# Throwaway Lines that became Catch Phrases **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087 "2012-04-07T15:11:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 7, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/21 "2012-04-07T17:52:32Z")
Leslie Nielsen once said in an interview that he didn’t have a clue of the impact his depan delivery of “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” would have. People use to come up to him on the street and quote it. ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/22 "2012-04-07T17:53:17Z")
[D’oh!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27oh#Origin) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/23 "2012-04-07T17:56:38Z")
Hmmm. . . I had always considered it more likely from [The Twilight Zone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK4uK82nis4#t=1m10s). ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/24 "2012-04-07T18:15:04Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > KneadToKnow is referring to the fact that Travis was [mis]quoting [Shane](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/quotes). It’s unlikely that line would even show up on the IMDB page had it not been in Taxi Driver. My favorite misquote that was made “real” by other movie is “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” It was made “real” by the bandido in _Blazing Saddles_ (1974), misquoting the original one in _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ (1948). “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/25 "2012-04-07T18:18:48Z")
The cake is a lie ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/26 "2012-04-07T18:19:36Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > The cake is a lie “All your base are belong to us.” ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/27 "2012-04-07T18:24:47Z")
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/28 "2012-04-07T18:32:53Z")
“I’m too old for this shit.” ---
**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:** [April 7, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/29 "2012-04-07T18:39:50Z")
[QUOTE=Eonwe;14943449"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?"[/QUOTE] “I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane.” ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/30 "2012-04-07T18:46:19Z")
Around here there’s this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I33ktFVLLhs/hqdefault.jpg "The Office- Creed lives by the quarry.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33ktFVLLhs) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/31 "2012-04-07T18:57:06Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > “I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane.” This is interesting because this is the opposite of a throwaway line becoming a catchphrase: it started as an internet joke about what Samuel L. Jackson’s character would be saying in the movie, so the _Snakes on a Plane_ people went back and added it to the film before it was released. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/32 "2012-04-07T19:17:33Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > My favorite misquote that was made “real” by other movie is > > “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” > > It was made “real” by the bandido in _Blazing Saddles_ (1974), misquoting the original one in _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ (1948). > > “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” In the movie UHF, the late Trinidad Silva was receiving a shipment from the pet store: _Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!_ ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/33 "2012-04-07T20:59:26Z")
“Are you ‘avin’ a laugh?” was the fictional catchphrase from the fictional television show “When the Whistle Blows” within the actual BBC show “Extras.” Ricky Gervais’ character did not want this to be his television character’s catchphrase though, as it was supposed to be a one-off comment in the pilot, but the BBC executives loved it so much they forced it on him as a catch phrase. Not exactly a one-off line that became a real catchphrase, but it addresses the sentiment of when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/34 "2012-04-07T21:13:50Z")
“I know” My personal favorite “mini-quote” to use in everyday language. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/35 "2012-04-07T23:10:00Z")
“You keep using that word…” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/36 "2012-04-07T23:36:11Z")
“Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!” ---
**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:** [April 7, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/37 "2012-04-07T23:49:40Z")
Actual throwaway line here… “We’ll leave the light on for ya.” I heard Tom Bodett speak on this on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me several years ago and he said he had trouble when he started doing the commercials for Motel 6. He was nervous and would speak too fast and was afraid he was losing the gig. So he was recording one and saw that he’d gone too fast and had a few second left and improvised that phrase and it stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/38 "2012-04-08T00:21:57Z")
So I says to Maybel I says . . . ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/39 "2012-04-08T01:47:59Z")
Have fun storming the castle! ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throwaway-lines-that-became-catch-phrases/618087/40 "2012-04-08T02:06:08Z")
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