# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/41 "2018-06-07T16:43:07Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 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!” I’d say more people know “We don’t need no steekin badges!” from Blazing Saddles. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/42 "2018-06-07T17:31:12Z")
Would you believe that _Get Smart_ added hundreds of catch phrases to the language? OK, would you believe dozens? And you can bet your bippy that Rowan and Martin’s _Laugh In_ contributed a few. ---
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/43 "2018-06-07T17:53:30Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > I’d say more people know “We don’t need no steekin badges!” from Blazing Saddles. I wouldn’t. People were saying that long before 1974, when _Blazing Saddles_ came out. The scene with the bandits in _Treasure_ has become so iconic. Also, De Niro didn’t say, “I’m the only one here, so you must be talkin’ to me,” in _Taxi Driver_ but I’ll give them a pass on that, because the real line is “R” rated. “I’m the only one here…who the fuck do you think you’re talkin’ to?” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/44 "2018-06-07T18:19:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **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. Steve Rogers agrees with you. “I got that reference!” ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/45 "2018-06-07T18:23:01Z")
“It’s a Wonderful Life” essentially created the trope of wishing so and so had never been born. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/46 "2018-06-07T18:32:28Z")
Bite my shiny metal ass! Party On! One _Million_ Dollars. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/47 "2018-06-07T18:37:51Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > The very first line in the first “talkie,” _The Jazz Singer_, was “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.” > > And so it began. “Thou hast seen nothing yet” – Don Quixote ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/48 "2018-06-07T20:49:27Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 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!” Not to mention, “Play it once, Sam, for old times sake.” However, I wouldn’t regard these as errors as rather the conversion of what were once quotes into catchphrases. They distill the essence of the quote into a pithier form, and one that makes more sense as an isolated phrase than the original line of dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/49 "2018-06-07T20:51:15Z")
Monty Python is probably near the top of the list. The Princess Bride has also heavily influenced geek culture. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/50 "2018-06-07T21:27:03Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Monty Python is probably near the top of the list. No it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/51 "2018-06-07T21:41:46Z")
There’s more to an argument than just saying “no it isn’t”! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/52 "2018-06-07T21:48:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > There’s more to an argument than just saying “no it isn’t”! [Nonsense](http://www.montypython.net/scripts/argument.php)! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/53 "2018-06-07T23:09:09Z")
_ **In a world…** _ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/54 "2018-06-08T10:23:53Z")
> [@Teuton](#): > > Terminator gave us “I’ll be back”. And “hasta la vista, baby”. Or “sayonara, baby”, if your reference is the Spanish version. Going for much, much older material, both the fable writers (Aesopus isn’t exactly modern) and 18th-19th century folklorists (such as the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault) added a lot of phrases to international vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/55 "2018-06-08T10:40:13Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol had a big influence in how Christmas is celebrated, at least in the UK and the US. I think (but can’t prove) that it may go deeper than that, somewhat reviving a cultural memory of the true meaning of the holiday, i.e. from before Christianity got hold of it and turned it into a fake birthday party. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/56 "2018-06-08T12:10:28Z")
FWIW …I have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/57 "2018-06-08T12:59:02Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > FWIW > …I have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” I think that one’s all the delivery. ---
**Author:** ![jrbor76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jrbor76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrbor76)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/58 "2018-06-08T14:14:35Z")
Even if you’ve never seen _Scarface_ (and I never have), I’m willing to bet you’ve used the line “Say hello to my _little_ friend!” at least once in your life. And automatically did your best and/or worst Tony Montana impression while doing so. Go ahead, try and imagine that line delivered by _any_ other voice. It can’t be done. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/59 "2018-06-08T15:35:02Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I question several of your examples being used outside of familiarity with/fandom of the original–they seem pretty nerd-specific. > 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_) memory hole (_1984_), and rabbit hole (_Alice in Wonderland._) > (Also–now that I think about it–the concept of Big Brother itself from _1984_.) Red pill? I have no idea what you are talking about. Really. ---
**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 8, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-added-to-our-culture/815557/60 "2018-06-08T15:39:23Z")
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