# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/161 "2013-09-20T03:17:17Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > One of these? > [http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Parker\_Lewis\_Can’t\_Lose](http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Parker_Lewis_Can't_Lose) A-ha! There it is, #1 on the list: “Coolness!” ---
**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 20, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/162 "2013-09-20T04:46:10Z")
But I’m feeling _much_ better now. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/163 "2013-09-20T07:42:21Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > “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_. I always thought Spock fell on the scissors and smashed them because he had been poisoned by the Lizard in 4 (linear), or in game terms because a Vulcan could smash scissors (like rock). ---
**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, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/164 "2013-09-20T07:57:16Z")
By your command! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/165 "2013-09-20T09:53:56Z")
[QUOTE=terentii] That’s a no-brainer, dude! It’s from _ **Sledge Hammer** _. [/QUOTE] Yay! My round! How about this one… Have you tried turning it off and on again? ---
**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, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/166 "2013-09-20T10:02:36Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > Yay! My round! > > How about this one… > > Have you tried turning it off and on again? _ **Big Bang Theory** _? Howard’s robot arm? ---
**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, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/167 "2013-09-20T10:05:04Z")
How sweet it is! Capital, simply capital! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/168 "2013-09-20T10:29:14Z")
[QUOTE=terentii] _ **Big Bang Theory** _? Howard’s robot arm? [/QUOTE] It would fit there (isn’t that what the nurse actually did?) It’s what Roy says _every_ time he answers the phone in _ **The IT Crowd** _ In later episodes they’ve rigged up a tape machine to do it for them. ---
**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, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/169 "2013-09-20T10:36:46Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > It would fit there (isn’t that what the nurse actually did?) I believe she said that line too, or possibly just “Did you try turning it off?” ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/170 "2013-09-20T11:26:30Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > Missed it by _that_ much! I actually said that, with accompanying hand gesture, when I arrived to the nursing home ten minutes after Mom passed away last year. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/171 "2013-09-20T12:31:27Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I actually said that, with accompanying hand gesture, when I arrived to the nursing home ten minutes after Mom passed away last year. [Dave Coulier] Cut . . . It . . . Out! [/Dave Coulier] ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/172 "2013-09-20T13:14:34Z")
> [@The\_Surb](#): > > Shazam “Oh Mighty Isis!” “Oh Zephyr winds from way up high, Lift me now so that I might fly!” “Who’s the dummy writing this show?” “Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice…” “Confused? You won’t be on the next episode of…_Soap_!” “Like sands through the hourglass…so go the Days of our Lives” (and yes I know this is originally from a psalm, but I believe the long-running daytime soap is what popularized it in pop culture.) Failed catch-phrases: The AVClub reviews of _Friends_ points out how the writers tried to make Ross’ sad-sack delivery of “Hi…” into a catch-phrase (like Chandler’s “Oh. My. God!” but thankfully it didn’t take.) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/173 "2013-09-20T14:02:39Z")
dyn-o-MITE! Nip it in the bud The plane! The plane! ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/174 "2013-09-20T15:39:29Z")
God’ll get you for that. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/175 "2013-09-20T15:52:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Thunderbirds are go! Don’t forget, “Spectrum is Green!” ---
**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, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/176 "2013-09-20T16:01:27Z")
Sufferin’ Psyche, Herc! Whatcha gonna DO? Whatcha gonna DO? GREAT ZEUS! Oh, Hercules…! ---
**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, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/177 "2013-09-20T16:06:47Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > It would fit there (isn’t that what the nurse actually did?) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-VJLz65QhM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-VJLz65QhM)😃 ---
**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, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/178 "2013-09-20T16:07:52Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > The plane! The plane! Welcome … to FAN-tasy Island! ---
**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, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/179 "2013-09-20T16:12:22Z")
Your “Check Engine” light is on… ---
**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, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-and-failed-catch-phrases-from-tv-series/669124/180 "2013-09-20T16:23:25Z")
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