# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/141 "2013-09-19T19:22:28Z")
Nanu nanu King of my castle ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/142 "2013-09-19T19:26:03Z")
Schwing ---
**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 19, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/143 "2013-09-19T21:26:53Z")
Master of my domain. One of these days, Alice… Thank you, Thing. You rang? [fill in blank] is a kind of sick Which leads in to my most recent favourite: _“Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr.”_ ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/144 "2013-09-19T21:33:12Z")
Let’s get dangerous. Seems like it should have caught on, but I don’t think it did. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/145 "2013-09-19T21:36:41Z")
Justice may be blind, but it can see in the dark. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/146 "2013-09-19T22:21:48Z")
You just wait 'til you need tech support! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/147 "2013-09-19T22:36:30Z")
Be seeing you. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/148 "2013-09-19T22:43:00Z")
Dammit, Beavis! Settle down, Beavis! Dillweed! Butt-munch! Shut up, or I’ll kick your ass! No way, Butt-Head! Spank your monkey, butt-plug! ---
**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:** [September 19, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/149 "2013-09-19T22:46:41Z")
I am not a number, I am a free man! Who is Number One? You are Number Six! or You are, Number Six! **[SPOILER ALERT!]** ---
**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:** [September 19, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/150 "2013-09-19T22:53:05Z")
Oooooooh! This is enough to make me give up my search for a meaningful relationship! ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/151 "2013-09-19T22:58:00Z")
_Same Bat time! Same Bat channel!_ \*There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. … \* \*You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; … \* _Sufferin_’ \*succotash! \*_I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque!_ _Of course you realize this means war!_ ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/152 "2013-09-19T22:58:57Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > \ > Wayyyyyyy back in early 80s, the child actor Ricky Schroeder (now an adult actor going by “Rick Schroeder” - no ‘y’) starred in a “Diff’rent Strokes” knock-off called “Silver Spoons” about a precocious adolescent adopted by a quirky rich bachelor. \ Actually, they were father and son. The dad just didn’t know he had a son until the kid showed up on his doorstep. I can’t believe I remembered this … ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/153 "2013-09-19T23:02:45Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > 5 and 8 never made sense to me. (I know, understanding Sheldon logic is futile) “Paper disproves Spock” makes perfect sense to me as a shorthand way of saying a paper (in the sense of a thesis) disproves some theory propounded by Spock. I couldn’t tell you why Spock would smash scissors, though I suppose he _could_. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/154 "2013-09-19T23:13:55Z")
What the hell is this crap?! ---
**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:** [September 19, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/155 "2013-09-19T23:25:49Z")
I heard that! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/156 "2013-09-19T23:35:56Z")
Don’t have a cow, man. Ah say, ah say now… Hidey-ho, neighbor! No way, Jose! Be vewy, vewy quiet. It’s rabbit season! No, it’s duck season! Happy, happy, joy, joy. Happy, happy, happy. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/157 "2013-09-20T00:26:16Z")
I canna give ye warp nine much longer! ---
**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:** [September 20, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/158 "2013-09-20T00:27:21Z")
You’re a very … BEAUTIFUL woman! ---
**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 20, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/159 "2013-09-20T01:23:43Z")
[Pronoun trouble!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyPFQKpRnd0) [How many lumps do you want?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGns_QEUPTw) ---
**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/160 "2013-09-20T02:19:38Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Failed: Bidi-bidi-bidi. 😃 Oh yeah! Is this from Twiki [sic] of Buck Rogers fame? God I loved those Mel Blanc lines. My favorite was “bidi bidi bidi, what a body!” (Referring I believe to Erin Gray in some exotic outfit.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124.md?page=9)