Boy…” ---
**Author:** ![Dsorgnzd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Dsorgnzd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dsorgnzd)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/218 "2020-05-13T11:47:50Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My kid works at the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital. Whenever friends ask her what she does in my presence, I jump in with my NPR voice: “My daughter’s rent is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation” > My brain immediately goes with “Inigo Montoya…” > > Fun Fact: We were taken as guests to a church service in the rural south. Were told that, as honored guests, we were required to wear name tags. Across the top they proclaimed **MY NAME IS…** > > No one asked if they had to prepare to die. > Disappointing. > > Last time I go to a Southern-Fried Baptist church. You were at a church service in the rural South. Think about it… ---
**Author:** ![Dsorgnzd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Dsorgnzd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dsorgnzd)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/219 "2020-05-13T11:52:14Z")
Not from a movie or TV show (I think - in fact, I suspect it pre-dates written language) but “that’ll buff right out” is the appropriate response to almost any mishap. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/220 "2020-05-13T12:28:08Z")
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