# Please help me identify the connection here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689 "2013-10-30T21:23:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689/1 "2013-10-30T21:23:06Z")
The title of [Yada yada yada Hal Briston](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=706418) has had my mind spinning trying to identify the TV source/connection for that whatever-it-is. I suspect it’s a relatively recent (a few months at most) meme or catchphrase or funny line from a commercial, promo or even a show. One thought is “something, something, something, Denny Crane” or “something, something, something, Quaker Oats.” The rhythm is what’s keeping me in this loop. I feel I’ve heard it more than once, probably quite a few times. What can I possibly be thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689/2 "2013-10-30T21:31:09Z")
[Seinfeld.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yada_Yada) ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689/3 "2013-10-30T21:32:12Z")
> [@Nosfernuthin](#): > > The title of [Yada yada yada Hal Briston](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=706418) has had my mind spinning trying to identify the TV source/connection for that whatever-it-is. > > I suspect it’s a relatively recent (a few months at most) meme or catchphrase or funny line from a commercial, promo or even a show. > > One thought is “something, something, something, Denny Crane” or > > “something, something, something, Quaker Oats.” > > The rhythm is what’s keeping me in this loop. I feel I’ve heard it more than once, probably quite a few times. > > What can I possibly be thinking of? I would guess that most people know it from the Seinfeld episode: [The Yada Yada - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yada_Yada) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689/4 "2013-10-30T21:41:12Z")
I should have made it clear in the OP that I’m aware of the origin of the expression “yada, yada, yada” and have no doubt that Seinfeld popularized it to the point of being seen as its inventor. He may even be. Or Larry David. But it’s not the “yada, yada, yada” itself that’s bugging me. It’s the name or whatever it is that comes after that lead-in that seems so familiar and yet so hard to connect with. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689/5 "2013-10-30T21:52:39Z")
Ho Ho Ho, Green Giant? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689/6 "2013-10-30T22:01:52Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Ho Ho Ho, Green Giant? That does fit the meter, all right, but I think I just heard from the other room what had escaped me until I heard it again: “Real cases, real people, Judge Judy.” If that’s not it, it’s close. And whatever else it may be is just as insistent in my “memory.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689/7 "2013-10-30T22:08:09Z")
> [@Nosfernuthin](#): > > That does fit the meter, all right, but I think I just heard from the other room what had escaped me until I heard it again: “Real cases, real people, Judge Judy.” > > If that’s not it, it’s close. And whatever else it may be is just as insistent in my “memory.” 🙂 I have no idea why we weren’t able to figure that out for you. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-the-connection-here/672689/8 "2013-10-30T22:13:34Z")
> [@Bob Spooka](#): > > I have no idea why we weren’t able to figure that out for you. That’s the thing! This had been bugging me for at least a day. I just couldn’t make it come back until I heard it for real. It’s truly silly, but quite often silly stuff just won’t leave me alone. There may yet be something else like it that had fused with Judge Judy in my mind and wouldn’t let it be as simple as something I hear every day!