# Media that added to our culture **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557 "2018-06-06T18:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/21 "2018-06-06T22:04:44Z")
_“We’re gonna need a bigger boat”_ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/22 "2018-06-06T22:44:26Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > From _Star Wars_ we get “These aren’t the \_\_\_\_ you’re looking for.” “That’s no moon…” A better candidate from _Star Wars_ would be “May the Force be with you” (or “Use the Force” or “the dark side of the Force” or just The Force in general). ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/23 "2018-06-06T23:04:49Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > A better candidate from _Star Wars_ would be “May the Force be with you” (or “Use the Force” or “the dark side of the Force” or just The Force in general). Plus using a Jedi Mind Trick when you talk someone into letting you get away with something when there’s no way it should have worked. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/24 "2018-06-06T23:41:36Z")
There are a few quotes people always get wrong, like, “Do you feel lucky, punk?” from _Dirty Harry_ and, “We don’t need no steenkin’ badges!” from _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_. The correct quotes are: From _Dirty Harry_: “You’ve gotta ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” From _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_: “I don’t have to show you any steenkin’ badges!” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/25 "2018-06-06T23:49:06Z")
It’s my opinion that _The Wizard of Oz_ (film, 1939) is the most quoted and referenced work of American fiction of all time and I don’t even think the competition is close. [The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Quotes - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes)? ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/26 "2018-06-07T04:00:33Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > _Star Wars_’ influence goes far beyond its quotes. It’s pretty much the movie that made blockbusters, particularly sci-fi blockbusters, a thing. Good call. Also - toys. Toys toys toys toys. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/27 "2018-06-07T04:07:37Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > It’s my opinion that _The Wizard of Oz_ (film, 1939) is the most quoted and referenced work of American fiction of all time and I don’t even think the competition is close. > > [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes)? There may be individual quotations from other sources that “beat” the most-used of the _Wizard of Oz_ quotations, but as far as aggregate from one work, I think you’re probably right. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/28 "2018-06-07T04:10:42Z")
Nyeh… What’s up, doc? ETA: Be vewwy, vewwy quiet - I missed one - Kiww de wabbit, kiww de wabbit… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/29 "2018-06-07T10:05:26Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > From _Star Wars_ we get “These aren’t the \_\_\_\_ you’re looking for.” “That’s no moon…” You mention those, but NOT “Use the Force” or “I am your father”? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/30 "2018-06-07T12:57:31Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > D’oh!! I was surprised to learn that “Meh” as an expression of disinterest was broadly popularized with _The Simpsons_ but multiple dictionaries back it up. I mean, I knew about the episode but not that it was the primary reason I heard anyone else using the word. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/31 "2018-06-07T13:15:09Z")
The OP mentions “the usual suspects,” but Casablanca is so heavily quoted that an old joke asks “What’s so great about that movie? All they did was run a bunch of cliches together.” Of all the gin joints in all the world… You played it for her, you can play it for me. Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/32 "2018-06-07T13:24:37Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > You mention those, but NOT “Use the Force” or “I am your father”? I’ve got a baad feeling about this. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/33 "2018-06-07T13:32:10Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > The first that come to mind for me are red pill (which unfortunately is heard by a wider audience than those who have seen _The Matrix_) I’d offer another one that a lot of people know without knowing how it came to popular culture - at least in the USA. [Guy Fawkes masks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask) (I have one over my front door like a mezuzah) have come to public attention as the face of anonymous. They’ve been seen on all the major news networks and various other media over the last ten years. But how many of the passers-by know it came to popularity through an obscure comic book from the late 70s, was interrupted, finished publication in the late 80s, and was later made into a movie that pretty much flopped? Sure, our UK brethren will get it. But I’d bet not one person in 10,000 in the states could identify the history of the mask. And I’d raise that to 1 in 1,000,000 not being able to identify its cultural journey into wider identification. ---
**Author:** ![txjim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@txjim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txjim)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/34 "2018-06-07T13:56:18Z")
“This one goes to 11” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/35 "2018-06-07T14:14:40Z")
A truly successful phrase is one that enters the cultural lexicon with most people not knowing where it’s originally from. For example, _“You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.”_ Most people know the phrase but couldn’t tell you which movie it’s from, and even those trivia buffs who [know the movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037382/quotes?ref_=tttrv_ql_4) probably haven’t actually watched it. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/36 "2018-06-07T14:43:07Z")
Depends which culture you’re talking about and what sort of exposure different people within it have had to different sources, but as a start, in English, you could quote hundreds, maybe thousands, of phrases from the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens and assorted poets, that people don’t know the origins of, but find themselves using. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/37 "2018-06-07T14:47:35Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > Nyeh… What’s up, doc? > ETA: Be vewwy, vewwy quiet - I missed one - > Kiww de wabbit, kiww de wabbit… 🙂 “I tawt I taw a puddy tat!” “It’s rabbit season!” “Duck season.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/38 "2018-06-07T15:10:56Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Depends which culture you’re talking about and what sort of exposure different people within it have had to different sources, but as a start, in English, you could quote hundreds, maybe thousands, of phrases from the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens and assorted poets, that people don’t know the origins of, but find themselves using. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol had a big influence in how Christmas is celebrated, at least in the UK and the US. Are there movies that had similar cultural impact, aside from quotable lines and phrases? Is there a particular food, dish or cuisine that was unfamiliar to many until it was featured in a particular movie? Or a dance or style of music? ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/39 "2018-06-07T15:12:01Z")
As I understand it, the phrase ‘Catch-22’ began with the Joseph Heller book. I think most people are somewhat aware of what a catch-22 situation is. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/40 "2018-06-07T15:57:59Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The OP mentions “the usual suspects,” There is no Keyser Söze! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557.md?page=3)