# What are the most hackneyed, cliched lines in all of TV and film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-hackneyed-cliched-lines-in-all-of-tv-and-film/184247 "2003-06-25T06:59:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-hackneyed-cliched-lines-in-all-of-tv-and-film/184247/101 "2003-07-02T19:32:01Z")
[computor voice from loudspeaker] "Self-Destruct in 1 minute 30 seconds… Self-Destruct in 1 minute 29 seconds… Self-Destruct in 1 minute 28 seconds…" [/computor voice from loudspeaker] ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-hackneyed-cliched-lines-in-all-of-tv-and-film/184247/102 "2003-07-02T19:37:29Z")
“See you in hell.” and the occasional comeback… “Not if I see you first.” Also, in a similar vein… “Go to hell.” followed by… “You first.” ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-hackneyed-cliched-lines-in-all-of-tv-and-film/184247/103 "2003-07-02T19:59:45Z")
Father and Son (the words may change but the deliver is always the same… I’m using a bastardized “Catch Me If You Can” version). Early in the movie… Father: (emphatically) We’ll take it to the moon, son. Son: Yeah, to the moon, Dad! Father: (quietly) to the moon Later on in the movie, these lines will be repeated for further pathos. Another one… “Things?!.. What things?” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-hackneyed-cliched-lines-in-all-of-tv-and-film/184247/104 "2003-07-02T20:04:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > \*\*Though probably not broadly used enough to earn the label “cliche’” it’s still used in many Paul Newman flics: > > Plunging the face into a container (sink often) of ice or ice water. > > Except for Newman, does anybody else do this? \*\* Saw DeNiro do it. Not as often as Newman, though. Q [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-hackneyed-cliched-lines-in-all-of-tv-and-film/184247.md?page=5)