# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/101 "2020-02-01T23:26:54Z")
Pretty much any time someone says “I see him/her/it/them/etc”, I have to quote [Alexander from Die Hard](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5b91f38e-24a0-4380-ad1d-5a7cbd1bd740). ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/102 "2020-02-03T14:34:03Z")
An episode of The Big Bang Theory had Penny and Leonard sitting in the living room. Sheldon runs past them, saying clear the bathroom, he has to void his bladder. Leonard looks at Penny, who says nothing. Leonard" Aren’t you going to ask what that was all about? Penny: What is this, my first day? Whenever anyone at work tells me anything I already know (the items in that box have to be priced and put back in the back), Penny’s response is my got-to answer. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/103 "2020-02-03T15:28:04Z")
Whenever someone says something along the lines of “If you can do X, then you can do Y!”, I always follow up with “If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!”. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/104 "2020-02-04T19:07:46Z")
When anybody says, “C’est la vie,” my wife and I instantly say, “La vie.” We learned this from Chicago radio legend Steve Dahl. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/105 "2020-02-06T14:16:57Z")
“It’s a veg-uh-tah-bull” Whenever I hear or even just see the word “arugula.” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/106 "2020-02-06T14:37:11Z")
“Here I am” is always followed in my mind with “Rock you like a hurricane.” ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/107 "2020-02-06T14:48:44Z")
When I’m eating at someone else’s house I’ll look at the cook and say “Mighty good cereal flakes Mrs. McDonnough.” Really there’s a thousand from Raising Arizona. Another frequent favorite is “Well there’s what’s right, and there’s what’s right, and never the twain shall meet.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/108 "2020-02-06T15:13:16Z")
I saw a thread pop up about making coconut cream yogurt. Which reminded me that my wife likes the Chobani coconut yogurt and I like the key lime flavor. So when I’m at the grocery store loading up on yogurt, I often catch myself muttering to myself “You put de lime in de coconut, drink 'em both together…” ---
**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:** [February 6, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/109 "2020-02-06T15:22:30Z")
Ain’t there nothin’ I can take… EARWORM TIME! ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/110 "2020-02-06T15:27:29Z")
Whenever there was something we doubted would work at work, one of us computer people would quote Samuel L. Jackson from **Jurassic Park:** “Hold on to your butts!” Trivia time: Samuel L. Jackson also said that line in\*\* Kong: Skull Island.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/111 "2020-02-06T18:10:06Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > I just ordered a Reuben. Pete Campbell - They put coleslaw right on the sandwich. That reminds me of another one. If someone asks me how I am / how my day is going I’ll say “Not great, Bob”. Obviously it’s only with people I know and with whom I’m prepared to share whatever latest annoyance has cropped up. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/112 "2020-02-06T18:14:29Z")
Guy comes to the register with a big toy sword he’s buying, holds it up and say "We can do this the easy way or (pointing it at me) the hard way. I say the first that pops into my head “I wish I had a real sword under the counter so I could show it to you.” He thinks a second, laughs and says “That is not a sword. This is a sword.” I’m glad he got the Crocodile Dundee reference. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/113 "2020-02-09T02:12:06Z")
Got a new one. Young Adult with Charlize Theron. I watched about half of it and got bored. But in the openng sequence, she is in a car and plays, on cassette I think, Teenage Fanclub’s The Concept. And she plays a few bars and then rewinds to the beginning. And she does this a few times. I caused me to rediscover the song, and now, when I play it, I have to rewind it a couple of times ---
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“Not great, Bob” when asked how my day is going. (Mad Men). When someone (usually myself) doesn’t do something quite right, it’s “nice hopping.” (Young Frankenstein) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/115 "2020-02-09T02:56:10Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Got a new one. Young Adult with Charlize Theron. I watched about half of it and got bored. But in the openng sequence, she is in a car and plays, on cassette I think, Teenage Fanclub’s The Concept. And she plays a few bars and then rewinds to the beginning. And she does this a few times. I caused me to rediscover the song, and now, when I play it, I have to rewind it a couple of times Haven’t seen it in a long time but I remember it as being one of the cringiest movies I’ve ever seen. Mavis Gary: I’m going to a rock concert with an old flame and I think there is a chance we may reconnect. Sales Lady: Let’s show him what he’s been missing. Mavis Gary: No, he’s seen me recently. He knows. But his wife hasn’t seen me in a while, so. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/116 "2020-02-09T09:08:17Z")
Whenever I hear about anything underneath a bridge _the animals are trapped they have all become my pets living off of grass and the drippings from my ceiling_ ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/117 "2020-02-09T11:29:15Z")
I can’t even begin to list a fraction of the quotes we use as a family. It varies sooooooo much and depends a lot on the last quotable thing we watched. The current batch is culled mainly from "The IT crowd, various Mitchell and Webb shows and “Big Train”. The favourites with the kids are mostly Moss’s or Richmond’s contributions from “the IT crowd”, e.g. any phone number request immediately becomes [0118999881999119725…3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ) ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/118 "2020-02-09T12:59:17Z")
While watching a show that has someone walking in on someone and discovering they are doing something bad I quote the line from Fletch, “Oh oh, the missus”. I change the “missus” to whatever fits for the situation. From Arthur- When someone says they are going to do a mundane thing I say “I’ll alert the media”. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/119 "2020-02-10T02:44:56Z")
## From **Parenthood** : Mary Steenburgen’s daughter has a pot on her head and is bumping it into things. “She likes to butt things with her head,” she says as an unasked-for explanation. Rick Moranis, her brother-in-law, dryly replies “How proud you must be!” ## A great one from **The West Wing** (Josh Lyman, I forget the exact circumstance but it may involve Moira Kelly’s character from Season One): “Nobody likes her!” From **Sherlock** : “What’s it like to be you? It must be so relaxing!” ---
**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:** [February 10, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-catch-phrases-song-lyrics-movie-quotes-you-cannot-not-say-when-certain-things-happen/846974/120 "2020-02-10T16:25:11Z")
I have an extremely warped sense of humor (oh, you’ve noticed?) Whenever I start laughing and someone says “That’s not funny” I quote James Earl Jones’s Big Bang classic line “Then why am I laughing?” [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=5) [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=7)