I’d buy that for a dollar!
That’s a huge bitch!
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Can’t we all just get along?
I think of the latter a meme, inspired by Rodney King. YMMV
You call that a knife? This is a knife.
But the original (“I’d buy that for a quarter” in The Marching Morons) was perhaps the very definition of an annoying catchphrase. I’d wager more than a dollar it was put into Robocop as a deliberate reference, not a throwaway line. Unless you heard it somewhere else, but even then it was likely still a reference to the story.
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
“What a dump!”
“Do a barrel roll”
“I love the power glove. It’s so bad.”
I don’t think we are all agreeing on what is a “throw away” line. Most of dialog is not written to be a catch phrase. If you try to write something as a catch phrase, you tend to repeat it a few times to establish it as one. Dialog is not divided into “catch phrases” and “throw away lines”.
I’m not sure. Have “catch phrases”, little bits of dialog from a movie or play, been quoted by the general public, forever? The way we do now? I would guess since the age of television. Or maybe there were radio stars that had catch phrases. Yes, Jack Benny for example had them. Do we know people went around saying “Frankly my dear…” I don’t think Charlie Chaplin had catch phrases.
Anyway, to me, (I write and direct stage plays) a throwaway line would be something that is delivered as an “undercut”. Meaning that is spoken at a distinctly lower volume than the rest of the dialog in the scene, almost as if the character is muttering under their breath. That is a throwaway, if you ask me.
I say this to myself once or twice every day.
Roddy
Is that what that’s from?! There are no Wendy’s over here, but I have heard the phrase used…
“Big mistake. Huge” hear people saying that one all the time.
(it’s from Pretty Woman, btw)
“it’s not the years honey, it’s the mileage”
There’s a BBC show called The Fast Show that is just a bunch of quick skits where a character comes on, says a catchphrase and leaves, like “you ain’t seen me, roight?” or “brilliant!” or “which was nice”, or “I’ll get me coat” the concept of the show was basically to put these throwaway lines in scenes and let rip. They created a monster.
I’m not sure we’re even agree on what a catch phrase is. When I think “catch phrase,” I’m thinking of a repeated line closely tied to a character, something out of SNL or a sitcom. Most of the lines in this topic are just memorable lines fro movies.
When I first read the topic title, I thought of “How you doin?” from Friends. It was originally just Joey explaining how he flirts with women, and then it kept popping up during the rest of the show.
… and shit.
“Those aren’t pillows!”
Here’s looking at you, kid.
So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
Yeah, and many of them are lines that were snipped out and included in promo packages for the movies/TV programs–so even if you never saw the movie/TV program, you might be familiar with the line.
The “Oh, boy!” line from Quantum Leap clearly was never meant to be Sam’s catch phrase. It’s not even present in many of the early episodes. I think it fits the bill.
[eyebrows]That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever hoid![/eyebrows]