# Good and failed catch phrases from TV series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124 "2013-09-18T03:44:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/1 "2013-09-18T03:44:37Z")
From “The Office” “That’s what she said” probably got the most traction out of anything uttered on that show. “We can go throw stuff into the quarry” just never made it. Any other good and failed catch phrases from a series you want to mention? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/2 "2013-09-18T03:57:20Z")
Watchoo talkin’ 'bout, Ranger Jeff? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/3 "2013-09-18T04:05:19Z")
Looking _good_! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/4 "2013-09-18T04:09:07Z")
Did _I_ do that? ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/5 "2013-09-18T04:10:15Z")
Are you ‘avin a laugh? IS HE HAVIN’ A LAUGH? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/6 "2013-09-18T04:11:12Z")
How _you_ doin’? I see nothing! NOTHING! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/7 "2013-09-18T04:12:40Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > “That’s what she said” probably got the most traction out of anything uttered on that show. That was an extremely trite catchphrase long before Michael Scott used it. (Wiki cites it being referred to as [an “ancient one liner” as early as 1973](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_the_actress_to_the_bishop), with a variant used by Alfred Hitchcock in 1929. It was used a lot on _Wayne’s World_ in the 1990s.) While it might have been given new life by The Office, it can’t be really called a “catchphrase from a TV series.” > [@](#): > > “We can go throw stuff into the quarry” just never made it. That was never a catchphrase on the TV series - it was used exactly once. So it never “failed.” ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/8 "2013-09-18T04:13:01Z")
Bazinga! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/9 "2013-09-18T04:14:39Z")
Up your nose with a rubber hose. “Oh, my God! They killed Kenny!” “YOU BASTARDS!” Bite my shiny metal ass! ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/10 "2013-09-18T04:16:22Z")
Missed it by _that_ much! ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/11 "2013-09-18T04:17:08Z")
Glum’s “We’ll never make it!” ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/12 "2013-09-18T04:19:02Z")
This thread is pretty good. Pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty, pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/13 "2013-09-18T04:24:51Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Glum’s “We’ll never make it!” This. And it’s astonishing, considering what a minor character on what a minor cartoon series Glum was, that it should resonate with so many people. For mine: “Go Team Venture!” is probably not nearly as successful as it should be. “OOH! OOH! OOH! Mistah Kottah! OOH! OOH!” is far more successful than I’m comfortable with (along with _“I’m so CONFUSED!”_). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/14 "2013-09-18T04:29:28Z")
Failed: Bidi-bidi-bidi. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/15 "2013-09-18T04:35:19Z")
Dy-no-mite! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/16 "2013-09-18T04:39:39Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > Missed it by _that_ much! Would you believe – two Girl Scouts in a rowboat? Holy Oleo! (Every time I try to play the bugle…) “Fillmore!” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/17 "2013-09-18T04:40:18Z")
I’ve got a cunning plan! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/18 "2013-09-18T04:43:08Z")
It’s the big one! Did you hear that, Elizabeth? I’m comin’ to join you. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/19 "2013-09-18T05:05:32Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Failed: Bidi-bidi-bidi. 😃 I loved that show when I was a kid. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/20 "2013-09-18T05:37:59Z")
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