*A little pee came out.
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or
I think a little pee came out.
I’ve been seeing this on forums/blogs for years, usually as a one liner response to an awesome suggestion, something frightening, or something unexpected. I can’t find where it came from though. Is it just another 4chan thing like 90% of internet memes? Or some cult '80s movie maybe?
I think it’s from a skit on SNL when a basketball player was hosting. A team was in the locker room after getting stomped in the first half of a game. One of the players says, “I just THOUGHT about going out there again and a little pee came out.”
^I don’t know if it predates the SNL skit, but I can tell you definitively that there was an episode of one of the later seasons of Friends in which Monica was recalling a joke told to her and she said “A little pee came out.”
It was the episode where Chandler (who was working in Oklahoma) got all jealous of Monica finding someone funnier than him.
That definitely predates the SNL skit. The skit was within the last year or two.
I would think the origin of this expression would be the fact that people sometimes wet themselves when very frightened or when laughing very hard.
I’m not sure why so many Dopers seem to think that every common expression in the English language must have originated with a particular movie or TV show. I keep expecting to see a thread asking which old movie “Good morning” comes from.
Lamia, the biological fact of the statement doesn’t mean you can’t look for the origin of the actual phrase. You can phrase the biological phenomenon in many different ways, but if a particular phrasing enters the language, you can be sure it came from some original source. That source might not be a TV show, and we might not be able to trace it, but we didn’t all arrive at the same exact phrase by accident.
As another example “Rome wasn’t built in a day” is a true statement, but you won’t see people saying “It took many days to build Rome.” The expression itself has become a unit of meaning/communication that transcends its original literal meaning.
True, firsts are overrated. I’m sure that particular combination of words was first uttered centuries ago. But if it’s a catchphrase now, chances are people are quoting some recent movie or TV show - and I think that’s what the OP was getting at.
Columbus wasn’t the first person from the old world to “discover” America, but the other discoveries were forgotten while Columbus’ changed history. So it’s not a crime to call him the “first”.
There are many common phrases that are common precisely because they are simple English phrases that refer to situations that happen frequently. There must have been some first person to say “Hand me that thing over there” or “Can I get you a drink?”, but these didn’t become common phrases because others are copying that original person.
*And you’re saying this is the case for “a little pee came out”? There’s nothing special about that phrasing, it’s a very ordinary way to express the idea that one has urinated a small amount. This exact phrasing is not always used to express the same idea, either. I’ve also heard the very similar “peed/wet myself a little/a bit”, or more commonly “peed/wet my pants”.
It’s not impossible that there’s some TV show or movie that led to the exact phrase “a little pee came out” becoming a catchphrase (although I can’t say I’ve noticed it being used all that often). HeyHomie says the phrase was used on an episode of Friends, and since that was such a popular show many people must have heard the expression used there. But I very much doubt this was the first time anyone ever said “a little pee came out”. It’s a pretty obvious phrase consisting of simple English words.