In the latest episode of Star Wars one of the characters, upon hearing bad news, balls his fists, looks upward and shouts “Noooooooooooo!”
Such a cliche that Mrs. Kunilou leaned over to me and whispered “that was stupid.”
Does anyone remember where this cliche was first used? I can remember it as far back as the late 1960s in a TV episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery but I am pretty sure it goes back a lot further.
Any guesses?
In the few minutes I could tolerate watching of Shatner’s “Invasion: Iowa”, he had one of the townspeople hold up cue cards saying it while he “acted” it out - the first card had “N-O-O-O-O”, the others “O-O-O-O-O”. So if even Shatner thinks it’s trite, it’s trite.
Smithers does it when he thinks Mr. Burns has drowned in the bathtub, and I’m sure there are other Simpsons references too.
Wasn’t it in the first Planet of the Apes when the space man discovers the remnants of New York city and realises that the ape planet is the Earth.
(If that needed spoilering, then you really do need to watch more movies 
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[Calculon]
You know, the line was actually “yes”, but I improvised.
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There’s no “Noooo…” in there. What astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) actually says is:
Oh, my God. I’m back. I’m home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God, damn you ALL TO HELL!!
Here’s an earlier discussion:
Do you have a specific “Night Gallery” vignette in mind? I’d point you to the “That’s the beauty of it” thread and show that memory can be a strange thing.
Superman, just after Supes hauls the suffocated Lois Lane out of the buried car and just before he violates the commandment about changing history.
Please tell me I don’t need a spoiler box for a +25yo piece of cinema history
Not sure about the earliest usage, but it happens at least twice in Battlefield Earth.
It doesn’t count if it comes from the audience.
Joke of the day - Bryan Ekers