# Hepped up on goofballs

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**Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hepped-up-on-goofballs/26326/7 "2018-12-29T06:14:53Z")

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> [@Maxwell\_Edison](#):
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> I have seen a clip from an old TV show with a cop asking somebody that (I want to say it was Jack Webb from an old episode of Dragnet). I don’t know if the phrase was around prior to that, but I think others have seen that same clip I’m talking about, and that might be were the current pop culture affinity for that phrase originates.

Perry Mason, Season 9, Episode 11 “The Case of the Silent Six”

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hUQuj9elPqg/hqdefault.jpg "Hopped Up On Goofballs") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQuj9elPqg)

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