I might be misremembering, but I seem to remember a character (SNL?) saying “What up?” My friends and I used to say it all the time, and I’m sure we picked it up from the zeitgeist.
It’s hard to Google because it’s too close to ‘what’s up’.
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Is this what you’re thinking of?
I don’t know where it came from but when I saw the title of the thread I know how to say it (if I’m thinking of the same thing). For example, I know how long to hold the 'up".
Uh, not the Budweister ad from 1999?
Matthew Brock (Andy Dick’s character) on NewsRadio would often use a monotone “What up?”. TV Tropes calls it his catchphrase, but I’m not sure I’d go quite that far.
Maybe that’s it. Now that I see that, did they ever say it 3 times in a row?
I remembered where I got it from. It’s the Budweiser commercial. Someone else mentioned it.
The “Wasssuppp” commercial was a huge hit at NASA when my electronics tech buddy, Hot Bob, superimposed all the crew’s faces over the actors’. Their supervisor became the guy sitting in the chair on the right. I’m telling you we could not look at each other for weeks with out going, “Wasssuuppp”.
But that is a completely different vibe then “What up”. I’m think Snoop Dogg.
Well, ‘taint that a co-inky-dink! Every time us kids got caught running through the Zeitgeists’ back yard, Ol’ Lady Z (I think her real name was Ethel…) would lure us into her mid-century-not-modern kitchen for warm molasses cookies. And Mr. Z (Bernard?) would try out Borscht Belt vaudeville routines on us. Poor Bernie, he tried so hard to get us to use his catchphrases, and kept inventing more on the spot (“Ooh, ooh, I know… what about, let’s see, ‘That’s a snootful!’? You kids like that? Wouldja use it with your friends?”)
We’d grab a cookie for the road and barrel out of there, yelling “You can’t mold us, Zeitgeist!”
First words of this skit are kinda catchy…
That’s interesting. I think I might have conflated two things in my mind. That’s definitely the three word version of it I was hearing in my head. But I don’t think it’s old enough to be the one we used back in the day.
Couriouser and couriouser. Thanks for that.
A What’s Up song that’s easy to get tired of hearing.
The main joke of the recurring sketch is that the host of the show kept interrupting the show to sing the theme song over and over, so the guests barely got interviewed, including poor ol’ Lindsey Buckingham, who never even got to speak. So the phrase was indeed repeated many times over the course of the show.
Despite the fact that it was essentially a one-joke concept, and SNL always made a habit of running recurring sketches into the ground, I never got sick of this one:
